After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

After thinking about it like this, the people who were still taking chances suddenly couldn't sit still anymore. They packed up their things, followed their fellow villagers or relatives with their families, and pushed the cart together to leave the village.

When they actually embarked on the road to escape, the people who were still struggling with whether their decision was right or wrong soon began to rejoice that they had made a prompt decision.

Because, on the way to escape, they saw many families of squires, wealthy businessmen and officials.

Although these people are surrounded by servants and guards and will not let ordinary people like them get close easily, the fact that they dragged their families and left their hometowns is enough for these ordinary people to see some problems clearly.

Yu Zizhen asked the leaders selected in advance to remind these ordinary people who did not have much food on hand to start their extreme saving mode on food.

Except for the very young children, very old people, and pregnant women in the family, 90% of the daily rations of the others are not particularly unpalatable wild vegetables, grass roots, and young leaves that they find from the roadside and in the woods. wait.

Occasionally, we encounter rivers and lakes where fishing is possible, or we are lucky enough to catch hares and pheasants in the wilderness. Everyone is reluctant to stuff their stomachs with fish and meat.

They would boldly go to the servants who served the families of squires, wealthy businessmen, and officials, and trade fish and meat with them for some salt, pickles, or whole grains.

After running so hard for about half a month, some people in the team began to collapse due to exhaustion, hunger, thirst and heat.

However, before they could panic, people with carriages, horses and supplies appeared on both sides of the official road they were traveling on, selling food, water and other supplies to the people fleeing the famine. They also brought doctors and other supplies with them. Medicinal materials, a mysterious team that can diagnose and treat people for a fee.

These teams all fly the same flag, and almost everyone in the team is strong and powerful at first glance. The most important thing is that they are blatantly carrying weapons with them. Once someone robs them, this group of people will He will also beat and even kill people simply and neatly.

Acting so toughly, and having the courage and ability to deliver supplies under such circumstances, the victims almost immediately concluded that this group of people must have a good background.

However, this group of people with a good background surprisingly did not charge sky-high prices for the materials they sold.

A bucket of clean water costs ten cents. The bucket is big and deep, and it is full of water. A family of ten can use it for two days without any problem, including drinking and cooking.

Although the price of food has increased, the extent of the increase has been unexpectedly low.

There is no adulteration of stones, sand, straw, or moldy old coarse grains. Regardless of the type, the price is uniformly 14 cents per dou (about kilograms), which is much cheaper than buying grains in towns and counties before they fled the famine. It's still three to five cents cheaper at any time, not to mention the soaring food prices right now.

The prices of medicinal materials, cloth, salt, sugar, wine, etc. are only 20 to 30% more expensive than before the drought.

Overall, the price increase can be said to be quite conscientious.

Of course, this is just the thinking of those at the bottom.

Those wealthy households nearby who bought fine foods such as rice, white flour, meat, vegetables, etc. from this caravan were all butchered several times without exception. This is not what makes them speechless the most. What makes them speechless the most is that this caravan actually sells cheap water and coarse grains in limited quantities!

In addition to the guaranteed guarantee of 50 cents per bucket of old grain per household, and the guaranteed 10 cents per bucket of clean water per household, if you want to buy more later, they will not ship it to you at this price.

For any portion that exceeds the limit, this caravan will directly and unequivocally double the price for you.

This price is not considered a pitfall at the moment. After all, since the large-scale drought broke out, the prices in the towns and counties they passed along the way have been rising rapidly.

Now if you go to any town or county you pass by and inquire about it, the prices are basically very different from the prices offered by this caravan.

But the problem is, they obviously sold the old grain to those mud-legged people at a cheap price! Even if some losers can't bring out enough copper coins, they will accept the other party's barter as appropriate.

How much is a person worth these days? It is no exaggeration to say that if this strange caravan had not suddenly appeared to disrupt the market conditions, those people who had heard the news and were wandering among the victims would have exchanged half a bag of rice for others. Pretty-looking little girls and boys of the right age.

But now? Not only were they unable to make this hugely profitable deal, but they also had to be glanced back and forth with extremely unfriendly eyes by the caravan members because they had revealed their intention to buy people.

Although the guys didn't directly threaten them, the men could not bear the terrifying looks in their eyes that were full of threats.

For the sake of their own lives, they had to temporarily give up some of their bad thoughts.

And those poor people who had really reached the end of their rope and had to sell their children to find a way to survive for themselves and their children all received twenty taels of silver from the caravan.

Of course, those who can be exchanged for so much silver must be carefully selected by the caravan and feel that they are indeed worth the price.

As for some people who lingered in front of their caravan, shouting "I have money" and insisting that they not buy the limited edition set of eye-catching bags, the strong men in the caravan also acted very straightforwardly. A scoundrel.

"Are you rich? It's good to be rich. If you have money, you can buy more good things." As he said this, the other party also moved a large bag of japonica rice priced at one tael and a half silver per bucket, and threw it away with a bang. In front of those who were showing their eyes, "Twelve liang, Chenghui."

Eye bags now:.

Seeing that they didn't respond, the other party threw over a large wicker basket filled with dried bacon, "The best three-layer pork belly is marinated in advance with fine salt and cooked and dried. One basket only contains We need one hundred taels. How many baskets do you want, please?"

The corners of their mouths twitching wildly: I'm sorry, they brought it upon themselves.

Similar scenes happened from time to time on every escape route planned by Yu Zizhen and others in advance. Those people who really couldn't live their lives had some confidence and hope in their hearts because of the existence of this caravan.

Although many of them chose to sell their children and daughters on this road, at least they found a way to survive for themselves and their children through this method.

Although it is painful to be separated from flesh and blood, how can this kind of pain be compared to watching one's relatives die one by one in front of one's eyes?

Who would want to die if he could live?