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Wang Naya rode her horse to the door of the grain store and stopped.

Looking at the medium-sized grain store, Wang Naya's mouth curled up.

She dismounted from the horse in a graceful manner, holding the reins in her hand, and shouted to the grain store:

"Is the shopkeeper here? I want to buy some food."

The shopkeeper, who was looking at the account book inside, and the waiter, who was sorting the grain, heard someone shouting outside and walked towards the door.

They saw a young man in black clothes and a cap, standing outside the door leading a horse and looking at them.

The waiter quickly walked up and took the reins from his hand, then led the horse to a pillar nearby and tied it up.

"Young man, please come in. I am the owner of this grain store."

The shopkeeper invited him into the grain store.

Wang Naya nodded and followed him in.

She looked around the grain store. There were many bags of rice in the store, with the bags open for customers to choose from.

Wang Naya walked to the rice bags, grabbed a handful with her hands, then slowly let go and let it fall. When the white rice fell.

Wang Naya asked:

"Shopkeeper, how much is this rice?"

The shopkeeper’s answer:

"There is a severe drought now, and farmers have a poor harvest. We are now selling grain by the pound, and the price of one pound is two ounces."

Wang Naya thought:

This price is definitely much higher, but in this situation, I can only buy more and see if I can negotiate the price.

So she sighed and said to the grain store owner with a sad face:

"You know the disaster victims outside the town, right? I saw their miserable condition outside and was deeply moved. They were blocked outside the town."

The grain store owner also said helplessly:

"We have no choice but to keep them out. If we let them in, this town will be in chaos."

“People in our town have to survive, too.”

Wang Naya lowered her eyes and said:

"So I want to buy some food here to help the disaster victims, so that they can wait until the relief food from the imperial court arrives here."

"I don't have much silver on me, could you sell me the grain at a lower price? I have eighty silver taels, and I can buy fifty shi. Then you can go with me to distribute the grain to them."

"Let everyone know that your grain store is a caring and righteous grain store. With good reputation, business will definitely be better in the future."

The grain store owner thought for a while and thought:

Actually, the grain was originally sold to the neighbors in the town at 500 wen per stone per tael, but since he saw that the young man was a foreigner, he wanted to sell it to him at a higher price.

But now that he heard him say that he bought it for the disaster victims, he thought it was okay to sell it, so he went with him to distribute grain as he said, thus improving the reputation of the grain store, killing two birds with one stone.

Then he agreed to Wang Naya's request:

"In that case, I will sell it to you for eighty taels and fifty stones as you said."

Seeing that the boss agreed, Wang Naya smiled and thought:

If he really disagrees, I can only buy it at the price he says, but my money doesn't come from the wind, so I might as well save money.

So she took out eighty taels of silver from her bosom and handed it to the grain store owner.

A total of fifty shi were purchased. One shi weighs about ninety-four kilograms, so fifty shi weighs more than four thousand kilograms.

She asked the grain store owner to have people move all the grain onto the carriage, and spent one or two taels of silver to buy several large bundles of ordinary cloth sold on the street, and asked the stall owner to help cut the cloth into pieces to prepare for the victims to wrap rice to take home.

They can also use this cloth when they collect rice in the future.

After doing all this, she discussed with the grain store owner and asked him to talk to the 100 soldiers guarding outside the town and ask them to help maintain order.

So they pulled the food that Wang Naya bought to the town gate.

This attracted a lot of onlookers from the town, and they all followed to see what was going on.

The grain store owner stepped forward and explained to the guards:

Some kind-hearted people wanted to distribute food to the victims and asked the guards to help maintain order.

The guards actually sympathized with the victims, but they could not help, and it was also their duty to keep them out.

Now that some people were willing to donate food for relief, they were very willing to help maintain order and nodded in agreement to their request.

When the villagers who were waiting for her outside saw Wang Naya coming out with food, their eyes lit up.

They all stood up excitedly and really bought food!

Wang Naya walked up to those people and said to them with a serious face:

"I have a mission for you. Deliver the news that there is food available here to other disaster victims within an hour."

"Let's have everyone line up here and come one by one to get rice. Each person can get 1 kilogram of rice."

"But those who do not follow the rules will be disqualified from receiving rice. Okay, go ahead."

The few people looked at each other, nodded, and quickly ran to tell the surrounding victims.

Everyone started to go back and tell each other.

A long line began to form.

Wang Naya saw that there were many people in the town watching, and she needed a lot of help.

So she called out to the neighbors:

"Are there any of you willing to help me distribute food to these poor disaster victims? You can use your hands to save families right now. If you are willing, please come forward."

After hearing what she said, the neighbors were silent for a while.

People began to come forward and say:

"Count me in."

"Count me in too."

"I am coming too."

...

Now there are more than a dozen neighbors to help.

Wang Naya asked them to help move the rice down, then she opened her bag, scooped out the rice and wrapped it in cloth.

Two people helped to draw a charcoal mark on the back of the hands of those who had received the food.

In order to prevent someone from claiming the money multiple times, Wang Naya reminded them that each person could only claim it once.

With everyone's efforts, the team came forward in an orderly manner to receive the rice.

At least 5 people from villages came to collect food and took away kilograms.

There was still some food left, and Wang Naya told them that she would set up a porridge stall and asked them to go back and get their bowls and wait for the porridge.

The victims who received the food were very grateful to Wang Naya.

This way they can live a few more days.

They hurriedly took the rice back, then went to get bowls and waited for the porridge to be distributed.

Wang Naya said to the neighbors:

"Thank you all for coming to help today. I plan to open a porridge stall with the remaining rice. I wonder if anyone has a spare pot at home."

Some neighbors are willing to donate their unused large pots, and they are now going home to get them.

The others chose a vacant lot near the town gate, moved stones, and built a stove.

Someone is responsible for finding firewood.

Wang Naya also asked someone to fetch a few buckets of water.

After everyone worked for an hour, they started to make a fire and cook porridge.

Many homebodies have returned with their bowls in hand and are lining up for porridge.

After boiling for an hour, the hot porridge was ready.

The victims lined up one by one to receive porridge.

Looking at the steaming porridge in the bowl, the victims blew on it quickly and drank it.

Everyone started to smile, thinking:

It would be great if we could have such delicious porridge every day!