freenovelworld Chapter 1152 Will Be a Good Card
Chapter 1152 Will Be a Good Card
This path may be risky, but if what Zhou Guo said is true, good days are just around the corner for the brothers. Such an opportunity only comes once in a century. If we let it go, I'm afraid it will never come again.
The brothers in the village were busy packing up their things, including gold, silver, valuables, and food supplies, and putting those that could not be taken away in the cellar.
Since there weren't many women, children and elderly people on the mountain, they could just take them all away, and Zhou Guo didn't say that they couldn't.
No one was left behind and everyone was happy. Although the elderly were reluctant to leave the mountain, they were even more reluctant to leave their children. Being able to be together as a family was more important to them than anything else.
Besides, this mountain is not their homeland, so they can just leave it.
Zhou Guo slept well the night before. By the time the sun rose, he had already done several sets of boxing and was sweating profusely.
Looking at her powerful punching skills, Xiong Laosan couldn't help but touch his forehead, "If a fist hit here, my bones would probably be broken. Fortunately, I didn't go against her."
Wu Lazi laughed, "You should have had that chance too, but you went against them. If you had not obeyed, you would have ended up like that big rock, broken into pieces. Xiong Laosan, you had no choice at that time."
Xiong Lao San glared at her angrily, then laughed again and said proudly: "The young master didn't give me the opportunity to choose, which means he values me. Look at you and Mr. Chu, didn't the young master give you the choice and didn't force you? Why didn't he force you? It's because the young master doesn't value you that much, you are not that important, you are dispensable, so the young master naturally gave you the opportunity to choose."
Wu Lazi: "...The young master thinks you are a nuisance. Even if you can't surrender, he can't let you go up the mountain again. We are different. We are good people. If we don't follow the young master, we can still be bandits in the mountains. But you can't. You will be killed."
Now it was Xiong Lao San's turn to glare, "You're talking nonsense! You're the one who made the mistake!"
The two of them started arguing.
Zhou Guo shook his head. These two people were also enemies. They would quarrel whenever they talked. They were not suitable to work together. It would be better to put one in the east and the other in the west.
Wu Jiang said: "Master, it will take another five or six days to get there from Qianduo."
She asked, "Not enough food?"
These people brought some rations with them when they went down the mountain, but not much, only enough for three days at most.
Wu Jiang said: "It's only enough for four days at most. When we came out, we didn't expect it to be delayed for so long, nor did we expect so many people to come down the mountain."
The main reason is that there are limited manpower, and they have to free up their hands to prepare for war, so there are not enough people to transport food.
Zhou Guo said: "Send two people to go, and ask Qian Duo to have someone bring food to pick up halfway. There are no villages for us to attack along the way. With these thousands of people, the escort agency does not need so many people for the time being."
It’s okay if no one comes in for the time being.
Those who work in the escort agency deal with bandits all year round, so it’s better if the escorts have some bandit spirit.
Therefore, as long as Lai Zi Tou and his gang did not violate the rules of the escort agency, she would not care much about them.
Wu Jiang went down to select people.
Not long after they finished breakfast, they heard some noise coming from the mountain.
Wu Jiang shouted, "Stand up!"
Everyone immediately stood up, picked up their weapons, and entered combat mode.
Xiong Laosan was stunned, "Is this going to be a fight?"
Wu Lazi poked her head in and said, "No way? If he doesn't agree, then he doesn't agree. What's the point of coming down the mountain to fight? Can he win?"
Zhou Guo stared at the exit without saying anything. In fact, Mr. Chu was more suitable for working in the escort agency than Xiong Laosan and Wu Lazi. If this person was used well, he would become her right-hand man and a trump card in the future.
When they saw people, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. These people came down with bags and luggage on their backs, laughing.
Wu Jiang ordered his men to collect the weapons.
Zhou Guo smiled.
Xiong Laosan and Wu Lazi laughed and pointed at him and said, "That's right, we're both leaving, why are you still staying on this mountain?"
The head of Chu walked up to Zhou Guo, bowed and said, "Sir, there are a total of 1,367 people in my village, young and old, and 1,007 young and strong. They are all here."
Zhou Guo nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, from now on you will be part of the Haoguo Escort Agency."
She looked at the women, old people and children who were surrounded. There were really not many of them. On the mountain with more than a thousand people, there were only more than three hundred old people, children and women. Not to mention compared with Wu Lazi's, even Xiong Laosan's place was incomparable.
The head of Chu followed her gaze and said, "These were brought to the mountain in recent years. When the head of Chu was still alive, children and the elderly were not allowed to live on the mountain. Even women were not allowed to live there. They were afraid that people would indulge in the pleasures of life and lose their fighting spirit."
Many parents never saw their children until their death because they were not allowed to leave the mountain easily.
Zhou Guo asked: "Have you eaten yet?"
Chu nodded, "We have eaten. We have prepared our own rations for the next few days. You don't have to worry about us."
Zhou Guo said: "Don't worry about the food. I don't have anything else but plenty of food."
Xiong Lao San couldn't help but ask, "How can you, a bodyguard, get so much food?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I am a bodyguard, but I also farm. In addition to being a bodyguard, I can also farm."
A few people remained silent. Farming?
How much food can be grown?
The group hurried on their way.
Because they had to take care of the elderly and the weak, the group stopped and walked, and occasionally met some refugees from a distance. When the refugees saw so many of them, they all ran away. Those who could not run away knelt down on the side of the road with their heads buried, for fear of being noticed.
Zhou Guo sighed. He remembered very well the first year when they started fleeing. There were so many refugees. There were also many in the following years. But now, even the number of refugees on the road has decreased a lot.
Along the way, we encountered many villages, most of which were empty. They had not been inhabited for several years, and the whole village was overgrown with weeds. In a few years, I'm afraid that only ruins would be left.
Even in the villages where there were people, there were only two or three households. When they saw them, they kept a distance and closed their doors.
After so many years of chaos, there are fewer and fewer of these people.
It will probably take many, many years for the south to return to its former glory.
She became more and more silent as she walked, her brows never relaxed. Such villages were far away, and some were in the wilderness. It was not easy to sell fertilizer to such places.
But she didn't want to give up on every household. Even in the deep mountains and forests, everyone has the right to have enough food.
Boss Chu saw the sadness between her brows and naturally knew why. He said, "Some of our elders who went up the mountain came from this place. Some of them had no relatives in the mountain and were all raised by us. If we adopt a few godsons, we can live a good life in the second half of our lives."
Zhou Guo was surprised and asked, "So that's how it is. These people have nothing to do with you?"