Chapter 370 The first night in Beijing
Chapter 370 The First Night in Beijing
"Okay, Yan is willing to be a servant of the Wang family."
Master Tingyu thought for a while and felt that the other companies would not offer a better price.
Besides, since Wang An needed a jackpot, if I didn't know what was good for me, Wang An would probably hold a grudge against me.
He didn't want to get into trouble now, so he just went with the flow and agreed.
Tian Lin on the side frowned. At the Jindan realm, one could only obtain the status of a country dweller. And at the foundation-building realm, he was destined to be a refugee?
Sure enough, after Master Tingyu registered his name, hometown, and date of birth in front of Wang An, Wang An asked, "Are there any foundation-building cultivators willing to work as farmhands in my Wang family farm?"
Of course he could see Tian Lin's cultivation, but this time he didn't look at Tian Lin.
Obviously, the Wang family has no need for foundation-building cultivators.
Tian Lin thought for a moment, then stood up and asked, "May I ask, sir, if I can become a village household as a farmhand of the Wang family?"
Wang An didn't say anything, and his servant sneered:
"You are too crazy. It is not that easy to get into the village household register. I allow you to be a farmhand of the Wang family. It is already good enough to provide you with two full meals a day. What else do you want?"
Tian Lin remained silent after hearing this. The official beside him advised him, "Second brother, what else do you want? It's really good to have enough food to eat."
Indeed, a group of Huahualang traveled thousands of miles to the capital, just to have a full meal, right?
But Tian Lin came to Beijing not to have enough food, but to find a way to leave this world.
If he just wanted to have enough food, why would he go to Wang's house to look for food and be enslaved? After all, he could eat the poisonous fruit that others couldn't eat - he wouldn't starve to death anyway.
"If you don't want to, I won't force you."
Wang An from above spoke up and no longer gave Tian Lin the chance to choose.
He turned around and said to the servant, "The good seeds have all been picked by the Zhao family. Getting a Jindan cultivator is also a good start. Now, let's start selecting the maids."
The servant said to the people below: "Young women and ladies, all come forward!"
As soon as he said this, a group of old women all squeezed forward.
These women and children were very strong at this time, and they pushed the young official and the second in command to the ground.
"Don't crowd, stand up straight - and where did this old woman come from? We are looking for a maid, not a godmother!"
The servant spoke angrily, hitting the women mercilessly with the stick in his hand.
Soon, the old, fat, ugly and disabled people were all driven out from the crowd.
There were only a dozen girls left, all of them aged between eight and twenty.
These women were not actually very pretty, after all, the pretty ones had all been chosen by the Zhao family.
But even if they are not beautiful, women in this period are still young. As long as they take good care of themselves, they will grow back in time and will not be too ugly.
"how old?"
"Are there any relatives at home?"
"What cultivation level?"
"Are you still a virgin?"
The servant over there started to register the people, but Wang An had already left.
The servant only picked four girls out of the dozen young women and said to them, "When you get to the farm, start as servants. You will get half a bowl of rice every day, so you won't starve to death. If you perform well, you may be able to advance in the future."
Half a bowl of rice, no salary. This is actually a huge exploitation for Qigong practitioners.
But now is the end of the world, and the situation is no longer the same as in previous years. Half a bowl of rice can sustain life, and I don’t know how many women envy it. Some women cried and complained to the servants: "Sir, please give me a way to live, I am willing to do anything."
The servant sneered, "I don't lack people willing to work for me!"
After saying this, he was about to leave with the four women and Master Tingyu.
Over there, Master Tingyu communicated with Tian Lin and the others in secret: "I will come back to see you after I have settled down."
Tian Lin didn't know when he would be settled, and he suspected that Master Tingyu wanted to take advantage of the situation to get rid of him and his men. So he sent a secret message back, "Brother, when we get hungry, I'm afraid we will come to you for food. Don't forget us then."
Hearing that Tian Lin was begging for food with such confidence, Master Tingyu couldn't help but feel angry.
But this was not the place to talk, so Master Tingyu left without saying a word.
Seeing Master Tingyu leave, the second in command couldn't help but said to Langguan and Tianlin anxiously: "Brother is gone, what should we do?"
In fact, Tian Lin is not bad, after all, Tian Lin has the cultivation of the late stage of foundation building. If he really wants to be a dog, the family will be willing to throw a few bones.
But they are both Qi Refiners, and what is most lacking here is Qi Refiners.
When it comes to Qi Refiners, the aristocratic families are reluctant to give even a single bone to them.
"What are you afraid of? We have things we can exchange for food. Besides, we still have our big brother to take care of everything."
Spirit stones are priceless. For Nascent Soul and Spiritual God, spirit stones are more precious than food.
After all, as long as Yuanying and Huashen strongmen can maintain a stable cultivation level, they don’t have to worry about starving to death. At that level of cultivation, they have already practiced fasting.
If food can be exchanged for spirit stones, Nascent Soul and Spiritual Transformation masters will definitely be willing to do so.
But do Tian Lin and others dare to use spirit stones to exchange for food?
They didn't even dare let others know that they had spiritual stones.
"Indeed, big brother also gets food and meat every month, plus new notes. I just inquired, and now the new notes used by the Great Qi Dynasty can be used to buy food."
The three younger brothers were all ready to eat and use what their eldest brother had, and for a moment they felt at ease.
But the most urgent task is to avoid starving himself to death before Master Tingyu stabilizes.
After the Wang family left, Tian Lin and the other two "interviewed" two more aristocratic families.
But without exception, no one wanted to be the Langguan or the Second in Command, and Tian Lin was unwilling to be a dog.
As it was getting darker, no more noble families came to select people.
The group of Hwahualang had nowhere to go, and they were not allowed to stay in this empty place named Hufang for long.
Being driven to the top of the mountain like other Huahualang, Langguan couldn't help but say, "We have come all the way here, but we are destined to starve. Does God really want to kill us ordinary people?"
The second in command said, "It's good that we won't be killed by evil spirits here."
This is just nonsense to deceive yourself and others!
Although there are no wandering evil spirits here, it is not impossible that people might kill and cook others if they are extremely hungry.
Compared to the wandering evil spirits, the hungry-eyed Hua Hualang around them is also a great threat.
"As long as no one dies, things shouldn't get that bad."
Tian Lin comforted them, saying, "I still have some food on me, enough for us to live for ten days. During this time, let's ask around and see how other Huahualangs survived here as refugees."
The few of them stopped talking and mingled with the refugees that night, each of them enduring their first night in Beijing with their own thoughts.
(End of this chapter)