Zhou Linzhao felt a little disappointed when he saw her go inside. She said she wanted to call someone out, but he wondered if it was someone he knew.

"Zhou Linzhao! Who is Zhou Linzhao?" the guard shouted at the city gate.

They looked at each other in the crowd, completely bewildered, not knowing who Zhou Linzhao was or what the soldiers in the city were calling him.

Zhou Linzhao hurriedly raised his hand and squeezed out from the crowd, "It's me! I'm Zhou Linzhao."

The guard sized him up. "Come with me, someone wants to see you!"

The refugees in the crowd protested, quickly stopping the guards. "Sir, we're all together, why are you calling him separately?"

"What, do you think you have the right to question what we do?"

The guard pressed his hand to the sword at his waist, glaring at the person who tried to stop him.

The man immediately lowered his hand, bowed and scraped, and said, "No, no, sir, please go ahead!"

"You better behave yourself, or my knife won't be so merciful."

The guard snorted coldly and led Zhou Linzhao into the city through a side gate.

Upon entering the city, Zhou Linzhao immediately spotted the people standing in front of him: three former classmates supporting the white-haired Taoist priest.

He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't mistaken; it really was the academy's Daoist master.

Zhou Linzhao strode forward, bowed reverently, and said, "Student Zhou Linzhao greets Master!"

Master Dao stepped forward to help him up and immediately noticed that the parents' palace on his face was empty, indicating that his relationship with his parents and siblings was shallow and that they had died young.

"Good, good, it is fate that we can meet again in this life."

Lin Yiheng, Lin Yuanzhi, and Lin Tiezhuang stepped forward to greet each other.

"I hope you are well, Brother Zhou!"

Hello everyone!

After exchanging greetings, Zhou Linzhao felt somewhat ashamed. In the past, when he was in the academy, he had only focused on his studies and rarely interacted with his classmates, and his acquaintances with them were merely nodding acquaintances.

Seeing his unease, Lin Yiheng went straight to the point, "Brother Zhou, you've always been the most knowledgeable, why don't you stay and help us?"

"Thank you for your care, Brother Lin!" Zhou Linzhao bowed deeply to him.

"Is anyone still at home?" Lin Yiheng asked again.

Zhou Linzhao shook his head sadly, "It's over. I'm the only one in my family."

"Come, come with me to see the city lord."

Upon hearing about Zhou Linzhao's situation, Lin Yinan told him to go and wash up first, and that arrangements for the refugees outside the city would be made later.

Zhou Linzhao was curious as to why Lin Yiheng's sister was chosen as the lord of Longtan City, but he didn't ask her directly. He was a newcomer, and since they had taken him in, he wasn't the kind of person who would be ungrateful.

When Lin Fu took him to wash up, he subtly obtained many answers from him.

It turned out that the Yun family members who had escaped death at Yanmen Pass were the ones who saw the banner with the character "Yun" on it when they returned to the city.

The various policies for accepting people listed on the notice board at the city gate were all devised by the city lord.

During dinner that evening, Lin Yiheng came to tell him that he would go with him to the city gate the next day to register the refugees.

After thinking for a moment, he wrote down the names of the troublemakers mixed in with the refugees.

After everyone was registered and assigned to a village, they were led to their respective villages by secret guards.

Yunye then personally dealt with those who were unwilling to go to the village to farm.

"I heard you want to stay in the city?" His sharp eyes swept across the hundreds of miles.

Of those who remained, most were men, with only a small number of women and the elderly, and not a single child.

Families with children would first choose to farm. After fleeing for three or four months, they would see through the coldness and warmth of human relationships and realize that only the food grown in the fields was truly real.

The man in the lead had a lewd look in his eyes and bowed and scraped to Yun Ye, saying, "Yes, yes, we see a lot of empty houses in the city. Could you arrange a place for us to stay? We don't need a separate house for each person, just a large dormitory bed will do, and two bowls of porridge a day will be enough."

Yunye never expected that just two or three meals of thick rice porridge would cultivate their greed.

Watching the group that had followed the guards to settle things disappear from sight, he was too lazy to waste any more words on them. With a wave of his hand, the city gate immediately opened, and the soldiers who had entered the city yesterday all came out carrying a bundle of ropes.

"Tie them all up! Anyone who resists or tries to escape, strangle them on the spot!"

Seeing that things were going badly, the refugees shouted, "What do you want to do?"

Having only been training for a few days, the soldier still carried a roguish air about him. "Of course, I'll take you out for a good meal and drinks."

The city lord is benevolent and has offered such good conditions, yet they still think of getting something for nothing and refuse to leave the city.

General Yun said that anyone who tries to take advantage of Longtan is a bad person.

They are fighting for their families and for Longtan!

Soldiers and guards quickly stepped forward to tie the man up, while some dared not make a move because of the guards on the city wall holding bows and arrows.

Of course, there were also a few who weren't afraid of death.

"I am a servant of the Yu family in Nanzhou Prefecture. What right do you have to tie me up?"

"You should think carefully about what the consequences will be if you offend the Yu family."

"I'll go back and report to the Yu family right away!"

Some people said they were desperately trying to break free from the people's restraints and ran back. After running only a few steps, they collapsed to the ground with a thud, their hands and feet twitching involuntarily, and two arrows were sticking out of their backs.

A guard immediately stepped forward, drew his sword, and slashed the man's neck with force, causing blood to gush out instantly.

Everyone was terrified, and no one dared to struggle or run away anymore.

After they were tied up, Yun Yi led a team of five hundred people, dragging this string of people, and set off for Xihe County.

The resettlement plan for displaced people has come to a temporary halt.

That morning, Lin Yinan finished practicing a set of sword techniques and then did a round of military boxing, and was drenched in sweat.

Lin Yiheng managed to find someone to discuss things before breakfast.

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