"Of course, I'll do what the chief assigned me." He nudged Zhou Yan: "Go, call all the villagers here, I have something to say."
Zhou Cang was naturally intelligent, and now that he had finally met such a good master, he acted swiftly and decisively.
Just two days later, almost everyone in the neighborhood knew about Chaoyang Villa and what had happened there.
"Really? Thirty catties of grain per person per month? You can't be lying, can you? When we go to work in the county, we only get less than one or two taels of silver a month. Besides, these days you can't necessarily buy grain even if you have money."
"Yes, and I heard that their Chaoyang Manor is actually a den of robbers. Would these bandits be so kind? Could they have tricked us into going there and then eaten us like lambs?"
The surrounding people turned pale.
Now the drought has worsened, bandits are rampant, and the county magistrate is incompetent. Many villains have started to eat people, and those they eat are commonly known as "two-legged sheep."
If there were any other way out, I would really like to leave Tongning County. I've heard that the governor of the neighboring Toyokawa County is a good official.
But now there are bandits everywhere, and they are afraid that they will not survive to get there and will be killed by the bandits.
"Hey, don't worry, don't worry, it's all true." A dark-faced boy said smugly, his head held high.
"The current manager of Chaoyang Manor, Mr. Zhou, is the brother-in-law of my cousin's sister's uncle's sister. He used to work for Master Zhao in the manor, but now he has become the owner of this lady surnamed Luo."
"As you all know, he's an honest man. Since he's willing to acknowledge Chief Luo as his new boss, Chief Luo must be pretty good too."
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