I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

The magistrate of Qingshan County was a good official. He had sent yamen runners to search and hunt down the vagrants who were stealing and robbing in the towns and villages. However, due to the limited staff in the county government, the work was unfortunately progressing very slowly.

According to Bai Lizheng's speculation, the people Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou met were most likely scattered refugees who had fled from other places to avoid pursuit.

As for those who had become bandits, the yamen runners said that they were numerous and more brutal than those vagrants who only robbed and stole things. They would definitely not be able to be dealt with by the few yamen runners in the county government.

He privately told Bai Lizheng that although their county magistrate had already sent a letter to the higher-ups, requesting the bigwigs above to dispatch troops to suppress the bandits, in his opinion, the matter would most likely be glossed over by the higher-ups.

As a result, if the common people want to go into the mountains again, they have to be smarter and avoid bandits.

Bai Lizheng, who got the exact news, told the villagers everything after he came back. When the villagers heard it, they no longer dared to let their women and children go to the mountains.

Even when going to the woods at the end of the village to collect firewood and dig wild vegetables, the women and children in the village would choose to go together.

Although Gu Wenxuan's fighting power has slightly improved due to her replacement of her core, Jia Guizhi, who knows nothing about this, will not let her go into the mountains alone again.

Gu Yongming, who was also worried that his daughter would be in danger again, also chimed in, "The situation is not good right now, you should stay at home and recuperate for a while."

Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi have been running back and forth between the town and the county seat quite often these days, and Gu Wenxuan has also received all the news they have brought back.

Combined with what she had unobtrusively extracted from her brothers during her recuperation, Gu Wenxuan already had a general understanding of the world she and Bai Jingzhou were now living in.

The Baijia Village where they live belongs to Liulin Town, Qingshan County, Xingzhou. Liulin Town is located next to Queshan Lake, between hills and plains. It has beautiful scenery and rich products. It is the most populous and economically prosperous town in Qingshan County.

Baijia Village is located on the edge of Liulin Town. Although its scenery is not as beautiful as that of Liulin Town, it has fertile land and abundant water resources that are comparable to those of Liulin Town.

In addition, Baijia Village is backed by continuous mountains with rich species of flora and fauna. The variety and delicious taste of natural ingredients here are enough to make Gu Wenxuan, who came from the apocalyptic period, fall in love at first sight.

What's not good about this place?

First, the general trend of the world is that after a long period of division, there will be unification. Before one force achieves unification, the force to which Baijia Village belongs and the other two remaining forces will definitely have to fight.

Second, before the great cause was accomplished, the "heroes" had already been dazzled by power, beauty and wealth. They had forgotten their original intentions. The passionate men who originally wanted to fight for a way out for ordinary people, including themselves, gradually became the people they once hated after they became part of the exploiting class.

In recent years, the taxes and labor that the people under their rule need to pay have been steadily increasing.

The lucky ones like the people in Qingshan County can barely get by if their families do not encounter other disasters throughout the year. The unlucky ones like the people in the neighboring counties, at least five or six out of ten households have chosen to leave their homes and seek other ways out.

Those who are more honest either sneak away to seek refuge with other forces, or take their families and hide in the mountains, becoming ordinary mountain dwellers without household registration, but no longer having to endure layers of exploitation.

Those who are not so honest will choose to become thieves and bandits, thus transforming from victims into perpetrators.

Gu Wenxuan knew that if she wanted to live a stable life in such a social environment, it was definitely not enough to just work hard on the farm. She had to recover her fighting power as soon as possible and make her family relatively wealthy in a short period of time.

In addition, she also plans to train a group of available people in case of emergency.

With so many things to do, Gu Wenxuan really couldn't just stay at home and continue wasting her time.

Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi wouldn't let her go up the mountain alone, so she had to settle for the next best thing. "Then I'll go to the woods at the end of the village to pick wild vegetables?"

The wild vegetables in the woods are not as fresh and tender as those in the fields, but now everyone is turning the soil and doing spring ploughing, so it is more convenient to dig wild vegetables in the woods.

"Then ask Erlang and Sanlang to go with you." Jia Guizhi agreed, but asked her to bring her two older brothers along.

Gu Wenxuan nodded, "Okay."

Jia Guizhi was satisfied and went to the fields with her husband, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and sisters-in-law.

As for Gu Wenxuan's grandmother, the old lady had to stay at home to take care of the children and do housework, and her workload was actually quite heavy.

Gu Wenxuan felt sorry for her grandmother and insisted on helping to sweep the yard and feed the chickens.

During this period, she witnessed with her own eyes that her family had to eat coarse food and vegetables during the busy farming season, saving fine grains, eggs, and meat to nourish her body. She had long developed an urgent sense of need to get rich as soon as possible.

She had to have a good body, otherwise her overly powerful soul power would sooner or later overwhelm her overloaded new body and become the biggest obstacle to her survival.

But even so, she couldn't be the one who was treated specially by the whole family every day because of her health.

Therefore, getting rich quickly and letting the whole family eat well with her became her best choice.

Accompanied by her two guardian brothers and legal brothers on the left and right, Gu Wenxuan went out with an empty backpack.

She was just thinking about which brother to ask to help her find Bai Jingzhou, when Bai Jingzhou and his sister Bai Jingxin were already walking towards them from a distance.

"Sister Wenxuan!" Bai Jingxin raised her little hand and waved at her, then trotted to the gate of the Gu family.

After getting permission to go out, her worthless brother immediately bribed her most reasonable and lovely sister in the world with a piece of trough cake, asking her to help make an appointment with her future sister-in-law.

The little girl originally wanted to go to Gu's house to look for Gu Wenxuan under the pretext of asking her to dig wild vegetables together, but unexpectedly, Gu Wenxuan happened to be out of the house today.

"It's Jingzhou and Jingxin." Gu Wenxuan smiled and touched one of the little girl's little tufts, "Are you going to the woods too?"

"Yeah." The little girl smiled and looked up at her, "Sister Wenxuan, are you going to the woods too?"

Gu Wenxuan glanced at her two younger brothers and said, "Yes, let's go collect firewood and dig wild vegetables too."

Bai Jingzhou raised the corners of his lips slightly, and Gu Wenxuan's subconscious glance told him that Gu Wenxuan was definitely not going out this time to collect firewood or dig wild vegetables.

He greeted Gu Wenxuan, Gu Wenhai and Gu Wenche one by one. Bai Jingxin also followed his brother and nodded to Gu Wenhai and Gu Wenche.

The group soon arrived at the woods. In order to find wild vegetables and fallen branches, Gu Wenhai and Gu Wenche unknowingly walked a little further away. Bai Jingxin, knowing that her brother had something to say to her future sister-in-law, tactfully chose a position that was within their sight but where she could not hear their whispers, and began to dig wild vegetables from time to time.