The county seat of Luobei appeared in the distance.

Luobei County is my hometown - if the definition of "hometown" is "county nationality".

There are 100,000 people in the county, and another 1 million people are distributed in 20 townships and 150 villages.

The city wall of Luobei is like a mottled kaleidoscope, giving the monotonous land of North China a little breath - white is residual snow, black is soil, gray is the city wall, yellow is the tree trunk, red is the flag, the bright color is the ice, the protruding arrow tower is the embowe, the reflection is the moat, and the constant shaking is the dense crowd...... Like undulating waves......

Dongfang Liang: "Luobei County has arrived." Let's have lunch and go to Luoyang in the evening. ”

Dongfang Qiang next to him: "There are a lot of people in Luobei, it's much more lively than Xiliang." After all, it's next to Luoyang. ”

He turned his head and asked me, "Have you ever been to Luoyang?" ”

Me: "Luoyang? I've been there in my dreams - it's good that I've been to Luobei County. Ha, I often go to Luobei - secretly. Ha ha. ”

I unconsciously touched my trouser pocket, there was my household registration certificate, and my household registration certificate was written on it - "Ming Empire, Central Plains Province, Luoyang City, Luobei County, Yonghe Township, Zhaojiazhuang, Third Team, Fourth Group, Fifth Baojia, No. 5", followed by my certificate number - "213946795548605976598767989", followed by my household - "civilians, households", and the most conspicuous thing is six blood-red characters - "Those who have left their nationality will be killed".

"Naturalization" means "not being in your home country". If you go to a neighboring village, you are "leaving the country" and a capital crime; If you don't work as your "worker", you are also "leaving the country", a capital crime...... However, now that the peace has been going on for a long time, the implementation of the "King James Ming Royal Household Registration Law" is not too strict. Although it is unlikely that you will leave the county, you can still visit the county - provided that you do not hit the muzzle of the "strike hard" gun.

A thought came to me: I am only familiar with my Zhaojiazhuang, I often visit my Yonghe Township, and I have been to my Luobei County, but I have never been out of the county, let alone the provinces—then, why can I be sure that "the Ming Empire's four capitals, twenty-three provinces, and four billion subjects" exist...... The court can completely lie to us......

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Dongfang Tian looked at me in the mirror: "It's not a small courage." ”

It scares me - "thought sin" is a great sin for the whole clan! Did he see through me? On second thought, oh, he just listened to me say "sneaking out of the county".

Me: "I've got a knack. When you enter the city gate, you don't even look at the county soldiers out of the corner of your eyes, they think you are from the county and dare not care about you. ”

Dongfang Qiang: "You're not afraid of being caught?" ”

Me: "What's wrong with being caught?" Can you kill me? I'm not a demon sect, I'm not a traitor, I'm not a blind stream, I'm just a household - if I'm caught, I'll give the county soldiers a few copper yuan. ”

Dongfang Qiang: "They can kill you." ”

Me: "Yes, it can be killed." But why kill? Sneaking in everywhere, can he kill them all? How can they get money after killing them all? ”

Dongfang Qiang: "You are so bold!" ”

I was about to speak, and it occurred to me, damn it, what are you bragging about?

I immediately said, "Haha, we don't manage the country strictly, everyone is like this." ”

I pointed outside: "Look, that poplar forest, I often go inside at night to catch monkeys...... When I was a child......"

So, I started to change the subject, talking about how I came here on a summer night to catch monkeys......

Of course, this is a complete lie. It's all imagination - if I were a big family in the county, I would come here every night to catch monkeys - unfortunately, I am not - but what does it matter? It's completely possible to pretend that you are a big family in the county and imagine that you have caught a monkey, and the two are the same happiness......

However, looking at this poplar forest, I suddenly remembered a real thing......

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I, Gou Yu'er, Gou Buli, and Zhao Dakuo came to the county to play together, and wanted to sneak in. However, the two brothers and sisters were too timid to dare to live or die at the gate of the city, so we went to the poplar forest to catch and play.

While playing, I heard people shouting: "Look at the hanged ghost, watch the hanged ghost...... and saw the crowd rushing into the depths of the forest like a tide.

