I traveled through ancient times to escape famine with my arch-rival, the movie star.

Because one had to maintain balance when riding in a ox cart, Qi Yanchuan was right opposite Shen Ying. Both of them turned their faces away intentionally, one looking at the scenery and the other talking to his family.

"Cousin, can we meet the spice seller today? Is four hundred coins enough?"

"That's enough. Anyway, I didn't spend much money on it last time."

It was said that Shen Ying took out spices yesterday to deal with the fishy smell of pig offal at home. At that time, Shen Ying said that she bought the spices at a low price in the town, and her family became interested, wondering if such delicious braised offal could be exchanged for some money.

There have been no good harvests in various places since the past few years, and the production has even decreased in the past two years. Everyone is trying hard to earn more money to buy food.

Along the way we talked about food and drinks, the most beautiful girls in town, and the gossip about who in the village was so that the journey wasn't that boring.

After getting off the car, Shen Ying stretched her muscles in an untidy manner. Her movements were so great that she was stopped by her sister-in-law. She smiled awkwardly, thinking that she was living too comfortably at home and didn't realize that stretching exercises might be considered an unusual behavior.

She had to follow her father to slaughter the pig, so she had to walk separately from the women in the family. After walking for a while and entering the alley, she found that Qi Yanchuan had been following her.

So, he is on the same path?

Shen Ying suddenly realized that Qi Yanchuan seemed to be related to the Xu family. Was he planning to follow the original owner's path and marry a daughter of an official family?

Tsk, that’s such a beautiful thought.

I still haven’t figured out what the Xu family was thinking after their clumsy frame-up a few days ago.

After entering the back door of Xu's house, Shen Ying pinched her nose and helped her father kill a pig. The white knife went in and the red knife came out. She tried her best to hold back her discomfort and her movements became more and more flexible.

Shen Ying has played the role of a coroner. Although the role can only be regarded as female No. 2, she still read some forensic knowledge related to animal structure, muscles, and bones.

When slaughtering the second pig, Shen Ying drew inferences from her previous experience and shortened the slaughtering time by half, causing Shen Youtian to praise her constantly: "My daughter is so smart."

Shen Ying felt that this was the first time she was praised for killing a pig.

After I had worked hard to clean up the two pigs, I was still smelling stinky, as if I had rolled around in a pigsty.

Shen Ying thought to herself that she had to change her livelihood quickly, as she couldn't bear this.

The Xu family was unexpectedly generous this time. They settled the money and ordered five more pigs, hoping that Shen Youtian could continue to buy pigs from the countryside.

Shen Youtian said that it would be impossible within two days. It was even a question whether there was enough food to feed people this year, so there were not many families raising pigs, and even fewer of them had fat pigs.

The Xu family said they would take as many pigs as they had and, unusually, paid the reservation money.

After walking out of Xu's house, Shen Ying always felt that something was not right.

Why does the Xu family seem to be hoarding food?

Shen Ying's status in modern times is not even that of a poor family in ancient times. Due to poverty, she has to work several jobs to support herself.

Before she became a star, she liked to read online novels in her spare time squeezed by several part-time jobs. Among them, novels about escaping famine, natural disasters, and apocalypse were her favorites.

The Xu family's behavior really seems like someone has awakened, predicted the future, and is hoarding food with the whole family.

Of course, she wouldn't hastily assume that people were hoarding food just because they killed a few pigs and there was a high demand for pork.

After all, entertaining guests, doing good deeds such as providing porridge, holding banquets, and even reselling dried meat and meat strips may exceed the average family's demand for pork.

However, the Xu family not only has a relatively large demand for meat, but also has baskets of vegetables that can be stored for a long time. They don’t prepare them for a banquet, but have them dried and made into pickles...

Shen Ying recalled the day when she traveled through time and space, when the maid in the backyard was counting the food that Qi Yanchuan's original body had sent. Combining all these factors, she had this suspicion.

