The mountain people in the Funiu Mountain area, regardless of whether they lived here originally or have entered the mountains in the past ten or twenty years, they all have the same characteristics.

That’s why they fled into the mountains to avoid various disasters.

A drought is enough to cause a large-scale famine. In order to survive, people have to flee the famine. Some of them will go to the city to beg for a living, some passively wait for soup, and some find ways to sneak into the city to work as beggars.

Others simply take the risk and become thieves.

Many others were abducted by bandits and became part of the refugee army.

Others will choose to flee to the mountains.

The mountain people living here in Funiu Mountain came here to escape the famine.

Most of them come from Nanyang Prefecture in the south or Ruzhou in the east.

After escaping into the mountains, although the mountains are barren, it is very difficult to open up wasteland for farming, and the harvest after a year of hard work is not much.

However, after escaping into the mountains, it is equivalent to becoming a gangster, without all kinds of officials, tax collectors, and landlords exploiting them.

Therefore, although it is hard work and life is very simple, as long as you put in the effort, you can barely survive.

Of course, the premise is that you don't meet people like Fan Dilong who give birth to sons without buttholes. If you really meet a bandit like Fan Dilong, it is normal for all the food rations to be taken away and your family to be destroyed overnight.<

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Before, Li Huangzhuang was unlucky enough to encounter the group of Earth-turning Dragons. After a series of burning, killing and looting, the entire village was turned into ruins.

More than two months ago, when the nearby mountain people knew that another group of thieves had entered the mountain, they went directly to Sanshui Village and killed Dilong and his group.

The surrounding mountain people are actually very panicked, especially the villagers in Huangjia Village, which is relatively close to Sanshui Village.

They were worried that the new group of thieves would plunder nearby villages just like Dilong and others, and that they would suffer the same disaster as the people in Lihuangzhuang.

A few survivors of Lihuangzhuang fled to Huangjiacun. Through their oral accounts, the people of Huangjiacun also knew the tragic experience of Lihuangzhuang. Later, some of them went to Lihuangzhuang to see it, and saw only one thing.

The ruins are full of corpses.

At that time, after Fan Dilong and the others plundered two villages in succession, they still had a lot of food in stock for a while, so they were not in a hurry to attack other villages. They wanted to wait until the autumn harvest before plundering.

However, before the autumn harvest, Sun Chengli, Luo Zhixue and others attacked Sanshui Village, and the earth-turning dragon was immediately finished.

However, the arrival of Sun Chengli and others also frightened the surrounding mountain people, and many of them were ready to flee at any time with only their rations.

The Qinling Mountains are huge, and the Funiu Mountains area is just the edge of the Qinling Mountains.

If they can no longer stay in Huangjia Village in Funiu Mountain, they can only continue to move towards the mountains in order to survive.

But it is not easy to make a living in the mountains. They have worked hard for so many years in the Huangjia Village area of ​​Funiu Mountain and spent countless amounts of water to cultivate some fields. If they change the land again, it means a huge effort.

And it may not be possible to succeed.

In addition, another crucial point is that this year's autumn grain has not been harvested yet. These autumn grains carry all their rations from autumn and winter until the new grain harvest next year.

These unharvested grains are their lives!

It would be very difficult for them to abandon their homes and flee into the depths of the mountains, abandoning their unharvested food.

After all, it is not easy to open up wasteland in the mountains, not to mention that even if you open up wasteland and farm now, it will take until next year to harvest the food to feed your family. What will they eat during this period? How will they survive?

Therefore, they are unwilling to give up their homes, their land, and their unharvested food until they have to.

Therefore, even though they were uneasy at that time, they had to continue to stay here.

But slowly, they discovered that the new band of thieves seemed different from the original Earth-turning Dragons.

The first official contact between them was when Sanshui Village sent people to recruit craftsmen, and finally took Carpenter Huang away.

Although coercion was used when taking Carpenter Huang away, after all, if there was no coercion, how could the mainstay of the family leave without any reason following you and a few thieves?

However, the rebels in Sanshui Village still followed Luo Zhixue's instructions and left a certain amount of food for Huang Carpenter's family as settlement expenses.

At the same time, he also promised Carpenter Huang that as long as he worked hard, he would be given a certain amount of food every month for him to take back.

For the safety of his family, Carpenter Huang was forced to follow him to Sanshui Village.

At that time, everyone in Huangjia Village thought that Carpenter Huang might be gone forever.

But I didn't expect that just one month later, Carpenter Huang would return to Huangjia Village with large and small bags of things, including extremely precious food.

