No matter who the mastermind was, Si Hongjing would not let them go.
Unless he died at this Dongping Pass.
Otherwise, he would avenge the soldiers of Dongping Pass who were persecuted by their comrades.
Because of the newly arrived reinforcements, all of whom were seriously injured, Si Hongjing had countless more troublesome things to deal with. By the time he finished, it was already late Xu Shi (7-9 PM).
After hesitating for a moment, he still chose to take the gold and silver jewelry he had scrounged from Zhong Yi and went to find Yuan Ying.
The rain in Wannan was still falling.
Si Hongjing felt the dampness as soon as he stepped into the yard.
“Hmm? I thought you weren’t coming tonight.”
Yuan Ying was sitting by the window reading a book, the dim light shining down, setting off a halo around her, like a fairy from the ninth heaven.
Si Hongjing quickly blinked his eyes, suppressing the weird feeling in his heart.
“I came to bring you something.” he said.
Yuan Ying quickly came downstairs.
Si Hongjing entered the living room, placed the wooden box on the coffee table, and opened it.
In the bright light of the living room, Yuan Ying could clearly see that this batch of hairpins was much more delicate than the previous ones.
It seemed that the craftsmanship was even more superb.
“Does Dongping Pass have famous artists who make these?” she asked.
“A friend gave them to me. They are all works by famous artists. I’m giving them to you to collect.”
Si Hongjing recalled what Zhong Yi had said during the day and introduced them to her one by one.
He stumbled over the words like filigree gold work, engraving, and hollowing techniques, obviously memorizing them on the spot.
“Your friend…” How could he have so many collections in Dongping Pass?
“Not a woman.”
“…”
The irrelevant answer made Yuan Ying look puzzled.
The atmosphere instantly became awkward.
“He… his name is Zhong Yi, he’s my good friend, he has a bunch of confidantes, and he collects these to give away.” Si Hongjing said uncomfortably.
“Also someone from the barracks?”
“Yes.”
Yuan Ying understood.
She carefully looked at the hairpins and hair accessories.
Then she looked at Si Hongjing:
“Did something happen in the barracks? As soon as you came in, I noticed you were frowning subconsciously.”
She was observing him…
Si Hongjing didn’t dare to think too much and told her about the reinforcements being all wounded and disabled soldiers.
“They want to wear you down!” Yuan Ying instantly captured the key point.
“Yes.”
“Let me think.” Yuan Ying thought for a moment before saying: “Even if I can really buy that much grain, can you move it all by yourself?”
Si Hongjing didn’t try to be brave.
If it was really the food for an entire barracks, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to finish moving it even if he moved day and night.
The two looked at each other, and Yuan Ying said:
“You can just open the door of the warehouse, so you don’t have to move it from the general’s mansion to the barracks anymore.”
At first, they thought that only the door of her house and his bedroom could connect the past and present, so they operated in this way.
But later they learned that any door could directly open a door in the warehouse.
“But moving it from your yard to the door is also a problem.” Si Hongjing was considering this issue.
“Leave this to me.” The ancients didn’t know what modern equipment there was, so let her solve it, “I’ll go get the grain when the rain stops in the next two days.”
“Will it be dangerous?”
“No.”
Si Hongjing was slightly relieved, and looked at Yuan Ying hesitantly for a long time before saying: “I will bring you more things.”
Yuan Ying responded.
In fact, the box of hairpins and hair accessories that Si Hongjing sent her today was of unknown value.
Things made by famous artists of the Great Qian.
It was estimated that one piece could be worth hundreds of millions, let alone a box.
…
The rain in Wannan continued to fall for four days.
During this period, the villagers sent some more food, and Yuan Ying still accepted it all.
However, looking at the empty yard, the villagers were still inevitably a little puzzled.
“It’s raining heavily, and there are still people coming to collect vegetables? Little girl, you are really amazing!”
Yuan Ying also took this opportunity to inquire about places that collect vegetables in large quantities from the villagers.
After the weather cleared, Yuan Ying came to the farmers’ market in the south of the county.
She asked about the price of several vegetables.
Unfortunately, they seemed to think she was young and didn’t look like she would do wholesale business, so they didn’t want to talk to her at all.
It was still a forty or fifty-year-old aunt who took the initiative to talk to her and asked her what she needed.
Yuan Ying chatted with the aunt in front of her stall.
“Hey, Aunt Wang, why are you talking so much to a young girl? You’re wasting your breath!”
“Look at her white and tender arms, she doesn’t look like she can do our kind of work!”
“Really idle enough!”
Yuan Ying had just asked about the price of several vegetables, and before Aunt Wang could speak, the vendors next to her began to mock her.
“What’s wrong with people asking! I just like talking to pretty girls! Even if she doesn’t buy, I’m happy to talk to her! It’s better than talking to you stinky old men!”
Aunt Wang immediately showed the momentum of a quarrel.
Yuan Ying smiled instantly when she heard Aunt Wang’s words, and she said:
“I need a very large quantity, can you help me collect it, Aunt Wang?”
“Tsk, how big can the quantity be! It can’t be ten jins, right?” the energetic young man next to her said again.
Aunt Wang patted her chest and guaranteed:
“I can get you as much as you want, Aunt Wang!”
Yuan Ying had checked last night that if calculated according to the nutrients needed by the human body, one person has to eat one jin of vegetables a day, then 50,000 people would need 50,000 jins, 25 tons…
“At least ten tons a day.” she said.
“How much?” Aunt Wang was surprised.
“Stop bragging!”
“Little girl, don’t bite off more than you can chew, it’s okay if you don’t buy.”
The people next to her were still talking, but Yuan Ying seemed not to hear them, and asked Aunt Wang: “Auntie, can you get it?”
“Yes, absolutely! But, girl, don’t you want to ask about the price first?” Aunt Wang asked hesitantly after being shocked.
Yuan Ying shook her head:
“I know the approximate price of wholesale, as long as the price you give is right, I’ll order it from you.”
Look.
She wasn’t as ignorant as they said.
Aunt Wang quoted Yuan Ying a price for each vegetable.
The purchase volume of ten tons was naturally cheaper than collecting from the villagers.
Yuan Ying left contact information and address, signed a contract, and simply transferred the deposit to her.
But…
As she left, she was quietly followed.
“Little girl, aren’t you going to take another look?”
“We also have a lot of varieties, and the price can be even more favorable for you!”
The two were the father and son pair from the stall next to Aunt Wang’s just now.
Yuan Ying looked at the two coldly:
“I won’t bother you two with my ten jins of vegetables.”
After saying that, she ignored the regretful expressions of the two and drove to the material market again, asked someone to measure the frame of her door, and customized a ‘sheet metal slide’.
When the time comes, she would open the door first, open the passage connecting the ancient and modern worlds, and then the trucks transporting vegetables would directly dump all the vegetables onto the slide like garbage trucks dumping garbage into her ‘yard’.
In this way, Si Hongjing’s physical effort of moving more than ten tons of fruits and vegetables could be saved.
As for grain, she would ask the people in the village to see if there were any reliable large-scale rice and flour factories.