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Chapter 275: Food in Hand, No Panic in Exile 18

After crossing the mountains, the road ahead was smooth. According to the instructions on the map, they only needed to walk for about ten days to reach their final destination - Songling Town.

Songling Town is a small town in Shu. Apart from the indigenous people, most of the people living here are prisoners exiled from various places, and they are just one of them.

After the exiled prisoners registered their identities at the county government, they would be sent to nearby villages to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land. According to the officials, the nearest village to the town was a small village called Nanli Village.

The village chief here is a burly man who looks like someone who is not easy to mess with, but he is a fair person. Although he is definitely biased between the indigenous people and the exiles, at least he does not discriminate against and bully the exiled prisoners like he does in other villages.

And the biggest advantage here is that life is relatively convenient. If you ride a fast horse, it only takes less than a quarter of an hour to reach the nearest town.

It is really a good choice in Songling Town.

After hearing all this, Chu Yuan secretly counted his own small treasury, preparing to bribe the officials who were in charge of assigning prisoners. It would be best if their family could be assigned to Nanli Village.

By then, she would buy some properties in Songling Town, which could also add some income to her aunt's family's future life so that they wouldn't have to worry about their livelihood.

After all, she couldn't stay here all her life. After settling them down, Chu Yuan had to go back to Bingzhou, where two elderly people were waiting for her.

Chu Yuan bought a very spacious new carriage in the town at the foot of the mountain. It was more than enough to seat five people. She used the extra space to place all kinds of food and daily necessities, and she bought them almost everywhere she went.

The place where exiled criminals are housed must be bare and poor, so it is better to prepare some now than to have nothing when you arrive.

Moreover, the prices in the small towns she passed by were not high, and she only spent a few dozen taels of silver to buy half a car of things.

When she left Bingzhou for the capital, most of the silver her grandfather gave her to carry with her had been spent before she went into the mountains, and now it became the small treasury in her space.

However, she did not feel sorry to use these. After accumulating for several worlds, the gold, silver and jewelry in the space could already be piled up into a small mountain. If she spent them at this rate, she would not be able to spend them all even in several lifetimes.

Chu Yuan's carriage, loaded with goods, followed the large group and slowly arrived at the local county government office.

Before entering the city, Chu Tingshu and others had already gotten off the car and rejoined the ranks of prisoners. After all, they had just arrived and it was not appropriate to behave too specially.

The people here were no longer surprised by the large number of people entering the city. In recent years, exiled criminals were often sent here. However, the only difference this time was that there was a horse-drawn carriage following behind.

The leading officer first took the prisoners to register their identities, and then they lined up to be sent to different villages.

During the time they had just registered, Chu Yuan had already used money to open up connections. Nanli Village had a total of seven places to accept exiles, and Chu Tingshu's family occupied three of them.

Chu Yuan has also found out that the other four people are Lu Xiuzhu's family. This is probably arranged by Yunbei behind the scenes.

Lu Nanfeng was a great general, so there must be more than just these four people in his family. However, Yunbei wanted to preserve only his direct bloodline, so the ones who were assigned to Nanli Village should be Lu Xiuzhu's mother and two younger siblings.

Chu Yuan had observed these people on the way here and knew they were not the kind of people who would cause trouble.

Among those who had fallen ill from inhaling too much miasma in the mountains before, there was Lu Xiuzhu’s younger sister. The little girl was very obedient, and even when she was sick she would just lie on her brother’s back without crying or making a fuss.

So overall, Chu Yuan had a good impression of this family.

After another half an hour, the destinations for everyone had been arranged, and the officers escorting the prisoners were ready to return. The rest of the matter would be entirely the responsibility of the local officers.

The person who led them to Nanli Village was the official Liu Dawei who had taken the two silver ingots from Chu Yuan.

Perhaps he understood that these two families had powerful backers, so he was friendly along the way and carefully explained the layout of Nanli Village to them.

In theory, the exiled prisoners needed to live in the rows of dilapidated houses at the west end of the village, and were allocated from left to right according to the order of their exile.

But there are exceptions. For example, a few years ago, a high-ranking official was exiled here, and it happened that the county magistrate at the time was entrusted to look after them.

So they bought a tiled house in Nanli Village for them to live in, and the land they had to cultivate on weekdays was half that of the other prisoners.

Later, he was pardoned and was no longer a sinner.

But this family is also strange. Most people who encounter this situation would definitely leave the place of exile as soon as possible and return to their hometown no matter how far it is.

But instead they settled here, bought property and land, and even his eldest son married a local woman.

After hearing this, Chu Yuan thought to himself that it was actually no big deal to live in a shabby house, he could just tear it down and rebuild it. Money talks, so finding a few workers to build the house would be a piece of cake.

But the key point is that she didn't want to be neighbors with Lu Xiuzhu's family.

As the eldest son of the general, Lu Xiuzhu is closely guarded by high-level secret guards like Yunbei. It is easy to tell that if he lives next door to them, his future will not be peaceful.

If he really had no use, why would someone send their most capable secret guard to protect him closely? Was it just based on their past friendship?

Chu Yuan didn't believe it.

At least this person cannot be the Regent Nangong Chen.

People in officialdom are treacherous and those who have no value will only become abandoned.

What's more, this man is the son of General Lu Nanfeng, who holds countless secrets. If she were Nangong Chen, it would be good enough if she didn't send assassins to kill him, but she also accompanied him to protect him? It was too unrealistic.

All in all, there is no benefit in getting too close to Lu Xiuzhu's family, and being neighbors is absolutely not acceptable.

After arriving at Nanli Village, Chu Yuan met the village chief who was described by the official as someone who was not easy to mess with.

In fact, the reason why he is not easy to deal with is that he is much taller than ordinary people in the area. According to Chu Yuan's visual estimation, he is at least 185 cm tall. Moreover, due to years of hard work, his muscles are relatively developed, so he looks too tall and strong.

But this is only for the native ancient people. Those who have lived in later generations have seen many handsome guys over 190cm tall like Chu Yuan, so of course they don’t think this village chief is so scary.

After a brief introduction between the two parties, Chu Yuan began to get close to the other person.

After a few exchanges, Chu Yuan discovered that the village chief was actually quite easy to get along with, especially when he mentioned his little daughter. There was a kind light flashing in his eyes, giving his whole person a friendly filter.

Then we talked about the allocation of housing. It was like someone brought us a pillow just when we were sleepy.