5. Ma Yi is not happy
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When Gao Yue saw this deer, he couldn't help but be amazed.
Lingxu struggled to even out his breathing, then twisted an arrow and placed it on the string.
As soon as the arrow flew away, the deer jumped up like lightning, and the arrow landed behind it, and by the time Lingxu raised his eyes, the deer had already galloped towards the fiery red maple forest.
"Don't want to go." Lingxu crouched in the saddle and chased after him.
Gao Yue even called the princess to return, but Lingxu still ran forward for several miles, and Gao Yue had no choice but to follow him.
"The forest has been burned." When they looked back, they found that the deer had long disappeared into the dense forest at the foot of the mountain in front of them, and more than ten miles behind, a fire was burning between the fields and the forest, and the twilight was dyed red.
This magnificent scene, with a primitive savage beauty, Gao Yue and Lingxu couldn't help but look at it in a daze, the red flames all over the mountains, and the soldiers and people running around like ants, and of course, all kinds of beasts jumping everywhere in the wilderness.
"Cloud!" Suddenly, the spirit cried out in confusion.
The clouds in the sky, which were originally like shoguns, converged at some point, and the prey of the people on the surrounding ground, the clouds also surrounded the whole land, and in the drowsy and indifferent, the cold autumn rain fell untimely, bit by bit, hitting the horsehair and hunting clothes, and also fell in the originally tumbling flames, stirring up a gray-white fog, which soon dispersed, and the people who hunted in the field had difficulty distinguishing objects in it, and the figures ran around.
Lingxu and Gao Yue rode their horses in the rain in embarrassment, the mist generated by the mixture of fire and rain blew over, they could only carefully bow their heads, groping for the road in the wild forests of Yunyang, and now there was only a falcon that landed on Lingxu's shoulder, and the hound with a golden bell was left.
"There's a cave there, let's go in and take shelter from the rain." Lingxu pointed to the cracked cliffs.
The two sides of this gray-white cliff were covered with trees, and the cave happened to be sandwiched between the cliffs, and it was a large crack formed naturally, and some rocks were piled up under it, which were probably piled up by woodcutters and hunters who used to take shelter from the rain, like a step.
At this time, the emperor and his entourage of close ministers and lieutenant officials who were also embarrassed carried their prey in a chaotic manner and came to the village of Yunyang.
"Don't panic, don't panic." After the emperor came to the house, he asked the master who came to bow to the whole family to get up, take off his hunting clothes, the guards of the city patrol division brought the bed, the emperor sat under the eaves, the Song sisters stood around, the emperor looked at the rain that was getting heavier and heavier, sighed and said that the heavens are not beautiful, and then asked the head of the household with a pleasant face.
"Little man and horse." When the head of the household saw the person in front of him, and saw the city patrol soldier standing in the courtyard wearing silk cloth armor, and the fairy-like court lady beside him, he knew that it must be the Ninety-Five Supreme.
"I'm sorry." The Emperor said.
Then the emperor went to the stove of Ma Yiyu's house to go around, unveil the pot and take a look, and learn about the food of the people.
Then several soldiers handed over the game to Ma Yiyu's wife and daughter, and brought some money to them to cook game and rice to satisfy the hunger of the emperor and his attendants.
"This year, the wheat and corn in Gyeonggi and Northwest China are very abundant!" The emperor asked Ma Yiyu to sit on the Hu bed opposite him, and then began to talk about mulberry and hemp.
In fact, the emperor also has a purpose for autumn hunting, that is, to observe the harvest of the people, of course, the feedback makes him proud: in the past two or three years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and from the perspective of Jingyang and Sanyuan, the public and private warehouses are abundant.
Ma Yiyu also nodded, saying that it was indeed the case.
"After the abundance, the tax is over, and the winter solstice will come to the first day, so you can give your family meat and clothing, right? You're happy in your heart, aren't you? "The emperor thought that the harvest had been bumper, and the life of the peasants must have improved a lot.
But Ma Yiyu said unceremoniously: "Not happy! ”
The scene was suddenly very embarrassing.
The emperor looked at Song Ruohua, then at Song Ruozhao and Ruoxian, and then laughed a few times, and then asked Ma Yiyu: "Why are you unhappy when you have a good harvest?" ”
In the cave of the nameless mountain cliff in Yunyang, Gao Yue and Lingxu tied their horses to the trunk of the tree outside them, and came to the cave one foot deep and one foot shallow.
The cave is not high, but it is very wide and long, there are rocks like a big bed, and there are some hay on it, and there is a small fire pit surrounded by a circle of stones, and there are charcoal embers in it, and some firewood is piled up on the side, and it seems that from time to time someone will rest here.
After Gao Yue lit a fire and threw the firewood into the fire, he noticed that a long and narrow Buddha shrine had been carved into between the rocks, and there was a Bodhisattva with a serene expression, so the two stood up and bowed to the Bodhisattva.
Lingxu then took the prey he carried, a dead pheasant, cut off the flesh with a dagger and threw it to his eagle.
The eagle was slowly biting, while the hound was squatting at the "door" of the cave, shrugging its pointed ears and peering quietly into the rain.
Soon, Lingxu looked at Gao Yue's eyes, and began to fade his red shirt.
In Ma Yiyu's house, Ma Yiyu was telling the emperor why he was "unhappy":
"In the past two years, I have overcharged ten buckets of grain, but the official family has no credit at all, when the two taxes were issued, they clearly said to us, in addition to the two taxes, no one else can be levied, but now the miscellaneous taxes are complicated and numerous, and the imperial court will levy them, and the states and counties will also levy them, and this miscellaneous tax will surpass the two taxes!"
The emperor's face turned embarrassed.
Ma Yiyu continued: "Collect more grain, but before the autumn, the officials were worried about it, and they forcibly apportioned it to us. ”
"This, this, taxes shouldn't be levied from the rich first." The Emperor defended himself.
Ma Yiyu was unceremonious, and seemed to have a lot of grievances, "Hmph, the well-dressed households and the situation households have avoided the errand service, and the poor households have fled, so they can only put all the missing taxes on our heads." Originally, the official family said that the handed in Hudou rice should be sent to the side of the road, but when it came to the end, it was the donkey of the Lama, and the calf cart of the Lama, saying that it was to send grain to the military town of Jingxi, and when he came back, the donkey died, and the car was broken. ”
These words made the emperor sweat on his forehead, and his face was sometimes white and sometimes red.
He now finally understands that under the current system, the imperial court collects a bucket of grain from the people, and the people often have to pay the price of five or even six buckets.
The ministers of the imperial court are not as vigilant as this Ma Yiyu's angry rebuke of the countryside.
"Yes, by the way, what about Gao Yue? I wanted to summon him and ask the right question. "At this moment, the emperor remembered when Gao Yue disappeared?
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