Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 243 Answer the question
"Madam, where are you taking us?"

A group of women formed into two teams and walked outside with somewhat nervous expressions. Occasionally, when a patrol team passed by, they hunched their backs like frightened birds, wishing they could bury their heads directly on the ground.

One woman couldn't help herself and finally mustered up the courage to ask Mei Qian who was walking in front.

"Perfume shop."

The perfume shop is a public bathhouse.

When the others heard this, they were stunned at first, and then their faces were full of disbelief.

"Why, why do you want to go to the perfume shop?"

She asked, and then her face suddenly turned pale, as if she thought of something bad. There was some resentment in her eyes, and she suddenly lowered her head with inexplicable inferiority, and even her steps softened and she was unwilling to walk anymore.

"It's so hot, it's going to stink if I don't wash it."

Ladies: Ah?

Is this the reason?

Mei Qian looked at their dumbfounded and confused expressions, and did not give them a chance to ask again. She urged them twice, "Well, if you don't go now, the water I boiled this morning will get cold."

After saying that, Mei Qian quickened his pace, and seeing this, the others had no choice but to quicken their pace and follow.

A group of women felt somewhat awkward when they were "open and honest" with each other in the perfume shop.

Mei Qian, also wearing a thin layer of clothes, led everyone to walk around in the steamy room, pointed to the large pool in the middle, and said that they could wash their hair here later.

There were a lot of combs and shampoo powder placed by the pool.

In addition to this pool, there are many large wooden barrels around it for individual bathing.

God knows how much effort Mei Qian put into preparing all this.

After the introduction, Mei Qian chose to sit at the edge and started soaking her feet. Then she signaled everyone to move freely.

It doesn't matter whether you take a shower first or wash your hair first, just wash it as you like.

Gradually, when everyone realized that Mei Qian really didn't care about them, they began to tentatively wash up.

From the nervousness in the beginning to the ability to wash and wipe each other's hair in the end in the big bath, Mei Qian saw all these changes.

Later, when everyone was soaking in the tub, Mei Qian asked two maids to pour everyone a cup of herbal tea for everyone to drink.

Mei Qian specially added fifteen drops of floral dew that she exchanged with the half-elf into this herbal tea.

She had managed to save only twenty drops so far.

Because it is much more diluted, it will no longer have the obvious effect of causing diarrhea and detoxification after swallowing it, but now through bathing and fumigation, some of the body's congested substances can be discharged along with the sweat.

In addition to the effects of detoxifying, cleansing the body and resisting hunger, the flower dew also has a small advantage that may not be obvious on a normal day, but is just right to use at this time - it can purify the mind.

Therefore, after drinking the herbal tea, everyone's originally bloodless cheeks and eyes were stained with a hint of red glow with some gray sweat.

In addition, they didn't even notice that they were gradually becoming bolder and were lying on the edge of the bathtub chatting with anyone who came close to them.

At this moment, I forgot about the previous unpleasantness and Mei Qian's existence.

Mei Qian was not annoyed. She also drank a cup of cold tea, then stopped soaking her feet and went to the outer room to change her clothes. When the time was almost up, she sent someone to call them.

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When Lin Zhiman changed into a set of elegant fine cotton, she suddenly felt like she was dreaming. When she was still a girl at home, she could only wear the coarse linen clothes that her sister didn't want after she got married.

She once followed her mother into the city wearing a rough and hard linen shirt and passed by the gorgeous cloth shop. Just one glance and those exquisite and gorgeous cloths took up residence in her heart forever.

She thought, how great it would be if she could own a batch of silk clothes one day!
However, after she was captured by the Western Rong people, she never thought about these silks and satins again.

Once, Lin Zhiman was forced to wear an exquisite skirt that was still stained with blood.

That skirt was really beautiful, so beautiful that she didn't even know how to wear it. When her eyes occasionally swept across the blood on the skirt, her heart trembled.

She didn't dare to think about what the owner of this skirt had experienced. She put on the skirt tightly and let the Xirong people destroy it. Occasionally, they would say some words of An Guo.

After listening to the stumbling words for a long time, Lin Zhiman finally understood them.

These barbarians who broke into Anguo and burned, killed and looted Anguo really acted like the superior people.

If they could let the female slaves who were venting their anger for them change into good clothes, they would be able to bully those noble ladies who had long left the capital.

Now, Lin Zhiman stretched out her hand and kept stroking the soft cotton cloth she had put on. Although it was not as delicate and smooth as silk satin, it made Lin Zhiman feel at ease again.

If it were in the past, she would have only needed to help her parents do more work with this kind of fabric, and with better weather and harvests in the coming year, perhaps, when she got married, she would have been able to get a new dress made of such fine cotton cloth like her elder sister.

But the beauty that was within reach was completely destroyed by a war, and tears inexplicably flowed uncontrollably from her eyes...

Mei Qian watched as everyone changed their clothes, and some of them even burst into tears.

She just gave them a few words of advice and then took them to see the doctor. Before the diagnosis, Mei Qian had told the doctor in advance that they should be careful with their words.

Therefore, everyone was extremely nervous, fearing that the doctor would say something unpleasant after taking their pulses. In the end, the doctor only said that they were depressed and had insufficient qi and blood.

Afterwards, at Mei Qian's invitation, everyone left the perfume shop and went to another tidied house.

This place is more compact than the house where they were originally settled, but the sound of patrolling soldiers walking on the street outside can be heard through the courtyard wall.

Such a sound is both reassuring and frightening.

But Mei Qian did not give everyone any chance to panic. They were arranged to have dinner next. More than a dozen tables were set up in the open space in front of the main hall.

Mei Qian stood out from the crowd, carrying her bowl and eating from the first table to the last table.

Mei Qian didn't have the habit of not talking while eating or sleeping, so almost all the women present were questioned by Mei Qian.

She asked at whichever table she was eating at.

The questions were not difficult to talk about, mostly about age, expertise, etc.

For example, can they read? Do they have any experience in farming? Do they have some skills in needlework, weaving, animal husbandry, cooking, etc.?

Occasionally, Mei Qian would ask some more elegant questions, including some about music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and a few girls answered that they had learned them.

The group of people didn't know why Mei Qian asked these questions, and their expressions after learning these answers from Mei Qian couldn't tell what Mei Qian was thinking.

After the meal, when the sun was about to set, Mei Qian asked them to have a good rest here for the night and said that she would come again tomorrow. She hoped that everyone could answer a question for her then.

"Will you change your identity and place and start your life all over again?"

I wish you all a healthy Dragon Boat Festival~ Muah!!