Chapter 67: A Desperate Choice
But it is not okay to leave the refugees to fend for themselves outside the city, you know, people can do anything in order to live.
Kaiyang County is just a small local county town, and the defenders of the city are not real officers and soldiers, but county officials.
The county magistrate is the smallest official, and he has no right to transfer officers and soldiers, and his subordinates can only mobilize the officials under his jurisdiction, and the maximum number of people is 100.
But there were more than 100 refugees gathered outside the city, they were just scattered, and it seemed that there were more than 1,000 people, or even more.
If someone thinks about it, like Xia Beiming and they organized to grab water before, they came to attack Kaiyang County, how long can they hold out here?
So since she came in today, she will buy everything she can buy, regardless of the money, after all, she is not short of money now.
Just thinking about it, someone in the city came in a hurry, it was the person who went to report before, behind him, followed by several people, one of whom was wearing an official uniform, Ye Lan guessed that he was the county magistrate of Kaiyang County.
A little surprised, she just went into the city to buy things, she shouldn't need the county order to greet her in person, right?
In fact, she thought too much, the county order was not for her, I saw that after he went up to the city wall, he looked at her twice and cast his eyes on the outside of the city, and then muttered to himself: "How is this good, the refugees outside the city are gathering more and more, and there is no news from the Mingzhou Mansion for a long time, and if it goes on like this, Kaiyang County will be in danger!"
No one answered him, the officials didn't, and Ye Lan didn't open his mouth in the spirit of having more than one thing is better than less.
The county commander was so anxious that he was circling around on the city wall, and when someone mentioned Ye Lan's matter, he just waved his hand and said, "Buy whatever you want, now all the shops in the city are selling goods at low prices, which is a good thing for you."
"But there's a question, how does the girl get out of the city when she buys good things? Those refugees aren't going to watch you move things away without their minds."
It really won't, Ye Lan looked at those refugees with an inexplicable look in his eyes, the once kind and simple people, as soon as they encountered difficulties, the darkest scene in his heart completely broke out.
In order to survive, they throw away their kindness, show their fangs, and aim at others and their loved ones.
Can they be blamed?
No, it's just a helpless choice to be cornered, and if she were her, she would also make a choice as a last resort. Chinese Net
Therefore, even if these people will take revenge, she can't do a killing spree, just as if they don't exist, she will turn a blind eye to their predicament.
Faced with the inquiry of the county magistrate of Kaiyang County, she only said softly, "It's okay, I can go out."
Kaiyang County Ling frowned, but he didn't say anything, he had too many things to be anxious about, and Flawless cared about the safety of a little girl.
So he said, "It's good to go out, little Liuzi, accompany her to the street to buy, and if she needs anything, you can point out to her." Bought it, let her go out the back door, there are fewer people there."
Xiao Liuzi replied, "Yes, Lord Prefectural."
Then he turned his head and made a gesture of invitation to Ye Lan, and said, "Girl, please here."
Ye Lan didn't say anything more, turned around and left with Xiao Liuzi, leaving only the county magistrate anxious about the refugees outside the city.
There is a commercial street in Kaiyang County, where there are restaurants, tea rooms, pawnshops, cloth villages, rouge gouache shops, etc.
There were only a few people on the street that should have been bustling, and they didn't stay too long, and left in a hurry after buying what they needed.
When passing by Ye Lan's side, she looked at her with some curiosity, after all, Kaiyang County hadn't seen a fresh face for a long time.
"Alas, Sixth Son, you don't go to the city tower to be on duty, what are you doing here? Who is this girl next to you? It looks like it's raw."
This person was familiar with Xiao Liuzi at a glance, and at the same time as greeting Xiao Liuzi, he didn't forget to ask Ye Lan beside him casually.
Xiao Liuzi replied, "Oh, Brother Zhang, I took this girl to the street to buy at the behest of the county magistrate. She is not from our Kaiyang County, she is not familiar with the county, now is a special period, this girl is not familiar with our Kaiyang County, and the county magistrate is also afraid that she will delay too much time in the city to find things, so I asked me to show her the way."
"Oh, that's it, then you're busy, I'll go back first, and come to my house for a drink or two when I have time."
"It's easy to say, Brother Zhang walks slowly."
The man heard that Ye Lan was not from Kaiyang County, and left after shopping, so he didn't ask too much, and only invited Xiao Liuzi to go to his house for a drink, so he left in a hurry.
Seeing that people were walking away, Xiao Liuzi turned around and said to Ye Lan, "Girl, we have arrived in the central block of Kaiyang County, you see what you want to buy, I will show you the way."
Ye Lan thought about it, she could supply the food for the villagers for the time being, after all, after the space was expanded, there was a free labor force called the big bear, and basically a stubble could be harvested every three days.
What they lack most now is farm tools, manpower and seeds are available, but the farming tools are not enough, although the villagers are hard-working, but she can't always watch them work with their bare hands, they are all flesh and blood, a day or two is OK, who can stand it after a long time.
Therefore, farming tools are a must, so he said, "Take me to buy some farming tools first, the village is urgent."
Xiao Liuzi wondered, logically speaking, if you can enter the city, shouldn't you buy a lot of food?
He had already planned to make a good argument and persuade Ye Lan to give up buying grain, after all, grain was the best-selling at such a critical moment.
Not long after the disaster, the first thing the residents of the city thought about was to store grain, so the rice shop was the first to be emptied.
Unexpectedly, Ye Lan's primary consideration was not food, but farm tools, did this girl have a problem with her brain?
It's dry outside, it's been a long time since it rained, and the farm tools have been bought, can the land be planted?
Even if you can plant it, if you don't have rain to water it after planting, you won't be able to survive that kind of seed.
So, this girl directly picked the most unpopular one, what do you think?
But if people want to buy, he is just a guide, and he can't say anything, so he can only lead the way in front, thinking that the blacksmith shop doesn't know if there is anyone at this time, if not, he can't say that he has to go to the blacksmith's house, and finally come to the door for business, he believes that the blacksmith will not fail to answer.
It turned out that Ye Lan's luck was still very good, when they came, the blacksmith shop was open, and there was a knocking sound of "ding ding dong" inside.
"Blacksmith Liu, you're here, come out quickly, there's business coming to your door."
There was a knocking sound, and then a man of about forty or forty walked out of it, with a dark face, surrounded by an apron that had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, and could not even see the color, with obvious anger in his eyes, and when he saw Xiao Liuzi, he said angrily:
"I said, Liuzi, at this time, why do you still come to me to be happy? What happened to the field? Who's going to buy farm tools if they're fine?"