I went to the temple after traveling through time, and he turned out to be a monk!

Before Bai Zhi left, she asked Lin Ling to change the county magistrate of Wei County. Lin Ling agreed without thinking. He agreed very readily. He said that within a month, the capable person would be in charge.

Bai Zhi waited.

The mountains in Weixian County are deep and dense, as eerie as a dark forest.

Bai Zhi chose the poorest place and walked through the woods with a few guards, newly recruited healers and scholars proficient in various languages.

This place is the closest to Evergreen City, and I heard it is the cleanest place for conscription. You can't even see an adult man.

When I first entered the village, I saw at first glance that they were all women in simple clothes working.

Seeing the outsiders coming, everyone in the village gathered around them, one of them extremely enthusiastic, serving tea and dried fruits.

But it was not to Bai Zhi, but to the men behind Bai Zhi. Although they couldn't understand each other's words, after a while, they all held hands.

Bai Zhi was dumbfounded. She took her translator to find the leader of the village. She was a gray-haired old woman. The villagers called her Da Po, who was very peaceful.

After briefly explaining the purpose of her visit, Bai Zhi unexpectedly discovered that the other party actually knew Mandarin. Although there was a slight accent, it did not hinder communication.

She held Bai Zhi's hand with a smile and said, "Girl, don't mind, they just want to keep a seed for themselves."

"Leave a seed? Your life is already not easy. If you give birth to a child, wouldn't it be even harder? There aren't many men here. What about cultivating the land?"

"Hey! It's not easy at all! In the first few years when a large number of soldiers were recruited, the backbone of the family left, and life was indeed difficult. But then everyone got used to it and started to work on their own, and they were able to survive, but they were poor. They were poor. Now, although I want a man, I don’t want a man, I just want to keep a seed so that when I grow up, I can have someone to take care of me at home.”

"Then you have to take care of your children and farm, how can you take care of it?" Bai Zhi asked.

"One person definitely can't take care of it, but everyone in the village helps to take care of the children, which makes things easier. The children grow up in batches, and they can also help take care of their younger brothers and sisters. But the children are suffering. I’ve never tasted anything good…”

As the grandmother spoke, Bai Zhi looked out the door. A bunch of children looked at her curiously, with shy and childish smiles on their faces. They were all eager to get closer and see her.

Bai Zhi waved to them, and a few bold children came in. They shyly put their hands behind their backs with tight smiles on their faces.

Bai Zhi smiled and spread her hands towards them, and asked with a smile, "What do you want to give me?"

Although they didn't understand, they still smiled and handed out the things in their hands, which looked like plant roots.

Bai Zhi asked curiously, "What is this? Is it food?"

One of the children grabbed it, peeled off the skin of the stem with his black hands, and then handed it to Bai Zhi, signaling Bai Zhi to eat it.

Put the Angelica dahurica into your mouth and take a bite. It is crispy, sweet and has a strange fragrance.

Bai Zhi immediately handed it to the doctor behind her and asked him if it could be eaten or used for medicine. Then I asked the old woman in front of me how to plant it, what the yield was, and how to harvest it.

Bai Zhi recorded these things one by one, and then walked around the village and found that the labor performed by the women here was not light. They were not as delicate as imagined. It must have been that they had developed strength over the years.

In the past, when there were men, people here were almost all family units, but now they live in groups, helping each other and caring for each other. Although the labor force was affected, it did not collapse because of it. Instead, it developed a different approach.

But being poor means always being poor. It doesn’t matter if you have a man or not.

It's not that they can't do it, it's that the chaos in Wei County failed to give them a way out.

Without a good leader, they would not be able to take a new path and would be left wandering on the edge of being self-sufficient.

Bai Zhi stayed here for several days, then moved to the next place.

The situation is completely different. Instead of forming a life of community and mutual assistance, there is serious separation. Because there was a road passing in front of the village, they all started robbing houses and houses, regardless of men, women, old or young, and whoever got it would get it.

As time goes by, fewer and fewer people dare to take this road, and they become poorer and always hungry.

Bai Zhi came to another place, this place was very different, there were no children here, most of them were old women, old men, and women waiting to be married. There are basically no people in the middle age group. The people in the village were somewhat repelled by them and were unwilling to reveal anything.

Bai Zhi wondered what they did for a living. So she secretly stuffed money into a family's house and hid it in her house. Bai Zhi and seven or eight other guards crowded in a small cellar every day and only dared to come out at night.

There is only one woman in this family, and she does nothing every day. She just embroiders clothes with needle and thread. She embroiders from morning to dark, doing nothing but eating, drinking, and defecating.

Under Bai Zhi's coercion and inducement, I realized that this village was controlled by those old men and old women. They asked all the girls in the village to embroider wedding dresses for themselves. The better they embroidered, the sooner they would get married. Can live a good life.

To put it simply, it is selling people.

Sold to Nanman, whose clothes are exquisitely embroidered, rich people like to have an embroiderer at home, so the better the wedding clothes are embroidered, the sooner they can get married.

Many of the women here are caught outside and tricked into coming back, claiming that they can live a good life by coming to this village.

Bai Zhi couldn't tell whether they were good or bad. Anyway, it was all between you and me. The girls also wanted to get out of the sea of ​​misery as soon as possible. They also made money and lived a very comfortable life in the village.

But one thing is undeniable. The embroidery work of these girls is indeed good. The birds and animals on the wedding dresses are lifelike, luxurious and beautiful.

Bai Zhi discussed with the village leader that she wanted to buy some wedding dresses, but the girl was unwilling to sell them. If she sold them, she might not be able to get married.

Bai Zhi had no choice but to buy them all for him. This smoothed the gap and everyone started embroidering slowly from scratch.

These wedding clothes may have other uses.

After visiting like this for nearly a month, Bai Zhi was exhausted both mentally and physically.

Why did she boast about Haikou in the first place! What can I say to save the people of Wei County?

She really wanted to slap herself in the face. The chaos was like this. Even if a fairy descended to earth, it would be hard to save her!

However, she was almost exhausted from this trip, and even the guards were a little overwhelmed. They just wanted to sleep lazily for three days and three nights, and then eat and drink as much as they wanted.

The group found an inn on the road. Bai Zhi was so tired that she sent them to rest.

She simply wiped herself and lay on the bed and fell asleep.

But her sleep was restless. She dreamed of countless horrific scenes. She was frightened and woke up, only to find that she was still in the dream.

No matter how hard I wake up, I can't wake up. The ghost is pressing on the bed.

She struggled for a long time, her whole body was soaked, and she suddenly woke up.

But he found the tip of a knife hanging above his head.

"Ah! Assassin!"