The host of the quick travel is lacking in virtue for eight generations

Fearing that someone might steal the food, Xiao Yun pulled out the Jiaduobao and asked it to keep an eye on it so as not to let anything go to waste.

She and her two daughters were also busy, working on their tasks while listening to people chatting around them.

That's right, Bie thought that everyone was working hard, but no, several of them were chatting with acquaintances around them, but their voices were not loud.

I heard an aunt on the left say: "Today I heard that people from the surrounding villages have all fled, and only people from our town are left. What do you think, if it doesn't rain, should we leave too?"

"Some merchants and those with some wealth are also preparing to leave, and are waiting for these people to leave before they can hit the road. Now they definitely can't move, for fear that they will be arrested as soon as they leave town."

The other auntie opposite her sighed.

"Those with money have a place to go, but those of us without money don't know where to go, and we don't know when this will end."

"Who says it's not true? If these conscripted soldiers hadn't harassed the merchants in the town and hadn't gone to every household to rob things, I guess there would be no one left in this town."

"Your family has quite a bit of wealth, as all four sons survived. My family only has two sons, so it's not so bad. My uncle's family has five sons and seven grandchildren. They took out all the coffin money, but only saved six. Six of them were still arrested."

Another older man said to the aunt who spoke first.

The auntie probably didn't have a very good relationship with her. She glanced at her and didn't reply.

The second person who spoke up said, "That's because the silver collected as military service this time is not much. In previous years, the soldiers needed at least ten taels of silver to be used as military service, but this year they only collected five taels. At first we thought these soldiers were fake."

"Yes, I suspected so too. Later, the mayor came to guarantee the money our street gave us. Fortunately, we were exempted from corvée labor due to disasters in the past two years. This money was specially set aside to pay the corvée labor. Otherwise, where would we get it from?"

Another woman joined in.

A thin woman next to Xiao Yun suddenly said, "People in our town still have a chance to use silver to pay for military service, but people in the villages outside are not so lucky. There are many who can't get enough silver, and those who fled with their entire village are even worse off. When the soldiers see them, they just go up and arrest them, without even giving them a chance to use silver..."

After hearing what this person said, Xiao Yun finally understood why the soldiers and officers he and his companions had encountered arrested people so directly and did not even mention using silver as compensation. Otherwise, at least a few families would have been able to afford the silver.

It turns out that in this world, people fleeing famine are considered refugees by default. Their families don't care whether you have a household registration permit or not. Once you leave the village to flee famine, it is assumed that you have no house or land. The powerful can even make you a slave.

It's considered lucky if they just capture you and recruit you into the army. If you really meet a brutal person, you may be killed to claim credit, that is, to collect the enemy's heads and claim the reward.

After hearing the thin woman's words, everyone sighed. If there was a way to survive, who would be willing to abandon their home and business to escape famine?

There have been two consecutive years of drought and locust plagues, and now there is war. The world is really in chaos...

Through the conversations between these people, Xiao Yun understood a little bit of the situation, but that was all. After all, these people were ordinary people, and it was impossible for them to know the situation at a higher level. He could only listen to some news from the surrounding areas.

Xiao Yun also noticed that there was no one watching the officers and soldiers in the kitchen. They seemed to be very relieved. Weren't they afraid that there might be people like them whose relatives were captured and drugged?

In fact, she was really overthinking it. Who would have the courage to do that at this time? Even if they had the courage, they wouldn't have the cheats.

Let’s not talk about whether we can get the medicine. Even if we do, there are hundreds of officers and soldiers. With the current level of pharmaceutical manufacturing, how big a package of medicine would it take? So many people are not blind and they are supervising each other.

And the taste must be so strange. It must be that Xiao Yun has a special medicine produced in the space. It is effective when just a little bit is put in. It is also colorless and odorless. And Xiao Lin, the external plug-in, helps to complete it. Otherwise, the chance of success would be too small.

Just like that, dinner was ready at 3 p.m., which was a little after four in the afternoon. There were special people delivering the meal, so they had to leave.

Xiao Yun took his two daughters and walked out with everyone. When passing the backyard, he pretended to take his two daughters to the toilet, and then hid in the pigsty next to the toilet.

This pigpen is empty. It seems that pigs have not been raised there for a long time. It is clean inside quite well. Of course, there is still a peculiar smell since it is next to the toilet after all.

For the sake of the next action, the three of them endured it.

Xiao Yun had to go to the place where the able-bodied men were imprisoned at night to open the door for them. Otherwise, even if the soldiers were drugged, they would not know how to get out because the door was locked.

After the kitchen helpers left, the door leading to the backyard from the kitchen was also locked.

Xiao Lin told her that she had to climb over the wall here. There was a corridor leading from the kitchen to the front yard, and there was no door, so there was someone guarding it.

The fire on the kitchen stove was not extinguished, and there was still hot water burning inside. It should be for the officers and soldiers to drink. The weather was still quite hot at the moment, so they could just use cold water for washing.

The layout of this large courtyard is actually very ordinary, with only three courtyards. It is mainly practical and does not have any rockery garden landscaping.

I heard that he belonged to the largest family in the town, and not long after the drought started, he and his family moved to the capital.

Only a few servants were left here to look after the place. When the recruiting officers and soldiers arrived, they took a fancy to this courtyard and requisitioned it directly. Of course, the servants did not dare to resist and even offered the food that had been left by their master for emergencies.

This house has two large cellars, which are filled with grain, which the owner will prepare for when the famine is over.

It was also because of these foods that these officers and soldiers decided to stay here for a few more days and capture more able-bodied men to take back. In fact, they had enough people for the mission, but if they completed the mission in excess, they would be rewarded, and they might even be promoted or something.

If I take these people back and make them my subordinates, I can also become a centurion. There is a big difference between having an official position and not having one.

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To be on the safe side, Xiao Yun did not plan to let his two adopted daughters go with him to rescue people. Of course, the main reason was that he thought they would be a burden.

After confirming with Xiao Lin that no one would come here at night, she left the two of them in the pigsty and asked them to wait.

The two little girls didn't say they wanted to follow, but they knew they couldn't help, so they agreed to wait here until their mother brought their father and brothers back.

Xiao Yun turned around and left with satisfaction. After taking a few steps, he heard Gu Mingyue whisper: "Mom, you must be careful."

Xiao Yun didn't look back. He waved his hand to show that he understood, and then disappeared into the night.