Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

In fact, she had traveled all over the world, and had the experience of traveling to the ends of the earth with a sword. Otherwise, she would not have accidentally met Lu Chen and others who were out for training, so she naturally had an understanding of what an ordinary village was like.

The Yongping Village in front of her was several times more dilapidated than the poorest village in her memory.

Is it really possible to live in a place like this?

Fu Hua slowly closed her eyes, and the spiritual power in her body spread rapidly to the surroundings.In just a few breaths, he figured out the situation of the creatures here.

"There are now more than 200 villagers in the village."

She sensed it while reporting the information to Lu Chen.

"These people are all ordinary people, there are no cultivators, and the fire spiritual power and earth spiritual power here are extremely strong, and a restless breath can be clearly felt in the soil. It seems that charcoal has a great impact on the land here, so The land...it is basically impossible to grow food within a radius of ten miles."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel a little confused.

“Can’t you grow food at all?”

"Ah."

Fu Hua nodded and slowly opened her eyes.

"As far as I know, wherever the spiritual power of fire and the spiritual power of earth merge, it is a dead place. No grass will grow. Not only is it worthless, but it will also erode the vitality of people with incompatible attributes. If they stay here for a long time, they will even die. There is fear for one’s life.”

"If so."

Lu Chen's brows suddenly furrowed even deeper.

"Then why are there villagers here?"

Fu Hua shook her head, and then looked at Gu Simiao, who was standing on the other side of Lu Chen with the same frown.

"This...I don't know."

She took a deep look at Gu Simiao and then said: "I only know that the aura of the people here is very weak, much weaker than that of normal people. It is probably affected by the harsh environment here, and their aura... is very weak , it doesn’t feel like I have lived here for a long time.”

"Besides, we three strangers have been here for a while, and the village chief doesn't even have a figure. It's a bit strange..."

Gu Simiao has been famous for a long time, and her strength is naturally much stronger than Fu Huan, who has just broken through to the Guiyi Realm. She will naturally not be unaware of what Fu Huan is aware of.

After a moment of silence, she suddenly turned her head and looked at a slightly larger farmhouse not far away.

"Huaiyu, come with me."

With that said, she directly lifted her steps and walked towards the farmhouse.

Lu Chen did not refuse and followed her while thinking.

Although Fu Huan was not called, she followed him consciously.

click...

Soon, the three of them arrived at the gate of the farmhouse.

Lu Chen was about to speak and ask the owner inside to open the door, but Gu Simiao directly stretched out his hand, pushed open the courtyard door, and walked in.

"No one will come out and open the door."

As they walked, Gu Simiao said without looking back:

"Although there is someone inside, her aura is extremely weak, so weak that it is almost undetectable."

Hearing this, Lu Chen was slightly startled.

So weak that you can barely feel the breath?

Aren't you about to die?

In just a moment, he reacted.

"not good!"

His eyes suddenly focused, and his steps suddenly quickened.

However, just when he was about to rush forward, Gu Simiao, who seemed to be taking a leisurely stroll, somehow took only one step, but the moment she landed, she stood at the door of the farmhouse, directly Pushed open the door.

Bang!

The door that had been corroded into shape fell down immediately.

The loud movement soon attracted the attention of people around him.

"what happened?"

A thin old man opened the door and walked out with weak steps on crutches.

"Where's the movement?"

"father."

Seeing the old man coming out, a woman wearing shabby linen clothes who was cleaning the yard trotted over quickly.

Seeing that although the old man was trembling, he was standing still, he was relieved.

"Damn it, where did the noise come from just now?"

The woman who was called a bitch girl was stunned for a moment, and then she suddenly came to her senses.

"oops!"

Her expression suddenly changed, and then she turned her head and looked in the direction of Lu Chen and others.

"It seems to be Old Man Chu's daughter's house!"

Hearing this, the old man was shocked.

"What? Is it from Bao'er's girl's house?! No!"

As he said that, he took a big step forward and wanted to rush over quickly.

"We have to get there quickly!"

"what?"

Seeing the anxious expression on her father's face, the woman suddenly panicked.

