After all the luggage was placed on the carriage, Zhou and Ji Changying felt much more relaxed when they set off again.
Ji Changchuan was picked up by Zhou and carried on her back. Ji Fengshou chuckled and said, "My wife, I'm tired too. Please carry me for a while."
After saying that, he automatically put Zhou's arm around his waist.
Ji Mingxue followed suit and said, "Aying, take me with you!"
Ji Fengyi and Hu Shi simply couldn't bear to look at these two conspicuous bags.
These two are such disgraceful things!
Ji Changying actually likes Ji Mingxue's personality.
How much is face worth sometimes?
Although I have adapted to the intensity of exercise during this period, it is still a little difficult for a lazy scholar like me to bear.
Especially when wearing handcuffs and leg shackles.
The most useless thing is the shoes.
We have transitioned from wearing cloth shoes to straw sandals, and we don’t care about whether they are decent or not. After all, a pair of shoes will be worn out in a day or two, and no family can afford such consumption.
Just as I was about to rest in the evening, Sun Fan caused trouble again.
"stop!"
"From now on, either buy food or go hungry!"
These words made everyone, who were tired after a day, stand there in a daze.
"Why?! Can't we eat our own food?"
"That's right, this also matters..."
Sun Fan sneered and pulled out the person who had just muttered: "Do you have any objections?"
The man was a little scared when he saw Sun Fan pulling him out.
He whispered, "Sir, why aren't we being given our own food? This is... a little hard to justify, isn't it?"
Sun Fan sneered and pushed the man to the ground with his hand: "I am the truth!"
"Who the hell dares to yell at me?"
"If the tiger doesn't show its might, do you think I'm joking?!"
Sun Fan said this angrily and picked up the whip in his hand and lashed at the man, causing him to roll on the ground in pain.
This person really forgot what kind of person Sun Fan was because of his behavior in the past few days.
I had seen Zhou fighting with them before and nothing happened, so I felt that this officer was not that cruel.
He completely forgot that Zhou was not beaten because the yamen runners were unable to do so.
After receiving these whippings, I remembered that although Sun Fan and his men didn’t kill people, they never blinked an eye when beating them!
"I was wrong! I was wrong!"
The man was beaten so hard that he cried for his parents, which made all the other people who were ready to make a move give up their thoughts for a moment. They stood aside with their necks shrunk and dared not say a word.
Sun Fan saw the man with a ferocious face twitching and unable to shout, and only then did he feel that the frustration in his heart had been relieved a little.
"Come over now and buy some rations! Anyone who objects—this is what will happen!"
Sun Fan glanced at Zhou and the others with a vicious look, and looked at them twice more.
Seeing that Ji Changying's family had no reaction on their faces, Sun Fan snorted and waved his hand to let the yamen runner come over to watch them.
Mrs. Hu's face was heavy as she whispered quietly, "It's almost like robbing them openly."
What’s the difference between this and bandits?
"Rob? Why does he rob us? I'm going to beat him up!" Zhou rolled up her sleeves and wanted to go to Sun Fan.
Hu was startled and quickly grabbed her and said, "Stop!"
"Behave yourself and don't make trouble!" Hu almost broke out in a cold sweat.
Ji Changying looked at Zhou with a serious face: "Mother! These are all officials. You can't hit them casually, okay?"
"Then I'll fight seriously!"
"You can't fight openly~"
Mrs. Hu glared at him and said, "I think you two are going to make trouble! I can't control it. I'll call Xiaochuan over!"
Ji Changying quickly grabbed her and begged for mercy: "I was just kidding, dear Auntie~ Don't tell Xiaochuan."
Mrs. Hu was pleased, and her expression softened a bit. She nodded at Ji Changying and said, "You two should behave yourself! Everything will be fine once we get to Liangzhou."
After saying that, she went to get the silver.
Ji Changying stared at her back in a daze. Will everything really get better once she gets to Liangzhou?
Ji Fengyi and the clan leader also had the same suspicion.
"We still have some money to hold on to, but if we run out of money in a few days, will these people let us go?"
The patriarch was very worried.
Ji Fengyi also found it difficult to understand Sun Fan.
He is obviously a ruthless person, but if you think about it carefully, he has not really killed anyone along the way.
His usual behavior doesn't seem like that of a good person, but the last time the Zhou family offended him, he didn't do anything to deal with them.
It's really hard to understand.
"We can only take it one step at a time. This person... is hard to figure out."
Ji Fengyi frowned, feeling a little unsure.
"Anyway, we are already like this, it won't get any worse, everything will work out in the end." Ji Fengshou looked at the two people with worried faces and spoke to comfort them.
In the evening, no one took the lead to buy food, and of course no one dared to eat at this time. The atmosphere seemed to be deadlocked.
These officers can control the prisoners, but they can't control Mr. Huang.
He held a chicken leg in his hand and gnawed on it while moving closer to Ji Changying to join in the fun: "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, you guys are so unlucky. I see these officials are divided into two groups, and both sides combined... they're so greedy! You guys are suffering."
The people around glanced at the chicken leg in Mr. Huang's hand. The smell was so tempting!
"Are you free?" Ji Changying struggled to move her eyes away from the chicken leg.
Mr. Huang was overjoyed: "I'm quite free, and seeing you looking greedy makes me want to eat!"
After saying that, he took a big bite of the meat, and juice overflowed.
Ji Changying's face frowned and she didn't want to look at the little old man.
Mr. Huang was chewing the chicken leg in his hand with a look of enjoyment.
It goes really well with rice! It goes really well with rice!
The silence didn't last long. Soon, the yamen runners separated and came towards the crowd, collecting money from every household. This time, they collected ten taels from each household!
The dry food given was just two hard biscuits that were difficult to chew.
Anyone who had an objection would be beaten. Except for some protests at the beginning, everything soon died down.
Of course, there were a few families who had no money. They had all registered with the yamen runners, and they just glanced at them and passed them by.
Ten taels of silver is a lot of money that cannot be paid.
For those who couldn't pay, the yamen runners would simply search their bags and take away all the food.
Suddenly, cries and shouts were heard throughout the entire area.
"We can't take it! The money has been taken. If we don't have food, we really won't be able to survive!"
"Please let go of these foods, we are really out of money!"
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Because Mrs. Hu paid the money, Ji Changying and his family's food was spared. Even so, the family members' faces did not look much better.
Old Huang got up and returned to the carriage, and did not continue to try to make his presence felt with Ji Changying.
In the evening, Mrs. Hu continued to follow the crowd and did not cook anything.
The family ate some dry biscuits and went to bed quickly.
Ji Changying sat cross-legged on the ground, silently reciting the mental techniques he had memorized, and gradually immersed himself in them.
She didn't know when, but she felt something hot in her vagina.
It felt like my whole body was soaked in warm water, and I was so comfortable that I fell asleep without knowing when.
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