Village Chief Lu Li failed to accompany Lu Xi to the entire village. He had just started walking when a villager suddenly came over and asked him to deal with something that had just happened in the village.

As the head of a village with a population of several thousand, and yet being so trusted by the villagers, it is indeed unlikely that Chief Luli will have any free time.

Of course Lu Xi would not force Chief Luli to guide her. Anyway, any person from Kuwa Village could do the job, and Chief Luli was not irreplaceable.

The head of Luli Village did not hesitate and directly called his son Ayina over. Compared with the other villagers in Kuva Village who were dull and ignorant, Ayina who had grown up with him since childhood was very good at dealing with people. It's very exciting and more reassuring.

Although, Ayina's character may be a little out of touch, and she talks a little too much... well, a little.

In a way, Lu Xi thinks Ayina is a more suitable tour guide than the village chief of Luli.

Because Ayina really likes to talk, he can talk a lot by himself without much response from Lu Xi, saying everything Lu Xi wants to hear and what he doesn't want to hear.

This completely saves Lu Xi the time to test things out.

"Hello Miss Lucy, we met again, but it doesn't seem like much time has passed, hahaha. To be honest, Miss Lucy, you look much better in this dress than Sister Aina, she is always so fierce, She is not gentle at all, and I don’t know who would dare to marry her home.”

After Village Chief Luli left, Ayina seemed to have unleashed her natural instinct, and her mouth never closed once she opened it.

Lu Xi: "Hello..."

"Miss Lucy, do you want to take a tour of our village? Then come to me. I am the person who is most familiar with this village. I know exactly where there are stones. Miss Lucy, do you have any questions?" Any places you want to see? My favorite is Uncle Amai’s house. There are many things made of wood in his house, which are very interesting! There is also Old Kurt’s Tavern, where there is a Macton who likes to tell stories. He tells The stories are very interesting!" Ayina danced and tried to express the whole scene with movements.

Lu Xi: "...Just take a look."

"Hey, Miss Lucy, the book you are holding in your hand looks so familiar. Miss Lucy, look here. The cover here is the mark I left. My father used this book to teach me how to read when I was a child. Now I I can still memorize the story inside, but now it has been handed over to my sister. She likes this book very much, and I don’t know if she will cry if she can’t read it today.” Ayina Wai Walking around the Luxi River, the bright and sunny smile is almost irresistible.

Lu Xi: "Huh? Sorry..."

"It's okay, Miss Lucy. My sister is just over a year old now and can't read yet. It's just that my father likes to use this book to lull her to sleep. But I think my sister actually prefers Milo Fruit, which is hers. Her teeth haven't grown in yet, and her father won't let us feed her all the time. Miss Lucy, do you have any younger siblings? I think my sister is really noisy, but she is very cute, so I can bear with it for a while. I hope she will grow up quickly. Go big, but don't be as fierce as sister Aina when you grow up." Aina seemed like a thousand ducks quacking around Luxi.

Lu Xi: "No..."

Oops, I think I saw the speaker become a spirit.

All joking aside, Lu Xi felt like he was being flattered now. All he could say was "Yeah, that's it." He was still short of saying "Fuck you" before he could leave the show.

Under Ayina's "introduction", Lu Xi dizzyly memorized the route of most of the village, and finally ended this "wandering" before night came.

Standing in Aunt Asuna's yard, Lu Xi closed her eyes as she watched Ayina's brisk figure leave. She had never felt so tired before when she was chased by a lion.

Fortunately, she did learn a lot from Ayina.

Kuwa Village was just a small village of one or two hundred people in the beginning, and it was far poorer than it is now. In other words, the current life is already very happy and beautiful for the villagers of Kuwa Village.

Because of some things, Village Chief Luli did not continue to serve as a trainee knight for a certain noble. Instead, he returned to Kuva Village as a low-level elemental warrior and assumed the position of village chief.

Ayina didn't say what it was, probably because he didn't know either, otherwise he would have no way of keeping his mouth shut.

After having the low-level elemental warrior Chief Luli, the security of Kuva Village has been greatly increased. Although a dozen adult men can deal with a low-level monster, most of the time, low-level monsters will not wait for people to gather before launching an attack. .

