Chapter 9 Robbers
"Take out the money quickly! Don't worry!"
The strong man shouted.
Zhang Qi shrugged, "I have no money."
"No money? Who believes it!" The thin man holding a hatchet shouted: "Look at the clothes you are wearing, it looks like clothes that a person who is not rich should wear?"
Zhang Qi looked down at his white clothes and muttered that the thin man's eyes were quite sharp.
He really had no money on him. After being exiled to this place, he was poor and had only the clothes left.
Until now, he doesn't have any copper coins under his command. Anyway, there is no need, so why do you want that thing?
However, the clothes worn from heaven must be much better than the clothes on earth. No wonder the three people in front of them thought they were rich at first glance.
"I really have no money on me. If you don't believe me, you can search it. I won't lie to you." Zhang Qi smiled and asked, "Hey, where did you come from?"
The bald head said in a muffled voice: "We came from Pingyang County to the northwest."
"Northwest Pingyang County?" Zhang Qi recalled the territory of the Great Han Dynasty a little and said, "That's far enough, at least hundreds of miles? So far, why did you come here?"
"because……"
Before he could finish his words, the thin man patted his bald head hard, "What are you talking about to him?"
Finally, the thin man said viciously to Zhang Qi: "Stop talking about these things that are not available, hurry up and escape the money. We are not going to take human lives. If you take out the money, we will let you leave. It's so good!"
"I really don't have money," Zhang Qi changed his mind again, "How long have you been doing this road-blocking business? You might have been robbing all the way from Pingyang County, right? Why are you running so far without any trouble? Are you unable to live in the northwest?"
The thin man covered his forehead, took a deep breath, and then said viciously: "Boy, have you not seen clearly what I am holding in my hand? This is a thing to chop people! With this knife, your neck will be broken and the head will fall to the ground! Oh, do you think I dare to chop? Come on, you reveal your neck, do you think I dare to chop? Don't pull me, I'm red now, I dare to do anything! I said don't pull me!"
The strong man wondered, "I didn't rob you!"
"Who is pulling me?" The thin man turned his head and glared at his bald head, "Are you pulling me?"
The bald man scratched his head, "I didn't pull you away!"
The thin man smiled angrily, "It's so strange. You didn't bother me, and he didn't bother me. Who is he trying to slap me? Is it a haunted in broad daylight?"
The bald man suddenly patted his shoulder and pointed to the back, "Is that thing?"
The thin man turned around and said, "What's the thing--ah!"
I saw a giant flower python standing straight behind me, spitting out a letter and looking at me coldly.
The thin man's eyes rolled up and he fainted on the ground with a thump.
The other two were loyal. Although their legs were scared and weak, they did not just take care of themselves to escape. Instead, they carried the thin man's legs and the thin man's shoulders, trying to take the thin man with them to run away together.
Zhang Qi reminded: "Even if you run fast, how can you pass this snake? Don't be busy with your work, wake him up, and ask you some things."
As he said that, Zhang Qi waved at the big trick. The big flower quickly swam behind Zhang Qi and lay quietly on the ground gentlely.
The strong man was stunned, "This is this...you you you you you..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard a thunder sound in his stomach.
"Hungry?"
The bald man replied, "I haven't eaten for three days."
Zhang Qi asked, "Can it cause a fire?"
The strong man nodded.
Zhang Qi said: "Go to find some firewood nearby and make a fire here."
The two of them didn't understand why, but they honestly took the hatchet to find the dry firewood.
Zhang Qi asked Dahua to catch a few rabbits nearby, and at least fill the stomachs of these people before talking about it.
It’s not that Zhang Qiduo is kind, but the three people in front of him don’t look like evildoers.
The thin man was fine, but he really felt a fierce aura when he stared at the knife. The strong man and the bald man looked at him and were honest. Even if the strong man had a scar on his face, he was not like a desperate person.
Furthermore, if it were really a robber, you would have rushed up in such a deserted place and chopped you up with a knife, then took your money and even stripped off your clothes. How could there be so much verbal trouble?
