After some negotiation, Zhan Jingyi insisted on putting the silver coin into the village chief's hand, and suddenly his worries were gone.
After sitting down and continuing to eat, there was nothing to worry about. He also laughed and chatted about home affairs: "The roads here are not easy to walk, and the map seems to be messy. I originally wanted to go to the City of Ice and Glass. But I don’t know why. After running along the road for dozens of miles, I looked at the map and it seemed that it was still further.”
"Village Chief, I would like to ask, if you want to go there, which way do you usually take?"
"City of Ice and Glass? It's been a chaotic time over there this season, and I heard that a group of outsiders have come over there recently, and they're really fierce."
Upon hearing this, the village chief thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Brother, let me advise you, it's best to go back here. It's too dangerous for you to go there alone."
"Besides, you are indeed taking the wrong road. If you come from the west, you can follow the cargo lane and you can go to the City of Ice and Glass smoothly. Now that you are coming to us, it is already a wasteland. It is not easy to walk on the trail. Your car is too big, but I can show you the way to the cargo lane."
"Cargo lane?"
Zhan Jingyi was slightly startled and hurriedly asked carefully. He didn't know that there was a cargo lane. Was it specifically used for transporting cargo?
The village chief explained with a smile: "The cargo roads are the main roads built by several major cities of mankind. They are specially used for transporting cargo. They are very flat and suitable for running large vehicles. They are fuel-efficient and fast."
"However, the cargo lanes are usually run by people from major major cities. Most people are not allowed to go in. You need to go to the agent to declare, pay the toll, and get the approval slip before you can pass the checkpoint and enter the cargo lanes. If you know the road, you can go directly to the City of Ice and Glass."
"Is there such a good road here?"
Zhan Jingyi thought to himself, and hurriedly asked carefully. After listening to the village chief's explanation, he realized that this land of ice and glass had also been roughly divided by human forces.
With the City of Ice and Glass as the center, the surrounding large and small gathering points and towns are divided into four major regions: southeast, southeast and northwest, which are managed by the four major cities of Heiwang City, Black Flag City, Heishui City and Black Sword City respectively. It is a large area of "wasteland".
In these four major regions, there is no so-called urban division at all, but in some gathering points, there will be some agents arranged by the four major cities. These people are directly responsible to the four major cities, purchasing materials, distributing supplies, etc. for them.
This so-called cargo lane is an internal transportation network exclusive to the four major regions, a long and wide main road.
"In this case, it's really a problem to go to the City of Ice and Glass smoothly..."
When he came out of the City of Ice and Glass, he also followed Liu Da and Wang Kai's car. Late at night, he turned left and right and didn't know how to get out. Now let him find the car he left on his own. The road may be very difficult.
After listening to the village chief's words, Zhan Jingyi seriously considered this issue. In fact, he was very lucky today. He met such a sensible village chief and avoided a lot of trouble.
But if you continue to walk on the small road, firstly, you may still fall into a pit, and secondly, there may be many similar extortions and robberies.
I may not always encounter people as sensible as the people in this village. If someone wants to kill me, for the sake of fairness, I have to kill them.
However, if you encounter too many people along the way, wouldn't it mean that you have to kill a lot of people?
After returning from the barbaric land, he has never wanted to kill too many people. In this case, he can only follow the village chief's instructions and find an agent, right?
In order not to give those people a chance to be killed by me, I paid the toll that could have been saved...
...Oh, just think of it as your own compromise with this world!
…
"In that case, I can also go to an agent?"
Zhan Jingyi weighed it carefully before asking this question.
"Okay, the agent is in charge of everything. As long as you have money, I can do anything for you..."
The village chief said: "Whether it's the tolls on the goods road, the usual tax collection, or the quarrel between the two sides, all matters in the wasteland are under his control."
"Hey, here, because we lost the fight with the gathering point next door last time, a lot of things and my wife were robbed. As a result, we don't even know how to pay the taxes for the next season... "
"Well……"
Zhan Jingyi raised his eyebrows and smiled when he heard this, and suddenly said: "So, you want to rob me?"
"How can this be..."
The village chief said confidently: "From a technical point of view, what we are doing is considered extortion at most, but it is an attempt, not robbery. Does it meet the standard for sentencing?"
Faced with such a detailed division of work types, Zhan Jingyi could only admit that what he said was quite reasonable. He shook his head slightly. Since the other party was so honest, Zhan Jingyi also said: "However, this is not very good after all. All right?"
"Although it's not enough for sentencing, aren't you afraid of meeting a strong man? That means I have a good temper, otherwise..."
"Guest, what you said is wrong."
