Chapter 7: You Are Not In Exile, You Are Clearly Traveling! (Patreon)

Chapter 7: Penniless

After Chen Yuan was released from prison, he watched as his friends came running to give him money, patting his shoulder and saying things like they should have been told earlier if his family was in financial straits so they could help out.

Listening to these words, Chen Yuan was utterly confused.

He didn't understand what these people meant. Was his family really short of money? Did he look like someone in need?

Well, even though the money was in his wife's hands.

But his wife's money was essentially his money.

Although it was somewhat inexplicable, not being subjected to corporal punishment and being exiled together with his wife and daughter could be considered a good thing.

...

At this moment, Chen Xue's mind was focused on her space. Her space was spacious, with various goods neatly organized.

Even chickens and ducks were enclosed in a pen to prevent them from running around.

Her space actually had another function, which was an exchange system. As long as there was money, anything could be exchanged.

From small items like toothpicks and tissues to large items like refrigerators, TVs, and washing machines.

In addition to physical items, there were also some virtual items. In short, anything you could think of could be exchanged for.

And the currency for exchange, besides gold, silver, and jewels, also included things that the space system had not collected.

Such as newly discovered species, plants, herbs, and so on. These things could all be recycled by the space and then distributed to the recycling points.

Chen Xue even tried pulling out a few weeds and managed to exchange them for several recycling points, making her eyes sparkle as if she had found a bug.

But thinking about it, her space was from her previous life on Earth, while this was a different world. None of the things here had been collected by the space, making it a geographical discovery for the space.

And for Chen Xue, it was also a big profit.

Because exchanging items with gold, silver, and jewels would eventually deplete them, but collecting various new things was different, like a free lunch.

Ignoring the exchange system for now, Chen Xue first scattered some rice and vegetable seeds and then watered them.

Vegetables and fruits in the space grew quickly, and their growth cycle might differ due to the difference in time flow compared to the outside world.

In any case, if some vegetables took a month to mature, they might mature in just a few days.

So, since the exile journey would last at least a year, relying solely on these vegetables and fruits would surely not be enough.

Fortunately, she found quite a few seeds in the warehouse, so she simply planted them all and waited for the harvest.

After doing all this, she counted the supplies. Well, actually, she had already counted them before, but seeing so many things in her hands, she still wanted to count them to feel happy.

Counting the supplies didn't take much time, and there weren't actually many items.

Five thousand catties of grain, with over a thousand bags contributed by the enemy, she thought about making a banner to send to the enemy.

There were also a thousand catties of flour, but unfortunately, the enemy wasn't cooperative and only sent rice, perhaps because flour was too expensive and they couldn't afford it.

There were various coarse grains like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, totaling about a thousand catties. Chen Xue had already planted some, so she might harvest several thousand catties in a few months.

Then there were vegetables, all sorts of fresh vegetables purchased by the steward in the morning for lunch and dinner, totaling over six hundred catties.

There were also quite a few fruits, about a hundred catties, mainly those that wouldn't spoil easily, like apples, pomelos, oranges, as well as some recently bought grapes, oranges, watermelons, and so on.

There were also oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, although not much, but enough for her to use for a few years.

Needless to say about gold, silver, and jewels. There were twenty boxes of gold, thirty boxes of silver, and over a dozen boxes of jewelry.

There were also calligraphy, paintings, books, vases, antiques, totaling twenty boxes, with some items not yet packed, all of which she had taken from various corners of the mansion.

For example, the vases and flower pots in the courtyard, she took them all with flowers and pots, totaling over a hundred.

In short, all the family property of the Chen family was in her hands. It could be said that among the exiled group, she dared to claim to be the richest, and no one dared to object.

If she could take out all the things, the exile journey would become a pleasure trip because of her.

After counting the supplies, she came to the lakeside in the space and fed the koi inside.

A little frog by the lake croaked in confusion. It couldn't understand why its home had changed overnight.

It couldn't be that those humans had ransacked its home, right?

"Sir, are you alright!"

The exclamation beside her woke Chen Xue up, and she looked up to see a middle-aged man wearing prison clothes, looking exhausted, walking towards her with shackles on.

It was her original father, Chen Yuan.

After the husband and wife met, they embraced and poured out their hearts to each other.

Then Chen Xue's father came to Chen Xue's side with a guilty look on his face. "Xiao Xue, I'm sorry you've suffered."

At this age, Xiao Xue should have been like other young ladies, living a carefree life and marrying into a good family. But now, she was exiled to the middle of nowhere with him.

And the journey of exile was arduous and cruel. Any slight mistake could lead to death, and most people died on the way before reaching their destination.

Thinking of the hardships his daughter would endure, Chen Yuan felt guilty.

"By the way, Madam, hide these silver coins so they won't be confiscated by them!"

Chen Yuan knew how difficult the journey of exile was and how cruel the bailiffs could be, so he took out the silver coins his friends had given him and handed them to Madam Chen.

Chen Xue, who was nearby, saw this scene and quickly leaned over, "Dad, let me help you hide them. Don't worry, they won't find them."

"Alright."

Chen Yuan always complied with his daughter's requests. Anyway, whether he gave them to someone else or his daughter, it was the same.

Madam Chen gave some advice on how to hide the money, but who knew, after Chen Xue got the money, she hid it in the blink of an eye. Madam Chen couldn't find where she hid the money and felt relieved. Her daughter had potential, even better at hiding money than herself.

At this time, the guards of the prison had finished handing over with the bailiffs, and the bailiffs came to Chen Yuan's side, asking him to hand over any extra items on him.

Although they said "extra items," in reality, they were hinting for him to be sensible and hand over the money.

Although it was hard to follow the team of exiles, many people still volunteered because they could earn money.

Basically, the people exiled were officials, to put it simply, none of them were destitute. Every time they escorted the exiled group, they would earn a lot of money.

Unfortunately, they had miscalculated this time.

Chen Xue, crying pitifully beside them, said, "Don't you know, our Chen family is so poor that we can't even afford to open a pot..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the group thought of the rumors they had heard before and quickly echoed.

"That's right, that's right."

"Who doesn't know that Master Chen is penniless and his family is struggling!"

Chen Xue's father: "..."

Chen Yuan was utterly confused, with his mind full of questions like who am I and where am I? Are they talking about me?

Although he indeed didn't have a single copper coin on him and could indeed be considered penniless, what was this about his family being poor? His family wasn't really poor.

He drank dozens of taels of good tea every day, ate two meat and two vegetarian dishes plus soup for meals, and afternoon tea...

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