After the people were confirmed, Yang Dashan then counted what each household wanted to buy.
Doctor Li and Mr. Wan Sanye are responsible for registration.
Su Yin asked Nan Jingzhi for paper and pen, otherwise their team would not be able to find any.
"Madam Xu, what do you need to buy?"
"We don't have much food at home, so we don't need expensive ones. Just buy the cheap ones." Madam Xu counted her belongings and planned the amount of food to buy.
"Just buy five dou of coarse grains, and one dou of white flour. If the price of grain is very high, buy one dou less."
This time, we only brought one horse-drawn carriage in to transport food, which was needed to carry food for fifteen households. Naturally, each family would not buy too much, otherwise they would not be able to bring it back.
"If the price is very high, ridiculously high, how many buckets do you want to buy?" asked Master Wan San.
There has to be a minimum conservative number, otherwise it will be difficult to purchase.
"Three dou." Madam Xu thought for a moment, "In any case, two dou is necessary."
After arriving at Linzhou Prefecture, they headed south.
It is said that food prices are cheaper there.
With two or three buckets of rice, if you live frugally, you can still get by.
"I need some more salt and some vinegar cloths."
Doctor Li wrote them down one by one.
After Madam Xu finished reporting her shopping list, Butcher Yang started reporting his list.
One round after another passed.
After all this tinkering, it was already past 16:00 and the city gates were about to be closed at 17:00.
Su Yin said, "It's getting late today. It's too late to go into the city to buy things now."
"Rest early today and go into the city early tomorrow morning."
Our money doesn't come from the wind, so we won't waste it.
After Su Yin got the list, she discussed with Master Wan San and decided to add up the total amount of food to be purchased, and also to make a summary of the groceries so that they could divide the work and make the purchases when they entered the city.
The sooner they can buy it, the sooner they can get on the road.
Nan Jingzhi's team was large, and by the time the statistics were counted, Su Yin's team had already had dinner.
Many refugees who were blocked outside the city gates saw no hope of entering Nyingchi County, so many of them had no choice but to continue moving forward.
Seeing that it was getting late, some people, like Su Yin and others, found an open space at the city gate to set up camp.
A mother and her son, pulling a cart, found a spot not far from Xinghua Village.
The mother and son both had sallow complexions, and the things on the cart were all tattered. The clothes they wore were full of patches, and the straw sandals on their feet were so rotten that they seemed like they would fall off at any time.
The young man glanced in the direction of Xinghua Village and saw that they were still able to produce food, his eyes full of envy.
"Son, let's eat wild vegetable porridge."
They picked wild vegetables on the way, and the young man also found water in the mountains.
The boy watched his mother take out rice from the cloth bag for half a day, only grab a handful, and put most of this handful back, leaving only a small amount of rice in the pot.
He hasn't had a full meal for a long time. Not to mention a full meal, he hasn't even eaten three-quarters full.
The young man sat by the pot and asked softly, "Mom, how much silver do we have left?"
The woman looked up at him and asked, "You want to go into the city?"
Without waiting for the boy to answer, the woman shook her head and said, "No, one tael of silver can at least buy four or five dou of rice."
"Mom, the price of grain has gone up. You can't buy four or five dou like before. No matter how expensive it is, one tael of silver can always buy two or three dou. In any case, it's not cost-effective to go into the city with one tael of silver. Let's be patient. After we pass Linzhi County and reach the next county, we can always get in." The woman persuaded her son, hoping that he would give up the idea.
The young man shook his head. "Mom, I don't want to go into the city. I just want to..."
He glanced at Xinghua Village.
"What do you want to do?" the woman was puzzled.
"I want someone to bring us some food."
"Ah?" The woman looked shocked.
"I just heard them counting the things we will buy when we go into the city tomorrow. I was thinking, if we can ask them to help carry them, we can save some money on going into the city." The boy's eyes became brighter as he spoke.
"No." The woman shook her head and rejected it. "What if they took our money and embezzled it?"
The young man also thought of this question, but when he looked at the carriage in Xinghua Village and those people, especially when he set his eyes on Su Yin, he inexplicably felt a sense of trust and felt that she would not be that kind of person.
"No, they have money and won't be greedy. We don't need to give too much, just one or two taels of silver, as much as we can buy."
The woman frowned and turned to look at the people from Xinghua Village.
She turned back to look at her son, her face pale, and her heart softened, "Okay. But will they agree?"
"I'll try."
The woman took out her purse from her intimate bosom, took out a few small pieces of silver and handed them to her son.
"Go ahead."
The young man walked towards the people of Xinghua Village with the silver. His eyes swept across the group and finally walked towards the direction where Su Yin was.
As the young man approached, Su Yin looked at him alertly.
He did not come closer, but stood three meters away, looking at Su Yin shyly.
"I, I want to ask you for a favor." As soon as the boy finished speaking, he felt that he was a little abrupt, and quickly added: "I'm sorry, I, I really have no other choice, so I came to nag."
Su Yin didn't respond.
The young man continued, "I just heard that you are going to the city to purchase tomorrow. I would like to ask you to bring some food with you. Just a little bit, not too much."
"We don't have much money, and we can't afford the fare to go into the city, so, so..."
As he spoke, the young man bowed towards Su Yin, his straight back bent at a ninety-degree angle as he begged.
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