After two hours of trekking, the family of four finally arrived in Qingjiang County.

There is a wide river here, and the market town is on the north bank of the river. It is at least twice as large as Gaochuanji. There are also city walls around it, but they are not as high as Gaochuanji. There are no yamen runners blocking the city gate to collect entrance fees, and ox carts and horse carriages can enter and exit freely.

The streets are bustling with people and cars, and there are countless street vendors. You can see people selling candied haws and blowing candy figures everywhere...

Seeing this scene, Jiang Sining's eyes lit up.

This is a normal ancient market!

Loved it.

"Sister, it's so lively here!"

"Do you like it?" Jiang Sining asked.

"like!"

"Qianqian likes it too!" Qianqian blinked her big eyes, looked at Jiang Sining, and then looked at the candied haws seller passing by.

Jiang Sining understood it immediately and spent 10 cents to buy two strings of candied haws.

This thing is a little expensive, 10 coins can buy a pound of lean meat. But seeing how happy the two of them are, Jiang Sining thinks it doesn't matter if she spends a little money, she is now a wealthy woman.

Qianqian brought the candied haws to Jiang Sining's mouth: "Sister, you eat first."

"it is good."

Jiang Sining bit off a hawthorn, and the piercing sour taste suddenly made her sober up: it must be the taste of candied haws.

Arriving at the strange market town, Si Chenan no longer needed to pretend to be a sickly girl. He transformed himself into a coachman again, driving the ox cart, taking Jiang Sining and the other two with him through the streets.

She earned 200 taels of silver today, plus the money left over from before, she now has a total of more than 240 taels of silver.

So spend 220 taels today and keep the remaining 20 taels for reserve.

Start with the staple food.

So she asked Si Chenan to drive the ox cart to the grain and oil store and buy rice, millet, flour, corn, vegetable oil... whatever was sold in the store.

Don’t ask how much to buy, just fill up the ox cart!

When it’s full, go to the grove outside the city, put all the things into the space, then go into the city and fill up at the next store!

As it turned out, she had underestimated the purchasing power of money.

I have cleared out three stores, but haven’t spent half of my money yet. It seems I have to keep working hard.

"Madam," Si Chenan was a little puzzled, "Why did you buy so much food?"

"If I say that in a month or so, before the autumn harvest, there will be a big flood that will destroy almost all the rice and the whole of Daxia will face famine, would you believe it?"

"Believe it." As long as she said it, he believed everything now!

"Then I say, this winter will be extremely cold, and countless people will freeze to death. Do you believe it?"

"letter."

"There will be another plague next spring, do you believe it?"

"This...this...I believe it."

"After the plague, there will be earthquakes, heavy rains, hail, locust plagues, and riots." Jiang Sining said, "Do you believe it?"

Si Chenan was completely numb.

If there really are so many disasters, how can the people of Daxia survive?

"So my lady wants to stockpile food to help the victims?"

Jiang Sining laughed in her heart. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to be great, but she couldn’t become great.

There are so many disaster victims in Daxia. Even if she fills the space, there might not be enough for everyone to have a bowl of porridge. At most, she can help people like Aunt Li.

"of course not."

"Then..." Si Chenan looked around and saw that there was no one else, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Madam, do you want to store more food and then rebel?"

Jiang Sining: ...Brother, please speak nicely, who the hell is going to rebel?

Aren't you the one who rebelled?

It's only been a few days, how come this happened to me?

Jiang Sining would not rebel. He had no interest in such things. If he had the time to do that, he would rather tidy up his own home and stay at home comfortably.

Wait until all the natural and man-made disasters are over, and when the seas and rivers of Daxia are calm, then you can go out and have fun.

"You can do it if you want. I won't go anyway." Jiang Sining said, "But before you do it, tell me in advance so I can write you a letter of divorce."

Si Chenan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "My lady, you are joking."

He is still half dead, why is he rebelling? It's almost like committing a sin.

