The three of them came out of the grocery store. Li Wenxiu said: "Let's go to the medical center first and let the doctor check Tongtong's pulse. We will buy some food and salt later."
Ye Yutong thought that her mother went to the medical clinic to get medicine for her young husband, but he didn't expect that she was going to see a doctor for her.
She leaned close to Li Wenxiu's ear and whispered: "Mom, I'm already well. It was the gods who cured me. I don't need to go to the hospital."
"Did the gods help you treat your illness? Are you still feeling uncomfortable? Why don't you go to the medical clinic?" Li Wenxiu was a little worried.
"Mom, I'm really well. I don't feel any discomfort at all. The gods are very powerful. They gave me a pill and I'm fine."
Afraid that her mother wouldn't believe it, she brought out all the imaginary gods.
Li Wenxiu waved her hands hurriedly and said in awe: "No, no, no, I believe it, I believe it, of course Mom believes it."
Ye Yutong suppressed a smile and said, "Then let's go buy salt and grain!"
Although there was no shortage of anything in her space, the food in it was all refined grain and could not be eaten openly. She had to buy some brown rice and black noodles to eat on her way out of the famine.
The place where they live now belongs to the north of Yunchao Kingdom. The main crops they grow are wheat, soybeans, sorghum, and corn. Most of the crops in the south are rice and corn.
Nowadays, there are very few varieties of grains and vegetables, so farmers only grow high-yielding cabbage and radishes.
Ye Mingxuan hesitated for a while, then asked:
"Mom, do you want to get some medicine for your brother-in-law? It's been two or three days, and he still shows no sign of waking up. If anything happens, my sister's reputation..."
Ye Yutong then remembered, what kind of disease did the young husband have? Why do you always fall asleep?
Li Wenxiu shook his head and said: "The old monk said when he left, there is no need to see a doctor or take random medicines. Give him one pill a day. If your sister wakes up, your brother-in-law will wake up soon."
When Ye Yutong heard this, he felt that his mother must have been deceived. The monk must have thought that the young man was a burden and wanted to get rid of him, so he said this deliberately.
It is also possible that he was a concubine from a wealthy family who was poisoned by his aunt and thrown into a ravine in a remote rural area.
Well, that must be the case, then aren’t novels and TV series all following this routine?
From this point of view, you have to find an opportunity to lose that kid when you are escaping. Otherwise, if you get involved in the battles of those big families in the future, how can you live a peaceful life?
Li Wenxiu took his brother and sister to the grain store. There was a long queue at the door. Today's grain prices were posted on the sign at the door.
Rice costs thirty-eight cents per litre, wheat flour costs thirty-four cents per litre, corn costs twenty-eight cents per litre, and sorghum costs twenty-six cents per litre.
Li Wenxiu and Ye Wenxuan looked at the food prices on the sign in surprise. It had only been a few days since they last came, and the food prices had risen a lot.
In previous years, rice cost ten cents a liter, wheat eight cents, and corn and sorghum only five or six cents a liter.
This year has already doubled several times. How long can their family last with these few taels of silver?
Li Wenxiu was silent for a moment, then asked Ye Wenxuan to queue up behind to buy food.
If the drought continues like this, food prices will get higher and higher in the future.
There are more and more disaster victims in the town. I don’t know what the situation will be like in the future. I can feel more at ease if I have some food at home.
She took Ye Yutong to the nearby official salt shop, "Shopkeeper, let me buy some salt."
"Sixty-eight cents per pound, how much do you want?" The shopkeeper of the salt shop was not as kind as the shopkeeper of the grocery store. He seemed to be ignoring me.
Ye Yutong's eyes widened when he heard the price, sixty-eight yuan per pound?
One penny in ancient times is equivalent to one dollar in modern times, and sixty-eight penny is equal to sixty-eight yuan.
Thinking of the few bags of salt she bought in the basement of the space for pickling sauerkraut back home, she felt that it would be enough for their family to eat for a long time.
Li Wenxiu didn't care at all about the shopkeeper's attitude and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, please help me weigh the two pounds."
As he said that, he took out the salt shaker from his backpack and put it on the table.
Ye Yutong wanted to tell her not to buy salt. It was so expensive and the shopkeeper had already started filling it into jars.
Looking at the large yellow and turbid salt particles, she swallowed what she wanted to say.
Everything in the space is full of refined salt, so you can't take it out openly. You'd better buy some and put it outside to avoid people's eyes.
The couple came out of the salt shop. There were seven or eight people lined up in front of Ye Mingxuan. A woman in her forties or fifties came out with a small bag of grain.
He was still cursing: "Damn profiteers. A pound of sorghum rice sells for more than 20 cents. This is not letting the people have a way to survive!"
The waiter at the grain store said angrily: "You woman is so ungrateful. All the grain stores in the town are closed.
Our shopkeeper took great risks and finally brought some food from the south, just so that everyone could have something to eat.
But you call us profiteers. Go and ask somewhere else, can you still buy food at this price? "
Seeing that the woman stopped talking, she said to everyone: "To tell you the truth, this price is also the last day, and it will go up tomorrow. If you want to buy it, you can buy it. If you don't want to buy it, we won't force you."
After saying that, he entered the grain store angrily, pouting something in his mouth.
The originally noisy team fell silent after hearing what the waiter said.
The other two grain stores in the town have not been open for the past two days, saying that many places are suffering from drought and victims are everywhere.
The vassal kings from various places are also stocking up on grain, but they simply cannot bring it back. Even if it is brought back, the price will not be affordable by ordinary people like them.
People who originally wanted to buy a few liters of emergency supplies gritted their teeth and asked the waiter to weigh more.
When it was Ye Mingxuan's turn, Li Wenxiu asked for two bushels of sorghum and two bushels of corn. After hesitating for a while, he bought another bucket of wheat flour. (One bucket equals ten liters)
The waiter poured the grain into the sack they brought.
Li Wenxiu put the sack in his backpack. He took out the straw from the basket and covered the two backpacks, and took the two children out of the grain store.
Looking at the victims on the street, Ye Yutong whispered: "Mom, let's find a place where no one is around. I'll put the food with the gods. It's safer this way."
Li Wenxiu nodded and led the brother and sister to a remote alley.
Ye Yutong saw that there was no one nearby, so he put his hand in the basket and moved the food inside to the space.
Li Wenxiu and Ye Mingxuan instantly felt that their backpacks were lighter. They were both shocked. They didn't expect that the immortal was so kind to Tongtong and even taught her such immortal methods.
After leaving the alley, Li Wenxiu took the brother and sister another way, fearing that someone would be watching them.
There were also people fleeing the famine wandering around this road looking for food. I saw the three of them carrying two backpacks and a basket.
He stepped forward and begged: "Madam, please be kind and give me something to eat."
Li Wenxiu showed him the two empty backpacks and empty baskets, and then said helplessly: "I also took the two children out to look for food, but from morning to now, I haven't gotten anything, alas!"
After the beggars left, Li Wenxiu took the brother and sister and walked back quickly.
