"There is a village ahead. Let's ask the village chief if there is an empty house for us to stay for a night."

They have already walked one-third of the road to exile for nearly 3,500 miles. Now they have entered the Gunzhou area, and somehow they have been in the vast land and sparsely populated areas. They have been sleeping in the wilderness for three days. It has been difficult for them to be

They found a village that they really didn't want to miss.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as smoothly as they expected. They found that since they entered the village, the families in the village began to close their doors.

They knocked on several doors in a row, but no one answered.

The whole village gives people the feeling that it is very xenophobic, as if they are regarded as plague gods.

"Let's go north. I just saw someone sweeping the snow, so I'll ask."

Xu Zheng chose a family that looked more courageous and knocked on the door. Why did he say that? When they appeared from the corner just now, someone in the house flashed into the house.

"Is anyone at home?" Xu Zheng stepped forward and slapped the door, "The old man in the door, I saw you. But don't worry, we are not bad people. I am an obstetrician in the court, and these are me.

The subordinates, we are responsible for escorting the prisoners. The person beside me is the chief escort of the Yang Wei Escort Agency. The other strong men are all escorts, and the ones responsible for escorting wealthy merchants and their goods are not bad people!"

"We have no other intentions when we enter the village. I want to ask if there is an empty house in your village and lend it to us for a rest?"

The gate of the courtyard was not done, but from the short mud, you can see that the other party opened a crack in the door, and the sound came out, trembling, "You have to ask the village chief this, the village chief's house is right in front, you go

You will arrive after walking for a while.”

Xu Zheng did not bother, "Okay, thank you."

Not long after they walked forward, a short old man came to them with seven or eight strong men, and both sides met directly.

Xu Zheng stepped forward to explain his purpose, and handed the nameplate on his waist to the other party to see.

The other party looked carefully and after confirming the identity of Xu Zheng and others, he breathed a sigh of relief. "Don't blame everyone, I'm really afraid that our village is so guarding against strangers."

Xu Zheng first asked the other party’s surname, and then hurriedly asked him what was going on.

Then the other party claimed that his surname was Chen, and they could call him village chief Chen.

"Yeah, it's also a sin! Two hundred miles away from our Qingxi Village, there is a mountain village called Qinglong Village, which often plunders the surrounding villages. Our Qingxi Village was just robbed by them half a month ago. You were so powerful just now. We

I thought it was the bandits from Qinglong Village who were here again."

"Is this Qinglong Village so rampant?"

"That's not?"

"Did the government ignore it?"

"Are you talking about bandit suppression?" Village Chief Chen shook his head with a wry smile, "It's useless to care."

"Qinglong Village is located on the steep terrain of Cangshan, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The government has sent troops here, but it is still not clean."

Village Chief Chen told them that often after the government sent people, Qinglong Village would plunder the surrounding villages more and more. Over time, they simply gave up resisting.

Lu Songli and the others listened to their conversation quietly in the carriage, which was a disaster.

"Anyway, when the people from Qinglongzhai come, as long as we obediently hand over enough food as they ask, they will not kill people, nor will they ruin women or steal children." As for the lack of food? Then tighten the food, then tighten the food.

Just order your trousers and belts and drink more water. Just starve to death.

Lu Songli listened quietly, it turned out that Qinglongzhai regarded this radius of hundreds of miles as his own fish pond, and he knew how to follow the path of sustainable development.

But in this way, isn’t this Qingyun Village equivalent to the second court? After the people pay taxes to the court every year, they have to be exploited by the Qinglong Village.

Moreover, as an ordinary person, it is not appropriate to not be burned, killed, looted?

Lu Songli found that the people’s requirements are really low, and this may be the helplessness of the people.

"Oh, why do I say all these annoying things? Dear sirs, are you trying to ask if there are any empty houses in our village and want to stay in a place, right?"

"Yes, Village Chief Chen, look, we have a lot of people, can we arrange it?"

"There are still empty houses in our village, but we may not be able to accommodate so many people at once."

"It's okay, we can beat the floor and squeeze. Village Chief Chen, please lead the way."

Later, Village Chief Chen took them to an empty farmhouse yard. There were nearly ten large houses in the yard. The key is that the house looks quite new and no one lives in it?

But they are too lazy to meddle in other people's business.

Yang Weisai gave him a bag of copper, which cost about five or six hundred people. "College Chen, you can take this as the cost of our house."

Along the way, it can be seen that Qingxi Village is not rich, and the villagers are all thin, dry, black and thin, but they are not fat anyway.

"No, no, I can't accept it."

"You just accept it."

Yang Wei insisted on asking him to accept it. They were not short of this money. On the contrary, Qingxi Village is too poor and there should be no money to make. Since they borrowed someone else's house, they would give it what they should give.

Seeing that he insisted on doing this, Village Chief Chen had no choice but to say, "Brother Yang, I don't want money. If possible, can you give me some food?"

Then he explained, "To be honest, this house belongs to my cousin. He just built the house two years ago and died of an acute disease last year. His wife remarried and went to another place. I was the only one left at home.

The two-year-old nephew, from last year to now, has been raised by his family and his family. "In fact, this child has always been raised in his family, but his family has a large population and is not rich.

My daughter-in-law has a lot of opinions about him raising the child.

"I've given this money to me, and I'll go to the town to buy grain and serve him as food. If it's convenient for you, it's better to just exchange it for food for him."

"Okay." Yang Wei helped him exchange it for grain according to the price of grain. This year's grain is indeed expensive. By the end of the year, the fine grain had risen to 200 yuan per dou, and the coarse grains would cost 100 yuan per dou. Yang Wei finally gave it to him.

He has five dou of coarse grains and half dou of fine grains.

Village Chief Chen took his men and carried the food away.

He just brought out the villagers and said enviously, "Village Chief, these foreigners are so rich."

The others nodded and agreed, "There are so many carriages, and you can tell that the carriage is full of cabins, just by looking at the depth of the rut."
Chapter completed!