My whole family time-traveled! I became a god during my exile in a famine.

Chapter 320 Enslavement
Xie Ninglan struggled to suppress her laughter, glanced at Lao Xin's dark face, pursed her lips, and silently lowered her head.

"Sister Ling, don't worry about this. We'll do a few more training sessions, and you'll break through to the fifth level very soon."

Chen Ling nodded repeatedly.

Xin Nian then looked at the others, "Shall we agree on this for now?"

Everyone nodded in unison.

"Then let's do it. Fatty and I will go first. Dad, you tell those five people to make it clear to them beforehand. We'll definitely get paid for rescuing people; we won't do it for free."

"A little kindness is appreciated, but too much kindness breeds resentment. If you don't want to raise a bunch of ungrateful wretches, you should establish rules and regulations from the very beginning."

Old Xin said repeatedly, "I know, daughter, stop nagging. Be careful on the way with Little Fatty."

Xin Nian dragged Xie Ninglan and Chang Mianmian into the farm, then pulled Xiao Jinzhi away by teleportation.

"That brat," Old Xin muttered to himself, only to be startled to see his daughter suddenly back in front of him.

You brat, you're just trying to scare him!
Xin Nian grinned at his father and tossed him a crystal bead, "Dad, I brought you some tools."

“There’s a lot of timber here. Have Luan Dalong and Liang Guang build a row of wooden sheds for those refugees first.”

The little girl winked at him and patted his arm, saying, "I've also prepared a few carriages and horses for you and my brother to use for transportation."

"At least you still have some conscience!" Her father beamed and reached out to take it.

Xin Nian pulled Xiao Jinzhi away again. Once outside the city wall area, they took out their speed vehicle and sped off.

After using it last time, I had Linglu fully charge it, even using the portable battery.

The speed was so fast that it was like a streak of light, cutting through the darkening night.

"What's the situation in Yanbei? Is it worse than in Daxia?"

Earthquakes may not pose the greatest threat to people living on the grasslands, but wildfires are a different story...

Xiao Jinzhi nodded to confirm her thoughts, "When the heavenly fire comes, most of the herdsmen are unaware and have nowhere to escape or hide."

"The number of people remaining in Yanbei now is probably no more than ten thousand."

A large tribe of hundreds of thousands can be wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Xin Nian sighed deeply.

This is the fragility of life.

Humans are truly as insignificant as dust in the face of heaven and earth.

"The remaining people of Yanbei are also having a hard time."

"The royal court is now ruled by the fifth prince. That's Uka, Nian Nian, you should remember him."

"Oh, a little." Xin Nian nodded slightly. "That little idiot who always bullied you when you were little."

“I even taught him a lesson.” Xin Nian chuckled. “By the way, after I left, King Wuqi didn’t lay a hand on you again, did he?”

"Several years later, they sent someone to kill me, but by then my power over time had reached a high level, so they returned empty-handed and scared themselves into madness."

"Heh." Xin Nian couldn't help but sneer, "This Wu Qi really doesn't take what I said to heart."

She'd gone to such lengths to convince him that Little Fatty was a chosen one of great fortune, and that killing him would surely bring disaster, yet this old rascal still hasn't given up after all these years.

That makes sense; any grassland king who heard that a chosen one of destiny would be born in the Great Xia would harbor thoughts of annihilation.

"How is Uchi now?"

“He died long ago,” Xiao Jinzhi said calmly. “He sent people to kill me, so I killed him in return. It was a matter of tit for tat.”

Xin Nian: ...

Well, she knew it; Fatty wasn't one to suffer a loss. The two drove to the former site of the royal court, only to find that it had been replaced by a valley.

Buried beneath the wasteland, countless skeletons have dried and turned to sand.

Xin Nian glanced at it and sighed deeply, "Life is hard for ordinary people everywhere."

When fleeing for their lives, ordinary people are the first to be abandoned, while the members of the royal court are probably living quite comfortably now.

"The place they're moving to shouldn't be too far from here."

Xin Nian first marked the location, then put away the Flash Car and pulled Xiao Jinzhi forward a short distance.

This was repeated several times, and then faint lights could be seen ahead.

The two looked at each other.

Xiao Jinzhi took out two black cloaks from the crystal and handed one to Xin Nian.

The two changed into night cloaks, held hands, and instantly appeared behind a row of tents, peeking forward cautiously.

A patrol of nine men was seen walking back and forth in the camp.

Shouts and calls could be heard in the distance.

Xin Nian and Xiao Jinzhi moved along the tent in a flash, and when they got to the front, they were taken aback.

Hundreds or even thousands of men and women, wearing handcuffs and shackles, were seen silently digging holes with sticks, hoes, and other tools.

At first glance, they were all dressed in the clothing of the Great Xia Kingdom, and most of them were slaves captured from the border town or Wen County.

The four overseers were dressed in short-sleeved shirts from northern China, their clothes so dirty that their original color was unrecognizable, yet they held their heads high with an extremely arrogant expression.

They kept waving their whips, urging the people in the pit to dig faster, while cursing, "They're all useless. It's been two days and they still haven't dug out a water source."

"Hulu." A man carrying a torch came over, and the leader of the four overseers hurriedly stepped forward with a smile, "Lord Abida, you've arrived. Is there anything you need? Why bother you to come all the way here? You could have just sent me over to give you the orders."

The middle-aged man was dressed like a scholar from the Great Xia Kingdom, and had a goatee on his chin.

He raised his hand and patted it. Two guards from Northern Yan behind him immediately pulled on a chain as thick as a bowl, dragged him forward and pushed him.

"This guy is new here, take him down into the pit and take good care of him."

"Yes, sir, I understand." The overseer Hulu gave Lord Abida a knowing look, and then raised his hand.

The remaining three overseers dragged the chain away very roughly.

The man chained behind the chain staggered, his disheveled face showing terror. "I am the Fifth Prince of Great Xia! Prince Yu, Xiao Tingye, you can't treat me like this!"

"Let go, let go!"

"What five emperors or six emperors? When they come here, they are all the king's slaves! Anyone who doesn't work properly will be whipped!"

Hulu, abandoning his previous fawning demeanor, glared angrily at Xiao Tingye and kicked him into the giant pit.

Many of the people digging the pit below were hit by the rolling Yu the Great.

These people just slowly got up with numb expressions, continued to carry their tools, and smashed the deep pit at their feet.

"Ahhh!" King Yu screamed frantically, struggling desperately to climb out of the pit.

However, he was bound by very heavy iron chains, making it difficult to even take a single step, let alone drag the chains out of the pit.

After panting heavily, he had only crawled three centimeters. King Yu was filled with despair and looked up at the sky, gasping for breath.

"Get to work!" Hulu roared. "If you don't dig up a drop of water by tomorrow morning, you all can expect thirty lashes each!"

"Still haven't dug anything?" Abida glanced down into the pit, his brow furrowed.

This won't do. The stored water is only enough for the king and princess for three days at most.