The dilapidated and mottled low mud houses, the black pot bottoms on the firewood stoves, the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs scurrying unscrupulously on the road, as far as the eye can see, the mud and sand pile up are desolate.

Standing in front of such a village, Jiang Beiran frowned.

The reason for his frown was not because of desolation, because even if he implemented a large number of new decrees, they would not be able to bear fruit so quickly, and the desolation of the countryside could not be completely changed in a short time.

The reason why he frowned was because there were hardly any men in the village, and in broad daylight, only a few old women were cultivating the farmland.

This kind of scene was very common before Jiang Beiran had not yet "driven the royal expedition", and many places were like daughter countries, and there was not a single man to see.

But after he started making his rounds, this was a rare occurrence, and most of the officials would put some men in the village even if they were for show, and he had not seen such a "daughter village" for some time.

At this time, Deng Xianghan stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there ...... here."

"No words." Jiang Beiran stretched out his hand to stop Deng Xianghan.

Jiang Beiran knew what Deng Xianghan was going to say, under such circumstances, those who dared to ignore the new decree so blatantly were very likely to have a sect or a demon sect as a backer, and if they entered, there would inevitably be conflicts.

However, the territory of the sect, Jiang Beiran, will have to be touched sooner or later, it is just a matter of time or time, and now that it has been bumped into, it doesn't hurt to go in and take a look.

Anyway, the system didn't jump the prompt.

Taking Deng Xianghan and them into the village, a few children who were playing on the side of the road saw Jiangbei and immediately scattered birds and beasts, as if they had seen some fierce beast.

Then several women who were chatting quickly ran back to their house, and the door was firmly closed with a "bang".

Seeing this, Jiang Beiran's brows were clustered again, and now he ordered people to post the news of his inspection of various counties and counties everywhere, and everywhere he went, the villagers were all looking forward to it, waiting for him, the holy general, to bring hope to them.

But it was as if the village had never seen such a notice at all, and when they saw people dressed in fine clothes, they thought they were going to harm them.

"Dog's day brute! Dare to come to the village to harm our mother-in-law! Lao Tzu fought with you! ”

Just when Jiang Beiran was about to go to find the village chief or security chief, a farmer suddenly appeared in front of him out of thin air, and after scolding, he picked up a straw fork and stabbed him.

But the pitchfork pierced his chest like a phantom.

"Oh? Is this the spirit? ”

Since obtaining the [Psychic] point, Jiang Beiran encountered such a ghost for the first time, and he felt quite novel.

It seems that the function of the psychic is indeed to communicate with the soul. ’

Thinking about this, Jiang Beiran turned back to Deng Xianghan and said, "You go to all parts of the village to see, if there are poor people, you will be relieved." ”

"Yes."

When the third daughter left, Jiang Beiran looked at the farmer in the soul state and said, "Do you know that you are dead?" ”

"Of course I know I'm dead, but I won't let it go if I'm a ghost...... Hey!? You can see me!? The farmer shouted in horror.

"Well, I can see it clearly."

"Man, !!!!"

The frightened farmer ran away like crazy.

"Obviously he was babbling just now, what a coward......"

didn't chase the ghost, Jiang Beiran wandered around the village.

The village has complete basic facilities, with a pond in front of the door, rice fields and vegetable fields behind the door, and a yard outside the house with fruit trees in the yard.

Unfortunately, the pond has completely dried up, the rice and vegetable fields have been deserted, and there are a few good fruit trees, but most of them are already bare.

"Well, that's a bit too desolate." Jiang Beiran sighed.

"It's not your dog who killed you!"

Looking back, Jiang Beiran saw that the scared farmer just now ran back again, hiding far away and shouting at him.

"You're not running away, are you?" Jiang Beiran asked with a smile.

The farmer stiffened his neck and replied, "I'm dead anyway!" You still have the ability to make me die again! ”

"That's not going to work." Jiang Beiran replied.

"What the hell are you doing in the village! The valuable things in the village have long been robbed, what do you want to do!? ”

"Didn't your village post a notice that the emperor would inspect the county?"

"Notice? We can't read it, look at it. ”

Just when Jiang Beiran was about to ask something, an old woman suddenly followed Mu Yao over, and as soon as she saw Jiang Beiran, she immediately knelt down.

"Your Majesty! Have mercy and save us, you really can't live anymore. ”

Jiang Beiran hurriedly stepped forward to help the eldest lady and said, "Auntie, if you have something to say slowly, I will help you solve it." ”

"Ouch! God can be regarded as an eye-opener, your Majesty, the men in our village have been arrested, and there are only some women who can't do anything. ”

"Who took the men from the village?"

"We don't know! Last year, a group of murderers suddenly came to the village, rushed in and arrested my son, and I chased out to chase my son back, but the murderer was very vicious, and whoever dared to stop him would kill him! In the end, we had no choice but to watch as the men in the village were arrested by them. ”

'Don't you know......

While talking, more women and old women ran over one after another, and knelt in a circle crying around Jiang Beiran.

In the crowd, Deng Xianghan walked up to Jiang Beiran and said, "Your Majesty, we have sent some food to these villagers, and they already know that you are here to rescue them." ”

Jiang Beiran, who had never seen this battle for a while, asked Mu Yao and the others to help the villagers up, and then inquired about them one by one, and found that they didn't know where their men or sons had been arrested.

"And what about your village chief?" Jiang Beiran asked.

Hearing this, the villagers fell silent for a while, and finally the woman replied, "The village chief...... The village chief was beaten to death when he stopped the wicked people. ”

'Alas, it's a pity to be a good village chief. ’