Chapter 114 What I saw in Licheng (Part 2)

Author: I love eating small fish

Chapter 114 What I saw in Licheng (Part 2)

To the west is a river as shown on the map. The river is extremely wide, estimated to be more than two hundred meters.

To the north is a plain, and on the far side of the plain is the grassland where the Tatars are located.

The place where the virgin forest connects to Licheng in the east is completely open space, and the Kinmen Pass is in the south.

Lu Anran carefully calculated the distance from Licheng to the nearest mountain. It was probably close to ten kilometers. If the entire city was surrounded by walls, it should be able to completely withstand attacks from both directions of barbarians and Tatars.

The entire city can be built in a square shape. In order to ensure the area of ​​farmland, it is enough to at least expand the entire city to more than 50 kilometers both horizontally and vertically. The terrain here can be used for construction.

After taking a rough look at the terrain here, Lu Anran walked outside the city to the south, which was the direction they came from.

There are many barren fields there, and when I came here I saw people working in the fields in twos and threes.

When I got there, I couldn't help but be startled. I thought they were all young and strong, maybe children or women, but what I never expected was that they were all old people!

These old people are all gray and have stooped bodies. Even though they have difficulty moving, they still work. Probably because if they don't cultivate the land, they have nothing to eat, and they can't live without food.

"Grandpa, who is in charge here? Is there a responsible person?"

Lu Anran saw an old man with barely alive eyes, so he walked up and asked.

When he heard this voice, the old man became vigilant at first, but when he saw her, he couldn't help but was stunned: "Little doll, who are you? I don't think I have seen you before?"

The old man looked up at Lu Anran and Lu Ziqi. His gentle demeanor made the two of them feel like a spring breeze.

"If there are no problems, I will become the city lord here in five days, and this entire place will be my territory." Lu Anran said with a smile.

The old man was stunned and looked Lu Anran up and down. Inexplicably, he felt sad: "You, you mean, His Majesty gave this place to you? He...doesn't he care about our life or death?"

Oh my God, even if we don’t care about it, it’s better than putting our lives in the hands of a baby, my God..."

"Old man, you are overthinking." Lu Anran smiled, and when the other party looked over, he gently pressed his palm on the boulder not far away.

However, with such a light palm, a deep palm print actually appeared on the boulder. There was no sound or sound. The stone seemed to be dough, and she just pressed a palm print hard.

The old man's eyes widened, and he ran from the ground to the boulder. He looked at his palm prints and then at Lu Anran. After going back and forth several times, he spoke with a dry tongue: "Sir...sir..."

Obviously, this is consent in terms of force!

He smacked his lips and said after a while: "You mean, you will rule this territory, including us?" The old man said with a hunched body, looking at the baby 'lord' with a strange look.

"Yes, I will be responsible for helping you with your food and clothing expenses in the future." Lu Anran nodded.

Although he didn't believe it, the old man still decided to hold on to a glimmer of hope.

He stood up and held Lu Anran's hand tightly with his rough and dirty hands, "Okay, okay, okay." He choked with sobs. Lu Ziqi wanted to come up and shake the old man away, but Lu Anran shook his head.

, signaling him not to move.

"So grandpa, you must tell me who is managing this place now and who is most familiar with the surrounding environment.

Only after I understand it can I plan for this place so that everyone can live a good life!" Lu Anran looked at the excited old man with a smile.

The old man raised his head and wiped the turbid tears from his eyes with his dry hands: "Did I wait for this day?

Lord, I am the village chief here. I don’t know how long there has been no city lord here, because I am the oldest here and can barely handle some things for them.

Sir, are you telling the truth? You want to build this place." His voice gradually trembled, and his crying gradually became louder. He has suffered for too long, but there is always hope, and I hope that no one has forgotten it.

them.

Even if the child who comes now is not the hope he expected, he still wants to try to believe it. Even if it is a lie to him, he still wants to believe it once. Before he dies, let him die with such hope!

"Grandpa, if it's convenient for you, could you introduce me to the situation here and give me some pointers to the surrounding environment?"

Lu Anran still had a smile on his face and secretly used his spiritual power to calm the other person's emotions so as to prevent him from fainting from excitement.

Probably because he felt that this lord was very kind, not at all like the people in his memory. Although they were memories decades ago, they were still vivid in the old man's mind. He took a deep breath:

"Yes, Lord, I have lived in this place for eighty-eight years. I am very familiar with every plant and tree here, and I am very willing to serve you."

This adult's smile was like a spring breeze that soothed the sadness in his heart, making him feel as if he was much younger.

"Can you tell me how this city became like this?"

"Yes, sir." The old man wiped his tears and rambled, looking like a storyteller, "This starts from fifty years ago.

When I was middle-aged, this city was still just okay. There was a large area of ​​land to the south of us that could grow food, and the yield was quite good, that’s where it was.”

The old man pointed to the distance and said, "When I was a child, the barbarians would be driven back by the city lord every time. There were endless caravans passing by here, and the city was relatively wealthy.

Therefore, the troops were stationed in this place for a long time. Later, when a war broke out in the country, this place was abandoned. Most of the young people in the city were conscripted into the army and died on the land in front.

There were also some young people who fled to other places because they were afraid of the war. There were no businessmen in this place, and it gradually became desolate, and later almost no one cared about it.

We can only rely on growing food to barely feed ourselves. Without protection, barbarians come to rob us every autumn.

They only want food and will not harm us, as long as they take away the food. But if we don't give it to them, they will kill people.

Of course, what is even more hateful is that there are the Tatars who come down from time to time to beat the autumn wind. They are the most hateful. They kill people when they see them, take away food when they see them, women and children when they see them... Hey, they are all beasts, so run away.

There are even more people.

Every year we can only hide some food to meet our daily needs and dig nearby wild vegetables. We are too old to bear the long-distance migration.

This is our root, and we can only stay here. If we leave here, we have no way to live. We have to wait and live like this year after year."

The old man shed tears as he spoke. It seemed that he had been unable to express his innermost thoughts for too long, and finally found someone who was willing to listen to him.

Hearing this, Lu Anran suddenly felt a burst of admiration in his heart, and he was still full of expectations for this place after fifty years.

"Grandpa, can you take us for a walk in the city?"

"Yes, of course."

The old man nodded and led the two brothers and sisters around the entire area. Lu Ziqi quickly wrote down what the old man said with a carbon block, and kept writing and drawing on the scrap cloth to calculate the area of ​​the entire area.
Chapter completed!