Jiuxian looked at her and said, "If you join the Red Chamber, I won't have to buy anything anymore."

"Dream on." Rose glared at him.

Even so, Rose still gave him two bottles of wine. Rose herself doesn't usually like to drink, so it's not a bad idea to give him two bottles since someone does.

Nine Strings didn't take it for nothing; he had Azure Dragon throw over a gold ingot: "Are you trying to collect broken... things again?"

Luo Xi looked up at him: "What? You're interested too?"

“Count me in,” Jiuxian said matter-of-factly. “I’ll take half of the grain, and the rest is yours.”

Rosie: "...?"

"That's strange. Didn't you say those were all junk? What, you want junk too? Besides, your Red Mansion has so much gold, do you really need those things from a bandit's den?"

Jiuxian pretended not to hear and slowly began to eat his snacks.

Qinglong suppressed a laugh: "Miss Luo, you may not know this, but today we received news that, starting sometime ago, all the major clans and powerful families have begun to buy up grain on a large scale."

He sighed: "So now the price of grain on the market has more than doubled. What's worse is that there's no market for it. No matter how much gold we have, we can't eat it."

With so many people in the Red Mansion, if they don't prepare enough, there won't be enough to eat if there's a severe famine.

And judging from this situation, things are probably going to get chaotic.

Loxi was shocked; everyone was scrambling to hoard grain, a harbinger of impending chaos.

It seems she needs to make some serious plans, otherwise, once they find Chu Zhe, they'll have no choice but to hide away in some remote mountain forest.

After all, when the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken.

She didn't want to hide away and wait to die.

Rose made a decision in her heart immediately.