The village chief actually directly refuted Zhan Jingyi's words and said, "If God doesn't let us live, is it still wrong for us to do this?"
As he spoke, he glared at the door and shouted: "Second boy, you are eating rocks again, put it down."
Zhan Jingyi turned around and saw a child with a runny nose squatting at the door, holding a stone and licking it. While licking, he looked at the sausages on his table. His eyes were shining, as if he could see them at just one glance. After tasting the meat sausage, I licked it even more happily.
Zhan Jingyi looked at it and couldn't bear it. He took a sausage and handed it to him: "Here you can eat."
"Why……"
The village chief just stretched out his hand to stop him, but the child was already surprised and happy. He came over and snatched away the sausage with a "swish" sound. Seeing him gobbling it up, Zhan Jingyi couldn't help but laugh, and his mood suddenly became much better.
"Guest, you..."
The village chief didn't know what to say, as if what Zhan Jingyi did was embarrassing, and all he could say was shaking his head.
Soon, Zhan Jingyi also discovered that something was wrong. After the second boy took away the sausage, a black crowd of little heads crowded at the door.
Everyone looked at him pitifully. He was stunned for a moment, turned around, and saw that the village chief had carefully put away the sausages on the table, not only the sausages, but also the steamed buns and thick flour pancakes. Woke up.
"Stingy like that..."
Zhan Jingyi glanced at the village chief with some dissatisfaction. After thinking for a moment, he felt that Mr. Shi had prepared a lot of dry food for him, which was enough for him to eat. So he walked to his car, took out a box of canned beef, and put it in the door.
"Get it yourself!"
Zhan Jingyi stood at the door and waved generously. He felt very good when he saw the children swarming up, taking them in their hands and carrying them in their arms.
The village chief looked at this scene and didn't know what to say. He seemed to sense that Zhan Jingyi was dissatisfied with him, so he put down the steamed buns and dry noodles and said sheepishly: "This is how it is in the village. No one wants to starve the dolls, right?"
As he spoke, he shook his head: "But you don't know how ruthless the agents are in collecting taxes. When robbers come to steal things, they don't care. They turn around and say that they can collect as much tax as they want. Originally, this kind of stuff was grown in the fields." If there is not enough food to eat, I will leave it all to them, but after looking back, I still owe them a lot. What if I can’t live anymore? Of course I have to find a way to get some food..."
"But once we talk about it, we still abide by the rules."
Zhan Jingyi was almost ready to understand him, but suddenly he was startled: "You have started blackmailing, and you still abide by the rules?"
"of course……"
The village chief even said with some pride: "When guests come to our village, we will help them as much as they need to, take care of them as they need to, whether it is food and drink, or even programs that they want to have fun with, we will try our best to provide them."
"Finally, no matter how much money the guests have, we are not greedy. We neither kill nor hurt others. After the robbery is over, we always leave some traveling expenses for them, so that they can go back alive..."
"Tell me, are we a decent person?"
"Huh?"
Zhan Jingyi was speechless as he listened to the village chief's words, but once he said it, he felt that what the village chief said made sense...
It's understandable that you can't survive your daily life, so you're trying to steal some points and extort some points, right?
Moreover, he is able to maintain a certain bottom line in addition to robbery and extortion, and he seems to be a rule-abiding person...
It felt like I accidentally heard a profound philosophy of life. Slowly, Zhan Jingyi also gradually opened up the conversation. The two of them started chatting happily, and soon they had a good conversation. Friends.
The village chief was also a generous man. He not only told Zhan Jingyi about the situation and rules here in detail, but also showed him the way to the agent.
In response to his enthusiasm, Zhan Jingyi also kept the gold coin he had put back in his pocket when he left.
Before leaving, many people in the village enthusiastically came to see Zhan Jingyi off, waved their hands to Zhan Jingyi in a friendly manner, and sent him out of the village. The village chief personally led people to see Zhan Jingyi off for a while to prevent him from being trapped by the surrounding ditches again. Go in.
After all, they dug these trenches themselves, knew the location quite well, including which nails, etc., and prepared them to welcome guests to the village.
When it was time to say goodbye, the village chief warned Zhan Jingyi with great concern: "Brother, remember, when you go to the agent's place, you must abide by the rules. Don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't do what you shouldn't do."
"Your specialty is nothing to others. We are all honest people. We must not try to be clever by others. Only by following the rules can we live longer..."
"Okay, okay, don't worry, go back!"
Zhan Jingyi smiled and assured him: "I have always followed the rules..."
After saying that, he waved goodbye to them and rushed to the agent's office in a good mood.
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