Chapter 753: Blackwater City is like a dead city
Su Nuan glanced at Mu Fengjiao and briefly told her about what happened in Hancheng. The natural disaster there and the cannibalism of the city lord made Mu Fengjiao almost vomit.
It took a long time for Mu Fengjiao to recover. She looked at Su Nuan with sympathy.
"You've been through so much, no wonder you can remain calm no matter what you see."
Su Nuan took out two face towels and handed one over, "Put it on."
Mu Fengjiao obediently took it and put it on.
Sun Sanhei, who was outside the car, said, "We're here. Please get out of the car."
Su Nuan got out of the car and saw the woman with fox eyes staring at her coldly.
She immediately raised her hand and slapped him, "Take away your gaze. You are a woman but you have no conscience at all. You deserve to die."
The woman gritted her teeth, covered her face and said nothing, but her eyes became even more fierce.
Su Nuan was silent. If this woman wasn't useful, she would really want to send her to hell.
Sun Sanhei said with a flattering smile: "Ladies, please come in."
Su Nuan looked up and saw the side door of the City Lord’s Mansion. Never mind, no matter what kind of door it was, it was just an entrance.
Entering through the side door, she looked around. It was quite clean, so clean that there wasn't even a servant.
After taking many detours, they arrived at the front hall of the City Lord's Mansion.
Su Nuan walked in and thought the city lord was an old man, but unexpectedly he was a handsome middle-aged man.
This made Su Nuan think of the first time she met Lei Wuya. Unfortunately, this person did not have the special temperament of Lei Wuya.
There was only color on him, and it was so strong that one could smell the stench emanating from him even from a long distance away.
Su Nuan looked at Sun Sanhei, "Is he the city lord?"
Sun Sanhei nodded, "Exactly."
He remembered that he had not yet paid his respects to the city lord, so he quickly knelt down and said, "Greetings, Lord City Lord, Lord Han."
Su Nuan's eyes curved. In order to prevent one person from having too much power, the Yuan Kingdom established city lords and local officials in order to decentralize power.
But the emperor certainly never thought that when power and profit are combined, the power is greater.
The city lord looked at Su Nuan with caution in his eyes and asked, "Where are you from, young lady?"
Su Nuan smiled and said, "I fled from the North."
When the city lord mentioned the North, the wariness in his eyes disappeared, and he asked with a smug look on his face, "What? Are the people in the North also starting to flee?"
"I heard that the Northland has recruited many villagers and built a city. It should be developing very well."
Su Nuan shook her head. "It's precisely because we recruited so many people and couldn't supply them with food that most people started fleeing."
This statement completely dispelled the other party's doubts.
The city lord sneered, "This is the fate of arrogance. Are those two young ladies willing to settle in our Blackwater City?"
Su Nuan nodded, "As long as we have enough food and clothing, we sisters will naturally be willing to stay."
After saying this, she blinked seductively.
The city lord's spirit was instantly drawn out, and he said obsessedly: "Okay, okay... I will arrange for you to rest."
However, Lord Han, who was in charge of the government office, asked coldly, "Sanhei, why did you only bring back two?"
Sun Sanhei was so cunning that he remained calm and said with a flattering smile, "Your Excellency, all I encountered during this trip were refugees. I barely managed to find a few who were decent, but after seeing these two sisters, I changed my mind."
"Leave those women behind and send these two to you first. After all, they are beauties rarely seen in a century."
Lord Han thought what he said made sense and said with a smile, "You are smart and well done. Go down and have a rest."
Su Nuan followed the maid away.
It would have been fine if Mu Fengjiao had said nothing, but she messed things up the moment she opened her mouth.
The maid brought Su Nuan and Mu Fengjiao to the guest room in the backyard.
"Do you two ladies have any other instructions?"
Su Nuan nodded, "I'm tired from the journey, so I'll take a bath."
The maid shuddered, then said reluctantly, "Miss, there's a severe drought right now, and there's not much water in the city."
Su Nuan pretended to be surprised and asked, "No water? Then we don't want to stay."
The maid bit her lip and said, "I will go and ask for instructions from the master."
After saying that, the little maid turned around and ran away.
Mu Fengjiao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It looks like this place can't hold on any longer. How long will this drought last?"
Su Nuan didn’t know how long the drought would last. After all, she was no longer in the North at this time in her previous life.
"I don't know either. I only know that natural disasters are not to be feared. What's to be feared are man-made disasters."
Mu Fengjiao agreed with this statement very much. If the imperial court took action, the people would not be afraid of natural disasters.
She asked, "So what do we do next?"
Su Nuan thought for a moment and smiled, "When the city lord comes tonight, I will kill him and let us go collect our things."
Mu Fengjiao's eyes lit up, "Is this what you call a big deal?"
Su Nuan nodded, "Yes."
Mu Fengjiao hesitated again, "But... his money is the blood and sweat of the people."
Su Nuan smiled and said, "In this situation, money is no longer a necessity, food is."
"After I get the things, I will go and deliver some food to the people, so I will be very busy at night."
Mu Fengjiao nodded, "That's right, most likely you can't buy food even if you have money now."
While the two were discussing it, the maid came back.
She said with difficulty, "The master said that hot water would be delivered before dark, so you two will have to make do with sharing a basin."
Su Nuan didn't make things difficult for her, "Okay, go down."
The maid breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes!"
Mu Fengjiao looked at the maid and said, "She has a wound on her face. I guess it was to protect herself."
Su Nuan sat down at the Eight Immortals Table and took out some water from the space. "Have a drink. She's a smart person. We don't need to worry about her."
Mu Fengjiao drank a glass of water, smacked her lips and said, "You actually still have some mountain spring water. It's so sweet."
Su Nuan didn't explain. This was boiled river water. If she didn't have to peel off a layer of skin from the City Lord's Mansion that night, she would not take it out to drink.
Mu Fengjiao was getting a little anxious waiting. "It's not even noon yet. When will it get dark? Why don't we go out for a walk?"
Su Nuan frowned, "I don't know if the city lord is willing."
Mu Fengjiao couldn't wait any longer and shouted at the door, "Is anyone there?"
The maid ran over and asked, "What do you want, young lady?"
Mu Fengjiao didn't want to embarrass her, so she said, "Go tell the city lord that we want to go out for a walk. If you're worried, you can send more people to follow us."
The maid pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment and said, "Miss, I suggest you don't go out. The people outside are very hungry. What if they want to eat you?"
Mu Fengjiao was shocked. "What? You people here still eat people? Don't you have any food left?"
The maid shook her head. "There's still some food left, but it's all in the hands of the three great families. They're selling it at a high price, and the people in the city can't afford it."
"So some people are so hungry that they don't even spare corpses, let alone fresh ones."
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