Shen Yuyu thought of what her third uncle had just said, and the porridge provided by the rich households in the city was getting thinner and thinner.
This shows that the food in the city is not inexhaustible.
There are more and more people outside the city who still want to live off the rich households in the city, which is not a long-term solution.
If the refugees outside the city break out, Dashan County will become like their county seat.
So Shen Yuyu said: "Grandma, we have enough money, but let's discuss it and decide whether to enter the city or not."
"What, not going into the city?" Old Mrs. Shen said in surprise.
But she knew that Shen Yuyu always had his own ideas, so she said, "Okay, let's discuss it later."
The two of them returned to the crowd.
When Mr. Shen saw Shen Yuyu coming back, he asked, "What do you think of Shen Yuyu? Do you think it's okay for us to go to the city?"
Shen Yuyu looked around the crowd and then said what he had just thought.
Finally, she added: "It is not safe to gather so many refugees outside the city, and there are a lot of dead bodies on the way we came. If no one takes care of them for a long time, it is easy for the plague to occur. Let's continue going south."
What Shen Yuyu said was indeed pertinent, and Mr. Shen did not refute it. Others also listened quietly, thinking that what she said made sense.
Mr. Shen looked at Shen Rong and asked, "Boss, look at where we can go around if we don't enter the city."
Shen Rong took out the terrain map from his bag and spread it on the ground.
It was already dark at this time, and no one dared to use the electric lamp given by Shen Yuyu here, so they lit a few oil lamps for lighting.
Everyone gathered around, even Fei Yanche and Ji Xun came closer to take a look.
This was the first time Fei Yanche saw the terrain map they brought with them. It was not as detailed as the ones in the army, but it was okay.
Shen Rong said: "If you want to get around this city, there are only two ways. To go east, you need to climb over the mountain. To the west is a large forest with a wide area."
Everyone raised their heads and looked in the direction pointed by Shen Rong. Even though it was already dark, they could see the faint and towering peaks.
There are wolves and wild animals on the mountain, so you can imagine how dangerous it will be.
So everyone chose to go to the west jungle without hesitation.
"We are driving both an ox cart and a flatbed cart. It will definitely be troublesome to cross the mountain. Let's go through the woods."
Fei Yanche thought for a while, but couldn't find any record of that forest in his memory.
He turned to look at Shen Yuxi and asked, "Where do you think it is best to go?"
Everyone looked at Shen Yue, waiting for her decision.
Shen Yue: "..." Why do you want to see what I do?
She took out a copper plate and tossed it in her hand: "Walking through the woods on the front side, over the mountains on the back side."
After saying that, he threw the copper plate out. The copper plate flipped several times and finally fell into Shen Yuyu's hands.
Shen Yuyu opened his hands with his palms facing up. Everyone looked over and saw that the copper plate was facing up. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Yuyu said: "But we still have to go to the city to replenish some medicinal materials and the like."
"There must be a lot of snakes, rats, insects and ants in the forest. I'll buy some insect repellent powder tomorrow and add some other things along the way."
Shen Yuyu would never say that he was greedy. Although there were many things in the space, he could not use them without any worries.
But when she goes to town tomorrow, she will have an excuse to get things out of the space.
After making the decision, the big stone in everyone's mind has finally fallen to the ground.
Because there were nearly a thousand refugees not far away, the Shen family didn't want to cause any trouble, so they didn't light a fire to cook.
I still eat fried pancakes with my favorite sauce, and drink some water from each water bag, and dinner is over.
But even so, it is much better than many people outside the city gate.
Because I was worried that something might happen at night, I arranged for a few more people to keep vigil before going to bed. There were four people at each vigil.
In the middle of the night, Shen Yue, Fei Yanche, Shen Rong, and Shen Ming kept vigil together.
The surroundings were quiet, except for the sounds of Fei Yanche and Shen Yuyu talking in low voices from time to time.
A few people who were lying outside the city gate quietly stood up and walked towards the Shen family and the others.
"Wang Mazi, if you make any money from this business, I have to get a share of it." A thin man with triangular eyes said in a low voice.
And another man named Wang Mazi said irritably: "I know, you will benefit from following me well from now on."
The man with triangular eyes rubbed his hands and asked, "I see that these boys who came here today sell more water than you did in the past few days. Can you make more money?"
Wang Mazi glanced sideways at the man with triangular eyes and replied unhappily: "No matter how much it is, you can only get 30%, otherwise there will be many people willing to follow me."
"Hehe, what you said is, 30% makes 30%." The man with triangular eyes was not reluctant at all, but said happily.
The two of them continued to sneak towards Shen's house.
And their target is not the Shen family's food, but the Shen family's children.
Wang Mazi would look for good-looking boys outside the city, and people from the city would come out to take over with them early the next morning.
The people in the city gave grain to Wang Mazi, and Wang Mazi gave the children captured at night to those people.
There are people in the city who come out every day to exchange grain for children with these people outside. A baby girl can be exchanged for half a bag of grain, and these people are also willing.
However, these people are willing to exchange their girls for food, but the boys are not willing to do so.
But the people in the flower houses in the city also have a demand for beautiful boys, and these people are not willing to sell their sons, so they came up with this method.
Wang Mazi scouted out good people in advance during the day, stole the child away at night, and gave it to those people in exchange for food the next morning.
Today is their second time doing this, and they didn’t expect to meet such good guys.
When the Shen family's team came today, they happened to be at the back of the crowd. They saw these children at a glance and thought they would definitely get a good price.
So the one child that was originally expected to be favored was replaced by Wulang and Liulang, the youngest children of the Shen family.
When the triangular-eyed man and Wang Mazi came this way, the four people on guard discovered them.
At first I thought they were trying to steal food, so I wasn't that angry. But when they got closer and heard what they said, I became even more furious.
Boy? Sell it? Make more money?
It seemed that they wanted to steal some of the Shen children and sell them.
Just when Shen Rong and Shen Ming couldn't help but wanted to stand up and beat them up, Shen Yue stopped them.
She and Fei Yanche looked at each other and whispered, "Do you want to eliminate harm for the people?"
"Fuck, let's go!" Fei Yanche nodded tacitly, and after the two looked at each other, they quietly stood up and walked around behind the two people.
The two of them struck quickly, almost at the same moment, and a hand blade knocked out the two people who sneaked over.