Chapter 47 The Situation Is Serious and Self-Reliance Is the Key

The next day.

Changlong Escort Agency.

Meng Lei called everyone together and publicly rewarded Zhao Ya and his porters.

Zhao Ya received fifty taels of silver and a half-month vacation.

For a moment, everyone looked at him with envy.

As for Tan Dong and others, they also received generous rewards.

Meng Lei wanted to tell everyone through this incident that as long as you are sincere to the escort agency, the escort agency will never treat you unfairly.

After the announcement, Zhao Ya declined people's invitations and left the escort agency early on the pretext that he was too tired.

After leaving the escort agency, Zhao Ya returned home and disguised himself, and then went to the medicine shop to ask about the medicinal materials needed for the blood-replenishing powder.

To be safe, Zhao Ya only asked two or three of them at most in each medicine shop.

After half a day, Zhao Ya came out of the last medicine shop with a hint of disappointment on his face.

Because Zhao Ya found that most of the medicine shops did not have the medicinal materials recorded on the blood-replenishing powder.

In the words of a drugstore owner, the medicinal materials Zhao Ya needed were basically the internal organs or blood of various wild animals or even exotic animals, which were not available in ordinary drugstores.

Even if they were available, the price was extremely expensive.

Zhao Ya had no choice but to temporarily give up the idea of ​​refining blood-replenishing powder.

Fortunately, the escort agency now provides a blood-qi pill every three days, plus the earthworm meat of the Tan family and the dried green bamboo snakes he bought at the ghost market, which was enough.

Zhao Ya walked home while thinking.

"Uncle, please have mercy on me, I haven't eaten for three days."

From time to time on the road, beggars stopped passers-by to beg.

Zhao Ya looked at this scene and felt heavy in his heart.

There are more and more refugees and beggars in the city now, even worse than last year.

And Zhao Ya knew that the situation outside the city was even worse, and countless refugees were constantly pouring in.

If this continues, something big will happen sooner or later.

Zhao Ya had no good solution for this, he could only stockpile as much food and supplies as possible in case of emergency.

In the next few days, Zhao Ya stayed at home and practiced martial arts all day.

Until one day, Tan Dong came to Zhao Ya's house.

"Brother Zhao, this is the earthworm meat for next month, and a letter from my father." Tan Dong said.

Zhao Ya took the letter and was slightly stunned.

Because Tan Ziwang said in the letter that the supply of earthworm meat will be reduced a lot from this month.

As for the reason, Tan Ziwang just vaguely mentioned the production limit.

But Zhao Ya understood that if the reason was really so simple, Tan Ziwang would not write a letter to explain it to himself.

Combined with the current situation, Zhao Ya vaguely guessed something.

"What did my father say in the letter?"

Seeing that Zhao Ya's face was a little solemn, Tan Dong hurriedly asked.

"Oh, nothing, it just means that the supply of meat may be limited in the future!" Zhao Ya did not hide it.

After listening to this, Tan Dong was silent for a moment, and then he sighed.

"The world is getting more and more difficult. Just the day before yesterday, a brothel I often go to closed down."

"How can a brothel close down?"

"People don't have money in their pockets and are unwilling to spend money, so they close down! It's a pity for the girls like Xiao Cui, Li Li, Hong Yu and Juan Er!"

Tan Dong was obviously in a bad mood.

This escort trip touched him a lot, and after returning, the brothel he often went to closed down again, which made him even more depressed.

After sighing for a while, Tan Dong left.

A few days later, the supply of Qi and Blood Pills in the escort agency was also cut off.

Meng Lei explained that he had bought Qi and Blood Pills from the inner city Yang family through connections before, but now the Yang family suddenly strictly controlled the Qi and Blood Pills and stopped selling them to the outside world.

Meng Lei had no way to deal with this, and could only apologize to Zhao Ya.

Zhao Ya naturally didn't mind, but comforted Meng Lei a few words, and then left the escort agency.

In just a few days, the number of pedestrians on the street became much less.

Many shops on both sides were closed, and the scene was depressed.

Zhao Ya knew that the situation was getting more and more serious.

The dried meat that the Tan family could supply would become less and less, and now the escort agency's Qi and Blood Pills were out of stock.

It seems that I have to go to the ghost market tonight.

That night, Zhao Ya changed into black clothes, covered his face, and then came to the ghost market.

He had been to this ghost market many times and was familiar with it.

But this time was different, because this ghost market became empty, and most of the stalls were not even open.

The few stalls only had some sundries, and there were few people looking at them.

Zhao Ya's heart tightened when he saw this, and he turned around and didn't find the meat stall he often bought from.

It can be seen that even this ghost market was affected by the current situation.

Zhao Ya had no choice but to return empty-handed.

After returning home, Zui'er hadn't slept yet, and was surprised to see Zhao Ya come back so early.

"Brother Xiao Ya, why are you back so early?"

"Well, there was no one at the ghost market, so I had to come back."

Then Zhao Ya took out the box of dried meat. In addition to the earthworms provided by the Tan family, there were only a few dried bamboo snakes that he needed most. It was estimated that they would not last even ten days.

Zhao Ya frowned when he saw this.

Now his cultivation is at a critical moment. If the blood and flesh supply is cut off at this time, his progress will inevitably be greatly affected.

It happened to be a time of chaos, and everyone was striving to be the first. Not to mention not making progress, even if they progressed a little slower than others, they would fall behind others and eventually become fish at the mercy of others.

Zhao Ya certainly could not accept this result.

So he was silent for a moment, and then made a decision.

Since all the sources of blood and flesh were cut off, he had to find a way out by himself.

Aren’t most of the medicinal materials recorded in the blood-replenishing powder the internal organs and blood of wild beasts or exotic beasts?

Since I can’t buy them, I’ll go hunting in the mountains outside the city.

Anyway, I can’t just sit and wait for death.

Yeah!

That’s it.

After making up his mind, Zhao Ya’s heart finally settled down.

He looked up and saw Zui’er looking at him with a worried face, and he couldn’t help but smile.

“Okay, it’s okay, it’s just some small problems, it’s impossible for your brother Xiao Ya to be stumped.”

Zui’er breathed a sigh of relief and nodded gently.

"Brother Xiaoya."

"Hmm?"

"It's getting late, let's go to bed!"

"Okay!"

One night passed, and the next morning, Zhao Ya got up early, and began to prepare the things he needed to go out of the city to hunt.

Although Zhao Ya had never hunted, fortunately, his previous life had watched many videos of survival in the wild.

This knowledge may not be useful in this world, but the common sense about survival should be universal.

Zhao Ya packed water and food, wrapped the flint with oilcloth, checked the crossbow and lime bag, and confirmed that nothing was left out before telling Zui'er, and then quietly left home.