Traveling through time and encountering war, I took the whole village to escape famine

Jinsheng rode out of Cangpu Town on horseback, and he galloped all the way. From a distance, he saw Yunjia Village on the road, and he slowed down his horse.

Jinsheng came in front of the cloud, then dismounted swiftly, with movements that were smooth and natural, and completed in one go.

Jinsheng walked quickly towards Yunduo, bowed slightly and said, "Master, I have booked all the Yingkelai Inns in Cangpu Town as you ordered.

We only need to go another two miles to enter the town and reach the inn to rest."

"Well, then you lead the way." Yun Duo nodded slightly, her beautiful face showing a hint of fatigue, but her eyes remained firm. "Let's have a good rest in this inn tonight."

Before setting off, Yun Duo instructed Jinsheng to go to the town first and book the inn.

Everyone traveled overnight and was attacked by men in black along the way. They hardly slept all night and were all exhausted both physically and mentally.

Especially the elderly and children, who were already exhausted and were even more frightened.

At this moment, Yun Duo just wanted everyone to have a good sleep as soon as possible, and then continue on their journey after recuperating.

Cangpu Town is located on the main road leading to the capital from the north, and is a must-go place for travelers and merchants. Therefore, this town is always bustling with people coming and going on weekdays.

Due to the large number of guests coming and going, there are several inns in the town. Although I chose the largest one in this life, there are still not enough rooms for more than 500 people.

The shopkeeper who greeted guests looked at so many people and said to Jinsheng embarrassedly: "Sir, look, all the rooms in my inn can only accommodate more than 300 people even if everyone squeezes in. You need at least 500 people, there is not enough room, how about I ask the Kemanlou Inn on East Street for you?"

"No need. Please clean up the backyard so we can put our cars and belongings there. It's hot right now and the guest rooms are too full so we can sleep on the floor outside. It's common for us from Yunjia Village to sleep outdoors when we escape here. Boss, can you please rent the kitchen from us? We can boil some water and cook some porridge."

Jinsheng took out two taels of silver and handed them to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, this is for your firewood and kitchen rental. Don't worry, we won't touch the items in the kitchen. If you are worried, you can have someone lock up everything."

The shopkeeper gave two taels of silver because he only needed some firewood and a stove. He happily took it and said, "Thank you, sir. Do you need some fodder for the livestock in your backyard? Merchants often pass by here, and these shops also have fodder."

Jinsheng thought about it and realized that he was in a hurry to travel today and didn't have time to let the cattle and horses go and they were all hungry, so he asked, "How much is the fee?"

The shopkeeper smiled and replied, "Cows, horses, and mules cost fifty cents each, and a donkey eats less, only 30 cents. That will provide two meals of fodder for tonight and tomorrow morning. If you need it, I will have someone arrange it for you."

Go ahead and arrange it. I’ll give you an extra ten cents for each animal and feed them more bean cakes.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away. Don't worry, sir. I'll make sure the cows, horses, mules, and donkeys are well fed."

Finally, after some coordination and arrangement, the guest rooms were left for the elderly, daughters and young children to live in; the strong young men could sleep on the floor in the backyard of the inn and keep an eye on their belongings.

For dinner, the Yun family took the food and the women in the village cooked it. Fortunately, the inn had several large iron pots for boiling water. They were used to steam buns. As long as the steamer was placed on them, the amount of steamed buns would be enough for everyone to eat.

Although it is not pure white flour, I used the quick-fermenting powder provided by Yunduo, so the steamed buns are soft and fluffy and very delicious.

After properly settling the villagers, Yun Duo took Yun Teng and Yun Yu to the vegetable market. At this time, the sun was setting, the sky was getting dark, and there were only a few vegetable vendors left in the vegetable market.

In front of an old man's stall was half a basket of slightly wilted Chinese cabbage and a small pile of peas.

The cabbage looked wilted because it had lost moisture, but overall it still looked neat. The small pile of peas next to it were plump and round, but the skin was a little dry.

Not far away, another grandmother's stall had a basket of eggs. The eggs were evenly sized, with a light beige shell, and looked very fresh.

There was also a meat stall. The meat had been almost sold out, with only some large bones and scraps of meat left there. The butcher was waving a branch to drive away the flies.

Yun Duo heard that the proprietress had already told the boss to close the stall and asked her to take the leftovers home and eat them at home in the evening.

Yun Duo walked up to the old man who was buying vegetables and asked him, "Old man, how much do you sell these vegetables for?"

When he heard someone asking about the price, the old man looked up and saw that it was a young girl. He immediately smiled kindly and replied, "Little girl, these vegetables have been stored for a long time and are not very fresh! If you really want to buy them, just give me five cents and take them all away, so I don't have to waste the effort to clean them up."

Yun Duo nodded and asked, "Uncle, I'm sorry, there are many people in our family, and I'm afraid the vegetables you have are not enough for us to eat. Do you know if there is any other place around here where we can buy vegetables?"

When the old man heard that she wanted a lot, he smiled more kindly: "How much do you need, girl? If you don't mind, you can come to my house with me. My house is not far ahead. I have fresh cabbages in my vegetable garden. I can pick fresh ones for you."

"Uncle, how much are the fresh ones?" Yun Duo asked.

"Two cents per pound. If you need more, I can charge you five cents for three pounds. If you think it's okay, I'll go and get it for you." The old man who was buying vegetables said anxiously. He didn't want to miss out on such a big customer.

Yun Duo gave the old man two strings of copper coins, one string worth 120 coins: "Then I'll take coins. coins for catties, coins is catties. Yun Teng, follow the old man to his house to get it."

The old man gave the remaining wilted vegetables to Yunteng and said, "Girl, I'll give this to you for free. It's wilted, but it's edible."

