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 do this. Everyone should go around and ask for information. 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 asked the gatekeeper secretly. We can pass through without checking the household registration if we are given 10 taels of silver per person.”

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.

Everyone quieted down and looked at Gu Zhang eagerly.

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 relaxed.

Gu Zhang continued: “None of them is a good idea.”

He pointed a finger: “One way is, no matter whether adults or children, each person has to give 10 taels of silver secretly to the soldiers, and they will let you go.”

Everyone was stunned, ten taels each?

This family would need dozens of taels of silver to get by, and the main point was that they didn’t have that much silver!

Mrs. Qian couldn’t help but yell: “Why is it so expensive? Are they robbing people?”

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 give money, you give it secretly, and if they let you go, they let you go secretly!”

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

“No woman in the family said anything, only you talk too much!”

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

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

He had just asked around but didn’t find out anything.

Gu Zhang lowered his voice: “This is more risky. Some people forge household registration for others. The price is not expensive, only 2 taels osilverrs. As for whether the fake household registration can be passed, they can’t guarantee it.”

“It’s said that some people have passed, and some have been discovered.”

The village chief asked again: “Then, what if you are caught for forgery?”

Gu Zhang glanced at him, “Normally, forgery of documents will be thrown into jail, but now, the jail is full of people, and the government has to provide 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 with a stick at the city gate, 10 boards per person.”

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

But there were eight people in his family, and it would cost eighty taels of silver to go into the city. He really can’t afford so much!

It was said there were two ways, but means there was none.