Chen Ping'an and his companions chose some suitable locations for the congee stalls and medicine shops in the prefectural city, quickly and methodically working through the necessary steps to bring everything to life. The prefectural overseer's office was familiar with these matters, and it also helped that the prefectural overseer was personally overseeing everything. As for the identity of the young man in azure cotton robes, the old prefectural overseer spoke in a vague and mysterious manner, not revealing it to anyone else. This caused them to respect and fear Chen Ping'an even more.0

Three days later, Chen Ping'an asked Ma Duyi to secretly return the thirty-two snowflake coins to the rooms of the two vagrant cultivators.0

Afterward, the three of them traveled to a congee stall near the city gates, stopping their horses far away before dismounting. Chen Ping'an asked an official immortal who had accompanied them to help look after the horses for a moment.0

After arriving at the congee stall, Ma Duyi was unwilling to act as a beggar, while Zeng Ye felt like he didn't need to eat a bowl of rice congee that was as bland as water. Thus, Chen Ping'an went to patiently line up by himself, receiving a bowl of congee that could just barely be regarded as thick. He also received two steamed rolls, and he squatted down next to the path and started to eat.0

He could hear the petty officials calling out from time to time, loudly telling the impoverished locals and arriving refugees the rules of the congee stalls. They couldn't be greedy, and each person could...0