The old man looked at the fire in front of him thoughtfully, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Xiao Yu, put these things away first. Don't tell anyone about them. It's okay to take out some food, but don't take too much. Remember to give the silver and gold to others. Don't be greedy."
"I remember that some of those boxes are filled with gold. You can just take it and exchange it with that place. If it's not enough, you can exchange it with some jade. As for what to exchange, we can decide after we settle down."
"Okay, Grandpa, I remember."
As the two of them spoke, they answered and returned to the team. They arranged for the night shift and everyone started to rest.
There is less time to rest at night, and we have to get up early to set off. In two days, we will reach Mocheng. Wang Shiyu lay on the mat on the ground, flat on her back, looking at the stars in the sky.
Mocheng... How much support can it really get?
Now that the ground is so dry and cracked, how much supplies can the people in Mo City provide to support the Zhang family? They still have to walk for the next two or three months.
After this period of time, even if the old man still wants to continue helping the Zhang family, Wang Shiyu herself has to think about whether to continue helping.
They only have so many things at home, and they help with it every day, and the things don't seem to be getting less, so everyone would be suspicious. It's because there are so many people on the road, and they are walking in front and don't look back much.
The old man wanted to get to Mo City soon, and someone would be able to support the Zhang family soon, so his family would no longer need to continue helping the Zhang family.
He could also stop using his granddaughter's magical place, but there was no other way now. Who knew if that place would harm his granddaughter's body? If he could avoid using it, he would not use it. Even if he had to buy it with money, he was still a little worried.
There is no other way these two days. I have to help the Zhang family get through the difficulties first. Life is so boring and tiring.
Two days passed in a flash, and they arrived at the gate of Mo City. The officers pretended not to see anything and let the Zhang family enter Mo City to look for people.
The officials also sent people into the city for supplies. It was too hot along the way, and the steamed bread they had prepared earlier had turned sour. Although they did not waste it, they still wanted to replenish something else, especially water.
The old man and Wang Shiyu also followed the large group to Mo City to check the situation. The main reason was that they did not bring much with them, so they had to go to the city to replenish it. They asked the eldest brother to wait there with his wife and mother to watch over the things.
He took the second son, his wife and Wang Shiyu to the city to see what was going on. They didn't get much information along the way, which was not conducive to their subsequent journey.
When entering the city gate, they asked for an entrance fee of ten cents per person. The old man didn't say much and just paid the money directly.
No one dared to cause trouble at this time. When the Zhang family entered the city, they just took the money and entered the city. After entering the city, they separated directly. The old man took his family to the roadside to observe the situation.
This place seemed to have been affected by the drought as well. All the rice shops selling grain were tightly closed. The only ones that were open were some cloth, spice, rouge and gold shops.
Almost no one sells anything edible anymore. Even if there is a steamed bun, it costs twelve cents, which is almost the same as robbery.
You know, normally a steamed bun only costs two cents, but now the price has increased so much, and there is a purchase limit, each person can only buy two.
No one would sell to him even if he bought more. The old man took his family around Mo City for a few rounds. The prices in the city were simply outrageous. Almost no shops were open. Only a few restaurants were open, but the prices there were also outrageously high.
The old man looked at the price list silently. The waiter was also very busy. Due to the drought, there were no vegetables to sell, and the waiter had fired a few employees. Now he was very busy and had almost no time to pay attention to them.
They just glanced at the price list in the lobby and left the restaurant. You know, a bowl of rice in the restaurant can be sold for one or two taels of silver, which is no different from robbery.
There is actually a place selling water separately. A water bag filled with water costs one or two taels of silver. Now in Mo City, water is more expensive than food, and the people selling water are officials.
This is the water sold personally by the person in charge of Mocheng. You should know that if Mocheng could not still sell some water at this time, the people in the city would have exploded long ago.
Even if the water was sold at one or two taels of silver per water bag, it was sold very quickly. The old man did not join in the fun. You know, at that time they had prepared more than 300 water bags and thousands of bamboo tubes of boiled water. There was no shortage of water. The old man even got a lot of clean spring water and stored it in a wooden barrel with Xiaoyu.
Water was still plentiful for them, so he gave ten taels of silver to the second brother and asked him to buy some steamed buns and some snacks from the snack shop they had just passed by, to eat on the way.
If they go into town without buying anything and leave empty-handed, doesn't that just prove they still have plenty of food? They might as well buy some, just to show their appreciation.
The old man didn't say much and took Wang Shiyu to the clothing store. He planned to buy some ready-made clothes and put away the better ones first. He also bought some coarse cloth clothes so that he would have a few changes when he was on the road. As for the clothes that could be kept, he would keep them, and throw away the ones that could not be kept.
Everyone knows that every step they take now will make their clothes soaked with sweat, and when they dry, a layer of white salt and alkali will form on their bodies. It is simply unbearable to wear them without changing clothes. Unfortunately, there is no water now, so they can't wash them clean.
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