Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 77: Trembling with Hunger
"What? The Feng family and the Xue family are discussing marriage? Will Xue Lingyao agree to it?"

Shen Zhao thought of the scene of Xue Lingyao getting married to that extremely ugly bald-headed man, and suddenly he wanted to laugh.

It is true that every evil will be punished by every evil. If Qin Yi knew that his beloved girl married an ugly bald man, I wonder how he would feel?

Shen Heng: "You have to agree even if you don't want to! I heard from Ah Shi that many members of the Feng family in Yulixiang came and said that a member of the family had died because of her, so they wanted Xue Lingyao to marry him as soon as possible and have children, as compensation to the Feng family."

"What about Wang? What did she say?" Shen Zhao asked curiously.

Shen Heng: "Who knows? I guess he'll be so mad, right? Haha!"

The brother and sister chatted as they entered the neighborhood. From a distance, they saw a group of people gathered at the door of their house. A woman's cry came from the crowd: "My Lingyao is only fourteen years old! You, the Shen family, can't harm her like this!"

Ah Zhu Niang and several other women blocked the doorway and said angrily, "Wang! What does your Xue Lingyao have to do with others? She was the one who said she wanted to marry Feng Laizi, so why is she saying that the Shen family harmed her now?"

"My daughter didn't say that! It was obviously Shen Zhao who went to the Feng family, and now she should be the one marrying the Feng family!" Wang screamed hysterically, with disheveled hair, and bumped into the people who were blocking their way into the yard.

Ah Zhu Niang pushed her away and said impatiently, "Wang! We didn't know how a dignified person like you could become like this? Your husband has acquiesced to this and even signed the marriage certificate. Do you have the guts to go back and make trouble with your husband? What are you doing here at the Shen family?"

Wang was pushed to the ground and cried uncontrollably.

At this moment, brother and sister Shen Heng and Shen Zhao drove a ox cart closer. A Shi and his friends saw the large bundles piled on the cart and immediately surrounded it.

"Brother Heng! Did you get the goods?"

"Yes." Shen Heng jumped off the car and said to the young men, "I exchanged a lot of cotton clothes, cotton pants, and quilts with Hu Shang today. Go and call the people who helped build the wall. We will pay them."

"Okay!" Several teenagers cheered and ran away, because their family members were among them.

When Shen Zhao got off the ox cart, he looked up and saw Wang's eyes full of resentment.

"Shen Zhao! How did my Lingyao offend you? Why do you want to harm her to this extent?"

Shen Zhao sneered: "I should be the one asking you this. How did I, Shen Zhao, offend Xue Lingyao? Why is she pretending to be me and swindling people everywhere?"

"She didn't! Lingyao wouldn't do such a thing!" Wang rushed to Shen Zhao, grabbed her arm and said, "A Zhao, please save Lingyao."

Shen Zhao pushed her away, raised his eyebrows and asked, "How do you want me to save you?"

"The marriage was originally planned because of you, so why don't you marry into the Feng family?" Wang cried sadly, "If it doesn't work out, Chief Shen will also settle the matter."

"Bah! You're so shameless." Zhang Shanyue had already emerged from the courtyard and shoved Wang out. "No wonder Xue Lingyao's mind is so abnormal. So it was you, her mother, who passed it on to her?"

"That's not a big deal," Ah Zhu Niang echoed, and then she advised earnestly, "Wang, if you have the time to come here to argue, why not spend some money to give to Feng Laizi and let him take the initiative to cancel the engagement, then the matter will be settled, right?"

Wang shook her head: "No, the Feng family wants too much. They want 20,000 yuan. How can I have so much money?"

"So you came to my house to make trouble?" Zhang Shanyue pushed her again and shouted, "Get lost! If you come one step closer to my house, I will send you to see the officials immediately!"

Several women came over and dragged Wang back to Xue's house.

When the women returned, Shen Zhao and his sister had already begun distributing cotton clothes and quilts to the villagers who helped build the houses.

There are a total of twenty-eight households, each with a quilt, a cotton coat, and a pair of cotton trousers.

Song Yuan also received one, and he and his sister were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.

Now they won't be cold at night, and their younger brothers and sisters will have warm clothes to wear. At night, Shen Zhao sat on the kang and applied for a seven-day no-reason return policy. Soon he received a letter from his eldest brother.

The letter said that they fought a fierce battle with the Huns, but the enemy was too numerous, and the surrounding small countries closed their city gates and refused to provide food and fodder aid, so the Han army had to retreat to Wulei City, where the Protectorate was located.

The letter also said that the food, grass and firewood in Wulei City were limited and could not meet the daily needs of more than 3,000 people and war horses.

Especially these newly recruited border soldiers, who could not even drink a mouthful of porridge a day.
After reading this long letter which had been written three days ago, Shen Zhao thought for a moment, picked up a pen and wrote a letter to ask if her elder brother was injured. She also asked him to find a secluded place and send the address to her. She wanted to buy some food, medicine and water for him.

Then she bought fifty buns, twenty buns in each, sixteen cents each, for a total of eight hundred cents.

I also bought some external injury medicines, a few quilts and two buckets of water, and sent all these things to my eldest brother after receiving his new address.

Thousands of miles away in Wulei City, Shen Xun squatted in a small low house to receive goods.

When the goods appear, the outer packaging will be removed immediately, piled in the corner and ignited with a lighter.

In order not to waste fuel, Shen Xun placed the small metal pot given by his sister on the flame and poured some water into it to heat it up.

Rubbing his numb fingers, he broke off two more steamed buns and put them in the pot, adding a little salt.

When the steamed bun was softened, he quickly picked it up and poured it into his mouth.

God knows he hasn't eaten all day and he's shaking with hunger.

clap clap clap!
Someone was knocking on the door outside, and Chen Wuhou's voice came: "Shen Xun! Are you in there?"

Shen Xun was startled, and ate the steamed buns in the small pot in a few mouthfuls. He then put the medicine into his backpack, along with a few steamed buns, and then he replied, "I'm coming."

The wooden door was pushed open, and Chen Wuhou walked in. He looked around and his eyes widened immediately: "Good boy! Where did you find all these good things?"

As he spoke, he took the lead in picking up a steamed bun and took a bite, then asked vaguely, "Did you find the food hidden by the tribes?"

Shen Xun quietly wiped his mouth and said ambiguously: "I bought them all with money."

"You bought it with money?" Chen Wuhou swallowed a mouthful of steamed bun in confusion, and then saw two quilts: "Huh? This one looks very similar to your quilt?"

Shen Xun lied with his eyes open: "I bought my quilt from the Western Regions. I happened to see it today, so I bought two."

"Give me these two quilts. There are several injured people in our camp. Let them use them tonight."

Chen Wuhou patted Shen Xun on the shoulder and picked up another steamed bun to eat: "Don't worry, when we get the spoils, we can give you two more."

Shen Xun nodded and took out some more medicine: "These medicines also cost a lot of money to get, how about giving them to you?"

Many members of his team were injured in this campaign. Without medical treatment, they would probably just have to wait for death.

Chen Wuhou took a packet of medicine, looked at the box and bottle inside, and asked excitedly: "Are these pills the same as the ones you gave me last time?"

"Same here. I'll write the dosage on the box later. Don't take too much, otherwise you'll be poisoned and die." Shen Xun turned around to get a pen, carefully read the instructions, and marked them on the box one by one.

At this time, two guards who had been guarding the door for a long time poked their heads in and asked, swallowing their saliva: "Wu Hou, are these steamed buns going to be sent out?"

(End of this chapter)