After raiding two more rice shops, Jiang Sining was running out of money. He planned to buy something else, so he went to a snack shop.

Sugar is too expensive in this world, mainly because few people grow sugarcane and the pressing technology is backward. It is said that it takes 20 kilograms of sugarcane to produce 1 kilogram of granulated sugar.

Therefore, a pound of ordinary granulated sugar costs 200 wen, and a pound of refined high-quality brown sugar costs as much as 300 wen.

Jiang Sining naturally had to buy the best, 50 kilograms of the best quality.

Then there were all kinds of delicious snacks and cakes, and we would buy all the good ones after tasting them.

In the end, he didn't even load one-tenth of the ox cart, so he spent all the remaining silver.

She picked up the translucent winter melon candy and gave one to Jiang Yan and Qianqian respectively. It was the first time for the two little ones to eat this kind of thing and they were reluctant to swallow it after holding it in their mouths.

"Is it tasty?"

"It's delicious!" Jiang Yan nodded, "But it's not as delicious as what my elder sister gave me last time."

For children, what cake can be better than chocolate?

I don’t know if Daxia has cocoa. If it does, we may still be able to figure out how to make chocolate in the future.

Then she looked at Si Chenan who was driving the coach, took another small piece and put it to his mouth.

"what--"

Si Chenan: ...My wife, there are so many people on the street. It will be very embarrassing for your husband if you feed him like this. Ah——

Ok.

This candy is delicious.

"My lady, it's getting late," Si Chenan reminded her, "The way back is still long."

Jiang Sining looked at the sky and knew it was time to go home.

I was late for the market today, so Jiang Yaozong had to survive for another day. I'll give him a big reward when I get back.

After staggering for more than two hours, the family finally arrived at Liuyun Village before dark. Grandpa Wu was sitting under a big tree at the entrance of the village, eagerly waiting for his old cow.

Jiang Sining took out a handful of money and handed it over, and Uncle Wu began to count them one by one.

Finally, he asked in confusion: "Ning girl, we agreed to pay 20 coins, why are you giving me 50 coins for what?"

"We walked a long way today, and the old cow is tired." Jiang Sining said, "The extra money is used to buy rice bran for it."

After saying that, she supported Si Chenan and left, not giving Uncle Wu any chance to refuse.

When I passed by Jiang's house, the door was open and the family was still sitting under the eaves in the yard, eating dinner with their bowls in hand, as they did in the past.

Maybe he had spent too much money recently, so he didn't eat the spicy and sour egg drop noodles, but slurped the porridge, which made Jiang Yan and Qianqian secretly happy.

We always eat good food at night, not porridge!

The people from the Jiang family also saw them. The hatred in their eyes was like dozens of sharp arrows, and they wished they could pierce hundreds of holes in the bodies of each of the four members of the family.

Only Jiang Yaozong's eyes were a little evasive. He just glanced at Jiang Sining and quickly looked away.

This is a typical case of a guilty conscience.

How come you didn't feel nervous at all when you went to lure the python last night?

When we got home, Aunt Li and the others had already gone back. There was a pile of cleaned trees on the top of the mountain. It seemed that they were very strong today. I don’t know if it was because they ate python meat.

He took out the ready-made food from the space, took a large bowl as usual, and walked into the depths of the woods.

"Xia Shan, eat."

"Here I come!" Xia Shan jumped down from a big tree. "Young Madam, you don't have to deliver it in person. Just call me and I'll get it myself."

"Then I'll do as you say from now on." Jiang Sining said, "But today I'm not just bringing you food, I have something else for you to do."

"Young Madam!" Xia Shan suddenly became alert, his eyes sparkling, "Do you want to have your subordinates kill the entire family of your enemy?"

Jiang Sining covered her forehead with her hands. She seriously suspected that most of the murders committed by Si Chenan in the original novel were committed by this guy.

"No need to kill, just go and put something there."

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