Once everyone was asleep and no one would disturb her, An Shuyi opened the trading system, went to the item selling section, and sold the saplings and tea trees she had dug up that day. Her silver coins immediately increased to more than 3,800 taels. Previously, it was more than 2,200 taels, but she had spent several dozen taels of it during this period.
But today, Hua Hua gave her a red-bellied pheasant, which sold for five hundred taels of silver, and that's how much silver she has.
Although she had a lot of silver, what she wanted was not the silver itself, but what she could buy. With a nervous heart, she clicked on the shopping section, and as she expected, ten more slots were lit up.
Looking at what appeared after the grid was lit up, her anxiety over the past two days was confirmed. All ten pictures in the grid were medicinal herbs. If she wasn't mistaken, these were the herbs used to treat the plague.
I just don't know if there are any others. I can only wait until tomorrow to find some saplings to sell, or even just to light up one more grid. That way, I'll know how many kinds of medicinal herbs are left to treat the plague.
From the moment they began fleeing the famine, refugees started dying. At that time, she began to worry that the hot weather might cause an outbreak of plague. However, they were taking small paths and deliberately avoiding the refugees. Unexpectedly, a rainstorm caused the plague to break out.
The number of deaths after this torrential rain may be higher than during a drought, since refugees also face problems with food, water, and illness in addition to the rain.
They were alright, because they had Dr. Liu with them, and he always carried his medicine box with him. Although some of the medicinal herbs were on the cart and were discarded when they fled, his family still had some in their baskets, so they wouldn't be without medicinal herbs.
She shut down the trading system before going to sleep. She was exhausted from climbing up and down all day, and she had to do it again tomorrow. Just thinking about it made her tired.
The next day, before dawn, An Shuyi woke up. The fire had dwindled to just a few embers. She put a few pieces of firewood on it and looked at her sons sleeping around the fire. Only the younger children, like Xiao Wu, had some clothes covering them. These were all hers.
During the day, their mother made clothes for her two grandsons, and they slept in her arms with rosy cheeks; they must not be cold.
They sat by the fire until dawn. After Xia Hua woke up and they finished explaining things, the two of them shouldered their baskets and set off again. Once they reached the foot of the mountain, they changed clothes and ate, just like the day before.
Xia Hua took a bite of her steamed bun and asked, "Shushu, what grid did your trading system light up this time? Is it medicinal herbs? You seem preoccupied."
She and Shushu braved the heavy rain to find saplings to sell, just so that Shushu's trading system could buy more things. Shushu had previously suspected that a plague might occur, and she had actually had that thought as well.
But it must have been because the weather was too hot, and the corpses were exposed to the sun for a long time, and then they rotted, which caused the plague. No! Thinking of this, Xia Hua shook her head. It must have been that after the corpses rotted, they were exposed to the sun and then washed by water, and the plague would spread everywhere. After all, water is the source of the plague outbreak.
An Shuyi swallowed the bun in her mouth. "It's the medicine for treating the plague. We've really messed up this time. After the torrential rain ends, the plague will come."
She can only hope that the medicinal herbs in the trading system will work, even if she has to find saplings to sell before the other herbs will be activated. She would be willing to do that!
“Don’t worry,” Xia Hua comforted her, “Since we have medicine and money, this plague won’t be a problem for us.”
"If the plague outbreak becomes too severe, we'll just hide in these mountains. At worst, we'll just take out more food. And with this rain, the food will grow back quickly. The mountain we're going to later is high up, so we're sure to find food there."
"Even if it's just eating tree bark, it'll only help you survive this plague. And you should believe that the doctors of ancient times were very skilled, and they must have had a way to deal with the plague."
As Xia Hua finished speaking, she nodded firmly, it was unclear whether she was trying to convince An Shuyi or if she herself believed it.
An Shuyi nodded, not wanting to expose her self-deception. Although she hadn't read as many novels as Hua Hua, she had heard her say quite a few things. The best way to deal with an outbreak of plague was to burn it down, destroying the source of everything, and then the plague would naturally disappear.
"After we finish eating, we'll start climbing the mountain. Once we find something to sell, we can go back."
"Okay, let's go!" Xia Hua put on her hat, went outside, packed up the tent, and the two began to climb the mountain.
This time, the two of them split up to search, and then they could meet up in the middle after they found them. However, after searching for a while, An Shuyi only found a few ordinary saplings, which could only be sold for a few taels of silver. This was not enough to light up the grid.
Helpless, she could only move closer to Xia Hua to see if she had found any valuable saplings. She hadn't walked far when she saw Xia Hua coming this way.
After the two got closer, An Shuyi said, "Huahua, did you find any saplings? The ones I found were all ordinary ones, worth only a few taels of silver."
Xia Hua nodded and took a snake out of her warehouse. But as soon as she took it out, An Shuyi was so frightened that she stepped back, lost her footing, and tumbled down the mountain. Luckily, she reacted quickly and after rolling a few times, she grabbed a tree and didn't roll all the way down the mountain.
"Shushu," Xia Hua put the snake back into the warehouse and hurriedly went down to pull her up. "I'm sorry, Shushu. I was so focused on showing you whether the snake was worth selling that I forgot you're terrified of snakes."
"How are you? Are you hurt anywhere? It's all my fault. I should have told you."
An Shuyi was pulled up by her. After standing up, she patted her chest. She was really scared to death. She almost died at the age of thirty-eight. She had finally gotten her life, and it was all over.
"Alright, stop howling. I'm fine, I was just scared. You silly woman, how many times have I told you not to show me that thing? Can't you even listen to me?"
"I forgot!" Xia Hua said guiltily. "The bird I sold yesterday cost five hundred taels of silver. This time I caught a rattlesnake, so I'll definitely get more money from it. I was worried you'd be scared, so I even killed the snake. But you're still so weak; you're afraid of snakes."
"Thank you so much," An Shuyi glared at her, "Did you lose that thing? Did you throw it far away?" Seeing that she didn't speak for a while, she continued to ask, "You idiot, did you not lose it?"
Xia Hua nodded, "That snake is a good thing. Even if you don't sell it, you can still eat it. You also have chickens for sale in your trading system. Take one out, and I'll have your daughter-in-law make you a Dragon and Phoenix Soup to nourish you."
"I'll give you a piece of my mind!" An Shuyi said, "Xia Huahua, let me tell you, if you dare to eat any dragon and phoenix soup, I... I won't talk to you for three days, no, not three months."
"Does it have to be so cruel?" Xia Hua shrank back when she saw the glare from her. "Fine, then we won't eat it. But Shu Shu, didn't you not find any saplings? Why don't you try using that snake? Maybe it'll be more expensive, then we won't have to look for it."
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