Chapter 23: Conditions for entering the city

Chapter 23 Conditions for entering the city

  There were also quite a few people outside of Xuanhe City, but unlike the previous Qingan City, the conditions of the people outside the city gate were much better.

   And there were two sheds not far away, and the servants of big families in the city were cooking porridge.

Gu Yundong placed the Yang family not far away, took two bowls to ask for porridge, and inquired about the situation there.

 An old women said to her, "It's not easy if you want to enter the city. I heard that the Magistrate is worried that too many refugees will enter the city and cause chaos, so you must meet conditions to enter the city."

   "What conditions?"

   A girl about her age next to her looked at her up and down for a while, and sneered, "It's useless to say it, and you will definitely not meet the conditions with your appearance."

  Gu Yundong ignored her and asked the aunt, "You tell me."

   "It is said that to enter the city, not only a household registration certificate is required, but each person has to pay five taels of silver."

   "Five taels?" Come on, why not steal their money?

   Five taels for one person, so it was twenty taels for the four of them.

They had the household registration certificate. Her father Gu Dajiang; wanted them to keep it close to their bodies.

Seeing her surprised look, the girl next to her immediately laughed, "It's useless to tell you, but you still asked. Seeing that you are not as good as me, it would already be good if you had five Cooper coins on your body, so be honest. Just find a place outside and wait for a kind-hearted person to give you some food, what are you bothering yourself about?"

   Gu Yundong turned her head and looked sharply at her, "What's wrong with you? What, no one cares about you, so you keep looking for a sense of existence. Do I know you? Am I familiar with you?"

"You..."

  Gu Yundong turned around and left, "What are you so arrogant for? You can't even enter the city, if not why would you spend the night here."

  Gu Yundong had already walked over to her family and handed over the porridge in her hand, "Drink this first, we'll enter the city in a while."

   The four obediently drank the two bowls of porridge, while the porridge givers finished packing their things and entered the city.

   When the city gate became quieter, she got up, pulled the cart, and took the three of them to the gate.

  There were many soldiers standing guard at the gate of the city.

They were afraid of trouble. These soldiers all had a murderous look on their faces, and the swords in their hands had a cold light.

  Gu Yundong had been observing just now and found that the young soldier on the left had a good attitude. When the people who made porridge entered the city, he reached out to help.

   She walked up to him directly and handed over the household registration certificate in her hand.

   Her movement quickly attracted the other refugees who were still stranded at the gate of the city, especially the girl who had been looking down at her before, and sneered when she saw this.

  The soldier also looked at Gu Yundong in surprise, looked at her clothes and face, and looked at her household registration certificate, and then said, "Do you know the rules for entering the city?"

   "One person and five taels, right?"

  The soldier nodded, "There are four of you, a total of twenty."

   "I have it." Gu Yundong wanted to thank Master Qian who gave her twenty taels of silver so 'kindly'.

  Coupled with the five taels of silver she looted earlier, she should be able to hold out for a few days after entering the city, until she finds a way to make money.

   Watching as Gu Yundong pulled out twenty taels of silver from her body, the soldier looked at her in surprise.

The girl behind had an even more disbelieving look on her face. Wasn't she a poor ghost? Why, why did she have so much money?