At this time, someone had already brought a chair next to him. Lin Xi hurriedly helped the old man to sit down. The little girl was very lively and cute, no longer as timid as before. She ran around Lin Xi, like a beautiful flower
Butterfly.
"Old man, didn't you go to the northern border with Teacher Zige's arrangement?" Lin Xi remembered that Teacher Zige said that there was an open space on the northern border, saying that he would arrange for the grandfather and grandson to live there.
"Teacher Ziger is a good person. It happened that there was war on the northern border and it was not peaceful. He re-arranged people to send Xiaohua and me back to his hometown, and left a lot of money to start a new life."
"But Lao Shitou is willing to donate the money to all of us, but his life is still like this." At this time, the old village chief took over the words, but his words were full of sadness.
Then, everyone began to talk about it. From the angry but helpless narrative of the villagers, Lin Xi gradually understood what was happening in these two villages.
It turns out that this remote city called Shiliu City is not peaceful, not because of orcs or natural disasters, but because of the city lord.
The city lord is insatiable. Not only does he force villagers to pay a lot of land tax every year, but he is no exception when encountering a disaster year. He also uses different ways to embezzle the ownership of the land from the villagers. For example, some villagers cannot pay enough on time because the grain is affected by the weather.
The tax will be forcibly taken back the land deed by the city lord, and then half-politely threatened to rent the land to the villagers!
The villagers will starve to death immediately after leaving the land. Even if the city lord does this, it is equivalent to charging twice the rent a year, they can do nothing about it. The city lord relies on his Shiliucheng as his, and has a large number of thugs under him, so he threatens them at all times.
Even if they were extremely angry, they could only swallow their resentment and grievances.
When Lin Xi heard this, his hands were already clenched into fists, and his hands were even more blue veins exposed, but the facts told by the villagers later made him even more angry!
In addition to trying every means to squeeze the villagers' hard-earned money, this greedy city lord has other ways.
Because the place is remote and the road is long, whenever the orcs attack, although the imperial army will strangle these orcs with all their might as well be strangled as they are now, the army has limited military strength after all, and it is impossible to take into account such a faraway village. Fortunately, the empire also arranged it.
Another plan was used to try to protect the safety of every citizen. That is, in the autumn when orcs appeared, the Empire asked Shiliucheng to send some of its own guards to station here to protect the lives and property of the villagers.
But the city lord never did this once. In order to save the guards' expenses and to prevent any casualties from the guards who obeyed him, the city lord simply ignored them at this critical moment and ordered the guards to stay in the
There is no movement in Shiliu City. Although this does not directly kill the villagers or destroy the already struggling family, it is undoubtedly even more hated.
It opened the door to protect the villagers and allowed the orcs to invade them. We should have done good deeds and benefits for the city people under our jurisdiction, but the city lord was pushing the city people into the fire!
Lin Xi even learned from everyone's narrative: In fact, in order to compensate the losses suffered by the villagers during the orcs' invasion, the Empire would send a considerable amount of disaster relief funds through the city lord, but even this ensures that the villagers can survive the most critical situation.
The city lord of the city that saves life in difficulties is also greedy, and he is greedy!
He didn't go to see the villagers who were cruelly killed by orcs in the village. He was indifferent to the villagers who were starved to death due to hunger. He only sat behind the tall big redwood table in the city lord's mansion, counting with smiles and then from this year.
The empire, how much money has been plundered from the villagers!
What's the point of such a city lord? When Lin Xi heard this, he stood up with a "wow" and his teeth were biting his lips tightly, and blood was flowing out!
The reason why these two villages look peaceful is that they all depend on the old man's money. After returning to the village, the old man summoned everyone to pay the land deeds that the villagers who were unable to pay the land tax and were unable to pay the land tax, they paid the money first.
The emergency funds solved the urgent need for most people in the village.
Later, some of the surplus money was also used. Because of the severe drought last year, grain production was reduced, but the greedy city lord still had to collect taxes equally.
The old man spent the last silver coin and barely allowed all the villagers to survive.
Today, if Lin Xi had not appeared, even if the villagers could escape the slaughter of orcs, they would have been unable to pay taxes to the city lord because of the destruction of the fields and houses and the robbery of food, thus facing displacement!
For two hours, Lin Xi and the villagers didn't care about lunch. The villagers were full of anger and angrily condemned the city lord's despicable, ruthless and vicious behaviors, while Lin Xi kept his face gloomy. Hearing the villagers' accusations,
Even outsider felt extremely angry, and he felt a burst of anger burning in his heart!
If Lin Xi does not completely solve this problem for the villagers, he feels that he cannot do without it and has no face to face these poor villagers!
After having lunch with the villagers, which was not rich but was happy, Lin Xi immediately walked out of the room and said to everyone behind him: "When I come back, I will go back."
After saying that, Lin Xi didn't look back. Based on the description of the villagers in the morning and a simple map in his hand, he walked straight towards the Lord's Mansion of Shiliu City.
When he was about to walk out of the jungle, Lin Xi thought that something had happened. After opening the space ring, he put one of the magic suits that Anthony gave him on his body. Suddenly, the previous black dress of coarse cloth was gone, and replaced by a
An expensive silk shirt, with even gold wire patterns inlaid between the cufflinks. Not only clothes, but also pants and shoes are all high-end products that others can see at a glance.
The brown hair on his head suddenly became much shorter and turned into flax, and even his height and appearance changed a lot. Now, even if Anthony stood in front of him, he would definitely not recognize this young and a little frivolous.
Young Master Jingui will be Lin Xi!
The magic suit is really not an ordinary thing, it can actually make people change in an instant. And unless you recite the spell and actively remove this outfit, its effect will theoretically last for a lifetime! Last time I left my uncle's house and went to the old house to get rid of the tracking
Lin Xi had already used a set of people. At that time, almost under the noses of the five people, he changed his appearance and continued walking, but the five people didn't even feel any abnormality.
After a big change, Lin Xi left the dense forest and walked along the rugged road for more than an hour. Finally, before it was dark, he met a slightly more crowded rural hotel. He slept all night. The next day, Lin Xi took a ride with him.
A carriage entering the city began to approach the city lord's mansion.
This book was first released.
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