Chapter 1069 Misguided into the Upper Mean and First Encounter with Banditry
Qiao An looked back, he was also followed by a few wolf-like hyenas with big tails behind him, although Li Zhongxuan couldn't see anything, but he also knew that it was not very peaceful here, there were many dead people, and it stands to reason that there were a lot of crying, but everyone may have been paralyzed by death, and they have not heard a single cry since Qiao An and they entered this village.
Quiet, silent.
There was a woman squatting in front of her in the middle of the road, Qiao An held the Kanyu map and looked at it, if it was ordinary, it would naturally be clear at a glance, but at this moment the road is no longer the same, and the road is full of corpses, Qiao An can no longer tell which road is the right road.
She patted the woman on the shoulder, and the woman had already turned upside down, and Qiao An coldly saw an unrecognizable face, and she screamed at this moment when she was bold.
"Ahh Yes! Yes! As soon as Joan screamed, some of them turned their stiff necks and stared at them strangely, but each went their own way. In fact, there is not a single grain in this town, the bark and grass roots are gone, and everyone is too lazy to talk, so they almost don't eat the same kind of food.
Qiao Anbei came from it, recited the sentence "Amitabha" and put his brocade on the woman's face, although Li Zhongxuan didn't see anything, he also felt a gradually increasing fear.
Because he didn't hear anyone crying, he guessed that death was more than he had imagined, and because he heard Joan's scream, he knew that death was much more tragic than he thought.
Qiao An hesitated, not knowing whether to give them his dry food to eat, and Li Zhongxuan had already taken the blanket off Qiao An's shoulder, "Give them to them, we will find a way later." ”
After all, there is no endless road.
As soon as Shen Qiao'an opened his pocket, everyone followed the fragrance and looked for it, and Qiao An gave them all the dry food in one go, and the silver was snatched and dropped on the ground, no one cared about it, only the food was hot.
When Joan saw this, her heart was uncomfortable. Even though she had distributed everything to the people, it seemed that they wanted more, so Joan could only throw the burden on the ground, "Look, no, there is no more." ”
Only then did everyone leave unhappy.
At this moment, they had entered the county seat of Shangyong through the previous neighboring town, and after walking for a while, the sun became bigger, Qiao An pulled Li Zhongxuan to escape the summer, and just sat on the mill when he saw an old man convulsing, obviously on the verge of death, he was convulsing all over.
Joan sighed and handed the only spare piece of dry food left to the man, who devoured it. This dry food was left by Qiao An to Li Zhongxuan, and he had to contribute it at this moment, and after eating the dry food, the man slowly sat up from the ground.
Then he saluted Joan and thanked him for saving his life, and when Joan inquired, he learned that this person was actually Lizheng in this town, and a village official was tortured by hunger to look like this, not to mention the rest of the people.
Hearing that Qiao An was going to Shangyong, the old man shook his head: "Don't go, don't go, the disaster over there is worse than here." Qiao An saw their suffering and suggested that they go to Ye Qinguo to make a living, but the old man was shocked and covered Qiao An's mouth.
"The emperor won't allow it, he will kill the head, and the seven nests and eight generations will be pulled out for you to kill, and they will be killed." Hearing this, it was the sin of the Nine Clans, Qiao An was upset for them, and said to Li Zhong: "Senior brother, we have to take time to take a good look at the emperor, what kind of inexplicable decree is this?" ”
"You guys are like this, the emperor doesn't care about you?" Qiao An took out the water bladder and approached the old man's mouth, the old man took two sips and coughed slowly, "The emperor will pay attention to us?" The emperor himself has a golden hall, jade horses, brocade clothes and food, and the common people will not be taken care of. ”
When Qiao An heard this, she looked at Li Zhongxuan's face, and to be honest, she felt that the severity of the matter might be beyond her imagination. Now that she has promised her master to send a letter to someone, how can she be delayed on the way because of the rest of the matter, and if this matter is really handled, it will be endless.
Li Zhongxuan's face changed suddenly, he was worried about the country and the people, but at this moment, when he saw the suffering of this people's livelihood, he had long forgotten whether this was Shangyong or Zhongjing.
"Senior brother, we won't send the letter, the letter can be delivered later, but people must be saved earlier, otherwise there will be starvation and corpses all over the field." Shen Qiaoan also expected this result, so he nodded again and again.
The old man told Qiao An that the current ruler of the mediocre is called Xia Yangji, this person is a well-known tyrant, and if he wants to go on a southern tour, he will let the people along the way plant flowers and repair the road, and the local officials will take great pains to toss the common people.
That Xia Yangjie is a cynical person, every time he wants to go where he will always be untrustworthy, there are many places where the road has been built, people don't go at all, he casually holds a dart on the sand table and shoots it, nailed where it counts.
In the area where the dart was shot, the people immediately became active, and it was really miserable.
Before Qiao An, the world was like Zhongjing, but now I know that the number of people suffering in the world is innumerable, and they abound.
"What about the situation in Shangyong City?" Qiao An especially wanted to know the specific situation of the residents in the city, and when he heard the voice, the old man sighed: "The inner city is really harsh and fierce, and it is even more miserable. ”
From the introduction of this old man, Qiao An understood that this Xia Yangji was a veritable tyrant, and under his management, he never had the words "light taxes", but was like harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.
In the agriculture and industry, everyone has to pay taxes every day, and those who farm have a fee for breaking the soil, those who sell things have an opening fee, and those who work have a starting fee. However, the land-breaking fee is also added to the land tax, and the tenants, for example, have been inexplicably levied various fees since they planted a grain of millet in the spring, and when the autumn harvest of 10,000 seeds is not enough, all the fees paid are not enough for the imperial court.
