Chapter 106: Reunion
Guan Li pinched the tender tips of the broom seedlings and lamented, "It's a pity to waste such a large area. How many brooms can we make by winter?"
Shen Qing felt sorry for the wild amaranth.
It’s not the leaves that are a pity, but the amaranth stalks.
After a while, the amaranth stalks will become thicker and older. You can chop them into sections with a hatchet and put them in a jar to rot into moldy amaranth stalks. When you want to eat them, you can simply take them out and steam them. They go really well with rice.
Thinking of that taste, Shen Qing swallowed unconsciously.
It’s a pity that I have to leave Yangcheng in a few days.
Although Yangcheng is some distance away from the dam, there is no need to worry about flood disasters caused by the huge river bursting its banks, but the cities it is close to are all located downstream of the huge river!
That is to say, once the huge river bursts its banks, the refugees fleeing famine will inevitably gather in or pass through Yangcheng. Once there are too many refugees, order will be affected. Without order, personal safety will be difficult to guarantee.
The most important thing is that although Yangcheng was not affected by the disaster of the giant river bursting its banks, the heavy rains in recent days have caused considerable flooding. Now Yangcheng is unable to take care of itself and has no ability or willingness to accept the victims.
Thinking of the increasing number of disaster victims in the past two days, Shen Qing's heart skipped a beat.
Is Xingcheng the only city to have its dam breached?
If the giant river bursts its banks in other places, the scope of the disaster will be larger, and with more victims, the harm will not be simply added up but multiplied!
First, even if the imperial court allocated relief grain, the huge profits would inevitably be embezzled by officials who wanted a piece of the pie, and only one tenth of it would reach the hands of the victims.
Secondly, if the cities downstream of Xingcheng are also affected by the disaster, the road to the south will be blocked by the flood, and all the victims will have no choice but to go north!
Finally, and most importantly, the victims gathered together, lacking food and clothing, and without any order or restraint, are the most terrifying people in this situation, even more terrifying than the flood...
Thinking of this, Shen Qing put down the bamboo basket in his hand and said to the three people: "I'm going into the city!"
The mall has opened a weapons category. Other items cannot be bought openly, but broadswords and crossbows can be bought. However, twenty crossbows are enough. More will easily attract the attention of the government, and broadswords are more for deterrence.
In addition to weapons, you also need to replenish food for your family.
The mall currently only sells grains. She makes a lot of homemade pickled and smoked products such as chicken, duck, fish and meat, and also pickles two jars of salted duck eggs. However, all the fresh eggs and meat have been eaten up in the past few days, so she has to go to the city to replenish them.
It is not known how many days it will take to reach the next city, and it is not known whether the soldiers guarding the city are willing to let the victims in.
When Guan Li and the other two heard this, their first reaction was: "I'll go with you!"
Shen Qing thought about buying a big knife and refused: "No, I can do it alone. You can pick more vegetables to eat on the road."
Jiang Shui asked worriedly, "Mom, there have been more victims these past two days. Will the soldiers guarding the city be stricter? Can we get in?"
Shen Qing also thought about this problem, but: "The people who came in the past two days were few in number and well-dressed. They should be mostly relatives and friends. If they don't cause trouble, the Yangcheng officials will turn a blind eye and let them pass.
But I estimate that when a large number of disaster victims arrive later, all kinds of trouble will occur, and it is not impossible to close the city gates at that time, so we should go to the city to replenish food before a large number of disaster victims arrive."
Jiang Yu and the other two were still a little worried, but seeing Shen Qing's insistence, they could only agree and warned: "Sister-in-law, please be careful."
"Go early and come back early."
Shen Qing nodded and walked briskly back to the shed to get the backpack.
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When entering the city, the guards checked more strictly than last time. Shen Qing followed Jiang Yang's instructions and secretly slipped three cents to the soldiers, and was allowed to pass smoothly.
After entering the city, I went straight to the butcher's shop.
I bought a whole basket of pork, mutton, rabbit meat...
After turning into a dead end, she found herself alone and put all the food into the storage cabinet. It was already full when she was in Xingcheng, but she secretly added more meat every time she ate meat. A cubic meter couldn't hold much anyway, so it was already half empty. She bought a large basket to fill it up and it was almost full.
After getting out of the dead end, they went to buy eggs, chicken eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs...all of them were farm eggs without any adulteration. Shen Qing filled the backpack in one breath.
After putting the same things into the locker, she bought some pastries. She didn't need much, as they had chicken, duck, fish, meat, and eggs for every meal on the road, so there was no shortage of oil and water. Except for Huahua and herself who ate two or three packs to satisfy their cravings, she basically didn't touch anything else.
Just buy some and carry them in your hands as a cover.
You don't need vegetables, just eat whatever wild vegetables you can find. As long as you have enough oil and are willing to add some, wild vegetables can also be delicious.
The entry into the city is strict, but leaving the city is very easy.
After leaving the city, Shen Qing bought ten big swords from the mall in a deserted place.
So she alone has twenty-five broadswords and twenty crossbows. Mr. Jiang and Xie Qingshan both have swords, and the Feng family should have some too.
There are ten families in Qili Village, including hers. I don’t know whether the Sun Xiaomai and Zhou Chuncao families joined the team, but they were together in the dream, so they will probably be together too.
The fields were destroyed, the house was gone, and when she went out, she couldn't even tell east from west. Who else could she follow if not Mr. Jiang? Her two families were not stupid!
Even if the families of Sun Xiaomai and Zhou Chuncao are included, the entire team is only about 170 people. Among them, there are no more than 60 men in their prime, and most of them are the elderly, the weak, women and children.
There must not be enough weapons, and she is not prepared to provide enough. If there are too few, they can be shared; if there are too many, everyone can have some.
She didn't want to give it to the Wang and Zhang families. She always felt that these two families would be ungrateful with Sun Xiaomai and Zhou Chuncao around. If a conflict happened one day, it couldn't be that she was the one providing the weapons to be used against her, right?
If that happens, you will either be angry to death or feel suffocated to death!
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Before reaching the shed, I could see a figure in the distance.
Shen Qing took a closer look and saw that they were all familiar figures, so she quickened her pace.
"Mom, my mom is back."
"Everyone look, my mother is back!"
Jiang Xiangnan had good eyesight and walked even faster. He ran forward and took the things from Shen Qing's hands and back.
The others gathered around happily and greeted her, "Sister Shen, I didn't expect you to set up a tent here, and we saw Xiangdong and the others again. What a coincidence."
"That's fate for us. Tell me, how could we bump into each other under such circumstances? If that's not fate, what is it?"
"Speaking of which, Shen Qing and you are lucky. You just happened to escape the flood disaster. You left early and the road was not soaked by the rain. Unlike us, we took one deep step and one shallow step, and every step we took brought up a lot of mud."
"Not only did we escape the flood, but the most enviable thing is that we sold the land! That's a lot of money! If Captain Sun buys my land, I'll thank him for eight generations!"
"Don't be ridiculous. If you were to meet someone like that and just scrape together some money, how could you be willing to sell your land?"
"That's right! Not everyone can turn misfortune into good fortune."
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Some people were genuinely happy for Shen Qing's family, but naturally there were also people who hated them to the point of gritting their teeth.
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