Chapter 5 Buying Food
Although Wu Yue said this to her eldest daughter-in-law Wu Gui, she also meant to say it to her eldest daughter-in-law Fang Huiwen.
Prince Zhou Cungao of Zhenbei and Princess Ji Mingzhu had two sons and one daughter.
The eldest son, Zhou Jianzhang, also has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Zhou Yunzhi, is the eldest grandson. He married Fang and has a pair of twin sons who are five years old this year. They are named Zhou Yuanli and Zhou Yuanyi.
The remaining son and daughter are twins, a boy and a girl. Zhou Yunshu and her twin brother Zhou Yunqi are the third and fourth children in the Zhou family.
Zhou Yunshu married the King of Wei and gave birth to Ji Nancy, and she is currently pregnant with two more children.
Zhou Yunqi's engagement did not take place. The original plan was to get married in October, but now that the Zhou family has fallen, the engagement is naturally invalid.
Zhou Yunqi did not join the army. He has been traveling around studying with the great scholar Duan Yanzhi for many years. No one knows where he is now. He just happened to escape the disaster of the Zhou family's property being confiscated and beheaded.
Zhou Yunqi was also studying abroad with his second wife’s youngest son, Zhou Yunjia.
Both of them escaped this disaster because they were studying abroad.
Zhou Jianzhi, the second son of King Zhenbei, had three sons and one daughter.
The eldest son, Zhou Yunhai, is the second child in the Zhou family. He married Wu Gui and has a son who is three years old this year and named Zhou Yuanruo.
The second son, Zhou Yunkun, was the fifth son in the Zhou family. He went to the northern border to join the army two months after marrying Liu Aifang. They had no children, and now Liu Aifang has returned to her parents' home.
Daughter Zhou Yunxia is the sixth grandchild in the Zhou family. She married General Ma, a self-made man from Tongzhou, and gave birth to a son named Ma Jingrong, who just turned one year old this year.
The remaining eldest son, Zhou Yunjia, is also the youngest grandchild, ranking seventh and is unmarried.
Although the Zhou family seems to have a lot of people, they are actually not considered a wealthy family in the capital.
During this incident in the northern border, there were only ten surviving women and children of the Zhou family, including the eldest princess, in the capital.
Ten people are really too few for a family.
"Mom, I will stand with the Zhou family!" The person who said this was Wu Gui, who had previously attacked the soldiers in the yard.
Wu Gui is three years older than Zhou Yunhai and is the daughter of a military general.
She married Zhou Yunhai because her father saved Zhou Jianzhi's life, and Zhou Cungao and Zhou Jianzhi decided to let the eldest daughter of the Wu family marry Zhou Yunhai.
To be honest, the relationship between Zhou Yunhai and Wu Gui was not deep. After all, Zhou Yunhai had always wanted to marry a girl from a scholarly family since he was a child, but he ended up marrying Wu Gui, who was good at wielding swords and guns, under the arrangement of his parents.
It would be fine if the two of them were not together, because they had a lot of quarrels when they were together.
Wu Yue's eyes turned red when she heard the promise of her eldest daughter-in-law. You know, at the beginning she didn't like the daughter-in-law that her father-in-law and husband had arranged for her eldest son.
It was because she was the daughter of a warrior, who wielded swords and guns and was careless. Not only was she not as well-mannered as the noble ladies in the capital, but she was already twenty years old when she got married.
You know, nowadays it is common for girls to get engaged at the age of eleven or twelve, and getting married at the age of fifteen or sixteen is even more common. If a daughter is not married until she is twenty years old, wouldn't that be a joke?
Of course, Wu Yue didn't dare to say this, because her parents-in-law's daughter Zhou Jianying was also nineteen years old this year, but her status was different. She had a father who was the King of Zhenbei and a mother who was the eldest princess.
By the way, this sister-in-law ran away as soon as she received the news from abroad, and now no one knows where she has gone.
After Wu Gui made her promise, Fang Huiwen, the eldest grandson's wife of the Zhou family, looked at her mother-in-law, Li Jialan, and said, "Mother, I will take good care of the family for my husband."
