Chapter 19 Buying Medicine
The grain stores in the city were still open, but the price of grain had skyrocketed. Pan Yingying left immediately after asking about the price.

I can’t afford it, goodbye!
The price of coarse grains that used to cost 20 wen per pound has risen to 300 wen. She would rather buy rice at 15 wen per pound in the system mall.

After coming out of the grain shop, the two went directly to the carriage and horse shop. The carriage and horse shop had not closed yet, but it was also packing up its things.

All the carriages had long been bought up by the wealthy families in the city, leaving only an old ox with almost all its teeth falling out in the corner.

Pan Yingying pressed her eyebrows.

Well, it still depends on her golden finger.

They found an empty corner, bought a ox cart from the mall, and drove the cart to the pharmacy.

There was only an old man in his 50s or 60s in the pharmacy. When he saw the two people coming in, he waved his hand helplessly and said, "The doctor is gone and can't treat patients."

Pan Yingying glanced at the medicine cabinet and had an idea.

"Master, are you going to sell the remaining herbs?"

The old man looked over suspiciously, "Does this lady know anything about pharmacology?"

Pan Yingying nodded calmly and took out two five-liang silver ingots from her purse.

Ten taels of silver was a huge sum of money, and she didn't believe that the old man wouldn't be tempted.

Sure enough, when he saw the silver, the old man's breathing quickened.

With this money, he can also take his grandson away.

The old man swallowed his saliva, and Pan Yingying took out another five taels.

The old man glared and slammed the table hard, "Okay! The herbs are yours!"

Anyway, he is just a doorman for his employer and can't take care of anything else. The world is so chaotic now, it's good enough to be able to survive.

Pan Yingying put the silver on the table, and Yu Chaosheng took the opportunity to chat with him, "Master, almost everyone in the city has fled, why don't you leave?"

The old man hurriedly put the silver into his arms and said casually, "Let's go."

After saying that, he remembered something, took out a key from his waist and put it on the table, "After you move the herbs, please help lock the door and just throw away this key." Anyway, it was unlikely that the boss would come back.

Pan Yingying smiled with satisfaction. After the old man ran away holding his chest, she took out two prescriptions and a small electronic scale she had just bought from the system mall and called Yu Chaosheng to start working.

Whatever Yu Chaosheng thought of, she would grab it, and then Yu Chaosheng would weigh and pack it using a small electronic scale.

After working for a while and making more than ten pairs, Pan Yingying called for a stop.

Then the medicine cabinet was put into the space, and the huge pharmacy became an empty room.

The two men also searched the warehouse at the back and emptied it out, then climbed onto the ox cart carrying a few pieces of gray burlap and two bags of corn stored in the space.

Not long after we arrived at the gathering place, the others came back. Everyone looked unhappy, probably because of the soaring food prices.

Wang Yougen was carrying a bag of corn on his back and holding a pottery jar in his hand, which seemed to be filled with salt. Little Wang also had a small bag of mixed grain flour on her back.

Pan Dajin and Pan Datie each carried a bag of chestnuts and had large and small bags on their arms. Pan Li carried a large bundle in one hand.

"Get in the car and leave the city." Yu Chaosheng gestured. His right eyelid had been twitching just now and he had a bad feeling.

Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng were sitting side by side in the front. They could clearly feel the tension in his body and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Yu Chaosheng shook his head. He didn't know what to say, but seeing Pan Yingying's burning eyes, he remembered that she was an all-round secretary, so he answered softly, "I don't feel well... It's just that my intuition tells me that something seems to be happening."

After saying this, he looked embarrassedly towards the dilapidated city gate in front of him.

I thought Pan Yingying would laugh at me, but unexpectedly, she just patted his arm and said nothing. After leaving the city, before we reached the stop, Old Man Pan and Zhao came to meet us in a hurry, and their faces were even worse than those on the ox cart.

"Dad, Mom, what happened?" Pan Yingying's heart skipped a beat and she glanced at Yu Chaosheng, wondering if what this second-generation rich kid said might have come true.

Old man Pan sighed, feeling too embarrassed to say anything, but Zhao didn't care. She slapped her thigh and started crying and cursing.

"That damn bitch Zhang ran away!"

"Not only did she run away, she also stole Juhua and Meixiang's private silver and jewelry!"

"My bag was also turned over!"

"Xiaoyi got hit on the head by her!"

"God damn it! Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs!"

Zhao's series of words stunned Pan Dajin and Pan Li. Pan Dajin almost fell off the carriage. Fortunately, Wang Yougen pulled him.

The group hurried back to the camp. Pan Yi had a big bump on his forehead, and he didn't even dare to raise his head when facing Yu Chaosheng and Pan Yingying.

Pan Dajin checked him up and down, and confirmed that he had no other injuries, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's going on?" Pan Dajin asked about the business.

Pan Yi lowered his head and told the whole story again in a low voice.

Zhang Xiaoye used the excuse of looking for needles and thread to steal the silver and jewelry saved by Liu Juhua and Zhao Meixiang. He then searched the carriage when no one was paying attention. Finally, he said he wanted to go to the toilet and went to the woods nearby.

Ever since Pan Yi discovered Zhang Xiaoye rummaging through the carriage, he had been secretly paying attention to her movements.

Because in her impression, her mother was not the kind of person who would rummage through other people's things, let alone the fact that she rummaged through her sister-in-law's carriage.

Zhang Xiaoye went into the woods, and he followed her. He found that she was handing the small bag in her hand to a man.

He knew the man, he was his uncle Zhang Huai.

He had disliked Zhang Huai since he was a child. His mother always gave the private money she had secretly saved and the cloth and food that should have belonged to the two brothers to this uncle.

Zhang Huai often bullied himself and his elder brother in private and stole their things.

But once they told their mother, not only would the problem not be resolved, they would be beaten and scolded by her. She said that their uncle was their elder and they should show filial piety to him.

Let’s not talk about the past, but this time when the family was fleeing, my mother wanted to secretly give things to my uncle, but he didn’t allow it!
Zhang Huai took the bundle and was about to leave, but Pan Yi rushed over to snatch it. The bundle was torn open, and silver and copper coins were scattered all over the floor. In the middle were two pairs of silver earrings and two silver hairpins. At first glance, there were at least more than ten taels of silver.

He recognized the two pairs of earrings. They were given to his second and third aunts by his younger aunt. His mother actually stole the things of his second and third aunts and gave them to his younger uncle!

"Stop it! Xiaoyi, stop making trouble. Mother will take you away." Zhang Xiaoye held him back. She had planned to give him the things and then go back to bring Pan Yi over. She didn't expect that he would come by himself, which saved her from having to make another trip.

Pan Yi's eyes turned red as he growled at her, "I'm not leaving! I don't want to go to Zhang's house!"

Zhang Huai sneered, "Remember what you said!"

Pan Yi was so angry that he started to struggle with Zhang Huai regardless of anything. The grown boy was quite strong and Zhang Xiaoye couldn't stop him at all. In desperation, he picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it on Pan Yi's forehead.

Pan Yi was knocked off balance and felt dizzy. He loosened his hands unconsciously and supported himself by a nearby fir tree to avoid falling to the ground. He stared at Zhang Xiaoye in disbelief.

His mother wants to kill him!
Zhang Xiaoye gritted his teeth, ignored Pan Yi's gaze, and quickly picked up the scattered things on the ground, "Xiaoyi, don't blame mother, blame your aunt, she is the one who wants to lead everyone to death."

Zhang Huaiyin chimed in, "You don't know what Yaocheng is like, right? There's no grass growing anywhere, and there are exiled prisoners everywhere..."

(End of this chapter)