Every time a low-level monster appears, at least several people in the village will be killed or injured. But with Village Chief Luli, it is different. As a low-level elemental warrior, he can sense the breath of low-level monsters and often kill them before the low-level monsters approach the village. Able to organize villagers to respond.

After going back and forth, other small villages nearby heard about it and moved here and merged into Kuwa Village. After all, everyone wants to live in a safe place.

The head of Luli Village welcomed all comers, and slowly integrated more than a dozen surrounding small villages, turning Kuva Village into its current size.

Of course, Village Chief Luli did much more than that. He used his experience as a trainee knight to help the villagers earn more property.

For example, if you teach the villagers to grow a crop that the nobles like to eat, although the price will be reduced by more than half when they are grown and sold to the town of Weiguli, even that small part of the reward is enough for the villagers to live a comfortable life. life without having to go hungry anymore.

Lu Xi looked puzzled. Judging from the historical knowledge she had learned on Earth, the relationship between nobles and commoners should not be so free that commoners could sell the crops they grew at will.

Rather, the common people must rely on the nobles to live, because the land they cultivate belongs to the nobles in name. They are only farming the land for the nobles, and then turn over seven to eight tenths of the grain every year, and the rest belongs to the common people themselves.

The remaining food is often not enough to feed the common people's family. Most of them are in a state of eating one meal and two hungry meals. Otherwise, they can't survive at all. When there is no food, the only thing left is to sell themselves to the nobles and become slaves. A way to survive.

Ayina noticed the change in Lu Xi's expression almost immediately, and turned to explain to Lu Xi. However, his point of view was too trivial and one-sided. Lu Xi had to re-analyze it with his own understanding before he could understand what he said. those contents.

In this world, because of the existence of monsters, the way to deal with civilians is completely different from that on Earth.

The land circled by the nobles on the earth is safe. The common people will stay in one place to live stably and pass it on from generation to generation. They will not leave unless there is a big change. Therefore, the nobles can continue to exploit those common people.

In other worlds, except for those cities where large city walls are built, defensive barriers are laid out, and are guarded by elemental warriors, there are no safe places, and even those cities cannot guarantee absolute safety.

Even if the land is classified as belonging to a certain noble, the civilians living here may be moved away at any time due to a wave of monsters, and the cultivated farmland can only be abandoned.

It is impossible for the nobles to send people to chase these commoners just to collect a few kilograms of grain from their hands.

Therefore, in another world, the nobles adopted another method-collecting "protection fees". They no longer delineated the land, but clarified the ownership of the town.

The tide of monsters is usually caused by mid-level monsters, and the highest threat will not exceed mid-level monsters. Any regular town can resist it.

Moreover, the monster tide can be sensed several days in advance, and the villages around the town can be notified in advance, allowing civilians to temporarily take refuge in the town, and then return to their villages when the monster tide recedes.

There is no need to chase these civilians, you just need to let each town record the surrounding villages, and let the villages take the initiative to send "taxes" every year. You don't even need to be forced to hand them over. Even if you don't pay, there is no problem.

Because the tax is based on the number of people, regardless of gender, age or child, only the number of people is recorded. Suppose there are 200 villagers in Kuva Village, but only 100 people have paid taxes. Then when the monster wave comes, only 100 villagers can enter. In town.

Can the remaining one hundred villagers just wait to die? Of course not, as long as they can come up with double the tax to temporarily "make up" the tax, they can still enter the town to take refuge.

The nobles did not care about the life and death of these civilians. Instead, they expected those villages to not pay taxes and become "no villages". However, when the monster tide came, they handed over all their wealth in exchange for a chance to survive.

After hearing this, Lu Xi simply didn't know how to evaluate it. Rather than saying that these nobles were "nobles", they were more like "capitalists". They seemed to have a little bit of humanity, but they were just for more complete exploitation.

Most civilians will only grow some crops that will not be destroyed by monsters. First, they do not know how to grow other crops, and second, they do not have channels to purchase seeds.

Chief Luli's status as a trainee knight solves these two problems, so the villagers of Kuwa Village can plant more crops to improve their lives.

