Space Food Storage: Daily Travel

Twelve days later.

We arrived at Pyeongchang in late September.

Pyeongchang City is located in the central and southern part of the country, and the drought here is not particularly serious.

The trees and grass along the roadside were green with a hint of yellow, and the weather was a little cooler.

Although it is dry, the air is not so suffocating, probably due to climate reasons.

When taking a break, if you walk further into the mountains, you can see small puddles of water flowing down from the cracks in the rocks.

Near noon, Liu Shinan, Xu Fugui and Liu Laizi, who were sent to the city gate to understand the situation, all returned.

A notice was posted at the city gate saying that people could enter the city and the entrance fee was five cents per person.

Pingchang City is vast and sparsely populated, so the government office also posted a special notice. If there are victims fleeing famine, they can take their original household registration to the government office to register and change their household registration. The government office will arrange for them to be dispersed to various villages and towns.

Everyone was a little moved after hearing this.

Liu Yuhan looked at today's weather. The sky was full of red clouds in the morning. There was not a single breeze in the air and it was very stuffy.

She guessed that it was going to rain, so she decided to take everyone into the city first and rest for a few days. After walking for a month, everyone was exhausted.

Liu Yuhan discussed the matter with her grandparents, parents, and uncles. Everyone agreed with her. Liu Shinan privately gave the village chief ten taels of silver and spoke to him.

Liu Mang picked up his little notebook again. This was the money the villagers had borrowed from their uncle's family.

Find the village chief and elders of Xiaoshi Village, and start notifying them by banging a broken gong.

Each person has to pay the five-cent fee to enter the city. If you really can't even afford five cents, you can buy on credit from the villagers first.

Everyone agreed. Five cents was a steal for most people, and they thought it was a good idea to get into town and rest. If there was water, they could wash up. They were covered in mud and had lice on their heads.

Thinking of lice, I shiver...

Everyone took their money and entered the city one after another. Such a large group of refugees attracted the attention of the people at the city gate.

Although this group of people looked sloppy, they were well-organized with their families, and it was obvious that someone was leading them.

In two quarters of an hour, all the people entered the city and gathered inside the city gate.

Liu Yang, Xu Fugui and Liu Laizi's group, Liu Shihu, Liu Shinan and Yang Nianhua's group, and the old hunter with two young men, the three groups walked towards the city to first disperse and gather information.

They wanted to see if there was a large and cheaper house available for rent, as they planned to stay there for three days to rest.

Liu Yuhan secretly took out chocolates from the space and shared them with Xiaosi, Xiaowu, Liu Yao, Liu Guang, Liu Lu and others.

He also took out some chrysanthemum tea in a water bag and gave it to them to drink, and also gave it to his grandmother, mother, and aunt.

She brought some dried tofu to her grandfather. Her grandfather accidentally tasted the bulk dried tofu given by Liu Yuhan and couldn't stop eating it. He often chased his granddaughter to ask for it. He loved it.

The three groups returned soon.

When it comes to gathering information, it is Liu Laizi's team that has to be the one. The information he gets is the most comprehensive and includes both good and bad information.

He said that most of the people living in the south of the city are ordinary people. There is a temporary shelter for refugees from famine and disasters at the very edge of the city. During the day, everyone can get a free bowl of porridge based on their household registration.

But the outsiders are complicated and the place is rather messy.

They were not afraid of this, and everyone decided to go to the place he mentioned.

You don't have to go around the main street to go to the South City, just turn right from the city gate.

On the contrary, if you turn left after entering the city, you will see some wealthy families or officials' homes.

There is a main street in the middle, with distinct paths.

One cannot help but marvel at the wisdom of the ancients, as well as the ever-present class division between the rich and the poor, which has existed like gods from ancient times to the present.

Liu Laizi led them to find the human trafficker, and he had heard some of the information from here.

The villagers finally decided to spend money to rent a place to live, as there were too many people and it was too complicated to accommodate the victims.

The human traffickers were quite honest. Judging from the group of people fleeing famine, they must have suffered a lot. The places they recommended to them were all affordable and spacious.

They decided on one of the three, which was a courtyard with two entrances.

The walls were low, and the exterior of the house a bit shabby, but the yard was large. Excluding the kitchen, there were twelve rooms in the front and back yards combined. The monthly rent was three taels, and the daily rent was 200 wen.

Let’s decide on this yard first.

Liu Yuhan then asked the trafficker if there were any larger houses available for rent nearby. The trafficker was delighted and led them nearly a hundred meters further into the alley.

It was a larger, smaller courtyard with two entrances. The outer walls of the house were also more dilapidated, but the walls were higher. Besides the kitchen, there were 16 rooms.

The monthly rent was four taels of silver, and the daily rent was 260 wen. Liu Yuhan agreed on the spot, giving the trafficker two taels of silver and booking a three-day stay. If he wanted to stay longer, he would contact him a day in advance to let him know.