Li Jialan patted Fang Huiwen's arm with red eyes, "Thank you for your hard work."
Zhou Yunshu looked at the family of women and children and sighed in her heart.
There are a little more people in the eldest house. Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen have two five-year-old children, and together with her and her daughter, there are six people in total. In the second uncle's family, there are only second aunt Wu Yue, second sister-in-law Wu Gui, and three-year-old Zhou Yuanruo.
The others were either out of reach without a trace, or died in battle or went missing.
There are too few members of the Zhou family, and any slight mistake during the exile could result in the entire army being wiped out.
"Time is running out, Mother, Second Aunt, let's split up."
Before it actually happened, even though Zhou Yunshu knew that the Zhou family had left the capital on this day in her previous life, she did not dare to make too many preparations, for fear that her reborn butterfly wings would change the past.
But since Zhou Yunshu has confirmed that the Zhou family will leave the capital today, some things must be prepared.
"Mother, you, your eldest sister-in-law, your second aunt and the children should go to the South City Gate first. Chuqi will follow you."
Chuqi is her grandmother's bodyguard, with great martial arts skills. Zhou Yunshu feels at ease with him around.
"Okay." Li Jialan was already used to her daughter being the head of the family, so she had no objection.
"Second sister-in-law, go buy some commonly used medicinal herbs, especially those for treating colds and wounds."
Although she had a lot of medicinal herbs in her space, she still had to have some inventory to cover it up.
It would be great if Nanny Wang was here. Her medical skills are excellent, and with Nanny Wang here, they can prepare more comprehensive medicinal materials.
Wu Gui responded, "Okay."
As the eldest sister in a military family, she had frequent dealings with doctors and pharmacies.
"How much money is left?" Zhou Yunshu asked Chunque.
Chunque brought the bag he was carrying in front of him, took out a cloth bag and handed it to Zhou Yunshu: "Miss, the hairpin sold for 550 taels, and the mule cart and food cost 180 taels, 357 wen. The rest of the money is here."
Zhou Yunshu nodded. Although she knew that the pawnshop must have lowered the price, five hundred and fifty taels was already a good price.
Zhou Yunshu took out two hundred taels and gave them to Wu Gui, "Second sister-in-law, buy the herbs as you like."
"good!"
Zhou Yunshu took out a hundred taels for herself and gave the rest to her mother. "Meet at the gate of South City in two hours at the latest."
"good!"
After Zhou Yunshu finished making the arrangements, Chuqi drove a mule cart and took Li Jialan and others to the South City Gate; Dongge followed Wu Gui to the pharmacy; Zhou Yunshu took Chunque to buy food.
Zhou Yunshu didn't know what the current food prices were. She only knew that there was a severe drought in the two states surrounding the capital, and they would definitely pass through these two states when they went south, so she had to buy food in advance.
The capital is located at the foot of the emperor, so the increase in grain prices will not be too exaggerated, so Zhou Yunshu thought of buying more in the capital and the cities near the capital and taking them away.
She didn't think about buying some food and smuggling it into her own space. After all, their every move was under the eyes of the emperor and the Zhou family's political enemies, and any abnormality would be discovered.
She had to leave the capital and get out of sight as soon as possible before she could stockpile supplies.
Despite this, Zhou Yunshu still couldn't help herself after entering the grain store.
One hundred kilograms of flour, one hundred kilograms of rice, one hundred kilograms of cornmeal, thirty kilograms of millet, ten kilograms of red dates, ten kilograms of red beans, and fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes.
After Zhou Yunshu paid the bill and moved Chunque onto the mule cart, she went to the grocery store next door to continue shopping.
Zhou Yunshu bought 20 kilograms of salt, 20 kilograms of sugar, 10 kilograms of dried vegetables, 10 kilograms of dried mushrooms, 20 kilograms of bacon, 20 kilograms of sausage, and a lot of other seasonings. She even bought three jars of liquor.
In addition, Zhou Yunshu bought a pot, two large ceramic pots, and daily necessities such as bowls, chopsticks, and plates for the whole family.
These things took up most of the mule cart, but Zhou Yunshu still had some important things to buy.
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