"Don't hurry to leave! There's another good thing here!"

Just when Wei Yuan thought he had finished his work, Asuo suddenly said that there was still good things in Liujiazhuang.

Following Asuo's guidance, the group came to Liu's house, which was Mr. Liu's house.

Mr. Liu's body felt the vicious qi of the world and became a greedy ghost. The first person to suffer was the Liu family.

However, the greedy ghost was only an ordinary person at the beginning, and it might even be smaller. So the greedy ghost only ate people from the Liu family, after all, they were more than fifty people, and they ate them all overnight.

The next night, the greedy ghost became much stronger and began to smell the smell and go to the neighbors to eat people. After all, how can the meat be as delicious as bricks?

By the time the whole village had been eaten up, the greedy ghost became extremely huge and started eating soil and rocks, it was already far from the Liu family. So there was no damage found in Liu's house.

If Wei Yuan and the others were coming two or three days late, the greedy ghost would become even bigger, and the entire Liujiazhuang would probably be eaten up and there would be a big pit left on the ground. The greedy ghost would eat in other directions.

The Liu House was preserved in good condition. Wei Yuan followed Asuo's guidance and came to a small study in Liu House. On the wall of the study, there was a painting hanging.

The painting was painted with a fat horse, with five-color fur on its body, and its horse's mane was braided into five colors of braids, which looked very exquisite.

The paper of this painting turned yellow and looked quite ancient. Look at the signature and stamp, Han Gan of the Tang Dynasty.

Han Gan is known as the originator of the horse painting world, and is known as a horse walking in the painting. There are even stories about the underworld asking him to draw horses as mounts. It can be seen that it is indeed extraordinary.

If this painting is real, it would be a very expensive ancient painting!

Of course, Wei Yuan didn't know anything about Han Gan, nor did he care about ancient paintings.

Wei Yuan noticed the strange thing about the painting and tried to activate the energy consumption level.

Hou Yingxiong's eyes suddenly blurred, as if he saw the fat horse in the painting shaking its horse's hair!

He rubbed his eyes and looked at it again. The painting was nothing unusual, as if he had read it wrong!

...

Wei Yuan set out again, he wanted to cross the river to Shaoxing Prefecture, and then walk southwest to Jinhua.

Walk southwest from Hangzhou Prefecture, and then cross the river to Jinhua.

But the world is chaotic after all. The territory directly under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Prefecture is more than twice that of ordinary people. It is not bad to be close to Hangzhou Bay, and it is very prosperous and stable. Although it is inevitable that some little thieves and monsters will cause chaos. It is better than the large wilderness no-man's land west of Hangzhou City.

Due to the famine caused by heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, as well as the rampant robbers and demons, large areas west of Hangzhou Prefecture have all appeared in desolation.

The places that were developed and prosperous two hundred years ago are now covered with weeds. The area of ​​human activity has regressed.

In this case, if Wei Yuan takes this path, he will suffer!

In the deep mountains and old forests, all demons and evil spirits must be stacked up! There is no serious place to land, and even personal figures cannot be seen. Maybe there will be ghosts in a deserted tomb in some mountain.

Why do people make things difficult for themselves? Isn’t it good to be more comfortable? For example, if you really don’t want to write, you’ll fall off!

So Wei Yuan decisively chose to take the Shaoxing route.

The people from the Hou Mansion respectfully sent the ship to the opposite side of the river with members of the West Zoo.

Wei Yuan waved his hand and called out the horse's neigh. A group of strong horses came from somewhere. He stopped in front of Wei Yuan, raised his neck and bared his teeth, with a very proud expression.

This horse looks a bit strange, because the ancients often focused on the similarity of spirit but not the similarity of shape when painting, so this horse has problems such as thick neck roots and thin heads and huge body.

If a person who is good at horse racing can recognize it at a glance, there is no such horse in the world, and only those who paint like this are painted. Not to mention anything else, just five colors of fur are enough to be fooled!

But it doesn't matter, just ride it.

Wei Yuan sat on the horse, with chicken legs lying on his butt.

Erha was following him, and Wukong was squatting on his body.

The two Hu were running around, maybe they would have to be hit by a hoof.

"Mondo, let's go! Drive~"

Wei Yuan named this five-colored horse Mengdu because Mengduo goes wherever he wants!

Mengduo is extremely physically strong and does not need to eat or drink water. As long as Wei Yuan consumes some energy level, he can run all the time.

Mengduo's steps were light and cheerful, and everything was fresh along the way. In just a short day, Wei Yuan ran from the riverside to Xiaoshan County.

