Cui Xiuning was chewing wheat, and from the perspective of her eyes, she found a pair of bright and narrow eyes looking at her, as if she was still licking her tongue. When she turned around, she felt that the furry mother beast was particularly pitiful.

Cui Xiuning didn't dare to look at it anymore, and she felt that the wheat was no longer sweet.

"Looking at how it looks, I really know how to eat wheat."

"It's snowing now, and even mice are hiding. The village has very few poultry. It is difficult to move with its cubs, so it cannot go out to find food." Li Luo finished eating the wheat and began to peel bamboo tubes.

"I want to give it a handful of wheat." Cui Xiuning frowned.

"You are a woman, and you are soft-hearted. But if you really can't save it, you will still starve to death. Just like the people in this village."

"Will anyone starve to death?"

"Yes. Today is the third day of the twelfth lunar month, and many villagers are almost out of food. It may be difficult to survive until the spring next year."

"I'll save some food for this amount of wheat and I'll eat it for three days. I decided to dig some wild vegetables in the wild tomorrow. I'll eat it for a few more days."

"Forget it. With such thick snow, where do you go to dig wild vegetables? You have to wait until the snow melts. Besides, you don't know Korean, and you don't understand ancient Korean. You can't even communicate when you go out."

"Will the government provide relief?"

"The government has issued a notice on the people's peace, saying that the neighbors should support each other and overcome difficulties together, and that they did not provide food and relief."

"The shitty government took away the food of the people, no matter who starved to death."

"This topic is boring, so I won't talk about it. Today, Boss Song told me that within a few days, there should be a village official coming to the door to apply for our household registration and settlement."

"Why is it so easy to settle down? I thought it was a big deal."

"In recent years, Goryeo has suffered a lot of losses in the population. I wish that foreign populations can settle down and bear taxes and labor service. One more family, one more person will be exploited."

"Where do we have the money and grain to pay taxes now? The village is here, will we still have to collect this time?"

"Old Song said that it must be paid. We have no land and do not have to pay agricultural tax, but we have to pay verbal tax and Eastern tax."

"This... it's hard for us to eat now, so where can we pay taxes! How much do we have to pay?"

"The verbal tax is 300 cents per person, and the eastern tax is calculated based on the land acre and household registration, and each person will add about 200 cents."

“That is, we need to pay taxes for the entire time?”

"Yes."

"What are the consequences if you don't give it?"

"If you have property, you will confiscate your property; if you have no property, you will arrest someone."

"In jail?"

"No. It's just to be arrested to serve labor and pay taxes. Men are civilians and women work in the official style bureau, and many people will be exhausted to death."

"Then let's run... forget it, where can we run like this?"

"We won't run away forever. It's just that time is a little tight, and I can't find a suitable buyer for the belt for the time being."

"What's your solution?"

"There is no good idea at the moment. You have also seen this place. The residents are too poor and there is no water in the river, so it is natural that we can't find money."

"Didn't you understand some of the situation today? Tell me about it."

"Okay. Although Jianghua Island is less than half a county in China, because Jianghua Island has been the capital of Goryeo for 40 years, its administrative level is a county and has a population of nearly 100,000.

There are hundreds of villages like Modongzhai on the island. The most prosperous one is Jianghua Mountain City, which was also the palace of the past. Now there is a county magistrate. Old Song said that Jianghua Mountain City has a population of more than 10,000, and there are also many rich people."

"Then we can try our luck in Jianghua Mountain City. If only we can sell the belt."

"The tax on entering the city is charged for 50 yuan per person, and the tax on two people is 100 yuan."

"I'll go, this requires money? Is there any reason?"

"In fact, it's more than 100 people. We are on the south of the island and the mountain city is on the north of the island. We have to walk more than 50 miles, and we have to travel more than a hundred miles back and forth."

"I understand. I will definitely not be able to come back that day. I have to stay in a hotel and ask for money. Besides, we do not support the energy of walking 100 miles of food. It seems that we cannot go without half a pile of money."

"We only have three cents and can only stay in this Modong Village for the time being."

"What about Modongzhai?"

"There are more than 100 families and more than 600 people in Modong Village. In addition to the Goryeo, there are also several Jurchens and several Han families, all from China. Among them, there are only a dozen families with wealthy families. The original Pu family was a truly rich landlord, but unfortunately they were wiped out."

"That is, if you want to find money, you can only make your own ideas on wealthy people?"

"Police, you're broken."

"Fuck, did I say to do bad things?"

"Okay. Actually, the richest one in the four villages near Mount Mani is the Liu family. But the Liu family is a land tiger, which is difficult to deal with. If one is not good, we will shout that the sky will not respond, and the earth will not work."

"Hmph, they are just local tyrants and evil gentry, bully and landlords, they should be revolutionized and defeated."

"Local and evil gentry? I heard that although the Liu family is just a branch of the Liu family in Zhenzhou, it occupies tens of thousands of acres of land, several sea boats, and hundreds of private soldiers. Everyone pierces armor. Do you think it's just a bad gentry? The Liu family is simply a local emperor and one of the four major families on the island."

"Give me the bamboo tube you made, don't repair it, just drink water."

Li Luo gave her two bamboo tubes, but did not stop the knife.

"What are you doing?" Cui Xiuning took a sip of boiling water with great pleasure, "Fugitive, let's drink some water first."

"I'm making bow clips."

"For hunting?"

"How do you know?"

"When I was studying at the police academy, I introduced hunting rifles and bow clips. There were many people in the countryside, which caused many hidden dangers. The police station knew that it would be confiscated."

"Why are you a girl, why do you become a policeman? Or a detective?"

"My dad is a detective, my grandfather is... a policeman. I also like this industry. But my parents don't want my brother to be a policeman anymore, they like my brother more."

"Your grandpa is also a policeman. What does it mean? I don't understand."

"Uh, it's...secret police."

"I understand, your grandfather is a spy. Where is his?"

"Nonsense, my grandfather must be a Red spy, is he still from abroad?"

"Do you miss home?"

"What do you think?"

"Don't be too sad for women, they are prone to illness. Once they are sick, it's a big problem."

"I'm not as fragile as you think."

"I finished making the bow card, and I went to the mountain to set up the card tomorrow, and then I went to the village to try my luck, and went to the mountain early the next morning to see if I had any gains."

"Fugitive, you forgot something very important. You can't catch prey without this."

"No bait!"

"Yes. Are you willing to use wheat as bait? You may be eaten by birds."

"Just use half a liter and bet."

"It's good to have a toothbrush, it's not OK to brush your teeth."

"If we get pig hair, we will do it. We need to find a way to do it."

"Then I'll clean up the toilet at home tomorrow, otherwise it will be inconvenient to use the toilet."

"By the way, there is toilet paper... it's also a problem!"

"What do Goryeo villagers use? There is no paper, right?"

"Maybe use wood chips, an elegant toilet chip. Rich people use paper."

Cui Xiuning: "..."

Li Luo made a few bamboo pieces and found a piece of rope to make strings. A simple bow card was finally made. Half a bamboo I bought for seven cents was finally worth the money.

At night, the female fox was still sleeping on the kang and under the kang. The female fox was driven to the main house as the "head of the family", and the wheat was also hidden.

The next morning, the snow stopped and the wind stopped. A ray of sunshine shone on the snow, which seemed to be a good sign.

Li Luo took half a liter of wheat in Cui Xiuning's reluctance gaze. Then he left the courtyard and headed towards Mount Mani.
Chapter completed!