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Chapter 193 Hungry People
Gradually, as the visitors got closer, Meng Donglai could see their figures clearly.

There were thirteen people in total, all young people in their teens and twenties, mostly boys, and a few girls.

They marched hand in hand, led by a person without night blindness.

"Hey, why is there no one?"

When I walked to the campfire, I found that there was no one there. I looked at the carriage. The door of the carriage was opened, but there was no one inside. Only the porridge on the campfire was still boiling and tumbling, exuding a strong and attractive fragrance.

"Brother, I have porridge. I'm so hungry."

A little boy said to the youth leading the way.

"You can't eat it, it's not ours." The young man decisively rejected the little boy's request.

"But, that person snatched it from the Zhang family." The little boy argued with his mouth pouted.

"That's their business."

The three views are very positive.

Meng Donglai stood up from behind the crowd and asked directly, "Are you looking for me?"

"what!!"

In the middle of the night, a stranger suddenly spoke from behind, and the timid people in the crowd screamed in fright.

"You..., why are you behind us?" The leading young man protected his friends behind him, his tone quite nervous.

"Now I'm asking you." Meng Donglai took out the long sword captured from Meng Yi and held it in his hand.

"We...we want to follow you." The young man's answer was completely beyond Meng Donglai's expectations. He thought that these people were here to rob him or beg, but he had no idea that they were here to vote for him.

"Why?" Meng Donglai was very curious about the reason why they did this.

"You have robbed the Zhang family of food. When the government collects summer grain next year, the Zhang family will definitely distribute the losses to us tenants. The villagers in Zhangjia Village are already starved, and many people will starve to death by then, so We want to follow you." The young man replied.

In the 35th year of Qin Shihuang, Emperor Qin built the Afang Palace, dispatched people to garrison far away, toured to seek immortals, and the collection of corvee was expanded again and again.In the next two years, Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, succeeded to the throne and intensified. By then, peasant uprisings would inevitably be everywhere.

As far as the present is concerned, the remnants of the old aristocratic forces of the Six Kingdoms have not stopped their separatist activities, and they have been brewing against Qin all the time.

The Zhang family that was robbed by Meng Donglai in the village before should be the remnants of the old aristocrats, and the villagers in Zhangjia Village are all tenants of his family.

If these young people escape, not only will their family have less food to eat, but they will also lose one cent of the poll tax.

Drinking poison to quench thirst can last for a while.

"You can follow me, but there is a precondition." Meng Donglai said.

"What premise?"

"If you follow me, you are my people. I guarantee that you will have enough food and clothing and the ability to support your family. You just need to show your loyalty to me. That is to say, from now on, you can only listen to me, Do you understand?" Meng Donglai asked.

"I can only listen to you?" the young man asked emphatically.

"Yes! You can only listen to me."

The young man's face was solemn. He understood what Meng Donglai meant. Some people in the crowd also understood, and their expressions were a little hesitant.

"Think carefully before making a decision, otherwise if you want to return in the future, the Zhang family will be like you." Meng Donglai did not persuade them and let them make their own decisions.

He does need men now, but not everyone.

The total population in this era is only over 2000 million people. With the technology and equipment he has mastered, only 1 people can completely control the whole country, so it is not that simple to be his subordinate.

Walking through the crowd and arriving in front of the bonfire, Meng Donglai served himself meat porridge and started eating dinner.

Those young people stood and watched, eager to eat, but did not dare to ask for it due to Meng Donglai's power and the conditions he had just proposed.

He quickly finished his portion, filled up a bowl and walked westward, arriving at Yu Shu's hiding place. He felt slightly distressed when he saw her still sitting in the snow as before.

Maybe, it was a little too much just now?

However, if he didn't have a gun and more than a dozen people surrounded him, it would probably be completely cold by now.

Essentially, the purpose of kidnapping her was to save her and save her from a tragic fate, but she didn't know it.

In her heart, Meng Donglai is probably already a big villain full of evil.

"Eat this."

Meng Donglai handed the warm meat porridge to her.

Yushu awkwardly reached out and took it.

"Isn't your ass cold?"

Yu Shu looked down and wanted to stand up, but struggled a bit, but couldn't stand up, probably his legs were numb from the cold.

Helpless, Meng Donglai could only adopt the princess hug method again and carried her into the carriage compartment.

"Hurry up, you owe me two lives now, if you want to die, you have to repay my kindness first." Meng Donglai said.

"Why is there another one added?" Yu Shu was stimulated by Meng Donglai's words, and asked back.

"Before that, Zhang's family members could take out more than a dozen servants with sharp weapons. If I was killed by them, what do you think would happen to you? If you add my life, you Now I owe three of them." Meng Donglai didn't blame her for getting into trouble, and from her standpoint, her decision at that time was actually correct, and it was the most likely choice to return to China or be sent to Xianyang.

It's a pity that the person she made trouble with was Meng Donglai.

After closing the carriage door, Meng Donglai looked at the thirteen young people standing there again.

"We agreed."

"Okay, cook the porridge yourself." Meng Donglai appeared out of thin air with a grain bag in his right hand and a few big fish in his left hand, and then handed these things to the leading young man: "Eat first, let's talk about other things after eating."

Both the fire and the marching pot were ready-made, and the young man distributed the remaining porridge in the pot to his younger companions, and then boiled snow water to cook the porridge.

Meng Donglai wanted to remind them that the snow water was dirty, but seeing their eager expressions, he finally held back.

Forget it, teach me slowly later.

By the time everyone had finished eating, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. The bonfire was enlarged and everyone sat together.

"Okay, let me introduce myself."

"Self introduction?"

"What's your surname, what's your name, who's in your family, how old you are, etc. Just say whatever comes to mind." Meng Donglai explained.

"All of us have no surname or family name. My name is Heifu. There are six people in my family, my parents, me, two younger brothers, and one younger sister." The leader of the youth introduced.

Heife, a very common name in this day and age.

In the Qin Dynasty and the previous era, the surname represented the origin, and the clan represented the branch. Common people had no origin and no family, so they generally only had first names.

Therefore, in this era, "common people" actually refers to the aristocratic class.

Together, thirteen people introduced themselves, and one of the little girls was Heifu's younger sister.

"From today onwards, you will follow my surname, my surname Ji, and the Meng surname, and your first names will come from Dongfang."

At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou occupied the Gulu Kingdom in Lushan, Henan, and granted Boqin, the eldest son of his son Zhou Gongdan, the state of Lu.In the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Huan of Lu's eldest son Qingfu was originally named Zhongsun, but later changed to Meng (which means eldest son) Sun, and his descendants were all called Meng.

In the Han Dynasty, the surnames were combined into one, and there was the Meng surname.

Therefore, going back more than 2000 years, all people with the surname Meng in the world are one family.

"Thank you for your gift." Heifu led everyone to salute Meng Donglai.

Here, "adult" refers to the title of parents and elders, which means that everyone agrees with the "source" that Meng Donglai bestowed on them.

It's an honor.

(End of this chapter)