Dress up as a sickly person to capture the villain princess!

"My lady, since I am here without any soldiers, it proves that I am sincere and have something to discuss with you."

The voice was soft, in stark contrast to the biting cold wind. Xia Zhiyuan lowered his eyelashes.

His eyes fell on the blade, Xia Zhiyuan smiled, as if he didn't care about the threat from the woman in wolfskin.

Or maybe, she has reinforcements, so she can be so arrogant in front of him and not afraid of danger?

The woman in wolf skin became suspicious and took a quick look. Even in the dark night, the white snow was so eye-catching.

But apart from the prints under her feet, there was almost no trace of snow.

Longya Village is located halfway up the mountain, with thick snow. If you walked up here, how could there be no shoe prints!

Could it be that the wind and snow were too strong tonight, covering up all the traces?

But no matter what, there are some differences in depth, not to mention that the snow tonight is not fluffy snow. I have been patrolling around here and didn't see anything.

There was not even a sound.

Not only himself, but even the gray wolf in his hand did not sense any breath.

Could it be that this woman is a female ghost that appeared out of nowhere?

Ridiculous! It's really ridiculous, how is this possible?

I have been staying in Longya Village for more than ten years, and have never seen the ghosts and gods that the villagers talk about.

It is said that he has seen many lackeys in the imperial court.

It's very unlucky.

"I have something to discuss with you. Is this how you sneaked into Longya Village?"

"I wonder which side the young lady is from?"

He is dressed so luxuriously, so I guess he must be of high rank.

"You are right. I am from the imperial court."

"And... I know what you want."

The sharp blade was removed from the white rabbit fur and drew an arc in the cold night wind. The woman held the hilt in her hand and put away her hostility.

Even if this woman had great abilities, what would it matter? Now it was a desolate place with raging snow and wind, and no one lived there. Even if she was a master of strategizing, she would still be like those lackeys of the imperial court who were arrested a few days ago.

He knelt before her and cried bitterly, calling for his parents.

He kept asking the village chief to spare his life.

It seems that the system's algorithm has been improved a lot, and it can teleport itself to the front of the leader of Longya Village so accurately.

I don't have to spend time looking for it myself, which saves me a lot of trouble and makes me feel more comfortable. Should I give you some praise?

"It's ridiculous. How could the arrogant lackeys of the imperial court know...what we need?"

"They only promise us a few local low-ranking officials, hoping to recruit us, take us in as their army, and make us their pawns to die."

"What's more, the entire imperial city is in turmoil now. Even if you become a soldier and eat military pay and imperial food, what's the use? People killing each other and floods flushing the Dragon King Temple, don't you think it's funny?"

The blade sank into the snow and was instantly covered with a layer of ice crystals, which cut through the cold night wind along the blade.

The woman's gray wolf fur fluttered in the wind. She looked disdainful and interrogated Xia Zhiyuan who was standing in front of her with a cold brow.

"is it?"

"Then how do you make a living as bandits?"

"Are we going to rob the cattle and sheep from the barbarians?"

"Or, bully your own people and rob the rich to help the poor?"

Taking a step forward, Xia Zhiyuan's voice was like the whisper of a god in a snowy night, questioning her conscience, wondering whether what she had done was right or wrong.

"In your eyes, the imperial court is a treacherous and evil party, but is what you did right? Occupying the mountains and becoming kings, to put it nicely, is robbing the rich to help the poor, to put it bluntly, it was a last resort."

"How many soldiers die on the front lines every year? Who takes care of their family affairs? Who brings them back home?"

Xia Zhiyuan had already studied how to persuade the people in Longya Village. Promising them promotions would only attract their hatred.

If you treat a person who is disrespectful to you as a guest of honor, others will only suspect that you have ulterior motives. Is this a Hongmen Banquet?

But if you take the attitude that a superior should have and say that as long as the person admits his mistake, bygones be bygones, then this group of people will naturally consider it.

But never underestimate human nature. A bandit who has lived in the mountains for a long time and has not read much is naturally different from a scholar who has studied hard for ten years. There is a fundamental difference between the two. Their thinking is different, and they think about different things.

The purpose of studying and learning to read is to become an official. Scholars naturally know the benefits of being a high-ranking official and how to get along with others in the officialdom.

But the bandits went up the mountain to become bandits in order to have enough food to eat, not to become officials.

Given a choice between a black hat and a hundred taels of gold, most bandits would choose the latter.

However, the leader of Longya Village was not so easily fooled. After all, she had a solid foundation. She had studied for a few years and could write beautifully.

But since she is the village leader, she cannot just consider her own affairs, but also has to consider the life and death of her brothers and sisters. This is what a village leader should do.

"You are so sharp-tongued. I underestimated you. You are much better than the previous sour scholars. You are not just talking nonsense and hoping to deceive people."

"But even so, young lady, please go back home. Longya Village will not be interested in anything given by the court."

She spread out her palms and made a gesture of invitation towards the direction coming down the mountain behind her.

The stone steps of Longya Village have long been submerged in a sea of ​​snow. People will have to be sent to clear the snow tomorrow, otherwise the supplies from the mountain will not be able to be transported up.

My brothers and sisters are going to be hungry again.

"Really? If it's food, don't you want it too?"

Xia Zhiyuan knew that it was a time of war and the imperial treasury was in short supply. The army had already evenly distributed enough food for several years. If they wanted to squeeze out more money, they would have to use the relief food that the imperial court provided to the victims.

This will inevitably squeeze the living space of ordinary people. What's more, if the relief food for the victims is cut off for a period of time, and if they no longer set up tents and provide porridge, the starving victims will not be able to help but steal from others.

They are even capable of burning, killing and looting.

When people are extremely hungry, they no longer distinguish between good and evil in order to survive.

But fortunately, I have a cheat. Since the court cannot give it to me, I can give some subsidies to His Highness.

Anyway, the points also come from His Highness.

"Food, you are not lying to me, are you?"

"Everyone knows that the royal relatives and nobles in the imperial city are now fighting each other. They are in a very tight spot. I'm afraid they have no time to allocate food to us, even if they can recruit soldiers and horses."

Although she did not believe that the imperial court could provide a large amount of food to support Longya Village, it was not impossible to pluck some fat hair from the tiger's butt.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to cheat them out of a few hundred loads of grain first.

"You are joking, village chief. If the imperial court can't afford it, who else can?"

"The people of the Dawn or the northern barbarians?"