After escaping from famine, the evil stepmother was pampered by the villain Zaizai Tuan

Jiang Xiaohua paid for the medicine with satisfaction.

According to the laws of this dynasty, ordinary people cannot buy highly toxic drugs such as arsenic, crane's crown red, and aconitum at will. Drug stores will make clear records of purchasers for the purpose of official investigation.

But there are no restrictions on these conventional medicinal materials that are only slightly toxic.

After walking out of the pharmacy door, Li Yuanzhi glanced at Jiang Xiaohua several times, his eyes filled with boredom, and he hesitated to speak.

Jiang Xiaohua was in a good mood at the moment and said cheerfully, "Just ask whatever you want."

Li Yuanzhi exhaled and said quickly, "You said that the first medicine you prepare for animals will cause diarrhea immediately after taking it, or it will be the kind of diarrhea that leads to collapse!"

"Second, taking it orally will definitely cause acute poisoning reactions such as shortness of breath and heart palpitations."

"The third type is very powerful. I'm afraid you don't need to eat it. If you just inhale a little bit through your mouth and nose, you will faint immediately."

"Oh, there is also a fourth kind. If it is mixed into a liquid..."

Jiang Xiaohua looked at Li Yuanzhi with a smile. A gust of autumn wind blew by, but her eyes were colder than the autumn wind.

"Little Plum, have you heard a word?"

Li Yuanzhi was still immersed in the joy of unlocking the function of the medicine, and asked with a smile, "What?"

Jiang Xiaohua grinned, revealing her white teeth.

"Sometimes the more you know, the quicker you die."

Li Yuanzhi stood stunned for a moment, then chased after Jiang Xiaohua with a sad face.

"You didn't prepare these for young students, did you?"

Jiang Xiaohua: "It depends on your performance."

The two then went to the grain store, salt store, and spice store.

Jiang Xiaohua only bought twenty kilograms of rice. The situation during the escape was changeable, so it was not suitable for carrying too much stuff. Ingredients mainly have to be obtained on the road.

She bought a lot of seasonings. In addition to the indispensable salt, there were also various spices ground into powder, bean paste, and soy oil.

Because the original owner had never been to the city, Jiang Xiaohua didn't have much price information in her mind.

Relying on Li Yuanzhi's reminders to bargain when buying things can be considered as saving some money.

Even Jiang Xiaohua looked much kinder to Li Yuanzhi, "I didn't expect that you, a scholar, also know the market prices very well. Are your family a businessman?"

Li Yuanzhi replied, "No."

He thought for a while and seemed to be confused about how to describe it, "I have a lot of people in my family, and the things I do... are also quite complex."

Jiang Xiaohua didn't care too much about this and just nodded.

When passing by a candy store, she finally bought a pack of pine nut rice dumplings.

This is a little surprise for the four cubs.

Li Yuanzhi smiled and said, "You are quite fond of the four little guys. You are completely different from the vicious stepmother those people say."

Jiang Xiaohua said calmly, "People change."

There was still a few eighteen taels of silver left. Jiang Xiaohua changed the whole number into a banknote and kept it close to her body. The remaining loose silver taels were put in her sleeve pocket.

When leaving the city, Jiang Xiaohua asked Li Yuanzhi, "How long do you plan to follow us?"

Li Yuanzhi sighed, "I'm a wanderer in the world, so I can take care of myself wherever I go."

This person's words were sometimes half true and half false, and Jiang Xiaohua did not take them all seriously.

"Looking at how much you have helped me, as long as you teach the children for one day, I will keep you for one day. We will give you whatever we have to eat. As for the reward..."

She thought for a while and said, "When I save more money, I can consider paying you wages."

Li Yuanzhi said with a smile, "Since Xiaosheng promised me my life, I don't need any wages. I just need to take care of food, food and housing."

Jiang Xiaohua's face darkened instantly, "I think you'd better starve yourself to death."

Back outside the city, the refugees from the same village had gathered again.

A few lucky people grabbed the porridge provided by the government and were drinking it with relish.

There are more people who haven't eaten anything and can only look at other people's porridge bowls and swallow their saliva.

Jiang Xiaohua was still looking for Aunt Zhou in the crowd.

But Xiao Miaomiao saw her stepmother first. She called "Mother" and ran into Jiang Xiaohua's arms.

Jiang Xiaohua picked up the little girl and couldn't stop smiling, "Run slowly, be careful of falling!"

Aunt Zhou and her three little brothers also came over, "Now that I'm back, I was worried that you wouldn't be able to get out after closing the city gate."

Jiang Xiaohua put down Miao Miao and whispered to Aunt Zhou, "I think your salt is almost out, so I packed half a catty for you."

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, she had to keep a low profile when buying things when she had money.

Aunt Zhou couldn't help but be overjoyed when she heard it was salty.

Because only the old couple eats food, her family already has plenty of food.

Uncle Heiwa is also a carpenter and can earn a little money throughout the year.

So they still have some food left with them when they escaped this time, but the only thing in short supply is salt.

If a person doesn’t eat salt, his body will have no strength!

Aunt Zhou looked around and held Jiang Xiaohua's hand movedly, "I was worried about what to do if I ran out of salt. Thank you for thinking of me and your uncle!"

Jiang Xiaohua smiled, "It should be, it's just a matter of convenience."

Aunt Zhou whispered again, "I hid all the money. The money to buy salt will be given to you later in the night!"

Jiang Xiaohua didn't refuse and agreed casually. The salt on the market from legal channels is all official salt, and the price is naturally the same.

It was already sunset, but no one was getting up to look for food as usual.

Because groups of refugees had passed outside the city for a long time, and now there were still people everywhere as far as the eye could see.

As long as people can reach places, the turf, tree bark, river fish and shrimps have all been eaten, and what is left?

Some people even skipped lighting a fire and just fell down and slept.

Even Aunt Zhou didn't cook tonight.

In order to save food, her family had eaten wild vegetables every meal before.

At this time when everyone is hungry, in order not to become a target and to save the little food left, Aunt Zhou can only choose to be like everyone else.

Only Jiang Xiaohua lit the fire and cooked rice as usual.

Li Yuanzhi squatted beside him and fanned the fire, feeling the countless cold glances from around him, like thorns on his back.

"Hey, I said you dare to cook at this time, you are really not afraid of being hated."

Jiang Xiaohua said matter-of-factly, "People are like rice and steel. Why should we be hungry when we have something to eat?"

She still kept some of the yams she dug that day, and she will make a simple sweet porridge with yam tonight.

Pour a bowl of rice into boiling water and cook until the rice grains are half-flowered. Then put the diced yam in, turn down the heat and simmer for a while before eating.

There are pieces of yam embedded in the white porridge. The rice porridge is fragrant and sweet, and the yam is crispy, glutinous and soft.

Liu Guang took a sip from the bowl, wrinkled his face and breathed in, "It's delicious!"

Liu Yong held down his brother's head and whispered with a straight face, "Eat and stop talking."

They are now eating delicious porridge and have become a thorn in the eyes of many people.

If it arouses public outrage, no matter how powerful the stepmother is, she will probably suffer.

While Jiang Xiaohua was eating, she looked thoughtfully at the mountains to the north.

It would be great if there was a way to prevent everyone from starving to death.