"Miss Shen, what are these people trying to do? Do they want to bully you by taking advantage of the large number of people?"
A middle-aged woman with big shoulders and round waist, full of energy said in a rough voice.
She is the daughter of a butcher's family, and later inherited her father's family business. She is stronger than some adult men.
When she walked out like this, she was half the age of the old village chief opposite, which made people feel a little scared for no reason.
Seeing this, the faces of the people in Baiyun Village finally turned completely dark.
It seemed that even if they wanted to force their way through today, it would be impossible.
In the end, the old village chief led the people and left angrily.
It took Shen Jun half an hour to find out the information about the other group of people fleeing the famine.
Ning Chongchen had something to deal with at that time, so he brought the man who led another group over and said hello to Shen Jun.
Ning Chongchen did it because he recognized Shen Jun's ability from the bottom of his heart.
It would be safer and safer to put people under Shen Jun's eyes.
Besides, there is no need to worry that Shen Jun will say something that shouldn't be said and leak some information that shouldn't be leaked.
Fortunately, the other party didn't care, and even because of Ning Zhongchen's attitude towards Shen Jun, he gave Shen Jun a high score in his heart at first sight.
Because of this, Shen Jun easily got a lot of information from this person.
This group of people came from a place farther than Qingzhou. They also planned to go south, but they did not go south to Linzhou.
For these people, Linzhou was too far away, so they did not consider going to this place in the first place.
They planned to stop in Yangzhou.
"I heard that Yangzhou City has always been prosperous in the past, and it has always been rainy in the south. I think even droughts will not be more serious than here."
The leader of this group is a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties. Unlike Ning Chongchen, who has the temperament of a scholar, this man looks like a martial artist at first glance.
"Yes." Shen Jun followed this person and continued chatting.
"I just heard Brother Ning Xian say that the people in Baiyun Village in front of us require us to pay tolls before we can go there?"
Xiang Rui frowned fiercely, "Is this true?"
"Yes." Shen Jun said, "If not, why would our group of people stop here? Wouldn't it be better to go into the village to rest, or go directly through the village and continue south? Stopping here will only waste time."
Xiang Rui nodded. It was precisely because he thought of this that he believed Ning Chongchen's words 80%.
"These people are too presumptuous!" Xiang Rui said coldly and dissatisfied, "It is only because of the decline of the imperial court that they dare to do such evil things. It is difficult for them to come up with such an excuse to take advantage of the situation."
Xiang Rui has always valued friendship, but now when he hears someone doing such a lawless thing, he naturally can't tolerate the sand in his eyes.
"If Brother Ning Xian hadn't stopped me, I would have gone in with a knife and had a good talk with their village chief."
Xiang Rui's proposal was approved by Shen Jun.
In fact, she also thought so. She would just use force to kill him. There was no need to go through such troublesome calculations.
"Calm down, brother."
Although he thought so in his heart, Shen Jun had to go against his will and give him good advice.
"It's not a good thing to dirty your hands for this kind of scum."
Shen Jun said with relief, "Anyway, our two teams are together, and the people in Baiyun Village seem to have other thoughts, and they don't dare to have them now. In the end, we have to weigh the whole village and really try their best to follow them. We're going to die before we die."
Now that their two teams are combined, the people of Baiyun Village have no chance of winning.
"Yes." Xiang Rui responded. For this reason, he planned to temporarily join forces with Ning Zhongchen and others to walk a distance together.
"Anyway, I want to get tolls from us. Haha, even the King of Heaven is here and I don't even dare to think like that!"
Xiang Rui's tone was sharp. When he said this, he subconsciously turned his head and looked at the crowd on the other side.
That was the fellow villager following him.
Shen Jun followed his gaze and saw that this group of people were indeed a lot less energetic and depressed because they had been traveling for a long time because of the long journey.
Now that they stopped to rest, most of them collapsed on the ground.
Shen Jun looked carefully and saw that some people even tightened their belts deliberately, as if this way they would not feel too hungry.
"Cough cough cough."
"Cough cough cough."
Suddenly, someone in the crowd heard a violent cough.
The coughing sound attracted other people around, but the big guy also took one look and quickly looked away.
In this situation, it's normal to get sick occasionally. It's good that they can take care of themselves, and they can't care about others.
Xiang Rui frowned when he saw it, said hello to Shen Jun apologetically, and then strode towards the coughing man.
With the addition of Xiang Rui's team, Ning Zhongchen and the others were planning to pass directly through Baiyun Village.
Now that they have a large number of people, they no longer need to discuss politely with the people in Baiyun Village.
Even if the people of Baiyun Village were dissatisfied, they would still hold it in.
However, Xiang Rui proposed to leave after another hour. Their people had just come all the way and they still needed some time to rest.
Ning Chongchen was a little reluctant in his heart, but what the other party said was reasonable and reasonable. Besides, it also required the other party's alliance, so he could only agree temporarily.
When Ning Chongchen and Xiang Rui were discussing matters.
Shen Jun noticed a noise coming from the end of their team.
"What's wrong?"
Shen Jun glanced at Ning Zhongchen, who was a bit unable to move away. She reluctantly went to check the situation.
"Miss Shen!"
After Shen Jun arrived, he noticed that An Wan, Li Yan, and Xue Xian were all here.
An Wan's whole little face turned slightly pale, while Xue Xian and Li Yan beside her were calm.
In the middle of the crowd surrounded by many people, there was a weak figure.
This man was lying on the ground now, covered in various bloodstains, but he seemed to be still breathing, and his chest was rising and falling slightly.
An Wan's face turned pale precisely because of what she saw.
Some timid ones have already turned their heads away, not daring to take another look.
Of course, some brave ones stepped forward and lifted the figure's hair out of his face.
"This this……"
Although this face was also stained with a lot of blood, there were some people in the crowd watching the excitement who could be regarded as neighbors who lived with him day and night.
After looking at it for a while, I recognized the identity of the person on the ground.
"This, isn't this person Xiao Wu?!"
"Xiao Wu? You mean this person is Xiao Wu! How is this possible? Didn't Xiao Wu follow his family back to our county a long time ago?"
