Chapter 48 Ice powder
The young couple in front started quarreling again. Everyone has become accustomed to it now. Even Liu Zhen and Liu Ru know that the cousin's father-in-law is beaten by the cousin's mother every other day.

Originally, the Liu family could have faked their death and escaped to join the refugee team, but in order to avoid causing trouble for Pan Yingying and the others, Liu Mingxuan insisted on not coming. After all, there were so many eyes on the exile team.

Liu Ru was sitting on the unicycle. When she heard the noise in front of her, she said crisply, "My cousin is beating my uncle again!"

Liu family: ...It’s enough if you know it in your heart, there’s no need to speak it out loud.

Liu Mingxuan looked embarrassed. He didn't know how Zhao had taught the child over the years. His temper was a little too hot.

But he didn't think there was anything wrong with Pan Yingying beating people. A girl should be able to protect herself. Once things are stable, he would send Zhen'er and Ru'er to learn martial arts as well.

Pan Yingying put the ice in small wooden barrels and gave each car a barrel. Placing them in the car could provide a slight coolness and prevent heatstroke.

It wasn't that hard for them because of the ice, but it was different for the exile team. Although everyone had straw hats and palm-leaf fans bought from the escape team, it was still hot and people would still get heatstroke.

Fortunately, Pan Yingying had some heat-relieving medicinal soup that she had prepared and stored in her space. If anyone had heatstroke, they could buy a bowl for only two cents.

There was a bucket of ice in the corner of the carriage, and next to the bucket was a fan, blowing towards the ice.

Pan Yingying took out two solar charging panels from the space, placed them directly on the roof of the car, and then began to charge the street lights, small table lamps and small fans.

After doing all this, I washed my face and applied a cool facial mask.

Normally, in such troubled times, women would make themselves extremely embarrassed, so as to reduce a lot of troubles. But Pan Yingying didn't think so. She was a person who loved beauty, and she had the ability to protect herself. She was completely fearless and would do whatever she had to do.

Yu Chaosheng had the same idea as her on this point. He could live a comfortable life so why make himself look so miserable? He was able to keep himself decent even when he was in the most difficult time in District M, not to mention that he still had Pan Yingying as his golden thigh.

Pan Yingying was putting on a facial mask and bought two popsicles from the mall. She opened one and handed it to Yu Chaosheng.

Yu Chaosheng smiled, took the popsicle and started to say something rude, "Sister Pan seems to be in a good mood today."

Pan Yingying rolled her eyes and said a few words to him before starting to talk about business.

"We have been living off our savings for several days."

She sighed. She felt unhappy because she was spending money without earning any money.

Yu Chaosheng was more open-minded, "Don't we still have so much savings?"

He did not feel as insecure as Pan Yingying. There was a cart of food on the ox cart and the water cart was also full. Even if they did not eat the food in the space, they would not starve to death in a short time, so he was not particularly worried.

Pan Yingying glared at him. He wouldn't understand even if she told him, so she was too lazy to continue.

Yu Chaosheng touched his nose and said, "Okay, he'll shut up."

After applying the facial mask, Pan Yingying took out her small notebook from the drawer of the carriage and went shopping in the mall, comparing the items.

There was no greenery along the way, so she had to buy some vegetables from the mall.

In the mall, cabbage was three cents a pound, so she bought 100 pounds and stored them in the space, and bought 500 pounds of potatoes and some miscellaneous vegetables. As mentioned before, the upper world didn't want everyone to develop a habit of being lazy and hating work, so it set a rule that all materials should be purchased at normal prices, so everyone accepted it well. In addition to still being in awe of the two, they also regarded them as a grocery store where you can buy good things as long as you spend money.

The money needed for firewood, rice, oil, salt, needles and thread was less than before they fled, especially the white rice, which was cheaper than the coarse grains they bought in the town.

Everyone is accepting it well now, and several families are willing to cook a pot of rice porridge from time to time.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter. We walked all the way until the afternoon and set up camp on a hillside sheltered from the wind.

Pan Yingying took out the ice jelly powder and brown sugar that she had bought long ago from the space and prepared to make a bucket of ice jelly.

Yu Chaosheng didn't run around, but just helped out on the side.

Yu Chun'er was about to go over to help, but when she saw Yu Chaosheng there, she wanted to help her uncle and aunt develop a relationship, so she pulled Yu Qiu'er to the side.

Yu Laoer helped them unload the small stove and iron pot from the ox cart.

Every household now uses stoves and iron pots from the upper world. The stove is light and convenient. They put the iron pot on top and use firewood directly underneath. They don’t have to look for stones to build a stove.

Because the stove is really easy to use, many people in the exile team have used it during this period.

When Pan Yingying saw Yu Chun'er and her sister start cooking, she asked Yu Chaosheng to move a few cabbages out of the space. She gave one to each family in the fleeing team and also sent one to the Liu family, so that everyone could have a taste.

Yu Chaosheng had just returned from the group of exiled prisoners. Liang Ye came over after smelling the scent and took two large cabbages with him before leaving. Not long after, a few more people came over and each took a few cabbages back with them.

Yu Chaosheng threw the purse containing copper coins and small change to Pan Yingying, then turned around and started to shave ice. He couldn't wait to eat a bowl of ice jelly. The weather was too hot and drinking water alone would not do.

After the ice jelly was ready, Pan Yingying's family served a large bowl of it. Crushed ice and brown sugar water were added to the translucent ice jelly, which immediately captured the appetites of men, women, young and old. Even the Liu family, who always avoided this place, couldn't help but ask Miaolan and Ding Si to come over with copper coins to buy two more bowls.

Pan Yingying was not stingy and directly gave two bowls.

Ice jelly is not difficult to make, but it is tedious. After some discussion, the two decided to directly sell ice jelly powder and brown sugar, and hand over the ice jelly business to the women in the fleeing team to help them earn some income.

A bowl of ice jelly cost five cents, which was not expensive. Even the poorest people in the convict group could afford it if they gritted their teeth, not to mention that their families were relatively well-off. For a time, the ice jelly business was very popular, especially for the officials escorting the convicts, who would have a bowl of it three times a day.

The women in the fleeing team were so busy collecting money that their hands were tied with tears. They couldn't hide the smiles on their faces.

With some income, they were willing to buy a few more sets of clothes for the man and children, and they would get together to do needlework whenever they had free time.

Pan Yingying took out some cloth that she had stockpiled earlier from the space and asked several sisters-in-law to help her and Yu Chaosheng make some clothes.

Yu Chaosheng was particularly vain. He drew some pictures himself and asked others to embroider them on his clothes.

Pan Yingying did not stop them, but just gave each person an extra penny of wages.

Several sisters-in-law refused to accept it, but Pan Yingying did not argue with them. She just said that if she didn't pay them, she would not let them help. They should take it and ask the people in the convict group to do it. They had no choice but to accept it.

(End of this chapter)