Outside the west gate of Pengcheng, downstairs of the deep city gate, Mao Ya held an old mule in one hand and a blood-stained long knife in the other, protecting her young brother on the mule's back, and lined up carefully outside the city gate.

Yes, they are in the queue waiting to be inspected and released into the city.

Mao Tou licked his cracked lips. Sitting on the old mule, he was high enough. He looked at the long queue in front of him. He couldn't help but look sideways to his side. His whole body was tense and he was always ready. His eyes

A sister who is sharp and has a fierce attitude like a wolf cub who is always on guard against everyone.

"Sister, tell me, is it really possible that Sister Xiaoqi and Big Brother are in this city?".

Hearing her brother's inquiry, Mao Ya glared hard at the few thin men beside the team who cast malicious looks at their siblings. She tightened the long knife in her hand and waved it in the air.

Waving a warning, he turned to look at his brother on the back of the mule, his voice gentle and soothing.

"Don't worry Mao Tou, Sister Xiaoqi and Big Brother are definitely in the city, and we will definitely find them! Don't be afraid!"

"But, sister...".

"Stop it, Mao Tou, you have to trust me. I won't lie to you! Have you forgotten that we searched for so long at the bottom of the cliff, but we couldn't even find a piece of sister Xiaoqi's clothes? Xiaoqi.

Sister Qi and Big Brother are so powerful and have such high martial arts skills. It’s just a small cliff, they will definitely be fine!”.

She and her brother spent a whole day searching the bottom of the cliff, but found no people or corpses, which proved that her benefactors were still alive.

Having said that, the young Maotou was still confused and worried.

"But sister, even if sister Xiaoqi and eldest brother are still alive, how do you know that they will definitely come to this city you mentioned?" He was still doubtful because he was afraid that he would not be able to find his benefactor.

Mao Ya looked at her anxious and troubled brother, she smiled, and comforted her brother calmly and gently.

"Don't worry Mao Tou. Have you forgotten? Sister Xiaoqi told us on the way here that their destination is Pengcheng. Since we can't find anyone under the cliff, they are naturally here.

From Pengcheng! Don’t worry, when I lead you into the city, I will take you to find Sister Xiaoqi and Big Brother, and you will definitely find them!”

"Well, that's okay." Seeing his sister's affirmation, although Mao Tou's heart was still full of doubts and uncertainties, he still chose to believe his sister.

He nodded, feeling a little relieved. Since he was sitting high up, he could see far away. When he looked around, he naturally saw those people with malicious intentions on the side of the team.

Seeing this, the little guy was nervous and involuntarily hugged the long sword with the scabbard in his arms tightly. He secretly swore in his heart that if any bad guys dared to bully them without being wise, he would chop them to death with a knife.

The two siblings look fierce, and they still hold weapons in their hands. Although there are no adults around them, they still have a mule to travel around. Everyone knows that this kind of existence is definitely not ordinary, and they are not easy to mess with.

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This is the most fundamental reason why the refugees who have gathered outside the city and are not allowed to enter the city are coveting it, but they have been in the wait-and-see stage and have not dared to make up their minds to take action.

Since they didn't take action, Mao Ya and Mao Tou weren't too scared. They just kept being cautious and moved slowly along with the long team entering the city.

When it was finally their turn, Mao Tou shrewdly saw that at the end of the queue at the front, at the guardrail at the city gate, those who entered not only had to check their household registration, but also had to pay money.

Maotou, whose eyes were dazzled by the flashing light of the silver, hurriedly bent down and lowered his voice to talk to his sister.

"Sister, I saw it. If you want to go to the city, you not only need the household registration you mentioned, but you also need to pay money."

Mao Ya smiled and raised her hand to rub her brother's head, "Don't be afraid, Mao Tou. Our family's household registration was given to my sister when my parents left. She hid it well! As for the money..."

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Don’t be afraid of this!

Although the family was poor and became even poorer after escaping from famine, when his parents left, apart from leaving him a younger brother, a household registration, and a head of household talisman, they didn't even leave any coins to their siblings.

But it was okay, she went out to meet noble people, and luckily met her benefactor, Sister Xiaoqi. That night, God got angry and killed the bad guys, so she led her brother to touch the corpses and got a fortune.

Although the money was not much, I thought it would be enough for them to go to the city.

Mao Ya cast her eyes on the baggage carried by the mule behind her brother. There were a lot of silver coins there. She even found two small ingots from the bad guy who had stuck her brother's neck!

Enough!

Mao Tou received his sister's assurance, and the little guy breathed a sigh of relief. He held his knife safely and sat on the mule waiting to enter the city.

Not long after, it was the turn of the siblings.

Because this place was recaptured by Southern Guizhou, facing its own people, the sergeants guarding Pengcheng did not have bad intentions. The fee to enter the city was not high, one tael of silver per person, and they must have household registration. The household registrations of Beixin and Nanqian were equal.

However, even if you hold the household registration of the former Guizhou Province, it will not work.

The reason for doing this, and the reason for charging a tael for entering the city, is not to enrich one's own pockets.

There are really too many refugees outside the city, and more and more people have gathered recently.

With so many people, no one can guarantee whether there are any spies of the enemy or people who want to cause trouble among them.

And if you can't even pay a tael of silver, you won't be able to survive in the city, because the price of rice in the city is dozens of times higher than before!

In this way, instead of squeezing into the city, people with no financial resources and no household registration would be better off staying outside the city. At least the officials in charge of Pengcheng are quite kind now, and they still distribute gruel outside the city gates in all directions once a day.

, although it can't fill the stomach, it can still hang on one's life, which is better than letting a large number of refugees into the city and disrupting the public sentiment and public order in the city.

After checking the household registration, the school captain who guarded the city saw that Mao Ya and Mao Tou were two small children with no adult to look after them. While he admired them in his heart, he was also kind-hearted. The two children were charged an adult's fee. Mao Ya

After handing over a tael of silver, the soldiers let him go.

As for the weapons, the kind-hearted young captain stared at them again and again, but finally did not confiscate them because of their young age.

The young general in charge of the school said in his heart that there were only two knives, and they belonged to the children. Now that the world is in chaos, he should leave them to the children to save their lives.

But how did they know that these two siblings had several weapons hidden on the back of the mule?

It was only said that Mao Ya thanked the young general with a thousand thanks, took the old mule, thinking about the look in the captain's eyes just now, subconsciously clenched the knife in his hand, walked through the wooden barbed fence, and passed through two rows of handheld
Chapter completed!