Chapter 68 will allow them to meet once.

At the entrance of the cave.

Pear Blossom cautiously looked around. Thinking that no one should be following her, she chirped five times like a sparrow.

The sound of a nightingale echoed through the woods.

A moment later, Chuntao and the little boy emerged from behind a large rock not far away.

Chuntao blinked, then pulled the little boy along and ran over.

Pear Blossom smiled happily, revealing a big white tooth that was missing a tooth.

She showed them the results of the day, a bag of meat patties given to her by the female military doctor.

Deep-fried, it's so fragrant!

Chun Tao swallowed hard. "Let's go in and eat together."

She showed the bottle in her hand; it was the bottle she had brought back to store orange juice last time. After finishing the orange juice, she didn't throw it away; she kept it to store water.

The three of them pushed aside the covering that concealed the entrance to the hole and went inside.

The old lady was standing at the entrance. When she saw Lihua return, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Lihua, you're back! Was your journey safe?"

Pear Blossom ran over and hugged her grandmother, nuzzling her arm affectionately. "It went smoothly, there was no danger."

She distributed the meat patties to everyone.

The elderly, weak, women, and children in the cave happily accepted it, while the only young woman broke off a small piece and fed it to the child in her arms.

Meat, oil, salt! The moment the child's tongue touched the meat patty, he perked up. He chewed and chewed, then looked up at his mother with an innocent smile, "Mom, this is so delicious!"

The young woman gently broke off another piece and fed it to him, saying, "Then eat more."

The oldest man in the cave finished his meat pie, looked at the three children with a face full of apology, and said, "I'm sorry to have troubled you. It's all our fault as adults for making you go out to find food."

Chuntao held a broken bowl and poured water for everyone.

Hearing this, she chuckled and said, "Oh, we're all on our feet, of course we'll go."

The little boy pouted, "That's right, that's right. If you were to go looking for food, you'd still be wandering around in the mountains for half an hour."

Old man: "..."

"It's all thanks to your good luck that you met such kind people," an old woman exclaimed sincerely. "These days, everyone avoids those soldiers and bandits, afraid of being killed at any moment. I never expected that soldiers would be willing to give us food."

Last time they gave me that rather unpalatable "pizza," steamed buns, and mantou; this time they gave me a meat pie.

How could there be such a kind soldier?

"Yes, yes." Everyone nodded in agreement.

"You gave it to me last time, but you gave it to me again this time?"

"They're so kind!"

"They probably don't have any bad intentions, right?"

"With so much meat, are we even worth as much as these meat patties?"

"What you're saying..."

The old man thought for a moment and said, "Their army has no shortage of food."

An army that can eat meat at any time is willing to give meat to children and villagers, which shows that they have enough food.

Is Anling really that wealthy?

That's really surprising.

After Lihua finished distributing the meat pies, she said to everyone in the cave, "The older sister who distributed my pies asked me to ask you if you would like to go to Anling with them."

She said that they have three meals a day there, with five dishes and a soup for lunch and dinner, and we will receive the same treatment when we go there.

"They even said that children, regardless of gender, can go to college to study."

The old man froze, "What?"

The others were also incredulous: "Huh?"

Five dishes and a soup?! Really?!

"How is this possible? How could something be so good..."

"This is so fake!"

"They're definitely scammers. Do they think we're stupid? How could we believe they could afford five dishes and a soup?"

"That's right, that's right. They say they can let children go to school, but even when the world was peaceful, not many children could go to school."

Pear Blossom took a bite of the meat pie and said seriously, "But the meat pie is real, and the pizza we ate before was real too."

The people in the cave fell silent immediately.

Yes...yes.

"Besides, we're not worth them ripping us off like this, are we?" Chun Tao shrugged. "You just said it yourself, all of us combined aren't worth as much as these meat pies."

Everyone: "..." Oh no!

The old man fell silent.

He couldn't quite understand, "Then why did they want us to go to Anling with them?"

Pear Blossom took another bite of the meat pie and shook her head. "I don't know, but that lady said that whether I know someone or not, I should let her know that anyone who wants to go with them can go with them after they finish fighting."

She blinked, mimicking Zhou Xuan's expression and tone: "As long as you believe in the goddess, you can live under her protection."

A goddess?!

Everyone was stunned.

The old man couldn't help but recall the rumors he had heard before. He widened his cloudy old eyes and exclaimed, "The Goddess of the Cloud River? Could it be true?"

Everyone found it unbelievable.

"What goddess?"

"Is there a goddess in Yunhe County?"

"How could there possibly be a goddess in this world?"

"Do they have a goddess in Anling?"

"Were the meat and noodles given by the goddess?"

The old man shook his head. "I don't know either."

He had only heard about it, but he didn't believe it, thinking it was just a deceptive rumor coming from Yunhe.

But now that Anling County really has so much food, and can even eat meat, could it be... that the story of the goddess is not just a rumor?

But the goddess...

Pear Blossom didn't think too much about it, nor did she care about the so-called goddess. She just wanted to know... "Should we go with them?"

The people in the cave fell silent.

After a while, everyone's eyes fell on the old man.

Old man: "..."

