Soon, my second uncle and his family came over. Even though they had ten taels of silver, they didn't buy much. They only bought eight steamed buns and five bags of cakes, and the money was all spent. There was not a penny left, and it was almost not enough.
The old man looked at the pitiful amount of food in his son's backpack and didn't know what to say for a moment. You know, in the past, ten taels of silver could buy them a good meal in a restaurant, and they had to eat and take away food.
Ten taels of silver can only buy such a small amount of things. You should know that they just bought more than ten sets of clothes and only spent three taels of silver. It’s not that the old man cares about money, it’s mainly because it’s too expensive.
I went to the restaurant and bought some braised meat, so that my family could have something good today. You know, this braised meat can only be eaten for one meal. The sun is too hot and it will rot easily. We can't store too much. Even if my granddaughter can store it, there is no time to take it out.
Given the current situation in Mo City, he began to doubt whether the Zhang family would have enough food to reach Qiong Island, so he went to knock on the doors of several grain stores.
The door of the grain shop opened as soon as I knocked, but the grain inside was priced out of this world. Ordinary broken rice used to cost twelve cents per catty, but now it costs two hundred and forty cents. One tael of silver could be exchanged for five hundred cents, so this catty of rice was almost half a tael of silver, which was simply outrageous.
The old man had no choice but to buy some. He bought ten pounds of broken rice, twenty pounds of cornmeal, and some brown rice and sorghum flour, spending a total of fifteen taels of silver.
They spent a lot of money but didn't buy much. They wanted to improve their lives these two days and didn't want to eat cold pancakes every day. They wanted to eat something hot, which would be good for their health. Their stomachs couldn't stand eating cold food all the time.
Then before leaving the city gate, Wang Shiyu secretly stuffed seven bamboo tubes filled with boiled water into the old man's backpack.
She took out eight more rice balls, which were wrapped in cabbage leaves. Inside were rice, some vegetables and shredded meat mixed together, and wrapped in oil paper. Wang Shiyu had made these overnight.
As the old man was walking, he suddenly felt his backpack become heavy. He turned around to look at his granddaughter, said nothing and pretended not to know. He continued walking forward and soon arrived at the place where his eldest son was waiting for them.
When the eldest son saw his father and younger brother coming back, he hurried forward to help borrow the backpack. He took the old man's backpack first and could clearly hear the sound of water shaking inside.
My brother's backpack was heavier than my father's. It contained some grain, ready-made steamed buns and cakes.
Grandma took a bag of snacks, opened it and saw that it was a bag of osmanthus cake. She took out a piece and handed it to her brother who was holding up a felt cloth to watch them, letting him eat it first. She gave a piece to Wang Shiyu, but Wang Shiyu refused because she was about to eat.
It was noon now, and fortunately there were many sheds built at the city gate where they could sit and wait. The cart was also parked at the door of the shed.
My younger brother refused to get off the cart and just sat on it, so grandma used two sticks to prop up the felt cloth and let him sit under it and wait.
Taking the sweet cake, Xiaoyi sweetly called out, "Thank you, grandma."
Then he sat there quietly and started eating. You have to know that he hadn't eaten anything sweet in the past ten days. He just ate biscuits and drank water with the adults.
Although Xiaoyi is so young, she still sits in the car and looks around obediently even when traveling with adults. Sometimes when she is scared, she will no longer be afraid when she sees her sister and mother.
Along the way, apart from following his grandfather to deliver food to the Zhang family, Wang Shiyu did not take anything else. They were all foods prepared by the family in advance.
Only Mo Ru Ru would occasionally eat something with Wang Shiyu at night, such as various snacks.
Every time, Mo Ru Ru ate it secretly, without even telling her husband, because she was the only one who knew that she was eating these fresh foods, and she was very happy.
When they returned to the team, they took out the cut braised meat, broke a steamed bun in half, and started eating it directly with the braised meat. Everyone around them was drooling.
The steamed buns were limited, so if there was any braised meat left, we would just use steamed buns or other bread to eat it all, leaving nothing behind.
The people around watched as the family ate all the braised meat in one meal. A few children wanted to come over to ask for more, but the old man didn't even raise his head. Although Mo Ruru and Zhou Guichun felt sorry for the children, they didn't slow down and continued to eat with big mouthfuls.
Several children who wanted to speak burst into tears and ran back to their mothers, crying with their mouths pursed, looking at the Wang family while crying.
Zhou Guichun, who was facing them, hesitated for a moment, then turned around and continued eating. "As long as you can't see me eating, then I haven't eaten."
After the meal, he took out a bamboo tube from his backpack and gave the water inside to everyone. He drank all the water in a small bamboo bucket.
When the Wang family finished their meal, the Zhang family had not returned yet. The old man stood up and looked at the team in front. Zhang Tao was sitting in the team without moving.
His two sons are not here. They went to the city. But why haven't they come out for so long? Or did they come out too quickly?
They entered the city in the morning, and now it's afternoon, but they haven't come out yet. The old man looked at Mr. Zhang and felt a little anxious and nervous. He could also tell the situation by looking at the faces of the people entering and leaving the city gate.
Wang Shiyu also saw the current situation. It was probably because there were not so many reserve resources in the city. You know, a little bit of food is not enough for a whole family to eat. They need to buy a cart. Now water resources are too scarce. There is no way to keep a horse-drawn carriage or a donkey cart, so they can only pull the cart by themselves.
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