"It's you, kid, what's the matter?" After waiting for a while, Brother Li walked out of the stone house in the guard camp.
Tang Wen took out the sack and said, "I'm lucky. I caught two pheasants and gave them to Brother Li to try."
"Pheasant." Brother Li looked at it and said with a smile, "Is something wrong?"
"Well, I just want to change my house. I don't know if there is any vacant house in the camp. I would like to ask you to help me keep an eye on it."
"Simple. I've collected the things, come in." Brother Li turned around and walked into the stone house behind him, leading Tang Wen through to one of them - the room selection office.
After saying hello, Brother Li asked: "Xiao Liang, is there any room somewhere else? Arrange a room for this little brother."
The young man surnamed Liang stood up, pointed to the map on the wall and said, "Brother Li is here, of course there are. The white huts marked on it are all unoccupied. Choose whatever you want."
Brother Li smiled and nodded at him.
He turned around and motioned for Tang Wen to come forward and take a look.
The map on the wall was a large piece of kraft paper. Tang Wen first looked at the entrance of the camp he was familiar with and saw the rice store he often visited along the way.
This rice store is close to the city. If you can live nearby, it will definitely be safe.
Perhaps noticing Tang Wen's eyes, Xiao Liang said: "The closer you are to the city, the more expensive the moving fee will be. If you move to the entrance of the city, you can open a shop and do business, but you will have to hand over thousands of kilograms of food."
After hearing this, Tang Wen leaned back slightly and said with a smile, "I just wanted to take a look."
If you want to move from the inside of the camp to the outside, you don't need to pay a pound of food.
Tang Wen and Tang Tang didn't originally live at the gate of the camp. Before Tang Wen traveled through time, a family gave them hundreds of kilograms of food and exchanged houses with them.
There was no other way. The two of them had little strength and could only barely fill their stomachs while working in the fields.
There was no way to save any money to pay the rent, so I had no choice but to sell my residence.
The map on the wall only shows the layout of the camp's periphery, and only two words are written on the city's areas - Queen.
After reading it quickly, Tang Wen pointed to an area and asked, "I wonder how much grain it will cost to move to this area?"
He was referring to the area near the blacksmith shop.
That area is a few hundred meters away from the camp wall, so safety should be guaranteed, and blacksmith Li Daniu can also take care of each other.
Xiao Liang looked at Brother Li, and when he saw that he was silent, he said: "It costs 300 kilograms of grain to move. The residence there has a yard, the place is large, and the rent is paid annually. It's 240 kilograms of grain a year."
Really expensive!
300 kilograms of grain is enough to feed one person for a year.
The rent has also doubled.
But Tang Wen had no choice. He lowered his head and thought about it before agreeing: "Yes."
"Okay, there are three vacant houses here, you choose one."
"Um, I wonder if you have any suggestions?"
There is no difference between the three empty houses on the map. They are all identical white squares.
Xiao Liang lowered his head to look at the information and said: "Then there is a well in the middle. The previous resident also dug a sweet potato cellar. There is a woodshed and a toilet. You can live in it by cleaning it."
"Thank you for your recommendation, here it is."
The clerk said in surprise: "As expected of the person brought by Brother Li, he is quite decisive."
Brother Li also looked slightly sideways. Hundreds of kilograms of food were not a small amount for ordinary people and families in the camp.
Tang Wen smiled and said, "What's wrong with being decisive? If he came to choose a house by himself today, he would have to take his sister to check it out before he could make a decision."
But now it was Brother Li who brought him here. For Brother Li's sake, this person would not recommend a bad place.
"Do you have enough rice at home? This needs to be paid in one lump sum."
"Brother Xie Li, if you take the trouble, it should be about the same."
"That's good," Brother Li turned around and asked, "How much rice can we exchange for one pound of meat?"
The clerk smiled and said: "One pound of meat can be counted as up to 15 pounds of rice."
"Well. Let's send a car then."
The clerk painted the house selected by Tang Wen black and handed Tang Wen a page of paper. It simply said that he rented "Room 6, 5th Street" and stamped the red seal of "Guard Camp-Housing Selection Office": "This You put it away. If you are not busy now, I will run with you. Wait for me to call a car."