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

The chicken legs also covered their noses and squinted their eyes and swept them around.

"Asuo, what's going on? Why do I feel 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? So that's it! But how could there be such a large area of ​​resentment? What a great injustice?!"

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

This resentment of this scale is enough to interfere with the weather, and snow falls in June is a trivial matter.

Asuo said: "I don't think this is a resentment from a person or an individual..."

Wei Yuan rode to the county gate. There were only two thin and lazy guards squatting on the ground to "stand guard" at the gate. When he saw Wei Yuan coming, he glanced at him and stopped caring.

Originally, people who could ride such a tall horse were not afforded by the guards. In addition, the person who came here was a bald man, so he felt extraordinary at first glance. These guards had great vision, so how could they dare to provoke them randomly?

But Wei Yuan was also wondering: Even the city gate guards who were very rich and well-behaved were so thin, how poor is this Xiaoshan County!

You know, you will never be able to lose those small officials at the bottom.

No matter what kind of disaster it is, as long as there are still people who can live, these small officials can get it and make up for it.

Now both of these guys have lost weight, which shows that Xiaoshan County is really poor.

After entering Xiaoshan County, the streets were deserted and there were only a few stalls scattered.

There are more stalls than buyers.

Wei Yuan sat down at a wonton stall on the street and laid out a few big money, "Come a few bowls of wontons!"

Wei Yuan ate a bowl of wine and started chewing carefully and eating the second bowl slowly.

The chicken legs look down on this non-meat food and climb on the horse's butt and never get off.

The two Husky on the side were so greedy that they drooled down, and they were so anxious that they kept shouting and jumping in place, and almost turned the table over.

Wei Yuan threw a wonton for it so that the second brother would not be anxious to overturn the table.

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

"Uncle, why does this look like Xiaoshan County? It shouldn't be so close to Hangzhou Prefecture!"

Although the old man was very upset about Wei Yuan's behavior of feeding wontons to dogs, he was rich and even riding a tall horse. He was still a monk and could not afford to offend him.

The old man replied, "The master doesn't know anything. Our Xiaoshan County is so miserable!"

Before the old man could start talking, his eyes turned red.

"Don't look at ours, just a river from Hangzhou Prefecture, but we are under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing Prefecture. Hangzhou can't control ours! And our place is not close to Shaoxing. Who cares? Moreover, our business gang suffered a major disaster in the early years and was almost completely destroyed. Later, it never got up again. So whether it's good to see the county magistrate..."

The old man glanced around and whispered: "Seven or eight years ago, we were still in charge of the former county magistrate. The one who was called money-skinned! Not to mention the various taxes increased by seven or eight, but in the end, he really had no money to collect them, so he actually collected the cap tax! Whoever has children landed, he has to pay the tax! If he has no money, he will collect the land!"

"How could the mud legs be rich? That little land has to support the family! If it is taken away, the whole family will not starve to death. As a result, no one dares to have children. The poor family did not dare to give birth to a child. They would throw a child into the toilet and drowned when they were born! At that age, I don't know how many babies died! There was a big ditch on the east side of the county town, which was specifically used to throw the child to death. It was filled in a few years!"

"We originally thought that the county magistrate would be transferred after three years! Who knew that the money had been re-elected for three terms. If he hadn't suddenly climbed to the high-ranking official in the city two years ago and was promoted and transferred, we would have suffered!"

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

Wei Yuan felt so hatred! Such a county magistrate could even be promoted!

This world is indeed a world where good and evil are unrewarded!

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

The old man shook his head: "Master, do you look at this street? The new county magistrate does not charge a capita tax. But he feels that people's livelihood has declined for ten years, the population is too small, and the tax revenue has also decreased. So now if the family has less than two children, they have to pay heavy taxes. Now the county town is so desolate, it is because of the death and the people are gone."

The old man lowered his head and wrapped wontons, whispered: "Those wealthy families are fine, they have money to sell people. Those kidnapped kids have kidnapped many children from other places, and they were bought by those rich people as adopted children. In fact, they are just servants and maids... Old man I originally had a son, but I just died of water a few years ago. Now that I am old, no one raises him, and I have to pay heavy taxes every year. If I don't come out to buy wontons, I will be forced to death. When I can't do it anymore, it's time for me to die..."

Wei Yuan felt something blocked in his heart, unable to speak, and unable to breathe.

He looked up at the sky... Shangguan was powerful and blessed, while the common people lived a life of silence. They thought they could play tricks on others' birth, old age, sickness and death at will, but those resentment was floating in the sky!

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Ps: Thanks to book friend "V Xiu V" for his reward!
Chapter completed!