behind me is the earth.

Chapter 7 007. Qingcheng Town

"This is the official road, and it's the main road that runs through Qingshui County and the county town. There are more than a dozen waves of living corpses along the way!"

"This road, logically speaking, is also one of the main roads of Qingshui County, how could these refugees be allowed to become living corpses?

Does the Yamen ignore it? "

"Over the past few years, the imperial court's government orders have become more and more difficult to implement, the government soldiers are clumsy, and the regiment training in the county is mostly a cornucopia for the masters to pay for nothing.

There was a rebellion in Beiwan Province, and the situation has been unstable for the past two years. Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are higher than ours. Bandits are like scorpions. It is said that there was a flood this year, and many refugees came to our side.

The weather turned cold, more refugees starved to death on the side of the road, and the masters in the county government didn't care about their business, so there would naturally be more living corpses.

It doesn't matter if there are a small number of living corpses, if there are too many, there will be another big explosion like in previous years!

I don't know how many people will die by then! "

When approaching Qingcheng Town, I passed a Xiaowang Village.

This Xiaowang Village is much bigger than Liujia Village. There are more than 500 people in the village. Because it is close to Liujia Village, the relationship between the two villages is also good, and many families are related by marriage.

Like Wang Qiqi in the motorcade, her natal family is from Xiaowang Village.

Xiaowang Village is not far from the official road, so a tea shed was set up on the side of the road outside the village, and this tea shop opened.

The convoy passed by here, so they naturally rested here.

Because it is close to the main road, when a group of people from Liujia Village came here, there were still two distinct groups of people in the tea shop.

A group of people were dressed in black outfits, each of them seemed to be strong enough, and each of them was holding a sword. No matter their posture or momentum, they were completely different from the colorful villagers in the village.

The other group of people wore mixed clothes, but they were much better than the people in the village. There were also a few people with swords in the team, who looked like some merchants.

Ren Pingsheng looked at the flames in the furnace and jumped into the boiling pot. The pot lid was opened, and the boiling water of the "Hush" howling was made, and the "snoring" sounded on the stove.

His attention was not on the stove, but while drinking tea, he listened to the conversation of these people.

Listening to their talks and insights, they are much better than Village Chief Liu.

"Government orders are difficult to pass, government soldiers are insufficient, regiment training is empty, excessive taxes are imposed, rebellions are everywhere, the poison of living corpses spreads more, and the efficiency of the government office is still low. No matter how you look at it, the world is not peaceful, and this dynasty is also in troubled times."

Ren Pingsheng couldn't help thinking: "The more turbulent the current situation is, the less the rules will be revealed, and the more common people will have to endure those powerful tyrants. If I want to gain a foothold in this world, I must withstand this darkness." The test of the jungle will do."

After bidding farewell to Xiaowangzhuang, and walking for less than half an hour, the outline of Qingcheng Town was already in sight.

Different from the adobe city wall of Liujia Village, Qingcheng Town is not only large, but also the base is made of stone strips quarried in the mountains, and the outer wall is made of authentic fired green bricks.

It is said that the inside is still adobe, but it is also mixed with glutinous rice, lime, etc., and it is compacted layer by layer. The brick wall is 12 meters high, and it looks quite imposing from a distance.

Such a city wall can give people a strong sense of security just by looking at it.

It is almost impossible for living corpses to conquer such a city from the outside.

"Qingcheng Town was originally the old county seat of Qingshui County. Later, because of the flood in the rainy season, this Qingcheng Town was easily flooded because of its low terrain, so the county seat was moved to the current Qingshui County.

Although it has become Qingcheng Town now, the city wall is still preserved.

Moreover, Qingshui County is a large county, and Qingcheng Town is an old county seat. Compared with other counties, its size is not small in terms of city size and population. "

Liu Shu and Ren Pingsheng introduced the city in front of them.

When he walked outside the city, Ren Pingsheng found some refugees gathered outside the east gate of the city.

At a glance, there should be hundreds of people.

There are guards holding whips, driving these people to line up, and at the front of the line, there are more than a dozen guards, holding an iron pot, cooking vegetable leaf porridge with clear soup and little water.

Outside the east gate, there were guards blocking the way of Ren Pingsheng and his party.

"Isolate everything for two hours, and enter the city after two hours!"

The guards violently drove Liu Qiang and the others to the open space on the side of the east gate of the city.

There is a row of small wooden houses outside the city gate, but those are for wealthy people with some status and money. Liujia Village has no money, so naturally there is no treatment for entering the house.They could only hold out their hands one by one and stand in the cold wind to suffer from the cold.

"Fuck it! These grandchildren!"

The sixth child couldn't help cursing in a low voice.

"Master, isn't it possible to enter the city in one hour in the past? Why do we need two hours today? If we are quarantined for two hours, it will be dark when we leave the city..."

Liu Qiang laughed along, and said to the guard who drove them away.

"Have you seen us in the past? Damn it, it's not those refugees who prevented us from drinking tea in the county government and were sent here to Qingcheng Town!
Don't think I'm embarrassing you, this is the master's order, you either stay here for two hours honestly, or turn around and go back. "

After the officer finished speaking, he went back to the doorway at the East City Gate to escape the cold wind with his waist knife in his hand.

"Brother Qiangzi, what should we do?"

"If you really wait for two hours, maybe the big fair is gone, so what else are we selling!"

"When we go back at night, if we encounter a living corpse on the road, we can't see what to do! How about we go back?"

In the team, everyone was anxious like ants on a hot pan.

Liu Qiang looked up at the sun in the sky, the sky was blue and white, and the sun shone on his body, but he couldn't feel any heat.

He gritted his teeth: "Persevere, if you don't sell this leather, where will you raise money when the tax collector comes to collect taxes later in the month?
If we don't have enough money, how many people can we get to do hard labor? "

"Oh, I really can't live through this day!"

There was a sigh in the team.

"The outbreak of the poison of the living corpse is obviously only one hour at the longest, but the county government made the quarantine for two hours, what's the matter!
Isn't this one size fits all! "

"Forget it, it's useless to talk more, it's better not to say it, and be careful that the misfortune comes out of your mouth."

In the isolation area, besides the people from Liujia Village, there are quite a few people, all of them also showed bitterness and whispered.

Ren Pingsheng did not participate in these people's emotional discussions. He walked to the edge of the quarantine area and looked at the refugees walking numbly like living corpses in the distance.

Occasionally, some refugees fell down, and the guards went forward to sniff their noses. Some were lifted aside to rest and feed porridge, and some were cut off with a knife and carried to a distant firewood pile.

The refugees who received the porridge over there were immediately driven away by the guards with whips, and drove them away from the east gate, allowing them to continue on the road to find their own way of life.

"In the past, people lived outside the city. Since the outbreak of living corpses seven years ago, no one lived outside the city. Our family used to live outside the east gate. At that time, there was a moat outside."

Looking at these refugees, a white-faced man in a T-shirt sighed with emotion.

"Brother is a merchant?"

Ren Pingsheng had some impressions of this white-faced man. He had seen him at a tea stall before, and when he heard his speech, he was well-organized and insightful.

"The business is not big, just wandering around in various towns in Qingshui County, I dare not go outside, there are soldiers, bandits, and living corpses.

I am Lu Junyi, a native of Qingcheng. "

The white-faced man looked quite talkative, and he cupped his hands at Ren Pingsheng and said.

"Ren Pingsheng, a member of the Liu Family Village."

Ren Pingsheng arched his hands.

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