You confiscated my property, I exiled you, why are you crying when the treasury is empty?

When Zhan Beiwang was about to leave, Bai Ye pointed at the few people lying nearby.

"Those people should be relatives of your Zhan family. Remember to take them away."

Zhan Beiwang looked at those people, his expression returning to its calm state. "I'll find someone to take them away later. I won't disturb your sleep."

After Zhan Beiwang left, several people packed up their things and went to rest. After all, they had wasted a lot of time because of what happened just now.

Early the next morning.

There was no trace of the Wan family members at the place where they were originally. It seemed that Zhan Beiwang had taken them away.

Not long after the exile team set off, they arrived at a town, and Su Wanning followed the plan they had agreed upon with Bai Ye.

He took out some of the food in the space and sold it outside the city. Food was already scarce, and now it was sold at an even lower price.

Some people queue up honestly to buy, but naturally there are also people with bad intentions.

Several of them were about to rob him on the spot, but Bai Ye immediately grabbed them and said, "How dare you come and rob our Qingshan bandits' stall?"

The few people being held down by Bai Ye had naturally heard of the Qingshan bandits' reputation, and fear was evident in their eyes. One of them knelt on the ground, kowtowed several times, and quickly confessed, "Sir, spare me! It was Shopkeeper Wu from the grain shop in the city who sent us here to cause trouble. The people are all coming to you to buy food, and he has no place to sell the huge amount of grain he has hoarded. Give us ten taels of silver each, and we'll take down your stall."

"Manager Wu has hoarded a lot of grain? He's planning to sell it at a high price?" Su Wanning suddenly raised her voice so that the people queuing around could hear it.

"What? Shopkeeper Wu has stockpiled food?"

"He's a black-hearted person, taking advantage of the current situation to raise food prices."

"They've stockpiled food, but the quota is limited every day. They're probably planning to raise the price depending on the situation."

"If we don't buy any, it will be useless for him to stockpile food."

Su Wanning looked at the people around her, all of whom were pale and thin from hunger. Although she was cursing Manager Wu now, if she was really starving, she would definitely buy expensive food.

At this moment, someone suddenly looked at Bai Ye and said, "Girl, will you continue to sell here?"

"The relief grain from the imperial court will soon arrive." Bai also avoided the question.

She didn't say this casually. After all, the drought in the south had been severe before, and the court would definitely send people over. It should be about time.

After hearing what Bai Ye said, Su Wanning looked up at the sky and the earth. Even if the imperial court could gather the disaster relief grain, it would not be much. After all, when the war at Anbian was at its peak, they were unwilling to provide military rations. What's more, all the grain in the national treasury was in her space.

Bai Ye followed Su Wanning to the back of the makeshift shed, "How long will we stay here?"

Su Wanning looked at the endless queue in the distance. The city they were in was relatively small. If it were bigger, the queue would be even longer. "It would be great if they could open a few more locations."

"Then why not ask other people to help?"

"Do we have anyone else?" Su Wanning looked at Bai Ye. If possible, the people from the Zhan family could help, but the exile team had to leave after all, so this matter might be difficult to handle.

Unexpectedly, Bai Ye walked over with Peng Hai at knifepoint. "Ningning, he said he agrees to let the team stop temporarily and sell food for two days."

The corners of Su Wanning's mouth twitched. As expected, Bai did not disappoint her.

Finally, six teams were formed, all located nearby. Su Wanning and Bai Ye drove horse-drawn carriages to transport food.

Just as we had placed many bags of food in all the locations, a carriage drove in from the city gate.

It stopped directly in front of Su Wanning and the others.

A man got off the carriage. It was none other than Wu, the shopkeeper of the city's grain shop. He walked straight up to Bai Ye and said, "I'm sorry that I didn't recognize the great man and offended the gentlemen of Qingshan. This is a small token of my appreciation. I hope you will accept it."

Bai Ye looked at the bulging money bag in Shopkeeper Wu's hand and raised it with his sword, "Shopkeeper Wu, you must have made a lot of money from selling grain recently."

Shopkeeper Wu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You're joking. I just earned some hard-earned money."

Bai Ye threw the money bag on the sword back into Shopkeeper Wu's arms and said, "Just get down to business."

Shopkeeper Wu took the purse and put it in his arms flatteringly. "Look, I have a grain store in the city. Why don't you sell the grain in our store and I'll sell it at your price? What do you think?"

Bai also looked at Shopkeeper Wu with disdain, "What? You don't want to make money?"

"It's all up to you."

Bai Ye's eyes darkened. "Let me guess. Did your grain store offend someone recently? Are they trying to borrow my reputation as a Qingshan bandit?"

When Shopkeeper Wu saw his secrets exposed, his pupils dilated and he could hardly hold back the fake smile on his face.

"Looking at you like this, I guess I guessed it right." Bai Ye smiled disdainfully, "Go back now. Not just any Tom, Dick or Harry can borrow our name."

Shopkeeper Wu wanted to say something else, but Bai Ye suddenly turned around, looked at Bai Ye's back unwillingly, got on the carriage and drove away.

After Shopkeeper Wu left, Su Wanning poked Bai Ye and asked, "How did you know that Shopkeeper Wu came to ask you for a favor?"

She only guessed that Manager Wu might come to flatter Bai Ye and the others because of their reputation, and might discuss purchasing a large amount of their grain and cooperating with them, but she never expected that there would be another meaning.

Bai Ye looked at Su Wanning and pointed at himself, "Who am I?"

"Bai Ye."

Bai Ye was speechless for a while, "I am a bandit, and he is a grain shop owner who raises grain prices. He comes to negotiate business with me and sells it at a low price.

He usually sells at a high price, so there are only two possibilities for him suddenly lowering the price at this time. One is that there is no shortage of food right now. As you can see, this hypothesis is not true. The only other possibility is that he has offended someone, forcing him to lower the price, and this pile of food we have now just happens to be an excuse for him to lower the price."

"Now that we're competing for the market, he can lower the price."

Bai Ye nodded, "Indeed, he was just here to go through the motions from the beginning. If we can cooperate, that would be great. If not, we can just lower the price and sell it."

"Can you guess who he might have offended?"

"Who knows? Maybe they've offended the higher-ups and are planning to flee." Bai Ye also thought this was a possibility. "Could it be that the higher-ups are sending people here to provide disaster relief and understand the people's sentiments at the same time?"

"To understand the people's sentiments? I'm afraid you just came to see how miserable others are living." Su Wanning curled her lips.

Outside the capital, people's complaints are everywhere. Why do you have to travel such a long way to come here?

Over the course of an afternoon, the number of people queuing decreased significantly, and only a few people were left in front of their stall before the sun set.

In order to prevent others from hoarding food, they all came with their household registration, and with the reputation of the Qingshan bandits, few people caused trouble.