473、Listen to the story
The tavern in the market town opened at noon. Ren Xiaosu returned to the market town and waited, watching the refugees get up early to work, go to the factory one by one to earn the food they have today.
It is difficult for refugees to save money, so it’s fine if they don’t make much money every day. There are also broth shops, beer, tobacco, and casinos specially prepared for them by consortiums. The Central Plains does not prohibit alcohol, as it seems that the Central Plains has relatively abundant food.
After work every day, those entertainment shops recruit business at the door. The workers who work the whole day want to reward themselves, so they spend the money they just earned again.
There is always a shop in this market town that suits your preferences.
Zhang Jinglin once said that this is a world carefully designed by the consortium, and it is not wrong at all.
Looking at the refugees coming and going, Ren Xiaosu even recalled the days when he and Yan Liuyuan were at the 113 barrier. Although that time was more difficult than now, it was particularly beautiful in memory.
So much so that he would deliberately forget some of the sufferings in that time, forget that he had never had enough food, forget that he had been excluded, and forget that he had fallen asleep with fear.
Then there is only happiness left in my memory.
Humans are optimistic.
Ren Xiaosu is a strange face to this market town, but there are a lot of people who have escaped from the northwest recently, so that everyone doesn't care about his arrival.
Those barriers hide in the corner and worry about their future life.
Suddenly a little girl ran out of the back door of the tavern, holding a notebook and pen in her hand, asking these northwest refugees for some things.
Ren Xiaosu leaned over and heard that the little girl was inquiring about the war in the northwest with these northwest refugees.
For example, how the war started, such as whether there were any heroic deeds in this war, such as whether there were any particularly powerful figures in this war.
Of course, the little girl is not asking refugees to tell stories in vain, one story and one steamed bun, and the same exchange is equivalent.
Although a steamed bun sounds cheap, in the eyes of refugees who are hungry and don’t know how many meals, this steamed bun is life, and of course they know everything.
A middle-aged man said: "Zong's front-line general, Zong Ying, is still very powerful. He used a strategy to make the 178 Fortress..."
As a result, the seventeen-year-old girl shook her head: "Don't Zong lose all of her? I don't listen to Zong's affairs, I only listen to the 178 Fortress."
Now the middle-aged man's face was bleak and his heart was bleeding. He was a bureaucrat who was attached to the wings of Zong's family. The defeat caused him to take his family and leave his hometown. This was miserable enough. Now he still has to talk about the heroic deeds of the enemy...
Is this girl here to finish the fight?
The little girl looked at him and said seriously: "If you don't have a story, I'll go ask someone else. Grandpa is still waiting."
The middle-aged man hurriedly stopped him: "I said, and I have a high position, and I know more than them. When the 146 barrier was broken, I was at the 146 barrier!"
The little girl was happy when she heard this: "Really? Then say it quickly. If you say it well, I'll give you an extra steamed bun!"
When the middle-aged man heard that he could have another steamed bun, he didn't care about his previous identity and immediately started talking, and he was afraid that other refugees would steal his life.
This lecture lasted for more than two hours, and Ren Xiaosu also came to listen, but as he listened, his face became more and more strange.
At the beginning, the middle-aged man said it was quite normal, and he said why Fortress 178 had launched a war against the Zong family, and why did the Zong family frequently provoke Fortress 178 in recent years? I have to say that the middle-aged man is quite eloquent, and what he said makes people relish and don’t know about some things that are re-elected Xiaosu.
However, after the war began, from Guanshan and Dingyuan Mountain to Shichuan Town to be broken, then Beiwanhe was broken, and finally to the 146th barrier was broken.
Anyway, everything is inseparable from Ren Xiaosu. When the barrier of 146 was broken, the middle-aged man began to talk about how the mysterious extraordinary boy smashed the entire Zong combat brigade to pieces...
The girl who listened to the story recorded the book while listening. She wrote very quickly, and the more she listened, the brighter her eyes became. She curiously said, "Is there really such a brave person in this world?"
"It's not just bravery," the middle-aged man sighed: "I was in the manor of the third house of Zong family. I saw him wearing steel armor and avoiding three RPG missiles, and then..."
Speaking of this, the middle-aged man looked at Ren Xiaosu and suddenly said in surprise: "Have we seen it somewhere?"
Zong had made a wanted portrait of Ren Xiaosu at the time. The senior executives of Zong had basically seen the portrait, but pursuing Ren Xiaosu was not the responsibility of the middle-aged man, so he just glanced at it. At this time, he felt an amazing sense of familiarity when he saw Ren Xiaosu, but he could never remember where he had seen it.
Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, "I also escaped from the northwest. Maybe we have seen it somewhere."
"Yes," the middle-aged man nodded.
The little girl next to her urged, "You haven't finished talking yet, hurry up and finish what's going on."
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then looked up and wanted to find Ren Xiaosu's traces, but found that Ren Xiaosu had left.
Ren Xiaosu doesn't want to be recognized now. It is better to be low-key when he comes to the Central Plains. You should know that the Central Plains is rich, but the degree of undercurrents is no less than that of the southwest and northwest.
At this time, he had already understood that although there had not been any war in the Central Plains dispute, the intention of several consortiums to compete for the Central Plains was already well-known, and he did not want to get involved in these matters.
Moreover, there is a tinder company here.
Zhongyuan is the home field of the Tinder Company. When it comes to this, Tinder Company is not as easy to deal with as before.
At this time, Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized that these people who fled seemed to be barriers, and some of them were even quite identities, so why didn’t the refugees escape?
No, Ren Xiaosu realized that he had thought it was a bit different. Of course, it was only the barrier residents who fled, and even those barrier bureaucrats who were in high positions and depended on the Zong family.
The northwest refugees welcome the 178 Fortress. When the 178 Fortress arrives, taxes will be immediately lowered and the living conditions of the refugees will be improved. So how can the refugees escape? They wish that the 178 Fortress will be hit by it quickly.
Ordinary barriers don’t have to worry about what the war will affect. Only those high-ranking officials and nobles will worry about being liquidated!
You should know that during the Zong family's rule, these high-ranking officials and nobles had a lot of harm to residents and refugees. Ren Xiaosu also had so many barriers. The bureaucrats of the Zong family would never be much better than those of the Li family, Qing family and Yang family.
Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu put away his sympathy for these people. No good bird could come here with a guilty feeling.
Chapter completed!