Village Chief Lu Li couldn't accompany Lu Xi to the whole village, and just at the beginning of his walk, a villager suddenly came over and asked him to deal with some things that had just happened in the village.

As the head of a village with a population of several thousand, and being so trusted by the villagers, it is indeed unlikely that the village chief of Luli will be idle.

Of course, Lu Xi will not force the village chief of Luli to guide her, anyway, any person in Kuwa Village can do the things that lead the way, and the village chief of Luli is not irreplaceable.

The village chief of Luli did not hesitate, and directly called his son Ayina over, compared to the other villagers of Kuwa Village, who was ignorant and ignorant, Ayina, who grew up beside him since childhood, is very exciting in dealing with people, which is more reassuring.

Although, Aina's personality may be a little out of the box, and she talks a little more...... Well, a little.

In a way, Lu Xi thinks that Ayina is a more suitable tour guide than the village chief of Luli.

Because Ayina really likes to talk so much, he doesn't need Lu Xi to respond much, he can say a lot of things by himself, and say everything Lu Xi wants to hear and what he doesn't want to hear.

It completely saves Lu Xi's effort to test and probe.

"Hello Miss Lucy, we're meeting again, but it doesn't seem like it's been long, hahaha. Seriously, Miss Lucy, you look much better in this dress than Sister Aina, she is always so fierce, not gentle at all, and I don't know who dares to marry her home. ”

After the village chief Luli left, Ayina seemed to release her nature, and her mouth was opened and never closed.

Lu Xi: "Hello ......"

"Miss Lucy, would you like to walk around our village? Then look for me, I am the most familiar person with this village, I know how many stones there are, Miss Lucy, do you have a place you want to see? I like Uncle Mai's house the most, he has a lot of things made of wood, and they are very interesting! There's also Old Kert's Tavern, which has a McTon who loves to tell stories, and the stories he tells are very interesting! Ayina danced with her hands, trying to express the whole scene with her movements.

Lu Xi: "...... Just take a look. ”

"Hey, Miss Lucy, the book you are holding in your hand is so familiar, Miss Lucy, you look here, the cover is a trace left by me, my father used this book to teach me to read when I was a child, and now I can still memorize the story in it, but now it has been handed over to my sister, she likes this book quite much, and I don't know if she can't see this book today, will she cry." Ayina circled around Luxi, and her bright and sunny smile simply made people feel bad.

Lu Xi: "Huh? Sorry......"

"It's okay Miss Lucy, my sister is only a little over a year old now, and she can't read yet, it's just that my father likes to use this book to put her to sleep, but I think my sister actually prefers Mirogo, but her teeth haven't grown together, and my father doesn't let us feed her all the time, Miss Lucy, do you have any younger siblings?" I think my sister is really noisy, but she's very cute, so I can bear with it a little bit, and I hope she grows up soon, but not like Sister Aina when she grows up. "Ayina is like a thousand ducks quacking around Lu Xi.

Lu Xi: "No ......"

Oops, I seem to see the horn become a sperm.

Not jokingly, Lu Xi felt that he was like a joker now, and there was only "uh-huh, this is" left in his mouth, and he was still short of saying "you" before he could leave the curtain call.

Under Aina's "introduction", Lu Xi dizzily wrote down the route of most of the village, and finally ended this "wandering" before the night came.

Standing in Aunt Asuna's courtyard, looking at Ayina's brisk figure when she left, Lu Xi closed her eyes, she didn't feel so tired when she was chased by a lion.

Fortunately, she did learn a lot from Ayina's mouth.

Kuwa Village was only a small village of one or two hundred people at the beginning, and it was far poorer than it is now, or the current life is very happy and beautiful for the villagers of Kuwa Village.

Because of some things, the village chief of Luli did not continue to serve as a trainee knight of a certain nobleman, but returned to Kuwa Village with the identity of a low-level elemental warrior and assumed the position of village chief.

What the hell is, Ayina didn't say, it should be that he doesn't know, otherwise his mouth can't help but say it.

With the low-level elemental warrior of the village chief Luli, the security of Kuva Village has greatly increased, although a dozen adult males can deal with a low-level monster, but most of the time, the low-level monster will not wait for anyone to gather before attacking.