He said firmly, "Let's go."

why not?

In this day and age, as long as you have food to eat and can survive, what else matters?

He couldn't think of any use these old and young people could be to Anling County. Surely it wasn't that the soldiers thought their meat tasted better than pork or beef?

The old man suddenly remembered something and said to Lihua and Chuntao, "If you encounter any other villagers, tell them too. Whether they believe you or not is up to them; there's no need to persuade them."

It's already very kind of them to even say something.

It's not that they don't believe it, but there's no need for the children to waste time explaining.

Pear Blossom paused for a moment, then nodded, "Okay."

Chun Tao took a sip of water. "We haven't run into anyone, and we don't know where the people from other villages have gone."

The old man didn't mind and said, "Then let's leave it to fate."

Whether you encounter a benefactor or survive, it's all up to fate.

Anling County.

He Qinglan rested her chin on her hand, watching as yet another newcomer in the "Quick Transmigrator Alliance" group jumped up and down in frustration.

Halfway through her mission, her younger brother, who was living in her body, died in a car accident due to the power of the Heavenly Dao.

[May all scumbags die: Aaaaaaah, my points!!!]

[May all scumbags die: I worked so hard for years, finally changed the plot, and was about to get those points... Waaaaaaah!]

He Qinglan smiled slightly and replied to the other party: 【It's not completely over; there's still a solution.】

[Scumbags should all die: ?]

He Qinglan: [You can use two-thirds of your points to save your cheap brother's soul, find a dying body in your world, and put it inside, allowing your cheap brother to be reborn.]

He Qinglan: [Even though you'll only get one-third of the points in the end, it's still better than getting none, isn't it?]

[May all scumbag men die! !!!]

[May all scumbags die: Is this even possible? I can use points to get my cheap little brother's soul back?]

He Qinglan: [After all, it's two-thirds of the points.]

[Scumbags should all die: OK! I'll go try it right away!]

[May all scumbags die: If it were useful, I would definitely laugh at the ways of this world!]

He Qinglan lowered her hand.

She checked the battle situation in Sifang County and was relieved to find that Hu Dazhu and his men would not lose.

I also checked the situation in other states, hmm?

Are Lu Hong and Sun Yannan going to join forces to take down Luo Boyuan soon?

He Qinglan raised her left eyebrow. Luo Boyuan was no match for these two. It seemed that Chaozhou was going to be divided up.

A few months later, when Chaozhou County falls, she should go and see Luo Boyuan.

After all, according to her calculations...

They will meet briefly.

When Zhu Yunwei arrived in Anling with the Ningzhou delegation, the students of Longyuan Academy were taking their monthly exams.

Therefore, after entering the city, all the young people they encountered along the way, regardless of gender, had dark circles under their eyes, were yawning, and had expressions that were either very dejected or very nervous. Some of them were even muttering to themselves as they walked.

Zhu Yunwei was deeply surprised: What's going on?

The first thing Zhu Yunwei asked Zhu Youchuan when the two cousins ​​reunited after a long separation was, "Don't you have plenty of food here? Why are you still exploiting children?"

Zhu Youchuan's eyes were filled with utter confusion.

Zhu Yunwei pointed to a young girl carrying books who walked out of the administration building. She was as beautiful as a flower, but she was tense and lifeless. "Look at her. She's obviously been working all night. What did you make them do?"

Zhu Youchuan glanced at the girl, whose background he didn't recognize, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Zhu Yunwei: "?"

"Monthly exam?"

In the reception room of the administrative hall, Zhu Youchuan invited the delegation from Ningzhou to sit down and poured tea for each of them.

He then sent his page to fetch Cheng Hui.

Then he introduced Zhu Yunwei to the abnormal monthly exams, final exams, and final exams at their Longyuan Academy.

"If the grades drop too much, the teacher will invite the parents to the academy for tea."

Zhu Yunwei picked up her teacup, smelled the aroma of the tea, and happily squinted her eyes.

He took a sip of tea and continued, puzzled, "It's just an exam, why would they push themselves like that? Were the questions really that difficult?"

Zhu Youchuan knew why he had asked that question.

Zhu Yunwei is exceptionally intelligent and can learn anything quickly, so she naturally cannot understand that the vast majority of people in this world are ordinary people who are not very smart. They have to read an article dozens of times to memorize it, and they will still make mistakes when doing a dozen or so similar math problems.

Zhu Youchuan didn't intend to explain, he just smiled and said, "I'll show you a test paper after they finish their exams."

You'll understand once you write it down yourself.

Zhu Yunwei nodded.

He didn't know what kind of door he would open.

Cheng Hui arrived rather late.

Zhu Youchuan introduced the two sides to each other.

Cheng Hui smiled kindly, “The Goddess is currently at the Goddess’s Palace. Please come with me to meet her.”

Zhu Yunwei's eyes flickered slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Okay, thank you."

The envoys from Ningzhou exchanged discreet glances: So soon they'll be able to meet the legendary goddess?

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Author's Note: I'm experiencing writer's block. It took me five hours to write this chapter. [crying emoji] [crying emoji] [crying emoji]

I'll try to update two chapters on Wednesday.