The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 180 Escape
To sum up the concerns of these state capitals, the geographical advantages of Lingnan, which is far away from the border, are immediately highlighted.

The wretched and well-developed Lingnan is not enough to attract the attention of various forces at this moment. Everyone's attention is attracted by the white catastrophe, rebels and aliens.

Even the matter of sending a letter to the court for help last time was forgotten by everyone. No one in the court cared about the follow-up of Annan's disturbance?

The court did not pay attention to Lingnan, but the refugees fleeing south due to the white disaster relied on their survival instincts, and those with some ability have been fleeing south.

When Chen Yongtian and Yu Quan arrived in Guiyang County, the two caravans parted ways.

Yu Quan led his caravan out of Guiyang County and headed west towards Lingling County.

And Chen Yongtian went to Guiyang County to rest and recuperate, and released the news that a batch of off-season vegetables were for sale. Many local vendors in Guiyang County were moved by hearing this.

Guiyang County is located in the southernmost part of Jingzhou, close to the Nanling Mountains. Although it is separated from Lingnan by a mountain range, the climate of the two places is very different.

The climate in south of Lingnan is warm and humid, while in north of Lingnan, there are four distinct seasons. Although there is no knee-high snowfall in Guiyang County at this time, the snow falling on the ground does not exceed ankles.

In winter, the only vegetables here are cold-resistant cabbage and radishes. The out-of-season vegetables brought by the Chen family caravan are fresh, and they are very popular with the local rich and powerful.

As for the price that is more expensive than meat, they expressed their understanding. It should be more expensive to eat rare summer vegetables in a disaster year!
What they lack most in life is not money, but material enjoyment!
The Chen family caravan cleaned up the supplies in Guiyang County in sevens and eighties, and then went north, the number of refugees obviously increased on the road.

"Boss, there are more and more refugees on the road. If we continue walking, I'm afraid that these refugees will take the opportunity to make trouble!" The leader in charge handed the carriage to the apprentice, and found Chen Yongtian to express his worries.

Chen Yongtian's face was serious. He knew better than anyone else how terrible the refugees were. There were still groups of them on the roadside. He was worried that the further north he went, the more refugees would be on the roadside. Even if the refugees attacked and robbed their convoys and killed their There is nothing they can do to feed the mules and horses, and let these refugees do whatever they want.

"Let everyone gather the team, speed up, and come out with a desperate attitude. Everyone try not to stretch the team too long, and don't show your wealth. No one can eat during the journey!"

As Chen Yongtian's order was passed on, the momentum of the team changed drastically in an instant, and the team speeded up, scaring the refugees on the side of the road to avoid the convoy unconsciously, for fear of causing their displeasure by standing on the side of the road, and being whipped by them!

"Brother, we finally escaped from Jingzhou's territory!"

When the team set foot on the unique cement road in Lingnan, Qiusan excitedly ran to Zhu Wei and said loudly, regardless of his fatigue.

With the breeze blowing, Zhu Wei felt the different climate from Jingzhou. He lowered his head and stomped on the cement road, "Is this a cement road? It's really as hard as a stone, but flatter than a stone road!"

The concrete road is much higher than the roadbed at the edge. The men, women and children who are tired from walking in the team sit on the edge of the dry and flat concrete road, touching here and knocking there. They are all curious about what kind of mud can make such a road. ?

After Qi Qi had finished watching, these people began to use wooden sticks to clean up the dirt on the soles of their shoes.

"This yellow mud is really sticky. It sticks all the way. My shoes now weigh at least two or three catties!"

"Who says it's not? It's been raining, and I'm going down the mountain with three slippery steps. I have to work hard to keep my body steady while going down the mountain. When I come down the mountain, my legs don't feel like my own!"

"However, having said that, isn't Lingnan called the Southern Barbarian? Why do I feel that Lingnan is richer than Jingzhou?"

"Yes, there is no concrete road like this in Jingzhou."

Hearing the brothers' discussions, Wu Zhong, also known as Wu Mo, approached Zhu Wei and asked, "Brother, we have come to Lingnan, should we continue to go up the mountain to become bandits, or find a place to settle down and open up wasteland and farm?"

If Xia Jing was here, she would definitely hear their voices familiar when she heard their conversations.

This team is the group of bandits who hijacked her coffin on the way from Gyeonggi to the royal tomb.

Before the snow fell, the rebel army expanded their territory and occupied Yuzhou. Judging from the current situation, the rebel army's front may be directed at Jingzhou or Yangzhou.

