I am a thief in the Tang Dynasty

"What a damn place! I don't want to die here!"

"I traveled a long way to Henan Road, only to find a ghost village."

"Don't just stand there, run!"

……

Chai Xueying and the other two girls immediately turned around and followed.

After running a few steps, Li Qiu staggered and fell to the ground.

When he tried to get up again, he failed several times.

The face he raised was already covered with tear marks.

His face was full of fear and helplessness.

"Save, save me!"

"I can't stand up!"

The voice was miserable, full of desire for life.

This performance was not only professional but also wonderful and there was nothing wrong with it.

The portrayal of a poor woman who encounters a terrible thing, is terrified and just wants to survive is done to the extreme.

Chai Xueying and Lixia hurriedly stopped and wanted to go back to pull Liqiu.

But when you meet the beginning of autumn with eyes full of tears.

The two women understood instantly.

Chai Xueying wants to rescue him.

Lixia grabbed Chai Xueying in panic and screamed:

"There's something fishy going on here!"

"Let's run out!"

"You'll die if you go back."

Chai Xueying, with a hesitant look on her face, glanced at the strange village.

Then she looked at Li Qiu who kept praying to her.

With a look of cowardice on his face, he looked away with flickering eyes.

Followed Lixia and ran out quickly.

Behind him, Li Qiu was crawling with difficulty using his hands, wailing at the top of his lungs.

After running out of the village.

Chai Xueying and the other three girls gathered together and ran forward.

Although they seemed to have no direction, they actually ran in tacit understanding and ended up in a dense forest two miles away from Xianglin Village when they came from there.

Lidong looked around.

Chai Xueying and Lichun Lixia put their heads together.

"Li Qiu stayed here on purpose."

"Let's get some sticks and go back later."

"Wait and watch at the entrance of the village for a while."

"It depends on the situation."

Lichun nodded, looked at Lixia with disdain and said:

"Why didn't I know before that you are afraid of ghosts?"

Lixia blushed and retorted:

"How could I be afraid of ghosts?"

"We're on night duty every day. Have you ever seen me get scared?"

It is difficult to understand the changes in Lixia's facial expression when she is in disguise.

After listening to this, Lichun thought so too.

Chai Xueying knew Lixia's personality very well, so she smiled and did not expose her.

Lixia also quickly changed the subject:

"General, even if there is a ghost, it is impossible for it to appear in broad daylight."

"The man in the village is either watching us."

"Or they want to scare us away."

"There must be some unspeakable secret in this village."

Chai Xueying frowned.

Only then did she explain what Fang Xuanling had told her.

She said in a deep voice:

"My grandfather found out that the Song family of Yiyang controls the fields of 17 villages in the three counties surrounding Yiyang City."

"All grain production shall be handed over to the Song family of Yiyang."

“To put it bluntly, all farmers who own land have become tenants.”

"But all the grain taxes were paid normally."

"Moreover, the amount of newly opened fertile land and the amount of grain tax paid each year have been steadily increasing."

“But the local population is not growing much!”

"With the war raging, it's understandable that the population growth is low. We were supposed to check the food production."

"But we haven't seen anyone along the way."

"Finding out where people have gone is of utmost importance."

Chapter 643: The Timid Child Pretending to Be a Ghost

After Lichun and Lixia heard what Chai Xueying said.

The already tense mood became even more tense.

Population is of paramount importance.

In the vast fields and densely packed villages, there are only ghosts, no human figures.

It's really weird.

……

In Xianglin Village.

Li Qiu lay there in despair.

Half a quarter of an hour later, she crawled some distance.

A timid voice sounded.

"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you."

"Just why did you come to our village."

"Here, it's not safe here."

Li Qiu turned his head hurriedly and saw a very small black shadow shrouded in darkness.

The battle-hardened Beginning of Autumn.

I felt that the other party had no intention of killing me.

But Li Qiu still pretended to be afraid and retreated a step or two in panic.

"You, are you a human or a ghost?"

The child heard Li Qiu's question.

He quickly took off the black clothes he was wearing.

And stepped out of the shadows.

A skinny child, wearing a linen shirt full of patches, washed until it was starched white, and with the edges of the clothes frayed.

Appeared in Liqiu's eyes.

Li Qiu saw that it was really a child and stopped what he was doing.

But he still looked behind the child vigilantly.

She asked:

"Just you?"

"What about the rest of the village?"

“Why is the village like this?”

"Is there anyone with the last name Wei in your village?"

There was a series of questions, and the children didn't know how to answer.

The child moved his lips for a while, asking one last question.

"There is only one Grandma Wei in our village."

“But he died the year before last.”

"What do you want to do with her?"

Liqiu Express:

"We are fleeing the war in the north."

"There was a sister...One of the people who ran away and left me behind was related to Grandma Wei."

"We came here together to seek refuge with Grandma Wei."

I heard Li Qiu say this.

And there was indeed an old lady named Wei in the village.

He was also from the north in his early years.

The child also let down his guard.

He said aloud:

"Everyone in the village has gone to work elsewhere."

"It will take a long time to come back."

"I am young and in poor health, so I can't do the work."

"Just let me stay in the village."

The message revealed in these words frightened Li Qiu.

The child in front of me speaks very smartly.

But he looks like he is only four or five years old at most.

He was left alone to live in the village.

Everything else that could move went somewhere else.

What does the Yi Yang Song family want to do that requires so many people?

Li Qiu asked:

"How old are you? You're not even as tall as the stove. How do you eat on a daily basis?"

"What are the people in the village doing? How could they have the heart to leave you here alone?"