I turned the cold palace into a paradise

Perhaps it was because Si Yin killed the leader and frightened the refugees. Although they were still walking around, they did not dare to get close, and everyone spent the night safely in the wild.

As soon as the sun rose, Yunyue and others immediately set out for the nearest city, Wuyuan.

Unexpectedly, more refugees gathered outside the Wuyuan city gate, and Yunyue’s convoy almost couldn’t get through.

"Please, sir, let us in!" A group of refugees knelt at the city gate and begged.

"The prefect has issued an order that refugees are not allowed to enter the city and can only be settled outside the city! If they bring any epidemic here, the people in the city will suffer as well!"

"Officials! We are not suffering from an epidemic, and we are not sick! We just have no food to eat. Please, sirs, have mercy on us! We have not eaten for a long time!"

"Oh! Please get out of the way quickly. Someone will be distributing porridge in the afternoon. Please wait."

The refugees kneeling on the ground seemed to have hope, and they stood up and went back to share the good news with everyone.

"Boss, I haven't heard that anyone wants to give out porridge?"

"You're so stupid, how can they leave without saying this?"

Yunyue, who was standing aside waiting for inspection, looked gloomy when she heard this.

Behind him were the happy shouts of the refugees, and in front of him was the laughter of the gatekeepers, which was particularly ironic.

Li Wanhua wanted to speak, but was suppressed by Yunyue.

"There's no use arguing with them."

Since Yun Yue and his companions were sitting in a carriage and were obviously not refugees, the guards simply glanced at the pass and let them pass.

As you step through the city gates, it’s like you’ve entered another world, the outside is a living hell, but the inside is not affected at all.

"Sir, would you like to take a look at the goods?" A man with triangular eyes stopped the carriage.

"What stuff?" Huang Jiaojiao poked her head out and asked curiously.

Zhang Xiaoyan didn't expect that there was a beautiful woman sitting in the carriage, and he hesitated for a moment, but looking at the carriage and the handsome Yunyue, he still pulled the woman next to him over. It's not easy to meet a rich man who just came to the city!

"Sir, take a look at my niece! Although she's not as pretty as the girl just now, she has a big butt and can give birth to a son! She's also a good worker, so it's definitely worth buying her! It only costs five taels of silver!"

"Is this the stuff you were talking about?" Yun Yue looked at the girl in front of her who was not even as old as herself, and anger and sadness welled up in her heart. In her world, these girls were still in junior high school.

"Young man! Take a look at my goods! My daughter is pretty! If my family wasn't really broke, I wouldn't be willing to sell her!"

"Look at my granddaughter! I'll sell her for three taels of silver!"

"..."At once, many people came out from the vicinity to sell their "goods".

But there is not a single man among these "goods", only women.

Yunyue opened her mouth, but her throat seemed to be blocked by something and she couldn't speak.

Si Yin waved the whip again: "Get out of the way, our master doesn't need any more men! If you keep blocking the road, don't blame me for being blind with my whip!"

When everyone saw this, they pulled their "goods" to the side.

Si Yin drove the carriage forward.

Everyone in the carriage was silent.

Huang Jiaojiao's eyes were slightly red. She remembered that she had spent hundreds of taels to buy a hairpin, while a living person only cost a few taels of silver...

"Why is it always women..." Why is it always women who are abandoned? Yu Xiyun's voice trembled.

"Because they are women." Yun Yue smiled bitterly.

"There are no silk skirts in the school hall, and no baby boys in the abandoned baby tower."

Everyone just felt extremely uncomfortable in their hearts, which was something that only women could understand...

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Si Yin found an inn, and everyone checked in. Then they all went back to their rooms to rest with heavy hearts and listlessness.

After eating, Yunyue handed Fubao to Concubine Wang and took Siyin to go shopping in a carriage. They gave all the food to the refugees yesterday, so they had to buy more now.

"How do you sell this food?"

