Plane Trading: A Peasant Girl Escapes from Famine and Becomes Rich Enough of a Nation

"Dad, don't worry too much. Didn't Doctor Liang say that even though the bump on my head is a little big, it will heal after taking some medicine? What does amnesia have to do with it? Didn't you tell me everything that happened in the past? It's like I've already remembered it! Don't worry!"

After looking around the street for a while, he could hardly see any stalls selling snacks or vegetables. Su Qiuyi also knew that it was a drought and the drinking water was almost gone. The crops were dying of drought, so where would all the things to sell come from?

Turning around, she saw her handsome father looking at her with concern, and pointed at the several medicines in his hand and said a few words of comfort.

When Su Laosan heard this, he realized that this was the case. At least Doctor Liang said that the bump on the head would go away with medicine, and amnesia was not a serious matter. The whole family would accompany their daughter and tell her about the things and people she had forgotten.

Thinking of this, he felt less depressed and nodded, "Dad got it. Yiyi, are you hungry? Dad will take you to buy some food and then we can go home!"

He spent more than 600 coins on medicine, and had more than 300 coins left. Seeing that his wife and children were thin and weak and couldn't eat well, he didn't want to take care of the family anymore. It was more important to provide food for his wife and children.

In fact, his monthly salary was one tael of silver. He gave eight hundred coins to his family and kept two hundred coins for himself. Sometimes he helped his father-in-law, and sometimes he could secretly buy some fine food for his children.

When Su Qiuyi heard about food, her stomach started to growl. She was really hungry and her stomach felt so sour.

I only drank rice soup with a few grains of rice in the morning. After walking such a long way, I was tired, thirsty and had a headache.

"Dad, where can I buy food?"

As soon as Su Laosan heard this, he knew that his daughter was starving. No matter what, his eldest daughter had never been a greedy person, and she would not have acted like this unless she was extremely hungry.

He took his daughter to the main street of the town. Although many shops were closed, the grain store, several restaurants and a steamed bun shop on the main street were still open.

Although the prices had risen to an alarming level, he could still afford a few steamed buns for his children.

The hungry woman followed her handsome father for a while and arrived at the bun shop. She smelled the buns so delicious that she swallowed her saliva. She resisted the urge to grab some.

"Boss, buy five steamed buns!" When they arrived at the shop, Su Laosan looked at his daughter swallowing her saliva and asked the shopkeeper to buy steamed buns.

Su Qiu wanted to eat the delicious meat buns, and was a little confused about whether she should ask her handsome father for it, but the shopkeeper's words made her give up the idea the next second.

"Hey, Carpenter Su, the price of steamed buns has gone up again these days! Five steamed buns for fifty cents! Do you want more?"

The shopkeeper's voice was neither too loud nor too soft, and he had a proper smile on his face. He didn't look disdainful, but he also didn't look flattering.

As the drought became more severe in recent days, the wells in several villages began to stop producing water. The prices in his steamed bun shop continued to rise, and the price of a steamed bun had risen to ten cents.

This business is becoming more and more popular. If he could get so much rice and flour, he would have made a lot of money in the past few days.

Su Laosan tightly grasped the three hundred and forty-five coins in his hand. Seeing that the steamed buns, which usually cost one coin, had increased tenfold in price, he felt a little painful. But seeing his daughter swallowing her saliva, he gritted his teeth, counted out fifty coins and handed them to the shopkeeper.

"Okay, I'll wrap it for you right away! Five steamed buns..." The shopkeeper's voice was calm. Under the gaze of the father and daughter, he picked up the oil paper, wrapped five steamed buns and handed them over.

Su Qiuyi felt a little sad when she saw the white flour bun which was only the size of her fist.

This should not only increase the price, but also cut corners.

The father and daughter went to the grain store next door, spent thirty cents to buy two kilograms of brown rice, and left the town.

They ate steamed buns as they walked. Each of them ate one steamed bun with cold water. They hid the remaining three steamed buns carefully on their bodies and took them home to give to Xu Hui and her daughter.

The town is at the west end of the village. When entering the village, you first pass by Old Yang's house. The father and daughter left two kilograms of brown rice at Su Xiaofang's house.

Su Xiaofang knew that the rice would be eaten by the Su family if taken back, so she happily kept it. Su Qiuyi also knew from watching this that this was probably something they did frequently.

The trip to the town was not in vain. She managed to eat half full, and after drinking some water, she felt full.

It’s a pity that I couldn’t find the items to trade with Wen Xin’er.

Not to mention that she had no money, even if Shuai Dad gave her all the copper coins he had, she didn't know what she could buy. Besides, with Shuai Dad following her, she had no choice.

Besides, handsome dad regards that little bit of money as more important than his life, and she can't get it...

It was already afternoon when the two returned home. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw the whole family was there. Everyone looked at the father and daughter who walked into the yard with a bad look on their faces. Su Qiuyi was shocked, not knowing what had happened again.

Handsome dad was not surprised at all. He walked in first and greeted Old Man Su.

"Dad, why did you come back so early today? Is there no work in the fields?"

He was holding medicine in his hand and carefully hiding two steamed buns in his arms, and Su Qiuyi also hid one on his body.

"You prodigal son, the crops in the fields have died of drought, and people are dying of thirst. What's the point of buying so many medicines? Ah? The whole family is going to starve to death... wuwuwu..."

Su Li, who had been crying and cursing since the morning when she heard Su Laosan say that his wages had not been handed in, started slapping her thigh and crying when she saw that he had actually bought so many medicines.

As soon as Su Qiuyi entered the yard, her two sisters came running over and were pulling her towards the west wing. Seeing that she had nothing in her hands, the others pretended not to see her and everyone's eyes were on Su Lao San.

Su Laosan watched his three daughters go into the house. He ignored Su Li who was crying and slapping her thighs and looked at Old Man Su.

Old Man Su stood with his hands behind his back, looking heavy-hearted. "The crops have all died of drought. It's impossible to irrigate the land. The water level in the well is getting lower and lower... There's no hope..."

Su Laosan had anticipated this situation and had advised his father not to waste the effort watering the plants, but no one listened.

He sighed and said, "Dad, I'll take the child's medicine in first!" Then he turned around and strode towards the west wing without waiting for anyone to speak.

Behind him was the sound of Su Li's cursing, Su Xiaofei's various complaints, and the sound of the whole family gathered in the yard sighing.

Many families in the village are in the same situation, and no one can stand laughing at others.

Su Laosan entered the house and looked at his two daughters who were waiting for him expectantly. He quickly took out two steamed buns from his pocket.

"Eat quickly!"

Su Qiuyi also took out the steamed bun from her body and waited to give it to Xu Hui. After a while, Xu Hui came in and used the excuse of decocting medicine for Su Qiuyi. The three of them secretly ate the steamed buns under the eyes of the whole family. Then Xu Hui came out with a prescription to decoct medicine for Su Qiuyi.

"Stop right there, third son's wife!" As soon as she came out, Su Li called her.

Xu Hui turned around.

"Water is limited now. Each family can only draw two buckets of water, which means there won't be much water for each person. You used too much water to make medicine, so I'm giving your three rooms the water they should have! It's going to be like this from now on. Water will be distributed based on the number of people, and everyone can use their own!"