Chapter 5: The Threat of Water Thieves
Walking into the thatched house, a virtual interface appeared, and the details of the village appeared in front of me.
Village name: Changhe Village
Population: 10 (4 elderly, 2 young, 2 women, 2 children)
Thatched huts: three
Farmland: 20 acres
Funding: None
Brief introduction of this village: Located in Chaohu Lake, it is a village under Chaoxian County, Lujiang County.
Looking at this scene, Jia Nian was almost stunned. It felt like the world was spinning, and there were only ten people in a village, and four of them were old people.
Jia Nian was depressed and speechless for a long time.
The virtual interface suddenly popped up, and a brief avatar appeared. The status of quest friends is as follows.
Fiancée: Qiao Jing (the two have long been married)
Future father-in-law: Qiao Guolao (I heard that the Jia family was razed to the ground, and there is a possibility of regretting marriage)
Future sister-in-law: Qiao Wan (Qiao Jing's sister, honorific title Xiaoqiao)
Friend: Liu Ye
Beetle Friendly Reminder: According to the law of historical development, Xiaoqiao will marry Sun Ce and Zhou Yu respectively, so these two people are very likely to become mortal enemies with you.
"......" Jia Nian looked at these news, only to feel that there were cups in front of him, and his heart was extremely sad and angry.
Isn't Lujiang County where Sun Ce started? Unexpectedly, as soon as he came, he was pitted by the Beetle once, and he directly hit the future lord of Jiangdong.
With the ten people under his command, he wants to use his mantis arm as a car, which is a bit too self-conscious.
"Beetle, next time I will definitely not use you to match my identity, it's too pitiful" Jia Nian said with a grudge on his face, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
The virtual interface in front of him disappeared, and Jia Nian even had the feeling of escaping, but saw three chances of resurrection. So he gritted his teeth fiercely, and he acquiesced to this situation.
In any case, let's do a good job of this foothold first.
Thinking of this, I cleaned up my mood and walked outside slowly, just as two young men who were busy in the field came over.
"I've seen the village chief" The two young men carried hoes and bowed to Jia Nian.
Jia Nian looked at the two young men seriously, and saw that they had strong waists, so he nodded: "Well, what do you call the two of you?"
"Tang Gaoming," said the man standing on the left.
The man standing on the right also reported his name to Jia Nian: "Tang Yanqing"
Name: Tang Gaoming
Identity: Changhe Village, villager
Occupation: Farmer
Class Level: Tier 1 and Tier 8
Skills: Cultivating wasteland and cultivating intensively
Beetle Comments: Ordinary civilians, with average qualifications, can be reluctantly cultivated in view of the lack of manpower.
Name: Yanqing Tang
Identity: Changhe Village, villager
Occupation: Farmer
Class Level: Tier 1 and Tier 8
Skills: Cultivating wasteland and cultivating intensively
Beetle Comments: Ordinary civilians, with average qualifications, can be reluctantly cultivated in view of the lack of manpower.
"You guys go get busy" Jia Nian looked at the attributes of the two, although he had doubts in his heart, he still didn't show it.
Tang Yanqing and Tang Gaoming glanced at each other, and then bowed to Jia Nian: "Yes"
After speaking, he took a step forward and continued to walk towards the thatched huts in front of him.
At the beginning of the three thatched houses, eight of the ten people were old and weak women and children, and fortunately they became Sun Ce's mortal enemies. It seems that he is going through the difficulty of hell, and he doesn't know what happened to Guo Dapang.
Come on, it's better to turn around, people can't be scared to death by themselves.
Walking slowly to the front, after looking around at the farmland on the left and right, Jia Nian looked up at the sky with a sad face. From where Guo Dapang learned that entering the dungeon was a very rare opportunity. Now that I've come here, I can't go back in disgrace, and I don't know where I am. Now that you have crossed over, now that you have a plug-in, wouldn't it be too much of a loss if you don't do a good job?
"Stomp Pedal Pedal
The sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of this place, Tang Xingfan threw away the hoe in his hand and ran towards Jia Nian from the farmland with a puff of smoke.
Looking at his vigorous appearance, Jia Nian was a little skeptical that he was a young man disguised as an old man.
"The village elder is not good, the Chaohu water thief is coming" Tang Xingfan shouted at Jia Nian, and then went straight to his thatched house.
When Jia Nian heard the warning, he was still a little moved. It can be seen that Tang Xingfan ran wildly towards the thatched house, and he couldn't help sweating profusely. It took a long time to inform myself, just by the way.
"Who is Changhe Village, village chief" A burly water thief with a big knife on his back grabbed the war horse and said loudly, but his eyes were directly at Jia Nian.
Looking at that sharp gaze, Jia Nian took a step forward: "I am"
"The big boss has an order that Changhe Village will hand over one gold coin every year, and the time is about to expire. Please go to Baifan Water Village within three days to hand it in. Otherwise, in three days, this place will be razed to the ground," the water thief said loudly to Jia Nian.
Jia Nian couldn't help but be stunned: "Turn in a gold coin three days later?" ”
"Does the village chief have any objections?" The water thief sat on horseback and said to Jia Nian menacingly.
Jia Nian shook his head quickly, seeing that the water thief's posture was so big that he didn't agree with him, he took the knife out of the sheath: "No, there is no objection at all."
"Farewell" The water thief pulled the reins and galloped in the direction of the coming. He is not afraid of Changhe Village's debts, so he has no fear.
Looking at the back of the water thief, Jia Nian showed a puzzled look, he couldn't imagine that even the water thief knew to cut leeks and collect protection money now.
Just as Jia Nian was thinking wildly, the sound of the door opening came, followed by worries and discussions.
"Hey, life is getting worse and worse now, and the county government is not going to be blackmailed by water thieves. With the addition of natural disasters, I think this village is going to be finished."
"If you want me to say it's better to get out of here, lest it be so difficult"
"Leave? Where can you go if you leave? ”
"Well, who's to say it's not? In the past, our village was also a big village, with hundreds of people up and down. As a result, the yellow turbans looted ten rooms and nine emptiness, and there were frequent robberies by Chaohu water thieves, so now there are only a few of us."
"water thieves, this is completely unusable to live"
"One gold, that's ten thousand coins, ten thousand copper coins. It must be known that one acre of land is only about four stones of grain, and one stone of grain is only four hundred yuan."
"Our two families, even if we are frugal, we can't save food worth a gold."
Listening to these discussions, Jia Nian subconsciously asked them: "Do we only have the income of farming?" ”
The voice of discussion suddenly fell silent, and ten pairs of eyes looked at each other at the same time, one by one, falling into deep thought.
Just as he was pondering, a child couldn't help but say to Jia Nian: "We sometimes fish with our mother, is this considered an income?" It's just that the fish are eaten by ourselves and never sold."
"Listen to grandpa, the merchants in the county are all black-hearted businessmen, and we would rather eat them ourselves than sell them," another child said to Jia Nian.
Hearing the word businessman, I gradually had an idea in my heart that maybe I could find a way out by going around the county seat.