Every time a low-level monster appears, at least a few people will be killed or injured in the village, but with Lu Li, the village chief is different, as a low-level elemental warrior, he can sense the breath of low-level monsters, and often before the low-level monsters approach the village, he can organize the villagers to deal with it.

After coming and going, the other small villages next to it heard about it, and they all moved over and merged into Kuwa Village, after all, everyone wants to live in a safe place.

The village chief of Luli did not refuse to come, and slowly integrated more than a dozen small villages around him, turning Kuwa Village into its current scale.

Of course, Chief Luli did much more than that, using his knowledge as a trainee knight to help the villagers earn more property.

For example, teaching the villagers to grow a crop that the nobles liked to eat, although the price of planting it and selling it to the town of Viguli would be reduced by more than half, but even that small part of the remuneration was enough for the villagers to live a well-fed and clothed life, without having to go hungry anymore.

Lu Xi's face was puzzled, judging by the historical knowledge she had learned on the earth, the relationship between nobles and commoners should not be free enough for commoners to sell the crops they grew at will.

Rather, the commoners had to depend on the nobility in order to live, because the land they planted belonged to the nobility in name, and they were only farming for the nobles, and then handed over seven-tenths of the grain every year, and the rest belonged to the commoners themselves.

The remaining part of the food is often not enough for the common family to eat, and most of them are in a state of starvation and two meals, otherwise they will not live at all, and when there is no food at all, there is only one way to live by selling themselves to the nobles and becoming slaves.

Ayina noticed the change in Lu Xi's expression almost immediately, and turned to explain to Lu Xi, but his views were too trivial and one-sided, and Lu Xi had to re-analyze it with his own understanding in order to understand what he said.

In this world, because of the existence of monsters, the method of dealing with civilians is completely different from that of the earth.

The land encircled by the nobles on the earth is safe, and the commoners will stay in one place to live stably, passed down from generation to generation, and will not leave unless there is a major change, so the nobles can continue to squeeze those commoners.

Except for those cities with large walls, defensive barriers, and elemental warriors, there is no safe place, and even those cities cannot guarantee absolute safety.

Even if the land is divided into the belonging of a nobleman, the commoners living here may all be relocated at any time due to a monster tide, and the farmland planted can only be abandoned.

It is impossible for the nobles to send people to chase these commoners, just to collect a few catties of grain in their hands.

So in the other world, the nobles adopted another method - collecting "protection fees", they no longer demarcated the land, but clarified the ownership of the town.

Monster tides are usually triggered by mid-level monsters, and the highest threat will not exceed that of mid-level monsters, and any regular town can defend against them.

Moreover, the monster tide can be perceived several days in advance, and it is completely possible to notify the villages around the town in advance, so that civilians can temporarily come to the town for refuge, and then return to their own villages when the monster tide subsides.

There is no need to run after these civilians, you just need to let each town record the surrounding villages, and let the villages take the initiative to send "taxes" every year, and there is no need to even pay them compulsorily, even if you don't pay them, there is no problem.

Because the tax is based on the number of people, regardless of gender, old and young, only the number of people is recorded, if there are 200 villagers in Kuwa Village, but only 100 people are taxed, then when the tide of monsters comes, only 100 villagers can enter the town.

Then the remaining hundred villagers can only wait for death? Of course not, as long as they can pay double the tax for a temporary "catch-up", they can also take refuge in the town.

The nobles didn't care about the life and death of these commoners, but they expected that none of those villages would pay taxes and become "wild villages", but when the tide of monsters came, they would hand over their entire net worth in exchange for a chance to live.

Lu Xi didn't know how to evaluate it after hearing this, it was not so much that these nobles were "aristocrats", but that they were more like "capitalists", who seemed to have a little humanity, but only for more thorough exploitation.

Most civilians only grow crops that will not be destroyed by monsters, because they don't know how to grow other crops, and they don't have the means to buy seeds.

The role of a trainee knight as the head of Luli solves both of these problems, so the villagers of Kuwa can grow more crops to improve their lives.

