As soon as the carriage stopped, the old man hurriedly got out and called his wife out.
The old man's house is a blue brick house. There is a large yard behind the three houses, and the sheep are kept in the backyard. It seems that if nothing unexpected happened, the old man's family conditions would be quite good.
"My dear! Come out quickly! We have a distinguished guest!"
Two women, one old and one young, walked out of the door. The young woman was holding a little boy's hand.
When her husband said there was a distinguished guest coming, the auntie hurriedly said, "Then please come in and have a seat. My daughter-in-law and I will go cook!"
"Auntie, no need! We are in a hurry, so we won't stay for dinner." Qi Yanxuan quickly spoke out to stop her. These days, every family is short of food, so how could they really stay for dinner?
The old lady looked at her husband somewhat bewilderedly.
"Uncle, let's go look at the sheep! My father and I have to get back before dark."
"Okay! Then please go to the backyard with me, girl."
When we came to the sheep pen in the backyard, there were fifty-eight sheep inside, forty adult sheep and eighteen lambs.
The old man calculated the price and said, "Including the three adults and two children in the car, the total is 63 taels and 7 qian. To make it an even number, the young lady can give 60 taels!"
Qi Yanxuan actually took out sixty-five taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it to the old man.
The old man was about to return the five taels when he saw it, but Qi Yanxuan raised his hand to indicate that it was not necessary.
"Master, please accept it."
The old man's eyes turned red as he looked at the silver in his hand. During this period of time, he saw soldiers conscripting men everywhere. He felt that the world was too cruel to ordinary people like them. Many sons of families in their village were captured, and only those who were away from home escaped.
This kindness from a stranger made him feel a little warm in his heart, and he thanked Qi Yanxuan, "Thank you, young lady. I will help you drive the sheep back."
"No, could you please ask other families in the village if they have livestock to sell?"
The old man nodded quickly and said, "Okay! I'll go ask the girl right away. Please come home and sit for a while."
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A quarter of an hour later the old man came back.
"Girl! I've talked to the village chief, and he's gathered everyone at the village entrance. He told everyone to bring anything they want to sell to the village entrance. We just need to wait there!"
"Okay! Let's go over there!"
Qi Yanxuan and the other person went to the village entrance with the old man. When they arrived, people who lived nearby were already waiting there, and other people also came over one after another.
"Don't push! Line up!"
The village chief of Wangjia Village shouted at the crowd at the top of his lungs.
After lining up, Qi Yanxuan and Shen Yanqing were busy for a while, one calculating the bill and the other paying.
Finally, a middle-aged man who was a bit overweight and had nothing with him came forward and said to the two of them with a smile: "Master, Miss, I have more than 30 pigs at home. Can you come to my house and take a look?"
Qi Yanxuan was pleasantly surprised to hear this. Others only raised a few cows at most, but his family raised dozens of them. It seemed that this village was quite rich.
"Okay! Then you lead the way!"
Then he asked the old man, "Can you help me look after these livestock?"
The old man was naturally willing and agreed immediately.
Afterwards, Qi Yanxuan and the other person came to the middle-aged man's house. There was only Qi Yanxuan and a ten-year-old boy at the man's house. When they came to conscript men, it was thanks to the middle-aged man that he was out delivering goods, so he avoided the soldiers, otherwise he would have been captured as well.
"Master, young lady, there are 37 pigs in total, 19 of which are piglets, and the rest are adults. Each pig is six taels of silver, and each piglet is one tael and six cents. The total is 138 taels and four cents. Just give me 135 taels."
Qi Yanxuan didn't bargain and directly gave one hundred and forty taels. Anyway, if the money was not spent, it would become waste paper after a while.
The middle-aged man drove the pigs and returned to the village with the two men.
The village chief, the old man and several elderly people were still waiting at the village entrance.
"Sir, young lady, I'll ask the villagers to help you send your things back."
Qi Yanxuan nodded and said, "Okay! Let's send her to the village entrance! Someone will come to pick her up."
Some people helped to drive the livestock, and some helped to carry the poultry. The old man also went back to drive the sheep out, and they walked towards the village entrance together.
When they arrived at the village entrance, Qi Yanxuan asked them to stop.
"Just leave it here, someone will come pick us up later."
Several people stopped when they heard this, but did not leave. The village chief came over.
"We'll help you keep an eye on it here. It will be troublesome if it runs away."
Qi Yanxuan refused: "No need, my father also raised livestock, they won't run away."
After that, he turned to the village chief and said, "If you trust me and my daughter, please listen to my advice."
The village chief said: "Of course we trust you, young lady. Thanks to you, we have the money to buy food. You can tell me what you want."
"Okay, the Earth Bull is about to turn over, and there will be a storm before it turns over. Exchange the silver in your hands for food as soon as possible and escape to the Huai River."
Qi Yanxuan also didn't want these simple people to die inexplicably. He was only responsible for delivering the message. As for whether they believed it or not, or whether they could escape or not, it was up to them.
When the people from Wangjia Village heard this, they were all shocked. They felt that there was no need for the other party to lie to them. Seeing that they had bought so many things, they believed it even more and felt very nervous.
The village chief bowed and thanked her, "Thank you very much, young lady! We will definitely remember your words and set off as soon as possible."
Seeing that the other party believed it, Qi Yanxuan said no more and asked everyone to go back and prepare as soon as possible.
Upon hearing this, the village chief did not dare to delay any longer. He had to tell everyone about this matter when he returned to the village, so he said goodbye and took his people back.
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Qi Yanxuan and Shen Yanqing drove a horse-drawn carriage to the entrance of the forest, put out a cart and filled it up, and piled a lot of food and other items in the forest, all of which were for the victims.
"Ah Qing, I'll watch here. You go to the city and meet up with them. Remember to buy a carriage. Everything else is here."
Shen Yanqing nodded in agreement and turned to walk into the city.
When they arrived in the city, Shen Kui and the other two had indeed already bought everything. The ox cart was piled full, and several of them were carrying a lot of things on their backs.
Seeing Shen Yanqing coming but not seeing Qi Yanxuan, Shen Wenxuan asked: "Why are you alone?"
"He's watching something outside the city. You wait here for a moment while I go buy a carriage."
After saying that, he ran towards the carriage and horse shop.
An incense stick later, Shen Yanqing drove a carriage to the group. After putting all the things that couldn't fit on the ox cart onto the carriage, they left the city.
After the few people got together, the four of them drove the car, loaded their things and went back to notify people to help move the food. Qi Yanxuan still stayed behind to look after the supplies.
At this time, the sun was about to set. Several people hurried as fast as they could. Before dark, Shen Yanqing was the first to come back, followed by several people pulling ox carts and donkey carts.
Several people quickly packed up the food and rushed back together.
Before leaving, Qi Yanxuan let the others go first, and he and Shen Yanqing stayed behind on the pretext of going to the toilet.
After they walked away, Qi Yanxuan used the same trick again and teleported into the city, but this time he did not create a scene of lightning and thunder, he just left words on the city wall.
After dealing with these, the two returned to the camp.
It was already dark when everyone returned, and the food was distributed the next day.
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