Taking space to escape famine, Sister Wan killed everyone along the way
Chapter 68: No more salt; entrance fee is 52 silver coins
But the impact of that sentence did not stop there. Everyone's heart was itching. Once the fire in their heart was ignited, if it was not extinguished, the fire would only burn more and more vigorously.
"Sister, where are Xiaohua and Xiaobai?" Qin Lang looked at his sister and saw that there was no trace of the rabbits. He became anxious, wondering if they were lost.
"I lost it," Qin Wanwan said with a disappointed tone, "I was caught off guard just now and ran away."
Hearing her words, the children who were practicing martial arts lost their composure and ran over.
"Sister Wan, are they really lost? Xiaobai and Xiaohua were playing happily with us just now, how come they ran away as soon as we turned around?" A little girl was so anxious that she was about to cry. She stomped her little feet on the ground and kept spinning in circles.
"Yes," another little girl started crying, "Xiaobai was really enjoying me petting him just now, and Xiaohua was so well behaved and obedient. How could they be gone in the blink of an eye? Don't they like us?"
The children who like furry animals all have droopy faces, some have red eyes, and some even have tears streaming down their faces. After spending these few days together, they no longer regard Xiaobai and Xiaohua as food, but as partners.
Qin Wanwan felt a little guilty when she saw the children's performance, but when she heard the children say that they got along well and enjoyed being petted, she couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
Looking at the bald spot on Xiaobai's body and the dirty spot on Xiaohua's body, and seeing them crying in the space, they don't look like they are enjoying themselves or having fun.
"Don't be sad. When fate brings us together, we'll naturally meet again! The most important thing for us now is to practice and reach our destination alive. We don't have that much time to be sad. Come on, kids!"
Qin Wanwan didn't want to talk about this anymore, so she encouraged everyone and managed to pull the children back from their sadness.
Only the adults felt a little sorry when they heard that the rabbit was lost. That was meat, but when the children had had enough of it, it would be their backup food.
They all felt sorry for the Qingyun family.
Qin Mu glanced at everyone and understood what was going on. He roughly guessed that the two rabbits must have entered the space.
Just looking at the way those kids were touching the rabbits, even though he didn't understand animal language, he could tell that those two rabbits were desperate. What the hell, they were having so much fun!
The loss of the rabbit did not cause much commotion, but was quickly replaced by the sorrow of having no salt.
"Qingyun, we need to get to the next town quickly. Although we don't know what the situation is there, there is still a glimmer of hope. Some people in our team have run out of salt. Sigh~"
Life is not easy, sighed the village chief.
Qin Qingyun frowned. Not having salt to eat was indeed a big problem.
"We'll reach the next town in another day. We'll see what the situation is then. If it doesn't work, we'll find another way."
"Okay! After hearing what he said," the old village chief felt relieved. For some reason, he always felt that Qingyun would have a way!
To be precise, because Qin Wanwan was there, he always felt there was a way.
After all, Qin Wanwan's nickname "Fu Wan" is not for nothing. She led everyone to find food and water twice, as well as the big wild boar. Most importantly, she also had eight ox carts and five horse carts.
If it weren't for this girl, the village would have suffered heavy losses by now, and at least some of the elderly might have been the first to collapse.
Another day passed.
Early in the morning, the people of Daqin Village rushed to the gate of the next town. Seeing thousands of people gathered in front of the gate, everyone's heart sank to the bottom.
"Looking at the situation, they are not allowed to enter again!" Someone in the village said in a low voice, always feeling that God gave them a chance to live again and again, and wanted to destroy their life again and again.
"But the situation this time is different from last time. Look at the city gate. There is obviously a gap. There are soldiers guarding outside, but for some reason, these people don't enter the city!" Qin Feng has good eyesight. He saw the gap in the door from a distance. It was very small and could only accommodate one person.
"Should we pay the fee before entering the city?" Some smart person said this, and people suddenly realized that this was really possible.
"I'll go ask!" Qin Qingyun stared at the door closely, then strode forward.
Their arrival immediately attracted the attention of everyone in front of the city gate. There were quite a few of them, and there were many horse-drawn and ox-drawn carts, and the carts were bulging with stuff. It was obvious that they were not short of supplies.
But at this moment, no one moved. Most people sat quietly on the ground to rest. Saving energy means saving food and water.
There was also a small group of people watching Qin Qingyun walking towards the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate. They muttered something and left with a frown. The officers and soldiers on guard glanced at them with disdain, and then stood in their positions nonchalantly.
"Qingyun, what do you say?" The villagers saw him walking towards them with a bad look on his face, and they all came forward to ask.
Qin Qingyun has always had a good temper, but he was also angry this time. After a long time, he spoke softly.
"The soldiers guarding the city said that if you want to enter the city to buy supplies, you have to pay five taels of silver per person. If you want to use a horse-drawn carriage or ox-drawn cart, you have to pay another five taels of silver!"
"Five taels!!! Did you hear it right? It's not five cents, right?" The crowd exploded immediately.
Five coins to enter the city was already an exorbitant price, so who among the common people could possibly afford five taels of silver? Furthermore, even more so was the five taels of silver required to enter the city by oxcart or horse carriage!
"This bastard official is crazy about money!"
"That's right. At worst, we won't go into this crappy town. We can reach the next town in a few days anyway. I don't believe that no town will let us go!" Some people didn't believe it and shouted that they wanted to leave.
"That's true, but Qingyun, have you ever asked why this town charges such expensive silver? Logically speaking, if they really don't want us to enter, they can just close the city gate. Why leave a crack?" Qin Feng looked at the crack and always felt that the officials here had something to rely on.
"It can't be just a crack, specially prepared for rich people, right?" someone asked.
Qin Feng: "Even if it's prepared for the wealthy, isn't five taels of silver too little? I always have a feeling that the purpose of these officials is to take the money from the hands of us ordinary people!"
Qin Tiezhu: "Even if we ordinary people have five taels of silver, who would be willing to spend that much just to enter a city?"
Qin Qingyun: "Don't think about it, I asked, there is an ancient well in this town, it's very deep, there is still water in the well, now the people in this town rely on that ancient well to survive!
It's because of this ancient well that the official dares to charge such a high entrance fee!"
It is easy to bear without food, but it is really hard to bear without water. An ordinary farmer may not be able to come up with five taels of silver, but if the whole family works together, maybe they can still come up with it.
For the sake of that sip of water, in order to survive, perhaps many people would pool the efforts of their entire family to collect five taels of silver, go into the city to get that sip of water, so that the whole family can survive.
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