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

Chapter 62 Entering the City
Mrs. Mei gave away three taels of silver without blinking an eye.

The three of them, grandfather and grandson, successfully got the cards to enter the city.

After passing through the heavy city gate, when Mei Qian saw light again, she felt like she had traveled through time again.

There was a buzz of people, and everything you passed was prosperous.

This made Mei Qian suddenly feel a sense of confusion and discomfort as she stepped from a primitive society into a civilized society.

This is the first time she has seen a stable and prosperous place in ancient times after traveling for so long.

"gone."

When Mei Qian was stunned, Mei Shitou stood beside Mei Qian and whispered to Mei Qian.

At some point, the brother and sister were several steps behind her, and she was asking for directions from passers-by not far away.

Mei Qian and Mei Shitou caught up just in time to hear Mrs. Mei ask for the way to the hospital.

"Nai, how can you go to the hospital safely?"

With Cui'er at home, Mei Qian didn't know why her mother went straight to the medical clinic in the city.

"Nai, is someone in the family feeling uncomfortable? Tweetie can't do anything about it?" Mei Shitou also asked with concern.

"What are you thinking about?"

Mrs. Mei looked at her concerned grandchildren, suppressed her impatience, and said, "We are buying some medicine packs to relieve the heat. It is so hot today, and we don't know how long we will have to walk. If we keep walking like this, I might get heatstroke someday."

As soon as she got off the boat, Mrs. Mei felt the difference between summer in the south of the Yangtze River and in the north.

Hot and humid.

She also lived in the south when she was young, so she naturally knew the climate here, so before leaving Huaichu, the first thing Mrs. Mei thought of was to buy some things that their family was lacking.

"That's it."

Mei Qian and Mei Shitou nodded slightly and followed Mrs. Mei to the medical center where the passerby had pointed the way.

The medicine boy learned that they were not buying medicine from a doctor, so he pushed them aside to face various packaged medicine packages.

It can be seen that Mrs. Mei is not the only one who thinks about buying Chinese patent medicines. Many locals here think so.

Mei Qian recognized the Anguo font, which was similar to traditional Chinese characters, and saw the types of medicines sold on those medicine packages.

In fact, they are said to be Chinese patent medicines, but these are more like those modern health-preserving tea bags.

Don’t seek merit but seek no fault.

The most common herbal tea bags used in summer are herbal tea bags that can be used to remove heat, those that can be placed directly in a sachet to repel mosquitoes when you get home, and some very cheap medical bags that can be directly used to boil water for bathing to remove prickly heat.

Mei Qian was fascinated by what she saw, but Mei Shitou, who was standing by him, asked curiously: "Do you understand?"

Mei Qian: "..."

In Mei Qian's memory, she never went to school, but her mother, Jiang, was literate and she had learned it from her, but she just wasn't as proficient as Mei Qian now.

Although the Mei family is not so patriarchal, only men who study with their wives are treated like this.

Whether it was their deceased uncle, their own father, or Mei Shitou, whether they had academic talent or not when they were young, they all learned how to read and write after studying with Lao Tongsheng for a few days.

"My mother taught me how to read it." Mei Qian said, then turned to look at Shitou and asked, "Brother, how many words can you recognize and remember?"

When Mei Qian asked, Mei Shitou blushed and stumbled, showing that he had forgotten a lot.

Looking at Mei Qian, who was laughing because she was so deflated, Mei Shitou was very dissatisfied and said, "I still recognize the characters on these medicine packets."

"Oh, really? What are you holding now?"

Mei Qian pointed to the medicine bag that Mrs. Mei took, and Mei Shitou said without even thinking, "Of course it's to get rid of the heat."

"I already bought some milk to relieve the heat..."

"Then, then..." At this time, Mrs. Mei took the medicine bag to pay. Mei Shitou glanced at her again for the sake of her face, came back and said to Mei Qian, "The missing soldier is injured." Mei Qian :? ?

Speaking of which, Mei Qian didn't actually pay attention to what she bought for her milk just now, but in response to the strange name Mei Shitou said, Mei Qian approached Mrs. Mei to help get the medicine, and then she saw clearly that her brother What is the missing soldier injury mentioned?

