Chapter 258: Chapter 258 Borrowing Grain

The death of Old Zhu and his family of three was like a stone tossed into a deep pond.

Although it stirred some ripples in the alley, after a few days, hardly anyone mentioned it; when neighbors occasionally did, it was merely with a sigh.

As for Hou Zheng, who rented the dilapidated house, his disappearance went entirely unnoticed.

Who would care about the life or death of a second-rate cultivator who liked gambling?

What everyone was more concerned about now was the continuously rising grain prices.

The matrons and aunties would always discuss the daily-changing prices of Spirit Rice or Tribute Rice when they met, their faces tinged with a faint worry, full of anxiety about the winter that had arrived.

When the first snow fell, Old Zhu's house was taken by a new family.

This family of five, the patriarch surnamed Duan, was at the fifth level of Qi Cultivation and had a wife, a concubine, and two children.