"I've made up my mind."
My mother is already dead. Even if Chen were to pay with her life, she would not be able to come back to life. So of course I have to take one hundred taels.
One hundred taels!
He may not even earn a hundred taels in his entire life!
Seeing that the man was determined to put his fingerprints on the case to settle it, the lawyer stopped trying to persuade him.
I despise such people in my heart and think they are unworthy of being human beings.
Chen asked Leng Yingshuang to return the gold and silver she had given to her before their house was ransacked.
"That red gold and ruby hairpin is enough."
"Mom, wait a moment."
Leng Yingshuang was thinking about how to get her daughter to take it out.
Meng Shuyan did not embarrass her mother because she heard what her grandmother said.
Just find the gold hairpin that grandma mentioned in the space and take it out.
The gold hairpin is solid and weighs about five taels.
The ruby on top is very dazzling red, and it is obvious that gems are more valuable than gold.
Leng Yingshuang watched the golden hairpin appear out of thin air, luckily no one saw it.
“Thank you Fubao!
Next time you take something out, be careful not to let others see it."
【This is really my mother, I know. 】
Meng Shuyan wanted to nod, but she couldn't do it.
Leng Yingshuang kissed Meng Shuyan's little face and took the golden hairpin to give to Chen.
Meng Shijie took out all the silver he had left, but he was still twenty taels short of one hundred taels.
He had made three large purchases before, spending almost twenty taels, but he had forgotten.
"Take this, it's worth at least a hundred taels. This ruby is worth a lot of silver."
Meng Shijie felt very sad when he saw the golden hairpin.
This was the birthday gift my father bought for my mother on her 50th birthday. I love wearing it the most.
Chen was also reluctant, but compared to her life, her life was more important.
Anyone who sees that red gold and ruby hairpin will know how valuable it is.
But the man's fear was false.
“I don’t want this, who knows if it’s true or not?
You should give me some silver.”
“This is the most valuable thing in our family, and we don’t have enough silver.
If you don’t want it, let’s go to the pawnshop together.”
When the man was about to speak, the county magistrate spoke.
"That gold hairpin can be worth at least a hundred taels.
If I pawn it now, it will only be worth fifty or sixty taels at most, which is not worth it at all."
After hearing what the county magistrate said, the man accepted the gold hairpin and asked for another thirty taels of silver before he agreed.
The Meng family gave it to him because they didn't want to cause any trouble.
It was already evening when the man buried his mother, and the lawyer paid for some drinks for the officers out of his own pocket.
So everyone had to stay in the Kaifeng government prison for another night.
"Whatever you need, go buy it quickly.
Kaifeng Prefecture is considered a relatively large provincial capital.
If we can't get what you need here, you probably won't be able to buy anything in the towns you pass through later."
The master said something very kindly to everyone.
Everyone ran out to buy things.
These people won't run around now.
All those who had escaped from Huaiqing Prefecture and were missing have been found. All of them are dead bodies, and many of them are incomplete, with only arms and legs left because they were eaten by wild beasts.
This was a letter that the people above sent to Kaifeng Prefecture specifically and was read to them.
It is to prevent others from escaping.
Now the city gates of Kaifeng Prefecture are closed, and they can't escape at all.
Even Meng Shuyan and her family went shopping together.
Meng Shuyan looked at the famous Kaifeng Prefecture, which was now in a dilapidated state.
It was similar to the villages and towns in the remote mountainous areas in her previous life.
She was still interested and planned to take a closer look at what was sold in stores at that time and how it was sold.
There were few people on the streets in the evening.
The few that do come are mostly pale and thin.
Many people have just moved here and are having a hard time.
Those who can open shops here are basically the former indigenous people.
"It's closed, go to the next one."
The Meng family had just seen a grain shop and had just raised one foot to enter when the waiter inside came out to drive them away, saying that it was time to close the shop.
[What kind of proofing is this? It's obvious that they saw that my family was wearing tattered clothes and didn't want to do business with us.]
If even a baby like Meng Shuyan can see this, then other people are not blind either.
The family had no choice but to go out and look for the next one.
However, after entering three stores in a row, they were all about to close.
The Meng family felt that it was not necessary to visit this street.
"Forget it, let's go back."
Not only them, but almost everyone who went out did not buy anything and returned empty-handed.
"You didn't buy anything either?"
Doctor Zhou, who had just returned, looked at the Meng family who also returned empty-handed and asked.
"Yeah, it seemed like they had agreed. They closed the shop before we even got inside, so we just came back."
“Us too.
It seems that from now on, we will dig up as many wild vegetables as we can on the road and store them."
Doctor Zhou was very worried that they would have nothing to eat or drink in the winter after arriving at the destination.
Kaifeng is a big city, and if it's like this, the area around Luzhou must not be much better.
"Doctor Zhou has foresight.
Many migration areas can be described as deserted.
There is no one, let alone food and drink.
Those indigenous people were either killed in the war three years ago, or died of starvation due to natural disasters such as drought and floods.
Most of the few remaining survivors fled to the Taiyuan area to escape famine.
Now we pray that Luzhou Prefecture will only be flooded, so that there may be some wild vegetables.
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