I, Kiriko, the Cheater

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The village head and the village head's wife looked at the bowl of steaming rice and swallowed.

Around the village head's house, you can also see many villagers lying on the window watching. To be precise, they are looking at the rice placed in front of Tongzi.

From their perspective, they shouldn't be able to see it, but they should be able to guess what's in the bowl just by looking at the conspicuous heat and the unique aroma of the rice.

Tongzi felt strange at first, but was relieved immediately.

Although in modern times, rice has long been a very common thing, and many people even throw away the leftovers because they can't eat it, but in ancient times, rice was very scarce.

Especially for common people, rice is as precious as gold.

In Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", in order to hire wild samurai, the villagers also paid rice.

Thinking of this, Tongzi pushed the bowl of rice in front of the village chief.

"You are..."

"Village Chief, thank you for your kindness, but I'm not hungry, so you guys should eat the rice."

"No, no, how is this possible? You saved those children. We can't say nothing. It's just that we are too poor and have no money to pay you. We only have these saved rice. Please don't worry about it anyway. Don't be disgusted."

"You really don't need to be polite."

Tongzi refused while taking out some bread from the King's Treasure.

In the king's treasury, she saved some food, not much.

Since the time in the king's treasure house is also flowing, it is not possible to stuff things into it like the storage rings in other novels.

So she's just stockpiling foods with a longer shelf life.

However, although the food he brought was not much, at least it was enough to treat everyone in the village to a meal.

She took out a box of Daliyuan pies, which contained more than a dozen individually packaged snacks. She took out one of the individually packaged snacks and tore a small opening.

Both the village chief and his wife's eyes widened in unison.

"this is……"

"Bread? No, should it be a more advanced refreshment?"

Originally, Tongzi thought that the village head and his wife might not know the Western stuff like bread, so she planned to explain it, but unexpectedly, they did.

Thinking about it, the technology in this world is extremely chaotic, so it doesn't seem surprising that the food tree can point to Western food.

Now that we know each other, it's easy to handle, Tongzi pushed the dim sum with a small hole in it.

"Try it?"

The village head and his wife quickly declined.

"No...we don't have any money."

Tongzi waved her hand.

"for free."

Both the village head and the village head's wife were stunned.

"what?"

"I don't want your money, I invite you to eat."

"This……"

The village head and the village head's wife looked at each other, and instead of accepting it happily as Tongzi thought, they showed a look of embarrassment instead.

Seeing that they were still in a dilemma, Tongzi thought for a while.

"I see. If this is the case, then let's exchange."

"Exchange? But we have no money."

"You don't need money, use other methods to pay." Tongzi pondered, thinking about making an excuse, "As you can see, I am not from this country."

The village chief suddenly realized: "Oh, so that's the case, but you are very similar to the imperial people. Is your father or mother an imperial man?"

"Husband!" The village chief's wife touched the village chief quietly, and then glanced in Tongzi's direction.

The village chief came to his senses and quickly bowed his head to Tongzi to apologize: "Sorry, I was rude."

"No, it's nothing," Tongzi waved his hand, "As I said just now, I am not from this country, and this is the first time I have come to this country, so I want to learn about the empire from you... as long as Anything you know, tell me, and as a reward..."

Tongzi pushed the dim sum that had been torn apart just now, as well as the whole box of Daliyuan dim sum, "That's it."

The village head and the village head's wife exchanged glances again. Obviously, based on their cognition, just some situations are not enough to be worth these refreshments that only the people in the imperial capital can afford.

But Tongzi doesn't look like she's joking...

"Yes, I understand, and I will tell you everything I know."

Chapter 252 Tax Officer

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What the village chief told Kiriko was probably similar to what Sheila said.

First of all, the place they are in is called the Empire, and the Empire has no name...or the name of the country is the Empire.