At dawn the next day, Qiu Yan slowly woke up, while Qin Susu beside her was still curled up, fast asleep.
Glancing out of the car, Ling Qi was only wearing a thin shirt, and at the foot of the mountain not far away, he was exercising.
Ling Ba was covered with Ling Qi's outer garment, and even in his sleep, he remained vigilant.
Qiu Yan got up and got out of the car, walking towards the pond.
Seeing this, Ling Qi followed.
"Xiaoyan, why don't you sleep a little longer?"
"Get up and make breakfast."
"I'll be with you."
The two of them worked together and speared a few more crucian carp.
Fish are really hard to find. Qiu Yan looked at the crucian carp; besides grilling them, what else could they...?
Braised, steamed, boiled in soup... let's make some crucian carp soup, and grill the rest to eat on the way.
In the early morning, their breakfast consisted of grilled fish and fish soup.
Hearing the noise, Ling Ba jumped up.
When he woke up, he saw that Ling Qi and Qiu Yan were already busy. After taking a stroll outside, they found a spring.
Then he started a fire to boil water.
After cleaning, Qiu Yan used a dagger to chop the two crucian carp into several pieces and began to cook them in an earthenware pot.
Soon, the earthenware pot began to steam and boil.
Qiu Yan thought for a moment, then called Ling Qi and went to the bushes to make a few pairs of chopsticks.
Qin Susu was still half asleep when she smelled the aroma and woke up.
After waking up, he glanced at Ling Ba bustling outside the car, rolled over, and went out to help.
"Young Miss, did you sleep well last night?" Ling Ba turned his head to look at Qin Susu's messy hair, which was dirty and disheveled, making her look like a beggar.
Qin Susu glanced at Qiu Yan and Ling Qi from afar.
"Great, I can sleep until dawn, and when I wake up, there's food. Ah, I'm so happy."
In fact, she had insomnia last night.
As she spoke, she helped add some firewood to the fire.
Seeing that there wasn't much firewood left, she got up and went to find some more.
Then, gazing at the two figures in the distance, he began to shout at the top of his lungs:
"Xiaoyan, Lingqi, dinner's ready."
Ling Ba: "Knowing it's time to eat, why are you still gathering firewood?"
Isn't this unnecessary?
When Qiu Yan and Ling Qi returned, they had four more pairs of chopsticks in their hands.
On this chilly morning, a bowl of hot fish soup would be nice.
After breakfast, they continued their journey.
Today went much more smoothly than yesterday.
Refugees have been encountered, but not to the extent that the situation near the border is as dire.
They also encountered one or two groups of bandits, but Ling Qi and Ling Ba repelled them all.
At noon, they arrived at a small town.
Finally, I got to eat a hot meal.
Because prices only increased and never decreased, at noon, each of them ate a simple bowl of plain noodles, which cost forty-eight copper coins.
Qiu Yan calculated that if the daily food and lodging for the four of them was set at three taels of silver, then one hundred and eighty taels of silver would be used up in less than two months.
If you spend two taels of silver a day, it will last for three months.
If it were one or two taels of silver, Qiu Yan thought for a moment, then shook her head.
She sighed; with only one tael of silver, she could only afford to spend the night in the desolate countryside.
As night fell, they arrived at the nearest county town.
The county town is small, only half the size of Baiyang.
Ling Ba drove his carriage around the city for a week, but only found one inn.
"Xiaoyan, what do you think of this inn?"
Ling Qi: "If there's only one, and it's not good, what can we do?"
The inn in front of us was dilapidated and old, clearly indicating that it had few customers and had been neglected for a long time.
"Let's go take a look." Qiu Yan lifted the curtain and got out of the car, starting to look around at the shops.
Fortunately, the county town is not like the desolate countryside. Here, there are no groups of refugees or vicious bandits.
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