He went out, and Tang Wen quickly thanked Brother Li again.
The latter waved his hand, but looked at the two pheasants with interest and asked, "How did you catch them?"
Tang Wen was stunned for a moment and said truthfully: "I know how to fly rocks."
"Oh. Hitting rocks? Are you accurate?"
"Well, Brother Li asked me, I don't dare to lie. Within 30 steps, I'm 90% sure where to hit!"
This is Tang Wen's humble statement. In fact, within 50 steps, he almost always hits the mark.
Brother Li narrowed his eyes as if he remembered something: "Recently, several rice stores have received red-billed birds. They said they were sent by a young man."
"This is what I sell. Every time I don't dare to sell more, I go to a few more rice stores."
"Not bad, not bad." Things were right. Brother Li looked at him with a slight admiration in his eyes: "Have you seen the guards? Do you know why they are so strong and as strong as cattle?"
Tang Wen shook his head and looked at Brother Li expectantly, waiting for him to answer his questions.
Brother Li continued: "After passing the selection, you become a guard. You can practice martial arts and the breathing techniques passed down by Her Lady Queen. If you practice during the day, you will gain weight every time. It won't take long for you to become stronger."
As he spoke, he looked at Tang Wen, who showed a cooperative look of longing and blurted out: "Brother Li, I also want to be a guard!"
This kind of treatment is like a civil servant in troubled times!
What? Are the guards in danger?
Is hunting dangerous?
Is it dangerous for you to go hunting alone, or is it dangerous for the guards to go out in groups, wearing armor, holding long knives and riding big horses?
"The guards have to work hard. It's not peaceful outside the camp."
"Brother Li, I am willing to fight tooth and nail." In Tang Wen's opinion, living in this bastard's apocalypse means fighting every day!
Brother Li smiled: "You are still young and not tall enough. You won't be able to make it in time for the selection in the spring next year. Go back and work hard. You won't be able to make it next year, and the year after that."
"okay."
Tang Wen's face showed unwillingness, but he still nodded repeatedly. Just like an unconvinced young man.
He felt really sorry,
Brother Li smiled: "If you have anything in the future, you can come to me."
The sound of rolling wheels sounded.
Outside the window, Xiao Liang was sitting in a donkey cart parked at the door, and Brother Li took Tang Wen out of the door.
"Xiao Liang, I won't go when Xiao Tang moves, please take the trouble."
"What Brother Li said, I should do it."
Brother Li nodded and returned to the house. Xiao Liang pulled Tang Wen into the donkey cart.
Sitting on the donkey cart, Tang Wen was full of emotions. He had ridden in this cart before. When he was a child, in his hometown on Earth, the dialect was called "Dipaizi cart".
The cart can be pulled by people or animals, and the power is very flexible. It only consumes one straw or two meals for a hundred miles.
"What's the relationship between Brother Tang and Brother Li?" Xiao Liang asked with a smile on his face.
"Hi! It doesn't matter. It's just that Brother Li is a nice person and takes good care of me."
"A nice person? Yes, yes, Brother Li is famous for being nice people." Xiaoliang's smile did not diminish, and it was obvious that he didn't believe a word of it.
Tang Wen led the way for the old man driving the car. A few minutes later, he arrived at the entrance of the camp and in front of the muddy hut.
"Do you live here?" Xiao Liang slowly stopped smiling.
"Yes. Wait a moment, you two. I'll talk to my family."
He walked to the door, and the door opened from the inside. Tang Tang saw their arrival through the crack in the door.
"How much corn?" she asked, getting straight to the point.
"What?" Tang Wen was stunned for a moment, then understood, and said in deep thought: "Sister, safety is the most important thing, just spend all the chestnuts, alas, alas, alas! Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Upon hearing "all the chestnuts", Tang Tang's eyes widened and he threw his head back and fell backwards.
Tang Wen was startled and quickly supported her.
Her eyes were blank, her body was stiff, and she kept repeating: "All the chestnuts, all, all..."