Carpenter Huang stayed at home for two days, during which time many people naturally came to ask him about the situation of the bandits in Sanshui Village. Carpenter Huang was also an honest and honest man.

Everything is honest.

He said that after arriving in Sanshui Village, he went to work, helping the bandits build houses, make furniture and various other tools, etc.

The work is very hard, but you can still eat, and you eat from a big pot with other bandits.

When the work is light, eat two meals a day, and when the work is heavy, there will be an extra meal of porridge.

Although most of the time it is whole grains, but sometimes there is also good white rice.

At that time, Carpenter Huang sighed to the group of people surrounding him: "I have never tried to eat so much white rice in my life. The rice balls are so big, tsk tsk..."

When he spoke, everyone listening around couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

After Huang Carpenter came forward to speak out, it became much easier for Luo Zhixue to send people to Huangjiacun to purchase and sell goods. The people in the village would bring out some of their mountain products, such as prey, furs, rare medicinal materials, etc., and communicate with Luo Zhixue's school

Those who go exchange some salt, cloth, iron pots, hoes and other things that cannot be produced in the mountains.

As for these materials in Sanshui Village, they also sent people to purchase them outside the mountains. Although so many of them have food in the mountains, there are still many materials that they cannot produce on their own and need to go out to purchase, including salt, ironware, and cloth.

The most important thing.

When these purchased materials are large, they will also exchange some mountain goods with the mountain people in the surrounding villages, and then sell these mountain goods out of the mountains.

After many exchanges like this, the attitude of people in the surrounding villages towards the thieves in Sanshui Village has also changed.

Although I am still afraid, I will not run away as soon as I see the rebels in Sanshui Village like before... but I will dare to make some contacts with the rebels in Sanshui Village cautiously.

Just like now, when Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue arrived at Huangjiacun, although Luo Zhixue could still see the fear in the eyes of the local mountain people, he did not turn around and run away. Instead, an old man appeared and walked away quickly.

Come out.

After approaching Sun Cheng and his group, they immediately bowed and knelt down, and at the same time said with a hint of trembling: "Little old man, I respectfully welcome all the kings."

Luo Zhixue looked at this man carefully. He had a beard, a dark face full of wrinkles, and was wearing a short robe with many patches. He looked as if he was sixty-seven years old.

Looking at this person, Luo Zhixue knew that he should be the village head of Huangjia Village whom Anyongduo and the others had reported.

It is not appropriate to say that he is the village chief. In this remote place where mountain people gather, there is actually no village chief. This person has just lived here for a long time, and because of his age and high prestige, he was pushed out by the people in Huangjia Village to be the person in charge.

That’s all.

Luo Zhixue folded the folding fan, took a step forward and said, "You're welcome, Mr. Huang, get up, get up quickly, don't break the boy."

However, Mr. Huang still knelt down and then stood up again, but he did not stand up straight, but still bowed, like a cooked shrimp, so that no one could see his face.

At the same time, he heard him say: "I wonder if you, the kings, have anything to do when you come here. Just give me your orders, and I will do my best to handle them."

As he spoke, his entire body bent even further, as if he was about to kneel on the ground again at any moment.

Seeing him like this, Luo Zhixue sighed a little in his heart.

Are these the ordinary people in this era?

Humble...not like a person!

On the other hand, Sun Chengli, who was standing by, was accustomed to the demeanor of Mr. Huang in front of him.

This reaction is normal. It would be abnormal if the attitude was neither humble nor arrogant.

Didn’t you see a dozen fully armed cavalrymen standing behind them, leading horses?

Not to mention ancient farmers, even modern ordinary people would probably be so frightened that their legs would weaken and they would not even be able to speak when being pointed at by a dozen gangsters with guns and fierce looks.

At this time, Sun Chengli saw Luo Zhixue showing a kind expression and said: "Huang, please relax. Don't worry, we are here to do you a good thing this time."

"A good thing?" Huang Laoer muttered in his heart: "I have lived for more than forty years. If I could just believe such nonsense like you, I would have died a long time ago!"

However, despite this murmuring in his heart, Huang Huang Lao'er still looked terrified: "No matter what the kings tell you, we will do our best no matter what."

Luo Zhixue saw that he was still looking so humble, so he ignored him and turned slightly sideways, giving up his position, showing a serious look: "This is General Sun of my Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp."

As soon as this introduction came out, Sun Chengcheng on the side couldn't react in time. When did their group become the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp?

Why don’t I, the boss, know this?

But, this name seems to be quite good. It sounds very formal, and it immediately puts all the messy thief names such as Earth-turning Dragon and Chuang King to the ground.
Chapter completed!