Chapter 29: The Pauper
It was only then that Mu Hanxuan realized that what they were looking at was not themselves at all, but Qingyun behind him.
Qingyun's demeanor Mu Hanxuan has experienced, sometimes he can't take his eyes off when he sees it. I am still like this, let alone passers-by on the street.
"Hurry up and lead the way!" Seeing Mu Hanxuan looking at herself, Qingyun urged.
When Mu Hanxuan first entered Shuiyue City, near the city wall, there was a large group of people watching-
"I have to pay taxes again!"
"The Lin family is too much, it's been less than a month, my wife and children have no food every day, where is the money to pay taxes!"
"Within three days, all the people in Shuiyue City will be handed over, and the offender will be fined for three years!"
"The Lin family's group of dogs and cubs are killed, why don't you go to the City Lord's Mansion to reason with them......"
"Shhhhh
......
From such a distance, Mu Hanxuan could hear what they were discussing.
Mu Hanxuan frowned involuntarily.
He lives in Shuiyue City, so Mu Hanxuan knows better than Qingyun how hard the people living in Shuiyue City basically are, the rich and the poor are basically squeezed to the bottom, the people have no food to eat, and it is common for people to starve to death every day.
All of this is okay at this moment, the deeper he goes into Shuiyue City, the more Mu Hanxuan sees far more than that.
There were many complaints on the street, and there were more people begging than Mu Hanxuan had seen before.
Qingyun looked left and right, although she had seen beggars living in the East China Sea, but there had never been such a dense crowd as now, and at a glance, almost except for the scattered vendors selling cheap goods, there were basically beggars in a horizontal row.
Regardless of age, men and women, the old, the weak, the sick and disabled, they are skinny, and some even have their whole family to beg, Mu Hanxuan saw it in his eyes and felt distressed in his heart......
"What's going on with them?" asked Qingyun.
"What else can happen, bankrupt bankruptcy, the three major families of the Lin Mu King of Water Moon City dominate the three major industries, basically except to go to their family, but the lackeys still have a little food to eat. These are very common, telling you that there is a slum in the west of the city, the environment is dirty and smelly, people starve to death every day, and they don't even have a house to live in, but I feel that I am already very good, at least I still have food to eat every day. Mu Hanxuan said.
"Then how did they survive until now?" What puzzled Qingyun was that people basically couldn't live long without food, and these people could still go to the streets to beg, proving that they still had some physical strength after eating.
"Has Miss Qing ever eaten bark and weeds?" Mu Hanxuan said.
After listening to this, Qingyun's eyes were flooded with sympathy.
"In the past, there were people who gave soup to the poor, but there were too many people to take care of it, and many people fought and even injured people for a bowl of food, but now I'm afraid no one is willing to give porridge......
"Where can I buy food?" Qingyun suddenly asked urgently.
Mu Hanxuan was stunned, and after a while, he knew what Qingyun wanted to do.
"Miss Qing. Give it up, you can't take care of so many people, and the grain in Shuiyue City is basically in the hands of the Lin family, the Lin family is in charge of the field, and the people under their hands are all sold to the group of profiteers in the grain store after planting and harvesting, do you know how much a stone of grain costs? At its peak, it can be sold for three hundred dollars! Three hundred dollars! One spirit stone can buy ten stones at most! And even if they do, they may not be willing to sell it to you, otherwise how can they be worthy of the title of profiteer......" Mu Hanxuan said and sighed helplessly.
Qingyun's soul trembled violently in the depths of her soul.
There are few things that can move her, but Qingyun has really seen a lot today.
For a while, Qingyun suddenly regretted it.
I regret why I didn't take the opportunity to make trouble in the Lin family when I stepped into the Lin family at that time, killed a few of their elders and forced them to open a warehouse to release grain, to be honest, if Qingyun had this strength, Qingyun would really do this.
"Be careful when you pass by them, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand the dirty, you know, theft and robbery have become a common thing now, and the iron prisons in the government are full of ......"
Qingyun didn't understand what Mu Hanxuan was talking about, but in the next second, she immediately understood.
Along the way through this group of poor people, a large group of people swarmed up to surround Mu Hanxuan and Qingyun.
"Sir, madam, please give me a little charity!"
"Yes, yes!"
Mu Hanxuan laughed violently.
"Miss Qing, listen to what they are talking about!" Mu Hanxuan smiled very happily, he was very grateful to the group of poor people who passed by.
In the sentence just now, I took advantage of Qingyun very cheaply......
"Mu Hanxuan, you shut up for me, so do all of you, give me nonsense again, Miss Ben cut off your tongue!" Qingyun was furious, the sentence just now was tantamount to what they were saying, Mu Hanxuan and Qingyun are that relationship, even if they are not, they are almost saying that the two of them are very compatible.
As soon as Qingyun's words came out, they did not get the desired effect, on the contrary, more and more people gathered around......
"Hey, look at what this is!" Mu Hanxuan suddenly had an extra spirit stone in his hand as if he were playing a trick.
"It's a spirit stone!"
"Spirit stone!
