He immediately had an idea and quickly said, "Okay, you go first, I’ll take a quick shower and come over."
After hastily taking a shower, Liang Yuan returned to the room.
Yang Mei was already lying down, holding her phone and playing Candy Crush.
It’s just that Liang Yuan’s place still had electricity, while no one else had power to play on their phones.
Liang Yuan smiled as he got into bed. He didn’t touch Yang Mei; he just lay down next to her and reached out to hug her.
"Little bro, I’ll be done with this round soon,"
Sister Mei looked up coyly.
Liang Yuan smiled, "You keep playing."
His spiritual power had already spread out, his gaze focused on the hem of Yang Mei’s lace dress.
Concentrating his thoughts, his spiritual power effortfully controlled the lace dress, slowly lifting the hem upward.
This process was naturally more difficult than controlling a toothpick.
After all, spiritual power could vary in strength. If not controlled well, a toothpick could be crushed directly.
But under this lace dress were Yang Mei’s thighs, too much force would leave a bruise.
Liang Yuan tried to slow down, his spiritual power flowing gently, like a tender hand caressing Sister Mei’s thigh.
Yang Mei felt a tingling sensation on her thigh, her long legs couldn’t help but close together and rub against each other.
She murmured, "Stop it, this level is about to end soon."
Liang Yuan said, "You keep playing, don’t mind me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liang Yuan’s spiritual power accidentally exerted too much force, instantly tearing the lace hem, revealing a mysterious area.
Liang Yuan’s eyes widened in an instant!
Goodness, Sister Mei today... was not wearing anything underneath.
Why bother practicing spiritual power?
The next morning, as usual, Liang Yuan got up to make breakfast.
He had no choice; his constitution was getting stronger, so he couldn’t get enough.
Poor Sister Mei couldn’t sleep half the night, worn out and now naturally unable to get out of bed.
Liang Yuan’s cooking wasn’t as exquisite as Yang Mei’s.
He simply boiled a few eggs, fried a steak, and heated a cup of milk, and that was it.
The entire process took less than ten minutes.
After eating his fill, Liang Yuan left some food for Yang Mei and said, "I’m going downstairs to discuss the patrol with Song Wen and the others; you stay home and rest well."
Yang Mei nodded drowsily, like a kitten, barely opening her eyes before falling back asleep.
Opening the door, Liang Yuan looked out in surprise.
He saw more than a dozen people standing outside in a mass.
When they saw the door open, they all instantly put on fawning smiles.
"Good morning, Mr. Liang."
"Mr. Liang, you’re awake?"
"Mr. Liang, good morning."
They greeted Liang Yuan with forced smiles.
Liang Yuan scanned the crowd and saw everyone had dark circles under their eyes and were carrying water buckets; he couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.
"So, you’re all here to trade for food?"
Someone quickly laughed, "Yes, Mr. Liang, we caught these fish late last night. Knowing you only accept live fish, we rushed to bring them over."
"Mr. Liang, there were a lot of fish in the flood last night. Everyone had a good haul; please take a look."
"Mr. Liang, I even caught a few crabs. Look, these big claws."
"Look at these sea shells, they’re all super fresh."
A group of people hurriedly promoted their goods, eagerly looking at Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan ignored them momentarily and greeted Zhao Kai at the corridor before speaking calmly, "Someone should have told you yesterday, right? You can trade for food, but due to Liu Changfa’s misconduct, the exchange rate has doubled."
These people’s faces turned bitter instantly. Some couldn’t help but curse Liu Changfa in their hearts, wondering why he had to provoke Liang Yuan.
Others secretly cursed Liang Yuan as cruel.
But no one dared to speak out loud, nor did Liang Yuan care.
He didn’t need to bother with what they thought.
In fact, some people are just like that; if you’re good to them, they think you’re easy to bully.
But if you’re fierce, they don’t dare to act out.
This is the classic case of being too kind and getting taken advantage of.
Liang Yuan killed Liu Erlong and Wang Ze’s gang, not to be seen as a good person who could be bullied.
So after Liu Changfa’s incident, he had to enforce some punishment.
Otherwise, everyone would dare to push his limits.
"I still stand by my words; if you want to trade, stay. If not, leave early."
"But I should tell you in advance, my food supplies are running low. If you want to trade, do it soon. In a few days, when I run out, even with fish, I won’t trade anymore."
As soon as he said that, everyone’s faces changed dramatically.
If Liang Yuan had no food left, where would they trade for food?
In this flooding disaster, without rice and flour, who could survive on just sea fish?
Immediately ignoring the high cost of ten fish for a cup of grains, someone quickly shouted, "I’ll trade, Mr. Liang, I’ll trade. I have forty-two fish here, I’ll trade them all."
Someone nearby quickly reacted, "Me too, Mr. Liang, twelve sea shells and thirty fish, I’ll trade them all."
When these two spoke, it caused a commotion, and others quickly realized the truth.
Yes, right now Liang Yuan had food; they could still trade.
If later Liang Yuan had no food, they couldn’t trade even if they had fish.
While Liang Yuan still had food and they had fish, they had to stock up fast.
Originally planning to keep a few fish for themselves, they also handed all of them over to exchange for grains.
Fish would always be around; in the flood outside, fish were constantly jumping out of the water for air.
Aside from Liang Yuan, there was nowhere else to find it.
Nobody is foolish; the food in Liang Yuan’s hands became a rare commodity.
He set the price, they had to accept it.
If you didn’t buy it, someone else would.
Amongst the noise, Liang Yuan shouted for them to line up properly.
Then he started exchanging food at the doorway.
Since Yang Mei was resting, Sister Wu next door brought her daughter Cai Yao over to help out.
Liang Yuan didn’t stay to supervise, leaving Sister Wu to handle the accounts and Cai Yao to weigh the food.
With Zhao Kai guarding the corridor, he didn’t fear any trouble.
Once everything was settled, he instructed Sister Wu to let him handle the fish later and went downstairs to find Song Wen and Cai Yao.