When the thin man woke up slowly, he saw the big flower lying on the ground at a glance, and his eyes turned to look like he continued to faint.
The bald man shook his shoulder, "Hey! Wake up, have dinner!"
The thin man blew his nose and smelled a scent. He looked closely and saw two rabbits with oil on the fire in front of him.
How could he care about his life? He hurriedly reached out and twisted a rabbit leg, and regardless of whether it was familiar or not, he stuffed it into his mouth, like a starving ghost.
After the thin man swallowed this piece of rabbit meat, Zhang Qi said: "Okay, it's time to tell me what's going on, right?"
The thin man looked at Zhang Qi, then glanced at the big flower beside Zhang Qi, half afraid and half puzzled.
"Good man!" The bald man pointed at Zhang Qi and emphasized again, "Good man!"
The thin man hesitated for a while and said.
These three people are indeed from Pingyang County in the northwest. Although the Great Han Dynasty was unified, they eventually had the remnants of the previous dynasty.
Just two months ago, a major incident occurred in Pingyang County. The remnants of the previous dynasty summoned troops and occupied several cities in Pingyang County with lightning speed. Then the war began.
Where can the people have a way out for war? Not only are the property in the family plundered, but they can't save their lives.
The scar on the strong man's face was cut by a knife during the war. Fortunately, God blessed him and saved his life.
A large number of ordinary people in Pingyang County began to move, and many victims were absorbed by several nearby counties one after another. However, almost all the ordinary people in a county ran out. Where can several counties absorb it?
Now, I have come to Yunling County by walking along the way.
The three of them had no homes and naturally ran faster. They were preparing to check if there was any food in front of them and if any rich master distributed good porridge.
But a few days ago, I ran to Yonghe County to ask for food, but I was almost beaten to death. I had no choice but to run to this broken place.
When he was so hungry that his eyes were dizzy, he suddenly saw Zhang Qi and was brave enough to rob Zhang Qi and went to the county town to buy some food.
That's the result.
After hearing these words, Zhang Qi wondered: "The official... don't care?"
"They only care about themselves, but where do they care about others?" said the thin man indignantly.
Zhang Qi was even more puzzled. If it were in a peaceful era, this would be the past. Now that the Great Han Dynasty has just established its country and people’s hearts are still unstable, will there be corrupt officials who are arrogant?
The bald man said, "We said we were victims, but they said we fart. They also said that we were the 100th one who said this."
Zhang Qile, let’s talk about you running too fast, and you are being treated as beggars who are cheated under the banner of disaster victims!
After thinking about it, Zhang Qi asked: "How many victims are there now?"
"I guess there are still hundreds of thousands of people."
Hundreds of thousands?
Zhang Qi thought about it and found that the war had just subsided. In fact, there was not a large population in each county. The hundreds of thousands of Yunling County should still be swallowed up, it depends on whether it could hold on.
If it is not enough, it can still share some of the surrounding counties and cities.
At this time, he started to pay attention. It was not reliable to wait for Li's caravan to burn incense every day. It would be great if his place could accommodate a thousand or eight hundred people.
Now that the small and thick soil is full of great success, the wasteland will sooner or later become fertile soil, and it is really good to use it to grow crops.
But now the victims are coming quickly. It is estimated that a group of victims have arrived here in half a month. At that time, the place should not be fertile. Even if it is fertile, there are no ready-made mature crops. You can't let these victims ate the soil for more than half a year, right?
I have to think of ways to keep people.
After thinking about it carefully for a while, an idea popped up in Zhang Qi's mind.
He stood up and smiled at the three of them, "Are you finished eating?"
The three of them stood up quickly and nodded.
"I won't let people eat me for nothing."
The thin man was nervous. As expected, the rabbit meat was not in vain. Could it be that he wanted to feed the three of them to the big flower snake?
Is this the last full meal before beheading?
Chapter completed!