Yunhua slowly pulled the car to the side of the road. "Yunfan, go check what's going on up ahead."
Yunfan nodded, opened the door, and went downstairs.
He walked forward for over a thousand meters before reaching Xingshikou, where he saw that a gate had been set up.
The people inside and outside the gate are arguing about something.
"Hey, sir," Yunfan grabbed a middle-aged man who was walking past him, "what's going on here?"
Upon hearing Yunfan's question, the middle-aged man's face darkened, and he pointed at Xingshikou, spitting as he spoke.
"That base chief of the Star City base is a complete scoundrel."
He actually had a gate set up here, saying that to enter Xing City, you had to pay a gate fee—three catties of rice per person!
Upon hearing this, Yunfan's eyes lit up. "Then you can take another route to get in. There's more than one way to get into Xing City these days."
"Don't even mention it. He's set up checkpoints at every possible entrance. Even if you don't go into Xing City, but walk along the highway next to it to go somewhere else, you still have to pay 2 jin of rice, otherwise they won't let you pass."
The middle-aged man's face darkened even more.
"Then force your way in?"
The middle-aged man shook his head and held up an eight to Yunfan. "It won't work. They have this, and they have a lot of people."
There was no other way but to pay them rice!
The middle-aged man waved his hand, sighed, and prepared to leave.
Yunfan grabbed him again, "Uncle, I have another question. What if I run out of rice? Can I use other supplies?"
"Did you see that sign?"
The middle-aged man pointed to the sluice gate and said, "There are instructions on what to do if you don't have rice up there."
"Okay, I'll go take a look. Thank you, sir!"
Yunfan thanked the middle-aged man and walked forward.
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