Chapter 7: Penniless
After Chen Yuan was released from the cell, he watched his friends come to him one by one to give him money, and pat him on the shoulder, saying things like if they had known their family was in financial difficulty, they should have told them earlier so that they could help the village.
Hearing these words, Chen Yuan was confused.
He didn't know what these people meant, like his family was in financial difficulty, did he look like someone who was short of money?
Well, although the money is in the hands of the lady.
But the lady's money is not his money.
Although it was a bit strange, it was a happy thing that he didn't have to suffer the tattooing punishment and was exiled with his wife and daughter.
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Chen Xue's mind was all in the space at this time. Her space was over ten thousand square meters, and all kinds of supplies were sorted and organized by her.
Even the chickens, ducks and geese were enclosed by fences to prevent them from running around.
Her space actually has another function, which is an exchange system. As long as you have money, you can exchange anything.
From small items like toothpicks and paper towels to large items like refrigerators, color TVs and washing machines.
In addition to physical items, there are also some virtual items. In short, there is nothing you can't redeem as long as you can think of it.
The exchanged currencies, in addition to gold, silver, and jewelry, also include things that the space system has not collected.
For example, newly emerged species, plant herbs, etc., these things can be recycled by space and then distributed to recycling points.
Chen Xue even pulled out a few weeds to try, and found several recycling points, which made her eyes sparkle, as if she had found a bug.
But think about it, the space was the Earth of her previous life, and this is a different world. Nothing here has ever been collected by the space. For the space, it is simply a great geographical discovery.
For Chen Xue, it was also a big profit.
Because when you exchange gold, silver and jewelry for items, they will eventually run out, but collecting various new things is different, it is like getting something for nothing.
Ignoring the exchange system for now, Chen Xue first scattered some rice and vegetable seeds, and then watered them.
The growth cycle of vegetables and fruits in space is fast, which may also be because the speed of time flows differently from outside.
In short, some vegetables that take a month to mature now mature in just a few days.
So, Path of Exile will take at least a year anyway, and if you only eat these fruits and vegetables, they will eventually be finished.
Fortunately, she found a lot of seeds in the warehouse, so she simply planted them all and just waited for the harvest.
After doing all this, she counted the supplies. Well, actually she had counted them before, but seeing so many things in her hands, she still wanted to count them so that she could feel happy.
It didn't take much time to count the supplies, and there weren't many things.
There were 5,000 kilograms of grain, of which the enemy contributed thousands of bags. She wanted to make a banner to give to the enemy.
We needed a thousand kilograms of flour, but unfortunately the enemy was not strong enough and only sent rice but not flour. It might also be that flour was too expensive and they couldn't afford it.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other coarse grains all add up to about a thousand kilograms, of which Chen Xue has already planted a part, and maybe in a few months she will be able to harvest several thousand kilograms again.
There are also vegetables, all kinds of fresh vegetables, which were purchased by the housekeeper in the morning to prepare for lunch and dinner, totaling more than 600 kilograms.
There are also quite a lot of fruits, almost over 100 kilograms, mainly those that are not easy to rot, such as apples, grapefruits, oranges, and some newly bought grapes, tangerines, watermelons, etc.
In addition, there are oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Although there is not much, it is enough for her to use for several years.
There is nothing much to say about the gold, silver and jewelry. There are twenty boxes of gold, thirty boxes of silver, and more than a dozen boxes of jewelry.
In addition, there were calligraphy and paintings, books, vases, antiques and the like, which totaled to twenty boxes. Some of them were not packed yet, and they were all taken away from various corners of the mansion by her.
For example, she took away the vases and flower pots in the yard, along with the flowers and pots. There were hundreds of these things in total.
In short, all the property of the Chen family is in her hands. It can be said that in the exile team, she dares to say that she is the richest and no one dares to object.
If she hadn't been able to take all her things out, she would have turned the Road of Exile into a tourist route.
After counting the supplies, she went to the lake in the space and fed the koi inside.
A little frog by the lake croaked in confusion. It couldn't understand why its home looked different when it woke up.
It's impossible that those humans also raided its home!
"Master, are you okay?"
The screams beside her woke Chen Xue up. She looked up and saw a middle-aged man in prison uniform, with a tired face and shackles walking towards her.
It was the original owner’s father, Chen Yuan.
After the couple met, they hugged each other and cried, expressing their true feelings to each other.
Then, Father Chen came to Chen Xue, with a guilty look on his face, "Xiaoxue, I'm sorry for making you suffer."
At Xiaoxue's age, she should have been a lady from a wealthy family like other rich girls, enjoying a carefree life, and then marrying into a good family. But now she followed him into exile in the barren southern land.
Moreover, the road to exile is difficult and cruel. One can die if one is not careful. Most people die on the way before reaching their destination.
Thinking of the suffering his daughter was about to endure, Chen Yuan felt guilty.
"Oh, ma'am, put this money away to prevent them from plundering it!"
Chen Yuan knew the hardships of exile and the evil deeds of the yamen runners, so he took out all the silver given by his friends and gave it to Mrs. Chen.
Chen Xue, who was standing next to him, had sharp eyes. Seeing this, she quickly leaned forward and said, "Dad, how about I help you hide it? Don't worry, they won't be able to find it."
"Okay."
Chen Yuan always responded to his daughter's requests. No matter who he gave it to, he would hide it, including his daughter.
Chen's mother did give her some advice and told her how to hide the money, but who knew that after Chen Xue got the money, she hid it in the blink of an eye. She couldn't find where she hid the money. She was immediately relieved that her daughter had made it and was better at hiding money than herself.
At this time, the prison guards had already handed over the items to the yamen runners, who then walked over to Chen's father and asked him to hand over the extra items on him.
Saying that it was something extra was actually a hint for him to hand over the money wisely.
Although it was hard work for the yamen runners who followed the exile team, many people still rushed to do it because they could make money.
Basically, the exiled people were all officials. Simply put, none of them were poor. They could make a lot of money every time they escorted an exile team.
Unfortunately, they miscalculated this time.
Chen Xue cried pitifully beside them, "Don't you know that our Chen family is so poor that we can't even afford to eat..."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the team immediately thought of the previous rumors and quickly agreed.
"That's right, that's right."
"Everyone knows that Master Chen is penniless and his family is in financial difficulty!"
Father Chen: “…………”
Chen Yuan was completely bewildered, his mind racing with questions like, "Who am I? Where am I? Are they talking about me?"
Although he did not have a single penny on him and could indeed be considered penniless, his family was not really poor at all.
He drank dozens of taels of fine tea every day, and his meals consisted of two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a soup, plus afternoon tea...
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