After following the ox cart for an hour and a half, we finally arrived at the gate of Gaofeng County.
The city gate is three stories high, with exquisite patterns carved on the walls. It is majestic and magnificent.
After queuing up with my household registration to enter the city for free, I went straight to the side door of Xiangyuan Building. The road was quite prosperous.
Xiangyuanlou is one of the best restaurants in the county. Its accountant is Li Changfu, the village chief's eldest son and Li Shunfeng's father. He is the most promising man in Qingshan Village. Three years ago, the most promising man was Gu's father. What a pity.
The kitchen manager was overjoyed to see them bring in two large prey. The young master was recently hosting a banquet for distinguished guests from the capital and was in need of good ingredients.
"Xiao Kangzi, why didn't your elder brother come? These two look unfamiliar. Oh, this deer is a good thing, and it's alive, which makes it even rarer. Uncle will give you a good price, forty taels. This wild boar is also very fresh, twenty-two cents per catty." The person in charge of the kitchen said as he directed people to weigh it.
"Thank you Uncle Liu for your care. They are my neighbors. They hunted the wild boar. Your price is very reasonable." Xiao Kangzi said with a smile.
Even though Zhang Kang is only sixteen years old, he is a smart guy.
"The wild boar weighs two hundred and fifty-eight catties, which is five thousand six hundred and seventy-six coins. I'll round it up to five thousand six hundred and eighty coins for you. Let's go to the counter and ask your Uncle Chang Fu for the money."
"Thank you, Uncle Liu." Brother Gu hurriedly expressed his gratitude.
After Uncle Chang Fu settled the accounts, he whispered to them to prepare more food. He also asked them to help inform the village chief to store as much food as possible.
Oh, such a beautiful restaurant, packed with guests and buzzing with people, the food must be delicious. I really want to have a meal here. My determination to work hard and make money has become even stronger!
The three of them drove the ox cart to the grain store, only to see a long line.
What's going on? The people in line are chattering about things like "price increases, purchase restrictions, drought..."
It turned out that the drought in Daxizhou and Cangzhou, both in the west, was more serious than that in Chengzhou. Only 30% of the harvest was harvested, and the grain prices there had increased several times.
Their situation in Chengzhou was better, but they only harvested 50% of their crops. Although they could barely get by after replacing fine grains with dark flour and brown rice, who knew what would happen in the future? During great famines, grain production sometimes increased tenfold.
Today, white flour costs 12 wen per jin, polished rice costs 18 wen per jin, brown rice costs 4 wen per jin, and miscellaneous grains costs 8 wen per jin—all prices have doubled. It's unclear how much higher they'll go in the future.
Hurry up and line up to buy food!
Seeing that it was almost noon, Gu Xinran took out the pancakes that Gu's mother had baked and gave one to each of them. "Brother Xiaokang, Brother, let's eat while we wait in line. There's such a long line, who knows how long it will take."
"Thank you, Xiaoran, I brought it. Yuchen, how much food do you plan to buy? My parents didn't tell us to buy food, so let's buy less for now." Brother Xiaokang said as he rummaged through his dry food.
"Brother Xiaokang, how much weight can your cow pull? My family has little grain, and grandpa told us to buy as much as possible. If the cow can pull it, we plan to use the money from selling the wild boar to buy grain." Gu Xinran answered quickly.
These days, we can’t live without food.
Zhang Kang thought for a moment and replied, "About a thousand kilograms is enough. I'll buy fifty kilograms each of white flour, refined rice, brown flour, and grains. You guys can arrange the rest."
Brother Gu probably had an idea in mind. "Ranran, then let's buy 600 kilograms of grain, 100 kilograms each of white flour, refined rice, and grains, and 300 kilograms of brown rice, okay?"
She was thinking of buying all refined rice, but Gu Xinran knew that was impossible. "Well, big brother, you can make the arrangements. I have to go to the embroidery workshop and buy some delicious food for Xuanxuan and Tingting. You guys line up first, and I'll come back to find you later."
Brother Gu nodded, told her to be careful, and gave her a hundred coins for pocket money.
It’s great to have free time. Gu Xinran looked around and came to Hongxiufang.
She went to Aunt Hong to deliver the goods from Gu's mother and received one or two taels of silver. She also received seventy cents for the handkerchief purse she embroidered.
With a huge sum of money in hand, Gu Xinran leisurely strolled around the county town. She was not interested in bookstores, gold shops, rouge shops... haha, she couldn't afford to go there.
Let’s go to the market. There are lots of delicious food and fun things there. I’m afraid my brother will worry if I walk around for too long, so to save time, I’ll take a shortcut.
This path is a bit creepy, with high walls on both sides and a narrow strip in the middle. Except at noon, no sunlight can penetrate, and it is dark and eerie.
Suddenly the road disappeared and a person was lying on the ground.
I habitually touched my lower back, oh, it was empty, my body had changed, oh, I still had to prepare a weapon to carry with me.
Slowly approaching, it turned out to be a man in gorgeous clothes. When I walked to the side and took a look, wow! He had sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a straight nose, thin lips, and was a little pale. He was very handsome.
He stared at it intently, stunned for a moment.
"Save me, go quickly..." The weak voice woke up the infatuated Gu Xinran.
"Save her! Save her! She looks so good, I must save her. She's not injured or bleeding, could she be poisoned? I can do that, but my medicine is very expensive."
She completely ignored the word "go".
The man raised his hand and pulled at the purse at his waist, but it didn't budge.
Gu Xinran reached out and took the bulging purse and put it in her arms, actually putting it into the space.
She gently helped the man up and carefully fed the remaining nine drops of spiritual spring water into his mouth.
"This potion of mine can cure all poisons. It is a priceless treasure. Please swallow it carefully. Don't waste a single drop."
Just after feeding her the spiritual spring water, he vaguely heard a burst of hurried footsteps. Gu Xinran turned behind the sick beauty and hid in the space.
This is not about watching someone die without helping, it's just that she is a weakling right now.
Through the space, I saw four men in black kneeling beside the sick beauty and shouting, "Master, Master, your subordinates are late and deserve to die."
After a thorough examination, he carried the sick beauty away.
The danger was over, and Gu Xinran, relaxing, was surprised to find that the space had doubled in size! The vegetables and beans in the black soil were at their peak maturity! The spiritual spring had also grown to the size of a saucer, and the used spiritual spring water had returned twice as much! Upgrade!
From now on, I will be a rich lady who owns 20 square meters of spiritual spring space every day!
Could saving people make the spiritual spring space larger?
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