The three women and Zhang Daqian planned to travel all night. At night, all the victims were asleep, so it was safer at this time.
Li Yunze threw the big knife in his hand to Zhang Daqian, "Take it for self-defense."
"Thank you, sir."
Zhang Daqian took the knife, kowtowed three times in front of his father's and mother's graves with his younger siblings, and then walked away with red eyes, looking back three times at a step.
When the group of them walked away, Ye Mingzhe said worriedly: "Except for three women, they are all children. I don't know if they can walk to the town safely?"
Li Yunze said calmly: "It's only half a day's journey from here to the town. If you walk fast, you can get there before dawn. They have experienced so much, they should be vigilant. If they can't walk safely even on this small road That’s it, then why should I ask them to follow me up the mountain?”
Ye Tong glanced at him and felt that although his words were cold, they were so realistic.
In this age of the jungle, who wants to raise a few useless people who have nothing to do with them? It’s not like there is too much food to sell.
Ye Yutong sent Ye Mingzhe to space, took Brother Tiger out, and rode with Li Yunze to Dongyang County.
The two slept during the day and rode on tigers at night. They arrived at Dongyang County on the eighth day.
Looking at the crowd of victims outside the city gate, Ye Yutong felt very uncomfortable.
Growing up under the red flag, she has never been hungry or cold.
But since traveling here, she knows what it feels like to be hungry. I also experienced days of displacement and homelessness.
How innocent are the people to have to go through this inhumane ordeal?
Although some of them are caused by natural disasters, if we can rationally allocate taxes, reduce taxes, and distribute relief grains, how will the people use it to flee from famine?
Isn’t it because the people above are in their positions and not seeking their duties?
She sighed and asked the silent Li Yunze next to her, "Ping An, how do we get in?"
"Climb the wall."
They went in this time mainly to sell eggs and fruits in the space, so they couldn't go through the city gate openly.
The two entered the city early in the morning, and Li Yunze took out a drawing given to him by Uncle Lin. He led Ye Yutong around and came to a remote courtyard.
He paused at the door for a while before starting to knock on the door regularly.
Ye Yutong followed his knock on the door and muttered silently in his mind, once, three times, two times, three times, one time.
As soon as Li Yunze knocked on the door, there was movement in the courtyard.
People in the courtyard asked in a low voice: "A ghost is knocking on the door in the middle of the night."
"Pedestrians on the road want to die." Li Yunze replied.
The door creaked open, and a strong man in his thirties walked out.
He said respectfully to the two of them: "Come in, please."
Li Yunze nodded and took Ye Yutong into the yard.
This small courtyard is not big, with three main rooms and two wing rooms on the south, which should be the kitchen and utility room. It is a very ordinary and low-key courtyard.
The strong man welcomed them into the main room, invited them to sit down, poured tea, and waited respectfully.
Hall Master Lin has ordered that anyone who knocks on the door in this way and can pick up the code words should not ask anything and just follow the instructions.
Li Yunze said straight to the point: "I have a batch of supplies in hand that I want to sell. They are some high-quality fruits and eggs. Could you please introduce me to a few capable buyers? We will negotiate the price ourselves."
"Yes, sir."
Li Yunze took a sip of tea and asked, "How is the prefect of Dongyang County like a person?"
The strong man said without hesitation: "Integrity, integrity, and all-around exquisite."
After hearing this evaluation, Ye Yutong thought that this prefect should be quite interesting.
Fair and smooth, this kind of person is most suitable for officialdom. I wonder what kind of person he is?
Li Yunze nodded, stood up and said, "Then let's come back tomorrow night."
The strong man asked again: "Sir, would you like to help you arrange a place to stay?"
"No, you find the buyer and arrange the place. I will bring samples over for them to taste in the evening."
"Sir, can you go to the grocery store on West Street tomorrow night?"
"You arrange it!"
Ye Yutong remained silent. She felt that Ping An was very dignified in what he said and did today.
The two came out of the small courtyard and found a hidden place to enter the space.
Ye Mingzhe is beating corn flour with a dough beater. There are seven or eight thousand kilograms of corn in the space. They have almost finished beating it in the past few days.
Ye Yutong plans to mix the corn flour with sorghum flour and wheat flour and donate it to Dongyang County. Let the prefect here distribute it to the victims outside.
"Sister, this powder beater is really easy to use. It takes no effort at all. I beat more than 200 kilograms in half an hour."
Ye Yutong thought to herself, of course it is easy to use. It cost her more than 10,000 yuan to buy this machine.
Li Yunze placed the beaten flour on the open space at the door, and went to pick a watermelon from the field.
"Second brother, Tongtong, come over and eat watermelon."
Ye Mingzhe took a piece and said while eating: "Sister, brother-in-law, can you sell some of these watermelons? There are already a lot of them in the basement."
Ye Yutong knew that there was no watermelon in this dynasty.
But she plans to promote these foods in the space in the future.
So it shouldn’t be a big deal to take some out and sell them now, right?
She didn't know much about this dynasty, so she asked Li Yunze, "Ping'an, what do you think?"
"You can take it out and sell it. When you go back to the mountain, you can take some of the various seeds back with you. In the spring of next year, we can plant them on a large scale in the mountain."
"In that case, let's take out the melons and vegetables in the basement and sell them. These things take up too much space."
She thought about it for a while, and then said: "In the future, we will grow a variety of food here, including vegetables and fruits. It will be enough for our family to eat."
Li Yunze smiled and said: "When we return to the mountain, I will take you to find medicinal materials. Once those things are planted, they will be more valuable in the future."
"Okay." Ye Yutong nodded happily.
She finished the watermelon in her hand and went to the ginseng field to take a look. All the seeds that had been planted some time ago came out.
There is already a large area of ginseng, although most of it is still ginseng seedlings. Now that they have grown, can we still be far away from full-grown ginseng?
The next night, Li Yunze carried a basket on his back, and Ye Yutong took a basket to the agreed place.
The strong man from yesterday, Yan San, was already waiting at the door.
He whispered: "Sir, there are six companies here today. They are all powerful merchants in Dongyang County. They have had business dealings with us before, and their characters are all decent."
Li Yunze nodded, "I understand, you lead the way."