"Injury from a bruise...poof~"

Mei Qian couldn't help laughing.

The way she was chatting with Mei Shitou just now was even seen by Mrs. Mei. She asked something that she half-acknowledged when she learned that Mei Shitou could read. Mrs. Mei was so angry that she gouged out her eyes fiercely and said to her eldest grandson: : "Your grandfather's two taels of silver were wasted!"

"However, I forgot that the second child's family can read..."

Mrs. Mei's eyes rolled when she thought of such a talented daughter of the Jiang family. She didn't know what she was thinking of. There was such a glint in her eyes that Mei Qian couldn't help but sweat for her mother.

Mrs. Mei let Mei Shitou carry all the medicines she bought. Only then did Mei Qian see clearly what she bought.

In addition to the medicinal packets that Mrs. Mei mentioned at the beginning to remove the heat, and the medicinal powder for bruises that her brother had just made a joke about, Mei Qian was surprised that there were also several medicinal packets used for bathing.

Her breasts are actually an exquisite pig girl?
Mei Qian's shocked look at her breasts was too conspicuous. Mrs. Mei Qian caught a glimpse of Mei Qian's expression and asked, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

"Nai, why are you buying some medicine bags for bathing?"

"Take a bath." Mrs. Mei said bluntly, "This place is hot and humid in summer. Don't you feel it now? In a few days, your body will be red and itchy. You will know the medicine pack as soon as you scratch the rows of pimples. Benefits.

Besides, this medicine pack has another advantage, it can remove lice..."

Speaking of lice, Mrs. Mei and Mei Qian both looked disgusted.

That was really impossible.

Mei Qian felt like her head was itching due to her breasts.

"This kind of medicine bag for bathing may not be cheap, but not all city hospitals sell it or have it so cheaply."

Although Huaichu is not Mrs. Mei’s choice for settling down, Mrs. Mei still believes in the variety and quality of things sold in larger places. Besides, the business of the medical clinic just now is really good, and it doesn’t look like a scam. .

After buying medicine, Mei Qian and Mei Shitou followed Mrs. Mei to the grain and oil dry goods store.

Mei Qian saw the price of rice noodles at the door at a glance. It was quite different from the prices she had seen before.

The price of rice here is higher than in the north, but she sees that it is about the same as the price of flour nearby.

In the north, the price of rice is the highest compared to other products, whether it is flour or millet.

"Hey, why have the prices of rice and noodles increased so much?"

Mrs. Mei is indeed old and experienced, so she immediately said that the price was going up.

What she meant was that the prices here were not always so high.

The grain seller on the side confirmed what she meant. He said, "What do you mean? There are more people in the city these days, and the grain is consumed quickly, so the price has naturally risen."

"That's it."

Mrs. Mei looked at the rice and flour, while Mei Qian glanced at the corner. The quality was not that good, and the grains were large and small, but the best thing was that there were no insects.

Mei Qian quietly hinted to her, and Mrs. Mei naturally saw the bag of soybeans. She was even more excited when she looked at the price tag on it, and couldn't help but ask Mrs. Mei about the bag of beans.

I heard that they were old beans because they were discovered when I was moving grain from the granary these days. I didn’t know exactly how old they were, but I only knew that they were not moldy, so I took them out and sold them at a low price.

Mrs. Mei grabbed another handful and sniffed it between her noses to confirm that there was no mold. Then she put the beans down, turned around and bought half a kilogram of brown sugar, two kilograms of red beans, a kilogram of red dates, and several kilograms of coarse salt. .

Not to mention Mei Qian, even Mei Shitou was confused by this sudden U-turn.

This is such a big deal on her breasts, even the salesman was slightly shocked that this old lady was wearing something totally different from what she was wearing!
But in the end, Mrs. Mei mentioned the ten-pound bag of aged soybeans, and after haggling with the waiter for a long time, the soybeans were half sold and half given away, and Mrs. Mei pocketed them.

Mei Qian didn't believe that she had gone all the way for the soybeans. She followed Mrs. Mei out of the grain and oil store. Mrs. Mei turned around and headed towards the pawn shop in the city with Mei Qian and Mei Shitou. …

　Mei Qian: Following milk every day opens your horizons
　　
　
(End of this chapter)