The village chief of Luli even trained two trainee elemental warriors and sent them to the town of Viguli to become part of the patrol, completely changing their fate.

When Lu Xi heard this, he understood why the villagers of Kuwa Village respected Lu Li so much, his behavior can be said to be a "saint", he has single-handedly changed the lives of thousands of people, and is still working hard.

At first, Lu Xi didn't react to what was "different" about the villagers she saw.

She came from the earth, where she had been out of poverty for a long time, and the poorest places she had ever seen were just rural bungalows and open-air dry toilets, and the living environment was not as exquisite as in the city, but there was more food than in the city, and she could pick it in the yard.

But the other world is different, and the people here are not only exploited by the aristocracy, but also live in danger all the time.

But along the way, none of the villagers in Kuwa Village that Lu Xi saw were yellow-faced and thin, and the houses they lived in were at worst tightly sheltered from the wind and rain.

Ayina said that his father was preparing money to build a town, and if he could turn Kuwa Village into Kuwa Town, they would not need to run to Viguri Town, dozens of kilometers away, to take refuge in the monster tide, and they would be able to accept more people from villages who could not afford to pay taxes, and they would not collect taxes.

Lu Xi believed that the idea of the village chief Lu Li was serious, but this beautiful vision was so far away.

"Miss Lucy, you're back, and dinner is ready." Aunt Asuna breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward to meet Lu Xi, at this time the sky was completely dark, and she could only rely on the moonlight for lighting.

Lu Xi glanced at the kitchen with firelight, the pot inside was still burning, I am afraid that it was not just cooked, but it had already been heated several times, but Lu Xi wanted to inquire about the news, and did not plan to come back so early, Aunt Asuna did not dare to take the initiative to call Lu Xi back, so she could only heat the rice again and again.

Lu Xi thought that she would smuggle Xiao Yuan in later, and she would definitely not let Xiao Yuan go hungry, so she asked Aunt Asuna to help her bring the food to her room, so that no one knew who ate it.

She still had the two fairy tale books and story books given by the village chief of Luli in her hand, and she was a little worried that it would be difficult to return the dirty books, so she didn't take the initiative to help.

Of course, it is impossible for Aunt Asuna to let Lu Xi do anything by herself, she can't wait to give Lu Xi up.

"I don't have much appetite right now, let's put it on the table first, I'll take the bowl when I'm done."

With the dim light of the oil lamp, looking at the four dishes and one soup on the table, Lu Xi felt that he was a little embarrassed for Aunt Arsuna, I am afraid that they themselves have not eaten so well.

The four dishes are a plate of roasted birds, which originated from the ones Lu Xi brought himself, probably not much of this kind of prey, Aunt Asuna chose the simplest fire roast, but it should be coated with some seasonings, and the color of the roast is completely different from Lu Xi's roast.

A plate of black bread, if you want to find a piece of white bread in a commoner's village, it is better to think about finding a piece of gold, the latter is obviously more practical, but this black bread is not much black, and there are very few miscellaneous things, it should be carefully selected food.

A plate of wild vegetable stew, meat and vegetables Lu Xi didn't know, anyway, it wasn't the ones she ate along the way, and there was a plate of fruits, Lu Xi hadn't seen them, but it was a bit like the Miro fruit that Ayina said, they were all good things.

The soup was supposed to be beet soup, and a few red fruits were placed in the milky white soup, and a sweet smell came out of the air.

Xiao Yuan should like this taste, Lu Xi thought so, and made an excuse to break up Aunt Asuna.

Aunt Asuna didn't doubt it, just a flattering smile, "How can you trouble Miss Lucy to send it over personally, when will you finish eating, shout, and I'll come and pick it up." ”

Lu Xi didn't insist anymore, anyway, she would send it back when she was done eating, and it was impossible for Aunt Asuna to suddenly come out and stop her.

It was still early, and at this time, most of the villagers in Kuwa Village had just rested and had not yet fallen asleep completely, so Lu Xi felt that it would be safer to wait for a while and then go to pick up Xiaoyuan.

Just when there was nothing to do, Lu Xi lit up the light of the oil lamp on the table and opened the two books sent by the village chief Luli to see if he could get any information.