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"Don't be in a hurry! There is another good thing here!"

Just when Wei Yuan thought he was done with work, Ah Suo suddenly said that there were still good things in Liujiazhuang.

Following Ah Suo's guidance, the group came to Liu's house. It is Master Liu's home.

The body of Mr. Liu became a greedy ghost due to the vicious qi in the world, and the Liu family was the first to suffer.

It's just that greedy ghosts were only the size of ordinary people back then, and maybe even smaller. So the greedy ghost only ate the members of the Liu family, after all, there were more than fifty people, and they ate for a whole night.

On the second night, the greedy ghost became much stronger and began to go to neighbors' houses to eat people. After all, wood and bricks, how can meat be delicious?

Afterwards, the whole village had been eaten up, and the greedy ghost became enormous, and when it started eating dirt and rocks, it was already far away from the Liu family. So the Liu residence did not find any damage.

If Wei Yuan and the others came two or three days later, the greedy ghosts would become even bigger. It is estimated that the entire Liujiazhuang would be eaten up, and there would be a big hole left on the ground. Greedy ghosts will eat in other directions.

This Liu's house is still well preserved, Wei Yuan followed A Suo's guidance and came to a small study in Liu's house. On the wall of the study room, there is a painting.

There was a fat horse in the painting. The horse had white, yellow, red, black, and blue fur, and the horse's mane was also braided into five different colors. It looked very elegant.

The paper of this painting is yellowed, and it looks quite ancient. Look at the inscription and seal again, Han Gan in the Tang Dynasty.

Han Gan is known as the originator of the horse painting world, and he claims that the horse walks in the painting. There is even a story that someone from the underworld asked him to draw a horse as a mount. It can be seen that it is indeed extraordinary.

If this painting is real, it is quite a rare ancient painting!

Of course, Wei Yuan didn't know Han Gan, and he didn't care about ancient paintings.

Wei Yuan noticed the strangeness of the painting, and tried to activate it by consuming energy levels.

Suddenly Hou Yingxiong's eyes blurred, as if he saw the plump horse in the painting shaking its mane!

He rubbed his eyes and looked again, the painting was the same, as if he had misread it!

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Wei Yuan set off again, he was going across the river to Shaoxing Mansion, and then went southwest to Jinhua.

Go southwest from Hangzhou Mansion, and then cross the river to Jinhua.

It’s just that the world is chaotic after all. The area directly under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Prefecture is more than twice the size of ordinary prefectures. It’s good to be close to the east of Hangzhou Bay, which is very prosperous and relatively stable, although it is inevitable that some small thieves and monsters will make trouble. But it's better than the large wilderness no man's land west of Hangzhou city.

Due to the exorbitant taxation and the fleeing from famine, as well as the rampage of bandits and demons, a large area to the west of Hangzhou Mansion has become desolate.

The place that was pioneered and prosperous two hundred years ago is now overgrown with grass. The area of ​​human activity has regressed.

Under such circumstances, if Wei Yuan takes this path, he will suffer a lot!

In the deep mountains and old forests, monsters and evil spirits must be piled up! There is no serious place to land, and there is no one in sight. Maybe in which mountain you can see ghosts in the barren tombs.

Why do people make things difficult for themselves? Wouldn't it be nice to be more comfortable? For example, when you really don’t want to code, just drop it!

So Wei Yuan decisively chose to take the Shaoxing route.

The people of the Hou Mansion respectfully sent a boat to take Wei Yuan, together with the members of the Westbound Zoo, to the opposite side of the river.

Wei Yuan waved his hand and let out a horse's long neigh. A group of strong horses came running out of nowhere, and stopped in front of Wei Yuan. Their necks were raised and their teeth were bared, with a very smug expression.

This horse looks a bit strange, because the ancients often paid attention to the resemblance of the spirit rather than the resemblance of the shape, so the horse has problems such as a thick neck and a thin head, and a huge body.

If someone who is good at looking at horses can recognize it at a glance, there is no such horse in the world, and only some painters can draw such a horse. Not to mention anything else, just five colors of fur are enough to bluff people!

But it doesn't matter, just ride well.

Wei Yuan was sitting on a horse with chicken legs lying on the horse's buttocks.

Erha trotted beside him, and Wukong was squatting on Erha's body.

Erha had to run around swishingly, maybe he would get kicked at that moment.

"Mondo, let's go! Drive~"

Wei Yuan named the five-flowered horse Mondo, because Mondo can go wherever he wants!

Mondo has a lot of energy and doesn't need to eat or drink. As long as Wei Yuan consumes some energy, he can keep running.

Mondo's steps are light and cheerful, and everything he sees along the way is very fresh. In just one day, Wei Yuan ran from the river to Xiaoshan County.

As soon as he entered the county seat, Wei Yuan felt uncomfortable, as if there was something uncomfortable in the air.

The chicken legs also covered their noses, squinting their eyes and sweeping around.

"Ah Suo, what's going on? Why do I feel that something is wrong with this county town!"

A Suo's voice sounded behind Wei Yuan's ears: "Because there is a lot of strong resentment floating in the air."

