in2ebook Chapter 325 Follow-up
Chapter 325 Follow-up
"I see that many people disagree with my decision just now. I am not the kind of person who likes to force people. So, if you want to go to Lanzhou with me and are willing to listen to my command, just stand next to me and I will take you away."
"Those who don't want to go with me can wait until we leave and discuss the future arrangements on their own. We will go our separate ways from now on. If we meet again in the future, we will pretend that we have never seen each other. It is getting late, so let's make a quick decision. You can make your choice now."
As soon as Shi Ying finished speaking, Chunhua and Qiushi immediately stood up, carrying their bags and standing beside Shi Ying. They had no control over how others chose them, but Shi Ying was the only one who helped them when they were in the most difficult times. At this critical moment, they had to stand on Sister Ying's side.
After Chunhua and Qiushi made their choices, two men and two women weighed the pros and cons, and then stood up one after another and walked to Shiying's side.
Shi Ying waited for a while and saw that the feet of the others seemed to be nailed down and they showed no intention of moving. She understood their choice.
She squatted down to pack her bag, and after putting the tied bag on her back, Shi Ying stood up again.
"Let's go." After saying these two words, Shi Ying didn't look at anyone who chose to stay, and walked straight down the path Lin Chuyi pointed out to them. The six people standing with Shi Ying followed closely behind him.
The rest of the people watched the group leave, then gathered in groups of three or four to express their opinions and discuss what to do next.
Shi Ying led her new team for a distance and then entered a grove. Under their own cover, they changed their clothes, tidied up their messy hair, found a walking stick, and then set off again.
Led by Shi Ying, their team groped their way forward, passed through several state capitals without any danger, and finally arrived in Lanzhou successfully a year later.
They stopped and walked along the way, and everyone gained a lot of knowledge. In the process, they learned a lot of skills. They saved a lot of money with what they learned along the way.
When they arrived in Lanzhou, their group of seven was still neat and tidy, and the total amount of silver they had was still twenty-three taels.
Having witnessed the prosperity of Lanzhou City, Shi Ying and his friends are no longer satisfied with settling in the county town under the jurisdiction of Lanzhou. They want to settle down in Lanzhou City, but Lanzhou City is the main urban area of Lanzhou and it is not a place where one can settle down casually.
So they settled for the next best thing and chose to settle in the villages around Lanzhou city. In the past two years, Lanzhou's business has developed rapidly, and consumption in the surrounding areas has also risen accordingly.
The money they had was not enough to support them to open accounts and settle down separately. After discussing it, they decided to change their names and surnames to address each other as siblings and to register under the same household registration.
They claimed that they had fled from Linzhou. A tsunami had hit Linzhou a year ago, and many villages and towns near the sea were devastated. Only one in ten people survived the disaster, and it was considered lucky to be able to survive.
After the head of Xiaoma Village learned about what happened to Shi Ying and his friends, he felt very sympathetic towards their experience. In addition, since they were very generous, he readily agreed to handle the household registration documents for them.
In this way, they successfully settled in Xiaoma Village. None of them were lazy people. Relying on the skills they learned along the way, they wove a lot of special straw weavings and sold them in Lanzhou City.
People in Lanzhou city have no shortage of money to buy straw weaving products, but what they lack is novelty. The things made by Shi Ying and his colleagues are unique and refreshing, and are very popular among local people.
They started by selling handicrafts with baskets, and developed step by step. Gradually, they had their own stalls and shops. They went from living in shabby houses in the village to having their own self-built houses. Later, they moved into the city as they wished, bought their own properties, and became part of Lanzhou.
Later, due to the substantial appreciation of real estate in Lanzhou, each of them became a landlord and achieved financial freedom at a young age.
After Shi Ying and his team left, those who had disagreed with them at the beginning were divided into three teams according to their different opinions.
A group of people settled directly in a village north of Jinzhou. Because they didn't want to get married, they formed pairs, changed their names and became husband and wife, and lived a life in the village with men farming and women weaving.
A group of people went to Fangzhou from Jinzhou. No one knew them there, and they didn't want to continue living with someone who knew their past. So after entering Fangzhou, the group disbanded, and they never met each other again.
After using the remaining money to buy themselves new identities, they each embarked on a new path in life, either getting married and having children, or choosing to live out the rest of their lives alone, like most people, spending the rest of their lives in peace.
There was another group of people who could not let go of their relatives and secretly returned to Mingzhou. They did not dare to recognize their relatives in public and waited until the bandits were executed and the matter was completely over. Only then did they find their relatives in private.
When the brother learned that his sister was not dead, he cried with joy and immediately took his sister home. Later, in order to protect his sister's reputation, the whole family moved to another state.
When husbands or fathers see their wives or children coming back alive to find them, after a brief moment of joy, distorted values once again take over and coldly offer them two choices: either commit suicide to preserve their innocence, or receive a letter of divorce and return to their parents' home/become a monk.
After being heartbroken, most of them took the third path. After accepting the divorce letter and compensation, they completely moved away from their original families, formed a new family, and lived together.
Of course, these are all later stories, and Lin Chuyi and Ping An know nothing about the subsequent developments of these people.
After the two of them explained everything, they used their light skills to return to Mingzhou City. After Shen Nian returned to the government office, Lin Chuyi quietly placed the written testimony on the desk in Shen Nian's study.
After confirming that Shen Nian had seen the testimony, she left the government office with satisfaction and Ping An. She changed her clothes and went to Wang Fugui's rented house to find Wang Fugui.
Wang Fugui learned about the whole process of how their "friends" dealt with the bandits in Fufeng Village, the bandits' current whereabouts, and the news that there were still people alive in his caravan. After a brief moment of stunned silence, he started crying and laughing like a madman.
After calming down, he once again promised Lin Chuyi that he would pay her the reward after returning to Beijing.