Chapter 127 There Is Still No Way

The village chief sighed repeatedly, "What can we do? What can we do? We can't go back this time--"

Gu Zhang thought for a while and asked Uncle Ma in a low voice, "Do you have any ideas?"

Uncle Ma pondered for a long time, "It's hard to say. I haven't encountered such a thing before."

"Let's go around and ask around. Maybe there will be other ways."

Su Chen heard it clearly while sitting in the carriage. His face was not very good. He called Zhang Ze over and whispered a few words. Zhang Ze nodded and left.

Uncle Ma, the village chief, Gu Zhang, Gu Qing and others went around to ask around.

The rest of the people had no choice but to unload the car and squeeze together to eat dry food.

There were many disaster victims here, and everyone didn't dare to cook.

The people who went to ask around went for more than half an hour before they came back one after another.

Zhang Ze came back the fastest. He walked to the carriage and whispered to Su Chen, "I found the gatekeepers and asked them secretly. If we give ten taels of silver per person, they will let us go."

Su Chen pursed his lips and said after a while, "Wait for Uncle Ma and Uncle Gu to come back and see what they say."

Gu Zhang and Uncle Ma came back together. Both of them looked a little heavy.

When everyone saw the two of them coming back, they all gathered around.

Chen Hu also walked over with Su Chen on his back and found a place for Su Chen to sit down.

Gu Zhang looked at the eager faces around him and smiled bitterly, "I have been asking for a long time. There are two ways to enter the city-"

Everyone was happy and looked relieved.

Gu Zhang continued, "But neither of them is a good way."

He stretched out a finger, "One way, no matter adults or children, each person, ten taels of silver, secretly give it to the soldiers, they will let you go."

Everyone was stunned, ten taels per person?

Which family needs dozens of taels of silver to get by? The key is that they don’t have that much silver!

Qian couldn’t help but yell, “Why is it so expensive? You’re robbing me——”

Before she finished speaking, Gu Zhang gritted his teeth and looked at her, lowering his voice, “Sister-in-law, can you yell about this? Even if you were given money, you were given secretly, and if they let you go, they were also letting you go secretly!”

Gu Zhong’s face flushed, and without saying a word, he raised his uninjured arm and slapped Qian, “Shut up.”

Qian covered her face with grievance. Recently, the head of the family has become more and more dissatisfied with her. He either beats her or scolds her. She can’t live like this.

The village chief asked anxiously, “What else can I do?”

He asked around but found nothing.

Gu Zhang lowered his voice, "This is more risky. There are people who forge household registration for others. The price is not expensive. As for whether the fake household registration can be passed, they can't guarantee it."

The village chief asked again, "Then, what if you are caught for forging?"

Gu Zhang glanced at him, "Normally, forging documents will be thrown into jail. Now, the jail is full of people, and the government still provides food. Everyone wants to go to jail, but now you can't go to jail!"

"It is said that if you find forgery, you will take off your pants and beat them at the city gate. Ten boards per person."

The village chief shuddered. Ten boards would probably take away half of his life.

But his family of eight people needs 80 taels of silver to enter the city. He really can't afford so much!

It's said that there are two ways, which is equivalent to no way.