At this time, someone had moved a chair next to him. Lin Xi hurriedly helped the old man sit down. The little girl was very lively and cute. She was 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 had said that there was an open space on the northern border and that he would arrange for his grandfather and grandson to live there.
"Teacher Zige is a good person. At that time, there was war and unrest on the northern border. He arranged for people to send Xiaohua and I back to our hometown, and left a lot of money for us to start a new life."
"But Old Shitou willingly donated money to all of us, but he didn't expect that life would still be like this." At this time, the old village chief took over the conversation, but his words were full of sadness.
Afterwards, everyone began to talk one after another. From the angry but helpless narrations of the villagers, Lin Xi gradually understood what happened in these two villages.
It turns out that this remote city called Shiliu City is very unstable, not because of the orcs or natural disasters, but because of the city lord.
The city lord is so greedy that he not only forces the villagers to pay a variety of land taxes every year, even in disaster years, but also finds ways to embezzle land ownership from the villagers. For example, some villagers are unable to pay enough land taxes on time because their food production has been affected by the weather.
If the tax is paid, the city lord will forcibly take back the land deed, and then rent the land to the villager half politely and half threatening!
The villagers will starve to death immediately if they leave the land. Even if the city lord does this, which is equivalent to charging twice the rent a year, there is nothing they can do. The city lord relies on Shiliu City to be his, and has a large number of thugs under him, so he always threatens
Looking at them, even though they are extremely angry, they can only swallow their resentment and grievances in their stomachs.
When Lin Xi heard this, his hands were already clenched into fists, and the veins on his hands were even more exposed, but the facts told by the villagers next made him even more angry!
In addition to using this method to squeeze the villagers' hard-earned money, the greedy city lord also had other methods.
Due to the remoteness of the place and the long distance, whenever the orcs invade, although the imperial army will strangle these orcs with all their strength as they do now, the army's strength is limited after all, and it cannot take care of villages so far away. Fortunately, the empire also arranges
Another plan was made to try its best to protect the safety of every citizen, that is, in the autumn when the orcs are infested, the empire will ask Shiliu City to send some of its own guards to be stationed here to protect the lives and property of the villagers.
But the city lord has never done this even once. In order to save the cost of the guards, and to prevent any casualties from the guards who obeyed him, the city lord simply turned a blind eye at this critical moment and actually ordered all the guards to stay.
No movement was allowed within Shiliu City. Although this did not directly kill the villagers or break up the already troubled families, it was undoubtedly more hateful.
It leaves the door open to protect the villagers, allowing the orcs to invade. He should be doing good things and benefiting the people under his jurisdiction wholeheartedly, but this city lord is pushing the people into the fire!
Lin Xi even learned from everyone's accounts: In fact, every year in order to compensate for the losses suffered by the villagers when the orcs invaded, the empire would distribute a considerable amount of disaster relief money through the city lord, but even this could ensure that the villagers survived the most critical crisis.
Even the city owner who has saved money during this difficult time wants to be greedy, and he is completely greedy!
He did not go to see the villagers who were brutally killed by orcs in the village. He was indifferent to the villagers in the village who starved to death due to hunger. He just sat behind the tall mahogany table in the city lord's mansion, counting with a smile on his face the number of villagers who had died from hunger this year.
The empire, how much money has been plundered from the villagers!
What is the use of such a city lord! When Lin Xi heard this, he had already stood up with a bang, biting his lips tightly with his teeth, and blood flowed out!
The reason why these two villages seemed relatively peaceful was entirely due to the old man's money. After returning to the village, the old man gathered everyone together to advance the money for the villagers who were facing the prospect of having their land deeds taken back by the city lord at any time because they could not pay the land tax.
The emergency funds have solved the urgent needs of most people in the village.
Later, some of the remaining money was used for this purpose. Due to the severe drought last year, food production was reduced, but the greedy city lord still insisted on collecting taxes in equal amounts.
It was not until the old man spent his last silver coin that all the villagers could survive.
Today, if Lin Xi had not appeared, even if the villagers could escape the massacre by the orcs, they would be unable to pay taxes to the city lord because their fields and houses were destroyed, their food was taken away, and they would be forced to face displacement!
For two whole hours, Lin Xi and the villagers did not bother to have lunch. The villagers' faces were full of anger, and they angrily denounced the city lord's despicable, ruthless and vicious practices, while Lin Xi kept a gloomy face. After hearing the villagers' complaints,
Even he, an outsider, felt extremely angry and felt a ball of anger burning in his chest!
Unless this matter is completely resolved for the villagers, Lin Xi feels that she can't leave at all, and she has no face to face these poor villagers!
After having a not rich but enjoyable lunch with the villagers, Lin Xi immediately walked out of the room and said to the people behind him: "Wait until I come back. I'll go back as soon as I can."
After saying that, Lin Xi didn't look back. Based on the villagers' descriptions 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 seemed to have thought of something. After opening the space ring, he put on one of the magic suits given to him by Anthony. Suddenly, the previous coarse black clothes were gone, replaced by a
An expensive silk shirt, the cufflinks are even inlaid with gold thread patterns. Not only the clothes, but also the pants and shoes are the kind of high-end goods that others can recognize at a glance.
The brown hair all over his head has suddenly become much shorter and turned into a flaxen color. Even his height and appearance have changed a lot. Now, even if Anthony is standing in front of him, he will definitely not be able to recognize this young and somewhat frivolous man.
Young Master Jingui will be Lin Xi!
The magic suit is really not a mortal thing. It can actually change the appearance of a woman in an instant. And unless you chant a spell to actively remove this outfit, its effect can theoretically last a lifetime! The last time I left my uncle's house and went to the old house, I wanted to get rid of it.
Lin Xi had already used a trick to follow the person. At that time, almost under the noses of the five people, he changed his appearance and continued walking in a swagger, but the five people did not feel even the slightest abnormality.
After a big change, Lin Xi left the dense forest and walked along the rugged path for more than an hour. Finally, before it got dark, he came across a rural hotel with a lot of people.
A carriage entering the city began to approach the city lord's palace.