After all, it's just a small village, and it's a small village that is self-sufficient and has no contact with the outside world. Of course, the conditions of the accommodation could not be much better, the empty, leaky little thatched hut, a small table, plus a few chairs, and animal skins directly spread on the floor, the bed formed by this is all the furniture in Li Xie's small thatched house.

But the good thing is that the conditions, although simple, but because the thatched hut is built on top of trees. So I don't worry about reptiles and animals, and because it's on the top of the tree, there is a cool breeze at night, which feels quite good.

The time soon came to the next day, and the village chief in that village directly summoned Lu'an. The people in the small village were born hunting in such living conditions, and they were born with a fierce and fierce character.

So Lu An didn't dare to go to the village chief alone, although Li Xie wanted to observe the various situations in this village, but there was no way to be pulled by him, so he had to go with him.

Li Xie originally thought that as the head of a village, he should be the kind of elderly person with high morality. I don't want this village chief to look quite young, but he is in his early 40s, or even younger.

It is also a body of animal skin, just from the exposed body, the hideous muscles like the roots of an old tree, you can see that this village chief is probably the top in terms of force.

After Lu An entered the door, he first greeted the village chief for a while, and then the village chief explained his intentions.

"If Boss An thinks it's okay, he can sell all the people to me, and the price is negotiable. If you're afraid of offending someone, you can just leave after selling it to me. I'll arrange the rest, and I won't implicate you. ”

Perhaps because he is not very good at communicating with people outside, although the village chief seems to be quite intelligent, he speaks very directly. And the eyes that stared straight at Lu An were full of longing, it was obvious that he wanted to make this deal, and he didn't hide it at all.

"Village chief, you also know that if the people who trade with me every year, if you sell them all to you this year, it will be difficult for me to do business next year."

The village chief's sentence that the price is negotiable, really said that Lu'an's heart was in his heart. This year's situation has not been very good, and after a flood, most areas are short of food. This has indirectly led to an increase in the number of homeless people. It stands to reason that in this way, Lu'an is better to abduct and sell people, but on the other hand, just after the disaster, every family has no money to spare, so of course there are not so many people who come to buy children.

So this year, the money handed in is much less, in fact, compared with previous years, the proportion of money handed over this year, compared with the money that is easy to earn, is still higher than in previous years, but the mistake is that this year's business is less. As soon as the money was small, the people above immediately had an opinion.

No way, even if there is less business, those big men above, they still do the same thing. Then those who have done the same thing according to their theory should have the same amount of money they get, so that the lack of money immediately makes them suspicious.

Of course, the people above also know that the people below are more or less greedy for ink, but the profits in previous years are so considerable, they don't care. This year's profits are reduced, and if the people below are greedy for ink, then they can't stand it.

Therefore, a death order has been issued from above, asking Lu An to hand over the money according to the previous year, and it must be completed in a short time. This is a lot of money, and of course it is impossible for Lu An to raise so much money alone.

But the people who follow him all the year round are ruthless people who lick blood on the knife edge, who has the heart to store the hard-earned money? Everyone goes out to have a dashing look as soon as the money is in hand, and now he really doesn't have any way to let him take out this money immediately.

He already had a plan to let the man who had been sent from above who had followed him carry the cauldron. But if you can make another hand of preparation to prepare the nutrition, Lu An is also willing to do it.

Don't look at this one village, there are only more than 500 people, and it is self-sufficient, and there is no contact with outsiders at all. But people run in the mountains all the year round, and the treasures in the mountains are full of them, so maybe people take out a random thing, which is a treasure in the eyes of people outside.

Lu An casually mentioned the price of the village chief's sentence, but he didn't doubt it at all. Although I have the heart to agree, this is not how business is done.

"In this way, you don't have to gather the big guys this year. You come up with a price, no matter what kind of price it is, we have no objection. ”

Seeing that Lu An did not agree, the village chief showed an anxious look on his face and the bottom line was lowered again.

Lu Anxin was a little happy inside, he knew that as long as he nodded now, the price of the goods this time would probably be two or three times higher than in previous years.

However, Lu An did not agree immediately, but hesitated even more:

"Can the village chief explain why you need so many people this time?"

People's greed is endless, and the profit of living two or three times higher than in previous years may be very high, but the village chief is so desperate to make this deal now. This gave Lu'an the hope that he could make higher profits. So Lu An suppressed the excitement in his heart and wanted to find out why the village chief wanted manpower so much.

As long as this reason is investigated, perhaps he may have made more than two or three times the profit. And the reason why he asked so blatantly was because Lu An clearly knew that the people in this village, or all the people in this deep mountain, had a relatively simple temperament.

Their idea is always that today, they can hunt two more prey, and if they can get one more rabbit, then the whole family can have a full meal tonight. The minerals or treasures of grapefruit that they picked up with their hands seemed to them to be taken easily.

Maybe they think they have a price for it, but maybe they prefer to hunt one more boar than one more boar.

"This year, it has rained for a long time, and now it has been hot for months. Even the prey is much less than in previous years, to be honest, we have moved two places this year, but there is still no improvement, so we estimate that this is the mountain god is angry, so the people in the village have a total of some more tribute, this year a grand worship. ”

Chang said with sincerity and piety, but Li Xie listened to it with a lot of pain, and he now had some doubts about whether it was right for him to take these people out to be soldiers. Because the information revealed in and out of the village chief's words all showed that the village chief in front of him did not regard the children he bought as a life at all, but only a tribute, a bargaining chip to calm the anger of the ethereal mountain god.

"Village chief, I am also in business, and I must pay attention to integrity, so it is impossible for me to sell all the goods to you. Therefore, as in previous years, gather the village chiefs of each village and discuss a distribution! It's not a matter of more money and less money, it's about integrity. ”

Lu An was ecstatic when he heard the village chief say that he wanted these people, but he didn't show the slightest superfluous expression on his face, but pretended to be embarrassed.

"Every year we worship the mountain gods, and we still prefer to use people who buy from you rather than use our own children. So you don't have to worry about running out of business at all, as long as you can find us every year. They will still buy from you as in previous years, you don't have to worry about running out of business to do, so why not buy from you if I pay a higher price this year? ”

"The village chief doesn't need to say much, it's not a matter of money or not, it's a matter of integrity."