Bind the system and take your younger siblings to survive in the disaster years
Chapter 137 22 City Entry Fee
After Zhang Wei felt his pulse, he said to Li Qingxiu: "They are all fine. They are just frightened and do not need to take medicine."
Li Qingxiu felt relieved after hearing this. After sending Li Wei away, Li Qingxiu coaxed the two little guys and then went to find Li Zheng and told Li Zheng and Li Xuan about the situation in Xinzhou.
Satsuma drank some water to moisten his throat and said, "But if we want to go south, we have to pass through Shinshu. Let's go there first and see before we talk. We can't stay here for a moment."
Li Xuan also nodded when he heard this. Li Qingxiu naturally knew that this incident had dealt a big blow to the father and son. Also, one wrong decision of theirs almost wiped out the entire team.
After burying the thirteen villagers who were hacked to death, Li Zheng led the entire team to express his gratitude to Li Qingxiu, because without Li Qingxiu, they would not be alive today.
Some even knelt down and kowtowed to Li Qingxiu. At this time, Li Qingxiu was no longer a child in their eyes, but a strong man.
If it weren't for Li Qingxiu's medicine and efforts. This time their team really became fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
Li Qingxiu said that it is enough to know that her contribution is not like that of Mrs. Wang's family, and there is no need to kneel down. She also hopes that everyone realizes that they are a team and must unite as one to overcome the current predicament.
The rain had subsided a lot at this time, and it was a good time to set off. Just as Satoshi saw everyone getting ready, he announced the departure. The team gradually walked out of the mountain and headed towards the official road, heading in the direction of Shinshu.
They actually encountered many refugees along the way, and those refugees stared at Li Qingxiu's team with green eyes.
Because compared to them, Li Qingxiu's team is much better. Although Li Qingxiu's team is not well-dressed.
But at least the clothes are much cleaner than theirs, and the person looks energetic. And they actually had ox carts and donkey carts, with a lot of luggage tied to them. There is probably food in that luggage.
The fleeing people were just like the cannibals before. Their clothes were in tatters and their faces were so dirty that they looked almost unrecognizable. The only difference was that they all had sunken cheeks and dull eyes, and an aura of despair enveloped them. On the body.
Upon seeing this, Li Zheng immediately changed the formation and asked middle-aged women or men to hold hatchets or hoes and walk around the outside of the team with a fierce look. Inside the team were the elderly, children, oxen, donkeys, carts, and luggage.
At this time, a woman came to Li Goudan with her motionless child in her arms and asked Li Goudan to go ahead and give him some food.
Li Goudan curled his lips and said to the woman, "Do you know what our team depends on to survive?"
The woman holding the child looked confused and shook her head: "I don't know."
Li Goudan licked his lips and made random gestures with the hatchet. "Hehe... we are alive today by eating human flesh. I see that even though you are thin, you still have some flesh on your body. Otherwise..."
Before he could finish his words, the woman held the child and stepped back more than ten steps with fear on her face, fleeing from Li Goudan's sight as if she had seen a ghost.
It didn't take long for the surrounding refugees to learn that Li Qingxiu's team survived by eating human flesh.
The surrounding refugees kept their distance from Li Qingxiu's team. After all, there were hundreds of them, and they could not defeat them with only a dozen or twenty people.
Li Zheng and Li Xuan felt relieved when they saw the refugees avoiding them like snakes and scorpions. Although they didn't know the reason, they felt relieved.
When they arrived at the gate of Xinzhou City, they saw that the gate of Xinzhou City was tightly closed, and there were many soldiers with swords guarding the gate. There were also sentries a few steps away from the city wall.
Outside the city wall, there were densely populated refugee areas. Li Zheng took Li Xuan and a few other men to the city gate to inquire about the situation.
When the gatekeeper saw a group of people approaching, he immediately pulled out his sword, waved the blade and said, "Go back! Don't go any further, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless with my sword!"
Everyone was frightened by the bright sword and trembled. Li Xuan quickly stepped forward and saluted the gatekeeper. "Sir, we want to ask how to enter Shinshu?"
When the gatekeeper saw that Li Xuan behaved like a scholar, his expression softened a little, but he still said coldly: "We have an order from the county magistrate! If you want to enter Xinzhou, each person needs to pay twenty taels of silver to enter the city."
Li Zheng and the others gasped when they heard this. One person wants twenty taels of silver! Not to mention twenty taels of silver, even if you sell them, you won't be able to get two taels of silver.
When Li Xuan left, he deliberately took his scholar's document with him. He thought for a while and took out the scholar's document and handed it to the gatekeeper. He said politely: "Sir, I am a scholar, could you please make it easier for me?"
The gatekeeper didn't think about it, but he said disdainfully: "Scholar? What about a scholar? Even if you are a scholar, you are still fleeing! Anyway, if you want to enter Xinzhou, you have to pay twenty taels of silver to enter."
The gatekeeper's words made Li Xuan's face turn blue and red with anger, and he felt a sense of humiliation.
What else does Li Xuan want to say? But I saw that the gatekeeper was impatient. He also used a bright sword to drive them away. "Leave quickly, or don't blame me for hurting anyone!"
In the end, Li Zheng and his party could only come back with ugly faces. As soon as they returned to the team, everyone asked how things went.
Li Zheng could only explain what the gatekeeper said exactly, but when the villagers heard that the entrance fee to the city actually cost twenty taels of silver, they immediately started to lament and lament.
"Oh my God! Twenty taels to enter the city! Then I don't even have ten taels of savings for most of my life."
"This is not asking for money, this is clearly asking for our lives!"
"That's right, if it's twenty taels for a family, it's fair to say, but it actually costs twenty taels per person. There are more than a dozen people in my family, so it costs hundreds of taels!"
Even Li Qingxiu, the richest member of the team, frowned. She really felt that it was too difficult for people living in ancient times to live simply.
Li Qingxiu still thinks that modern countries are good. At least in the face of natural disasters, one side is in trouble and all sides support it! Like now, I feel like I have nowhere to go no matter where I go.
An older woman asked Li Zheng sadly: "Li Zheng, what should we do in this situation now? We really can't afford so much money."
Li Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Who can afford so much!"
After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Qingxiu intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing that Li Qingxiu was also frowning, he sighed. He didn't know what to do this time.
Li Ziyue looked left and right, then said: "If you don't have money, then don't enter Xinzhou. Who cares about entering? At worst, we can continue walking around the mountain!"
As soon as Li Ziyue said these words, everyone around them turned to look at her.
Li Ziyue felt guilty when she saw it, and she asked doubtfully: "You...why are you all looking at me? Did I say something wrong?"
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