Chapter XXIV: The Corrupt Fiefdom
She is not afraid of the cold, nor is she afraid of the cold, so there is little difference between wearing less and more, but they belong to the physique of ordinary people, and at this time, they are obviously enduring the cold of the weather to move outside.
When Yu Ziying heard this, she glanced at their clothes that were thinner and shabby than hers, with cloth scars, and the parts of their hands and feet were rolled up, presumably for convenience, the exposed skin was generally bruised, covered with chilblains, and even eroded with yellow water, and purple blood vessels could be clearly seen through their dark yellow skin.
"How can it be okay, you vomited blood, we don't even have anything to eat, where is the medicine to heal the wounds, my God, this ...... What should I do? The Turu Abba had a blue face, a purple face, and a panicked tugging of his hair, so anxious that his eyes were red.
The young man named Tulu reached out to wipe the blood from his mouth, gritted his teeth and shook his head, "...... I'm fine. β
"Tulu, how are you?" Someone helped the young man up.
When the group of homeless people saw that the young man was beaten and vomited blood, they gasped, and then they forcibly suppressed the fear in their hearts, and rushed forward with an angry face, and many people chose to stand in front of the young man who fell to the ground, glaring angrily at the "starving ghost" and others.
The "Hanged Man" laughed viciously, and he proudly waved the rope that had just whipped the young man away, and shook it in the air.
"What a guts! Hmph, are you looking for death, poor ghost? The Hungry Man jumped off his horse and grinned disgustingly as he nibbled on dry cakes.
The young man took it in a daze, opened his mouth as if he wanted to speak, but in the next second, he was knocked to the ground by someone, and suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, and the blood droplets inadvertently splashed a few pieces at Yu Ziying's feet.
Before he came back to his senses, Yu Ziying had already returned the half of the yam in his hand to him.
The girl's smooth and fair skin was especially eye-catching in a crowd of withered yellow and black, and the big black and quiet eyes, like two black grapes, could directly touch the deepest part of people's hearts.
Why...... Will there be a woman in the army of ghosts? Or a girl with delicate eyebrows?!
And when the young man inadvertently swept Yu Ziying's face, he was directly stunned.
After the young man helped his father up, he angrily picked up the half of the yam from the snow, and then strode forward, and was about to snatch the other half of Yu Ziying's hand, when Yu Ziying raised his eyebrows.
Maybe it was because they had always been on top and had never been reprimanded so loudly, or maybe the Yin Ghost Army was stunned by the young man's audacity and reckless behavior, and everyone present did not move for a while.
Generally speaking, a person who becomes a homeless person is stripped of his identity and becomes a person without a state or household registration, and to whom does this kind of person need to pay taxes?
Yu Ziying looked at the young man, she didn't know that the displaced people in the Northern Xinjiang Country also needed to pay taxes.
This group of people...... It turned out to be a homeless.
"Why did you beat me Abba, why did you hit me! You Yin Ghost Army, Five Ghost ...... And the King of Xuanyin has always eaten and drunk well in Weiyang City, and we, the common people, have to be driven out by you in addition to paying taxes. You deserve to die! There was an unquenchable anger in the young man's eyes, the kind of anger usually reserved for gamblers who risked their lives, and it was evident that he understood what he meant, and that he no longer expected himself to live.
At this moment, an angry voice rang out from the group of people who were kneeling on the ground and trembling, only to see a tall young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes stand up suddenly, and he angrily stepped forward and pushed away the soldier who was not as tall as his shoulders.
"Stopβlet go of me, Abba!"
When Yu Ziying heard this, she couldn't help frowning at the person who was kicked straight by the Yin Ghost Soldiers, hugging her head and howling.
Seeing that the ghost lord was not satisfied, the face of the Yin Ghost soldier who had just taken the yam and handed it to him turned cold, so he walked over, kicked over the devotee who was kneeling on the ground, and began to curse with a grin: "What's the use of raising you group of dead and poor ghosts?" Okay, if we meet again, we must offer the detention tax, but you have nothing, why don't you die, why don't you die, it's annoying! Die! β
Seeing that the yam that they regarded as a "treasure" was broken like this, the kneeling people were also startled by the disgusting behavior of the "starving ghost", and suddenly the whole person fell to the ground, because Yu Ziying had been watching, so she did not miss a trace of resentment that flashed in their eyes.
Just now she clearly saw that they were all reluctant to dedicate it, she still judged it in the past, and thought that it was a valuable thing, worthy of them braving the cold of the wind and snow, freezing so that a pair of hands became swollen and purple, covered with patches of frostbite, but it turned out to be ......
β¦β¦ Is this just a yam root?
Yu Ziying looked at the thing in the snow that was broken in two by the "starving ghost", only to see that the broken section of the object wrapped in the mud was milky white, she picked it up one by one, and looked at it again, but she was stunned.
It's no wonder that ordinary people, like ordinary people, can resist the inadvertent cold aura of people like "starving ghosts" whose hands are soaked in blood.
The man who offered the "treasure" was startled by the vicious expression of the "starving ghost", and was so frightened that he changed his appearance, the muscles of both cheeks drooped loosely, and his mouth almost looked like a small round hole, and he was obviously frightened.
"What the hell! Are you going to use this kind of thing to honor your lord, huh? If you can't offer anything that can get into the eyes of the master, you should hurry up and get out of the scope of Weiyang City! β
The five ghosts rode on their horses, and did not move their identities, only letting one of the ghost soldiers leave the group, stepped forward to fetch the things, and the "starving ghost" carried it in his hand, and after only glancing at it contemptuously, he threw it to the ground.
What kind of treasure is unearthed...... They were squatting in the ground just now, and this is what they were.
