The yard suddenly became quiet.

Everyone pricked up their ears and listened.

Mrs. Chen said calmly: “My family doesn’t have enough food, so how can we lend you?”

Aunt Huang hurriedly said: “I said it wrong, it’s not borrowing, it’s buying.”

“According to the current price of food, it’s ten times the price. Sell me some, otherwise Shanzi and I will have nothing to eat.”

Aunt Huang first said to borrow, but she was planning to buy food in Huainan County or Donghai County and then pay it back. The price of food there would not be ten times that of previous years.

But Mrs. Chen was unwilling to lend, so Aunt Huang made a quick decision and bought it!

Mrs. Chen hesitated for a moment and looked at Gu Zhang.

His family still had some coarse grains that they had bought before, but they didn’t eat much, so there was still a lot left.

Gu Zhang nodded slightly.

Mrs. Chen said: “Then I’ll give you two buckets. I can’t sell more. Alas, I can’t just watch you and Shanzi go hungry.”

“Don’t talk about ten times the price. When Dalang bought it, it was only five times the price. Just give it to me at this price.”

Aunt Huang was delighted: “Thank you very much.”

Mrs. Chen took out the bucket, measured two buckets of coarse grains for Aunt Huang, took the money, and continued to cook.

Mrs. Qian rolled her eyes and was about to say something to Gu Zhong when she heard Uncle Ma say: “If any family doesn’t have enough food, they can go to the city in two days and buy it then.”

Uncle Ma was kind-hearted, but he was afraid that every household would come to Mrs. Chen to buy food at five times the price.

After all, the price of food outside had risen tenfold.

Gu Zhong’s family was running out of food, and Mrs. Qian was reluctant to buy it, but looking at the current situation, she was afraid that Mrs. Chen would not lend it to her, so she was in a dilemma.

After thinking about it, she decided to forget it. If she didn’t buy it, she didn’t believe that Gu Zhang would watch his elder brother starve to death.

Even if he could, others would blame him!

Sure enough, they arrived at Xincheng two days later.

There were still many victims outside the city gate.

The court had already started disaster relief.

The court would distribute porridge outside the city gate every day, and the victims would naturally stay there with this bite of food.

Gu Zhang’s injury had long been healed, and he followed the village chief to inquire about the news.

Gu Fei was looking around, and suddenly a man with shifty eyebrows and rat eyes came over, looked Gu Fei up and down, then looked at Lanzhi, and then looked at Lian’er behind Gu Fei: “Little girls, do you want to have a full meal?”

“Follow me, there is food!”

Gu Fei rolled her eyes, this is a human trafficker.

Lian’er stepped forward and waved her hand to drive him away, “Go, go, we don’t lack food.”

The traffickers were reluctant to leave when they saw the three pretty girls, and they kept persuading them: “Little girls, I’m an honest man, I won’t lie to you, just follow me and I’ll feed you right away.”

Gu Fei saw that he was always pestering her, so she bulged her eyes, raised her fist, and threatened: “Go away, I’ll beat you if you don’t leave.”

Su Chen sat next to her and laughed softly. The girl looked cute with her bulged eyes.

She was a master who dared to chop people and kill wolves with a long knife, but when she put down the knife, she was just a silly little girl.

He didn’t know why, but he always paid attention to this little girl unconsciously. Maybe it was curiosity at first, but later he could always find something different in her.

Not only was she different from other girls, she seemed to have many different faces.

Zhang Ze glanced at his young master from the side and felt that his master paid too much attention to this little girl.

However, this was not his business.