Then some people asked, it's okay not to farm, right?
Not! The idle man levies more than anyone else, and it is asked, "The living are taxed, but what about the dead?"
The dead also have to be levied a certain burial fee, so many people are in the wilderness. Joan had never seen such a cruel tyrant in the world, and she really didn't know what to say for a while.
On the other side, Li Zhongxuan saw Qiao An go, he slowly reached out and took out a money bag from his sleeve, and stroked it gently, the moment the amorous fingers touched the money bag, it was like caressing the lover's face.
This money bag was rolled off Joan's body, and he had been holding the money bag in a daze for a long time. This is a money bag with a story, before Shen Qiaoan lived in the palace, never brought silver when he went out, and later Li Zhongxuan and Qiao An were killed, Li Zhongxuan tried all means to make money, and then he knew what it meant to "stump a hero with a penny." ”
In this way, Li Zhongxuan asked the Shanggong Bureau to make a money bag for Qiao An, and this money bag was designed by Li Zhongxuan from the fabric to the appearance to the embroidery on it.
Isn't it strange that he inadvertently picked up this money bag a few days ago, and this money bag was dropped from the "junior brother"?
Li Zhongxuan was very surprised, so he asked again and again, whether the "junior brother" is a man or a woman, and what is the relationship between the junior brother and Qiao An?
Are they alone?
How did she end up here? Although Qiao An thinks that the disguise is seamless, in Li Zhongxuan's opinion, it is full of loopholes.
He wouldn't tear him down, and he knew that the reason why she stayed with him was nothing more than pity and sympathy for him, and if everything was broken, Joan would leave here.
Just when Li Zhongxuan was thinking wildly, a group of ordinary people approached him with their heads in their arms, and everyone was babbling, "Oh, the king spares his life, spares his life." ”
"Help, help!"
A group of people in front of him ran away like horses, Li Zhongxuan knew that there was a riot, but he didn't know what the situation was, at this moment a panicked person approached Li Zhongxuan, that person thought that Li Zhongxuan was a normal person and not a blind person, grabbed Li Zhongxuan's hand and ran.
"I said Son, the thirteen wolves are here, go quickly, you'll die if it's too late." The man said as he took Li Zhongxuan's hand.
Li Zhongxuan was pulled by the man and stumbled, and soon the two mixed into the flow of people, and the flow of people went into the distance, and everyone was exhausted.
"Uncle, can no one kill a wolf?" Li Zhongxuan stopped, he couldn't run, he was still waiting for Qiao An, it would be bad if Qiao An couldn't find himself when he turned back.
"Kill the wolf?" The man sneered, "My good girl, the thirteen wolves are so powerful, and his wife let us catch them again some time ago, kill the wolf?" Dream! Wish for the moon. ”
Hearing this, Li Zhongxuan understood, the "thirteen wolves" were not thirteen wolves, but a person's nickname, and from that person's nickname, Li Zhongxuan, he could already see that the person was a murderous person.
"Let's go, Son!" Several people beside Li Zhongxuan obviously saw Li Zhongxuan's eye disease and reminded him, but Li Zhongxuan was not ready to escape.
"Money bags! Joann! Oh my purse! Shen Qiaoan. "Just now everyone hugged him and ran into the distance, Li Zhongxuan's money bag was lost by someone at some point, and at this moment his palm was empty.
He was so anxious, the money bag was so important to her!
"Money bag, my money bag." Li Zhongxuan pushed away the few people who were kind enough to protect him and went in the opposite direction.
Everyone saw what Li Zhongxuan was looking for a "money bag", all Li Zhongxuan saw that the money was open, Li Zhongxuan turned around, he couldn't tell where it was without his eyes as a reference, he stretched out his hand and groped on the ground, searching, but found nothing.
"Money bags! Oh my purse! ”
Li Zhongxuan stretched out his hand at a loss, touching the ground inch by inch, and suddenly he heard a hideous sneer, he instinctively raised his head and "looked" at the opposite side, there were thousands of troops on the other side, but it was a pity that Li Zhongxuan couldn't see it.
"Money bags? Is Childe looking for this? A person on horseback threw it up, and Li Zhongxuan's money bag sneered and pinched it after catching it, "Money bag? Hahahahaha. ”
"Give it to me, give it to me." Li Zhongxuan didn't care about 3721, and pounced on the man, how did the man know that Li Zhongxuan's strength as a blind man was so big, he pushed hard, and the chief even fell down with the man and the horse, and the situation seemed to be very bad.
Several people immediately went to help, but Li Zhongxuan had successfully got the money bag, he was very happy, and put the dirty money bag on his chest, "Money bag, my money bag." ”
At first, the bandits thought that Li Zhongxuan was reluctant to give up on silver, but at this moment, they found that Li Zhongxuan was not reluctant to give up money, but just a money bag.
"Money bag, money bag!"
At this moment, the chief got up and pushed away the little minions on both sides, he was extremely indignant, he never dreamed that a white-faced scholar would be so powerful, and rushed over with a machete, "Stinky blind man, I'm going to kill you!" ”
Li Zhongxuan has been fighting on the battlefield since he was thirteen years old, what bloody and bloody things have he not experienced? Now although he can't see it with his eyes, he can feel with his heart and ears who is preparing to sneak attack him on that side, and the man pounced on him, but he was kicked by Li Zhongxuan and sent to a far place.