People die for wealth and birds die for food. This is indeed a classic saying.

Just now he was scolding Huo Guang for asking about the Jiang family. Now, looking at the money in the young man's hand, the old man was obviously moved.

He looked around for a moment, and then whispered: "Alang, this is not the place to talk. If it is convenient, can you come home with me and talk in detail."

Huo Guang frowned and said, "Your home isn't outside the city, right?"

"No, no, no, it's within the city." The old man waved his hand quickly.

Huo Guang thought for a while and said, "Okay, then I'll go with you."

The exchange is over.

The old man collected the baskets on the ground, piled them up and tied them together, and picked them up with something similar to a pole.

Then.

Huo Guang could no longer see the old man, only a pile of walking baskets.

Of course.

You can still hear the old man calling Huo Guang.

"Young man, please follow me. My home is not far and I will be there soon."

"OK."

Huo Guang couldn't see the old man. When he heard the voice, he quickly responded.

After detouring through several streets and alleys, Huo Guang finally arrived at the old man's home in a corner of Handan County.

Just don't know.

How did this old man find his way among a pile of baskets?

Huo Guang looked at this place. It felt a bit similar to the Pig Dragon Walled City in the movie. It was very crowded.

It can also be seen from here.

During the Han Dynasty.

Handan is far less prosperous than Chang'an, because Chang'an city cannot accommodate such a place.

"You can sit anywhere you like. Old man, my house is quite shabby, so don't make fun of me," the old man said.

After hearing this, Huo Guang smiled and shook his head.

He doesn't mind this.

When I first followed cheap father Huo Zhongru, the bad environment in the countryside was not much better than here.

Let’s use an analogy!

Before his brother Champion Hou bought a house for his father, pigs were raised in his hometown, and the pig pen where the pigs were raised was called "Hong".

at the same time!

Mix can also refer to the toilet.

Why can "溷" refer to both the pig pen and the toilet?

Because it is composed of two parts, namely the toilet and the pigsty, the toilet is on the top and the pigsty is on the bottom.

This is why today we talk about going to the toilet instead of going to the toilet.

As for why the toilets and pig pens are made like this?

The main reason is still the lack of food. In an era when people don't have enough to eat, how can there be anything to feed pigs? They can only be forced to make pigs a part of the ecological cycle.

After the old man placed the basket next to the door, he called his wife and made a bowl of tea for Huo Guang.

Huo Guang took the tea and thanked him.

only.

Seeing that the tea was dark and bubbling, I couldn't help but feel a little scared.

He couldn't drink this bowl of tea no matter what.

After coughing slightly, he asked the old man: "Um, can you tell me about the Jiang family? Doesn't the family of Prince Ruren Jiang Qin live in Handan City?"

As soon as I heard this.

The old man frowned, stood up and closed all the doors of the house. Due to the poor light, it was dark even though it was daytime.

After doing this, he felt a little relieved.

"Young man, judging from your accent, you should be a native of Handan, right?" the old man asked first.

Huo Guang nodded and replied: "Indeed not, he only came in these two days."

"It's no wonder that you don't know. All the young and old of the Jiang family were killed by the prince. Especially Jiang Qin and Jiang Qi, the father and brother of the two children, died the worst!" The old man sighed.

After hearing this, Huo Guang was frightened.

Killed them all?

Oh My God!

Isn’t this Prince Liu Dan also arrogant?

Huo Guang frowned slightly and asked, "Old man, is this true or a rumor?"

After hearing this, the old man immediately shook his head and said, "Of course it's true. Otherwise, why would it be so heavy if we didn't talk about the snow this year?"

"Because of injustice!"

"Hey..."

The old man said and couldn't help but sigh.

This made Huo Guang frown slightly. It was snowing heavily. What did it have to do with the injustice?

Could it be.

Is it not unfair if the offense is small?

But having said that, if what the old man said is true, then the Zhao Kingdom Prince Liu Dan’s methods are really vicious!

After all, Jiang Qin is the child you married, right?

You didn't care about being nice to her, but you still sent officials to arrest and kill her. It's really unscrupulous.

No wonder Jiang Qi wants to run away...

No, they will all be exterminated.

Although Huo Guang still didn't believe that what the old man said was true, he listened first and then asked: "Then doesn't King Zhao know? He doesn't care about his prince?"

But the old man snorted and said: "King Zhao? The wild geese will pluck out their hair when they fly by, so all tourists who come for fun will go around Handan."

"A noble king does not like to build palaces, but is superstitious about ghosts and gods. He also likes to do what officials do, collecting money indiscriminately in the name of supervising and punishing thieves in the kingdom."

"How can such King Zhao care about our life or death?"

"Besides, the prince is the son of King Zhao. So what if King Zhao knows about it? How can he deal with the prince of his own family? And if the prince does this, how can he get away with it from King Zhao?"

The old man said this with some resentment.

In a feudal country like Zhao, the princes and kings collected all kinds of taxes in order to collect money.

Taxation in the Han Dynasty was good at first, but as a result, the princes and kings created various clever names. After the food and town tax was collected, the population tax was collected, and after the population tax was completed, other miscellaneous expenses began to be collected.

Just like in "Snake Catcher", taxes are greater than poisonous snakes!

Huo Guang listened to the old man's words and secretly remembered them in his heart.

Wait until you get back.

I also copied it on the slips so that I can tell His Majesty what I learned during the investigation in the future.

The old man is talking here.

suddenly.

A loud voice came from outside the door, shouting: "Young Master Zhao, you are such a bad bamboo craftsman, who asked you to pile all the baskets in front of my house!"

"Can't you get out?"

"I'm counting to three. I can't see anyone lighting up your basket with fire!"

Hear this roar.

The old man said hurriedly: "This troublesome Ouyang Zhi, since he can no longer blacksmith privately, he gets drunk and crazy every day and makes trouble for me."

"Young man, please stay here for now, I'll go out and take a look."

The words fell.

The old man stood up and opened the door. After going out, he started to quarrel with Ouyang Zhi.

people around.

It seemed that they were used to the quarrel between the two.
To be continued...