Marry my elder sister? Fine! I'll give you the letter of annulment and marry someone else.

Xie Ting was extremely serious. "Compared to those who keep saying that we're all in this together, but are actually standing a meter away from me, I'd rather believe you who came right out and exposed your greed."

This time, Xue Qi's eyes lit up completely.

A middle-aged man suddenly revealed a childlike look of pity, grievance and joy in his eyes.

He took a long breath, calmed himself down, and said, "I like your temperament. If there is a chance, I will try to take you out together."

After saying that, he added, "But you still have to hurry up and gather the five taels of silver. I'm short of money, and silver is very important to me."

"it is good."

Meng Qi nodded and said, "Hundreds of eyes are staring at us right now. We'll give it to you later."

"no problem."

Xue Qi seemed to really like both of them, and there was always a smile on his face.

At the end, he emphasized seriously, "Strictly speaking, what I did to many of them wasn't defrauding them. I was just taking back what was mine."

A trace of hatred flashed across Xue Qi's eyes. "My things are with them, and they don't want to take them back, so I can only use deception to get them back."

Meng Qi said: "You seem to be a man with a lot of stories. Would you mind telling us?"

"mind."

Xue Qi smiled and said, "I like you guys very much, but I don't like you enough to open my heart to you right after we met. Besides, your identities are suspicious. I'm not sure if getting too close to you will affect my plans. If I wasn't so short of money, I wouldn't have come to you."

Xie Ting, "But you just said you would take us out when you have the chance."

"Yes."

Xue Qi smiled and said, "It's just that I haven't found the opportunity yet."

Xie Ting: “…”

There seems to be nothing wrong with this.

"Brother, you are indeed a sincere man. How about this? As long as you don't betray us, when you walk out of here alive, I will have my family give you 100 taels of silver as a token of friendship. How about that?"

Xue Qi curled his lips, "You're just bragging, you're still talking about a hundred taels, do you think a hundred taels is like cabbage in the field? If you have a wealthy family, why would you be assigned here with us?"

He subconsciously thought Xie Ting was afraid that he would tell others about the retreat, so he added, "Don't worry, I never betray my friends."

Although Xie Ting said that to add an insurance to their transaction, his attention was not on the money at this moment.

"You mean, the people here are assigned to different places to do hard labor according to their family's wealth?"

Xue Qi gave him a strange look. "Why, you don't even know this? Those wealthy families have money to bribe, so they naturally do easier work, such as making bows and arrows, learning horseback archery... That's not right!"

Xue Qi's eyes gradually became serious. "This distribution has been going on for more than a month. If you are from the capital, you must know this. Who are you?"

"Uh."

Meng Qi quickly said, "To be honest, we are here to rescue your people, but the situation is complicated and we don't know how to proceed."

"Rescue us? Are you Prime Minister Jiang's man? No, that's not right. Prime Minister Jiang died more than a month ago. If Prime Minister Jiang was still alive, how could the dog emperor dare to do this to us?"

Xue Qi suddenly thought of something and widened his eyes, "Could it be that you are Huang... Um..."

Meng Qi covered his mouth with his hand in a flash, blocking out the rest of his words. "Don't talk nonsense, it could kill someone."

Xue Qi digested this shocking news in shock, and besides shock, there was more surprise in his eyes.

He pulled Meng Qi's hand away and said, "It seems that I don't need to take you away from here. You should take me away from here."

Xie Ting snorted, "We are not who you think we are. We are simply people who hate evil and want to sneak in to eliminate harm for the people."

"Yeah, I believe you."

Xue Qi readily agreed, "So what are you going to do now? In fact, many of us civilians are waiting for you to rescue us. Prime Minister Jiang can hand us over to you...to a group of you who hate evil so much, which means you will definitely not treat the people harshly."

Meng Qi coughed dryly and said, "You misunderstood. We really are not."

The situation is unclear at the moment, so they must not admit their identities right away and must deny them to the death.

However, Xue Qi obviously didn't care whether they admitted it or not. Instead, he approached them mysteriously and said, "If you have any questions in the future, come and ask me. Don't make such a mistake again. After all, not all people trust you who hate evil. There are many people who want to take credit for it."

Meng Qi and Xie Ting exchanged a glance, and Meng Qi said, "You seem to know a lot. Do you know the specific distribution within the city?"

"It's a long story, so we'll have to wait until tonight to tell you about it, because someone will be here to take us to work."

After thinking for a moment, he explained, "It's to smash the iron and forge swords. I believe you have guessed that the dog emperor wants to use the entire population of the capital to forge an army that belongs only to him."

"Okay, let's talk later."

If they kept talking here, it would easily arouse suspicion from the people on the other side.

After waiting in the tent for a while, a group of soldiers appeared and led them out.

They were assigned to various vacant positions to replace the people who originally worked here. The position Xie Ting was assigned to was even splattered with a lot of scarlet blood.

Because they were new and didn't know how to forge swords, they could only do odd jobs under the master today.

Xie Ting was following a thin man who looked extremely tired. The man said nothing but mechanically explained the essentials of sword-making.

He didn't care whether Xie Ting could understand or not, he just blurted out everything in one go.

Xie Ting is not a god, so it is impossible for him to understand everything after listening to it once.

But he didn't ask. He would just watch and suck it when the time comes.

Today was a relatively easy first day, so these new arrivals didn't suffer too much.

But everyone knew that today was the last 'good day'. From today on, they would either die or work hard to forge swords.

Dinner consisted of a steamed bun and a bowl of porridge, which was obviously not enough to fill someone who had done physical work all day, but everyone seemed to be used to it. No one dared to say anything, and after eating, they returned to the collective tent and fell asleep.

As usual, everyone stayed away from Meng Qi, Xie Ting and Xue Qi.

After the three of them returned, they didn't communicate immediately. After they were sure that everyone was asleep, they whispered, "Let's continue with the topic we talked about during the day."

Xue Qi nodded. "The four corners of the capital are divided into four different areas, each with different responsibilities. We are in the southeast corner, responsible for casting ironware, such as swords, daggers, arrows, etc."