Armed with a machete and a gun, armed with a system, they fled the famine.

"Not this time."

Zhao Yan touched her daughter's face and squatted down to be at eye level with her.

"Xiao Mi, be good. We're moving to a new house, and Mommy needs to go to town to buy some things we'll need. It won't be convenient if I take you with me. Do you miss your brothers? Mommy promises you, I'll bring them home in a couple of days, okay?"

This was the result of her careful consideration.

Yun Chen and his two brothers were still just teenagers, and she was very worried about leaving them out there.

Once the house is ready, she will bring them back.

Yang Xiaomi didn't act willfully; she understood her mother's words and obediently walked to Chen Qingjiao's side.

"Mother, you go quickly, I will go with Sister Jiaojiao."

Chen Qingjiao pulled Yang Xiaomi to sit down beside her and said softly, "Aunt Zhao, don't worry, little Xiaomi is the most obedient."

Seeing this, Tian Xiu'e patted Zhao Yan on the shoulder and said nothing more.

As for the brothers Zhao Yan mentioned, she wondered if they were new friends that Xiaomi had made in town.

Zhao Yan nodded in relief.

"Sister Tian, ​​I'm entrusting Xiaomi to you."

"Don't be so polite with me, go ahead and do as you please."

When Sister Tian came out, Zhao Yan was carrying only an empty basket on her back.

The sky was already bright, and the sounds of people moving about could be heard from every household in the village.

Zhao Yan didn't dare linger and quickly left the village.

She ate well during this period, and she also made a point of exercising every time she went to town. As a result, she walked very fast with her basket on her back, and in just 45 minutes, she reached the city wall.

In a secluded corner, she took some everyday necessities directly from the system's shelves and carried them to her three nephews.

Preoccupied with the wild boar in her spatial storage cabinet, she didn't linger in Willow Lane. Leaving her belongings behind, she departed.

Before leaving, she pushed the cart she had bought with her.

After finding a secluded corner and ensuring the surroundings were completely safe, she placed the dead wild boar on the cart, covered it with an oilcloth, and then pushed it towards the largest restaurant in town.

The largest restaurant in Baima Town is called Baiweizhai, a branch opened by the Shen family.

Zhao Yan easily found the place.

Instead of going to the main entrance of the restaurant, she pushed the cart to the side entrance of Baiweizhai and went up to inquire.

"Young man, I have something good here. Would you please ask the shopkeeper to take a look?"

The guard at the side gate was a teenager, a clever-looking and quick-witted man.

He glanced at the cart by the wall, his eyes flickered, and he quickly said to Zhao Yan, "Big sister, wait here for a moment, I'll go and ask the shopkeeper to come over."

Zhao Yan: "Okay."

Not long after, the shopkeeper was invited over, looking somewhat impatient.

The young master of the restaurant came to inspect it, and he's been feeling extremely anxious these past two days. No wonder he looks so unwell.

The young master arrived shortly after, looking at Zhao Yan with an impatient expression.

"Young lady, what good thing do you want to show me?"

Zhao Yan lifted the tarpaulin off the wild boar.

"Manager, this is it. Would you like to keep it at your restaurant? The wild boar is freshly caught this morning."

Although storage lockers cannot store living things, they have one advantage: no matter how much time has passed, the items inside will remain exactly as they were when they were first placed inside.

Shen Zhong looked at the cart and saw that the wild boar's huge head had been smashed to pieces. His heart trembled, but when he looked at Zhao Yan again, his expression became much more polite.

This young lady has slender arms and legs, but she's quite capable.

However, wild boar meat has rough skin and thick hair, and the meat is not as tender as domestic pig meat; it's tough and hard to chew.

He was a little reluctant to accept it.

Just as I was about to politely decline, a flippant voice sounded from behind me.

"Wow, what a huge wild boar!"

Shen Yu approached the cart, fanning himself with a folding fan. Shen Zhong and the gatekeeper hurriedly bowed and scraped to him.

Shen Zhong: "Young Master, what brings you here? Please come upstairs to a private room to rest."

"not busy."

Shen Yu used his folding fan to push away Shen Zhong, who was blocking his way, and stared at the wild boar on the cart with shining eyes.

"This wild boar is quite good, Uncle Shen, let's keep it."

He slightly raised his eyes, looking at Zhao Yan who had hunted the wild boar.

"Hey? It's you."

Shen Yu recognized Zhao Yan at a glance as the woman who had given him the braised food that day, and raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Did you hunt this wild boar?"

She looks so thin, how did she manage to hunt such a big wild boar?

Zhao Yan hadn't expected to run into the man she'd only met once while selling wild boar, so she smiled politely.

"Yes, I hunted it."

It was free; it was just luck.

Shen Yu became increasingly curious.

Her family must be hunters from the mountains? She must have learned hunting skills from a young age?

Suppressing his curiosity, he instructed the bewildered Shen Zhong, "Uncle Shen, give this man thirty coins per pound..."

He glanced at Zhao Yan's attire, "...Calculate the bill for this lady."

He remembered that she had a daughter, who was probably older than him, so he called her "older sister".

After a slight pause, Shen Yu asked Zhao Yan, "Sister, is this price acceptable to you?"

Zhao Yan nodded without hesitation.

"Okay, I have no objection."

A pound of pork belly costs fifteen coins, but he gives thirty coins a pound, so he's not losing money.

Shen Zhong asked a worker to weigh the wild boar meat, leaving only Shen Yu and Zhao Yan at the side gate.

Shen Yu waved his folding fan and asked casually, "Sister, are you from a family of hunters? You brought such a big wild boar all by yourself?"

He was genuinely curious how a woman could have survived being bitten by such a wild boar.

Zhao Yan glanced over, a faint smile on her face.

"I was just lucky. That wild boar just happened to run into a tree by itself, and I just happened to catch it."

"A wild boar... ran into a tree?"

"Or else?"

Zhao Yan glanced at her lazily.

“I’m so skinny, I wouldn’t dare to go up against a wild boar that weighs several hundred pounds all by myself. And didn’t you notice just now? The wild boar’s head was completely mangled, it was obviously hit by a tree.”

This rich kid is quite curious.

Shen Yu chuckled twice, shaking his folding fan, his lips twitching involuntarily.

Can wild boars really run into trees?

He had never heard of it.

However, recalling the wild boar's mangled head, it's not impossible that it might have crashed into a tree.

Soon, Shen Zhong calculated the cost of the wild boar and came over with the money.

"Young lady, the wild boar weighs 468 catties in total. I'll give it to you at 30 coins per catty, which is 14 taels and 4 coins in total. Please keep this money safe."

Zhao Yan took the silver, casually stuffed it into her bosom, and then put it into her spatial storage cabinet.

"Thank you, young master. Farewell."

The reason this wild boar fetched such a high price today is partly due to this man's deliberate attempt to curry favor with it.

"Take care, ma'am."

Shen Yu leisurely waved his folding fan as he watched Zhao Yan leave.

……

It was still early, and Zhao Yan pushed her cart along the street.

When she comes across a food vendor, she will stop and buy some of the food she likes, put it in her basket, and bring it home for Xiaomi to try.

She overheard a conversation between men at a tea stall.

"Have you heard? There's a flood in the south. The floodwaters are so bad they can submerge houses."