If there is any extra money, ask the trafficker to get two carts of firewood. If there is any extra money, you don’t need to give the change.

The trafficker was delighted. He had thought that the group might bargain for a lower price, but he didn't expect them to be so generous. After getting two carts of firewood, he should be able to earn half a tael of silver. It was worth it for his hard work for half a day.

Liu Yuhan and his family lived in the larger courtyard with Liujia Village, while the other courtyard was given to Xiaoshi Village. The men lived in the front courtyard, and the women lived in the back courtyard.

The money was paid by Liu Yuhan, and the women in Liu Yuhan's family naturally got a room, and the men also got a room in the front yard. This was arranged by the village chief.

The rest of the villagers could squeeze in and live there. The villagers were very happy. After so long of fleeing famine, they finally had a house to live in. Some people couldn't help but sigh.

There is a well in every yard.

Everyone got busy, some cleaning the house, some cleaning the kitchen, some boiling water, saving some water, and cleaning themselves and their children.

The eldest daughter of the Liu family said that she would take people to buy some food, and she would cook with the women tonight so that everyone could have a full meal tonight!

The younger children were having fun in the yard. They finally didn't have to travel any further and could have a delicious meal tonight.

The two village heads agreed that their two villages could temporarily take food from the government and eat their own food. If someone in Nancheng really did deliver porridge, they could also go and get a portion every day, thus saving some food.

The ten taels of silver given by Liu Yuhan and the thirty taels of silver from the Xiaoshi Village public fund were to be used to buy food and salt.

Liujia Village paid a lot for grain before, and I remember it all.

Now they are all a big group, and they will settle down together in the future.

If you want to eat good food, you can buy it yourself. No one can do anything about it.

There were only set times for going out. If you wanted to go out during those hours, you had to tell your team leader first and then be back by the set time. You weren't allowed to wander around, and if you were bumped into or something happened, the villagers wouldn't help.

Liu Yuhan took her parents shopping. Old Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Li were tidying up the room with the children. After they finished tidying up the room, they also prepared to wash and change clothes.

Liu Yuhan and the other two walked to the main street of South City. Liu Shinan pulled a two-wheeled cart.

It was still quite busy after noon, but there weren't many street vendors. There were some dried vegetables for sale, so I bought some.

At the pork stall, I bought nearly 100 kilograms of pork, and also bought a few large bones at a half-price discount of five cents per kilogram.

The butcher was very welcoming and asked them to come back. Pork here was 20 wen per pound, which was cheaper than in other cities.

I had soybeans. I bought 200 kilograms at six cents per kilogram and stored the soybeans in the space.

Soybeans can be used to cook bone soup, or to feed Jifeng and Feiyan. If there is a chance, they can be used to make tofu in the future.

Liu Yuhan was preparing to use the bones to make winter melon soup. The space was overflowing with winter melons, pumpkins, and other melons. He needed to use some quickly and dry the seeds to keep for seeding. These were good seeds.

The bright red peppers were ripe and dried on the trees, so they could be used as seeds for future plantings. Although she didn't often eat spicy food, she still enjoyed it occasionally. The thought of being able to enjoy spicy food as much as she wanted in the future made her happy.

I bought 100 eggs, each egg costing two cents.

There were really few vegetables for sale at that time, so I went to a larger restaurant and packed up 10 cooked chickens.

She still had a lot of cooked food in her space, but she wouldn't easily take anything she could buy from the space. She still felt it was better to stock up on more food. With ten more rooms in the space, she wouldn't have to worry about having no place to store things.

I'm not buying any food today. There are six thousand kilograms of brown rice and black flour piled up in my space, and only one-sixth of it has not been consumed yet.

They found a deserted place, took out four large winter melons, four large pumpkins, and a large bunch of small Chinese cabbages, and then went back.

We distributed 50 jin of pork, 5 cooked chickens, 30 large winter melons, large pumpkins, and eggs to Xiaoshi Village as a snack for them tonight. The rest belonged to Liujia Village.

I started cooking dinner at daybreak. I cooked a mix of white and brown rice, simmered pork bones in winter melon soup, and used the pork belly to stir-fry braised pork. I also scrambled eggs with bok choy. I chopped five cooked chickens into small pieces and reheated them. The portions were generous. Three dishes and one soup were more than enough.

Everyone has simply washed up and piled the dirty clothes aside. I heard that there is a canal on the edge of the southernmost city. Although the water in the river is a bit dry, it is still possible to wash clothes.

meal time.

The room already had some simple beds, tables and chairs. They piled the tables together and ate around them, with the children who couldn't sit squatting nearby.

Everyone in Liujia Village, young and old, enjoyed the meal.

Even during Chinese New Year and other festivals, they had never eaten anything this good. Especially the braised pork, which was so sweet and fragrant that they couldn't bear to swallow it. And the winter melon and bone soup, after dinner, it was delicious to drink a bowl of it.

The Liu family is really good to them.