Fortunately, Qi Yunxiao didn't dwell on this topic. Instead, he told Shen Qingyu, "The King of Great Xia might give us some compensation in grain. Next, we need to send someone back to the country as fast as possible to ask someone to send gold over."

We still need to buy food.

Otherwise, the meager grain provided by the Xia king, who had a change of heart (and reluctantly gave up some of his own), would be nothing more than a drop in the ocean for the vast Qi kingdom.

Shen Qingyu turned her eyes away somewhat awkwardly: she suddenly had ten thousand taels of gold in her hands, and she felt like she couldn't give it all away.

She believed in the principle of "no reward without merit," so she didn't want the gold.

"Well, it's too far to get money from the capital. It would take more than a month to go back and forth. How about we try to raise money from here to buy grain first?" Shen Qingyu suggested guiltily, thinking about this.

"Okay." Qi Yunxiao agreed without hesitation.

Guiyunlou's businesses are already incredibly profitable, and they also have other sources of income. If all else fails, they can ask the Qian family and Qi Han to lend them some money first, and then repay it later.

That's enough.

Qi Yunxiao went to write a letter and asked someone to take the seal home to get the money, but Shen Qingyu wanted to buy some grain first.

After all, besides the five chests of gold, there were also many silks, satins, and jewelry, and especially several cartloads of soap.

Besides giving them to the King of Xia and high-ranking officials, there were still quite a few left.

With the money from these assets, it would be good to buy some grain first.

Qi Yunxiao thought it was a good idea, so the two of them led the Imperial Guards and took the remaining jewelry to the palace.

Qi Yunxiao looked distressed: "Your Majesty, the pawnshops and jewelry stores outside offer huge discounts on these items. What do you think..."

The King of Great Xia's face darkened.

what to do?

I'll buy it!

After all, their gold was lost on our own turf, so we bear some responsibility.

After converting the jewelry into cash and receiving 35,000 taels of silver, Qi Yunxiao turned to the King of Great Xia and said, "Your Majesty, we also brought a lot of soap with us this time. Do you need any? If not, I'll go sell some outside..."

The king of the Great Xia Kingdom felt a throbbing pain in his temples.

If the Qi state were to send an envoy and lose its gold, it would end up selling soap in shops everywhere...

The Great Xia Kingdom has completely lost face!

So they bought all the soaps too.

Because the mission to the Great Qi Dynasty mainly involved high-end goat milk soap and tea seed oil soap, each bar of soap costing as much as one tael of silver, so after several cartloads of soap...

Twenty-five thousand taels of silver were in hand.

The total comes to 60,000 taels of silver. If converted into grain...

Five hundred thousand shi of grain!

It's still high-quality grain!

However, in order to save more lives, they did not want the refined grains, but instead wanted to exchange them for coarse grains.

Upon hearing that Qi Yunxiao and Shen Qingyu wanted to exchange the 60,000 taels of silver for grains and take them away, the King of Great Xia was stunned: "Alright. I'll have someone prepare it."

The capital of the Great Xia Dynasty mainly has high-quality grains in its reserves, and there are not many miscellaneous grains. It takes three or four days to procure them from nearby counties.

Qi Yunxiao emerged from the palace with a face full of gratitude, and immediately went off to chatter with the Dragon Guards.

Shen Qingyu was alone and declined Li Jiaoyue's invitation to accompany her, choosing to travel alone.

After leaving the private room at the restaurant, Shen Qingyu became a completely different person.

She's going to raid a batch of grain today.

We have money now, we can easily fill the storage room again!

Shen Qingyu went to various grain and oil shops in the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom, bought a lot of grain, and had it delivered to the grove outside the city.

As large quantities of grain were put into the space warehouse, Shen Qingyu heard the long-lost space upgrade notification sound once again.

The notification sounds in the space were different this time: "Space upgrade, will be closed for one hour."

Shen Qingyu smiled contentedly, sat on the unfinished grain, and obediently waited for the space upgrade to complete.

Before an hour had passed, a band of bandits arrived.

Shen Qingyu looked at the bandits in front of her warily: "What do you want?"

The bandits exchanged glances and burst into laughter.

The leader sized Shen Qingyu up and down: "Young lady, what do you say?"

His sleazy attitude made the other bandits laugh again.

Shen Qingyu: "This grain is mine! I bought it with my own money!"

The bandits glanced at the grain with disdain: "We don't care about this little bit of grain, what we're after is... you!"

"Hahahaha..."

The leader even suggested, "Young lady, why don't you come with us? Once you become our wife, we'll give you double the food."

A bandit behind him immediately chimed in, "Four times is fine too!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Shen Qingyu looked at the bandits and was speechless for a moment.

In the Great Xia, grain prices were so low that even bandits didn't care for it.

For a moment, Shen Qingyu didn't know whether to be angry or proud.

Some of the bandits were impatient and immediately tried to pull Shen Qingyu away.

Shen Qingyu was naturally unhappy and began to fight back.

The bandits: "..."

Who would have thought?

Looking at the delicate, voluptuous young woman, he struck quickly and heavily, hitting people so hard they couldn't move!

After knocking everyone unconscious, Shen Qingyu took out their belts and tied them up tightly using military techniques.

Of course, she also made sure to take all their money during the process.

After finishing all this and completing the space upgrade, Shen Qingyu happily stored the remaining food and the money she had looted from the bandits into the space's warehouse.

After the space was upgraded, the warehouse's capacity doubled again, easily accommodating 10,000 shi of grain.

Furthermore, the area of ​​the spiritual spring in the space has increased, and the area of ​​the fields has doubled...

The space mall has also added many new categories for the 21st century due to the upgrade.

Everything else had to be consumed discreetly, but the increased variety of floral water made Shen Qingyu very happy.

There will be more scented soaps available in the future!

Satisfied, Shen Qingyu turned to return to the city, but she was stunned as soon as she turned around: Qi Yunxiao was standing silently fifty meters away, with a calm expression.

Shen Qingyu: "!!!"

It's all over!

How long has he been here?

What did he see?

Did he see it all?

Shen Qingyu scratched her head anxiously, and slowly walked up to Qi Yunxiao, looking up at his overly calm eyes: "Hehehe...when did you get here?"

Qi Yunxiao: "Before you collect those grains..."

Shen Qingyu: "!!!"

Qi Yunxiao sent out a signal, and naturally someone came to take the bandits away.

What Qi Yunxiao didn't explain was: Where did these bandits come from near the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom?

It's just that some people want to capture Shen Qingyu and use this as an opportunity to cause trouble.

"Um...I..." Shen Qingyu was so frightened that she scratched her head and racked her brains to find an excuse to cover up her identity.

Fortunately, Qi Yunxiao didn't intend to talk about these things with her here, and took her hand: "Let's go back and talk about it later."

Shen Qingyu immediately obeyed: "Okay."