Me: "Haha, let's go check it out too." ”

The four of us squeezed in.

I regretted it when I went in, because the "hanged man" was so terrible: a long-haired woman in red pants and green clothes hanged herself on a white cloth, her big purple face was about to burst, and her long tongue was sticking out......

The dog ignored the wow, and cried.

Zhao Dakuo hurriedly comforted him.

Dog leftover: "Ah, the hanged ghost is real, I thought it was fake!" Look at this purple face and long tongue! ”

Me: "Because the blood on her face can't go down, her face is bruised and purple." Because the tongue is naturally extended, the tongue must be stretched out when it is dead. ”

Zhao Dakuo: "Why did she hang herself?" ”

Me: "There must be a reason for people to die." Other people's decisions must be in the right place. ”

Dog leftover: "What's bigger than death?" ”

Me: "It's too much, let's say my husband's family is too poor...... Let's say the husband steals someone...... You might even be caught stealing someone yourself......"

The dog cried even more because of it......

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I'm talking about these things, half imagination, half truth, but they don't fit well together, they're full of holes, they're tinkering, and they're boring......

None of the three spoke......

It's embarrassing......

All four were embarrassed......

I'm so talkative......

was embarrassed, and the car drove to the gate of the county seat.

The hometown seems to be different from the hometown in memory - a little ...... Bloody......

There was a bloody corpse hanging on the city wall, and the north wind was blowing, and the corpse was fluttering, like the ham of a village butcher - but if you look closely, it is not the north wind that is blowing, but the "corpse" itself is struggling...... They are not corpses, they are living people......

In the background of them is the eight large mottled characters on the city walls: "Resolutely destroy the Death Cult!" - exclamation mark is also a word.

The larger background is a population of gray ants.

The crowd pointed at us and shouted, "Iron car! ”

Someone said, "That's called a car!" ”

Someone said, "Sedan! ”

Someone said: "The oil bought by the palace!" ”

People watched.

Dongfang Qiang shook the window and shouted, "Go away!" Go away! I've never seen a car! Yokel! ”

Dongfang Tian frowned, and the car stopped.

Dongfang Qiang: "Drive over and run them to death." ”

Dongfang Qiang pointed to a few officials: "Come here!" ”

The servant nodded and came over.

Dongfang Qiang pointed at them: "Call your county magistrate to come out!" ”

The official looked at the flag on the car suspiciously and numbly, and was about to turn around and go to the county magistrate.

Dongfang Liang: "Don't bother people. Chase them away. ”

The official immediately regained his original expression, raising his stick brutally and excitedly, smashing the crowd.

The crowd got out of the way.

The car drove into the city gates.

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There was a platform at the gate of the city, and more people were gathered below.

Me: "Wow, it's a tournament!" It was the same last time I came. ”

Unfortunately not.

It was a big platform, on which was the Qinglong Banner of the Ming Empire and the Dingding Banner of the Central Plains Province, and under the flag there was a slogan in red and black "Public Trial Demon Sect Conference", and people were Ling Chi alone under the slogan. It was cut from the chest down, revealing the bones, like a sheep scorpion in the village butcher's house.

People shouted: "Two thousand six hundred and twenty-seven, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight, two thousand six hundred and twenty-nine......"

The "Ming Dynasty Royal Criminal Law" stipulates: Ling Chi must cut 3,600 knives. If you can't finish cutting, you will die, which means that the executioner is deliberately unable to cut it all-the same party of the traitor--this will have to replace the executioner with a new one, and continue to be the original executioner......

Dongfang Qiang: "Haha! These demon cultists with mantis arms as cars! Look at the power of my court! ”

Dongfang Tian frowned: "Your Death Serving Sect here is also so rampant, I thought there were many Chang'an and Luoyang!" ”

Me: "Probably they all have depression, otherwise how can they keep looking for death and life?" As the saying goes, 'ants still steal life'! The irony is that they are going to kill themselves, and the government is killing them because they are going to kill themselves. Ha ha! Ha ha! ”

Dongfang Tian shook his head: "They're not depressed." Depression is to die by oneself, and death teaching is to let others die. Their favorite thing to do is to persuade others to die. They are the Demon Cult! ”

Dongfang Liang, who closed his eyes and recuperated, opened his eyes: "Fart! Those people are innocent people, they were killed by the government to receive merit, how can there be so many demon sects! The Cult of the Dead has not been seen for thousands of years! The government doesn't say that they are from the Demon Sect, how can they rob their silver and women? ”

Dongfang Tian and I suddenly realized.

