Wow! My wife is beautiful and obedient, everyone envies her!

Think back to the night he set off for Gangdia. He had only boasted to Ao that Noah had been good to him, but Noah had caught him red-handed, accusing him of slandering the head of the Davis family, and causing him to pay for it with his life.

If they take things for free now, they'll probably be eaten alive, with not even bones left.

Of course, this is a joke.

Qi Yuan knew that Noah would give him whatever he wanted, and Noah wouldn't force him to do anything he didn't want.

They didn't take anything for free because of their Davis family status; they just didn't want to reveal their identities.

After all, Noah said he would help him investigate secretly. Although this was just an excuse to keep him out of danger, Qi Yuan still wanted to do something for him.

There are quite a few shops in Gangdia. Not far from the church, they saw a shop selling ingredients on the street.

The shop had a pitifully small selection of goods, only potatoes and two other vegetables that Qi Yuan didn't recognize.

The North Island region has long winters, so there is only one way to store vegetables—pickled.

Although the shop didn't have many fresh vegetables, it had a lot of pickled cucumbers and sauerkraut.

Qi Yuan asked the shopkeeper to calculate how much it would cost if all the vegetables on the counter were sold out, plus thirty jars of pickled cucumbers and six vats of sauerkraut.

Upon seeing that it was a large order, the boss immediately started calculating on paper and finally gave Qi Yuan a price of 5,300.

Even Andrei, who was unfamiliar with vegetable prices, immediately exclaimed upon hearing the figure: "So expensive?! This amount of food would only cost seven or eight hundred yuan at most in Juecheng. Five thousand three thousand is outrageous!"

Qi Yuan used to eat pickled cucumbers and sauerkraut often in prison. Vegetables that could be eaten often in prison were synonymous with cheap.

With over five thousand yuan, Qi Yuan felt that the boss was treating them like fools.

When the boss heard Andrei compare prices to those in Juecheng, he knew that Andrei had lived in Juecheng for a period of time, but he remained completely unfazed by his own offer.

"Sir, all the people of Gangdia have gone to mine. There isn't even a blade of grass to be seen on the surrounding land, let alone a potato. But people still need to eat, right? So the goods in the shop have to be transported from other cities."

“It’s freezing cold now, and the roads are all covered in snow and ice, making them very difficult to travel. I spent time and people transporting the goods here. Besides, this shop also has rent to pay. So, even if I sell them to you at this price, I’ll only make a meager 300 yuan as a service fee!”

The boss's complaints were no different from farts to Andrei. A few hundred dollars worth of goods, a few hundred dollars worth of rent, and he only got to sell these things to them for a little over five thousand dollars. He was making so much money that he could laugh in his sleep at night.

"Boss, how much are these potatoes per pound?"

Qi Yuan picked up a potato and asked.

The shopkeeper looked at the potatoes, thought for a few seconds, and said, "Thirty!"

"What about pickled cucumbers? How much is a jar?"

"eighty!"

"Where's the pickled cabbage?"

One hundred and eighty!

"This pile of potatoes looks like it only weighs about 20 jin (10 kg). At 30 yuan per jin, that's about 600 yuan. Thirty jars of pickled cucumbers are 80 yuan each, which is 2,400 yuan. Add six jars of sauerkraut, and that's 1,080 yuan. Boss, all of this adds up to just over 4,000 yuan. How did you come up with 5,000?"

Qi Yuan's rapid mental calculations astonished the shop owner, who thought that Qi Yuan must have made a mistake since he calculated so quickly, and said that he was just talking nonsense. However, when he calculated it himself, he found that the price was the same as what Qi Yuan said.

But he still refused to admit it, saying that the pile of potatoes must have weighed fifty pounds, not twenty pounds.

Qi Yuan was too lazy to say anything more to the boss who had gone to such lengths in business. He looked at Asa and Andrei, and the three of them, too lazy to say anything more, walked out of the shop.

Pickled potatoes and cucumbers are the most common ingredients in the North Continent, and even if Gandia is short of supplies, they are not this expensive.

Qi Yuan and his group went to other shops and found that the prices were much lower than at the first shop: potatoes were five yuan a pound, a jar of pickled cucumbers was twenty yuan, and a vat of sauerkraut was forty-three yuan.

Because we bought so much, the final price was rounded down to six thousand yuan. But this six thousand yuan was used to buy all the ingredients in the shop, plus fifty kilograms of flour.

The shop owner, seeing customers buying so many items at once for the first time, even offered to bring out his horse-drawn carriage to deliver the goods for free.

We have enough vegetables; the next step is to buy meat.

Because there is a large ranch in a nearby city that mainly raises sheep, lamb is particularly cheap in Gangdia. Fish is also relatively inexpensive.

There is a huge lake to the east of Gangdia. The Davis family has leased the lake and puts in nearly 10,000 kilograms of fish fry into it every year, so there are a lot of fish there. In winter, they open a winter fishing business and catch enough fish once a week to sell.

Davis's stores are more honest, with reasonable prices and no exorbitant charges.

Qi Yuan asked them to order some fish and mutton, while he waited outside.

Next door, several shop owners were chatting around a stove.

Qi Yuan pulled his scarf down slightly and listened quietly to their conversation.

"What is Noah doing here? Could he really be here to compensate the miners?"

"Who knows? As soon as he arrived in Gangdia, all the wealthy people in the city immediately tried to meet him. Some even dressed up like peacocks, hoping to bump into him by chance."

"It's really strange. Such an important person came to Gangdia, and we are still as usual, but the noble district is as lively as if it were New Year's Day."

"What's so great about the excitement? I heard that Noah was walking on the street in the noble district last night when he was attacked by an assassin and almost had a hole stabbed in the stomach."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. Actually, he came to the boxing ring here to watch a match yesterday, but he was ambushed on his way back. However, his bodyguard was very skilled. When he saw the man rushing over with a knife, he immediately shot the man in the head."

"How could you be so stupid? Taking a knife and going to fight someone with a gun?"

“He’s Big’s brother. Didn’t his brother die in the mining accident? The Leopold family said it was the Davis family who did it, so he wants to avenge his brother by assassinating Noah.”

"Are you saying that the Davis family blew up the Leopold family's mines?"

"Who knows? The Davis family claims they didn't do it, but the Leopold family says the Davis family did it, and the Davis family will even give compensation. They're saying different things. Who do you think we should believe?"

Qi Yuan's expression changed as he listened to their conversation.

The danger doubled the moment Noah left the Forsaken City for other cities.

This is probably just a harbinger. They left Juecheng in a hurry, and no one knew where he went. Now that they know he is in Juecheng, who knows how many people will come to assassinate him?

Noah's matter must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise, the longer it stays, the more dangerous it will be. But what can he do for Noah?