Quickly wear the boss and don’t be cannon fodder

"Halt! Who are you?"

The sudden female voice startled everyone.

Zhao Fu, Qian Gui, and the others looked around for a long time before finally spotting the woman who had asked the question on a watchtower.

"Young lady, we are refugees who have fled here. May I ask where this place is?" Zhao Fu was not frightened when he saw that the other party was a woman.

However, I couldn't help feeling uneasy. There was even a watchtower built in the deep mountains. It was probably not the residence of some reclusive master, but more like a bandit stronghold. Would they be sending lambs to the slaughter?

What proof do you have?

"Ah, what kind of proof do we need? We're old and young, we're obviously refugees. Don't we look like that?"

Yes, it does look like it, but I'm asking just to be on the safe side.

At this moment, Su Yan stepped forward and said, "Miss, we have nowhere to go. I wonder if this place can take us in?"

When Guo Niangzi heard Su Yan's voice, her eyes widened immediately. She looked at Su Yan, who smiled back at her.

Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration and almost blurted out Su Yan's identity, only to see him wink at her.

"Um...do you have travel permits, identification documents, or household registration documents?"

“Yes, yes, yes, we are all law-abiding citizens.” Before Su Yan could speak, Zhang Gang had already taken the initiative to say so, while reaching into his clothes to look for travel permits and household registration documents.

After recognizing Su Yan, Madam Guo had already planned to open the village gate. Now that she saw them taking the initiative to produce the household registration documents, she took the opportunity to send someone up to check them.

Qiuyue let Zhang Gang slip the household registration documents through the crack in the door, pretended to look at them, and nodded to Guo Niangzi.

Madam Guo then had someone open the door and let them in.

A group of people entered the village, looking around nervously and excitedly. The village looked spacious, and it was full of women and children, as well as farmland. Could they also join this village and no longer have to wander around?

Before meeting with Guo Niangzi, the group had already conducted a rough assessment of the village and concluded that staying there was much more reliable than going out to find an unknown town.

Zhang Gang and the others still let Su Yan speak, since she was a woman and the other party was also a woman, making it easier for the other party to accept the conversation.

When Madam Guo looked at Su Yan, who had been recommended to speak, she was secretly delighted. So this is what her benefactor looks like.

I never imagined that my benefactor would be such an ordinary person.

Su Yan got straight to the point: "We are all refugees. The world outside is very chaotic. We want to settle down in this village. I wonder if you would be willing to take us in?"

Guo Niangzi was about to agree immediately, but seeing Su Yan's indifferent expression, she deliberately asked, "If you want to stay, what benefits can you bring to our village?"

Su Yan said, "We can help defend this village. We have seeds, we are no threat to you, and we are all people without homes."

Su Yan's words sounded like another kind of guarantee to Madam Guo.

It's as if she's saying that she will help protect this village, lead them to farm and be self-sufficient, and treat this place as their new home.

While Zhao Fu, Zhang Gang, Qian Gui, Liu Mazi, and others were feeling uneasy, Guo Niangzi smiled and said, "Welcome to our big family."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Fu and the others were overjoyed. They were relieved that they would no longer have to flee famine, travel around, or be displaced.

Even living deep in the mountains was better than being driven away from unknown states and counties, as they had long heard that some states and counties would not accept refugees like them.

There was no better way out than to continue fleeing the famine.

Now living deep in the mountains, if they can survive these years of famine, they might be able to return to their hometown in the future.

Guo Niangzi has sorted out the situation in the mountain stronghold in the past two days and sent someone to take them down to settle down.

Zhao Fu and the others were truly surprised that they accepted them so easily.

Logically speaking, they should be very wary of them.

However, little did they know that the reason why Madam Guo and the others accepted them so quickly was mainly because of Su Yan's influence.

After everyone was taken away, Su Yan asked Su Hui to take her younger sister to put away their luggage first, while she went out to fetch water under the pretext of going out to find Madam Guo.

Seeing her approach, Madam Guo respectfully greeted, "My benefactor, why would you...?"

Su Yan interrupted her and said, "You don't need to call me benefactor anymore. My surname is Su and my given name is Yan. You can just call me by my name. I am just like you, an ordinary refugee. Let's help each other and survive in this chaotic world."

"Okay, uh... Su Yan."

After settling in at the mountain stronghold and washing up, the group also took the opportunity to tour the stronghold.

Only then did they realize that the village was really big, and looking at the surrounding houses, it didn't seem like a village with only twenty or thirty people living there. Judging from the number of rooms, there should be at least a hundred people living here.

And since there are only women and children here, where are their men?

Moreover, there was a faint smell of blood in the mountain stronghold; I wonder if they were just being paranoid.

After wandering around for a while, the group sneaked into Su Yan's room to find her.

"what happened?"

The group exchanged bewildered glances. Finally, Zhao Fu stepped forward and said, "Have you noticed? This village only has women and children, and we smelled blood. Do you think the people in this village might kill us all while we're asleep tonight?"

Su Yan wanted to laugh, but if she didn't know the whole story herself, she would indeed have doubts about their speculation.

So she comforted them, saying, "Don't worry too much. Just continue as usual. We'll still take turns on night watch. It's my turn tonight. If anything seems amiss, I'll blow the whistle to let everyone know."

Everyone knew that Su Yan had a whistle, so since she said so, everyone was half relieved.

In the evening, the village had prepared a meal for them and invited them to eat together, but Zhao Fu and the others were worried about potential problems and insisted on cooking it themselves.

“We brought food with us, and it would be a waste not to eat it all. Besides, we haven’t contributed to the village yet, so how can we eat the village’s food?”

Upon hearing this, Madam Guo let them go.

That night, everyone slept restlessly, mainly because they were worried that something might happen during the night.

For three days in a row, the people in the village were very friendly, and some of the women were even more shy than they were, which gradually made them lower their guard.