Chapter 131 Arriving at the town

The Qiao family were very proud after hearing this. They knew that these compliments were all because of Qiao Ran.

It was Qiao Ran's generosity that moved everyone and made everyone feel grateful to the Qiao family.

In the crowd, the only Wang family and Qiao Dewang family who were not qualified to share the food were not only not happy at all, but looked at Qiao Ran with dark faces and very unhappy.

The Wang family was okay, they just complained about Qiao Ran, complaining that she had changed her mind, abandoned Wang Lusheng, and stopped sending food to the Wang family.

The Qiao Dewang family looked at it with hatred, resenting that Mrs. Qiao and his family were so indifferent to their blood relatives and would rather share the food with outsiders than with them.

The people in Qingshui Village happily distributed the food. Thinking that they would not have to worry about running out of food for at least ten days, everyone was more energetic and the pace became faster.

This made the Wang family and the Qiao Dewang family miserable because they had no food to eat. They did not dare to fall behind, so they could only drag their bodies, weak and weak from hunger, to the back of the line.

Qiao Ran confessed to her family, got into her carriage and changed into her own coarse cloth clothes. She changed out of her tattered men's clothes like a beggar, so as not to worry her family.

Because she wanted to change her clothes, Lin Guizhen got out of the carriage with her child in her arms and gave the carriage to Qiao Ran.

Qiao Ran walked into the space and washed herself from head to toe.

The unkempt appearance made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

After taking a shower and getting her hair done, she used cosmetics to darken all her exposed skin and added a few spots. She was that dark and ugly black girl again.

The team quickly arrived at Linxuan Town, a small town at the junction of Linzhou Prefecture and Xuanzhou County. After passing this town, it was the boundary of Xuanzhou County.

The old village chief had already decided not to go to Xuanzhou County and just walked around the border.

In this way, they can no longer take the official road, but can only take some trails or even mountain roads.

Fortunately, when Qiao Ran was in Linzhou City, the old lady of the Wu family heard that they were going around Xuanzhou County and gave her a homemade map.

This map was drawn by Mr. Wu himself. He has been delivering grains for many years. He also knows that the officials in Xuanzhou County are not easy to deal with. Sometimes he has to go around Xuanzhou County to deliver goods to other prefectures, so he made this map himself. map.

This map is much easier to use than the government's map, so it does not draw the official roads that everyone knows or some of the more commonly traveled roads, but some small roads opened by businessmen themselves, which can avoid the government's interception and interrogation. , saving a lot of trouble.

And this map has now greatly helped the people of Qingshui Village. When the old village chief learned that Qiao Ran actually had such a map, he simply didn't know what to say.

Qiao Ran is simply the lucky star and savior of the people of Qingshui Village!

Any difficulty can be solved as long as she is there. She is the hope of the entire Qingshui Village!

Everyone decided to stay in the town for one night and continue on their way the next day.

But when people in the small town saw such a large fleeing team, they were very wary, fearing that these refugees would come to rob their homes.

The people in the town, armed with machetes and wooden sticks, blocked the intersection into the town, preventing them from entering.

The old village chief came out to negotiate with the town mayor, but the other party had a tough attitude and refused to let this group of refugees enter their town.

It's not like this has never happened before, because their town is at the junction of two cities, and if something goes wrong, the governments on both sides are unwilling to take care of it.

There used to be refugees and bandits who came here. They kindly took in those people and gave them a place to live. Unexpectedly, at night, many families were stolen and robbed, and even some people were killed. Some women were insulted. , miserable.

Therefore, the bloody lessons forced them to be more vigilant and harden their hearts to keep out those who looked poor and prevent them from entering the town to steal and rob.

Seeing that these people refused to let everyone enter the town, the old village chief could only discuss it with everyone.

Qiao Ran thought for a while and said: "Grandpa, village chief, since they have concerns, let's not go into the town and just stay outside for a night! If you need to buy anything, send a few people there. Those people There shouldn’t be any obstruction.”

The old village chief nodded: "That's all we can do."

The old village chief negotiated with the mayor again and proposed that they not enter the town and only send a few people in to buy some things.

The mayor pondered for a moment, and saw that this group of people seemed quite reasonable, unlike those vicious refugees, and there were only a few people entering the town. They sent a few people to follow them, so nothing should happen.

So the mayor agreed and proposed that only a maximum of five people could enter the town, and they would send someone to follow them to prevent refugees like them from entering the town and doing bad things.

The old village chief also understood other people's concerns. If Qingshui Village suddenly had such a large number of refugees, they would probably also have concerns.

So, everyone discussed how many people to send into the town. There were more than sixty households, and there were a lot of miscellaneous things to buy.

After everyone's recommendation, the few people who entered Yunzhou Fucheng last time were finally selected, Qiao Erhe, Li Daqiang, Qiao Ran, and two other strong men.

It happened that the carriage that Qiao Ran drove back was still empty, so he planned to let a few people drive the carriage into the town to buy some necessities, so as not to encounter a town where they could not buy things while walking on the small road.

The Wang family and Qiao Dewang also came forward periodically and asked to help them buy some food and supplies.

The people of Qingshui Village were kind and couldn't bear to see the two families continue to travel hungry, so they accepted the broken silver and copper coins they gave and promised to help them buy things.

Qiao Erhe took the lead, and several people drove the carriage into the town.

The mayor had sent a dozen people to follow their carriage. Qiao Erhe and the others could not drive the carriage, so they could only hold the horse and let the carriage drive slowly.

Qiao Ran walked beside the carriage and looked at the town.

The town is not big, and the houses of the people are built along both sides of a wide stone road.

Standing at this end of the town, you can almost see the end of the town at a glance.

Most of the houses on both sides of the road are two- or three-story wooden buildings, with various shops on the first floor and living quarters on the second floor.

There are not many houses, probably about a hundred households.

There are also some businessmen who look like they are from out of town on the street. Some of them are eating and drinking in restaurants, and some are discussing business cooperation with the merchants in various shops.

Qiao Ran curiously asked a young man from a small town who was following him: "Your place is not big, but it seems to be quite prosperous! With so many businessmen from other places coming here, do you have any specialties here?"