Yun Duo gave the old man another ten coins: "Uncle, I will accept this dish. This ten coins is for your help in delivering the vegetables I bought to the inn."

The old man took the money and said gratefully: "Thank you, young lady." Then he took Yunteng to pick vegetables.

Yun Duo walked to the grandmother who was selling eggs, squatted down, picked up the eggs in her hand, and gently shook them a few times. She found that the eggs were very fresh.

The kind-faced, gray-haired old lady watched Yun Duo's cautious movements with gentle eyes, and she already knew in her heart that the little girl was carefully checking whether the eggs she was selling were fresh.

She smiled and said slowly, "Don't worry, girl! These eggs are all collected by my old man who went to every village and collected them carefully from farmers.

Each egg is laid recently, no more than five days old.

My old man and I live in this town, so we can stay here and sell things for a long time.

This solved their problem of having too few eggs to sell in town, and also prevented farmers from having too many eggs go bad.

We do this business just to earn some hard-earned money."

Yun Duo smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, how much are these eggs? I want all of them."

The mother-in-law said cheerfully: "Girl, I buy these eggs for two for one cent, and I sell them for three for two cents. I still have ninety in this basket, and there are three hundred at home. Do you want them all?"

"Mother-in-law, where is your home? If it's far away, I don't want your house." Yun Duo didn't want to delay too long.

"Girl, don't worry. My home is in this alley, very close. Please wait a moment," the old woman said, and then she shouted loudly: "The old man, bring all the remaining eggs here. There are customers who want to buy them."

"Coming soon." An old man's voice came from a yard not far away.

Yun Duo laughed: "This is really close..."

Soon the old man took out a basket of eggs.

"Girl, do you have a basket for eggs?" the old woman asked Yun Duo.

When Yun Duo came out, she didn't bring a backpack. She had one in her space, but she couldn't take it out.

So Yun Duo asked the old woman, "Grandma, can you lend me the bamboo basket first?"

"It seems like you two little girls can't carry so many eggs. I'll ask the old man to deliver them to you later."

After saying that, the old woman took an empty wicker frame beside her and started counting eggs for Yun Duo.

My mother-in-law is very experienced. She holds the basket with one hand and takes three eggs at a time with the other hand and puts them into the empty basket. Every time, my mother-in-law holds three eggs and counts them, one, two, three...

The mother-in-law didn't stop until she counted to one hundred.

"Miss, these are three hundred eggs for two hundred coins."

There are 90 in this little basket. I'll count them for you. Then he started counting again. "One, two... thirty"

"Look young lady, these ninety pieces are sixty coins."

Yun Duo took out three strings of copper coins, counted out forty of them, gave the rest to the old woman, and said with a smile: "Grandma, have you counted enough?"

Yun Duo curiously asked the old woman: "Grandma, how come your eggs are all just the right size, not more, not less."

"Girl, I counted these at home. If there are any loose pieces that are less than three, I will keep them for myself or wait for the old man to collect them and sell them as three. I always sell at least three. I don't know how to count the odds, so I won't sell them."

When Yun Duo heard what her mother-in-law said, she thought to herself: Those who can do business are all smart people, each with his or her own ways.

After buying the eggs from the old woman, Yun Duo gave the old man ten cents and asked him to deliver the eggs to the inn. Yun Duo then wanted to go back.

The butcher wanted to go home for dinner, but when he saw Yun Duo buying vegetables and eggs, he wanted to wait and see if Yun Duo wanted to buy the rest of his meat. But when he saw Yun Duo was leaving after buying the eggs and had no intention of buying meat, he smiled and asked anxiously, "Girl, after buying vegetables and eggs, do you need to buy some meat? I can sell you the rest of my meat at a low price."

Yun Duo looked at the fat butcher, smiling with eyes narrowed into slits, looking very funny. Originally, she didn't want to buy the meat because it was not fresh, but when she saw the butcher asking, she walked towards the meat stall.

The butcher saw Yun Duo coming over and smiled even more: "Don't worry, girl. The meat here is all from freshly slaughtered pigs. I will never sell meat that's been left overnight. Although it's a little less fresh at night, it's fine if you eat it tonight. It won't go bad, right?"

The grandmother who was selling eggs nearby also testified for the butcher: "Girl, don't worry about buying. Boss Zhu is very honest in his business and never sells overnight meat. If there is any meat left over that he can't sell, he takes it home for himself or shares it with us neighbors."

"Uncle, these big bones and scraps of meat are not fresh, but fortunately they are not bad, so they are still good to eat today. How much do you want for each?"

"Miss, there are a lot left today. It's not all leftovers, there are also some good pieces of meat. And these bones, you only need thirty cents in total, take them." Boss Zhu said happily.

Yun Duo gave the butcher forty coins and said, "Then please send it to the inn for me!"

"Okay! I'll send it to you right away."

Yun Duo bought some vegetables, meat and eggs and sent them to the inn kitchen, leaving them to Second Grandma to prepare.

Everyone in Yunjia Village ate a lot at this meal.

Everyone was very grateful to Yun Duo. The villagers found the heads of each family and asked each person in each family to give Yun Duo ten copper coins to supply them. Yun Duo couldn't always eat and take things for free.

Ten copper coins per person was nothing for the villagers of Yunjia Village. After all, each family had received one hundred taels of silver as resettlement fee from Cheng Yuheng. However, it was a bit difficult for the former villagers of Cuijiaao to bear.

Yun Duo returned the money and confiscated it. She also told everyone that before they arrived at their destination, they would have everyone eat together. The food expenses would be paid by everyone working for the Yun family for five days for free. The Yun family would provide food but not wages, and the wages would be used as food expenses during this period.

Of course everyone was happy. This was not about asking for food expenses. This was clearly a way of preventing them from feeling bad and finding an excuse. Everyone remembered this favor.