Chapter 491 Survival
It's just that not everyone in the team trusts Chu Huaiwen like his roommate.

So after eating their rations and resting for a while, several people secretly left the team and ran to the city gate to try to jump in line.

Unexpectedly, the team failed to intervene. Instead, the officers and soldiers drew their swords at them. It was no use even saying that they were scholars of Chenyang Academy.

"It doesn't matter whether you are a student of Chenyang Academy or not, you should all line up for labor and management!"

"You, why are you so vulgar!?"

"Vulgar!? Tell you, if you dare to be bold again, I will kill you as a spy!"

"you you……"

……

The saying that a scholar meets a soldier is not clear-cut. After several scholars were threatened and scolded by the defenders, they no longer dared to cross the line.

It can also be seen from this that the current state city is really a bit overcrowded.

Someone noticed that many wealthy people who used carriages were also inspected one by one, and they may not be able to enter the city even after paying a lot of money.

If most of them did not have a strong enough relationship after giving the money, they would be led by the city defenders to the town closest to the city.

It was also controlled by the state and the city to accommodate some wealthy people from other places that the city could barely accommodate, but it was inconvenient to accommodate them.

After hearing about it, Chu Huaiwen's roommate family also wanted to go there.

After all, there is a city guard there, controlled by the state soldiers, and the order is good, which is much better than having unidentified refugees everywhere outside the state city.

But not only do you have to pay a lot of money to go there, but life in the town is also inseparable from money.

So all the smart people figured out that this temporary safe town was a place specially set up by the state to collect money from wealthy people.

If you don't have enough money, it will be difficult to survive. After all, there is no free porridge there.

It's just that these students from Chenyang Academy are really special.They are not real merchants. Even if their families are rich and can afford to study, most of their money comes from fields and tenant rent.

Now when the war breaks out, everyone has left their hometown. No matter how much farm there is, it is still in the war-torn place and cannot be exchanged for food and silver.

So now they are actually "poor" just like ordinary refugees.

However, they were not poor in the past, so the refugees could queue up at the soup kitchen shack outside the city without any psychological burden, but they could not.

The refugees can huddle together for warmth with peace of mind, gather together anywhere with a water source outside the city, and live on the spot, but they cannot.

But if they don't put down their dignity like the refugees, they won't be able to survive for long.

For example, Zhou Wencheng and Zhao Liangyou are such typical examples.

They were unluckier than the student team that Chu Huaiwen was in.

Because they were riding in a carriage when they left the city, and they ran all the way for fear of an accident if they escaped too slowly, without being with other people at all.

I directly encountered those incompetent bandits...

Although these bandits are indeed incompetent, Zhou Wencheng and the others are also incompetent. There are only two carriages, and the masters are pulling them.

If there are no guards to follow, who will you rob if not me?
Fortunately, the bandits they encountered were not real bandits, just gangsters who took advantage of the chaos and wanted to make money, and were not brave enough.

So as long as all their money and foreign belongings were taken, the carriage and so on were left to them to continue their escape.

Otherwise, Zhou Wencheng and others would not be able to arrive at Zhoucheng at this time.

But even now that they have arrived in Zhoucheng, they are still facing a crisis of survival.

(End of this chapter)

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