I escaped from natural disasters and won by relying on the system.

There was a huge crowd outside the city wall. At a glance, there were at least several hundred livestock carts lined up to enter the city.

On the other side, people pushing carts, carrying baskets, and bundles were also queuing up to enter the city.

At the foot of the city wall, there was a large group of refugees hiding in the shadow of the wall to avoid the sun.

These refugees were disheveled, skinny, and their eyes turned green as they looked at the people queuing to enter the city.

However, there were patrolling soldiers on the city wall, so these refugees did not dare to act rashly, otherwise they would be shot dead.

These are bloody lessons.

However, they will also observe carefully, and if they see a fat sheep with few people, they will rush up to grab the food.

As long as it doesn't cause a widespread sensation, the officers and soldiers will turn a blind eye and not bother to do anything.

What else can they do? There are more and more refugees, and Lord Mansion does not provide them with resettlement. They patrol here in fear every day. If they have to take care of such a small matter, they will have no time to rest.

Besides, it is a good thing for these refugees to steal some food on a small scale.

Otherwise, if the refugees were to go mad with hunger and rebel, they wouldn’t have enough troops to suppress them.

With Lin Ke's eyesight and hearing, he knew that these officials were difficult to deal with. For those who had mule and horse carts like them, at least one-fifth of the supplies on the carts would be confiscated.

Ordinary people also had to pay 20 cents each to enter the city.

No wonder so many refugees can’t enter the city.

This prefect doesn't look like a good official.

After Lin Heng found out the reason, he was so angry that he wanted to curse.

However, due to the large crowd, he swallowed the curse words that were about to come out.

However, they have no choice now. If they want to continue moving south, they must pass through Yongning City, or they have to cross the entire Tianmu Mountain Range before they can move forward.

Not to mention the snakes, insects, rats, ants and wild beasts that are rampant in the mountains, even if you take a road that has been paved by people, it will take more than ten to twenty days to walk.

So unless it is necessary, everyone wants to spend some money to pass through Yongning City.

Therefore, the Yongning government office also made a lot of money.

However, unexpectedly, in this time of famine, these officers and soldiers have become even more aggressive in their pursuit of money and supplies.

"It looks like this is another fat sheep!" Lin Ke couldn't help but think secretly.

When she visits Prince Yu's villa, she should also take care of the fat sheep, the prefect.

Everyone lined up behind, and the sun in the sky was scorching the earth.

Even though they were all sitting in the carriage, they couldn't help sweating profusely.

What a horrible weather! Why is there no wind at all?

There were thousands of people queuing up, as well as cattle, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock. You can imagine the smell.

Whenever Lin Ke and his friends moved forward a little, they would come across a pile of feces.

The weather was hot and everyone had no appetite at all.

I could only hide quietly in the carriage and drink some water.

The crowd waited in line for an hour and only moved forward 50 meters.

At this moment, a group of soldiers were seen coming at a gallop from afar.

When the soldiers guarding the city saw this from afar, several of them hurried down, moved away the barricades outside the main city gate, and opened the gate.

Lin Ke inexplicably felt a sense of crisis.

He let his five senses run wild and even used his mental power.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Ke's face became paler and paler.

Seeing that his daughter was not feeling well, Lin Heng quickly wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked her softly what was wrong.

Lin Ke didn't have time to say anything more and told Lin Heng to immediately notify everyone else to leave the queue.

Lin Heng didn't understand, but since his daughter had spoken, he just had to do as she said.

The group hurriedly left the queue and drove quickly towards Tianmu Mountain.

We walked for two hours and it was almost dark when we finally arrived at the foot of Tianmu Mountain.

During this period, Lin Heng finally understood why his daughter had behaved so out of control just now.

It turned out that an order had come from the capital that all males over the age of 15 in Yongning Prefecture were to be conscripted.

If you want to use silver instead of soldiers, you need 100 taels per person.

These are things they knew before.

But there was another piece of news that they didn't know: each household was only given one quota to pay silver in lieu of a soldier.

And this command is executed immediately.

In other words, the people of Yongning Prefecture, the refugees outside and those who are queuing up to enter the city will be the first wave of leeks to be harvested.

Seeing this, everyone had no choice but to prepare to cross the mountain.

After running around for most of the day and not having eaten lunch, everyone was already starving.

At this time, there were also some refugees at the foot of the mountain. They must have thought that by guarding the mountain, they could at least pick some vegetable roots and tree bark to fill their stomachs.

Seeing Lin Ke and the others preparing to set up the pot to cook, some people gathered around from afar.

Seeing this, Old Man Zhong took out his machete.

The other men also showed their weapons.

When the refugees saw the machetes the family took out had black blades and were shining coldly, they were so scared that they took a few steps back.

But he was reluctant to leave, so he stopped about five or six meters away from Lin Ke and the others.

With so many eyes watching, Lin Heng and his friends didn't do much but just cooked some brown rice porridge.

But even so, after cooking, the aroma of brown rice wafts out.

The refugees had been eating tree bark and grass roots for several days, and when they smelled the fragrance of the brown rice, they became even hungrier.

Several children were crying for food and couldn't be comforted.

Those people wanted to go forward and ask for a bowl of porridge for the child.

However, looking at the big swords in Lin Heng and the others' hands, he didn't dare to make any move.

The women quickly distributed a bowl of porridge to each person, and everyone began to eat it with the dry food biscuits they had prepared earlier.

With a plop, an old lady knelt down a few meters away.

"Kindhearted people, please give me some water to drink and something to eat. My grandson hasn't eaten for two days. If this continues, the child will die!"

After saying this, he kowtowed continuously.

Next to her, there was a little boy of three or four years old, lying on the ground, breathing weakly.

Several of my aunts are mothers and they really can’t bear to watch this scene.

I wanted to help, but I thought about their current situation, about selling medicine before, about the mountains in front of them, about the little food they had, and how it had to sustain them to climb over the mountain and find the town.

So I could only turn around and eat.

Out of sight, out of mind. Although they have water bottles and weapons given by the gods, they don’t have much food.

This has to do with the effect of the forbidden pill. Only Lin Heng's family and old man Zhong and his wife knew about the storage of grain.

Lin Wan only knew that her niece had a magical device that could hold things, but she knew that her mother's family couldn't buy many things with the money, so she always thought that they didn't have much food.

Except for the three youngest ones, Xiao Maodou, the others only knew that the gods gave them magic kettles and weapons.

No one even knew about the stored food and RV.