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Chapter 17 Leaving the Mountain

"Luosanne, what's the name of the place where you live? How many people are there?" Liu Xiu asked in Lausanne's puzzled gaze.

Liu Xiu was not very familiar with the language he learned from Lausanne. Although he was a little bit unsatisfied, he still tried his best to express his meaning as clearly as possible.

Starting from the living environment in Lausanne, Liu Xiu decided to slowly extend his mind to understand the outside world.

Scratching his head, Lausanne replied: "The place I live is Linbian Village, right next to this forest. If there are more than one thousand people, I don't know how much it is. I'm almost three hundred families."

Luosang's answer was very detailed, but it was a bit general for Liu Xiu, but this did not prevent Liu Xiu from roughly outlining the situation in Linbian Village in his mind.

Nodded, Liu Xiu asked again: "So how far is Linbian Village you mentioned from here?"

This question is very critical, which allows Liu Xiu to roughly understand how far he is from the outside human society.

Lausanne shook his head blankly and said, "I don't know how far it is, but I've been away for about ten days when I come to your benefactor."

Since he could barely communicate, Liu Xiu asked Luosang to call his name directly, but he stubbornly called him a benefactor. He corrected that many times that Luosang was still the same, so Liu Xiu had to let him go.

To be honest, Liu Xiu was not very satisfied with Lausanne's answer, but he learned that if the waterfall had not blocked the road, he would have spent up to five days to completely walk out of the forest.

After thinking about it, Liu Xiu said, "Do you know that there is a very long and high cliff in the forest? How far is that place from Linbian Village?"

"My benefactor is talking about the cliff of life and death. I know this. That place is still two days away from our Linbian Village." Lausanne nodded immediately.

Did I only have two days to go to human society at that time? Liu Xiu felt a little depressed and asked in surprise: "Why is that place called Life and Death Cliff?"

Hearing this question, a deep fear flashed in Luosang's eyes, and he took a deep breath and said, "Because that place is a clear dividing line, even the most experienced hunters dare not cross the cliff of life and death and go deeper into the mountains and forests again. Once they cross the situation where there is almost no life, it is called the cliff of life and death. I even heard the old people in the village say that even those powerful warriors who mentioned the cliff of life and death change their faces..."

Liu Xiu thought to himself that this was the origin of the Cliff of Life and Death. Seeing Luosang's expression of wanting to speak but stopping, he asked curiously: "What do you want to say?"

"...My benefactor, are you a warrior? You are so powerful, you must be a warrior, right?" After a moment of rushing, Luosang finally asked his heart, and I'm afraid this question has been in his heart for a long time.

Looking at his hands, Liu Xiu said uncertainly: "Warrior? Maybe..."

Practicing the nameless body care skills to enhance physical fitness, Liu Xiu himself doesn't know where he is, but he doesn't know any martial arts skills, so Liu Xiu himself doesn't know whether he is considered a warrior.

When Luosang asked Liu Xiu if he was a warrior, Liu Xiu could clearly see the fear and yearning revealed in his eyes, so he said curiously: "Warrior, can you tell me in detail?"

Liu Xiu was full of curiosity about the so-called warrior.

Faced with this problem, Lausanne scratched his head, his face turned red and said, "I don't know much about the warriors, but I heard from the old people in the village that they were some very powerful people, just like my benefactor, I don't know anything else..."

Lausanne used two very powerful people to describe the so-called warriors in a row, which shows that the power of such people should be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

After looking at his palm, Liu Xiu thought that the so-called warriors in Luosang were all powerful figures like him. Suddenly, Liu Xiu felt in his heart that the outside world seemed not that beautiful, so would he continue to live here?

Liu Xiu has a strong sense of crisis. Even though his power is so strong that he can pull up a big tree that needs to be hugged with, he still doesn't feel much security in his heart after hearing the so-called warriors from outside Lausanne...

Should we be so meticulous that we can walk safely outside before trying to step into the outside world?

Obviously, Luosang had only heard of people like warriors, and he didn't know anything else. Liu Xiu knew that he would probably not get useful information if he asked this question again.

After spending time together, Liu Xiu knew that Lausanne was actually a dull person. He could not beat a single stick. If you didn't take the initiative to talk to him, he would be dull for a whole day.

So I changed the topic and asked: "So what country is Linbian Village where you are? What is the country name and what is the year name?"

"National name?National name?Year name?" Lausanne repeated with a confused look on his face.

Liu Xiu was stunned and asked, "You don't know these?"

Could it be that the outside world is a world with highly developed technology? It can be seen that Lausanne doesn’t look like it.

"I have been to Qingliu Town at the farthest place, and I haven't been to it many times, so I don't know what my beloved said," Luosang scratched his head and said a little afraid to look at Liu Xiu. He seemed to feel embarrassed because he could not answer Liu Xiu's questions, and seemed to feel inferior because he had little knowledge.

Lausanne didn't even know about the country, which made Liu Xiu a little crazy. Could it be that Linbian Village where Lausanne is also isolated from the world like himself? But it was not the case for Lausanne to say that.

To change the question, Liu Xiu thought for a while and said, "You should have taxes in Linbian Village, right? So who is the tax to be given to? Who is managing these? What kind of people are there for a series of rules?"

After Liu Xiu asked these questions, Luosang was almost confused. It took him a long time to answer intermittently: "We have taxes. If the taxes are taken, they will be handed over to the Tian family. The Tian family is managing the taxes in our Linbian Village. Even the taxes in the other villages around are managed by the Tian family. As for whom the rules are formulated, I don't know..."

