In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

After Shen Qian finished speaking, Wei Liangping didn't even have time to respond.

He saw the heavily armored soldier who had pushed him before pushing towards him again.

Although he didn't use much force, his body collided with the armor and it hurt.

Wei Liangping felt the pain coming from his body and his face changed again and again.

I cursed in my heart: Isn't this a bit too fast?

"Buy it!" Behind Wei Liangping, Zou Chu, the head of the Zou family, shouted loudly and responded on behalf of Wei Liangping.

This made Wei Liangping unhappy.

"You pay 20%!" Wei Liangping ordered Zou Chu, and then took out a silver note of 9,000 taels.

Zou Chu did not act pretentiously when Wei Liangping asked him to pay more money.

He directly took out six thousand taels of silver notes.

So much time had passed, and he already had a strong premonition that his second son and the servants he had sent out to sell water would not come back.

Whether they were killed or stayed in the county to rest.

There will be no water to buy back.

Buying more water now can help you last longer. After arriving at the next county, you can go to the county to replenish it.

Holding 30,000 taels of silver notes commonly used in the Southern Territory, Wei Liangping came to Shen Qian's carriage again.

However, he still didn't see Shen Qian herself, but the maid Chuntian beside him reached out and took the banknote from him.

After verifying the authenticity of the banknote.

Replied to Shen Qian in the sedan chair:

"Lord."

"Thirty thousand taels of silver notes commonly used in the Southern Territory, undamaged."

"Well, Chuntian, take them to get eighty jars of water from our mobile water truck and ox cart supply." Shen Qian said to Chuntian and the village chief Wang Dakuo who were standing beside the carriage.

"As for the remaining 220 jars, please ask the village chief to collect them from the villagers."

"Right...our trade is just for the water in the jar. They have to provide the container for the water themselves."

Listening to Shen Qian's arrangements, Wei Liangping lost his balance and almost fell.

A jar of water costs one hundred taels, but they don’t even sell the jar, they only sell the water!

It’s a naked robbery...it’s a naked robbery!

But he really needed water, so he had no choice but to accept it.

However, the village chief Wang Dakuo and Chuntian agreed immediately.

The water was sold, but the villagers of Wangjia Village remained quiet, which made Wei Liangping furious.

He had even offered the price of one hundred taels of silver for a jar of water, but the villagers refused to sell it.

Now it’s still one hundred taels per jar, but everyone pours water for themselves with a big smile on their face?

The source of this happiness was sucked from his blood!

When he thought of this, Wei Liangping felt that he was having difficulty breathing.

After pulling the water back, Wei Liangping first replenished the water supply for the guards.

Then he left fifty jars for himself to drink.

......

As for Shen Qian, after receiving the banknotes, she was not in a hurry to divide the money.

Because these silver bills are all large-denomination silver bills with a face value of one thousand taels.

Instead of paying 100 taels each, these coins and silver need to be exchanged for cash or broken into small-denomination silver notes when they arrive in the southern border before they can be distributed to the tribesmen.

Thinking of this, she said to the scout:

"Announce the good news to the entire village. I have a record of all the people who have left the water this time. When you arrive in the southern border and settle down, come and exchange it with me for cash."

"The denomination of the banknotes is too large to be distributed among households."

"Yes!" the scout responded.

He immediately rode his horse around the whole village to announce it.

After hearing the news, the Wang family members in Wangjia Village did not complain.

Instead, there was a look of joy on their faces.

Hundreds of taels of silver. If they were to keep it by themselves, they would always be worried and worried about losing it.

But now Shen Qian is helping them keep it, they can’t express their gratitude enough, how can they complain!

As for corruption? That's even less of a worry. Wang Shenshi is so rich now, why would they set their sights on their small amount of money?

After being together for so long, everyone is still very confident in Shen Qian's character.

Just like this time, if Shen Qian hadn't said that there would be water replenishment in the evening, they would not have sold the water in whole jars. But Shen Qian just asked the village chief to convey it on their behalf, and they immediately did as Shen Qian asked. This is the trust that everyone in Wangjia Village has in Shen Qian.

Only one merchant looked towards Shen Qian, his eyes filled with anger.

Good news! Good news!

All the money I earn... is my money!

You are a bunch of farmers. When we get to the next county, I will definitely go to the county magistrate to report you.

......

The sun sets again.

Everyone has gotten enough rest.

A quarter of an hour after dinner, Shen Qian shouted at Wang Dakuo:

"Village chief, arrange for departure!"

"Okay!" Wang Dakuo responded and ran around the village, asking everyone to put their carts and ox carts in order.

In a quarter of an hour, the whole village was ready.

With a loud "Let's go", the front of the team started moving.

The heavily armored infantry took off all their heavy armor and threw it onto the ox carts, which pulled them.

After all... the armor is too heavy. It would be fatal to travel a hundred miles with the armor on.

After walking for about two and a half hours, the Wang family members in the front finally saw a winding stream.

Although it is called a small stream, the river is actually very wide, more than ten meters.

But the stream that flows through is only three or four meters in the middle part, and the soil on the highest point of the bank has dried up and cracked.

The severity of the drought can be seen from its changes alone.

"Water! It's water!"

"Everyone, come and fill up your water bottles. We still have a long way to go."

"Young and strong men, follow me down to the river and help carry the water jars up there!"

“…” The Wang clan members organized themselves spontaneously.

Shen Qian even helped fill up the big buckets for free, without the soldiers having to do anything.

Of course...the soldiers were not idle either.

They jumped down to fill the water bags.

This is no small amount of work.

Shen Qian also got off the carriage, came to the river, and carefully checked the situation of the river.

Shen Qian couldn't help but show shock after just a slight comparison with the impression in her memory.

Twenty days. The time I arrived here was only about twenty days before and after. The water storage capacity of this stream in twenty days will be at least two-thirds less than it is now.

Coupled with the massacre by the barbarians, perhaps only one million of the 50 million people in the northern border of Daliang can survive.

......

The group of merchants following behind Wangjia Village saw them suddenly stop and looked puzzled.

Especially those people have not set up camp as before.

Just stopped inexplicably.

Chamber of Commerce President Wei Liangping said to the servants beside him:

"Go and see why they stopped here."

"Yes!" the servant responded and ran over happily.

The head of the Zou family also said to a shopkeeper who was following him:

"You can also take a few people to take a look."

"It always felt like something was wrong with them stopping so suddenly."

"Master, please wait a moment!" After answering, the shopkeeper walked forward with a few of the shop assistants.

If Shen Qian were here, she would definitely recognize him: Isn't this the shopkeeper of Zou Ji Grain Store in Beiyang City who was cheated by her 'three times'?