In this tense situation, the rebels seem to be doing well!
The bandits who were active in several nearby state capitals were called to Yuzhou to join the rebels.

Bandits from all sides want to get a share of the merits of being a dragon. Zhu Wei understands this very well, but understanding does not mean that he is willing to change his identity from bandit to traitor.

As long as the bandit is not heinous and goes down to be a good person, he can spend a little money to become a good citizen.

The traitors are just the opposite. The court hates the bandits who betray the court. Generally, if they are captured, they will be executed, or they will spend the rest of their lives in hard labor, digging mines for a lifetime, and they will not be released until the day they die of exhaustion. .

Zhu Wei didn't want his brothers and descendants to be charged as traitors forever.

He didn't want to join the rebel army, but he couldn't stop the brothers in his team from going forward.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and in the end the brothers who were willing to join the rebel army all went to Yuzhou, while the brothers who were not willing to take risks, and the rest of their family members followed him to Lingnan.

Zhu Wei looked at the old and the young, "Let's find a county near Fucheng and settle down first."

Wu Mo was not surprised by Zhu Wei's choice. It can be seen from his refusal to go to Yuzhou that he is not willing to be a bandit for life, let alone a traitor.

"Brother, do you want everyone to settle down and live an ordinary life in peace?"

Zhu Wei nodded, and looked at the children sitting on the side of the road resting, "For them, we also have to make changes. Although heroes don't ask where they come from in troubled times, it's also the easiest time for people of our background to be cleansed. .”

Take advantage of the chaos to find a foothold, and when the world is at peace, they will be veritable good citizens.

Wu Mo glanced at the children, grinned and said, "We listen to Big Brother."

With the cement road, the speed of the team is much faster, and everyone walks a lot easier.

"Brother, I just asked passers-by, and they all went to build dams near the Qujiang River."

Zhu Wei was surprised when he heard this and asked: "It's already the twelfth lunar month, why is there still labor in Lingnan? The government doesn't want the people to have a good year!"

"Brother, you misunderstood." Wu Mo smiled lightly, and when Zhu Wei looked over suspiciously, he explained: "I asked passers-by just now, and they said that it was not labor labor, but the government recruiting workers to repair the embankment. You will be paid for every meal.”

After hearing this, Zhu Wei said incredulously, "Wages are paid for the meals? This is a lie, how much is it a day?"

Wu Mo stretched out a big slap, which made him feel a little unbelievable, "Fifty copper coins!"

"so tall?"

The brothers walking beside were all stunned!

What kind of fairy government is this?Serving hard labor with food and wages?

"That's right, it's that high, and it usually costs thirty yuan to hire a laborer. But this time, I heard that because of the construction of the embankment, sometimes the feet have to be soaked in the water, which is regarded as a subsidy for the workers to protect against the cold."

"Is the government in Lingnan so considerate of the people?" Others expressed doubts.

These rumors are just one-sided words of passers-by. They just came to Lingnan, and no one knows whether it is true or not.

Passers-by don't care whether they believe it or not, at the end of the year, they come out to repair the river embankment just to earn more copper coins, so that they can add food to their families for the New Year and new clothes for their children and wives.

In the past, when I heard that laborers were being persuaded to repair the embankment, everyone hid as soon as they could, but now the government promised to count the wages, and strong laborers from nearby villages came to work on the embankment.

When meeting passers-by again, Zhu Wei took the initiative to strike up a conversation.

"Brother, are you going to work on the Qujiang embankment?"

When Er Fu heard someone talking to him, he turned his face to take a look, and said with a simple smile, "Yes, take advantage of the coppers I earned a few years ago to add two meat dishes to the family."

Zhu Wei asked with a smile: "Brother is a good man who takes care of his family. Is he really paid to work on the river embankment? What if he doesn't pay for the Chinese New Year?"

Er Fu looked him up and down while he was on his way: "I see you are all travel-laden, did you come here from other places? Do you want to work on the embankment?"

Zhu Wei laughed, "He came from another place, it's not up to you to understand the situation."

"If you came to work on the Qujiang embankment, you are right. Now the government has no limit on the number of people in order to meet the construction period. The more people who come, the better, so that the construction period can be shortened and the project can be completed as soon as possible!"

Er Fu said with a smile, "However, no matter how many people are recruited, the embankment on both banks will not be completed until the end of the first lunar month."

Zhu Wei listened very carefully, "Brother is very familiar with the river embankment, it seems that he often comes to work."

Er Fu laughed loudly when he heard this: "To tell you the truth, the embankment was built from the section of our village. It has been built all the way, and now it has been built near the Qujiang River. Do you think I am not familiar with it?"