Yu Ziying glanced over and saw that it was a long cylindrical object wrapped in dirt, about the length of an arm's length, because it was some distance away, and she was not sure what it was for a while.
When they approached, one of the people kneeling on either side of the road hesitated to stand up, and he must have been so nervous that he did not dare to raise his head at all, but buried his face deep in his bosom, and raised an object above his head with both hands respectfully, and the thing he was holding trembled with the uncontrollable trembling of his hands.
When they turned their heads and saw the banner of the skeleton blue flame in their ranks, their faces changed, and they quickly pounced, pressed their foreheads to the ground, and knelt on both sides of the road to greet them.
The steps of thousands of people, trampling on the snow from near and far, converged into a rustle like the whispering of countless streams, which naturally attracted the attention of those in front.
In the heavy snow, Yu Ziying saw a group of people scattered and squatting in the snow from a distance, they buried their heads, as if they were digging something in the ground with something in their hands.
Is there really something in this kind of place that makes the people of White Rock Town greedy to rob it?
Seeing that Xuanyin Jun and the others did not show any abnormalities at all, this situation made the doubts in Yu Ziying's heart even stronger.
The fields on the outskirts of the extremely cold highlands are as barren, but they are different from the private fields in Baishi Town, and this is not for other reasons, it has not been cultivated for a long time, and the trunks of a tree have been peeled, and the leaves have fallen off sparsely, and there is not even a single dead leaf, but where the land looks a little fertile, the ground has been dug up and turned over like a marmot and there is no piece of intact.
In her opinion, this Xuanyin King's fief is more "poor" than Baishi Town, at least in addition to the fact that there is no grass and the fields are barren and dry, at least not like this extremely cold highland that freezes to death dogs.
This question has been wondering since Yu Ziying stepped into the extreme snow highlands.
Isn't it said that only the territory of King Xuanyin in the Northern Frontier is the richest?
By this time, the snow had faded, and the white world was as far as the eye could see, so pure that it seemed that the whole world was covered with a white silver suit, and the road they walked had been covered with long white carpets, which stretched to a faintly visible city in the distance.
After a chuckle of "huh", after that...... There was no after, Yu Ziying continued to walk hers, lust continued to lie on him, and soon, they stepped on the land of the city.
"Heh~"
Regarding the title of "little obedient", Yu Ziying has the feeling of calling a dog and a cat every time he hears it.
Yu Ziying was not affected at all, and replied lightly: "It's not cold." β
His voice was as sweet as honey, Wu Nong's soft words, and anyone who listened to it felt as if his bones were about to crisp.
"Little girl~ Are you cold?" The purple bead curtain flowed down from the top of the chariot, the dazzling red lines covered the entire sedan body, and the pale yellow curtain swayed with the wind.
People who have seen it inadvertently suddenly have some unbearable feelings, in this world of looking at faces, even if they are a group of black-hearted people, they will still be affected a little, but because they did not get the signal of King Xuanyin, even if they can't bear it, no one dares to speak out.
At this moment, the wind and snow are vast, seeing her stepping on the ice and snow with one shallow foot and one foot deep, the top of her black hair and thin shoulders are stained with falling snowflakes, and the mist from her mouth with her breath hazy her facial contours......
No longer pure disgust or vigilance.
And the strange thing is that this "kitten" is also completely like a wild one, born and raised, extremely adaptable, no matter what kind of predicament can not make her feel difficult, which makes them somewhat impressed, gradually, everyone's eyes on her have changed.
He is so willful even to keep a cat.
So in their eyes, Yu Ziying is actually like a soft and glutinous kitten that King Xuanyin picked up in his spare time, he teased it when he was in a good mood, and when he was not interested, he let it fend for itself.
And during this period, except for the occasional teasing of her when the incense stopped, the king of Xuanyin teased her a few words out of his own air, and then seemed to have completely forgotten that there was such a person as her, and he never let her rest on the incense chariot, nor did he say a word of concern when she was ostracized and isolated by the Xuanyin army.
She stopped when they stopped, and she followed when they set off.
However, to their surprise, she did not fall behind at all in following their journey, she always maintained a certain rhythm and speed, following the Xuanyin King's incense and following in the footsteps, no one from them accommodated her or tolerated her, and she neither complained nor had the slightest squeamishness.
In the first few days, many of them were secretly observing her, some were ready to watch a good show, and some were ready to ridicule her, because they all felt that a person like her, who looked like a golden branch and jade leaves, like a princess on an ivory tower, would definitely not be able to bear this kind of suffering when he walked through the mountains like their big men.
Those who didn't like her before, but now they saw her walking quietly and silently on the cold and biting snow, and they began to sympathize with her a little.
She was still wearing her two black robes, her long waterfall hair was scattered on her back, and she had a simple face, and she was becoming more and more delicate and petite, thin and thin in a group of large men dressed in warm thick clothes and cotton trousers.
The only thin person present was Yu Ziying.
The snow was falling tightly, and all the soldiers couldn't help but hurry in this cold weather, and hurriedly prepared a set of warm equipment for themselves, such as fur wool hats, long leather boots, cotton jackets, thick coats, and especially the treatment of lust in the incense chariot.
In fact, before they could touch the edge of the extremely cold highlands, the climate suddenly became severe, as if it had changed from early winter to severe winter in an instant, with dense clouds and howling winds.
Finally, at dawn on the seventh day, we finally arrived at the extremely cold highlands, which was the fiefdom of lust given by the dynasty.
The journey is about seven days and six nights, and the main journey is delayed in crossing a linear mountain range, which extends in a certain direction along the west, consisting of a mountain body composed of several mountains and valleys.