"Resentment? That's how it is! But, how can there be such a large area of ​​resentment? What a big injustice?!"

Wei Yuan felt that resentment condensed in the air, and even the clouds were disturbed, almost manifesting.

Resentment on this scale is enough to interfere with the weather, even snow in June is a trivial matter.

A Suo said: "I don't think this is the grievance of one person or an individual..."

Wei Yuan rode a horse to the gate of the county seat. There were only two skinny and lazy guards squatting on the ground to "stand guard".

People who can ride such a tall horse are not something the guards can provoke, and this one has a bald head, so it looks extraordinary at first sight. These guards are very discerning, how dare they provoke them indiscriminately?

It's just that Wei Yuan was also wondering: even the city gate guards who are full of oil and water are so thin, how poor is Xiaoshan County!

You know, you will never be as poor as those low-level officials.

No matter what kind of disaster, as long as there are still people alive, these small officials can get it back.

Now that both of them have lost weight, it can be seen that Xiaoshan County is really impoverished.

Entering Xiaoshan County, the street was deserted. There are a few scattered stalls, but there are not many goods.

There are more people setting up stalls than buying things.

Wei Yuan sat down at a wonton stand on the side of the street, and paid out some big money, "Here are some bowls of wontons!"

Wei Yuan swallowed the next bowl with a sigh of relief, and began to chew and eat the second bowl slowly.

Chicken legs look down on this kind of non-meat food and climb on the horse's buttocks.

The Erha on one side was so greedy, his saliva was dripping down, he screamed and jumped on the spot in a hurry, and almost lifted the table directly.

Wei Yuan threw a wonton to it, lest Brother Erha should rush to overturn the table.

After eating the wontons, Wei Yuan began to ask the old man who set up the stall.

"Master, why does Xiaoshan County look like this? It's so close to Hangzhou Mansion, it shouldn't be!"

Although the old man was very worried about Wei Yuan's behavior of feeding wontons to dogs. But he is rich and even rides a tall horse, and he is still a monk, so he can't afford to be provoked.

The old man opened his mouth and replied: "Master doesn't know something, our Xiaoshan County...is miserable!"

Before the old man could say anything, his eyes turned red.

"You don't think we are separated by a river from Hangzhou, but we belong to Shaoxing government. Hangzhou can't control us! And we are not close to Shaoxing. Who cares? And our business gang has long been It was hit by a catastrophe in the past few years and almost completely wiped out. It never got up again. So it all depends on the magistrate of the county..."

The old man glanced around and whispered: "Seven or eight years ago, we were in charge of the previous county magistrate. He was called Qian Papi! Various taxes have been increased by seven or eight, and in the end there was really no money to collect them." , A poll tax was actually collected! Whoever has a child on the ground will have to pay the tax! If there is no money, the land will be confiscated!"

"Where does Kuhaha Mudlegs have money? That little land has to support a family! If the land is confiscated, the whole family will have to starve to death? As a result, no one dares to have children. The poor At home, I dare not even give birth to a child. I will be thrown into the toilet and drowned when I am born! At that age, I don’t know how many babies died! There used to be a big ditch in the east of the county town, which was used to throw children. draw!"

"At first we thought it would be good if the county magistrate had been transferred for three years! Who would have thought that Qian Papi had been re-elected for three terms. If he hadn't suddenly become a high official in Fucheng the year before last, he was promoted and transferred away. We would still suffer. !"

Wei Yuan finally knew what was going on with that huge resentment! That is the grievance of thousands of babies who died innocently and tragically in the past ten years!

The hatred in Wei Yuan's heart! This kind of county magistrate can actually be promoted!

This world is indeed a world where good and evil are not rewarded!

Wei Yuan's face was gloomy, and he asked, "Then it's better now, right?"

The old man shook his head: "Master, do you think this street looks better? The new county magistrate does not collect poll tax. But he feels that people's livelihood has been poor for ten years, the population is too small, and tax revenue has also been reduced. So now If a family has less than two children, they will have to pay heavy taxes. The desolation of the county today is due to the fact that people have fled to death, and everyone is gone.”

The old man lowered his head and wrapped the wontons, and said in a low voice: "Those rich families are okay, they have money to sell people. Those kidnappers abducted many children from other places, and those rich families bought them as adopted children. They are actually servants and maids... old man I used to have a son, but he fell into the water and died a few years ago. Now I am old and have no one to support me, and I have to pay heavy taxes every year. If I don’t come out to buy wontons, I will be forced to die. Wait until I can’t do it anymore , it's time for me to die..."

Wei Yuan felt something stuck in his heart, unable to speak and out of breath.

He raised his head and looked at the sky... The Shangguan is domineering, and the common people are living in mediocrity. They thought they could mess with other people's life, old age, sickness and death at will, but those grievances were floating in the sky!

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Ps: Thanks to the book friend "V Xiu V" for the reward!

Congratulations to the book friend "Fighting Qi Transforming Horse", Wuhuama Mundo's debut.

I wish everyone can live like a person...