Chapter 121 It’s hard to persuade the damn ghost with good words

Wherever Qiao Ran said she wanted to go, they followed.

The Qiao family is a philanthropic family, and Qiao Ran is also a smart and capable girl. By following the Qiao family, they will feel more secure, and will have the opportunity to repay Qiao Ran and the Qiao family for their help in the future.

In addition to those who supported Qiao Ran unconditionally, others listened to the old village chief's words, and many people chose to follow the old village chief and the Qiao family.

After all, along the way, they got a lot of food because of Qiao Ran, and they also fought off a lot of refugees and bandits, and they got here peacefully.

If they leave this team, they don't have a strong leader, and they are afraid that they will have a hard time on the road to escape, and the road ahead is uncertain, and they don't dare to gamble with the lives of their families without authorization.

It would be safer to follow Qiao Ran and the large army.

For a time, many people expressed their intention to follow the old village chief and Qiao Ran and transfer to the capital.

Those who had been clamoring the most to go to Linzhou Mansion just now looked around and found that most people had decided to go to the capital. When not many people were willing to go to Linzhou Mansion, they began to hesitate again.

In the end, only the three families of Wu Dawang, Huang Jincai, Liu Erleizi and two lonely old people in their fifties and sixties decided to go to Linzhou Mansion.

Except for the lonely old man, these three families have the most children and the least physical strength. The food at home has long been exhausted. If they drag the whole family forward, they don't know if they can make it to the capital.

And their idea is very simple. Their family only has one strong laborer who is the head of the family. It is impossible for the government to take away the head of the family so inhumanly and let the whole family starve to death, right?

The two lonely old people felt that they were old and frail and no longer wanted to follow everyone around.

"We are all old bones. We don't have to drag everyone down and waste food. Let's go to the nearest Linzhou City, even if we go to beg, we can live one day at a time. Even if we arrest strong men, we will not be arrested. Old guy, right?"

The old village chief persuaded them to go together, but the two old men made up their minds not to drag everyone down anymore.

"We two old guys have decided to get together so that we can have someone to take care of us. No matter who dies in front, there will be someone to help bury the body. If the other one doesn't want to live, he can die together, and we can also die together on the road to hell. I have a companion.”

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, the old village chief had no choice but to give up.

Qiao Ran looked at the dozen or so children from teenagers to three or four years old among the three families, and she couldn't bear it.

If the father of these children is caught as a young man, how will these underage children survive in these famine years?

Qiao Ran asked those families: "Are you sure you want to go to Linzhou Mansion? If you are captured as a young man, what will your elderly women and children do? If you follow us, at least the whole village will support each other and won't be hungry. die."

Among these families, only Wu Dawang looked hesitant.

Finally, he actually pushed his eldest son out and begged:

"Village chief, please take my Shuanzi with you! He will be a man next year. I am afraid that he will be arrested by the government to do corvee labor or mining, so let him follow you to the capital! He is so old, he can also be on his own If you find food to eat, you won't starve to death, and it won't cause you much trouble."

Dai Viet became a young man at the age of 16, and Shuanzi, who is 15 years old this year, is already taller than his father. If he goes to Linzhou City, he may really be caught as a young man.

Although Wu Dawang wanted to take his family to Linzhou to try his luck, he did not want his eldest son to be arrested for mining.

Let him follow the village chief and others, just in case something happens to their family, and also to give him a heir to the Wu family.

However, Wu Dawang's daughter-in-law was reluctant to part with her son. Upon hearing her husband's words, she immediately held Shuanzi's hand, with tears in her eyes, unwilling to be separated from her son. Wu Dawang pulled her away forcefully, scolding her for being a woman and being stupid.

Shuanzi, who was pushed out, was also confused. He didn't expect that he would be pushed out by his father and would be separated from his family. He looked at a loss.

Seeing that Wu Dawang also cared about children, the old village chief advised:

"Dawang, since you know that it is dangerous to go to Linzhou Prefecture, why do you still go? Wouldn't it be better for the whole family to follow us to the capital? Shuanzi can find food, and you are also a strong laborer. Go hunting and digging in the mountains. Order some wild vegetables and you won’t starve to death. Can you bear to be separated from your child?”

Wu Dawang looked at the remaining children under ten years old with helpless eyes:

"Village Chief, my family has no food at all. We have to pass through several prefectures to get to the capital. I'm afraid I won't be able to walk in three to five months. I really can't hold on for such a long journey. I just want to I will take this whole family and find a place to settle down in Linzhou City, and I will find a hard job to support the whole family, rather than having them hungry and having to travel, dragging down the whole family."

"It's not a drag. Our whole village has supported each other all the way, and we have come such a long way. You'd better come with us, we won't let you starve to death."

However, no matter how the old village chief tried to persuade him, Wu Dawang remained unmoved.

The other two families were even more impatient to listen to the old village chief's nagging.

Huang Jincai said nonchalantly:

"Who knows whether what Mr. Mo said is true or false? What if he deceives us? He deceived us into going to the capital, and we don't know what his intentions are! We have to leave the Linzhou City where we are about to arrive, and we have to travel thousands of miles. Are you stupid to go all the way to the capital? The capital is full of dignitaries and wealthy people. Is it a place where poor people like us can go? If you go there, you won’t be slaves to others, so I won’t go! "

Liu Erleizi looked at the Qiao family's carriage and showed dissatisfaction:

"You people are really stupid! Both the Qiao family and the village chief's family still have food left over, but they are not hungry. Of course they can have food to survive for a while. You have no food, so why are you messing around? They have food to eat but I won’t share it with you. Why do you listen to them so much? I’ve had enough of this journey. The Qiao family has delicious food every day. We can only watch and swallow. Only fools want to follow them to the capital! Be careful, they will You help them count the money after you sell it!”

Liu Erleizi's words made the old village chief so angry that he raised his crutch and threw it at him:

"You scoundrel, you are such an ungrateful white-eyed wolf! How much did the Qiao family help us along the way? The chestnuts you picked, the yams and taros you dug some time ago, and the prey you hunted along the way were not due to Ran Yatou. ? You heartless bitch, you are not afraid of thunder from the sky when you say this! Since you have to go to Linzhou City, I won’t advise you, just leave if you want!"

The old village chief was really heartbroken. Didn't he and Ran Yatou kindly want to persuade these people not to go to Linzhou City to die? As a result, she was ungrateful and slandered Ran Yatou, which he couldn't bear.

It's hard to persuade the damn ghosts with good words. These people don't understand good people's hearts, so he won't waste any more words.