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

As soon as the white-haired old woman stood firm, she saw the bundle in Jiang Xiaohua's arms and reached out to grab it.

However, she is old and weak, how can she be as strong as Jiang Xiaohua?

The old woman pulled a few times in vain, cursing and swearing.

Jiang Xiaohua hesitated whether to fight back or not. This old woman was too old.

If she took action, the old lady would be seriously injured, or lose half her life.

Jiang Xiaohua didn't want to make things big for this kind of person.

Fortunately, Aunt Zhou saw this scene and hurried over to help, "Hurry up, let go, we are from the same village here, don't try to bully others!"

Seeing a few more people tentatively approaching, they seemed to be the old woman's family members.

Aunt Zhou called her husband loudly again, "Dad, why don't you come quickly!"

Uncle Heiwa walked over in two steps and yelled, "You're robbing me in broad daylight, right? If you don't get out, don't blame me for taking action!"

Uncle Heiwa is a carpenter. He has a black and red face that is calm and intimidating. Coupled with his tall stature, he can scare people very much.

The white-haired old woman and those people reluctantly walked away.

Jiang Xiaohua thanked Aunt Zhou and her husband for their help.

Uncle Heiwa still had a cold face, snorted and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Liu Guang said angrily, "If you hadn't saved her just now, she would have been trampled to death. Even if you don't thank me, she still wants to steal our things!"

Jiang Xiaohua looked pitiful, "These are troubled times."

The scene in front of her made her experience the value of peaceful times more deeply.

Li Yuanzhi looked at the city wall, always smiling, his eyes filled with bottomless thick ink.

Jiang Xiaohua looked sideways and was startled.

Li Yuanzhi had already stepped forward, "Let's go over and take a look at the situation."

There was already a long queue at the soup kitchen shack under the city wall.

The person who received the porridge happily walked back with the bowl in hand.

Jiang Xiaohua took a look and saw that the porridge was half brown rice and half bran.

Even so, I couldn't bear to put more food in. The clear soup and lack of water illuminated the shadows of people.

This kind of porridge is also on a first-come, first-served basis. Today’s porridge is finished, and the remaining people can only continue to go hungry.

Li Yuanzhi said, "The porridge shed opened by the Yamen is still like this, which shows that the food in the city is not abundant."

Jiang Xiaohua looked towards the city gate.

The city gate was open, but guarded by two lines of soldiers.

As long as refugees from other places want to enter the city, they will be stopped or even driven away.

Jiang Xiaohua sighed. She originally wanted to sell snake skins and wild yams in exchange for some necessities such as grain and salt.

Now it seems that even the city gate cannot be entered.

Li Yuanzhi seemed to understand what Jiang Xiaohua was thinking, "You want to go to the city?"

Jiang Xiaohua nodded, then smiled bitterly, "Unfortunately, we have no choice but to wait until the next city."

Li Yuanzhi pondered for a moment and seemed to make up his mind, "It's not completely impossible."

Jiang Xiaohua listened obediently, "Do you have any idea?!"

Li Yuanzhi smiled and said, "I also passed the county examination in my hometown. If I communicate well with them, I believe they will not embarrass me as a scholar!"

Jiang Xiaohua immediately decided to try her luck by treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. The children were entrusted to Aunt Zhou to take care of.

The two of them walked to the city gate. Li Yuanzhi asked Jiang Xiaohua to wait there while he went to the city defenders and said a few words.

The disdainful expressions of the city defenders instantly turned into surprise.

He bowed his hands to Li Yuanzhi and made a gesture of giving way.

Li Yuanzhi turned around, grinned at Jiang Xiaohua, and waved.

The two entered the city successfully.

Although Jiang Xiaohua had doubts, she did not ask Li Yuanzhi what method he used.

Everyone has their own way of survival. The current friendship between her and Li Yuanzhi is not enough to understand each other's details.

Jiang Xiaohua asked passers-by about the largest pharmacy nearby and went straight to the door.

The waiter heard that they were here to sell medicinal materials, but he didn't dare to make the decision, so he called the shopkeeper out.

The shopkeeper yawned and asked, "What do you want to sell? Isatis root and Bupleurum are not worth much these days."

Jiang Xiaohua opened the bag and said, "Snake skin."

The shopkeeper saw clearly what was in the bag and immediately suppressed his second yawn.

He has not seen such a big snake skin for a long time!

But of course he couldn't let the seller lead him by the nose, so he pretended not to care.

"We can accept snake skins, but the price depends on the quality."

Jiang Xiaohua said, "The goods are right here, you can check them out by yourself."

The shopkeeper opened the snake skin and turned it over, his eyes widened.

It turned out to be a nearly complete snake skin, with only an incision on the top of the head!

He has been in this business for more than ten years and has never seen such a powerful method of killing snakes.

What's more, the snake skin is large, smooth, and rare in thickness.

The shopkeeper was overjoyed and had already decided to take possession of the snake skin.

He smiled and said, "The store is willing to accept the goods. I wonder how much this lady plans to sell them for?"

Li Yuanzhi said intentionally or unintentionally, "A complete snakeskin is more than ten times more expensive than a piece of junk. Such a large snakeskin is even more of a rare commodity, whether it is sold to a musical instrument shop, a leather goods shop, or a medicine shop."

He looked at Jiang Xiaohua with a smile, "Anyway, there are many people willing to pay high prices."

Every time Li Yuanzhi said something, the smile on the shopkeeper's face dropped.

Until the end, his face was completely frozen, and he bid first, "Fifty taels of silver, this is already the highest price!"

Jiang Xiaohua glanced at Li Yuanzhi, with a sly curve on her lips.

"Fifty taels of silver..." She looked embarrassed, "Then I'd better go to another house and ask."

Jiang Xiaohua and Li Yuanzhi turned and left.

The shopkeeper was anxious, "Wait a minute! I'll pay ten taels!"

Seeing that the two people had no regrets, they were almost crossing the threshold.

The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and finally shouted in pain, "Two...twenty taels!"

"The times are bad now. No one can give a higher price than me!"

Jiang Xiaohua glanced at Li Yuanzhi quietly. Li Yuanzhi smiled, blinked and nodded.

The two of them turned back and said, "Deal!"

Jiang Xiaohua also sold half of the remaining wild yams, plus the snake skin, and got a total of twenty taels of silver, plus two guan of money.

Jiang Xiaohua was not in a hurry to leave. She wrote a prescription on the spot and bought some medicinal materials.

In addition to common medicines for home travel such as cold, fever, burns, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and hemostasis.

There are also several strange formulas that even Li Yuanzhi, a fake doctor, can't see the use of.

The shopkeeper looked at Jiang Xiaohua with a frown while looking at the recipe.

I really couldn't figure it out, so I had to kindly remind him, "Several of the medicines here are slightly poisonous, and most of them have contradictory effects. If they are mixed together like this, they may conflict with each other."

Jiang Xiaohua lied without changing her expression, "It doesn't matter, this is veterinary medicine, specially designed to treat animals."

Veterinary medicine? Li Yuanzhi looked surprised and was about to speak, but was glared back by Jiang Xiaohua.

Li Yuanzhi was stunned, touched his nose knowingly, and turned his face to the door of the store.

There is no way, who told him to live under someone else's roof and eat people with a short mouth...

When the shopkeeper heard that it was for livestock, he didn't think much more about it.

According to Jiang Xiaohua's requirements, prepare the medicine, grind the powder, and package it.