My whole family time-traveled! I became a god during my exile in a famine.

Chapter 287 Lack of an Opportunity
Zhao Jianghe and his group were indeed very experienced; they quickly brought back several cartloads of goods.

Xin Wenyuan led Chang Mianmian over to take a quick look at the supplies, and after recording the points, he waved his hand and told them to distribute the items.

As for the cart, he can push it if he wants, or leave it by the roadside if he doesn't. His daughter will definitely take it if she sees something useful when she passes by.

The weather turned a few degrees colder that night, and many people spread out their quilts to wrap themselves in and use as padding.

Xin Nian checked the nighttime temperature: 17 degrees Celsius. This... the temperature drop is quite significant. She needs to get to her destination as soon as possible; she can't afford to be delayed on the way and then be hit by another sudden and severe cold snap.

The group members had basically gotten used to sleeping on the ground under the wasteland wall for one night.

Xin Nian has recently become obsessed with cultivating her supernatural abilities, and she often takes her team members in with her in the evenings.

Anyway, there's plenty of time inside; you can sleep when you want or keep practicing when you want.

Xie Ninglan went to the back mountain to plant trees, and now all the trees on the back mountain are planted by her, which can be described as quite spectacular.

She can plant trees and farm whenever she has time, so that her daughter can take out a grove of trees whenever she goes to the fixed base.

Xin Nian's energy has been somewhat restless these past few days. Why?
After absorbing the remaining energy source stones, she discovered that although she could quickly advance to the eighth rank, she was always just a little short of the right opportunity.

The energy fluctuations were very turbulent, but Xin Laoliu remained calm as always.

She's composed and never in a hurry. There's no point in rushing anyway. If there's no opportunity, there's no opportunity. She'll just wait for the right moment to come.

After all, it's about advancing to the eighth rank. Even with a lifetime of experience, it wouldn't be so easy to let someone ascend.

Xin Nian opened her eyes and felt that it was almost dawn, so she pulled all the team members out. After meditating for a short while, people came out quietly and went to relieve themselves in a distance.

Xin Nian and the others didn't need to go through such trouble. After taking a bath and sleeping in the wooden house, they were all feeling refreshed.

After most people woke up, the few of them got up one by one.

The family had already had a hearty breakfast on the farm, and they were just waiting for the others to finish their meal quickly so they could set off.

Today we must cross the border town ruins in one go. To save time, Xin Laoliu released the oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages again, urging everyone who had finished breakfast to get on.

Everyone has taken countless buses these past few days, so they know their bus locations very well, and they can even remember the phone numbers of their fellow passengers...

So when they boarded the oxcarts and were all ready to set off, Wang Ermao, on the third-to-last oxcart, waved and shouted, "Commander, number 528 hasn't boarded yet!"

Old Xin, with his wife, rode over on a sturdy black horse, clattering along. "Huh? How are the other cars?"

"No one is missing!"

"They're all here!"

"Only 528 less? Is he a young man in his early twenties?"

"Yes, Commander." Wang Ermao nodded.

Five Hundred and Twenty-Eight is a small investor who initially followed the villagers of Zhoucun, but he is not actually from Zhoucun.

Xin Nian rode over on a chestnut horse, looked around, and said, "Father, you take them and go ahead. Yan Xi and I will go and look for them."

"Okay, okay." The battalion commander obeyed without question and immediately ran forward with his wife.

After the caravan started moving, Xin Nian called Yan Xi over, and the two of them rode around the area on horseback.

"How is it?" A perfectly healthy person went out to take a leak and didn't come back? "Fell into a ditch." Because there were so many people, and the missing person was just an ordinary person, unlike the dazzling sorcerers, Yan Xi spent a long time looking at him in her dispersed mental world...

"Huh?" Xin Nian looked speechless. "Where did you fall into? There's no ditch here."

"Let's go." Yan Xi flicked the reins, leading Xin Nian straight to the back of the group, around the collapsed earthen wall and jumping off the horse. "It's just ahead."

Xin Nian dismounted, took a few steps forward, and almost stepped into a pit. She then leaned forward for a closer look.

Sure enough, there was a ditch about ten meters long and several meters deep, hidden under the pit. There were two ruined walls blocking the way, and the location was indeed very well hidden.

The unlucky guy, number 528, lay there dumbfounded in the ditch, struggling to climb up, but he couldn't get up at all.

Her once fair and clean face is now covered in a mess of dirt and filth...

Xin Nian, expressionless, squatted by the toilet and stared at the unlucky guy. "Are you mute?"

Doesn't he know how to shout something? If Wang Ermao doesn't say anything and the team just leaves like this, does he intend to stay at the bottom of this pit for ten thousand years?

"Sixth, Sixth Miss..." The unlucky fellow was almost crying, tears welling up in his eyes as he looked at her.

Xin Nian raised an eyebrow. Oh, the boy's voice was soft and gentle, sounding like a shy young girl...

Xin Nian glanced at the pit below, reluctantly jumped down, and just as she grabbed his hand, she realized... there seemed to be something under her feet.

"There's a box," the unlucky fellow chimed in at the opportune moment.

Xin Nian used her spatial blade to cleave open the box below and suddenly spotted a large, glowing stone.

Now they couldn't care less about the boxes or anything else; the energy source stone was stuck on the edge of the pit, with half of it sticking out.

"You go up first." Xin Nian found the man in the way, so she simply tossed him up. Yan Xi resigned herself to her fate and grabbed the unlucky guy, catching him steadily against the earthen wall.

Unexpectedly, finding someone led to the discovery of a large energy source stone. Xin Nian thanked his heavens and his entire family's ancestors!
She used her spatial blade to cut deeper before taking the energy source stone, and then she fell down into the widened hole.

"Sixth Sister!" the unlucky young man cried out in fright.

"She's fine." Yan Xi's expression was calm. In his linear mental world, he could see a small, sun-like bright spot moving rapidly forward from underground, busily moving back and forth.

Xin Nian quickly returned the way she came, and also stored all seven large boxes hidden in the ditch into her spatial storage.

She only looked at one of the boxes; it was gold. What use is that stuff now, unless she can travel through time and space to shop elsewhere…

"What's down below the hole?" Yan Xi asked curiously as she saw her leap back to the ground.

"It felt like an underground market where people were buying and selling things. There were a lot of stalls downstairs, and I bought all the goods."

Yan Xi raised an eyebrow. "That should be the largest trading center in the border town. Many external tribes and ethnic groups come and go here. They like to come to the border town to barter, exchanging gems, gold jewelry, brocade and other items for rice, flour and cooking oil with us."

Oh, no wonder there are so many shops down there. She passed by in a flash and saw mostly utensils, ornaments and decorations, but not much food.

However, there's a brick shop downstairs, and the brand-new bricks seem quite useful.

Xin Nian scoured the entire underground market; since she was already there, she figured she might as well take what she could get.

I saved someone, but after browsing the entire market, I even found a huge energy source stone. I feel like this trip was not only worthwhile, but I actually got a great deal.

The sixth brother immediately turned to people with a kind and gentle expression.