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

Chapter 86: The Apparition of the Community God
"Listen to my explanation first!"

Shen Zhao then told the story of how he bought and packed up old clothes, and finally said, "We are short of supplies here, and it is winter now. If the villagers don't have cotton-padded clothes to survive the winter, they will freeze to death."

The complaining brother was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay! I'll trust you this time, but if you want me to believe you completely, you have to show me live broadcasts every day at different locations."

Shen Zhao frowned: "Why? Don't I have anything else to do?" Then he ended the live broadcast.

Humph! Buy it if you want! I don’t have time to live stream all day.

However, another piece of jewelry in the shop was sold, a bracelet worth 50,000 coins.

Adding the previous hundreds of thousands, the balance in his account has reached as much as 170,000.

In the evening, she called back a key chain from her eldest brother and unlocked the letter on it.

It read: "A Zhao, there is a serious shortage of food and grass in Wulei City. The horses in the army have died of starvation and freezing one after another. The soldiers have collected some jewels and sent them here, hoping to buy food and grass from the gods to fill their stomachs. I wonder if it will work?"

Shen Zhao knew that his elder brother had fooled Chen Wuhou and others with the story of the gods, so people in Wulei City thought that Chen Wuhou's food and grass were obtained from the gods.

This is good, the eldest brother won’t attract attention anymore.

She picked up the small leather bag tied to the key chain, only to find it was much heavier than last time.

When they poured it out, they were still various gold, silver, jewelry and other items, as well as a jade pendant and a dagger with a sheath inlaid with gems. They were obviously very valuable.

Shen Zhao gave them all to Xiaoqing to appraise their value and put them up in the shop.

If all of them were sold, the estimated value would be over one million dollars. Of course, the most valuable item would be the dagger, which was estimated to be worth seven hundred thousand dollars.

While Shen Zhao was delighted, he also did some calculations and finally decided to write a letter to tell his brother that he would soon send him 200 bags of 50-jin rice, 200 bundles of fodder, a sack of salt, and five large iron pots, which would cost a total of 80,000 coins.

In order to prevent the letter from falling into the hands of others, she did not call her brother or his name, but only called him Han Min. The letter was signed with the community god Ju Long.

Then Shen Zhao bought one hundred of the cheapest key chains from the mall, put them in a wooden box at the head of the kang, and prepared to give two to his brother every day.

He tied the letters and key chains together, put them on the shelf of his shop, and then quickly bought them and sent them to his eldest brother.

After waiting for a while, when the clock on her wrist pointed to nine o'clock in the evening, she placed an order for all the rice, fodder and other items in the shopping cart, and the shipping address was on the hill on her eldest brother's side.

At this moment, Shen Xun was squatting in the box house wiping arrows, occasionally stealing a glance at the two assistant generals sitting in front of the stove and warming themselves by the fire, and listening to the noise outside with his ears pricked up.

Suddenly, a soldier screamed in surprise: "The community god has sent us food and grass! The community god has sent us food and grass!"

"Oh my God! So many! We are saved!"

Chen Wuhou and the two assistant generals beside the general stood up and ran out of the box house quickly.

A large pile of tightly bundled hay slowly appeared, and a large pile of bagged rice and five large iron pots appeared on the hill.

The two officers were so shocked that they opened their mouths wide: "So the community god really appeared!"

It was also the first time that Chen Wuhou saw so much food and grass appear out of nowhere. He couldn't help but glance at Shen Xun who was slowly coming out of the box house.

Fortunately, I had the foresight to force my daughter to marry this boy. From now on, his affairs will be my own affairs, and I must not let anyone know that Shen Xun has such ability.

"Hurry! Transport these grains and fodders back to Wulei City. The soldiers are waiting for the rice to be cooked."

The two assistant officers kept directing the soldiers to move the food and grass, and said to Chen Wuhou: "Please send someone to help us send the food and grass back, and tell the general in detail about the magical features of this place. I will leave another team of soldiers here to guard it, and we must not let the Xiongnu take it away."

Chen Wuhou clasped his fists and said, "I obey your orders!" He remained calm on the surface, but in fact he had already cursed in his heart. Damn it! You just want to stay here because I have food. Do you think I am a fool?

But a higher-ranking official can crush a person to death, and he cannot show the slightest dissatisfaction, because criticizing his superior in private is also a crime.

However, I just need to take Shen Xun with me. He is my lucky star and now he is my future son-in-law. I must not leave him in the hands of others!
So, Chen Wuhou took more than 200 people and horses to transport food and fodder, and he walked the distance of twenty or thirty miles until dawn.

When the soldiers on the city gate tower saw the grain team coming, they pulled up the gate early, opened the two heavy wooden doors, and rushed out to help.

Some people didn't care that it was raw rice, they just opened the rice bag, grabbed a handful and put it into their mouths.

Shen Xun and the others looked sad and quickly handed over the big iron pot: "Wash the pot and light the fire to cook porridge. Eating like this will hurt your spleen and stomach."

The soldiers who were eating the rice had tears in their eyes. After expressing their gratitude repeatedly, they ran into the city carrying the big pots on their heads.

Due to the scarcity of combustible materials in the city, the soldiers dismantled the door frame and beams of an abandoned house and used them as firewood.

Then wipe the iron pot clean with the accumulated snow, and put some snow directly into it to boil water.

However, General Pingxi's personal guard captain came to stop them: "The general has ordered! No one is allowed to touch these grains!"

The soldiers became anxious when they heard this, but military orders were as heavy as a mountain, and they could only watch helplessly as the food and fodder were transported into the Protectorate.

Shen Xun kicked over an opened bag of rice and winked at the soldiers.

The soldiers were also smart and quickly ran over to grab it and put it in their arms.

The captain glared at Shen Xun fiercely, but the rice had already been scattered all over the ground, and when it was picked up, it was mixed with sand and gravel. Their personal guards would not eat it, so now they could only give it to the soldiers outside.

Shen Xun pretended not to see it. After all, Chen Wuhou's troops were under the jurisdiction of the General of the Left Army, and he was a clerk under Wuhou, so he was not afraid of the captain of the personal guard.

"Hey! What are you still doing here? Get out of here!" The captain shouted at Shen Xun.

If it weren't for the fact that he came to deliver food and supplies, I would have given this guy a good beating.

Shen Xun glanced at him, then turned and walked towards where he used to live.

Twenty or so soldiers guarding the city cast grateful glances at his back, quickly divided the rice, cooked a pot of porridge in a large iron pot, and waited quietly beside the pot.

They were originally the Han army stationed here, and belonged to the Protectorate of the Western Regions. With the death of the Protectorate, the remaining soldiers either fled or stayed in Wulei City.

However, the soldiers who defended the city were not commended by General Pingxi. Instead, they were given the least amount of food and fodder.

If the mountain had not been blocked by heavy snow, more than twenty soldiers would have run away long ago. How could they have stayed here to suffer humiliation and hunger?

As for Shen Xun, when he arrived at the camp of General Zuo Jun, he saw Qin Yi and Captain Gao coming out of General Zuo Jun's residence.

They were all soldiers stationed at Yumen, and were successively recruited into General Pingxi's army.

"Hey! Why is the deserter back again?" Captain Gao looked at Shen Xun sinisterly.

Shen Xun looked at him coldly: "Who do you say is a deserter?"

"Who else could it be? Of course it's you!" Captain Gao said with a vicious smile.

Shen Xun suddenly took two steps forward and punched him in the face.

(End of this chapter)