Dongfang Qiang raised his thumb: "Uncle Liang still knows more!" ”

At this time, the person who was Ling Chi was bleeding like a funnel, and the person stopped struggling - he died.

The people below swarmed up, took out the steamed buns in the crotch of their pants, dipped them in blood and ate them, chirp, chirp, and their mouths were full of blood. The Royal King James Physician rightly states: "Human blood is the collection of popularity, and it can cure all diseases." ”

Dongfang Tian: "Damn, I can't eat!" It's disgusting! Can you kill someone faster! ”

Dongfang Qiang: "In this way, we can set an example and let you rebel!" These Demon cultists! ”

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The car drove into the county seat and drove all the way through the county government, the county governor's office, the supervision office, and the scholar office...... Omit 10,000 words at once...... There are a thousand places in the county capital!

It's the first time I've passed so many places in a big way......

The highest purpose of life for everyone in Luobei County is to be a department-level official! When he became the director, he was second only to the county magistrate and county governor appointed by the imperial court, and from now on he could be powerful and prosperous in the county, eating and drinking spicy food!

I remember when I went to Yonghe Township Middle School, Aunt Zhao said: "Go to school hard, be admitted to the county high school, and be a director!" And Uncle Wuji said, "What high school! Da Niu will take the imperial test in the future! "It's a pity...... I was dropped out of junior high school......

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Dongfang Qiang: "This broken county, so many places!" ”

Dongfang Liang: "Hey, what Chang'an has, this small county must also have."

Dongfang Qiang: "Yes, as the saying goes, although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs!" ”

We had lunch at the most luxurious "Yellow River Hotel" in Luobei County. This is the first time to eat in such a luxurious restaurant, and the only time I have been touched with it before is when I watched people eat from a hundred meters away, and then drove away to the shopkeeper.

Dongfang Qiang said while eating: "This broken shop, this meal is good!" ”

Dongfang Qiang looked at me: "Zhao Daniu, how many points did you score in the high school graduation exam?" ”

Me: "I didn't go to high school...... I am...... Junior high school...... Graduation ......"

The "King James Ming Royal Education Law" stipulates that the village runs a primary school, the township runs a junior high school, the county runs a high school, the province runs the provincial university (provincial university), and the capital runs the imperial university (imperial university) - in fact, I went to junior high school for a year and a half, and I didn't even get a "junior high school diploma......

Dongfang Qiang exaggeratedly shouted: "Ah! You didn't even go to high school? ”

Me: "My dad and my uncle taught me, they know everything!" ”

Dongfang Qiang: "What school did they graduate from?" ”

Me: "Elementary ......"

Dongfang Qiang: "I graduated from Xinyang High School, what about the top ten high schools in the Central Plains......"

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Dongfang Liang burped, took a bamboo stick, and said while picking it up: "I'm a little tired, otherwise I'll go to Luoyang tomorrow." ”

Dongfang Qiang: "Okay, I didn't come back in vain to visit Luobei." ”

Dongfang Tian: "The young master is still waiting for me." I'm not tired of driving, what are you tired of. ”

- I thought, "This driver has such a big breath!" ”

Still, we set off.

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The car drove out of the county.

When I went out of the city gate, the county magistrate of Luobei really came!

County magistrate: "Brother Liang, why don't you come to the county government for a gathering?" ”

Dongfang Liang: "Another day, there is something to ...... today"

Dongfang Tian drove the car faster and faster.

The county magistrate waved at us.

I waved at him excitedly. I thought, "The next time I see him, I'll say, 'We waved our hands that day!'" ’”

The car drove out of the county seat.

Ten minutes later, we arrived at a T-junction.

Two large iron signs are erected at the intersection, with "County Road" written on the left and "Royal Road" written on the right.