A peasant girl with a special ability uses herself and two wolves to escape famine!

After a careful inspection, it was confirmed that nothing was missing from the study.

He was about to pick up the envelope on the table when a guard stopped him. "General, this is suspicious. To prevent any trickery, please have your men open the letter."

Zhao Yunpeng nodded, "Put on some clothes."

They were all afraid the envelopes were poisoned.

Xia Ning: You have a big face, don't you? Poison is very expensive, do you deserve it?

"General, what is this?"

He held up the letter, and Zhao Yunpeng's pupils dilated when he saw its contents. Where did this madman come from, actually wanting to sell him grain at such a low price?

Xia Ning: Is it low? It's her fault for not finding out more; she only increased the price fivefold when she resold it.

"General, this letter..."

"Call everyone here!"

"Yes!"

This is a matter of great importance, and he can't make a decision alone. If it's true, wouldn't he be missing a great opportunity to get grain? If it's false, what's he after? Just a few boxes of useless gold and silver.

He actually has quite a lot of this stuff now. With neighboring countries at war, he's sent plenty of people to take advantage of the chaos. In the early stages of the natural disaster, he sent people to the disaster area to sell water and seafood, making a fortune. Unfortunately, he just couldn't buy useful supplies like grain and cloth.

"General, why don't we give it a try? We can build a few simple warehouses at the locations mentioned in the letter. It won't take much effort on us. We can also send a large force to ambush the surrounding area. If anyone is trying to cheat us, we can arrest them on the spot. If they are really grain sellers, that would be even better. We can just trade directly. They have it, and we'll buy it. Why bother with all this sneaking around?"

"What do you think?"

Everyone felt something was strange about it, but everyone clung to a sliver of hope that it was true. They had truly been starving for far too long.

"We all think it's worth a try. After all, we won't lose anything by trading on our turf, right?"

Yeah, if they can get their things stolen on their own turf, they might as well just run themselves over.

The other party said they would give them ten days to buy as much grain as they wanted, and they would give them the same amount of silver.

After discussion, it was decided that the first time would be a trial run. Although gold and silver were useless, they were still something they had worked hard to "grab"—no, to bring back.

3000 taels of grain is not much for a large prefectural city.

Jiang Yi secretly observed and discovered that they were indeed building a warehouse.

"Xiao Ning, they believe it."

"It's not that I believed it; it's just that in every gambler's mind, the more suspicious it seems, the more it itches, and the more they want to gamble on whether there's any chance of something going wrong."

Besides, right under their noses, these soldiers are very confident in themselves and aren't worried about us causing trouble.

"What if they ambush us in the warehouse?"

"I can't just disappear instantly? That'll scare them to death! Don't worry, they can't catch me."

I just hope they won't be traumatized.

"General, the warehouse is complete."

In seven days, they built a huge warehouse, mainly made of stone.

They had already decided that if it was just a ploy to fool them, they would simply use it as soldiers' bedrooms and cut a few more windows.

In short, we will not let it go to waste.

"Arrange for people to lie in ambush around the area and monitor it day and night."

Should we assign staff to the warehouse?

"No need. There are people lying in ambush all around. They can't get into the warehouse even if they have wings. If you see anyone going over there, don't stop them. Let's see what their purpose is."

Zhao Yunpeng was unsure whether they were agents of the imperial court or spies from another country.

He will eliminate anyone who wants to harm Haicheng.

"Yes."

“Xiao Ning, that old scoundrel is unethical. There are people lying in ambush all around him. He’s trying to double-cross us.”

Jiang Yi was very unhappy. The old man was a real scoundrel. They were trying to sell grain out of kindness, and he still resorted to underhanded tactics.

Xia Ning: ……

Those who play politics naturally think more than ordinary people. It would be strange if he weren't afraid of someone sneaking into his study and coming and going as they pleased.

With a knife hanging over her neck, she was certain that this family wouldn't dare sleep for a while.

