Yu Mingxiang watched her wolf down her food coldly, and after she finished eating, she tied her up again and locked the door.

"My second son stayed up all night with me last night, so he doesn't need to come out with me today."

Once inside the courtyard, Yu Mingxiang said to the three children, "We've donated everything we could. I'm going out to collect some goods from the black market and then try to get them smuggled to the Northeast. Don't worry, just rest well at home tonight and get yourselves in. Tomorrow we'll clean up the mess, and the day after tomorrow we'll set off to find your little sister."

"good!"

The three children didn't say a word.

Yu Mingxiang rode her bicycle out the door alone.

Night fell.

Not long after Yu Mingxiang arrived at the agreed courtyard, Gu Guanhai and his men knocked on the gate.

Seeing the dozen or so flatbed trucks following behind him, and the trucks loaded with supplies, Yu Mingxiang glanced around and quickly ushered him into the courtyard.

"Is it really... alright for you to parade around like this?"

She could hear the car wheels from a great distance, and she panicked.

"What's the problem?"

Gu Guanhai glanced at her and said, "You don't actually think that we don't have connections in our line of work, do you?"

Although he really didn't have anyone above him, but...

He's really not afraid.

Yu Mingxiang: ...

That makes sense when you think about it.

To be able to control the black market so effectively, this man must have someone protecting him.

Since that's the case, she can rest assured.

Yu Mingxiang needed a lot of things, and even with more than a dozen floor trucks, it took four or five trips to transport them all.

She wanted to help, but Gu Guanhai stopped her.

Dozens of male laborers unloaded the truck and carried the grain into the house quickly, especially Gu Guanhai. While others could only carry one bag of grain at a time, he carried one bag on his shoulder and another under his arm, moving with ease and speed.

Yu Mingxiang: ...

Everyone was wondering what this man ate to grow up with such strength!

This shipment is huge; it includes not only grain, but also food, drinks, and other daily necessities...

Two hours later, the others finished unloading the last load and left one after another, leaving only Gu Guanhai and the young man named Liu Tao.

Liu Tao stood guard at the gate of the courtyard, while Gu Guanhai settled accounts with Yu Mingxiang inside the courtyard.

"The price of this batch of goods is 10,063, so we'll give you 10,060. Add 180 for shipping, and it's 10,240. The price of yesterday's batch of goods was 2,742, so we'll round it down by 2 yuan. The total price of the two batches of goods plus shipping is 12,940."

Gu Guanhai stood a step away from Yu Mingxiang, without holding any ledger or anything, and simply read out the items clearly, "Deducting the 1,200 you paid as a deposit twice, the total is 11,740."

"Whether you'll pay in cash or gold, I've brought pliers and a scale."

Yu Mingxiang chose to use half gold and half cash.

He took out a small gold bar weighing four ounces.

The current price of gold is about 35.2 yuan per gram. Four ounces (200 grams) would cost approximately 7,000 yuan after deducting the cutting fee.

Seeing that she had a whole small gold bar, Gu Guanhai deducted one cent for the cutting fee, making it only two cents per gram, which was exactly seven thousand.

Yu Mingxiang paid the rest in cash.

The family's savings were 15,000 yuan. With the 880 yuan dowry from yesterday and the 1,000 yuan rural allowance, the total was over 16,800 yuan. She gave her daughter-in-law 1,000 yuan, and she herself had spent over 1,000 yuan on miscellaneous purchases over the past few days. Today, she spent another 4,700 yuan in cash.

She had a little over nine thousand yuan in cash left.

There are fewer places to spend money in the countryside, and nine thousand yuan is enough for their family to live on in the countryside for several years.

Yu Mingxiang glanced at the room full of stockpiled goods. With the goods in hand, she felt at ease. The anxiety that had been hanging over her since her rebirth finally subsided completely.

"I'm leaving now. If you need to buy anything on the black market in the future, just look for Liu Tao."