Shocking! In this matriarchal society, every man wants to marry me!

The hands that reached out to Zhongtian were not pampered hands; they were rough, thin, and even had some black dirt between the fingers!

When Zhongtian looked up, he saw that she was not a burly woman. She was not physically strong, and her threatening movements were not very skillful. There was a hint of tension on her face.

Zhongtian and Xia Lan handed her the food. Xia Lan was scared, and Zhongtian, being there for the first time, didn't want to cause trouble or attract attention.

It was completely dark by then, and people fell from heights because they couldn't see the road. Only then were Nakata and Natsumi allowed to enter the room to rest.

This was a rather remote place. Eight people were crammed into a small room. Zhongtian's bed was arranged in the middle. Zhongtian looked at the bedding, which was thin and had an unpleasant smell.

Zhongtian was exhausted after a long day of work and didn't want to be bothered with such things. He just wanted to lie down and sleep. However, someone was being tactless. The food Zhongtian had given her during the day gave the woman the illusion that Zhongtian was easy to bully.

"Get up! This place is mine! Go to the window!"

Zhongtian glanced at the window, which had a huge hole in it. The cold wind howled through the night, and if he switched beds, he would definitely catch a cold.

Zhongtian looked up at the woman and asked, puzzled, "We're both prisoners. I haven't bullied you yet, so why are you bullying me?"

The woman sneered, "This place is a dog-eat-dog world. If you're weak, you'll suffer!"

Survival of the fittest?

Zhongtian glanced around. There were eight people living in the room. Apart from Xia Lan, the others watched everything indifferently, without any intention of stopping it.

Nakata sneered inwardly. Looking at the woman in front of her, she said gently, "I'm very tired right now and don't want to fight. If you go back to sleep now, I can pretend nothing happened!"

The woman named Chai Xiao looked at Zhong Tian, ​​seemingly hesitant.

In this place where prisoners congregate, nobody knows why someone was exiled! Has she run into a tough nut?

Xia Lan lay in bed, her whole body aching, but she still kindly reminded her, "Madam, you should go to sleep. Don't provoke her!"

Chai Xiao glanced at Zhong Tian's rather thin frame and felt that he was just bluffing. She threw a punch at him: "Whether you're good or not, you'll know once you try."

Try and die.

That night, Chai Xiao lay outside, groaning for a long time, but none of the people inside went out to check on her.

The next day at lunchtime, Chai Xiao hesitantly served Zhong Tian's meal and placed it in front of him. Zhong Tian, ​​seeing the ingratiating smile on the person's face, accepted the kindness.

"I heard your name is Chai Xiao? How long have you been here?"

"Yes, yes, Sister Zhong, I've been here for a year!"

"Chai Xiao, how can we get some rest?" Zhong Tian asked.

She was immediately assigned heavy physical labor upon arrival and had no time to see Le Xingxi. She wondered how Le Xingxi was doing now.

Chai Xiao took a wooden stick from his pocket and handed it to Zhong Tian. Zhong Tian took it and examined it carefully. It was an ordinary wooden stick, but the only difference was that there was a very small eagle carved at the bottom of the stick.

"what is this?"

Chai Xiao said, "These are treasures. As long as you work for a day, you'll get a slip of paper. Once you collect ten slips, you'll get a day off!"

After Zhongtian finished reading it, Chai Xiao carefully placed the wooden stick in her bosom as if it were a precious treasure. Xia Lan leaned over and asked in surprise, "Why don't we have one? We worked all day yesterday!"

Chai Xiao said, "The mortality rate was too high when the prisoners first arrived, so we changed the rules. If you are still alive within ten days, we will give you the prisoner's money."

Xia Lan asked with some surprise, "What else can this fortune stick do?"

“There are many capable people here. Silver is not silver, it’s just a lump of silver. Only this wooden stick is the real treasure.”

Zhongtian thought about it for a moment.

If the normal procedure is followed, Zhongtian will not be able to see Lexingxi for another 20 days. Zhongtian dares not imagine what will happen if Lexingxi is left alone outside for those 20 days.

Zhongtian asked, "Chai Xiao, is there any other way to obtain this wooden slip?"

Along the way, Zhongtian saw so many wealthy people, each living a life of luxury with numerous servants, clearly not something that could be afforded by such heavy physical labor.

Chai Xiao looked around and said, "There are two ways. The first is to snatch them. As long as you have big enough fists, you can snatch the wooden tokens from those hardworking people. As long as you can snatch them, the people who exchange the wooden tokens won't care where the wooden tokens come from."

"The second method: There are spies from the Southern Frontier in the city, and soldiers from the Southern Frontier stationed outside the city. As long as you can cut off the heads of the Southern Frontier people, you can get 50 wooden sticks, with no upper limit."

As Nakata listened slowly, she began to understand why the gap between the rich and poor was so stark in this daimyo prefecture. Those who were utterly heartless or exceptionally strong naturally lived comfortably, while the kind and weak suffered greatly.

Heaven gave Nakata power, not so that she could bully the weak. However, while she doesn't bully the weak, she can still fight evil and promote good.

"Chai Xiao, could you lend me the wooden stick first? In exchange, I'll sleep by the drafty window."

After considering Zhong Tian's fighting prowess, Chai Xiao finally agreed.

Having borrowed the wooden stick, Xia Muning shifted his gaze to Xia Lan, a malicious smile playing on his lips.

Xia Lan is a very useful weapon for Zhong Tian. As long as Xia Lan accidentally reveals the wooden stick, she doesn't even need to pretend. As long as someone discovers that she is a cowardly person with no fighting ability, she will become a sheep that is coveted by others!

But this weak sheep was followed by a ferocious tiger!

After being hit several times with a blunt object and attacked several times, Xia Lan finally waved her hand from the shadows, indicating that it was time to end the ordeal.

Zhongtian looked at his haul: 25 sticks. It wasn't that 25 people attacked Xia Lan tonight; only five attacked her. However, one of them had 11 sticks in his pocket, which meant Zhongtian's work for the night was over early!

Xia Lan knelt on the ground, her body burning with pain. Zhong Tian stood in front of her, patted her back, took out ten cigarettes and gave them to her, sincerely saying, "Xia Lan, thank you, this is your reward for tonight!"