Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Because the official's backer was quite influential, these people in the underworld were also loyal, and they took money to help others get rid of disasters and tried their best to protect them. This allowed the official and his concubine to arrive safely in Yongzhou City without any trouble on the way.

When they arrived at the border, they reported the name of their son-in-law in Yongzhou City, and the son-in-law also sent his housekeeper to act as guarantor. Only then was they successfully assigned to Wanbao Town.

The village head could not help but sigh, he did not expect that these peasants like them could be in the same team with the rich and capable people, who used to be "big shots" with servants and a lot of wealth. Now, a natural disaster has turned them all back to their original form, how can one not sigh.

But it was totally unnecessary for him to curry favor with others because their life now, except for the fact that they had no fixed place to live, was much better than when they were in the village before.

For these honest peasants, having a roof over their heads and living in peace and safety is already the best life they can have.

Moreover, the various hardships and dangers on the road to escape famine are still vivid in my mind. Now that I have settled down, I still have the official to protect me along the way.

No, the feeling of happiness suddenly arises.

Compared with others, what’s the point?

If you want to compare, you have to compare with yourself and with your past days.

After all, you have to live your own life. No matter how good others are, what does it have to do with you?

Of course, while they were learning about the other families in their group, others were also observing them.

Including the family of the small vendor, ever since they were betrayed by the maidservant and the servant, now, when they get close to a crowded place, they subconsciously feel fear, fearing that someone will stab them in the back.

The Yuanwai family was completely the opposite. They kept secretly glancing at the headman and his group who were chatting and laughing with Captain Shen and the officers and soldiers. Yuanwai felt very uncomfortable.

You know, since he fled to now settled in Wanbao Town, he has hardly suffered too much hardship, and has never felt the feeling of living under someone else's roof and being neglected and ignored.

Moreover, the official has always relied on his son-in-law and is considered a well-known figure in Yongzhou City. He feels that he is superior to these refugees.

These officers and soldiers and Team Leader Shen did not try to get close to him, but instead chatted and laughed with a group of unsophisticated peasants.

The gentleman began to ponder in his heart, could it be that these peasants had some hidden background?

Otherwise, according to normal thinking, no matter what, Team Leader Shen and the officers and soldiers should form a small group with him, a person with a "backer". What common topics can you talk about with a group of old farmers who face the loess and play in the mud all day long?

Although they had a lot of livestock and their clothes were clean, they were much more pleasing to the eye than those dirty refugees.

Moreover, seeing them talking and laughing and having a cheerful chat, the official became even more itchy and anxious, and he had to find out the background of this group of people.

He waved his hand and asked his delicate and soft little concubine to go and get close to the wives of the headman and his men to see if he could get any information.

If these people are really capable, then when they settle down in Wanbao Town, it would be a good idea to get closer to them so that we can take care of them in the future.

Yes, how could the official be so cruel as to give his own daughter to a prominent man as the sixteenth concubine? How could he not have some plan in mind?

On this side, after explaining the general situation of their group, Team Leader Shen also introduced the general layout of Wanbao Town to the village head.

The pattern of the town is similar to any other town in history, which is "rich in the east, noble in the west, poor in the south, and desolate in the north."

That is to say, whether it is the government office or some houses of wealthy families, they are all on the east side. In addition, there are restaurants, inns, some jewelry shops, wine shops, book shops, cloth shops, rice shops, snack shops, butcher shops and the like.

The west side is similar to the east side, but the consumer groups are mostly middle and lower class. In addition to shops, the market that is held every ten days and itinerant merchants with no fixed location also gather there.

The people living in the south are all poor people, wearing ragged clothes and looking numb. The roads are bumpy and uneven. In such hot weather, all kinds of indescribable stench mixed together, attracting flies and mosquitoes flying everywhere. The environment is extremely bad.

The north is a place where all kinds of people mix. Teahouses, opera troupes, brothels, gambling houses, and street vendors are all mixed together. There are all kinds of people and all kinds of shops. The shops there are all facing the poorest people.

Team leader Shen also enthusiastically suggested to the village head that if money was not too tight, they should try to settle in the west, where there is less clutter than in the south and less mixed crowds than in the north.

In addition, soldiers patrol the east and west sides frequently, so the public security is relatively better. If you live in the west and run a small business, there will be no shortage of customers and your business will be good.

In Team Leader Shen's opinion, although these people have strong backing, their horizons are limited by their birth environment. As newcomers, they can easily be bullied by the locals without knowing why.

He reminded them one by one, just to get close to the person behind them, but that person entered Black Wind Ridge. Although the risk was great, if he could come out safely, the governor would naturally not forget that person's contribution.

He was just a small yamen runner, and it would be impossible for him to get to know such a person who even the state officials had to treat with caution. But if he approached from the side and first established a good relationship with the people that person had social contacts with, would he still be worried about not finding an opportunity to get to know that person in the future?

Hehe, he is really smart.

Team leader Shen couldn't help but praise himself again and again in his heart and gave himself a thumbs up for his cleverness.

The village head and others couldn't understand what Team Leader Shen was thinking, but that didn't stop them from secretly planning on starting a small business in the future and how to buy land and property.

If I really go to the village, I'm afraid I'll have to spend a lot of time integrating into the village's native residents, and I won't have time to think about making a living.

The principle that people are valued when they leave their hometown is the same everywhere.

As for farmers, they cannot live without the land.

I'm blind, what am I afraid of?

After making money in the town, you can buy a few acres of land nearby. Whether you farm the land yourself or rent it out, it will be a long-term income.

After Team Leader Shen finished saying this, he saw that the head of the village and his group seemed to be deep in thought. He thought that these people had also made up their minds, so he stopped disturbing them and walked over to the team leaders to chat.

The team leaders were all familiar with each other. Just now, they saw him chatting with those people endlessly, but they didn't interrupt him.

I was just very curious. When did Team Leader Shen become so kind-hearted and give such appropriate advice to the refugees?