My treasure bowl connects the past and present; I've won everything on my journey into exile.

The commotion outside alerted the guards inside.

Old Wei came out with a dark face. These bastards, not one of them is easy to deal with.

They were just discussing something, but they're making a scene more noisy than a vegetable market.

Snapped!

Old Wei lashed out with his whip at the nearest person, yelling, "You all treat my words like water off a duck's back, letting them go in one ear and out the other, don't you?"

Everyone was startled and quickly dodged.

Those who couldn't dodge in time had to take the whip head-on, enduring the pain but daring not to utter a sound.

Finally, it quieted down.

"Speak, what happened?" Old Wei's sharp eyes swept over the crowd:

"If you don't give me a straight answer today, given how noisy you were just now, I'll immediately cancel the plan to send you out to buy things."

We've given them too much face, and they're just making trouble for us every day.

If we don't teach them a lesson, they'll really think they have no temper.

Everyone gave the Han and Shen families a reproachful look, blaming them for it all.

If they prevent us from going out to buy things, we will never let them get away with it.

Han Yushu and Shen Qingyun stepped forward, both with ashen faces.

"Master Wei, all the silver belonging to the Shen family has disappeared. I suspect there's a thief here," Shen Qingyun said with a grim face.

Damn it, without money, how are they going to get to the place of exile?

Even if you go to the place of exile, how can you settle down there if you don't have money?

“My Han family’s are too,” Han Yushu said, his face ashen.

"All the silver and banknotes we had on our person or in our bags have disappeared."

"Both of your families' money is gone?" Old Wei's eyes narrowed dangerously.

"What a coincidence?"

Han Yushu's face immediately showed displeasure upon seeing his gaze:

"Old Wei, what kind of look is that?"

You suspect we're lying?

"Isn't that right?" Old Wei sneered. "Does everyone think I'm a fool?"

Which thief is so skilled that he could steal all your money?

And they stole money from both of your families, without missing a single one, and most importantly, they weren't caught?

"Speak up, tell me yourselves, who is it, who has such great ability?"

Lin Mo, who was watching the show from the sidelines, was screaming in her heart, "I, I, I am that amazing thief."

Lin Mo looked regretful. It was a pity that she couldn't stand up and admit it.

Old Wei's words made Han Yushu and Shen Qingyun's faces turn red, but they were powerless to refute him; Old Wei was right.

But by sheer coincidence, their money simply vanished.

Han Yushu persisted, "Old Wei, I'm telling the truth, all the silver we had is really gone."

"Don't give me excuses." Old Wei said coldly.

"It's your problem that you lost the money; it has nothing to do with me."

Furthermore, I suspect you don't have any money at all, so you pretended your money was stolen.

Since you don't have any money, don't go out to buy anything. Just stay here and don't waste everyone's time.

After saying that, he looked at everyone and said, "Those who have agreed, come out and get ready to leave."

After saying that, he grumbled and went to fetch the horse.

Han Yushu's face turned ashen.

If we don't go shopping this time, we don't know how long we'll have to endure the cold.

The food was also long gone; two cornbread buns a day were simply not enough to sustain us.

Who stole their money?!

Han Yushu looked around, and everyone looked like a thief to him!

hateful!

Han Yushu gave up on finding the thief and stormed towards the Han family camp, determined to find another way to raise the money.

Shen Qingyun shared the same idea.

Han Yushu summoned all the members of the Han family and, without saying a word, made them hand over all their money and valuables.

This was rejected by many of the women.

Although they were driven out during the ransacking, they had no chance to collect their belongings.

But they all wore some jewelry, which could be worth a lot of money.

"Now that the family is in trouble, it is precisely the time when everyone needs to work together to overcome this difficulty." Han Yushu gave them a cold look.

“If you don’t take it, you’ll be expelled from the family. The family doesn’t want such a heartless and ungrateful person.”

Furthermore, once the family is restored to its former glory, we will repay you double the amount of money we borrowed.”

Han Yulong was unwilling.

She only had one gold hairpin worth a little money; if she took it out, she wouldn't have any decent jewelry left.

Unable to contain himself, he said, "Dad, my cousins' money wasn't stolen."

"How about we borrow some from my cousin?"

"If you're so capable, go and borrow it yourself," Han Yushu sneered.

Xu Wuyan is now wary of them and will not help the Han family at all.

If he wanted to, he would have sent the money long ago.

After all, news of the theft at the Han family's residence had already spread throughout the entire team.

Han Yulong's face flushed red, and she looked anxious.

She looked around, hoping to get support from the crowd, but no one said a word.

Finally, she saw Xu Mengxian standing in the corner with her head down, and her eyes lit up.

He rushed over and pulled Xu Mengxian out:

"Father, you can let her go ask for it."

She eats our food and uses our things; it's not unreasonable to ask her cousin for a thousand taels of silver.

