Xiaohong responded, carrying the bucket and following the person fetching water.

Gu Qinglei finished cooking the stove, and Uncle Ma looked for Gu Fei, "Where's the rabbit meat?"

Gu Fei shook his head, "Uncle Ma, I'm afraid I can't eat today. Look around."

Uncle Ma didn't need to look to know that there were disaster victims all around him. He slapped his head and said, "Look at me, I've forgotten everything when I'm so greedy. I'll eat it another day."

Mrs. Chen directed Lian'er to cook a pot of porridge, put some dried vegetables in it, and distributed steamed buns to everyone.

While eating, Xiaohong's voice came from Qian's side, "Auntie, you forgot to give me the steamed bun."

Qian said with a straight face, "What kind of steamed buns? None!"

"My family is running out of food and I can't afford to feed you. You can find another family. I've fed you for so long, so I'm worthy of you."

When everyone heard this, they understood that Qian was reluctant to take the three hundred coins that he brought into the city.

Xiaohong bit her lip and glanced towards Gu Fei's family. Everyone in the Gu family quickly lowered their heads and looked at the sky to avoid accidentally meeting their eyes.

Xiaohong lowered her head, then raised it after a while, and looked at Qian pleadingly, "Auntie, I don't want to eat the steamed buns, so I'll sleep one night before leaving. It's cold at night, and I don't have any bedding."

Seeing the girl begging softly, Qian's heart softened for a moment, "That's alright, you can just sleep for one night, and don't follow us tomorrow."

After dinner, everyone discussed together whether to pay the money tomorrow.

Gu Zhang didn't say anything. He was thinking about how his family would have lived if Xiao Fei hadn't come home.

The village chief sighed, "Just hand it over, there's nothing we can do about it."

Mr. Zhang's family is quite wealthy, otherwise he wouldn't be able to afford a carriage. The cheapest horse costs about thirty taels of silver.

He sighed and said nothing. Just hand it over. What else can you do if you don't hand it over?

Although my eldest uncle's house is in the mountains, he and his two sons are good hunters, and he can also make leather tanners. Over the course of a year, he can save at least ten taels of silver.

It's just that his family is used to saving and is reluctant to eat fine grains. He still has a lot of money in hand.

Gu Zhong still had his mother's pension money in his hand, twenty taels a year, and he had saved one or twenty taels over the years.

The only one who really has no money is Gu Rong. He only has a few coins in his hand, which is really not enough.

He grabbed his hair and was about to speak when Gu Zhang touched him and Gu Rong became silent.

Shan Zi's mother didn't say anything from the beginning to the end. There were only two people in her family anyway, so they couldn't afford this little money.

Seeing that no one said they would not go into the city, Uncle Ma said: "Everyone, please rest early. We will go into the city tomorrow and buy everything we need to buy, especially food and water. We must prepare enough food and water. We will meet at the east city gate at noon." Let’s go.”

Everyone stopped.

When Gu Fei got up early in the morning and was getting dressed, she suddenly heard Qian's scream, "Where is my millet? Where did most of my bag of millet go?"

Everyone panicked when they heard this and quickly checked their own food. Fortunately, it was all there.

Gu Zhong said impatiently: "Look again, you are stuffing that little food here and there all day long, who knows where you put it."

Qian frantically rummaged through everything in the car and sat down on the ground, "It's gone, it's really gone."

She suddenly got up and asked, "Who were the ones who were keeping watch yesterday? Why did you keep watch? You didn't see anyone stealing anything from my house?"

The eldest uncle stood up and frowned, "I stayed with Da Lang for the first half of the night yesterday and didn't see anyone approaching the car."

"Your man is here for the rest of the night, ask him!"

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