Chapter 3: Procurement

Su Baozhu was taken aback, clearly not expecting that she hadn’t been fooled. Annoyance flashed across his eyes, as if he was confused as to why the silly ‘Su Yin’ became so difficult to deal with.

Noticing that Su Baozhu was nervously clenching her hands at the corners of her clothes unconsciously, she said nothing and quietly waited for her decision.

Su Baozhu took a deep breath and seemed to have made a decision. She looked around to make sure there was no one around, then lowered her voice and said, “I had a dream last night. I dreamed that we were killed by the refugees.”

When she mentioned ‘refugees’, her body trembled uncontrollably, and the fear in her eyes could not be hidden.

The inhuman torture she suffered before her death left her with a nightmare that she could not let go of and could not easily get rid of.

Su Yin felt relieved.

Su Baozhu was also reborn.

“Do you think that was a dream?”

Su Baozhu was stunned, then shook her head, “No, that’s not a dream.”

She didn’t believe it was a dream.

Dreams are not that real.

She still can’t forget the pain of being cut off piece by piece in the dream, let alone the fact that those beasts roasted her flesh on the fire, laughing and commenting on each part of the flesh, and even forced her to eat it.

Thinking of this, Su Baozhu could no longer control the churning of her stomach and ran to the ditch to vomit.

Su Yin stepped forward and patted her back gently.

When the group of refugees rushed into the village, she was the first to be stabbed to death by them. Her soul was floating in the air and she saw what the refugees did to Su Baozhu.

The way she died was even worse than him. It could be said that she was executed in a slow manner. Before she died, she watched her own flesh being roasted and eaten. She was forced to eat her own flesh and listened to those beasts commenting on her.

This way of dying is extremely torture to the body and mind.

“It’s in the past, everything is in the past. Now is a new beginning, and it’s not too late.”

Su Baozhu raised her head, her face was pale, but her eyes were unusually bright, as if she had caught something. “You, too…”

She didn’t know how to describe it.

“Rebirth.” Su Yin completed the two words for her.

“Rebirth.” She chewed these two words in her mouth carefully, and suddenly cried and laughed, and kept muttering in her mouth, “Yes, it is rebirth. Isn’t this just rebirth? Let us live again.”

After waiting for her to calm down, Su Yin said, “What are you going to do?”

Su Baozhu raised her head, her eyes becoming determined, “I want to live. You and the third sister-in-law have been reborn, right?”

The reaction was very fast!

Su Yin did not respond directly.

“Although I don’t know what you want to do, I think you don’t want to stay with that group of people anymore, right?” Su Baozhu asked tentatively.

Su Yin waited quietly for her to continue.

“One person’s power is limited. With more people, there will be more hope for survival in the future. I think I can help, and I will definitely not hold you back.” Su Baozhu’s voice was calm and he stared at her with burning eyes.

Su Yin stretched out her hand and said, “Welcome to join.”

Su Baozhu glanced at the hands, froze for two seconds, and held her hand.

Holding hands, fate intersects.

The two went straight to the county seat.

There are many things at home that are difficult for them to take away, so they have to prepare many things by themselves.

“Sister-in-law, you go to places like teahouses to find out information. You don’t need to ask too many questions, just listen to the conversations of the merchants outside. Can you do it?” Su Yin asked.

“No problem. What about you?”

“I have to buy supplies and equipment, uh, things that will allow us to survive in the future.”

Su Baozhu took out a silver hairpin from his pocket, “This is for you. It’s It’s useless to keep it, so it’s better to exchange it for something useful.”

Su Yin recognized that this silver hairpin was made by Su Baozhu, and he took it out bit by bit from the money he handed over. When I bought it back, Old Mrs. Su almost took it away.

If Su Baozhu hadn’t cried to death and refused to let go, she was afraid that she couldn’t keep the silver hairpin and it might fall into the hands of the eldest uncle.

The two separated at the city gate and walked in different directions.

Su Yin went straight to the rice grain and oil store. There was a sign hanging at the door of the rice store with the price written on it. Most people usually go into the store to ask about the price, and they don’t even know the words on the door.

Rice, one bushel, two hundred and eighty cents.

Note 1 Millet, one dou, 255 Wen.

A dou of millet is worth two hundred and forty coins.

Su Yin stood at the door and took a look. The writing was similar to ancient Chinese writing, and he could basically distinguish one from the other.

In the Su family, great-grandfather’s generation had many talented people, but by the time of my grandfather’s generation, there was no chance of becoming a child student.

It was not until my uncle passed the exam that he became a child student, which made the Su family proud again. This is why grandpa and grandma prefer uncle.

If a little money is added to it, the Su family can also be called a family of farming and reading.

Before she awakened her memory, she also learned some secretly.

Now that she has recovered her Blue Star memory, she can probably recognize these words even with a blind guess.

When she entered, two women were holding bags of rice and muttering to each other.

“Yesterday, a bucket was still two hundred and twenty cents, and it suddenly increased by twenty cents. It’s really crazy.”

“Let’s go to the store next door. It’s cheaper there.”

The two women left with the empty bags cursing.

The clerk sneered, not afraid of losing his business at all, and muttered, “It doesn’t matter what the current situation is, as long as there is food, it will be good.”

Su Yin watched this scene silently and understood clearly in her heart.

She was afraid that when the two women arrived at the rice and grain store on the next street, the prices they saw would be either the same price or more expensive.

Su Yin walked in. The waiter glanced at her, her patched coarse cloth clothes, and said directly: “The cheapest aged millet in the store costs one hundred and eighty cents per dou.”

This price can be said to be very high. In the past, good millet rice cost only 180 cents per dou, and old millet rice only cost about 80 cents.

Nowadays, old millet rice is sold for 180 cents per dou, and the price has more than doubled.

Su Yin held up the old millet rice and smelled it. There was a musty smell. This kind of millet rice was worse than the old millet rice he bought before. It seemed that the price had more than doubled.

From the price of food, Su Yin felt more clearly that troubled times were coming, and he was afraid that the price would rise in a few days.

Once the refugees arrive, people rush to buy this musty-smelling millet.

Su Yin touched the money in her pocket. Her mother gave her about three taels, and she only had half of it.

Her sister-in-law gave her a silver hairpin, which was about two and a half taels. Her total assets were only about six taels.

One tael of silver can buy five and a half bushels of aged millet rice, but only four bushels of normal millet rice.

A total of six taels of silver, even if all of it is bought for old millet rice, can only buy about thirty-three dou at most, but the silver cannot only buy this.

“Brother, get me ten buckets of millet rice and thirty kilograms of noodles.”

The clerk asked casually, “New goods or old goods?”

“Old goods.”

The man quickly packed ten buckets of old millet rice and thirty kilograms of noodles. , rounded up a round number and paid two or two or four.

Ten buckets of rice and thirty kilograms of flour added up to one hundred and fifty kilograms.

It was inconvenient for Su Yin to carry all these things with him to buy other things, so he temporarily put them in the store until he finished buying other things