"Dad, please stay at home and I'll be there right away."

"No! I have to go and see for myself."

The old man said stubbornly.

"Chu Zhan has helped us a lot these days, we have to be grateful, and now the men of the Chu family are taking everyone to the county town to beg for food for us, leaving the Chu family girl alone at home. If anything happens to Bao'er girl, we will How to explain to Mr. Chu and Zhan?!"

"I won't be at ease if I don't go over and take a look in person!"

The woman couldn't resist her father-in-law, so she had no choice but to nod in agreement, then supported him and hurried out, heading towards the farmhouse where Lu Chen and the others were.

Naturally, the old man is not the only one who has this idea.

The moment there was movement at Chu Zhan's house, almost all the villagers who were aware of it ran out in a hurry. They endured their physical discomfort and hurried to Chu Zhan's house.

Soon, more than a dozen villagers came to Chu Zhan's small courtyard.

When they saw that the door of the farmhouse had fallen to the ground, everyone's hearts suddenly sank.

"Is there... a thief here?!"

Someone called out in a trembling voice.

When the others heard this, their expressions suddenly tightened, and then they all looked at the old man being supported by the woman.

"Mr. Chen...let's..."

"Don't panic!"

Before the man could finish speaking, Mr. Chen interrupted, then staggered towards the farmhouse, and said in a deep voice: "There is no grass growing in the Black Mountains, and we can't even grow food. We certainly can't feed the thieves, so please relax." That’s it.”

After hearing this, everyone immediately relaxed a little.

Then, they looked at each other, took a deep breath, and then plucked up the courage to follow Mr. Chen with clenched fists.

Chapter 210

Taihe County, county government.

Hundreds of people gathered at the gate of the county government office. They all looked at Chen Kuan, the county clerk, who was sitting at the gate of the county government office and writing something down on the desk with a pen in his hand, with a look of astonishment and horror on his face.

"What? One stone?!"

Among the crowd, Chu Zhan and Chu? father and son, who were standing closer together, stared angrily and said angrily:

"Didn't we agree before that every citizen who moved to Montenegro would get ten shi of rice and noodles from the government? Why only give us one shi?"

Someone took the lead, and others started asking questions.

"That's right! Why only one stone?"

"Where are the remaining nine stones?"

"That's Montenegro! How can we live if we are only given one stone of food?"

"That's it! One stone of grain can't even survive the summer harvest, not to mention it's so hard to find arable land in the Black Mountains. Wouldn't this make us starve to death there?"

"How can you do this!"

"..."

Facing the questioning from everyone, Chen Kuan didn't even raise his head.

"Didn't you make an announcement?"

While writing, he said: "All the mutual aid grains were placed in the vacated west warehouse. The day before yesterday, there was a sudden change in the fire spirit power near the west warehouse. It was suspected that evil spirits were causing trouble. Water broke out in the west warehouse. Most of the grain stored in the warehouse was burned. The county magistrate took the I will do my best to rescue you, so I can save more than 3000 shi of food and distribute it to you."

After a pause, he continued: "Your Excellency, you know that Black Mountain is a barren land with extremely low grain yield, and you also know that it is not easy for you, but there is no other way. As the head of a county, your Excellency, you have to consider the number of people in Taihe County." For the livelihood of thousands of households, if the grain is distributed according to the original plan, the grain from Dongcang will inevitably be used. Whether the imperial court will approve it is not said. The world is difficult now. If all the grain is given to you, before the summer harvest, the people in the county will not be able to survive. The food surplus at home is exhausted, and the official warehouse is empty, but there will be a big trouble."

Having said this, he finally slowly raised his head, looked around at everyone, and then said expressionlessly:

"It's difficult for you, it's even more difficult for the county magistrate. These are extraordinary times, so everyone should just do whatever it takes."

Hearing this, everyone immediately felt a chill in their hearts.

The official warehouse is leaking?Monsters causing trouble?

So much food was just gone?

They don't know whether this is true or false, or in other words, the truth or falsehood of this matter is simply irrelevant to them.