Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

In front of the grain shop.

Su Renzhao had a big smile on his face, holding a cloth bag in his hands.

He was taken aback when he saw Su Chen get off the truck.

"Xiao Chen, what's this?"

Su Chen explained succinctly, "I bought a few muskets from the foreign firm. We'll talk about it when we get back."

Su Renzhao looked surprised upon hearing the sound.

These days, guns aren't banned; even hunters own firearms.

But Su Renzhao had never actually touched a gun in his life.

He understood and shut his mouth, knowing that the tomb raider's affairs could not be discussed in public. So he picked up the cloth bag in his hand and said with a smile, "I sold those ancient coins to the ragpicker in the city. I got eight hundred coins for them!"

Eight hundred coins are less than one silver dollar.

Su Chen didn't expect to make money from those ancient coins. The knife coins from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were so numerous that even in later generations, they were only worth twenty or thirty yuan each.

If Su Renzhao were to sell all the coins he had collected, they would only be worth one or two silver dollars at the current market price.

After thinking for a moment, Su Chen took out one hundred silver dollars from his pocket and handed them to Su Renzhao, saying, "Fourth Uncle, use all one hundred silver dollars to buy grain and another fifty catties of pork."

Su Renzhao was startled when he saw the heavy silver dollar in his hand.

"so much?"

He thought the Blood Jade Cicada would sell for at most a dozen or so silver dollars, but the one Su Chen gave him was worth over a hundred! Not to mention, Su Chen also bought a musket!

Su Chen smiled slightly and simply said, "We'll talk about it when we get back."

Upon hearing this, Su Renzhao hurriedly put the silver dollar into his pocket.

Don't flaunt your wealth; it's not good if someone sets their sights on it.

However, Su Ling'er thought for a moment and whispered, "Brother Chen, let's skip the meat. Pork is very expensive now. The money for one pound of meat can buy four or five pounds of grain!"

Before the disaster, a pound of rice cost between ten and fifteen cents, and one silver dollar could buy seventy or eighty pounds of rice.

And the price of pork is not as expensive as imagined.

It was about two or three times the price of grain, and one silver dollar could buy about twenty catties.

However, with the arrival of the locust plague, the farmers' crops were devoured, leaving them with no surplus food to feed their livestock.

So not only have grain prices risen sharply, but meat prices have risen even more outrageously.

Now, one silver dollar can only buy five catties of pork!

Su Chen waved his hand and shook his head, saying, "The people in the tribe are lacking nutrition and need to replenish their fat, otherwise they won't have the strength to work. Besides pork, if you have other vegetables, buy some too. Just buy as many as you can with this hundred silver dollars!"

Upon hearing this, Su Renzhao said no more. He immediately led a group of his men to raid the grain and butcher shops.

In the end, the hundred silver dollars bought ten bushels of rice, fifty catties of pork, and fifty catties of leafy green vegetables transported from other cities.

The few silver dollars left were used to buy grain seeds.

Despite having tasted the sweetness of being a tomb raider, Su Renzhao still felt he should go back to farming!

It's such a waste to leave those 300 acres of land in the village uncultivated.

Su Chen didn't refuse. In fact, he planned to buy all the farmland in the nearby villages when he had more money.

For Chinese people, the land is their root.

The locust plague has caused many people to die in foreign lands, and large tracts of fields have been abandoned. It would be better for him to take them over, whether to open workshops or grow some grain, than to leave them barren!

Ten bushels of grain were just the right amount that a foreign trading company's wagon could transport.

So Su Chen and his group got into the car and left Changsha City without any problems.

The last time they left the city, they were on tenterhooks, fearing that their only food supply would be taken away by the disaster victims.

But now, with four muskets in hand, even Su Yitian has become bolder.

Boom boom boom…

The trucks of that era were nothing compared to the trucks of later generations.

Basically, it's no different from a tractor; it's noisy and has poor shock absorption.

Su Chen sat in the back of the truck for several kilometers, and his buttocks started to ache!

Su Yitian and his group, on the other hand, looked excited and curious.

This was the first time they had ever ridden in a real car; before, they had at most traveled by oxcart, never in such a high-class vehicle.

Seeing this, Su Chen laughed and said, "I'll buy an old car and take you guys for a ride around Changsha City."

"Really, Brother Chen?"

Su Ling'er's eyes lit up, sparkling.

The reason why classic cars are called classic cars is because only the big shots in the city can afford to ride in them!

These rural peasants wouldn't even dare to dream of sitting down, let alone sit down.

