Su Changan still listened to Su Yunhai's words.

"Don't worry, Dad. My son will study hard in the capital and find a job to support himself. You must take care of yourself and remember to write to me." Su Chang'an's eyes were red with tears of excitement.

Su Yunhai simply ignored Li Jiao'e's ugly and twisted face, gave the couple a carriage and enough dry food, and drove them away.

"Eldest brother, third brother, our family will return to Yunzhou Prefecture and sell these horses and carriages. You lead the team and go ahead." Su Yunhai instructed.

Su Yunshan and Su Yunlin nodded in agreement and immediately led the team up the mountain.

Shen Shuli and her family of three did not return to Yunzhou Prefecture with their carriages.

Instead, he walked a little further out of the city, and when he reached a deserted place, he put the space directly into the space.

After resting for half an hour, the three went to catch up with the team.

The extremely hot weather has also had a significant impact on Yunzhou.

Although it has not reached the point of water shortage, the plants on the mountain can clearly feel the drought and are wilting.

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...

There is no wild animal to be found on the outskirts of the mountain.

Shen Shuli and the other two quickly caught up with the team.

Everyone shared a lot of supplies and carried them on their way.

It was not until noon that the Su family caught up with the exile team.

The exile team has found a place to rest.

The Su family and the Shen family also stopped nearby and quickly prepared lunch.

They had not thought about taking the mountain road before leaving the city, and had not prepared much dry food, so lunch had to be cooked on the spot.

The yamen runners of Yunzhou Prefecture only brought enough food for the runners to eat and did not prepare any for the prisoners.

After all, they have to climb a mountain, and the yamen runners are also human beings. They cannot carry carriages and horses, and it is difficult for them to even carry their own rations. How can they possibly bring food for the prisoners?

If prisoners want to solve the problem of eating, they have to find a way to solve it themselves.

Mu Wanjun realized something was wrong when she saw that the yamen runners had only prepared enough food for fifty people.

"Dad, what are we going to eat these days?" Mu Wanjun looked at Mu Hongqi and asked.

Upon hearing this, Mu Hongqi looked in the direction of the yamen runners, and seeing that they had not prepared any food for the prisoners, he did not think too much about it.

"Maybe they will cook for us after they finish eating. After all, they only have limited cooking utensils."

Mu Wanjun could only say that her father was adorably silly, so she ignored him and turned to look for her eldest brother, younger brother, and second aunt's three cousins.

"Let's go and see if we can find some wild vegetables and edibles nearby, otherwise we will definitely starve." Mu Wanjun said to a few people.

The five people listened to Mu Wanjun's words and responded immediately.

"Okay, but brother doesn't know any wild vegetables." Mu Yansheng said with some difficulty.

"I know him. I'll help you find him." Mu Wanjun led everyone to look for him nearby.

Their behavior attracted the attention of other prisoners.

Some prisoners were quick-witted and knew they would have to rely on themselves to fill their stomachs in the future, so they immediately started looking for food with their families.

Shen Shuli didn't see her best friend in the exile team, so she immediately called her secretly on the intercom.

Mu Wanjun: "I'm digging wild vegetables around, otherwise I won't have anything to eat at noon."

"What's going on?" Shen Shuli was puzzled.

Mu Wanjun told Shen Shuli her guess.

Shen Shuli then noticed that the yamen runners did not bring much food, which was enough to explain many problems.

There must be something wrong with that Yunzhou prefect.

"Then you guys go around first and come back for dinner in half an hour." Shen Shuli said.

"Okay, got it."

The Su and Chen families brought a lot of food and various supplies, including all kinds of pots, pans, and utensils.

Seeing that the teenagers of the same generation at home were idle, Shen Shuli took them around the neighborhood to see if they could dig up some game.

To avoid being targeted by the yamen runners and forcibly "confiscating" their food.

This place is on the outskirts of the mountain and is very dry and barren.

And there were hundreds of prisoners who needed to fill their stomachs, so the originally green grass was directly pulled out.

Shen Shuli could only take her brothers and sisters to a farther place to look for it.

A dozen people searched for more than half an hour and only found two handfuls of wild vegetables that were barely edible.

Several people returned empty-handed.

By chance, Mu Wanjun and her companions had also returned quickly.

Their harvest was very limited, and the wild vegetables they picked were not enough for them to eat twice.

Shen Shuli simply combined the wild vegetables together and gave them to the Shen family's aunt-in-law, asking her to add a dish.

"Are you going to ask them to come over for dinner, or bring the food over?" Shen Shuli asked.

Mu Wanjun said: "Don't bother to bring them back and forth. I'll just ask them to come over and eat."

The meals prepared by the Su family were simple.

I cooked rice porridge, made scallion pancakes, boiled two large pots of eggs, two for each person, and stewed two large pots of wolf meat.

The eggs were secretly taken out from the space by Shen Shuli before she left the city. Eggs could not be properly preserved when walking on the mountain road, and she was worried that they would be bumped and rotten, so she took them all out and cooked and ate them to avoid waste.

Although the food was simple, everyone was full.

In contrast, the aroma of their food still made the exiled prisoners and yamen runners greedy.

The prisoners had no pots to cook the wild vegetables they picked, so they could only ask the yamen runners to borrow a pot and eat them simply by boiling them. Some of the wild vegetables were so bitter that they were difficult to swallow, but they were reluctant to spit them out.

Su Yunhai used a spoon to take two boiled eggs for Mu Wanjun's parents, brothers and grandmother, and asked, "Brother Mu, did you find anything wrong?"

Mu Hongqi was puzzled: "What do you mean, Brother Su?"

"You have such a good relationship with the Yunzhou prefect, why didn't he let the yamen runners take care of your meals? It's impossible that he didn't think of this problem, right?"

Mu Hongqi's hand holding the chopsticks paused slightly, but he didn't think it should be that serious.

From the first time he met Zhou Hao, there was no problem with his behavior and speech attitude, and it was the same as before.

He didn't notice anything wrong.

Moreover, they were taken to the best inn and the best banquet was arranged with great fanfare.

He didn't care at all whether his actions would bring him trouble.

"Maybe I forgot."

"How could I forget?"

Su Yunhai felt that Mu Hongqi was unwilling to believe it, so he forced excuses for him and continued to analyze it for him.

"He personally brought those yamen runners to escort you. The yamen runners were carrying food. How could he not see it?"

"Moreover, those yamen runners clearly did not prepare enough food for the prisoners, which is unreasonable."

Even if the government did not care about the prisoners' meals, the yamen runners would still prepare enough food for themselves and let the prisoners buy it at high prices to make extra money.

Otherwise, which bailiff would be willing to walk such a long distance in the open air to escort a prisoner?

Furthermore.

Even if the prisoners could not afford food, the yamen runners had to ensure that they had some thin porridge every day to stay alive.

If the yamen runners did not prepare food, most of the prisoners would definitely starve to death, and the yamen runners would be severely punished. This was not the result the court wanted.

Mu Hongqi's expression gradually became heavy when he heard this.

He had to face the cruel truth.

"Then why did he do this?" Mu Hongqi was puzzled.

"Don't be anxious, just wait and see." Su Yunhai comforted him.

Su Yunhai reminded him just to make him be more alert and have some idea in mind.

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