Chapter 1213

As he walked through the settlement, ye Tian also felt an incredible feeling.

There is a completely self-sufficient state of men farming and women weaving here. Young people are working in the fields, while women are guarding in front of the textile machine, chatting and spinning silk and cotton cloth. People selling goods outside are old people, and they exchange goods for goods more, and there is little circulation of gold coins.

Ye Tian hasn't seen such a scene for a long time. In his memory, there is no place that is really ordinary. Even in those defeated places, there can be one or two people with some accomplishments. But when he entered this gathering, ye Tian saw more than 100 people before and after, But I still haven't seen anyone with cultivation.

As he approached a small market in the settlement, ye Tian looked around and finally walked to a small stall selling groceries, dropped a few gold coins, picked up some sundries on the stall, and then asked the old man who set up the stall.

"Sir, I want to ask who is in charge of this settlement? I want to consult him about something."

Hearing Ye Tian's question, the old man was lazily shaking the Pu fan in his hand, but his eyes lit up when he saw the gold coins left by Ye Tian.

"Are you... From the inside or from the outside?"

The old man raised his slightly yellow eyes and asked after scanning Ye Tian. Ye Tian looked like the vicissitudes of Shifeng after his disguise, which made him a little afraid.

"Inside and outside? Sir, I don't know where you mean inside and outside. If you mean outside of the dark Yu country, I really come from outside."

Ye Tian frowned vaguely and replied.

"Oh... Adults from outside, no wonder they can take out gold coins to spend."

Nodded, the old man also looked clear for a while, and soon it was a turning point, "Sir, if you want to know something about the kingdom of amyu, you can go to our tribal leader. His residence is in the west of the settlement. The largest building is. If you need anything else, please choose. The gold coins you give are enough to pick up one-third of what I have here."

Hearing this, ye Tian was shocked. He just left seven or eight gold coins. I'm afraid this amount is the price of a simple meal, but there are really a lot of things in this stall. If you put them elsewhere, they may sell at least tens of hundreds of gold coins!

Is this really a barren land?

Ye Tianxin was slightly suspicious for a while. He really couldn't think of anything to actually take over. He simply shook his head. Without anything else, he turned and walked towards the west of the settlement. Instead, the old man thanked him again and again.

It's not strange. It's just weird. People here seem to like gold coins, which really makes Ye Tian confused.

To the west of the settlement, ye Tian found the largest building that the old man said. At a glance, it made Ye Tian laugh.

The so-called largest building is only less than two meters wider than the surrounding buildings. It seems that there is no particularly obvious difference at all. If it were not for that building, it would be a little higher than the surrounding buildings, ye Tian might not be able to find it.

Gently knocking on the door, ye Tian waited quietly in front of the door, waiting for the response inside. For a long time, there was a sound of hearing. A small window was opened on the door, and there was an old man. He looked at Ye Tian carefully before putting his eyes close to the window.

"Who is your excellency?"

The old man's voice was frightened. It sounded as if he was afraid of someone coming to the door.

"Just passers-by. I want to know something. If the old man can answer some questions for me, I can give the old man some reward."

As he spoke, ye Tian took out a Xuan coin from his hand and threw it away. Instead, ye Tian now has more gold coins, only some fragments.

When the old man saw the black coin in Ye Tian's hand, he saw the old man's obvious shiver through the window on the door, as if he was frightened. He quickly opened the door to a gap, exposed half his head, looked at the black coin in Ye Tian's hand and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Are you really willing to give a mysterious coin... Just inquire about some things?"

"Naturally, can the old gentleman let me in? If he doesn't want to, forget it. I'll just ask a few questions and leave after asking."

With a flick of his thumb, ye Tian directly threw the mysterious coin at the old man. The old man immediately caught it in a hurry. Just now he kept stroking and rubbing in his hand, as if he were stroking something very precious.

"Come on, sir, please come in!"

After accepting the Xuan coin, the old man was obviously very excited. He quickly opened the door and greeted Ye Tian to enter.

When he stepped into the room, ye Tian found that the room was very simple. There were some daily necessities in such a simple wooden house. In addition, there was nothing special. The only thing that made Ye Tian look more was a small box on a bookshelf.

The small box is made of metal with poor texture. There may be one or two hundred gold coins in it. It seems to be all the assets of the old man. It looks rather shabby.

"Sit down quickly, sir. I'll make tea for you."

Ye Tian was warmly invited to sit down. The old man turned around and got busy. He carefully took out a box of tea from the cupboard. However, as ye Tian expected, the quality of the tea was quite average. Such a box can sell 30 gold coins, and the price of such a whole box, I'm afraid it's not as good as the dregs left by the tea leaves Ye Tian drank in the King City

A moment later, the old man just stirred up the tea he thought was very decent and brought it to Ye Tian, which also made Ye Tian feel helpless.

It's not that ye Tian despises these things. Ye Tian himself doesn't care about them. It's just that the old man's face is very painful. It really makes Ye Tian feel helpless. He put about ten pieces of tea into the tea cup, as if he had let the old man lose a piece of heart

"Please use it, sir. I hope you don't dislike it. This is the best thing I can take out to entertain you. You can make do with it in our poor place."

The old man put down his tea cup and sat opposite Ye Tian. He felt out an old cigarette pole and smoked.

"In fact, sir, what I want to ask is, why is this place so barren? And I feel that coins here seem... Not very circulating?"

Ye Tian took a sip of the light, almost tasteless tea in the cup and asked.

"No, it's not that we don't circulate, but that the money we can get is too small to supply to the 'guard gate' every year. Therefore, we are so excited when we see the existence of coins..."

The old man sighed and shook his head.

"Guard gate? What's that?" Ye Tian frowned and confessed every year. It sounded like... Landlord Lao Cai?

"Weimen is the governing body in the dark Yu River. The managers of all clans and settlements. Every year, we have to provide money to them in order to get their protection. In a poor place like us, if the money is not enough, we can only use food and textiles to offset it. Two thirds of the products in the settlements every year have to be used to offset the money provided by them. We are also very helpless..."

"How much money do you need to provide?" Ye Tian asked slightly strangely.

"Fifteen thousand gold coins... Fortunately, you gave me a Xuan coin, and most of this year's harvest can stay." the old man said as he looked at Ye Tian.

Ye Tian realized that these ordinary people without cultivation could live here only under the protection of the "guard gate". For them, gold coins are to keep their own safety and harvest. No wonder these people are so excited when they see money