time travel system

Chapter 165 An Empty Wine Bottle
Although the sun has set, the sky is not too dark. The distance to the nearest Jinbing is less than 50 meters, and if you are not careful, you will be found.

The woman's mouth was covered, and instead of avoiding it, she grabbed Jiang Xiaobai's arm with both hands and moved forward a little.

"Madam Ding, after the battle is over and stabilized, you can go to the city to find your husband." This is Ding Yuan's woman, so Jiang Xiaobai called Madam Ding.

However, the woman showed a wry smile, and after Jiang Xiaobai moved her hand away, she said in a low voice: "The slave family is not qualified to be Mrs. Ding, I am a plaything he bought for 300 taels of silver."

The woman's expression was calm when she said these words, she obviously took it for granted, and she had long been used to it.

Jiang Xiaobai knows that the status of women in this era is not high. They are used to the patriarchal society and think that it is only natural to be dependent on men and be ravaged by men.

This person is the same as Xiu Niang. They have lost the ability to control their own destiny, and they have never even thought about acquiring this ability subconsciously. The only thing they hope for is to become a "good man"'s personal belongings, without suffering too much. Just live a lifetime.

For the thoughts rooted in the bones of these people, Jiang Xiaobai has no ability to correct her in an instant, let alone under such a situation.

So Jiang Xiaobai just smiled and patted her on the head, hoping that she would calm down.

Wei Qiuyue must not be able to wait any longer. Jiang Xiaobai's most important task at present is to wait until the night covers the earth, and take this poor woman away from this place of right and wrong.

The woman moved forward again, looking at Jiang Xiaobai curiously.

When she realized that Jiang Xiaobai was always staring ahead, observing the movements of Jin Bing and Song Bing, she suddenly smiled and said, "Don't worry about strong men, Jin people won't enter the city."

Jiang Xiaobai froze for a moment, I felt strange about this, I couldn't figure out why, how did she understand it?
"The strong man must not be from Yizhou, and he doesn't know the situation at the border." The woman said: "The Jin man is greedy, they are looking for an excuse to ask for money."

"Are you asking for money?" Jiang Xiaobai was even more confused.

"Although the slave family only saw Ding Yuan today, because he was worried that he would not be able to enter the city before sunset, he kept urging the driver to hurry along the way, but he also told the slave family something about the situation in Yizhou." The woman called Ding Yuan's name directly, Obviously he has no feelings for Ding Yuan, just because he was sold to him.

According to the woman, this trick has happened more than once.

Although the Sixteen States of Yanyun were returned to Song Dynasty in name, in fact Song Guo spent a lot of money to buy them back.

In the past few months, although the large-scale Jin soldiers have withdrawn from several states and counties, because the money given by the Song Dynasty is not enough, there are still small groups of troops stationed there, and Duji Silian's team is one of them .

The only purpose of these golden people staying is to search for as much wealth and population as possible in this land.

In order to achieve their goals, they did everything they could, even to the point of robbing them under the eyes of Song officials.

But when it comes to robbing, they still have to take into account the Song-Jin alliance to some extent, only robbing outside the city, not outside the city.

And only robbing at night, the common people will still be allowed to work in the fields during the day.

However, the people of the Song Dynasty were already terrified of being robbed. Those who could enter the city entered the city, and sent almost all their wealth into the city.

Therefore, in order to extract more money, the Jinren tried every means to find excuses to threaten the soldiers and civilians in the city.

Three months ago, under the pretext that a soldier was missing, the Jinren made a noise and "attacked" Yizhou City, forcing County Magistrate Liu to hand over 1000 taels of silver to settle the matter.

A month ago, the gold man repeated his old trick and blackmailed another 3000 taels of silver.

Today, it should still be the same routine - asking for money.

Otherwise, it has been more than half an hour for the two sides to "tear apart their faces", and the Jin soldiers are clamoring to wash Yizhou City with blood, but so far there have been no casualties.

It turned out that Jiang Xiaobai didn't know whether he should cry or laugh.

No wonder the golden soldiers didn't search for the murderer, no wonder they came out in full force, but they were just bluffing outside the city, they were really acting!
Perhaps to verify the woman's statement, there were three rasping sounds from above the city gate.

As if they had received the order, the golden archers stopped shooting arrows immediately.

"Crackling!" There was the sound of the winch twisting, the hanging basket was lowered again, and two Song soldiers carried a large box to the bridge.

The box was opened, and there was indeed a lot of silver inside.

One of the Song soldiers shouted loudly: "My lords are exhausted, the people of Yizhou are very grateful, and the magistrate of the county has specially ordered you to give 500 taels of silver to the army. Please accept it!"

"500 taels? Are you fooling the kids?" Duji Silian was furious and waved his arms vigorously.

"Bang bang bang..." The archer started shooting again.

The two Song soldiers took it for granted, they didn't feel nervous at all, and even ran under the city wall in the rain of arrows.

At this moment, another box was sent down.

The two Song soldiers carried the box back to the original place and shouted loudly: "Your lords expel the Liao people and relieve the suffering of the people in Yizhou. You have made great contributions to your hard work. I am specially ordered to give you 1000 taels of Wenyin as a thank you. Please accept it!"

Not enough, shoot!
Not enough, take more money!
It was really no different from playing house, the two soldiers went back and forth between the city wall and the suspension bridge again and again, carrying boxes over and over again.

Although their words are not the same, but the central meaning is the same - the Song people thanked the Jin people, voluntarily sent money and things, and asked the Jin people to accept them.

The things sent were also varied, starting with silver, and after 2000 taels, they became silk, medicinal materials, and mutton.

It's a pity that Jin Bing's appetite was too big this time, no matter what he sent, the answer was definitely not enough, so he continued to shoot arrows.

Finally, when the two tearful young girls of sixteen or seventeen were brought over, Jiang Xiaobai was completely enraged.

Even sending people away, are those people in the city afraid of death?

What is the use of such a parent officer, what is the use of such a Song soldier, such a city... If I don't occupy it, it will be unreasonable!

However, even though everyone was sent over, Jin Bing was still not satisfied.

"Lord Liu, you have no sincerity!" Du Ji Silian sneered, and shouted, "Come on, let the people of Song see how powerful I am as a warrior from the Kingdom of Jin!"

"Yes!" A black-faced man replied, and immediately bent his bow and set an arrow, shooting an arrow at the gate tower.

"Ah!" With a scream, this house-playing game that had been played for more than two hours finally had substantial results. An unlucky Song soldier was hit by an arrow and fell down clutching his shoulders.

Are you coming for real?
Jiang Xiaobai's eyes spewed fire, staring at the city gate, hoping that the blood would inspire the courage of the people of Song Dynasty.

However, to Jiang Xiaobai's surprise, no one fought back above the city gate, and everyone shrank back.

"Master Duji, I have a treasure that I would like to dedicate to you!" Hu Gongdao's voice came, and a shiny object appeared on the crenel.

Under the cover of the torch, the thing shone with a charming luster, and it seemed to be a bottle made of some kind of beautiful jade.

I'm going, an empty wine bottle!

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