Jianya was not blinded by the emotion of revenge, those cannibals, as long as they were still in this jungle, would be able to catch them sooner or later, but his main direction of attack in the future began to shift from attacking everywhere to the west.

And the captives who had been promoted to free people looked blankly at the open space in front of them at this moment, they had been forbidden to return to the captive camp, they had nothing, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

"Mr. Lin has explained, if you don't want to starve to death, go to work, and I will give you eight copper coins a day, and you can go to the trading post in the city to exchange for food, as for the accommodation, you can solve it yourself!" When the soldier had finished speaking, he turned and left, leaving the men staring wide-eyed.

"Patriarch, what should we do! Why don't we run away," said one young man in fear.

The slightly older patriarch shook his head and said, "Escape? If you look at these people around us, can you get us out, maybe if we get out of this wall, we'll be killed immediately! ”

"Then what should we do, if we knew this, it would be better to stay over there, at least there is one meal a day." Someone regretted it.

"It's useless to think about that now, let's go to work first, didn't the man just say that if we work for a day, we will give me copper coins to exchange food at that trading post? Try it first, it's better than standing here. The older patriarch sighed and said helplessly.

When he came to the site where the city wall was being built, he explained to one of the soldiers about his men, and the soldier looked at them, took out a few strips of cloth, and said, "You guys, tie this to your arm." ”

A few people didn't know why, and when they saw that this was a sick face, they didn't dare to ask more, so they had to honestly take the strip of cloth and clumsily tie it to their right arm.

"Go over there and get the tools, and send them back before dark, and I'll give you the copper coins later." After speaking, don't pay attention to these people,

Several people went to the tool storage area, received some tools for digging the pit, and were taken to the construction site by the supervising soldiers to start working.

In the evening, when the men returned the tools, the soldier in charge of the tools glanced at the strips of cloth on their arms, and without saying much, gave each of them eight copper coins.

"This warrior, how do you use this thing?" The patriarch asked respectfully.

The soldier snorted coldly and said: "What warrior, I am a soldier, here I am your commander, in the future, you will call me a commander, and next time you will not commit a copper coin." ”

Seeing that he had said the wrong thing, the patriarch hurriedly apologized: "Yes! Be! I remember, then, sir, what should I do with this copper coin? ”

The soldier looked at them with disdain, and said, "I see that building in the center of the city is not, there is a trading post, and you can go there with copper coins to exchange for what you want." ”

A few people looked over there, and the huge building in the center of the city had been built earlier than the city walls, but the captives had never known what it was for, and now they knew that it was a place to store food.

After writing about the soldier, several of them clutched the copper coins and came to the door of the trading post, and stopped.

"Patriarch, can this thing really be exchanged for food?" One person looked at the copper coin in his hand and said worriedly.

"It's all come to this, you have to try it, let's go! If we can't get food, we're doomed, so let's pray to the gods! ”

After the patriarch finished speaking, he muttered a few words, took a deep breath, and walked into the trading post.

Candles on the counter lit up the dark room, and three Trade Post staff were bored leaning back in their chairs yawning.

Seeing a few savages coming in, a few people were startled, thinking that the savages had rebelled, so they quickly pulled out the steel knife on their waists and looked at these people vigilantly.

"What do you want to do?" A salesperson asked warily.

Looking at the sharp just arrived, these people were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat, they had seen the power of this weapon, and if they were cut by this thing, they would definitely die.

"Few... Chiefs, we ... We're here to exchange things. The patriarch said with a pale face.

The three of them were stunned, looked at the middle-aged man suspiciously, and asked, "Exchange things, what do you exchange things for, say quickly, how can you leave the captive camp!" ”

"We ... Today we have been promoted to the rank of Free Citizen by the Chief of the Army, you see, this is a copper coin, we are given for a day's work, and they say that with this we can come here in exchange for food. ”

One of the three, who appeared to be the steward of the trading post, said to one of them, "Go to the barracks and ask if there is such a thing!" ”

The man nodded, took his steel knife and kept his distance from the men, and after leaving the trading post, he ran quickly towards the barracks.

Ten minutes later, the man returned, nodding to the steward.

Seeing this, the steward breathed a sigh of relief, put away the steel knife, and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry just now, I have to be careful in this place, since you are already free people, that is my Great Xia country, what do you want to exchange?" ”

Hearing that it could really be exchanged, several people suddenly became excited, and the patriarch hurriedly said, "We want food!" ”

"We have a lot of food here, I don't know which one you want? Whether it's meat or corn flour. ”

"Uhhh

Several people listened with a blank face, except for the understanding of meat, other things they had never heard of.

Looking at their blank looks, the steward of the trading post said, "Well, I don't think you will do anything else, but now that it's getting late, you can buy some meat, and you can roast it on a fire and eat it." ”

Now they were so hungry that they hadn't eaten anything at the end of the day, and now they heard that they could exchange meat, so they nodded their heads in agreement.

"One pound of meat here is four copper coins, I don't think any of you have eight copper coins, and two pounds of meat for one person is enough to eat." The steward said slowly.

Although they did not understand what the steward was saying, when they saw a man take out a pile of meat strung on a rope, his eyes lit up, and his saliva came out.

"This piece of meat is two catties, one piece for each of you, please take it!" The salesman said as he handed them the meat.

The patriarch looked at the heavy meat in his hand blankly, looking incredulous, he even blamed himself for dreaming, eight copper coins can be exchanged for so much meat, and the meat is fresh.

In the prisoner camp, the food every day is a slimy and very disgusting thing, except for the full stomach, the taste is simply not mentioned, so in comparison, several people suddenly feel that this free man is indeed much better than the treatment of the captive.