A spirit stone is equal to ten stones of grain, seeing that everyone is rushing towards Mu Hanxuan like a tsunami, Mu Hanxuan quickly threw the spirit stone out in a hurry, and the crowd shifted with the spirit stone thrown away, which looked like a ghost who scattered money in the middle of the night to make way.
Mu Hanxuan was not stingy, the spirit stone was taken out of the storage jade, and there were a full three thousand spirit stones inside, Mu Hanxuan scattered them left and right, and made a way in the middle of the crowd.
"This spirit stone should only be enough for these people to eat for a day. "It's not that Mu Hanxuan doesn't want to give more, it's just that Mu Hanxuan knows that no matter how much he sprinkles, it won't help, and if he can cope with today's three meals, there will be bigger good people to help tomorrow.
Mu Hanxuan continued to lead the way for Qingyun, and every time he passed a pharmacy, Mu Hanxuan would always hear Qingyun ask: "Is there any Nine Turns Soul Restoration Grass here?" ”
After walking through three houses in a row, Mu Hanxuan finally couldn't help but ask:
"Miss Qing, what do you want the Nine Turns Soul Restoration Grass for?"
"You have to take care of it!"
Qingyun was still indifferent for a while.
"As far as I know, the Nine Turns Soul Restoration Grass that Miss Qing wants is not something that can be bought in ordinary pharmacies, he grows in a place where the humidity and yin qi are very heavy in the deep valley, and a second-rate city like Water Moon City will not sell it, even if you go to a first-class city, you don't want to have it. ”
After listening to what Mu Hanxuan said, Qingyun's eyes were empty.
Qingyun left without looking back.
"Miss Qing, where are you going?"
"I want you to take care of it!" I saw Qingyun rise into the air and return the same way.
Mu Hanxuan walked on the street again.
After trying his best last time, Mu Hanxuan was a little afraid to walk on the street now, and Mu Hanxuan was about to turn around and leave like Qingyun suddenly remembered something.
Drunken fairy brew in the Mochizuki Tavern!
In the past, Mu Hanxuan liked to go to that kind of place to borrow wine to relieve his sorrows, and when he first tasted it, he went with Mu Xie, and Mu Xie also seemed to like the wine there.
It just so happened that he had just stolen three thousand spirit stones from the Lin family not long ago, and Mu Hanxuan was now a veritable nouveau riche, not to mention Mu Hanxuan walked in the direction of the Mochizuki Tavern......
Mochizuki Tavern, the largest tavern in Shuiyue City, remember that Mu Hanxuan asked Mu Yan to settle here before.
Mu Hanxuan walked in, although there were many beggars outside, but now there were very few people who could enter inside.
Before he stepped into the tavern door, Mu Hanxuan suddenly heard a scolding voice from inside.
Mu Hanxuan stopped and watched.
The shopkeeper of the tavern was accusing and reprimanding a man:
"Stinky beggar, if you don't pay for this wine today, you won't want to leave for a few days!"
Mu Hanxuan seemed to understand something, he looked at the man who was reprimanded, the man lowered his head and calmly accepted the tavern's reprimand, during which he was silent.
He was dressed with a considerable temperament, with a sword hanging from his waist, and he was dressed like a rich son, Mu Hanxuan never thought that such a man would be scolded as a stinky beggar, and he still couldn't afford to pay for wine.
"If you don't pay for the drink today, you won't want to leave here!"
"Boss......" The man finally spoke, his voice unusually low.
"I just came from Yingdu, and a pot of wine like yours sells for a maximum of one dollar, and your mouth is twenty dollars, which is a bit inappropriate......
"Yingdu, stinky beggar, you are playing tricks on me! The things there can be compared to here, that is the capital of Chu State, how much can a pot of wine be worth there? Do you care if I am suitable, if you don't pay for the wine today, you will have to leave your legs and feet here!" The tavern keeper said angrily, the reason why no beggars in the tavern dared to break in was because the security of the Mochizuki Tavern was good, no one dared to be presumptuous there, and the tavern shopkeeper's words were not a threat.
"See if you can let me put my sword ...... here," the man said humbly, unsheathing his sword from his waist with one hand and handing it to the tavern keeper.
"As long as your broken sword is worth a few dollars, you think it's an ancient divine weapon!" the tavern keeper angrily knocked aside the sword in the man's hand.
"Bang dang!"
It was the sound of a sword falling to the ground.
The man didn't talk back, he stepped forward and squatted down to silently pick up the sword, gently stroking his sword body, with a hint of pity in his eyes.
The man didn't react, and the tavern owner wouldn't continue arguing with him, because he knew that no matter what he did, the man wouldn't be able to come out with a single knife coin.
"Hit me, hit me hard, unload his legs and feet, and his two hands!" the shopkeeper was furious, and in an instant, the men in the tavern picked up their sticks and slashed in the direction of the man.
The man had just stood up, and before the others could react, suddenly the man glared at all of them.
"Wow!" just a pair of eyes, and suddenly someone flew hundreds of meters away and smashed a hole in the tavern,