The village chief of Luli even trained two trainee elemental warriors and sent them to Weiguli town to become members of the patrol team, completely changing their destiny.

When Lu Xi heard this, he understood why the villagers of Kuva Village respected Village Chief Luli so much. His behavior could be said to be that of a "saint". He single-handedly changed the lives of thousands of people and is still working hard to do so. .

At first, Lu Xi didn't realize what was "different" about the villagers she met.

She comes from Earth, where she has been out of poverty for a long time. The poorest places she has ever seen are just rural bungalows and open-air toilets. The living environment is not as refined as in the city. On the contrary, there is more food than in the city, and you can pick whatever you want in the yard.

But the other world is different. People here are not only exploited by the nobles, but also live in danger all the time.

However, none of the villagers in Kuwa Village that Lu Xi met along the way were sallow and skinny, and the houses they lived in were, at worst, well shielded from the wind and rain.

Ayina said that his father was preparing the money to build a town. If Kuva Village could be turned into Kuva Town, they would not need to run to the town of Weiguli dozens of kilometers away to take refuge when they encountered another wave of monsters. , they can also accept more people from villages who cannot afford to pay taxes without collecting taxes.

Lu Xi believed that Village Chief Lu Li’s idea was serious, but this beautiful vision was so far out of reach.

"Miss Lucy, you are back, dinner is ready." Aunt Azuna breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward to meet Lu Xi. At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the only light was the moonlight.

Lu Xi glanced at the kitchen with firelight. The pot inside was still burning. I'm afraid it wasn't just cooked, but the rice had been heated several times. It's just that Lu Xi wanted to inquire about the news and didn't plan to come back so early. Ah Aunt Su Na didn't dare to take the initiative to call Lu Xi back, so she could only heat up the rice again and again.

Lu Xi thought that she would smuggle Xiao Yuan in later, and she would not let Xiao Yuan go hungry, so he asked Aunt Azuna to help her take the food to her room, so that it would be unclear who ate it. People understand.

She was still holding the two fairy tale books and story books given by the village chief Luli. She was a little worried that the books would be soiled and she would not be able to return them, so she did not take the initiative to help.

Of course, Aunt Azuna couldn't let Lu Xi do anything on his own. She couldn't wait to feed Lu Xi.

"I don't have much appetite right now. Let's put it on the table first. I'll take the bowl over when I'm done eating."

Looking at the four dishes and one soup on the table under the dim light of the oil lamp, Lu Xi felt that he was somewhat embarrassed by Aunt Azuna. I'm afraid they themselves had never had such a good meal.

The four dishes were each a plate of roasted birds, which were derived from the ones Lu Xi brought himself. Perhaps because he had not handled such prey well, Aunt Azuna chose the simplest roasted bird, but it should have been painted. The color of some seasonings when baked is completely different from those baked in Lu Xi.

For a plate of black bread, if you want to find a piece of white bread in a civilian village, it is better to think of finding a piece of gold. The latter is obviously more practical, but this black bread is actually not very black, and there are very few impurities mixed in. It should be It's a carefully selected food.

There was a plate of wild vegetable stew. Neither the meat nor the vegetables were familiar to Lu Xi. Anyway, they were not the ones she ate along the way. There was also a plate of fruits. Lu Xi had never seen them before, but they were a bit like the Milo fruits that Ayina had said. It's some good stuff.

The soup should be beet soup. There are a few red fruits in the milky white soup, and a sweet taste spreads through the air.

Xiao Yuan should like the taste, Lu Xi thought, and found an excuse to send Aunt Azuna away.

Aunt Azuna didn't doubt it, she just had a flattering smile on her face and said, "How can I trouble Miss Lucy to send it to you personally? When you finish eating, just call and I will come and take it away."

Lu Xi didn't insist anymore. She would send it back after eating anyway, and there was no way Aunt Azuna would suddenly come out to stop her.

It was still early, and most of the villagers in Kuwa Village had just rested and were not yet completely asleep. Lu Xi felt that it would be safer to wait for a while before going to pick up Xiao Yuan.

There was nothing to do, so Lu Xi opened the two books sent by the village chief Luli by the light of the oil lamp on the table to see if he could get any information.