Dressed as the cannon fodder who died prematurely, I will marry the villain in anger

"There is a village ahead, let's ask the village chief if there is any vacant house for us to stay overnight."

They have traveled one-third of the nearly [-] miles of exile.Currently entering the area of ​​Gunzhou, this area is sparsely populated for some reason.They had been camping in the wilderness for three days.After finally finding a village, they really didn't want to miss it.

It's a pity that things didn't go as smoothly as they expected. They found that since they entered the village, every family in the village began to close their doors.

They knocked on several doors in a row, but no one answered.

The whole village feels very xenophobic, as if it regards them as plague gods.

"Let's go north. I saw someone sweeping snow just now. Go and ask."

Xu Zheng picked a family that looked more courageous and went up to knock on the door. Why do you say that, when they appeared from the corner just now, someone from this family flashed into the house.

"Excuse me, is anyone at home?" Xu Zheng stepped forward and knocked on the door, "I saw you, the old man inside the door. But don't worry, we are not bad people. I am a prison officer of the imperial court, and these are my friends." The subordinates, we are in charge of escorting the prisoners. The person next to me is the head of the Yang Wei Escort Bureau, and the other strong men are bodyguards, responsible for escorting wealthy businessmen and their goods. They are not bad people!"

"We didn't have any other intentions to enter the village. We just wanted to ask if there is any vacant house in your village, and lend it to us for a rest?"

The gate of the courtyard was not fixed, but it could be seen from the short mud that the other party opened a crack in the door, and the voice came out, tremblingly, "You have to ask the village chief about this, the village chief's house is in front, you go Just walk a little while and we'll be there."

Xu Zheng didn't bother, "Okay, thank you."

Not long after they walked forward, a short old man came towards them with seven or eight strong men, and the two sides directly bumped into each other.

Xu Zheng stepped forward to explain the purpose of coming, and handed the nameplate on his waist to the other party to see.

The other party looked carefully, and after confirming the identities of Xu Zheng and the others, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't blame me, my fellows. The reason why our village is so wary of strangers is because I'm really afraid."

Xu Zheng first asked the other party's surname, and then hurriedly asked him what he said.

Then the other party claimed to be surnamed Chen, and they could call him Village Chief Chen.

"Hey, it's also a crime! Two hundred miles away from our Qingxi Village, there is a cottage called Qinglongzhai, which often plunders the surrounding villages. Our Qingxi Village was just robbed by them half a month ago. I thought it was the bandits from Qinglongzhai who came again."

"Is this Qinglong Village so rampant?"

"Isn't that right?"

"Didn't the government take care of it?"

"You mean to suppress the bandits?" Village Chief Chen shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "It's useless if you don't care."

"Qinglongzhai is located on the halfway up the precipitous Cangshan Mountain. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The government has sent troops, but it can't be wiped out."

Village head Chen told them that often after the government sent people over, Qinglongzhai would intensify the plundering of the surrounding villages, and over time, they simply gave up their resistance.

Lu Songli and the others listened to their conversation quietly in the carriage, this is a disaster.

"Anyway, when the people from Qinglong Village come, as long as we obediently hand over enough food as they demand, they will not kill people, nor will they spoil women and rob people of their children." As for the lack of food?Then tighten your belt and drink more water, as long as you don't starve to death.

Lu Songli listened quietly, feeling that Qinglongzhai regards the entire area of ​​hundreds of miles as its own fish pond, and knows how to follow the path of sustainable development.

But in this way, isn't this Qingyun village equal to the second imperial court?After the common people pay taxes to the court every year, they have to be exploited by this Qinglong village.

Moreover, as ordinary people, shouldn't they be burned, killed and looted?

Lu Songli found out that the common people's demands are really low, which may be the helplessness of the common people.

"Oh, why am I talking all these annoying things. My lords, I want to ask if there is any vacant house in our village, and you want to stay overnight?"

"That's right, Village Chief Chen, look, we have a lot of people, can we make some arrangements?"

"Empty houses are still available in our village, but we may not be able to accommodate so many people at once."

"It's okay, we can lay the floor and squeeze together. Village Chief Chen, please lead the way."

Later, Village Chief Chen took them to an empty farmyard. There were nearly ten large houses in the yard. The key point was that this house looked quite new, but no one lived in it?

But they are too lazy to meddle in their own business.

Yang Weisai gave him a bag of copper, about five or six hundred cash, "Cun Chief Chen, take this, and treat it as the cost of our renting the house."

Along the way, it can be seen that Qingxi Village is not rich. The villagers are all thin and skinny, and they are not fat anyway.

"No, no, I can't take it."

"You just accept it."

Yang Wei insisted on letting him accept it. They were not short of this little money, but Qingxi Village was too poor, so there should be nowhere to get money.Since they have borrowed someone else's house, they will give what is due.

Seeing his insistence, Village Chief Chen had no choice but to say, "Brother Yang, I don't want money, if you can, can you give me some food?"

Immediately afterwards, he explained, "To be honest, this house belongs to my cousin. He just built the house the year before last, and died of an emergency last year. His wife remarried and went to another place not long ago. I am the only one left in the family." The two-year-old nephew has been raised by his family from last year to now." Actually, this child has always been raised by his family, but his family has a large population and is not rich.Several daughters-in-law have a lot of opinions about him raising the child.

"The money was given to me, and I will go to the town to buy food for him as rations. If it is convenient for you, why not just exchange it for food for him."

"Okay." Yang Wei helped him exchange it for grain according to the grain price.This year's grain is really expensive. By the end of the year, fine grains have risen to two hundred cents a bucket, and coarse grains are also a hundred cents a bucket.Yang Wei finally gave him five buckets of coarse grain and half a bucket of fine grain.

Village head Chen took his people and left with food on his shoulders.

The villagers he brought out just now said enviously, "Village chief, these foreigners are really rich."

Others also nodded in agreement, "They have so many carriages, judging from the depth of the ruts, you can tell that the carriages are fully loaded."

They have no bad intentions, they are simply envious.There are forty or fifty men in the other party's group, all of them are powerful, as if one person can stand up to the three of them, and they dare not have bad intentions.