I travel back and forth between ancient and modern times, hoarding goods to raise my grandchildren a

"Please speak, Madam."

"That's right, as you can see, there are so many children in the General's Mansion now, and I can't just stand by and watch these children do nothing at home."

If the drought ends someday and people's lives return to normal, and they continue in their current state, they'll likely achieve nothing.

"Therefore, I plan to find some teachers for them to impart knowledge and skills, so that they will not waste their lives."

"I learned from the second brother that you are the headmaster of Tongzhou Academy. Now that the academy has closed, you have some free time. I wonder if you would be willing to come back to the General's Mansion with us to teach the children?"

"If you wish, you can bring everyone from your household with you."

The general's mansion has also dismissed many servants, and now has many empty rooms.

"It's enough for all of you to move over, and there's even more to go."

Mo Yan, Mo Yunfei, and the other children looked expectantly at Old Master Mo, waiting for him to nod in agreement.

The general's mansion is not short of food now; if they go there, they can fill their stomachs.

Grandpa Mo looked at the children, then at his increasingly thin wife.

He hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Then I have no choice but to shamelessly bring my family to mooch off the General's mansion's food supplies."

In the current situation, it is truly shameless to bring one's entire family to stay at someone else's house.

But he couldn't resist the temptation.

He has already lost a son, three daughters-in-law, and a grandson; he hopes that the others can survive.

After everything was settled, the second son led the other children to help the Mo family pack their things.

After an incense stick had burned, the eldest brother, the second brother, Yu Chengcheng, and Mo Yan came over carrying a very exquisite wooden box.

"Grandmother, these are all gifts from your maternal grandfather."

After the box was laid flat, the second son happily opened it.

On top are several sets of the Four Treasures of the Study.

Next up are several paintings and calligraphies.

They are all magnificent and highly realistic landscape paintings, even more lifelike than those taken with a camera, with a greater sense of three-dimensionality. They are signed "Mo Bai".

"Mo Bai is my maternal grandfather. I heard from Steward Zhou that my maternal grandfather's paintings are priceless. Apart from the current emperor's imperial decree, even His Highness the Crown Prince has to consider my maternal grandfather's mood if he wants a painting."

"Is it that great?"

There are ten paintings and calligraphy pieces in the box. Doesn't that mean she's going to make a fortune?

Underneath the calligraphy and painting were several reams of Xuan paper. Yu Wanwan didn't know much about Xuan paper, only that she had heard of it while watching TV dramas, so she searched online for some famous and expensive Xuan paper from ancient times.

Based on her understanding of Xuan paper, these few rolls of Xuan paper looked somewhat like Chengxintang paper, but were also somewhat different from Chengxintang paper.

It feels smoother and more delicate than Chengxintang paper.

Chengxintang paper is already quite valuable in modern times.

This paper feels even better than Chengxintang paper; wouldn't each sheet be as precious as gold?

How much gold is there here?

“During his time as the headmaster, my maternal grandfather supported countless students and didn’t have much money to begin with. In addition, at the beginning of the drought, he took out all the money in his house to exchange for grain with others.”

Therefore, these were all that remained of my grandfather's most priceless possessions.

“But Grandmother, don’t worry. My maternal grandmother still has some dowry. She is packing up her dowry and is preparing to give it all to you.”

“I will talk to them again and ask them to put more things in the box to make Grandma even happier.”

Yu Wanwan: "..."

"I'm really not in a hurry. I'm not that greedy. And this is enough for me."

Yu Wanwan asked herself if she was really a greedy person.

But for some reason, she's recently been giving people the impression that she's very greedy.

Just like the second brother said.

Madam Mo brought out two boxes of dowry.

The most valuable item in the box was a set of jade jewelry.

Next came two bolts of brocade.

The rest were all gold and silver treasures.

That set of headdresses alone would be enough for their entire family to live comfortably in the General's Mansion for a year and a half.

About an incense stick later, Heping and Chang'an returned after seeing the people off.

That family lived only a few streets away from the Mo family.

It wasn't far at first, but some unexpected things happened on the way there.

Some people starved to death right in front of their cars.

They took a detour to avoid the corpse, which delayed them.

Yu Wanwan took out the large oil drum and filled all the cars with oil.

After picking up the Mo family and their luggage, we set off back to the capital.

Upon arriving at the city gates of the capital, the soldiers guarding the city saw Yu Wanwan's car and immediately let them pass.

"What's going on in the capital? Why are there so many soldiers patrolling?"

On the way back, the second son rode in the same car as Grandpa Mo.

Looking at the soldiers wearing masks and gloves coming and going outside, Old Master Mo asked his second son in confusion.

"Grandmother said that people in the capital were infected with the plague. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, people should stay at home and not go out."

The Emperor and his ministers arranged for soldiers to patrol the area, sending those who disobeyed home and checking each household to see if anyone was infected. If so, they would take the infected people to the designated clinics for treatment.

"plague?"

"What are the symptoms?"

These days, the second son has been helping the servants in the mansion to sort out the food to be delivered to those who are quarantined at home.

I've also heard a lot about plagues.

He said, "It's just coughing and fever. Many people in the capital are coughing and have fever, and some have even died from coughing up blood."

He heard about the man coughing up blood and dying together with Yu Wanwan.

He didn't know any other specific details.

But this is perfect for telling others.

"Do you have a cough and fever?"

Grandpa Mo frowned.

When he was in Tongzhou, he also heard that many people in their Xicheng District had suddenly developed coughs and fevers.

However, most of the people in Tongzhou had run out of food and didn't even have the strength to walk.

Patients with cough and fever are currently concentrated in Xicheng District.

Everything is fine in the other districts.

Could it be that the people in Xicheng District have also been infected with the plague?

There's no medicine in Tongzhou now, so are those people just going to wait to die?

“Grandfather, don’t worry. Although there is a plague outside, the gods have given Grandmother a lot of medicine. Grandmother will definitely be able to cure everyone.”

"Once everyone is well, I'll take you to stroll around the streets of the capital."

Old Master Mo pondered for a moment and said, "There is medicine? It can cure the plague?"

He seemed to see hope again.

Upon arriving at the General's Mansion, Yu Wanwan handed over the Mo family members to Steward Zhou for resettlement.

She had all the cars parked in the backyard.

Immediately, a large group of people gathered around to learn how to drive.

The training ground is very spacious; even after parking five SUVs, there are still plenty of spaces left.

She simply released the remaining five large trucks.

They also pulled out a batch of tablets, found videos of learning to drive trucks, and had Heping and the others watch the videos to learn.

She finally had some free time.

I just lay there in the room, not wanting to move at all.

There's no need for her to handle matters in the capital for the time being.

But there's one difference.

If she doesn't set off for the Northwest tomorrow, she fears she'll become a widow.