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After eating the Lantern Festival, Nian took out the New Year's money that he had prepared and distributed it to the juniors one by one.

As the sun gets higher, folks in the village rush to bless each other. The Shen family received many gifts from fellow villagers.

"Nan Nan, come with me." Shen Yue arranged for several maids to take care of her children, and took Shen Nan to her room.

"Aci told me last night that the barbarian soldiers have reached Heyang City in the north of Lingzhou, which is only four hundred miles away from Lingzhou. At this time, the Lord of Heyang City is doing his best to resist. This morning Hexuan followed Lingzhou. The Lord of Zhoucheng City led an army of [-] people to the north to help Heyang City resist the barbarian army."

"That's it. Sister, do you think we should prepare in advance?"

"Yes, we must prepare in advance. A false alarm is just the best outcome. If this happens, we will not be unprepared."

"Okay, let us prepare this matter. We will go to the city early tomorrow morning and use your sister's restaurant as a warehouse. Let's quickly stock up on supplies."

"Okay, let's think about what we want to buy first and write them all down here. We'll set off early tomorrow morning."

"it is good."

The two sisters got together and wrote several pages before they managed to list what they needed.

Early the next morning, Shen Yue asked Xu Qi and the others to take care of the children while she and her sister Shen Nan went to the city.

Although it's only the second day of the Lunar New Year, some shops that don't usually do well have reopened. Make a little more money while other stores are not open. The two sisters took a carriage to the west of the city, near Chen Lazi and the others.

People living in the west of the city are ordinary people, so more businesses are open today. The two sisters went door to door to shop and bought everything they thought they could use.

There is no need to buy vegetable seeds. She can buy them from her place, and the varieties are better and less prone to diseases and insect pests. I bought a hundred pounds of cotton and stuffed it all into the carriage.

I also need to buy some soft cloth. My two nephews and nieces will have to sew clothes again when they grow up.

I needed all the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and pepper. I bought a hundred kilograms each and stuffed them all into Shen Yue's space.

The price of rice is [-] jins, flour is [-] jins, and soybeans, mung beans, red beans, and kidney beans are [-] jins each.

Toiletries: Xiangjizi cost 100 yuan, and the charcoal salt for brushing teeth also cost two large bags.

Just buying these things took a whole morning.

The amount of food they wanted was so large that they needed to buy it from stores across the city.

Shen Nan gave her a [-]% deposit, and the shopkeeper promised to transfer it to her within two days. If time passes and news comes that the barbarian soldiers are coming, I am afraid that not to mention food, other things may not be available.

After all, people are afraid of death. Even if they paid a deposit, the two sisters were afraid that something would go wrong here, so they went to other grain stores and bought nearly two thousand kilograms of rice and noodles, plus various beans, which was almost three thousand pounds. Thousand pounds.

The two of them went out early and came back late every day. When they came back, they didn't even have time to eat before going to bed. Nian's heart ached tightly and she felt even more uneasy.

Shen Nan asked Nian to tell Li Zheng the news, and the two of them continued to go to the city to stock up on supplies. To show off, they would bring back two horse-drawn carts of supplies every day.

When the villagers heard the news, their New Year joy suddenly disappeared without a trace, and they hurried to the city to buy food.

The shopkeeper of Wangji Grain Shop looked at the villagers buying rice and noodles in the front shop and was puzzled: "Xiao Lizi, why do you think people keep coming to buy rice and noodles these days? Shouldn't these things have been prepared years ago? Besides, it’s already spring. As long as you plant one seed, you can have fresh food in the summer. Why are you buying last year’s old rice?”

"I don't know either, the shopkeeper."

Little Lizi shook his head, "I've also heard that my family has a relative in the north of the city. They seem to live in the Lijia Hutong in the north of the city. I heard from that relative that every household there has been collecting grain recently.

I don’t know why I bought so many! There is so much food in our store, they can eat it now and buy it now. I really don’t understand what they are doing? Could it be that they are hoarding grain on a large scale and then driving up grain prices? "

When the shopkeeper heard this, he frowned tightly, looked at Xiao Lizi and said, "In this way, we will sell at most five hundred kilograms every day from now on, and we must have at least two thousand kilograms of grain left in the warehouse, just in case."

"Okay, shopkeeper, I understand." Xiao Lizi nodded to show that he remembered.

As soon as the two days came, on the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the two of them waited at the door of the restaurant as promised. They waited from seven o'clock in the morning until after nine o'clock in the morning before the food delivery person came.

"Sorry, two girls, there is something wrong with the food management. There are only 100 kilograms of rice here, but the white flour is all available, a total of [-] kilograms. Except for red beans and mung beans, which are more than [-] kilograms apart, the rest are also available."

Beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of the uncle who was responsible for delivering the goods. It was obvious that he had been in a hurry all the way. He was obviously exhausted and his face was red.

"It doesn't matter." Shen Yue said with a smile, took out two ingots of silver from her arms and handed them to her uncle, "Thank you for your hard work, uncle. This is the hard-earned money from our sisters. You can take it."

"Oh, thank you two girls, but this is too expensive..." The uncle resisted for a long time.

"Uncle, there is no need to refuse. You must be exhausted from being able to collect so much food in such a short period of time. Take the money back to buy some food to keep at home. I'm afraid it's been a little rough recently."

Girl, are you serious? "The old man was ashamed. He was just a boy delivering goods at the grain farm, and he had no relatives who were high-ranking officials. Naturally, he had not heard of such private news. When Shen Yue mentioned it, he immediately became nervous.

These two girls bought so much food. How serious it must be to make them so alert.

The old man paid the bill for the two of them and led the convoy back to the grain farm. Even if he didn't know whether it was true or not, there was no harm in stocking up on some food. Thinking of this, he bought five hundred kilograms of food and took it home when he went home at night.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the barbarian soldiers indeed attacked the city. Heyang City has been captured, the people in front and the army are retreating steadily, and Lingzhou City is also in danger.

The people in the city fled one after another and were at a loss what to do. The outside of the city was besieged, and circles of barbarian soldiers guarded the city wall. There were barbarian soldiers everywhere, attacking the city in waves, but they were all repelled by the defenders.

The people in the city panicked, and only then did they think of escaping. They took their belongings and fled Lingzhou one after another.

At noon that day, Shen Yue and Shen Nan were sitting in the yard to rest. The girls were packing their things when they suddenly heard a sound of fighting in the distance. The two of them immediately stood up and looked in the direction of the village entrance in surprise.

"Did something happen in the city?" Shen Yue frowned.