When the clerk at Lin's Rice Shop saw Yun Yue coming in a carriage, he hurried over to greet her and said with a smile, "Sir, our grain prices are fair, only half a tael of silver per stone!"

"What? Half a tael!!" Yun Yue knew that the price of grain would rise due to the drought, but she didn't expect it to rise so much. Normally, one tael of silver could buy eight dan of rice, but now one tael of silver can only buy two dan.

"Sir, there has been a year of drought and now the price of grain in the whole area is like this." Please think about it first. I will receive other people first.

It’s not that Yunyue can’t afford it, but she’s thinking about how the people will deal with the high grain prices now…

"Get out, get out, you stinky beggar. If you can't afford to buy food, just leave!" Another waiter in the store pushed out a man in patched clothes with disgust.

"One tael of silver can buy five shi of grain in Jiayu Mansion, why is it so expensive here? Brother, can you sell it at a lower price?"

"If Jiayu Mansion is cheaper, go buy it somewhere else! This is the price I'm paying, so take your chances!"

"How can you talk like that! Is this how you do business at the Lin Family Rice Shop? Aren't you afraid of retribution for taking advantage of someone's misfortune?"

The shopkeeper behind him not only did not scold the waiter, but chuckled: "Retribution? Of the ten rice shops in Wuyuan, seven are surnamed Lin. If you don't buy, someone will! It's the same price anyway!"

The man wailed, "Oh my God! Please open your eyes and take a look!!! How can people live in this world? I finally managed to collect some copper coins, but I can't afford to buy food... No one will give us a way to live..." The man seemed to have his soul sucked out, and his already hunched body became even more bent. He walked forward a few steps in a daze and suddenly fainted on the ground.

"What are you doing! If you want to die, die far away. It's really unlucky to die in front of our store!" The guy in the store was still cursing.

Yun Yue frowned and quickly went up to check on the man.

I fainted from hunger.

Yunyue gave a wink, and Yinyi carried the man onto the carriage.

Yunyue bought a bowl of mixed grain porridge from a roadside stall. The shopkeeper, perhaps feeling sorry for the man, scooped an extra spoonful.

"This gentleman is really kind-hearted, but it's not worth wasting money on this kind of beggar. It's better for him to buy more rice from us." The owner of the rice shop was still shouting.

Yun Yue glared at the shopkeeper: "If you do too much evil, you will eventually perish."

The shopkeeper snorted and muttered, "Why are you pretending to be such a good guy? If you have the ability, save all the refugees outside the city!"

Yun Yue looked at him coldly and said nothing.

At this time, the man had woken up and cried to thank Yunyue. From his words, we knew that he was also a refugee from outside the city. His child fell ill during the escape. For the sake of the child, his wife gave him her dowry, a silver hairpin, to pawn in the city for some silver to buy medicine and food. But he didn't expect that the price of food in the city would rise so high now!

Yunyue asked Siyin to buy some food for him. The man was so grateful that he kowtowed to Yunyue despite being stopped. He walked out of the city with hopeful steps.

My wife and children were saved.

"This man is so lucky to have met this kind-hearted young man." A crowd of onlookers envied.

"Yes, this is not the first time that the Lin family rice shop has taken advantage of the country's misfortune to make a fortune."

"That's right! The price changes every day. I work so hard as a laborer and only make 20 coins a day, while others make half a tael of silver for a stone of rice!"

"It's a pity that all other rice shops in Wuyuan City were driven away by the Lin family through various means. Now the Lin family is the only one in power. The other three shops have also raised their prices."

"Not only that, the eldest son of my second uncle who works in the government said that the Lan family rice shop, which refused to raise prices last year, was set on fire in the middle of the night. Not only was the grain gone, but the young master of the Lan family was also burned to death! The Lan family went to the government to accuse the Lin family of arson, but in the end nothing was done..."

Yun Yue's eyes flashed, and she lowered her head and whispered a few words to Si Yin.