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The three siblings loaded all their belongings onto the donkey cart, covered it with oilcloth, tied the four corners with hemp rope, and prepared to leave.

Lin Qingxue sat on the donkey cart, while Lin Qingming and Lin Qingran sat in the driver's seat. She took out the remaining meat buns from the basket on her back and shared them with the two of them, and then took a meat bun for herself and started eating.

Soon, the three siblings left the city, drove their donkey cart past the crowd, and reunited with Lin Qingchu.

"Cousin, what are you doing?" Lin Qingchu looked at the fully loaded donkey cart and looked at Lin Qingming and his two siblings in disbelief.

"Let's talk about it when we get back. Let's go first!" Lin Qingming gestured to everyone to look at the surrounding environment. It was not appropriate to talk about this with so many people around.

Lin Qingchu also reacted. He nodded, looked at the donkey cart that could not accommodate anyone, and asked them to go back first. Then they walked back.

When Lin Qingxue and her two siblings returned to the pavilion, everyone was pacing back and forth anxiously. Knowing that Lin Qingchu was taking people into the city to buy things, everyone was very excited and nervous, and they didn't know what the rules were over there.

You will also see Lin Qingming and his two siblings driving back a donkey cart that is full of things, and everyone will excitedly surround it.

"Qingming boy, how are you? What's going on in the city? Is this donkey cart new for your family?"

"Qingran boy, what did you buy?"

"Qingming boy, is food expensive in the city?"

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Listening to the questions from the uncles and aunts in the village, Lin Qingming cleared his throat and said loudly, "Everyone, please make way. How can I speak like this?"

"Okay, everyone, disperse and stop gathering together," Village Chief Lin walked over and shouted at the crowd. Seeing him coming, the villagers dared not surround Lin Qingming and the others anymore.

Looking at the dispersing crowd, Village Chief Lin smiled with satisfaction. He said to Lin Qingming seriously, "Tell us what's going on in Lingyun City."

"Now there's an entrance fee of half a tael of silver per person to enter the city, so out of the eight of us, only three of us brothers and sisters went in. As for the food and water on the donkey cart, we found a private grain seller. His grain price was low, but the rice ears were also high. He sold it at sixty wen per catty, so we bought 15,000 catties, which is about 7,500 catties of rice. We also bought water, salt, eggs, duck eggs, and some vegetables. If you're sure you want to buy this kind of food, please come over to my third brother to register. We only brought 1,500 catties today, and we'll pick up the rest tomorrow."

Lin Qingming stood up and stood on the donkey cart. He looked at everyone and told them what the three brothers and sisters had agreed on in advance. The grain could not be given directly to everyone, but it could not be sold at a high price either. So they could only mix it with rice ears and sell it half and give it away half.

It’s impossible that we are the ones who eat the most while the villagers are all pale and skinny!

If it really comes to that, will there be any hope for my family to survive? Even if the refugees don't come to rob me, the villagers will not let me go, right?

After hearing Lin Qingming's words, the villagers talked about it a lot. Most of them were grateful to Lin Qingming and his sisters. Needless to say, they must have paid the money in advance to buy these grains. How could they not be moved!

Not to mention the money, just think about buying so much food and taking it home. Each family can get at least two or three hundred kilograms of food!

Don’t underestimate these two or three hundred kilograms of grain. Mixed with sweet potatoes, dried vegetables, etc., it can allow the whole family to live two or three more months. How can the villagers not be grateful to Lin Qingming’s family!

Village Chief Lin looked around at the villagers and said loudly to Lin Qingming and his two siblings, "As the village chief and your great-uncle, I want to say thank you on behalf of all the villagers. We all know that your family must have paid for these things, and we also know that it was not easy for your family to come up with this money."

After a pause, Village Chief Lin looked at the villagers and saw that everyone's faces were full of gratitude and there was not a trace of jealousy in their eyes.

He added, "It's already very difficult to buy food nowadays. Although the food you bought has ears of rice in it, we don't mind it at all. It's not easy for you either."

Having said that, Village Chief Lin didn't say anything else. Instead, the villagers began to express their gratitude to the three brothers Lin Qingming.

Hearing everyone's words, Lin Qingming smiled and said, "We are all from the same ancestor. We all know the situation of the villagers. We have used up all our family savings to buy this food. We even took out the private savings of our brothers' wives. We are not afraid of you laughing at us. We want you to buy this food, but we don't want you to buy this food. No one knows what the situation will be like next, or whether we can still buy food. We have more than 30 people in our family. Who among us doesn't lack food and water?"

Hearing Lin Qingming's words, the villagers all laughed. Everyone knew what he meant because they all thought the same thing. In this day and age, who doesn't want to store more food? This is life-saving food!

"Qingming boy, you move your things back first. As for the rest, we will discuss how much each family should buy and try our best to ensure that every family has enough food and water," Village Chief Lin smiled, feeling very satisfied with the cleverness of his nephews.

"Got it, uncle. You guys discuss it first. I'll ask my second son and the others to come and move the things," Lin Qingming said, motioning to Lin Qingbai and the others who had been waiting nearby to come and move the things.

"Second and fourth brothers, this basket of eggs is ours, these three bags of grain are ours, these two pounds of salt and this jar of water are ours, and these ten pounds of vegetables are ours. You can move these things back first, and then ask your sister-in-law and the others to make some food for us and send it over."

Lin Qingming pointed things out as he spoke. Every time he pointed at something, Lin Qingbai and the others would move it away. Every time an item was moved away, the villagers' hearts would skip a beat.

Soon, Lin Qingbai and his companions moved the things away, and only one-fifth of the space on the donkey cart was empty, and the rest belonged to everyone.

"Qingming, come here and tell us the price of these things," Village Chief Lin and the villagers waited until Lin Qingbai and his friends moved their belongings away before they walked over and surrounded Lin Qingming and his two siblings and said.

"A jar of water is one ounce of silver, a 300-jin bag of grain is one ounce and eight qian of silver, eggs are four wen each, duck eggs are three wen each, vegetables are twenty wen per jin, and salt is one hundred and twenty wen per jin. You can buy whatever you like and in what quantities you like."

Lin Qingming told the price agreed upon by the three siblings. It was not low, but not expensive either, because the price in Lingyun City was more expensive.