roccoschili Chapter 127 Looks familiar
Chapter 127 Looks familiar
The lively scene ahead attracted Xia Qingyue and the others to stop and watch.
Li Weisheng stood on tiptoe and looked over there. "It's a medicine shop collecting medicinal materials. No wonder there are so many people."
Li Benfu said: "Let's go and take a look."
A few people walked over and stood aside to watch how those people traded and bought medicinal herbs.
A long table was put together in front of the drugstore, and three medicine boys sat there checking the herbs brought by the people lined up in three long queues in front of them. They confirmed them and registered them in the book, and finally signed for the silver.
After observing for a while, Xia Qingyue had an idea in her mind.
At present, hemostatic and anti-inflammatory drugs are the most in-demand, and their prices are slightly higher than other medicinal materials.
Most of the herbs people find are the more common Sanguisorba officinalis, Lobelia, Plantain, and Polygonum multiflorum. There are also some herbs like Astragalus and Codonopsis, but not many.
After figuring out the market prices of various medicinal materials, Xia Qingyue and her friends went to several other streets.
After a round of shopping, I learned that a grocery store would open in three days. For now, the only goods available were rice, beans, dried goods, and a few seasonings, and it was on a first-come, first-served basis.
In addition, the market in the east of the town will be open tomorrow, and anyone who sets up a stall to sell things will be charged a corresponding stall fee.
After getting the news, they moved away from the crowd and took a detour through a small alley. Outside the alley was a main road leading to the city gate.
When they were almost at the entrance of the alley, Heihei suddenly sped up and ran ahead.
Several people looked puzzled, and Xia Qingyue explained: "There should be more people outside."
They slowed down their pace and took two steps forward, and suddenly saw carriages coming on the main street outside.
The horses were tall, pulling wooden carts loaded with boxes of things behind them.
Li Benfu looked horrified and quickly reached out to grab Li Weikang, who was standing in the front and trying to look out to see what was going on.
"That's the team transporting relief grain. Don't rush over and bump into them!"
After Li Benfu finished speaking in a low voice, a soldier in armor and with a sword on his belt followed the grain transport team every few steps. They were like human shields, guarding the grain in the middle.
When pedestrians on the main street saw the grain transport team coming, they immediately took a detour or avoided them and stayed far away.
The soldiers were very vigilant. When they saw Xia Qingyue and others in the alley, they sent people to check them out.
Xia Qingyue and the others took out their household registration and explained why they came to the street and were about to return to the village. The soldiers then said nothing and told them to wait until the team had left before coming out.
After waiting for a long time, the grain transport team went away and Xia Qingyue and others walked out of the alley.
Li Weikang raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and said, "It was really dangerous."
Chen Dawei was in a daze, obviously frightened.
Xia Qingyue looked at the grain transport team that was gradually moving away, thinking that the boxes of grain on the trucks were the hope for survival of so many people.
"Let's go back to the village." Li Benfu was still frightened and his face looked a little bad. He retracted his gaze and turned to leave, glancing at the street diagonally opposite.
A tall and burly man was walking on the street, heading in the direction of the grain transport team.
This figure made Li Benfu stop in his tracks. He turned around and followed the man closely.
"Dad, let's go, what are you looking at?"
Li Weisheng and the others had already walked a few steps away. Seeing Li Benfu still standing there, they looked over curiously.
"I think that person's figure is a little familiar." Li Benfu raised his hand and scratched his head, "Have I seen him somewhere?"
At this moment, the man walked to the turning ahead, walked towards the street on the left where the grain transport team had passed, and his figure disappeared.
"Really? I can't recognize who it is. Dad, did you see it wrong?" Li Weikan said.
Li Weisheng and Chen Dawei looked at each other and shook their heads. They had no impression of that person either.
"Oh, maybe I saw it wrong. Let's go home." Li Benfu didn't think much about it.
On the street, Li Benfu felt that the man who looked familiar was following the grain transport team from a distance. He kept his head slightly lowered all the way, occasionally looking up at the front. His eyes were cold and there was a black mole at the end of one of his eyebrows.
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Walking back to the village, Xia Qingyue and the others were thinking about buying more food to store.
Xia Qingyue asked, "Uncle, what do you think?"
"Personally, I want to do both spring ploughing and hunting for medicinal herbs in the mountains. There are a few daily necessities left in the shelter on the mountain, so it's no problem to live there.
I thought that I would go up the mountain in a few days, collect enough game and medicinal herbs, and then go down the mountain to sell them and exchange them for money to buy food. "
"Dad, I'm going too!" Li Weisheng looked eagerly.
Li Weikang didn't say anything, but he looked at Li Benfu with pleading eyes.
Xia Qingyue nodded, "This is a good idea, you can discuss it first.
I thought we should go to the mountains first. We couldn’t find any herbs in the places we went to before, so we went to the dense forests. There were ferocious beasts there, and people didn’t dare to set foot there.”
Hearing this, Li Benfu said anxiously: "The dense forest is dangerous, Qingyue, why don't you wait a few more days? We will go up the mountain later, let's go together!"
Li Weikang and others also advised her to wait.
"Let me take a look first." She had roughly thought about where to look for medicinal herbs. Last year, she visited some places around the tiankeng and had some impression.
She wanted to hunt and shoot arrows while looking for medicinal herbs, tracking living things with arrows.
Li Benfu nodded. "Although there are no bandits or refugees in the mountains now, it is better to be cautious everywhere."
When I got home, it was already noon and Chen Yuzhen had prepared lunch.
After washing hands and having lunch, Li Weikang, Li Weisheng and Chen Youmao went to clean up the kitchen, while Xia Qingyue and the other two sat in the main room and chatted.
They talked about the situation in the town and the unexpected encounter with the grain transport team.
"I heard that the grain transport team comes here every half a month. I didn't expect that we would run into them today by chance. Fortunately, Heihei reminded us at that time.
Otherwise, if we just walk out like that, we will disturb the soldiers, and swords have no eyes!" Li Benfu said, touching his dark head.
After hearing this, Chen Yuzhen raised her hand and patted her heaving chest, still in shock. "That's true. The security is tight now. In that situation, even if the soldiers killed someone by mistake, they can use the excuse of guarding the food, and in the end, it will just be left unresolved."
After sitting and chatting at Li's house for a while, Xia Qingyue said goodbye.
"Qingyue, I'll go up the mountain with you to dig some cassava to plant." Chen Yuzhen stood up.
In this way, Chen Yuzhen, her mother and her two sons, Xia Qingyue and Heihei went up the mountain together. They met many villagers on the back mountain.
When she arrived at the cassava field, Chen Yuzhen met several villagers from the same village. She thought, bad luck, she couldn't dig cassava.
Once they start digging, other villagers will follow suit.
Chen Yuzhen pulled Xia Qingyue to the other side and said softly, "Qingyue, there are too many people on the mountain during the day. You should wait until next night to dig cassava. I will leave some for you then."