Zhu Wei also laughed, and his easy-going attitude brought the two of them closer.

Erfu glanced back at the long queue, restrained his smile, frowned slightly and said, "It is said that the homeland is hard to leave, not everyone has the courage to leave their hometown to seek a living outside. You are dragging your family." It's really not easy to come here to ask for a living!"

Zhu Wei smiled wryly, and his tone was inevitably low. "Three years of famine, we only care about whether we can survive. We don't care what hometown or hometown you are talking about. As long as there is a world that can accept us, we can live on our own. Just go down."

Hearing what he said, Er Fu's eyes showed sympathy, pity and other emotions, "Then when you get to the river embankment later, you have to work hard. The work on the river embankment is now completed every day, which is very convenient. You can still get paid Take care of your family."

Wu Mo followed behind and was startled. Could it be that elder brother really wants to work on the river embankment?

Although his eldest brother has disbanded the original bandit team now, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse. The eldest brother has saved a lot of savings over the years, and it is better to spend a little bit casually than to go to the river embankment to make money now.

"It's settled every day. I thought wages were settled after the end of the year." Zhu Wei looked stunned.

The two walked and chatted all the way, feeling that the distance under their feet became shorter.

When it was almost noon, the group of them finally reached the embankment outside Qujiang City.

People were coming and going on the embankment, it was very lively, there were the sounds of workers yelling, and the sound of supervisors scolding.

Looking at the busy scene in front of him, Zhu Wei thought that he had misread it. After all, in a famine year, which government would make such a large amount of construction work and waste people's money.

It seems that after coming to Lingnan, what he saw and heard, he couldn't tell that Lingnan came from a disaster year.

Seeing his stunned look, Er Fu originally wanted to pat him on the shoulder, but found that this man was tall, and it was really inappropriate to pat him on the shoulder with his height.

He patted the other party's arm instead, pointed to the tent not far from the embankment and said, "Brother, that's the engineering office responsible for the construction of the embankment. If you want to work on the embankment, you have to go there to register first, and wait for the registration." Someone will hand you over to the steward, and the steward is the person who arranges your work."

"I know, thank you brother for taking care of me."

"You don't have to be so polite, it's just a matter of raising your hands." Er Fu looked back at the long line, all of them were old and infirm, and he didn't know how much they had suffered in moving the village.

Help out as much as you can when you are away from home, they are all poor people in the world!

Er Fu shook his head and reported to his supervisor.

"Brother, are we really working here?" Wu Mo asked.

Zhu Wei looked back at the team he had brought. There were many women, children, old and weak. When Lingnan had no clue for the time being, there was nothing wrong with working on the embankment, at least it would not attract the attention of the government.

"Work here first, and then decide how to go next after finding out the situation in Lingnan!"

Those who follow him have no objection to the big master's speech.

The team rested in place, and Zhu Wei took a few people to the tent by the river embankment.

More than 100 young and middle-aged people want to work on this embankment, and the leaders in charge must be mentally prepared.

The steward took the registration form and registered in detail the several people who took the lead.

"If you have crafts, you can definitely eat crafts. If you don't have crafts, as long as you can endure hardships, your life will not be bad. If anyone is unwilling to work hard and has no skills, then there will be no such people on the embankment on my side! "

Because the construction of the dam is in a hurry, it will not support idlers!

Those who want to fish in troubled waters will be fired as soon as they are discovered!
Of course, no one will admit that they can't bear hardships when they come to register. The steward just smiled and didn't say much about it.

To confuse the public, this group of bandits temporarily settled down on the Qujiang embankment.

It is very tiring to build the river embankment, the stone cement, and the mud under the feet, the three are mixed together, which really makes people very embarrassed.

Zhu Wei led his brothers to work all afternoon, and when he finished work in the evening, he was covered in mud and not a single part of his body was clean.

Some brothers who are not used to physical labor complain about fatigue, top-heavyness, and loss of appetite after working for half a day.

Seeing the situation like this, Wu Mo felt worried!
In the past, when the team had thousands of people, it didn't matter to him to take care of the logistics, but now the team only has two hundred people, so it seems inappropriate for him to take care of the logistics.

To put it in the simplest terms, if the logistics is still in his charge, everyone will be fussy, and some people will even feel like they are eating from the same pot, and doing things is a waste of time.

Everyone earns hard money now, what does this make hard-working bachelors think?
It seems that I have to discuss it with my elder brother. From now on, the family will be the unit, and trivial matters should be handled by each other!
(End of this chapter)