Tong City was a fairly bustling, large city.
Sure enough, there were no ragged refugees in the city. Any who had managed to get in must have been driven out. Still, many shops on both sides of the street were closed.
Mrs. Chen took some silver from Gu Zhang and hurried off to buy shoes.
Fortunately, the price of shoes hadn't increased. A lower-quality pair cost one or two hundred cents, while a better pair went for three to five hundred cents.
Mrs. Chen bought a pair of the cheapest shoes for everyone in the family, not even forgetting Lian'er.
The front of Lian'er's shoes were so worn that several of her toes were poking out.
Gu Fei pulled her older brother to the apothecary. The herbs he had bought earlier were not nearly enough. The weather was getting colder by the day, and they were often resting out in the open, making it easy to catch a cold. They also needed to buy some medicine for treating injuries, just in case.
