The sky collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, I found myself transported to Nanluoguxiang.

Captain Wang stared at Li Kaixin's retreating figure for a long time, unable to come back to his senses.

Master Chen stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Alright, Lao Wang, stop standing there. We'll chip in some money later to make up for the supplies and have some fun."

"Yeah, Lao Wang, even though we don't have the coupons for White Rabbit milk candy, we can still afford to pay for it," Master Guo chimed in.

The other dozen or so masters nodded in agreement.

Captain Wang withdrew his gaze, smiled, and nodded: "Okay! I'll cover the bulk of it later."

After the driver distributed the milk candies, the convoy drove for another hour before stopping beside a stream.

In this hour, no one fainted again.

Captain Wang called people out of the cars one by one to start a fire and cook.

Fortunately, Director Sun gave them two large iron pots before they left, otherwise, this group of people would have had a problem getting food.

Zhou Zhiming immediately picked up Li Kaixin's aluminum lunchbox and went to the stream to fetch water.

When he returned with his lunchbox, he couldn't help but complain, "Look, Master, this river is too shallow, and the water is so murky!"

As he spoke, he handed Li Kaixin's lunchbox to him.

"It's alright, it'll be fine once it boils," Li Kaixin said with a smile, glancing at the lunchbox.

Not long after everyone on the transport team finished eating and resting, the others finally managed to cook their meal.

Seeing that they would be staying there for a while, Zhou Zhiming, Wu Tian, ​​Song Hai, and Qian Dazhuang sat down together and started chatting.

Zhou Zhiming leaned closer to the group and spoke first: "Did you know? The driver just told me that the convoy stopped several times before because someone had fainted."

"We already know that, you don't need to tell us."

Wu Tian chuckled and looked at him with ill intent. "Zhiming, let me tell you something interesting. Tonight we're sleeping outside, and we apprentices have to keep watch."

"Brother Tian, ​​aren't we staying at the guesthouse tonight?" Zhou Zhiming asked, somewhat surprised.

Although Song Hai didn't speak, his eyes also held the same question.

"There's no such thing as a free lunch!"

Wu Tian spoke with the air of someone who had been through it all, "Last time we were also sleeping outside, but you were lucky that Yang Hua'an and Du Ziteng got into trouble, so you ended up staying at the guesthouse."

"Yeah, yeah!"

Qian Dazhuang chimed in, his voice low, "You and Brother Song don't know, but before you guys came last time, we went on a long-distance trip to Inner Mongolia. The night we were on watch, it was so cold, tsk..."

He shook his head halfway through his sentence, as if recalling some unbearable past.

After listening, Zhou Zhiming and Song Hai looked at each other in bewilderment.

Just then, they suddenly started arguing.

A middle-aged woman with triangular eyes, leading a boy of about thirteen or fourteen, shouted at the woman serving food:

"You're giving me so little? Are you trying to fetch a beggar? I saw several bags of grain when you were loading the truck. Did you pocket them all?"

These few shouts successfully attracted the attention of many people present.

Zhou Zhiming and the others also stopped talking and turned to watch the commotion.

"Aunt Li, you've wronged me."

The woman serving the food blushed with anxiety, picked up her bowl and held it up in front of the woman, saying, "Look, this is all the food I have in my bowl! Everyone gets the same amount!"

"I don't care about any of that!" Aunt Li persisted. "My grandson is still growing, what's wrong with giving him more!"

"That won't do." The woman serving the food spoke softly but without backing down. "If we give more to your grandson, others will go hungry."

When Aunt Li realized she couldn't reason with her, she reached out to grab it.

The two immediately started pulling at each other.

Captain Wang stood not far away, his face instantly darkening.

These people had already wasted a lot of time eating and were already annoyed, and now they were arguing.

"Stop it, all of you!" Captain Wang strode over and shouted at Aunt Li, "If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. Get in the car now!"

The woman serving the food immediately stopped what she was doing.

Aunt Li turned her head and saw that the person who came was dressed plainly. She curled her lip and said, "Who are you! What right do you have to tell me what to do? It's not like I'm eating your food."

"Why should I? Because I'm the team leader this time!" Captain Wang's tone was icy. "Do you believe I'll just leave you here to fend for yourself?"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Li's face immediately changed: "You...you can't do this!"

"If you dare to cause any more trouble, I'll see if I just abandon you."

Captain Wang stepped forward and approached, then said, word by word, "The higher-ups gave me a quota. I can take responsibility for the death of one or two people. Do you want to give it a try?"

After speaking, he coldly swept his gaze over the onlookers.

Aunt Li fell completely silent. Holding the bowl in one hand and pulling the boy back with the other, she shrank back, not daring to look up again.

Those who were about to join in the commotion put aside their own little schemes and obediently lined up.

They saw that there was no one in charge of serving the food, so they thought they could take advantage of the chaos to grab a few extra bites.

Captain Wang saw all of this and was secretly relieved, but he still kept a straight face.

The strategy of making an example of someone to deter others was successful, and the situation was brought under control.

Although what he said just now was false, if things really escalate later, he would actually do it for the sake of the bigger picture.

After the little incident, everyone behaved themselves, and no one even tried to cut in line.

Captain Wang watched from the sidelines until everyone had received their food before turning to leave.

At this moment, Li Kaixin found him carrying more than ten jugs filled with Chinese medicine.

"Captain Wang, most of the people who fainted this morning were carsick."

Li Kaixin handed over the items, saying, "This is some motion sickness medicine I just brewed. Let those who are prone to motion sickness drink some before we set off!"

Captain Wang didn't stand on ceremony and chuckled as he reached out to take it, saying, "Kaixin, you're quite thoughtful."

"No, that's not it!" Li Kaixin smiled. "I'm just afraid of going back and forth like this morning. I mainly want to avoid any trouble."

Captain Wang patted him on the shoulder: "Anyway, thank you. I'm happy."

After they finished eating, Captain Wang immediately directed the apprentices to distribute the motion sickness medicine that Li Kaixin had just given them.

Once everything was ready, the convoy resumed its journey.

Sure enough, nothing else went wrong throughout the afternoon, and the convoy even sped up its pace.