Chapter 473, Listening to Stories
The taverns in the market town didn’t open until noon, Ren Xiaosu returned to the market town and waited, watching the stragglers get up early and go to work, one by one, they went to the factories in pairs, earning food for the day.
It is very difficult for the migrants to save money, and even if they don’t earn much every day, there are also consortiums in the market town that are specially prepared for them, such as broth stores, beer, tobacco, casinos, and alcohol is not banned in the Central Plains, which seems to be due to the relative abundance of food in the Central Plains.
Every day after work, those stores that entertained the living were at the entrance soliciting for business. Workers who had finished their day’s labor were thinking of treating themselves, so the money they had just earned was spent again.
In this market town, there was always a store to your liking.
Zhang Jinglin had said that this was a world that the consortium had carefully designed, and it was not wrong at all.
Looking at the stragglers coming and going, Ren Xiaosu even recalled the days when he and Yan Liuyuan were at the 113th Barrier, a time that was tougher than now, but exceptionally beautiful in his memory.
So much so that he would deliberately forget some of the sufferings of that time, forgetting that he had not had enough to eat, forgetting that he had been ostracized, forgetting that he had gone to sleep in fear.
And then the memory is only happy.
Humans are optimistic.
Ren Xiaosu was an unfamiliar face to this market town, but there were a bit too many wallflowers fleeing over from the northwest recently, so much so that people didn’t care about his arrival.
Those wallflowers hid in the corners, worrying about their future lives.
Suddenly a little girl ran out from the back door of the tavern with a book and pen in her hand, looking for these northwestern refugees to ask something.
Ren Xiaosu went over and listened, this little girl was asking these Northwest refugees about the war in the Northwest.
For example, how the war was fought, for example, whether there are any heroic deeds in this war, for example, whether there are any particularly powerful characters in this war.
Of course, the little girl is not letting the refugees tell stories for nothing, a story a steamed bread, equal exchange.
Although a steamed bread sounds very cheap, but in the eyes of the refugees who have been hungry for a few meals, this steamed bread is life, of course, know everything.
A middle aged man said, “Zong s front line general this time, Zong Ying, is still very powerful, he used a ploy to make 178 Fortress …….”
As a result, the seventeen or eight year old girl shook her head, “Didn’t Zong lose all of them, I don’t listen to Zong s business, I only listen to 178 Fortress s business.”
Now, the middle aged man’s face was miserable, his heart was dripping blood, he himself was a bureaucrat attached to the wings of the Zong clan, and losing the battle caused him to drag his family far away from home, which was already bad enough, and now he even had to talk about the enemy’s valor ……
This girl damn is not specifically to complement the knife ah ……
The little girl looked at him and said seriously, “If you don’t have a story, I can go and ask someone else, Master is still waiting.”
The middle-aged man rushed to stop: “I said I said, and I have a high position, I know more than them all, when the 146 barriers were broken, I was at the 146 barriers!”
The little girl was happy when she heard it, “Really? Then you say it quickly, I’ll give you an extra steamed bun if you say it well!”
This middle-aged man heard that he could give you one more steamed bread, and did not care what his previous status was, immediately started to speak, and was afraid that other refugees would steal his work.
This talk is more than two hours, Ren Xiaosu also came to the side to listen, but listening to listen, face more and more strange.
In the beginning, the middle-aged man spoke in a moderate manner, saying that why 178 Fortress launched a war against the Zong Clan, and why the Zong Clan frequently provoked 178 Fortress over the years, I have to say that this middle-aged man’s eloquence was quite good, and his speech made people listen to him with great enjoyment, and there were some things that even Ren Xiaosu didn’t know about.
However, when it comes to the beginning of the war, from Guanshan and Dingyuan Mountain being hit, to Shichuan Town being broken, to Beiwan River being penetrated by people, and finally to the 146 barriers being broken.
Anyway, every thing is inseparable from Ren Xiaosu, and then when it came to the 146 Barrier being broken, this middle aged man started to tell about how that mysterious transcendent teenager shattered the entire Zong’s combat brigade ……
The girl listening to the story was listening while taking notes in her book, writing extremely fast, and the more she listened, the brighter her eyes became as she curiously said, “Is there really such a courageous person in this world?”
“More than courageous,” the middle-aged man sighed, “I was at the estate of the Zong Clan’s third house at the time, and I saw him wearing steel armor dodging three RPG missiles immediately after ……”
Speaking here, the middle-aged man looked at Ren Xiaosu and suddenly said in surprise, “Have we met somewhere before?”
The Zong Clan had produced a wanted portrait of Ren Xiaosu, and the Zong Clan’s top management had basically seen that portrait, only that chasing Ren Xiaosu was not the middle-aged man’s duty, so he just swept over a glance, and at this time, he saw that Ren Xiaosu had a kind of astonishing sense of familiarity, but he never could think of where he had seen him before.
Ren Xiaosu laughed, “I also fled from the northwest, so maybe we’ve met somewhere before.”
“That’s also true,” the middle-aged man nodded.
The little girl next to him urged, “You haven’t finished speaking yet, quickly finish what’s behind you.”
The middle-aged man froze for a moment, then looked up again to try and find any sign of Ren Xiaosu, but realized that Ren Xiaosu had already left.
Ren Xiaosu now does not want to be recognized, come to the Central Plains or lower-profile better, to know the Central Plains affluent to the affluent, but the degree of darkness is no less than the southwest and northwest.
At this time he has understood, although the battle of the Central Plains has not yet seen the war, but the intention of several consortiums to deer in the Central Plains has long been a well-known thing, he did not want to get involved in these things.
Moreover, there was still the Fire Seed Company here.
The Central Plains was the Fire Seed Company’s home turf, and when it came here, the Fire Seed Company wouldn’t be as easy to deal with as it was before.
At this time, Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized that these fleeing to come seem to be all walled people, right, and even some of them are quite high status, how come there are no stragglers fleeing over?
No, Ren Xiaosu realized that he thought wrong, of course, those who fled will only be wall residents, or even those who are in high positions, dependent on the Zong’s wall bureaucrats.
The northwestern stragglers were welcoming of Fortress 178, and when Fortress 178 arrived, it was bound to immediately lower taxes and improve the living conditions of the stragglers, so how could the stragglers possibly flee? They couldn’t wait for Fortress 178 to hurry up and hit them.
And the ordinary walled people didn’t have to worry about what the war would affect, only those dignitaries would worry about being liquidated!
Knowing that during Zong’s reign, these dignitaries hadn’t done much to harm the walled city’s residents and stragglers, and Ren Xiaosu had been to so many walled cities, Zong’s bureaucrats definitely weren’t any better than Li’s, Qing’s or Yang’s.
Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu also put away his sympathy for these people, those who can run here with a weak heart, not a single good bird.
A creaking sound rang out, the fellow inside the tavern pushed the wooden door open, Ren Xiaosu got up and walked in.