It was impossible to take everyone into the city. After discussing, Tian An and Zhao Yiming decided that everyone should wait outside and let Deng Yuan and Chen Feng go into the city to buy supplies.
Originally, we should have sent a girl to go with us so that we could bargain and avoid being cheated. However, the girl couldn't carry too many things, so five taels of silver per person was not cost-effective.
Zhao Yiming was worried that Tian An and his sister would stay outside and not go, so he had to let them go alone.
After calling the two men aside, Tian An took out fifty taels of silver from his bag and gave them to them.
Zhao Yiming thought for a moment and said, "Give them another fifty taels! The entrance fee is already so expensive, who knows how much the things inside are worth!"
Tian An thought the same and took out another fifty taels. Then he began to tell the two of them what they wanted to buy.
"Water is of utmost importance, don't forget it. We haven't eaten for almost a day, and we don't know if we'll even be able to find a place to cook! You two can see if you can buy some buns or something."
Next, buy salt and sugar, and some pork. You can handle the rest as you wish. You must hurry and get out before the city gates close at night."
The two responded and were about to leave when Tian An stopped them again, "You two should change your clothes before going."
They haven't taken a bath since they came out. They could just wipe their faces before, but since they arrived in Ganzhou, they don't even have drinking water, and they haven't washed their faces for several days.
They looked like beggars now. If they went into the city gate dressed like this, the gatekeepers would probably think that they had stolen the silver and arrest them.
There is not much time, so in order to reduce trouble, it is better to change clothes before going.
Hearing this, the two were in a dilemma. They had both been helping out in the county town before, and when the shop collapsed, they took the food and ran away to the mountains to hide. They only had the clothes they were wearing, so where could they find a change?
Deng Yuan thought about it and ran towards Deng Shuang. Her second sister was always attentive, so maybe she would actually bring him some clothes.
Deng Yuan ran over and said a few words, and Deng Shuang took out a set of men's clothes from his bag.
When Chen Feng saw Deng Yuan holding clothes from afar, his heart suddenly felt sour. Why didn’t he have a caring sister?
Over there, Chun Xi knew that Deng Yuan had come to get clothes. She glanced at Chen Feng, who looked pitiful in the distance, and after thinking for a moment, she took out a set of men's clothes from her bag and handed it to Deng Yuan. "Brother Yuan, please help me give it to Chen Feng."
Deng Yuan paused, damn, the clothes of his sister in his hands suddenly didn’t smell good anymore.
When Deng Yuan gave the clothes to Chen Feng, Chen Feng thought Deng Yuan had lent them to him. But when he looked down and saw that they were his own clothes, he was also stunned: "Your sister brought them for me?"
Deng Yuan slapped him on the shoulder and said, "Go away! Don't talk about my sister. Who else would take care of her except Chunxi?"
When he heard that it was Chunxi who brought it, Chen Feng smiled foolishly, "Chunxi is really thoughtful."
Deng Yuan instantly looked disgusted.
Carrying the empty backpack and clothes, they walked away and found a deserted place to change. Then they walked straight to the city gate, paid ten taels of silver and entered the city smoothly.
After Deng Yuan and Chen Feng left, Tian An and the others were resting there. Suddenly, they saw a middle-aged man in a cotton shirt, with neatly combed hair, and a burly, fierce-looking man walking towards them.
Tian An just discovered this man. He had just come out of the city not long ago.
The man came over and looked at them from a distance. When he reached Tian An and the others, he stopped.
He looked at Xiaokang and Xiaoqi with shining eyes and said, "Whose children are these? I'll give you two pancakes, sell them to me!"
Tian An was stunned... Damn, this guy must be sick! Is he stupid, or does he think he is stupid? Back then, she spent several taels of silver when buying Chunxi and Mangzhong! This guy wanted to buy her two smart and cute brothers with two sesame cakes.
Tian An was about to speak when he was stopped by Zhao Yiming.
Then, Granny Qin behind her spoke up, "I won't sell my child."
The man still didn't give up and asked, "Not enough?" Then he stretched out his hand and made the number four, "Four."
Granny Qin frowned and said, "I told you, I won't sell my child, no matter how much."
But the man acted as if he hadn't heard anything and continued, "There are six at most. Don't push your luck."
Granny Qin was furious. "What's wrong with you? You said you won't sell it, so you won't sell it."
Before the middle-aged man could say anything, the burly man behind him glared at Granny Qin with a ferocious look on his face and scolded her, "You old woman, are you tired of living? How dare you speak to Steward Jia like that?"
Zhao Yiming stood up and looked at him coldly, "What do you want to do?"
Behind them, the men also picked up their weapons and stood up collectively. They looked at the two men with angry faces and shouted, "What do you want to do?"
The middle-aged man was so frightened that he jumped back and almost fell flat on his face.
Looking at the axes and hatchets in everyone's hands, the strong man was obviously frightened.
The middle-aged man coughed twice awkwardly, pretended to be calm, looked at everyone with contempt, and said, "You ungrateful people." Then he left with the strong man.
But they did not return to the city immediately, but instead wandered among other refugees.
Tian An saw with his own eyes that the housekeeper named Jia took a little girl away with a sesame bun.
The girl's mother cried and tried to pull the girl away, but was kicked to the ground by the strong man. The girl's father turned a deaf ear to the mother and daughter's cries and ate the pancake, which was no bigger than his palm, in a few bites.
Then he looked at his wife who was still crying on the ground, his eyes turned, he got up from the ground, and ran towards the housekeeper Jia. Then he saw him coming back with another pancake, and the strong man also came back and pulled the woman on the ground and was about to leave.
This time the woman didn't make a fuss. Instead, she ran forward and hugged her daughter.
"What a sin!" I heard the sighs of the crowd behind me.
Afterwards, everyone watched as the housekeeper Jia exchanged a few pancakes for several children, both boys and girls.
Some refugees even took the initiative to bring their children to Jia Guanjia, allowing him to choose. If the children were not chosen, their parents would beat and scold them, saying, "What's the use of you? You can't even exchange for a piece of pancake. Why don't you just die?"
Xiaokang and Xiaoqi were frightened. Their faces turned pale and they held Tian An's hands tightly, not daring to let go for a moment.
As the sky gradually darkened, housekeeper Jia prepared to return to the city with a group of children. Before leaving, he looked back at Xiaokang and Xiaoqi, which scared the two little guys.
Zhao Yiming stood up and walked in front of Tian An's siblings to block the housekeeper Jia's sight. Then housekeeper Jia withdrew his gaze with a gloomy face and walked into the city gate.
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