Especially for those families who have relatives in the village, it seems that they only see a few familiar faces.
It has only been about half a month since we fled the famine, so why are the losses so severe?
The old village chief asked a question.
Village chief Shi sighed deeply and spoke of their hardships with a dejected look on his face.
After hearing about the defeat, the villagers packed up and set off overnight.
The first few days were fine.
“Later, we encountered a lot of defeated soldiers. They were even more ferocious than bandits.
They grabbed young people, even pretty wives and young girls. After three rounds of attacks from a few groups of stragglers, nearly half the people in our village are gone.”
This is really unfortunate news.
"We were running so fast that we lost a lot of our belongings and food. We finally managed to support each other and walked, but then we met someone who said he wanted to beg for food.
We...we were foolish. Even though we didn't believe what they said, we still followed them. After that, some of them never came back..."
The villagers looked at each other in confusion, their eyes flickering.
It goes without saying that this so-called begging is mostly being begged by those people to rob.
"There are only less than sixty people left in our village. I, the village chief, am useless..."
After saying this, the old man wiped away his tears.
The old village chief just patted him on the shoulder.
"Why don't you leave here?"
"Well, it's not that we're not leaving. We're just waiting here for the opportunity to see if some wealthy family comes and we can follow them.
Only in this way can we be safer. I was really scared along the way.
As for the city, we can't get in either, so we can only rest for a while and see if we can find a few more villagers."
“How many wealthy families are there?”
When the people in Houshan Village heard that they were going to follow a wealthy family, they were somewhat tempted.
Because wealthy families generally hire people to protect them, so if you follow them, you will be safer at least.
“There are wealthy families coming here almost every day, but we want to meet those big families with hundreds of people.
A wealthy family with few people would be a target for robbery on the road. Besides, there will be wealthy families at the city gate giving out porridge, so we will stay here for two days."
Someone is giving out porridge!
This news encouraged the villagers again.
"When will the porridge be distributed? We want to join in the fun."
Village Chief Shi chuckled. "Although the porridge is mixed with stones and is very watery, it's still better than the wild vegetable porridge we had."
Every morning and evening, someone gives alms. Wait a moment, someone should come and give away the evening porridge."
Xiushui lost interest in the porridge after hearing that a lot of stones were mixed in.
I asked about the procedure for refugees to enter the city.
"Register with your household registration and pay 500 copper coins per person before you can enter."
"How much is the payment?"
Xiushui suspected that she had heard it wrong.
"Five hundred coins!"
The onlookers gasped when they heard this, and many people who had originally planned to go into the city were now silent.
"How can it be so expensive? Five hundred coins, usually one or two copper coins. Now five hundred!"
"Well, how else do you think there would be so many people surrounding the city? The city lords were afraid we would cause trouble, so they persuaded the wealthy lords to donate.
Otherwise, I don’t know what will happen!”
The cost of five hundred copper coins forced the Wen family to adjust the number of people entering the city.
"No matter how small our family is, we still need two people to go to the city, and two people need one tael of silver..."
The Wen family felt a pang of pain when they heard this decision. One tael of silver, normally they could only save one tael of silver after a year of frugality.
Nowadays, the cost of entering the city for two people is one or two taels of silver.
"It's definitely not feasible for one person to go into town, guarding a cart and doing all the shopping. So I suggest only two people go."
As the old lady said this, Wen Xiushui was quietly in a daze, but in fact she had entered the space.
"Mengmeng, I remember now. Why didn't I see the Ghost-Faced Eagle I fostered earlier?"
The Ghost-Faced Eagle is being fostered in another system, where its level is higher. What she spends one day here may take a year there.
I was thinking about having an eagle a while ago, but I almost forgot about it recently because of so many things going on.
If it weren't for the cost of entering the city, she really wouldn't have thought of the big eagle that could carry a weight of over 100 kilograms when it grows up.
“Host, the eagle we fostered has now laid an egg.
If you don't want to get up, maybe they can hatch a little devil-faced eagle for you."
Mengmeng actually learned how to manipulate her.
Xiushui was in a hurry and didn't bother with it for the time being.
"Great! She's actually learned to fall in love and lay eggs somewhere else. So, it shouldn't be a problem for her to carry me on her back now, right?"
"Yes, Little Eagle has been rented out several times... Ahem, no, Little Eagle has been trained to carry people. Host, do you need it to fly with you now?"
Xiushui said nothing and pressed the switch directly.
"Master, please don't. I'll tell you, I'll be honest..."
Little guy, this guy will tear down the roof if he is not punished for three days.
“I, I had it rented out before. I took 90% of the rental fee each time, and the remaining 10% went to Yingying.
Master, could you please not fine me all the money? Woohoo, I feel so insecure..."
Xiushui listened to the suppressed crying sound coming from the system and couldn't help but reflect on herself: Maybe I really exploited the system too cruelly!
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