Xu Mengxian turned pale with fright and shook her head violently:

"I'm not going, Uncle, I'm not going!"

"You have to go, whether you like it or not!" Han Yulong roared.

"Otherwise, my Han family won't support you, do you hear me?"

Xu Mengxian's eyes reddened, and her body trembled. She had stopped eating anything from the Han family, okay?

"Xiao Long, shut up!" A glint flashed in Han Yushu's eyes.

Then, he looked at Xu Mengxian with a gentle expression:

"Xiaoxian, you don't need to worry about your cousin."

Don't worry, stay at the Han family's house. As long as we have food, you will have food too.

If you don't want it, don't make things difficult for yourself.

"Uncle!" Xu Mengxian looked at Han Yushu with tears in her eyes.

Waaah, my uncle is still as good as ever.

Han Yushu smiled at her, then went to pack his things.

There's no time left, we have to leave.

In the end, Han Yushu hurriedly stuffed the stolen jewelry into a cloth bag and rushed towards his carriage.

But at this moment, Madam Han, clutching her arm, stumbled and followed:

"Wait for me, I'll come with you!"

Han Yushu frowned, "One per family..."

"If my arm isn't reattached, it'll be useless." Madam Han's face turned blue with pain.

"Go talk to the man surnamed Wei yourself," Han Yushu said dismissively.

Madam Han knew he was unreliable and didn't count on him, so she staggered toward Old Wei.

A wave of sadness washed over me.

……

Because there were few carriages and many people, one carriage was responsible for carrying the belongings of three families.

The carriages that the escorts used to haul goods have now been unloaded and lent to them for hauling goods as well.

Soon, more than twenty horse-drawn carriages set off in a grand procession towards Baima Town.

But when they set off, the wind and snow intensified.

Lin Mo invited Old Mu to join them in their carriage, making it enough for three families.

Seeing that Old Mu was shivering from the cold, Lin Mo handed him the water bag.

Old Mu shook his head:

"Thank you, but I don't need water."

"There's hot water inside, hold me, it'll keep you warm." Lin Mo shook her head.

She came up with the idea on the spur of a water bag to hold hot water for warmth.

Old Mu was stunned, but still politely shook his head:

"Young Madam, you can keep it for yourself. You've already helped the Mu family a lot."

Everyone feels cold in this cold weather.

He can't be so shameless as to take it away.

Lin Mo, impatient, simply shoved the water pouch into his hand:

“I’m dressed warmly, so I’m not too cold. You’re dressed lightly, and the carriage is going so fast, you’ll get even colder and easily get sick. If you get sick, who will take care of your whole Mu family?”

The Mu family had more than 30 members who were exiled.

Apart from Old Man Mu and his son, the rest were women and children, mostly girls.

But the capable physician Mu was punished with a beating before being exiled.

Forget walking, even getting up is difficult.

These past two days, he has been carried around entirely by several women in shifts.

Unfortunately, the women of the Mu family were also very hardworking, and none of them uttered a single complaint.

Old Mu fell silent, his eyes reddening.

This time, he didn't refuse; he took the water pouch and put it in his pocket.

The warmth of the water bag dispelled the chill from his body and the coldness in his heart.

"Thank you!" Old Mu's heart was warmed, and his voice was choked with emotion.

"You're too kind," Lin Mo shook her head.

She sighed and then told him what she wanted to buy later.

I must buy warm clothes.

Because it gets colder and colder as you walk.

They were exiled to a place with particularly long winters.

They don't use medicine.

Along the way, Lin Mo noticed that the Mu family members were occasionally pulling up some wild grass.

Their family members all recognize these items and don't lack them.

Food.

They had no carriages, and many were injured. Apart from the main labor force who had to carry people, the rest were children who were neither too old nor too young and couldn't carry anything at all.

Therefore, she suggested buying flour, even though flour is more expensive.

The Mu family children all know which wild vegetables are edible. When the time comes, they will pick a large handful of wild vegetables, cook two bowls of flour together into a porridge, add some salt, and that will fill them up completely and keep them from getting hungry.

If you're talking about rice, two bowls of rice cooked into porridge would be enough for more than thirty people, so it has to be very thin.

I drank some thin porridge, peed a couple of times, and then I got hungry again.

Moreover, two bowls of rice weigh much more than two bowls of flour.

In addition, Lin Mo could tell that they were not well-off.

The next six months are still a long road ahead, so every penny saved counts.

Grandpa Mu nodded vigorously, "The young mistress knows how to manage a household."

Lin Mo shook her head, indicating that it was nothing.

I also specifically reminded him that he must buy salt, because if he doesn't eat salt, he will easily feel tired and weak.

This situation happened to someone in their past life.

Therefore, Lin Mo remembers it very clearly.

……

Outside the carriage, Xu Wuyan, who was in charge of driving, had a slight smile on his lips.

His wife knows a lot.