Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

The people had traveled for a day and a night to get here. Even now that they had reached the city wall of Pingchang County, they were all extremely tired and exhausted. Very few of them were as energetic as Lu You and his team.

In such silence, the shouts of the people selling sesame cakes seemed very abrupt and clear.

Everyone turned to look at Lu You.

"Second sister, when you made the plan to sell pancakes, did you consider that someone might be stealing your business?" Lu Yi asked with a frown.

Lu You: “…………”

Picking up a baked pancake, Lu You stood up angrily.

Doesn't make sense?

There shouldn't be anyone in the entire Qingshi Town who would do what I did and escape with just a bunch of sesame cakes, right?

Could it be that those guys who made the sesame cakes had the same idea as me?

In less than a cup of tea, the shouting voice had come closer. With the help of the firelight on both sides of the road, Lu You finally saw the face of the man selling sesame cakes.

It turned out to be a team of detectives!

Strictly speaking, he is a constable from Pingchang County!

At this time, the constables were holding official swords and protecting a donkey cart.

And on the donkey cart were seven or eight large wicker baskets, which were filled with sesame cakes!

I'm so meow...

Seeing people standing up on both sides of the road to buy sesame cakes, Lu You felt suffocated and almost vomited blood.

Is this Pingchang County magistrate having too much fun?

He is even more extortionate than me!

There was more than one donkey cart selling sesame cakes. There were actually two teams of people behind them, also selling something along the way on donkey carts.

"Looking at this situation, these people probably started to seal off the city after the first batch of refugees entered the city and learned about the situation in Bluestone City."

Hu Laojiu was chewing a sesame cake and spoke incoherently.

At this time, Lu You sighed helplessly.

Sure enough, there is no shortage of smart people in this world!

The ideas that I was so proud of were just leftovers from other people...

"Want to buy some sesame seed cakes? They're freshly baked this afternoon, one penny each!"

The constable pointed his knife at the group of people who had just expressed negative emotions towards Lu You and asked. Although his tone was very polite, the gleaming official knife made those people subconsciously retreat.

Seeing that the group of people were staring at the sesame cakes in the car eagerly, but no one came forward to buy them, the constable said nothing more and turned around to walk towards Lu You.

"Buy sesame cakes..."

The constable was about to ask Lu You, but he saw Lu You holding a short blade and staring at him with a bad look.

[Negative emotions from Chen Hao +30, +30, +30...]

Click!

Lu You opened his mouth and took a bite of the crispy baked pancake.

"Do you think we are short of sesame cakes?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Hao glanced at the people behind Lu You. His heart skipped a beat when he saw that they were all holding long knives and short blades and baking pancakes.

Especially after seeing Lu You's blood-stained clothes, Chen Hao subconsciously put the knife in front of him and took a step back.

"It seems that you don't need it, but we sell a lot of things, there must be something you can use."

After saying this, Chen Hao clasped his fists slightly towards Lu You, then waved his hand gently, led the team to avoid Lu You, and walked towards another campfire again.

"Boss, this pancake business has been stolen, what should we do?"

Hu Laojiu asked Lu You in a low voice. After being beaten twice in a row by Lu You, he was completely subdued and actually acknowledged Lu You as his boss as if he was familiar with him.

"I just don't believe that they can still feed nearly 10,000 people." Lu You chewed the pancake vigorously and said, "When their pancakes are sold out, my pancakes will still be in great demand!"

As Lu You was speaking, he heard the sound of shouting again not far away.

"Corn tortillas! Freshly made corn tortillas! A penny for one..."

Lu You: “…………”

Impressed!

Lu You sat back down beside the fire weakly.

She realized that even Pingchang County could not provide food for nearly 10,000 people.

But as long as they sent a few more donkey carts and made a few more circles, those people who could afford a penny to buy food would probably be full.

As for those who didn’t buy anything, they are just poor and can’t afford the cakes!

"Lower the price. If they sell it for one penny, we'll sell it for eighty pennies!"

Lu You said with gritted teeth, as if his heart was bleeding.

She calculated that there were nearly two hundred sesame cakes in the packages of herself, Lu Yi and the widow Zhou.

These are the ones that are visible. There are two large bags in her storage space, which together contain at least seven or eight hundred pieces of paper.

If they could sell all of them for eighty cents each, they could still get at least fifty taels of silver, enough for the nine of them to enter the city.

"The county magistrate of Pingchang County earns money from people who have more than one penny of silver in their savings. Then we will earn money from people who have less than one penny of silver in their savings."

Lu You said with a smile.

"We can even split the bread, half a piece for 40 coins. It won't fill us up, but it will keep us alive."

"At this time, forty cents can buy a life. I don't believe they won't buy it!"

Hu Laojiu, who was standing by, nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: "The boss is the boss, this is a good idea..."

As Hu Laojiu was speaking, he heard the hawking sounds again from behind.

"Rice soup! Freshly cooked rice soup! Thirty cents a bowl! Rice soup that can quench your thirst and save your life!"

Everyone: "…………"

Snapped! !

Lu You threw the short blade to the ground, hugged his legs and buried his head deeply in his arms.

Destroy it...

tired……

What is the thinking of this Pingchang County magistrate?

This doesn't even leave any money for yourself?

With this kind of brains, what kind of person are you to be a county magistrate?

If you just do business, you would have become rich a long time ago!

As one donkey cart after another passed by, Lu You fell into complete depression.

Five taels of silver as entrance fee!

A sesame seed bun worth one penny!

A penny worth of corn cake!

Thirty cents of rice soup!

There was even ten cents of sugared tea at the end...

This guy doesn't even intend to leave himself any chance!

Are we still entering a city like this?

Let’s just go around the city tomorrow!

Thinking of this, Lu You picked up the short blade in his hand and lay down on the carriage.

She actually thought about selling the Dali Pills directly. If she could find a way to let the Pingchang County Magistrate know the efficacy of the Dali Pills, she would definitely be treated as a guest of honor.

Or he could simply knock out a group of constables selling pancakes, and then use Juneday facial masks to change the faces of a few people and sneak into the city.

But these are Lu You's last resort. The current situation is not life-threatening. If they are exposed, it would be a loss.

After all, people like Zhao Wenbo and Guan Shanyue are not as easy to fool as Widow Zhou. They will treat me as a god when they see me take out a facial mask.

Lu You was lying in the car thinking, when he heard a woman's scream in the distance.

"You can't do this! This is the money I need to earn from selling bread..."

As soon as the woman's scream came out, it immediately turned into a howl, and then a man's scolding was heard.

"Fuck you! If you dare to bother me again, I'll chop you bitches into pieces with one blow."

"If we brothers hadn't fought desperately with the Jin soldiers at the west gate, would you have been able to escape alive?"

"What do you think this is? This is the money we earned by risking our lives!"