Surviving the famine: I made my fortune by helping others

"We originally wanted to let everyone eat together, but the village chief insisted on giving us food, and we had no choice but to agree."

Du Xinghe added a sentence at the right time.

In the past few days, he has almost become the most convincing leader of the team besides Ye Chuyi, and he is responsible for almost all the big and small things.

Ye Chuyi nodded in understanding.

She had heard of exchanging meat, but she didn't expect that someone would exchange chickens and ducks for wild boar meat.

"You are too polite, Village Chief Lian. We came to the village to disturb you, and now we are making you spend money. If you don't mind, why not let everyone here come over and eat together so that it will be more lively."

Although she didn't know if one wild boar was enough to eat, that is.

"Thank you very much."

Lian Yunxi bowed and did not refuse.

They were reluctant to eat the meat of the chickens and ducks they raised at home, and it had been a long time since people in the village had seen meat.

I am accepting their kindness now, so I will just ask for less food when the time comes.

Ye Chuyi actually had no idea what Lian Yunxi was thinking. She was now thinking about how to settle the grain bill.

Each person is given one kilogram of food, and their team needs to be given about 500 kilograms, which is not a small amount.

And you have to think carefully about what kind of food to give. If you give too much, it will arouse suspicion and she will feel bad.

I just hope that the people from Lianshanzhai didn’t notice how much they took yesterday.

Before Ye Chuyi could finish thinking of a countermeasure, he heard Lian Yunxi speak.

"Miss Ye, you just arrived, so there must be many places where you need to be resettled. You don't have to worry about food for now. You can buy food in the county town later and then resettle."

"Of course, if Miss Ye doesn't mind the trouble, you can also give us cash. The price will naturally not be too high."

Lian Yunxi secretly hoped to be given the silver directly.

He can use the silver to buy more food according to demand, so that the people in the village can eat longer.

"Isn't the county town very far away from here?" Ye Chuyi asked almost subconsciously.

How come she remembered that Lianshan Village was nowhere to be found?

"There are traveling merchants passing by here. They have grain for sale, but the price will be higher than the grain store in the county town."

Lian Yunxi didn't think there was anything wrong. Although there was drought and the grain harvest was poor, the traveling merchant teams were still there.

But in the past, he could come out once every three to five days, but now he can only be seen once every half a month.

People like them who don't have ID badges need to pay an entrance fee to enter the city, so they still choose to buy things from traveling merchants.

"Merchants, aren't they afraid of being robbed?" There are so many refugees on the road now. If a group of reckless people comes out, they will just steal all the food, right?

"The merchants are led by the government, and they are accompanied by officials when they travel. If anyone dares to have any evil intentions, the government will arrest them immediately."

Lian Yunxi explained a few more sentences.

Ye Chuyi nodded thoughtfully. Sure enough, the official uniforms of this era were really weird.

First there were things like identity badges, and now there are even government freight services.

I really don’t know whether to say it is advanced or backward.

"If you buy food, how much will it cost?"

Lian Yunxi was stunned for a moment before he carefully said a number, "The price of grain has risen sharply in recent days. Brown rice is about 70 cents per pound."

After saying this, Lian Yunxi realized that something was wrong and quickly added, "We don't have to have brown rice..."

Before he could finish his words, Ye Chuyi waved his hand and said, "I know what you mean. Let's just go with the price of brown rice. If Lian Village Master feels it's inappropriate, why not give us a cheaper price, how about fifty cents per pound?"

"Let's calculate the weight of our team as 500 kilograms, which is about 5525, 25,000 copper coins, which is 25 taels of silver, right?"

"what?"

Lian Yunxi looked at her in confusion. He really didn't understand how she figured it out so quickly. She was just randomly reciting a number, so how could she calculate the price?

Behind Lian Yunxi, a teenage boy counted on his fingers for a long time before hesitatingly saying, "Village leader, it seems to be 25,000 copper coins."

"What do you mean by 'seem'? You idiot, you've wasted all these years of study. You can't even calculate numbers."

Lian Yunshan slapped the boy very rudely.

"Brother, be gentle." Lian Yunqi glared at his brother aggrievedly.

He had clearly been trying very hard to calculate, as that was what the teacher in the academy taught him. How could he know that Miss Ye could calculate so quickly?

"You spent so much money on school, but you can't learn anything. Why are you so aggrieved?"

Lian Yunshan glanced at him with disdain, thinking that there was nothing special about the scholar.

While they were arguing, Ye Chuyi quietly took out twenty-five taels of silver from the space.

The silver rewards given by the system later were all ten-liang silver ingots, and five-liang ones were really hard to find.

"Uncle Du, can you guys scrape together some change? I really don't have any."

Ye Chuyi felt a little embarrassed and asked Du Xinghe beside him for help.

When Du Xinghe heard this, he immediately started to feel his body all over. After a long time, he remembered that his family's silver seemed to be with his wife.

"Miss, I'll go get the money right away."

After Du Xinghe finished speaking, he ran out in a hurry.

The other people who were squatting nearby and eavesdropping also ran away.

Ye Chuyi looked at their backs and blinked innocently. She was just short of a few coins, so why did they look as if they owed a lot of debt?

Ye Chuyi didn’t know what they were talking about, but after a while, the men came running back in a hurry, each holding small change in their hands, treating them like treasures.

"Miss, we have collected so much. Do you think it is enough? If not, we can still have my wife's silver bracelet."

"Miss, I also have my wife's silver hairpin here."

"How about silver earrings? I spent quite a bit of money on them when I bought them."

……

As everyone was clamoring, a mountain of messy things soon piled up in front of Ye Chuyi.

The better ones were silver ornaments, and the inferior ones were various finely crafted wooden products. I don’t know who took out all the knives in the house.

Ye Chuyi slowly pulled out a few strings of copper coins from it, and then, under everyone's expectant gaze, put them together with two shining silver ingots into Lian Yunxi's hand.

Lian Yunxi: I’m quite speechless.

He felt like he was being torn apart by death, and he thought he had done something immoral, but ended up being blinded by the silver ingots.

I'm afraid this isn't meant to show off.