Therefore, upon hearing Su Chen's words, everyone looked on with anticipation.

"Of course it's true!"

Su Chen has now unlocked the newbie quests and solved the family's food problem. He can't wait to see what goodies are in the newbie gift pack!

He had already decided that if the items from the gift packs weren't good enough, he would first try to develop his family's strength, while also getting involved with the characters in the Nine Gates storyline to push the progress bar to 100% and upgrade his family to level 1.

In this way, even if the rewards from the newbie gift pack are not good, you can still look forward to the rewards from the level-up treasure chest.

That won't work. I'll wait until the Wu family goes to excavate the Blood Corpse Tomb, then find a chance to grab the reward and run away!

Having devised a plan, we arrived at Sujia Village!

The roar of the engine quickly attracted the Su family members from the village.

"Look, it's Xiao Chen!"

"Xiao Chen and the others are back!"

Wow, so much food!

When the tribesmen saw the grain loaded in the cart, their eyes widened, and they cheered.

This cartload of grain is enough to last until the locust plague is over!

In a short while, the entire Sujia Village was engulfed in jubilation.

As everyone laughed, they couldn't help but start crying.

It's hard to endure hunger, but it's even harder to watch your loved ones starve to death right before your eyes!

If Sujia Village had had so much grain back then, they wouldn't have had to flee famine, and every family wouldn't have had to wear mourning clothes and hang white banners!

Su Chen smiled slightly, stood on the truck bed and shouted, "What are you waiting for? Let's unload!"

One sentence immediately brought the entire village to its senses.

In an instant, more than twenty people, men, women, and children all pitched in!

The old clan chief, Su Xiaoquan, leaned on his cane and walked shakily to the front of the bag of grain. He picked up a handful of rice from the bag, put it in his mouth, and chewed it carefully!

"Good, good rice..."

Su Chen stepped forward to help Su Xiaoquan up and asked with a smile, "Elder Chief, are you no longer worried?"

"Good boy, well done. If it weren't for you, our Su family really wouldn't know how we would have survived this time."

Despite the fact that some clan elders had previously said they would rather be a beggar in the city than rebel.

But these days, no one has any surplus grain.

Those disaster victims under the city walls, and the beggars in the city, every day dozens or even hundreds of them would starve to death.

If you actually become a disaster victim and wait for the government to distribute porridge, it's just a matter of who's tougher and can endure it the longest.

Once most of the disaster victims have died, the famine will naturally be alleviated.

As they spoke, the entire truckload of supplies was unloaded.

The foreign company's driver said goodbye and drove back to the city.

At this moment, apart from Blackback Six, all thirty-one members of the Su family were staring intently at Su Chen.

Su Chen also knew that it was time for him to step forward.

He coughed twice and stood in the middle of the crowd.

"I have three things to announce today!"

"My first priority is to ensure everyone has enough to eat and warm clothes! I also want to bring the Su family to Changsha and make them the Nine Gates Admirals!"

"What do you say, is it good?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd responded enthusiastically!

"Good! I'll be the Commander of the Nine Gates!"

"Xiao Chen, we all support you!"

"Brother Chen, can I join you? I want to cook with you guys too."

Although Su Chen forbade Su Yitian and the others from leaking the information, they were all from the same large family, so how could they really keep the secret?

They hadn't been gone long before the villagers basically knew what they were going to do.

but……

Unlike the conservative clan elders, the young people in the clan didn't care at all about the tomb raider's bad reputation.

As long as they can have enough to eat, they'd be willing to rebel, let alone just be a tomb raider.

Moreover, Sujia Village can be seen from one end to the other. If possible, who wouldn't want to be like the Huo family and the Xie family, ruling the city like kings and lords!

The crowd stirred, some volunteering themselves, others gesturing wildly.

But Su Chen remained unusually calm. He pressed his hands down to signal everyone to be quiet before continuing.

"The second thing is that I ran into a friend on this trip to the mountains!"

As he spoke, Su Chen waved to the black-backed sixth brother.

The latter was a little awkward; he was used to being alone and wasn't good at dealing with so many people.

Seeing the black-backed Lao Liu walk over with a stiff upper lip, Su Chen smiled secretly.

"His name is Lao Dao, and he will also be a member of our Sujia Village from now on."

Upon hearing this, the tribespeople reacted somewhat coldly.

Su Chen wasn't surprised, since the two sides weren't familiar with each other yet.

Thinking of this, Su Chen pointed to the grain in the village and said, "The third thing is to distribute the grain!"