Soon after, Xiwei arrived outside Winter City surrounded by a group of knights.

What comes into view is a wide moat, with some villages and fields surrounding the river.

Along the way, Xiwei saw figures with shabby clothes and sallow faces. Farmers wore straw hats and worked in the fields. There were women wearing headscarves and carrying baskets with some wild fruits in their hands, preparing to go to Winter City for sale.

. Occasionally, you can meet a few hunters carrying game on their backs. Although they look better, their bodies are covered with scars. You must know that in such a world, ordinary people are gambling on their lives when they go hunting in the mountains and forests.

These people who seem to be living an extremely hard life are the majority of the population of the Eagle Territory. Most of them are farmers and serfs with low status, who are not even considered free citizens.

According to the provisions of the kingdom's code, everything in the territory belongs to the lord. Farmers must work for the lord for free for at least four days a week, and must pay agricultural products and land rent to the lord in the form of taxes to thank the lord for his protection.

The food we ordered was simply not enough to eat.

The serfs with lower status were even worse. They had no household registration, no land, and no self-property. They were just a group of unpaid laborers. The greatest hope was to survive with a mouth to eat.

"System, these territorial citizens have been exploited by the previous lord and can hardly survive anymore. You still let me trample on their fields, won't your conscience hurt?"

Xi Wei gritted his teeth and angrily questioned the system.

As a well-educated young man in the 21st century, it is too much to let him snatch candy from children. Now he is allowed to bully these exploited citizens. This is simply opening up the wound and adding salt to it.

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"Ding! Host, the system has no conscience. All the system's actions are to create the strongest villain!"

"Garbage system, what else can you say besides saying this?"

Xiwei was speechless. He felt that the system was not cultivating the strongest villains, but the strongest psychopaths.

"It is impossible to follow the wishes of this garbage system and destroy those poor people." Xiwei thought in his heart.

"This garbage system is so rigid and not intelligent at all. There must be some way to exploit its loopholes."

"System, can you tell me what the specific standards for villain behavior are?" Xiwei asked the system in his mind.

"Ding! The standard for villain behavior to be effective is that it must cause psychological trauma to others."

"Psychological trauma?"

Xiwei held her chin, thoughtfully.

It can be said that what he did in the city did cause severe psychological trauma to a group of children, and may have become a shadow in their childhood.

As for Fatty, he once told Fatty that he would take away one candy and return two to Fatty. This behavior would obviously not cause psychological trauma to Fatty, so it was also judged as an invalid villain behavior by the system.

Thinking of this, Xiwei felt that he seemed to have grasped something.

"In other words, it is actually feasible to slap and then give a sweet date, but the slap must be continued to cause psychological trauma to the other party, and the other party does not know that there will be a sweet date as compensation later."

Xiwei's eyes lit up, and he decided to give his idea a try immediately. He looked around and saw a piece of farmland not far away.

Old Link was working in the fields at this time. The hot midday sun was baking his dark skin, and big beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks into the fields.

Suddenly, he felt a dark shadow appear in front of him, and then a huge hoof stepped on the wheat seedlings he had worked so hard to plant.

"Which dog...uh?"

Old Link frowned and raised his head to scold the bastard who trampled on his wheat seedlings. But when he raised his head, he saw a handsome young man with a golden lion clan emblem printed on his armor, riding on a majestic dragon-blood horse.

Behind this young man was a group of tall and burly knights.

Old Link swallowed, suppressed the curse words, then his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.

"Lord, spare your life! Lord, spare your life!..." Old Link shivered and buried his head deeply on the ground. His mind went blank. Except for Lord, spare your life, he could no longer say anything else.

Xiwei looked at the frightened old farmer lying on the ground, and felt bad. It was obviously him who had trampled on the old man's field, but now it was this gray-haired old man who was kneeling on the ground humbly begging for mercy.

"Should I say that this system is really stupid?" Xiwei cursed secretly. At this time, Xiwei and his knights had already stepped on a two-meter-wide path in the field, but even so, the system still did not judge Xiwei.

Maintenance task completed.

There was no other way. Although he couldn't bear it, Xiwei had no choice but to order his knights to trample around the fields.

"I bumped into the lord, and this is the punishment I deserve."

Old Link sadly murmured in his heart that he was lucky to have saved his life. He knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word, and allowed the knights under the lord's command to destroy the fields, but his heart was bleeding.

These are the wheat seedlings he worked so hard to plant. Without these wheat seedlings, he would not be able to pay taxes in the second half of the year. The final outcome would be that his land would be taken back and he would be demoted to serfdom.

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"Ding! Daily task three has been completed. Do you want to receive the reward now?"

"no!"

It seems that his violent behavior has caused serious psychological trauma to the old farmer, so now is the time to try to make amends.

But how to compensate is a technical job. This compensation must not only make up for the old man's losses, but also not go so far as to make the old man feel that this was intentional. As for whether the old man can react in the future, it doesn't matter, because he only needs

Just cheat the system now.

Considering that the old man would immediately try his best to rescue the wheat seedlings after they left, Xiwei suddenly had an idea in his mind, so when he left the wheat field, he pretended to have accidentally dropped a dozen silver coins.

Xiwei held his breath nervously, but until he was far away from the wheat field, he still didn't hear the system prompt.

"It seems that my idea is right." Xiwei smiled slightly and became more relaxed. After finding the loopholes in the system, Xiwei became more and more confident about whether he could survive the subsequent plot.

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Maybe others would think that Xi Wei accidentally dropped those silver coins, but Clemont would not. Because Xi Wei himself is an earth knight, and his sense of various subtle events has reached an outrageous level, so these silver coins

It must have been dropped on purpose. Although Clemont didn't understand the purpose of Master Xiwei's doing this, he believed that it was just like Master Xiwei snatching the children's candy before. There must be a deep meaning in it that he couldn't easily understand!

"Young master is becoming more and more unpredictable!"

Clemont looked at Xi Wei's back with reverence and admired in his heart.

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In the wheat field, Old Link was sorting out the swaying wheat seedlings with distress, his cloudy eyes filled with tears of sorrow.

Suddenly, through the reflection of sunlight, Old Link saw a round, shining thing in the wheat field.

It's a silver coin! Old Link rubbed his eyes, and after taking a closer look, he saw that it was indeed a silver coin.

He picked up the coin with some surprise and put it in his palm, clasping his hands together to thank the God of Harvest for the gift.

But then, near the place where the first silver coin was found, Old Link found more silver coins one after another. By the time he finished taking care of the wheat field, there were thirteen shining silver coins neatly lying in his ragged pocket.

of silver coins.

These silver coins are enough for his family to live stably for a year, and there is still money left to pay taxes, so he no longer has to worry about becoming a serf.

The sudden wealth made Old Link a little dumbfounded. He couldn't help but think of the young lord who brought the knights to trample the wheat fields.

"Is it that Lord?" Old Link then shook his head again, denying his naive idea in his heart. The superior Lord would not care about the lives of humble peasants like them.
Chapter completed!