Li Lanzhen lay on the straw mat, her consciousness entering the shopping mall.
For some time now, she hasn't had time to properly browse the mall and check what items she has that she can exchange for.
The primary item that needed to be exchanged was grain.
Secondly, there are things like cotton quilts that can help you get through the winter.
After she came in, she sorted and hung the rooted plants and saplings she had dug up in the mountains in the mall.
Li Lanzhen knew that only one merchant needed this type of plant.
Therefore, there was no specific requirement. Among the supplies that needed to be exchanged, the primary one was food, followed by cotton and coarse cloth.
She was still thinking of trading with the merchant she had exchanged labor protection products with, but unfortunately she didn't have any related antiques.
Li Lanzhen thought to herself, "Next time I pass through a county town or town, I'll go and see if I can exchange some calligraphy, paintings, jade, gold and silver jewelry, antiques, or the like."
The merchants quickly took away all the plants and saplings with roots that they had displayed in the mall.
This was followed by various burlap bags.
Li Lanzhen used her consciousness to see what was inside the burlap bag.
There were three sacks of dark wheat bran, and one merchant remembered that he needed a large quantity of dark wheat bran.
This time they gave us a lot of sweet potatoes, as well as potatoes, a sack of yams, taro, carrots, and lotus roots.
Why did you give him so many root vegetables this time? Did I give him plants and saplings with roots?
Never mind, as long as it's edible.
From the fact that Li Lanzhen planted a patch of sweet potatoes and potatoes in the mountains last time, it's clear that sweet potatoes and potatoes hadn't appeared in this dynasty yet.
However, the people of Hanjiacun were not very surprised, assuming that it was a gift from the mountains.
So Li Lanzhen didn't care about that. If she found a place where she could survive, she would take these plants out and plant them.
There were also two sacks of corncobs.
This surprised Liu Lanzhen a bit. They gave her two sacks of corncobs, but why weren't they ground into powder? What were they going to do with the corncobs? Eat the kernels?
There was also a half-sack of miscellaneous items. Li Lanzhen looked at it carefully and found that they were all seeds.
This puzzled Li Lanzhen again. The merchant needed a lot of plants and saplings with roots, so how could they have seeds? If they had seeds, why were they lacking these?
Never mind, she won't think about it anymore. As long as she has what she needs, that's enough. She guesses the system doesn't understand why either.
Li Lanzhen didn't bother with the seeds for the time being, just placed them in a corner of the space. She would take them out and see what they were once she settled down and had land.
Unfortunately, this time there was only grain, no cotton, and no winter clothes, quilts, or other such items.
It seems I'll have to find some calligraphy, paintings, antiques, jade, goldware, etc., and exchange them with that merchant who provides work safety products.
Li Lanzhen suddenly remembered that there was another merchant who needed stones. There were stones all over the mountain. Should she send him two?
Let's see what we can exchange stones for, maybe some cotton or something?
"Hahahaha." Li Lanzhen found it quite funny. This so-called interstellar mall actually had merchants who needed stones. And it wasn't some kind of pebble; it could be jade or something, or even a figurative stone. It was just an ordinary stone, and he actually swallowed it whole. Li Lanzhen didn't want to investigate anymore. As long as he needed it and it could be exchanged for what she needed, that was fine.
Lost in thought, Li Lanzhen drifted off to sleep.
As dawn broke, Li Lanzhen woke up. Her second son's wife and the others were already busy preparing water to boil wild vegetable porridge.
A bowl of clear wild vegetable porridge, so thin you could see your reflection in it, paired with two wild vegetable pancakes, was breakfast.
Li Lanzhen gave two pieces to everyone, regardless of age, and also gave each of Xue Bao and the other young men an extra wild vegetable pancake.
Li Lanzhong thought to himself, "It's true that having a few sons in the family can eat the father out of house and home."
During the meal, Xue Laohu told everyone that Yongkang City was just five li away.
After passing this city and two more small county towns, we would reach the territory of Youzhou. Everyone was very excited when they heard this. They felt that once they arrived in Youzhou, they should find a place to settle down and live a peaceful life instead of running around and hiding.
Li Lanzhen wanted to go into town to look for some things, so she asked, "In-law, shall we go into town?"
Xue Laohu said, "We don't know the situation in the city yet. Let's go there and discuss it."
Han Mingjiang said, "Mother, I heard from the village chief of Dongjiazhuang that the city gates have been sealed off, and people fleeing famine are not allowed to enter. I heard that the city is quite prosperous and there is plenty of grain, but the prices are high."
Li Lanzhen pondered for a moment. No matter what, she had to go in, take some grain from her spatial storage and put it on the mule cart, then see if she could get a proper mule cart.
The people of Hanjiacun were all thinking the same way, hoping to get in and exchange some wild vegetables and mushrooms they found in the mountains for grain or other things.
They especially cherished the chestnuts they harvested; they couldn't bear to eat them themselves, hoping to find a way to exchange them for grain in the county or prefectural capital.
They ate breakfast hastily; some families didn't even cook, just munching on some wild vegetable pancakes.
The people of Dongjiazhuang had run out of food. Along the way, they lost some and had it stolen. All they could find were some wild vegetables and tree bark dug up from the roadside or in the ravines.
They used stones to smash tree bark and grass roots into a paste, which they then used to feed children or the elderly.
Young and strong people with good teeth would simply chew on tree bark or grass roots to fill their stomachs.
Li Lanzhen watched as a child swallowed a dark, lumpy thing, probably a grass root or something similar, with its neck stretched out long. It made her feel very sad.
She doesn't know what to do right now. Should she give them food as aid? Why? There's no reason, and she can't just give it to them for free. She hasn't figured out how to help them.
The people of Hanjiacun walked at a leisurely pace, and by noon they could see the gate tower of Yongkang City in the distance.
The area around Yongkang City is a plain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the mountains are very high.
Li Lan was wondering where the floodwaters on the mountain had gone, whether it was on the other side of the mountain.
Of course, they also saw the dense crowds of refugees lining both sides of the official road outside the city gate.
Li Lanzhen was a little puzzled. If they weren't allowed to enter through the city gates, why were people still gathered here? What were they waiting for?
Han Shunde and Xue Laohu discussed it and decided not to go any further. They left the main road two miles from the city gate and went into the woods on both sides, where the trees were all withered.
Even the grass on the ground has been pulled up clean.
Moreover, cracks about an inch wide had appeared in the ground beneath the trees.
Li Lanzhen immediately realized that there was a water shortage here. If there was a water shortage here, what were the refugees drinking? Did the city have water? Even if the city had water, the refugees should have spent money or food to get it.
After settling the villagers in, Han Shunde and Xue Laohu called on the son of the village chief of Dongjiazhuang, and the three of them went to the city gate tower to find out what was going on.
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