Speaking of this, Lausanne hesitated for a moment and added: "In Qingliu Town, there are two families like the Tian family. These three families manage the entire villages of all sizes of Qingliu Town. The tax amount is formulated by the three families."

Hearing this, Liu Xiu was confused. The family system manages people's livelihood? What about the political axe? If several families manage a town, will the rules not conflict? Or, there is no concept of a country in this world at all?

In order to understand this, Liu Xiu asked: "Who do they listen to when people like the Tian family?"

"I don't know..." Lausanne scratched his head, and he couldn't know anything after asking.

Liu Xiu expressed helplessness in this regard, but he had a vague guess in his mind. Luosang mentioned the so-called warriors, and the warriors were very powerful. So would the so-called rules and regulations of the outside world be formulated by powerful warriors? Think about it again, would the Tian family be the so-called warrior family?

Thinking of this, Liu Xiu realized again that it seemed quite messy outside?

I couldn't ask any questions from Lausanne, so Liu Xiu could only change the question: "What is the money you use?"

The reason why I asked this question was that Liu Xiu wanted to understand the outside world through money. After all, the formation of a social system must be inseparable from money. Bartering is a primitive society.

"Money? It's copper coins. Three copper coins can buy a pound of coarse grains... It seems like this, but I rarely come into contact with money because our Linbian Village is very poor." Luosang scratched his head again and said.

Nodding thoughtfully, Liu Xiu asked again: "Is there any other currency besides copper coins? What is the ratio?"

"Should there be other currencies?" Lausanne said in a daze.

Hearing this sentence, Liu Xiu suddenly remembered a joke on the Internet in his previous life. Many married men have never seen a currency unit larger than a dollar...

After communicating with Lausanne, Liu Xiu became more and more confused and didn't know anything. Could it be that this guy is a savage living in an isolated place?

When Liu Xiu sighed in his heart, he thought it would be better to forget it. Asking Luosang again might make him confused. It seems that if you want to fully understand the outside world, you have to go there yourself.

After making a decision in his heart, Liu Xiu suddenly felt relaxed and began to ask Luosang's own questions, saying: "Luosang, I saw you often staring out of the mountains during this period. Is it because I miss home?"

Lausanne looked up suddenly, then nodded and shook his head.

"Yes, no, no, what do you mean by no means? " Liu Xiu said speechlessly.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across his face, and Lausanne said: "I am indeed a little homesick, but I am more worried about the situation in the village..."

Speaking of this, Lausanne wanted to speak and stopped.

"Worry about the situation in the village? What's the situation?" Liu Xiu asked curiously.

Taking a deep breath, Lausanne said intermittently: "My benefactor, the reason why I came here is actually a last resort. A heavy rain fell in spring, causing the river to surge and crush the fields, so the geography this year is almost pelleted. The villagers don't have anything to eat. As time goes by, the time for paying taxes comes, but the village cannot pay this year's tax at all. The Tian family doesn't care about that. If they can't pay taxes, they will catch people and deduct taxes at the worst, and at the worst they will be killed by his family to vent their anger. So in desperation, the villagers can only take risks and select twenty of the most experienced and strongest hunters in the village to enter the mountain in order to find something that can match this year's taxes..."

After hearing this, Liu Xiu almost knew the next plot. They did not find what they wanted on the Cliff of Life and Death, so they ventured over the Cliff of Life and Death, and then encountered danger. In the end, only Lausanne was forced to come here in a mess.

They are all miserable people, Liu Xiu sighed in his heart.

After interrupting Lausanne, Liu Xiu said, "The grass that you still protected after you were unconscious is the harvest of your entry into the mountain this time?" After nodding, Liu Xiu asked again, "What kind of grass is that? Can it be worth the tax that a village in your village needs to pay this year?"

In a village with more than a thousand people, a single grass can pay the entire tax? What a joke?

"I don't know what kind of grass this is, but the uncle who led the team told me that the Tian family had a rule that as long as one such grass could be used to offset the taxes of a village!" Lausanne gave a positive answer to this point.

A grass is worth the tax of a village, so what is the valuable thing?

Liu Xiu was curious, but there was too little information. Looking at Lausanne, Liu Xiu smiled and said, "So are you in a hurry to bring this grass back during this period?"

"Well, the tax time is getting closer and closer, I have to take it back. In fact, I have wanted to say goodbye to my benefactor for a long time, but I found that my benefactor has not finished doing so many things. I didn't know how to speak like this..." Luosang lowered his head and said, "I dared not look at Liu Xiu.

This is a big fool, so simple that people don’t know what to say.

Shaking his head, Liu Xiu asked, "Are you sure you can safely bring that grass back to the village?"

"I don't know, but I always have to give it a try. This is the only hope in the village..." Lausanne said bitterly.

In fact, both Lausanne and Liu Xiu knew that if Lausanne alone, there would be almost zero chances of going out alive!

But even so, Lausanne had no other choice.

Shaking his head, Liu Xiu patted his shoulder and said, "Let's prepare for the rest of the time today. I'll take you out tomorrow morning!"

"Really?" Luosang looked up at Liu Xiu and said in disbelief.

Luosang didn't dare to think about the issue of Liu Xiu protecting him out before this.

Liu Xiu smiled and said nothing.

I have been isolated from the world for so long. It is time to come out to learn about the specific situation of the outside world. Another thing is that with my current physical fitness, I think there is no big problem in passing through the forest, right?
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