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Zhao Xiangyun returned to her room and put the 12 kilograms of food and 22 eggs from the broken bowl into a big cloth bag and the bag into a big basket.

He took another twenty dollars and put it in his pocket.

After thinking for a while and feeling worried, he took his broken bowl and placed it under the cloth bag.

Just as she was about to leave with the basket on her back, Chen Wuyue gave her two boiled eggs and two corn bread.

"Take it and eat it on the road. If you're hungry, buy some steamed buns. Remember to buy meat stuffing." Chen Wuyue said.

"I know, Mom!" Zhao Xiangyun grinned and smiled at him.

"Is it heavy? "Why don't I carry it for you!" Chen Wuyue looked at the basket on Zhao Xiangyun's back that was covered with a cloth. Although she did not know what was inside, she still felt that it was heavy.

Zhao Xiangyun looked at Chen Wuyue's skinny body, then at her own sturdy arms, and firmly shook her head, "Mom, I can move my back, it's getting late, I'll be going now!"

Zhao Xiangyun rejected Chen Wuyue's good intentions of sending him to the county city.

Following the path that Chen Wuyue pointed out, she first exited the Production Team, and then walked nonstop for half an hour. When she reached another fork in the road, she would directly be able to reach the county city.

Along the way, Zhao Xiangyun spent close to two hours, panting from exhaustion while sweating profusely.

This body of his was not at all good. Just a few steps and his lungs felt like they were going to explode.

After walking and stopping for a while, they finally arrived at the entrance of the county town.

After resting for a while, Zhao Xiangyun raised her head and looked at the city.

When he saw it, he was dumbfounded.

The so-called county city was completely different from the one she had seen in her previous life.

There were no high-rise buildings at all.

There were low houses and narrow streets. Occasionally, there would be one or two buildings, but they weren't that tall. It was estimated that they didn't exceed five storeys in height.

This was the county city of this era?

This is too... Too poor?

Zhao Xiangyun sighed for a long time before she could accept this reality.

There weren't many people on the streets after entering the county city. Occasionally, he would meet one, but they were all thin and sallow, with weak steps and a weak body.

Zhao Xiangyun observed the clothes of those people in the city. Compared to those with Production Team, they were not much different.

They were all earth-blue in color and wore black overalls with patches of various sizes. Looking at them from afar, they gave off a very simple and unadorned feeling.

As Zhao Xiangyun walked, her stomach began to growl with hunger.

After finding a corner where she could sit, Zhao Xiangyun took a boiled egg out of the water and smashed the egg shell to pieces. She stuffed the egg into her mouth, but before she finished eating the egg, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of him.

A three or four year old skinny boy stared at Zhao Xiangyun and almost drooled.

His gaze was fixated on the egg in Zhao Xiangyun's hand, causing his scalp to go numb. He quickly stuffed the egg into his mouth, almost choking to death.

However, she came out in a hurry and didn't bring any water, so she could only pat her chest and wait for the egg to swallow. She struggled for a long time before forcefully swallowing the food in her mouth.

At this moment, a thin old lady dressed in simple clothes walked up to him.

"Hu Zi, what are you doing?"

The little boy looked at Zhao Xiangyun with a wronged expression, "Grandmother, she has eaten an egg, even Hu Zi wants to eat it!"

It was only then that the Old Granny noticed Zhao Xiangyun. After coughing for a bit, Zhao Xiangyun's face turned red.

In this era, there weren't many people who could grow so fat. There were bound to be some leftover food in their homes.

The Old Granny hesitated and asked Zhao Xiangyun, "Girl, you … Do you still have eggs on your hands? Other grains are also fine, I will use money to exchange for them with you! "

Zhao Xiangyun was startled, before she could react, she heard the old lady say, "If it wasn't for my grandson's pitiful appetite, I would not have asked you! "There's really no other way."

Food was his life.

Ordinary people would not easily sell food to others.

Zhao Xiangyun looked at the old lady, and a sense of sympathy rose from the bottom of her heart.

Not to mention the old lady in front of him, even the rest of his family was short on food and drinks.

All the supplies in the house were used on the original owner.

The original owner had become fat, while the others had become very thin and weak.

Even the face of the Captain Zhao Zhiyuan turned yellow.

In the entire Production Team, the original owner was the only fat guy as far as the eye could see.

Everyone was having a hard time. She had this body full of fat right now, although it wasn't what she wanted.

There was also a treasure-gathering basin. With food that could grow continuously, one's days would always be better than others.

"Old granny, I have eggs, but they've been boiled and were cooked yesterday!"

Zhao Xiangyun told the truth. No matter what, she did not want to lie.

"How many do you have?" The old lady's eyes lit up.

"About twenty-two!"

There was still one in his pocket, which Zhao Xiangyun did not plan to take out. If she did not have any food to eat later, she could put it into a broken bowl, and one would be able to come out in 15 minutes.

"There's still some black rice, flour, and wheat bran, but I don't know how much they weigh."

When she came out, it was only around twelve kilograms, but Zhao Xiangyun placed the broken bowl at the bottom. When she walked, she discovered that the basket was getting heavier and heavier, and it was getting harder for people to carry.

"I did! I've brought it! "

The old lady waved a cloth bag in her hand. Inside the bag was a pole scale.

She came out to buy some food.

Before he could even buy it, he met Zhao Xiangyun.

"Then let's find a place without people?" Zhao Xiangyun said.

It was her first time doing this kind of business, and she always felt that the more careful she was, the better.

"Yes, I know!"

The old lady was very familiar with the route as she accompanied Zhao Xiangyun, looking for a remote place to talk about the price with him.

"My daughter, in the black market, the coarse grains are two dollars a catty and the fine grains are four dollars and five yuan. As for the quality, I will give it to you according to the price on the black market. I will absolutely not take advantage of you."

Black market?

It sounds a bit like a place to trade in secret.

Zhao Xiangyun thought back to it, as if Chen Wuyue and Zhao Zhiyuan had mentioned it before.

Zhao Xiangyun could not help but guess, did the fine grains she ate also come from the black market?

Even after dozens of years, four to five catties of fine grains were not cheap.

Zhao Xiangyun had heard that in this era, workers generally only earned twenty-one months.

If he bought several kilograms of food, how would he survive?

While thinking, the old lady brought Zhao Xiangyun to a corner, where there was no one around. A little boy called Hu Zi was standing guard nearby.

After confirming that no one was looking, the old lady asked Zhao Xiangyun to take the item out.

Zhao Xiangyun placed the basket on the ground.

He first took out the rice from the cloth bag.

Three cloth bags. When he came out, there was still quite a bit of space. It was already filled to the brim and overflowing.

The old lady's eyes immediately lit up when she saw the black mask, the fine flour, and the wheat bran.