"Thank you for the reminder, uncle. My parents are queuing up nearby to buy food. We will go back after we buy it. We won't run away." Shen Shuli replied naively.
"That's good." When the uncle at the tea stall saw the soldiers coming to drink tea, he quickly stood up to entertain them.
Shen Shuli, who was about to leave, picked up the teacup and drank it again, eavesdropping on the conversation between the four officers and soldiers with her ears perked up.
"Hurry up and bring us a pot of tea."
"Here it is. Freshly brewed tea. Please enjoy it slowly, gentlemen."
The officers and soldiers drank a cup of tea, and their dry throats felt better. They immediately started chatting.
"I am so exhausted. These unruly people are really good at hiding. I almost let them get away with it."
"That's right. The county magistrate said that if we catch a head, we will be rewarded with a handful of rice. I have already caught dozens of heads, which is enough for my family to have a good meal."
"You're lucky. I only caught 20 or 30 of them. Can you tell me where you caught them?"
"You can't say that. My family is still short of food. But I heard yesterday that Liu Bantou is going to get rich. He has targeted a group of several hundred people and has taken a group of people out of the city to capture them. I don't know when he will be back."
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"Several hundred people? That's worth a lot of food!"
"That's right. I really envy Liu Bantou. He will definitely make a lot of extra money this time. Alas, why am I not so lucky?"
"When he comes back, we must ask him to treat us to a good meal."
"Take me one!"
The officers and soldiers finished their tea, left a few copper coins and left.
The uncle at the tea stall looked at the scattered four or five copper coins with a look of worry on his face.
"Oh, this is too little, not even enough to pay for the water." The old man at the tea stall sighed as he looked at the copper coins in his hand.
The whole Qingzhou is suffering from drought, but it is serious in some places and not in others.
The water consumption situation in Qingyun City is also very serious, and the people have to pay for water.
"Uncle, there is such a serious water shortage now, please don't set up the stall." Shen Shuli felt reluctant.
Life was the hardest for ordinary people at the bottom of society, and they did not dare to ask the officers and soldiers for money for tea.
"If I don't set up a stall, my family won't even have money to buy food. Now a pound of old coarse grain costs fifty cents..."
The old man sighed, took the teacup, and walked away hunched over.
Shen Shuli knew that she could not change the world.
She took out a silver ingot weighing one or two taels from the space, placed it on the table, covered it with a teacup, and then left quietly.
According to current information, the officers and soldiers will not pose a threat to the villagers for the time being.
What needs to be dealt with now is the Wang family.
Shen Shuli didn't know where the Wang family would stay overnight, or whether they could leave the city smoothly today.
But she vaguely remembered that the soldier seemed to have mentioned yesterday that the Wang family lived in an inn in the east of the city.
Shen Shuli went to the east of the city to look for him.
There are only three inns still open in the east of the city.
Shen Shuli didn't want to go through the front door and be spotted, so she quietly climbed over the wall from the backyard.
Wang Kui's family has several livestock.
Among them was a very rare yellow and white cow.
Just by looking to see if the cow is in the barn, you can most likely determine whether the Wang family is in this inn.
At first glance, there was only a black cow and a mule in the barn.
Change to another one.
Shen Shuli searched all the inns, but she couldn't find the Wang family.
Just as I was about to leave the last inn, I unexpectedly encountered a sudden turn of events.
"How could you be so careless, you bitch! You could actually leave something so important behind!"
"If it's lost or the inn refuses to acknowledge it, I'll divorce you immediately!"
Wang Kui's familiar voice reached Shen Shuli's ears.
She immediately stopped and hid on a nearby rooftop.
Wang Kui and his wife immediately entered the inn, explained the situation to the innkeeper, and then went back to their room to look for something.
"Fortunately it's not lost!" The couple looked relieved that they had survived the disaster.
Shen Shuli followed Wang Kui and his wife closely, climbing and jumping on the roof.
Trying to figure out where they were going.
soon.
After Wang Kui reunited with the Wang family, he left the city through the city gate.
The East Gate was the gate they entered the city through, which meant they left the city the same way they came.
It seems that the Wang family failed to leave through the South Gate.
I think the county magistrate will not easily let the people leave Qingyun City and head south to escape the famine.
It seems that this county magistrate is not a righteous person.
Otherwise, how could the people's livelihood be blocked?
There is still half an hour left before the agreed time with the Su Ping'an brothers.
Shen Shuli was going to the county government office to find out the county magistrate's background.
In a hidden alley, he changed into the camouflage uniform he wore during military training and took out a night vision goggles with thermal imaging function.
Originally, she wanted to change into a set of clothes like ancient nightgown, but unfortunately there was none in the space, so she could only wear this one.
He skillfully climbed over the high wall of the county government office and stepped into the main courtyard with the highest view.
Use night vision goggles to scan the entire county government office and find the location of the county magistrate.
The county government office is the residence of the county magistrate.
At this moment, the county magistrate was pacing anxiously back and forth in his wife's room in the back house with his hands behind his back.
"Pack your things quickly these few days. I received news that Hanshan Pass has been breached by the Northern Barbarians. It is estimated that they will attack Qingzhou in ten days or so. We must escape quickly."
"What? Is this news true?"
"Of course it's true! How could I joke with you about such a thing?"
"If we leave, we will be abandoning the city and the people, and you will not be able to be an official."
"The emperor will not let our family go, and may even implicate all nine of our clans! No, no, we can't escape, or our entire clan will be implicated..."
The county magistrate's wife's lips were trembling. Her mind was in a state of confusion and she didn't know what to do.
"It's already this late, how can we care about these things? His Majesty is already busy with his own affairs, how can he care about the lives of us local officials?"
"I am not the only official who chose to flee. Many local officials before me have already fled. I am a good official who cares about the people because I have persisted until now."
"Stop talking nonsense, pack up quickly and take the most valuable and important supplies. We will set off south in five days!"
"The money I've earned over the years is enough for us to live comfortably for the rest of our lives. Going to the south will also allow us to quickly gain a foothold. You don't need to worry too much."
Shen Shuli lay on the roof, lifted up the tiles, and used a dagger to dig a small hole the size of a fist in the soil underneath.
She looked through the hole at the conversation between the two people in the house and almost laughed out of anger.
It turns out that this corrupt official had known that Qingzhou would soon be conquered and occupied by the northern barbarians, and the people here would have no way to survive.
He even stopped the people from going out to find a way to survive!
Is this kind of person qualified to be an official?
Sure enough, the roots of this imperial world in the book have long been rotten!
It's just giving the hero and heroine the kingdom for free!
Shen Shuli was filled with anger, and without hesitation, she threw a smoke bomb into the house.
The smoke took effect quickly.
The two people in the room fell limply to the ground.
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