Take your own vegetable shop and travel to the desert road

Chen Yu clenched her fists nervously. What did this mean? It meant that he might not come. She became visibly panicked.

The same goes for Wei Zehan on the side, he said fearfully

"Uncle Xiang, what does this mean? Why don't you come back? Uncle Xiang, can you not go?"

"Yes, Dad, I can find food. Can you please not go? We won't enter Longyan Town. It's okay to go alone and separate from them."

Facing the two pleading words, Zheng Xiang helplessly comforted them and said

"I'll be fine, don't worry, you two. I've thought about Longyan Town carefully and I must go. It's not just about the lack of food. In addition to food, there are always medicines on hand.

What we expected at the time was to find a place to stay in Longyan Town, and someone would naturally come to pick us up after our lord took care of things. But now the plan has changed. Our destination has been changed to Jiangcheng, and we still have at least a month of walking on foot.

I don’t feel at ease without regular medicine. "

The most important thing is that Zheng Xiang wants to buy self-defense weapons for the two of them.

Hearing that they were going to buy commonly used medicine, Chen Yu and Wei Zehan didn't know how to keep Zheng Xiang. Medicine is indeed a very important thing. If they get sick on the way to escape the famine without a shop or a village behind, there is no way The chance of getting through the medicine is almost zero.

Chen Yu knew that he couldn't persuade Zheng Xiang, so he could only promise him

"Dad, don't worry, I will protect my brother and won't let anything happen to him until dad comes."

"That's good."

Wei Zehan still looked uneasy. Chen Yu took Wei Zehan's hand and looked into his eyes and said

"Dad will be fine. I will protect you before dad comes."

Wei Zehan was still uneasy after hearing this, but someone said that his uneasiness dissipated a lot, but is it really okay for her to protect him?

What kind of look is this? Does it mean he doubts her? Chen Yu looked at Wei Zehan with wide eyes, as if he said no more doubts, she just said yes.

Time passed quickly, and the fleeing team was particularly excited, because ahead was Longyan Town, which could take them in even if they had no choice.

When they arrived at the city gate and saw the soldiers preparing for battle, their hearts froze. Niu Tieshi took his younger brother Niu Tieshan to the city gate together.

He was scolded by soldiers three feet away from the city gate.

"You are not allowed to take another step forward, otherwise you will be treated as if you broke into the city gate privately."

Niu Tieshi looked at the knife with a cold light in the other person's hand, and carefully tried to please him.

"Sir, sir, we are the villagers of Yanzi Village who were forced to leave our hometown because of the drought. Do you think you can let us in to buy some food?"

Since he couldn't stay in Longyan Town, all he could do was let the villagers go in and buy some food. Everyone had the same food along the way. If they didn't find something to eat, everyone would have no way to survive.

"Okay, that's okay. I have instructions from above. If you want to enter the city, you can, but are you afraid that you can't?"

Can't afford to get in? What does this mean? Do you mean you have to give money to enter the city? This is not robbing money. What you are robbing is the life-saving money of the refugees. Niu Tieshan looked at the soldiers in front of him angrily. He wanted to step forward to argue, but Niu Tieshi stopped him. .

"Tie, be obedient."

Niu Tieshi looked at Niu Tieshan with half warning and half pleading. This was the first time he saw his brother's eyes like that, and he was stunned for a moment.

"The official doesn't know how much money it takes to get into the city. People like us don't have much, and that little money may not be enough to buy some food. I wonder if the official can be more accommodating."

"This is a stipulation from above. We can't make the decision. Twenty coins. Without this number, we can't enter the city."

As soon as the words "Twenty Wen" came out, Niu Tieshi took a step back in shock. Twenty Wen was not cheap. The young men in their village who unloaded goods for Master Shang only paid fifteen Wen a day.

It costs twenty coins to enter the city. Who can afford it? The soldier can clearly see the embarrassment on Niu Tieshi's face. He has seen a lot of it these days. He, a small soldier guarding the city, can't control that much. All he can do is give a reminder

"If you think it's expensive, just go back to the team and discuss it. We can pool a share of the money and let one person enter."

"Thank you sir, I'll go back and ask."

Niu Tieshi and Niu Tieshan looked heavy and staggered back to the team.

The people in the team knew from the look on their faces that there was no hope of settling here, otherwise Niu Tieshi wouldn't have this look on his face.

"Uncle Tieshi, what's wrong? Are we not allowed to settle down? It doesn't matter if we don't settle down. Let's go into the city to buy some food and leave."

Niu Tieshi shook his head after hearing this and gritted his teeth.

"You can't enter this city without twenty coins. You can't enter."

"Twenty coins, this, this is too much!"

"This is not to deliberately make things difficult for us. Twenty cents can buy more than a pound of new rice, which can last for several days."

The people in the team were talking a lot, and no one was willing to spend twenty cents just to enter the city. Niu Tieshi listened to their discussion, and when they were almost done, he spoke.

"The official said that you can't enter the city without twenty coins. If you want to enter the city, you must pay twenty coins, but the kindhearted official gave me an idea.

Several families are joining together. Whose family do you want to call them together and ask one person to go into the city to buy some food? "

Zheng Xiang had been listening to the commotion in the team. When he heard that twenty coins were asked for, he knew that this must be the idea of ​​the Xiao family. The Xiao family has always been greedy, and now it seems that they will not let go even the refugees' money. .

A fleeing team like them would pass by at least three or four people a day. It is really despicable to be greedy for such money.

But I don't know if the soldier's idea was to capture him and his young master. Zheng Xiang lowered his head and pondered. At this time, Niu Tieshan and He Yan came to him at the same time.

"Brother Xiangzi, what do you think your family says? Who do you want to merge with?"

Zheng Xiang raised his head with a wry smile, looked at the two of them and said

"I don't know anyone in the team that I know well or trust. If I'm familiar with you, He Yan is more familiar with me. How can anyone trust me?

I really want to go in. You see, I didn't prepare much at that time, and I've already finished all the food. No matter what you two say, I can't get in. "

He Yan wanted to buy some fine grain, but Du Zao wanted to fight with the Zheng family and let him enter the city. Brother Xiang might not agree to this proposal.

"You two also know the situation of my family. The flowers need to be carefully cultivated and need to eat some fine grains. Du Zao means to let me go to the city..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Zheng Xiang's rejection.

"What a coincidence, that's what I thought too. Brother Yan, it seems you have to find someone else this time."

Hearing the expected rejection, He Yan was still a little disappointed, so he forced himself to say

"Okay, I'll go find someone else right now."

After He Yan left, Niu Tieshan said hesitantly

"Brother Yan, do you have to go to the city? If you want to buy some food, I can bring it back. I am strong."