The backyard is the place with the most people and the most gossips. The two old women who work in the Xu family also said that the Xu family just asks them to dry vegetables and smoke meat all day long. No one knows what they are doing!

Shen Ying lowered her eyes. If there really was a natural disaster or man-made calamity and she needed to stock up on food in advance, would she be a lone wolf, or would she choose to inform her 'relatives' around her in advance and make some preparations?

If you are a lone wolf, you may be able to enjoy the supplies alone, but that does not mean you are safe. You can imagine how difficult it was for a woman to survive alone in ancient times. Although there is a mall space, after several experiments, it has been found that people cannot stay in it for a long time.

If the surrounding environment is still bad and he is caught after being sent out of the mall... Thinking of the story of Cai Ren Ai, Shen Ying shuddered with fear.

She didn't want to become someone else's meal before she even started enjoying her second life.

"Girl, what are you thinking about? The work is done, let's go." Shen Youtian, with a basket of bones and offal in his hand, shouted at the distracted Shen Ying.

The Xu family seemed to be spending lavishly on slaughtering pigs and placing new orders, but when they settled the bill, they used the shaved bones and offal to offset part of the wages. They didn't even take out a piece of good meat to treat the butcher.

Fortunately, his daughter knew where to buy herbs that could remove the fishy smell and make the offal taste delicious, otherwise, he would definitely have a fight with the Xu family.

Shen Ying collected her thoughts and looked at the basket of offal in Shen Youtian's hand: "Is this another time he's using pig offal to pay for his work?"

Shen Youtian sighed, "Yeah, if I hadn't settled the wages properly these two times and didn't give her credit, I really wouldn't want to work for her family anymore."

Shen Ying did not join in the complaints, but instead thought of someone and hurriedly urged Shen Youtian to leave the Xu family first.

After all, she didn't think that person could really arrange any child marriage with the Xu family. In order to avoid trouble, Shen Ying and Shen Youtian had already gone to the back door together.

After leaving the alley, Shen Ying asked Shen Youtian to wait there: "I'm going to go find the herbalist from last time. Dad, it's inconvenient for you to move around with the basket, so just wait for me here."

As she spoke, Shen Ying had already walked towards the commercial street in the distance.

Behind him, Shen Youtian had sad eyes.

My daughter has grown up and matured. If she continues like this, she will probably be married off soon. Alas.

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Since it is a town, there is naturally a large-scale commercial street. Shen Ying walked around several grain stores in the commercial street. Grain stores here are called rice shops, and the people mostly call them rice shops.

The rice shop sells all kinds of grains. Most of the grains are sold in a huge container that is half full, with a sign inserted on it with the price and name written on it.

Beans and other items are put into sacks, and the guys will prepare them when they are needed.

Because Shen Ying smelled slightly bad and didn't buy anything, the waiter was very impatient and told her to look at the brand herself when she asked about the price.

Shen Ying identified that there are three kinds of rice.

The lowest quality rice contains sand, gravel and unknown objects, which need to be washed patiently. The rice is of poor quality and costs 400 coins for one stone of rice.

The inferior ones have few impurities but some bran and the rice is a little broken after being pounded. One dan of rice costs six hundred wen.

The best quality rice has few impurities and looks very clean, and one stone costs eight hundred coins.

One dan is equivalent to about 120 kilograms. According to the ancient people's two meals a day and a family of three, one dan can last for at least three months.

If you don't farm your own land, you'll need at least three stones of rice a year.

Even for city residents, a family of three would need more than one or two ounces of basic staple food a year. This price... is not low.

Shen Ying found a guy with a slightly better temper and asked him about the previous price of food.

"You are from the countryside, right? You have never bought food from a rice shop before. The harvest has been poor in recent years. In previous years, a stone of high-quality rice only cost 300 coins, and the lowest was around 200 coins.

If you want to buy rice, make up your mind early. I see you have already visited several rice shops. The prices in our rice shops are all the same. There is no need to compare them. The grain prices are like this this year."

When Shen Ying heard that the other party remembered everything she had done, her heart skipped a beat.