Famine and exile: I brought the Spirit Spring to save the entire Marquis's mansion.

Everyone was busy in the kitchen and outside the yard.

While grinding flour, the old lady told stories to the children, while Huo Chang'an and Jintang were doing something by the wall.

The two sisters-in-law and Mo Cuiyu were in the kitchen.

Only Huo Jingya was idle, sitting on a wooden stump and eating a pear.

As soon as Sang Ning came out, Huo Jingya excitedly leaned over and showed off her day's achievements.

"Today we sold 120 coins, which is half more than yesterday. People who came yesterday came back to buy, and many others came after inquiring about the products!"

"Make plenty of gluten skewers tonight, we need these the most!"

Sang Ning glanced into the kitchen and saw Li Yuzhi and Mo Cuiyu kneading dough inside.

Although gluten skewers are delicious, there aren't many supplementary ingredients available now. It all depends on people repeatedly kneading, stretching, and pressing to extract the gluten.

This takes quite a lot of effort.

After washing it many times, the dough changes color and becomes soft and elastic; this is the remaining gluten, which is about half the original amount of flour.

Then cut it into strips, wrap it around chopsticks, cook it until done, and finally skewer it onto bamboo sticks.

One pound of flour can make fifteen strands of gluten, which only cost seven coins. After deducting the cost of oil, salt, and seasonings, the profit is just enough to cover the labor cost.

In Liangzhou City, where rice and flour are ridiculously expensive, that was truly a great act of charity.

Everyone's smart; they all buy this to eat.

However, the water used to wash the gluten is not wasted; after settling, it can be used to make dough sheets.

People in Liangzhou love to eat noodles, but like tofu shops, they are now mostly closed due to food and water shortages. Many people are saving their food to survive.

Sang Ning plans to make more noodles and wild vegetable paste at the shop.

There were so many wild vegetables in the space, they were big and fresh, and tasted better than regular vegetables. If you mixed in a little cornmeal, you could have a bowl of porridge that would fill you up.

It's a business with no capital investment; they only charge a penny for labor when making wild vegetable porridge, which is considered helping the people of Liangzhou City.

"Nothing happened today, right?" Sang Ning's biggest worry was that someone would take advantage of a woman running a shop to cause trouble.

If everyone were law-abiding, she would be willing to donate even more food to save people.

However, she dared not gamble with human nature.

Huo Jingya glanced into the kitchen and whispered to Sang Ning, "That older cousin went there, looking so pitiful, and he kept talking about things from the past."

Sister Mo gave him a bowl of potato chunks. He still wouldn't leave, so I chased him away with a stick.

"He's shameless." Sang Ning recognized Huo Jianglin once again.

They lack responsibility, conscience, and shamelessness.

There's nothing commendable about it.

"Sister Mo has been working non-stop all day. She must feel bad for giving food to Huo Jianglin."

This is also what makes Mo Cuiyu so valuable; she always knows how to distinguish boundaries and never thinks that what she has in her hands is hers.

Hey?

For the first time, I felt that Huo Jingya had actually become smart enough to figure this out.

As they were talking, Huo Chang'an and Jin Tang came over.

"There are several animal traps placed against the wall; don't go near them."

"Hmm? Is something wrong?"

Sang Ning knew that Huo Chang'an hadn't been idle these past few days. He had made a bunch of pointed wooden stakes with Jin Tang and asked Old Man Liu to stick them into the wall first, and then cover them with pebbles.

This increases the height of the wall and also serves as a security measure.

The wall is now complete; all that's left is to build the top.

Why did you rush to make animal traps again?

Just in case. Our family's food is quite strong.

In particular, after stewing chicken once, the aroma wafted quite far, so he went outside and saw quite a few people peeking in.

It's better to be cautious.

Sang Ning thought for a moment and said, "Let's find another dog tomorrow!"

She had thought about this before, but there weren't many people in the village who could afford to keep dogs, and there weren't enough people to eat.

She didn't do it because she was afraid of attracting attention.

Actually, as long as you have food, you can't hide it no matter how low you try. You can tell just by looking at how much fatter her family members are than the others.

Liangzhou City isn't very big, so the village knew about her as soon as she opened her shop.

She may have just found a water source, which will make many people grateful and prevent them from having malicious intentions.

Humans are inherently two-sided, and good and evil can be separated by a single thought.

Serious illness in a family member, being humiliated, or going hungry can all drive a kind person astray at any time.

How many people in the world can truly stay true to themselves?

So Sang Ning decided to ignore it and instead arm himself, making people hesitant to act against him and more cautious.

"I want to find two, big wolfhounds!" Sang Ning said with great confidence.

Upon hearing this, Jinxiu clapped her hands and shouted, "Great! Great! Let the big wolfhound have another puppy so I can play with it!"

Sang Ning laughed heartily: "Then let's have one male and one female!"

Huo Chang'an: "..."

Her slender phoenix eyes were slightly upturned, the dark color concealing the tenderness that seemed to overflow from them.

He smiled and suggested, "Why don't you go ask Su Huiye? There are purebred wolfhounds in the military camp. Even the puppies are more ferocious than the mongrel dogs."

"That's right! You're so smart!" Sang Ning exclaimed.

The boy raised his eyebrows slightly, and tiny glints of light emanated from his eyes.

The moon, like a plate, leaps onto the branches, casting its light across the entire courtyard.

Sang Ning's shadow fell beside him; she was wearing a slightly loose dress today.

The wind lifted the hem of his skirt, and his clothes fluttered playfully up and down. He couldn't resist reaching out to touch them.

It wasn't that he was smart; it was that his father and second brother were both in the army...

His hand just stood there, frozen in mid-air.

The softness and color of her body quietly vanished, leaving behind a chill.

He looked up.

The Milky Way is dazzling, the moonlight is like a torch, so bright, so round...

Is the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching?

There was a knock on the door.

Sang Ning and Huo Jingya ran over together.

It turns out that Xu Wude sent someone to deliver something!

Three large bags of good rice, quilts, cloth, porcelain bowls, tea, and charcoal for the winter!

Of course, there was also the thousand taels of silver that Sang Ning had asked for at the time, even though it was a small sum.

Xu Wude was quite sensible and exchanged some loose silver for it.

The deliverymen were Changyou and another errand boy.

The two of them quickly unloaded the items without making a sound.

"Is your master alright?"

Despite the fact that the person was so honest, Sang Ning still asked a question out of concern.

"Not good. He doesn't talk much, doesn't eat much, and his belly has gotten thinner."

Is he only concerned about the chubby boy's belly?

"Hu Qiu was sentenced to death, his friend was also imprisoned, and his second wife hanged herself."

"what?"

Would that woman commit suicide?

Chang You winked at her.

Sang Ning understood.

He was probably killed.

It's either the First Madam or Xu Wude.

"Also, the master dismissed all the maids in the courtyard and gave money to the injured. Everyone is very grateful to you. They say you are a judge descended to earth."

Uh, aren't judges from the underworld?

Isn't this a judge descending to earth?

Changyou then quietly drove away, and everyone moved all their belongings into the house.

The old lady immediately took away a bolt of cotton cloth.

"Luckily I haven't bought them yet, this is enough to make many outfits."

She glanced at Sang Ning's height, then at Huo Chang'an, and nodded as if she had a plan in mind.