What does it matter if there are people around the warehouse?

"Let's stop selling them grain and just steal from their warehouses, take as much as we can."

The more Jiang Yi thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. It was a sure thing, a guaranteed profit, and they could make a fortune in one fell swoop. He looked at Xia Ning with burning eyes, "Shall we do it? Let's go tonight, let's do something big, and then we can go back to our hometown and hide. There's a sea there too."

I got so happy that I blurted something out.

Jiang Yi: ...

"My hometown has a sea, but I didn't know that the wave was the sea. I thought it was a big river, a salty big river."

Damn, I've wasted so much time.

"Don't you know? You grew up there too."

Xia Ning fell silent, a rare occurrence for her.

She had never left Xiajia Village before. Later, she went around collecting goods, but she didn't find any sea. She mainly collected goods within the village.

So, what is she working so hard for?

"Xiao Ning?"

Seeing that she didn't speak, Jiang Yi thought she was angry and became anxious.

"Just consider it as a trip to see the beautiful landscape of the Great Xia Dynasty."

She could only comfort herself in this way.

"Should we still steal from the Zhao family?"

"That might be your home, brother. Can't you be a decent human being? You're not even sparing your own parents! We are law-abiding citizens, law-abiding citizens, doing legitimate business."

"I'll go sell the grain in a couple of days. Jiang Yi, the money is earned honestly and fairly, through mutual consent, understand?"

"We sell grain secretly at night."

"I'm tired, I'm going to sleep."

When we don't see eye to eye, even half a sentence is too much.

"Remember, once we're out of the space, hold onto my sleeve and don't let go. Otherwise, I won't be able to take you with me when I enter the space. Keep an eye on our surroundings; if anyone gets close to the warehouse, warn me immediately."

"understood."

"There's no one in the warehouse."

Xia Ning was relieved.

With Jiang Yi's keen eye, they immediately found the silver. They put it into their spatial storage, and the two of them went inside to count it. It was neatly arranged and easy to count: three thousand taels.

Such a small amount; it seems the other party is truly suspicious and stingy.

Xia Ning left three thousand taels of silver worth of coarse grains, along with a letter listing the items she wanted to sell and their prices. She instructed anyone who wanted to buy them to place the quantity and the silver in the warehouse the following evening, and forbidding anyone from leaving the warehouse unattended.

Vegetables and grains have all increased in price eightfold. With such high demand and limited supply, this is the time to quietly make a fortune.

The soldiers lying in ambush waited all night, but saw nothing. They knew they'd been tricked. Or perhaps, the enemy had noticed them.

"How are you?" Zhao Yunpeng asked, a hint of nervousness in his voice. Heaven knows, he'd been changing rooms every night for the past few nights, and still couldn't sleep.

The other person shook his head.

"I waited all night, but no one showed up nearby."

General Zhao closed his eyes in disappointment.

"Come with me to the warehouse."

"Squeak."

Open the warehouse door.

As far as the eye could see, there was an empty space. Such a large warehouse, completely empty and spacious.

"Have someone carry the silver back in a bit."

"Yes."

"General, what do you think?"

There seemed to be something piled up in the innermost corner of the warehouse—burlap sacks—it certainly wasn't silver.

Zhao Yunpeng strode to the corner of the warehouse, where someone next to him opened a burlap sack filled with black flour.

Although it's made with black flour, it's much more refined than what's sold in the city nowadays, and it doesn't have a musty smell.

He reached his large hand into the grain and grabbed a handful. The real feel of it told him that it was indeed grain.

"General!"

I felt regretful; I hadn't bought enough!

"General, a message has arrived."

Zhao Yunpeng didn't let anyone else do it for him; he took the goods himself and opened them immediately.

There's still a chance; the other party will sell him grain again.

Why didn't the people outside notice the intruders? Why was the warehouse door never opened? How did they get in and how did they leave?

Bringing so much grain is not an easy task.

Could the other party be an immortal?