The shopkeeper waved his hand when he heard this: "Now the monarch in Che Cheng is not the former monarch but General Liu, he broke into the palace and killed the mediocre emperor, and then set himself up as the emperor, but he is also working hard, and the people are safe and secure, but my sweetheart is a woman in this Xia Liang country, I was young and vigorous at that time, and I secretly crossed the border to find her." ”

I smiled and said, "The shopkeeper is also a person with deep affection. ”

The shopkeeper waved his hand a little shyly: "No, I just looked at it and felt that I couldn't do without her." ”

Hearing his simple and modest words, Uncle Xu and I smiled at each other, and the shopkeeper said to us: "Since you are from Chechnya, there must be no silver to buy these clothes, so today I will be a master and give you two thick clothes, otherwise, the weather will be cold at night, and you will not be able to stand it." ”

For the kindness of the shopkeeper, we naturally do not shirk, otherwise the cold wind at night into the bones, when we also suffer, a few words of greeting, and picked out two good clothes for us, although it is the south, but after all, it is winter to wear this clothes and suddenly warm a lot.

The shopkeeper smiled: "Since you have nowhere to go, if you want to do a chorre in this garment room, it doesn't matter, I can talk to the owner in the future, or have a place to live temporarily." ”

After thanking the shopkeeper for his kindness, we were about to do some work, but suddenly we heard a noisy sound, the shopkeeper went out first, but was pushed back, a, a soldier-like person, looked at the store, and asked fiercely: "Which is Che Chengguo's spy?" ”

Uncle Xu and I were busy hiding, looking forward from the corner, but found that it was a young man from a garment shop before, he was hiding behind the soldiers, but his hands were not idle, pointing to the shopkeeper and said: "Just now I clearly saw those two people enter this garment workshop, they are Che Chengguo's spies, holding Che Chengguo's silver ticket, I think this garment shop is connected with Che Chengguo, official, you search quickly, don't let those two people run away!" ”

After listening to the shopkeeper, a dense small solder spot immediately surfaced on the door of his head, I saw him trembling all over, and the two tremors almost wanted to fall, but fortunately, holding on to the counter on the side, this was barely supported, and he kept wiping his head with his sleeves, but he said with a smile: "Official, how can I have any Che Chengguo's spies, it is clear that this guy is talking nonsense, our two families are some competition, but they can't hurt me like this!" ”

The guy with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, at first glance, was a shrewd person, and he did not fall behind in the slightest, he shouted at the top of his voice: "If those two don't believe it, I will say nonsense to let the official master work here for nothing?" ”

He bowed to the soldiers around him and shouted, "Official, I don't dare to lie to anyone even if I lie to you, do I?" If the small ones are the slightest lie, you cut down the small ones, and only then did you see them enter this place and never come out, so you should search this place so that they don't run away! ”

The soldier waved his hand, and a group of people behind him rushed into this garment workshop, and the guests saw this, and ran out in a panic, and the shopkeeper covered his heart and kept looking, and the direction we were in must be afraid that we would come out and cause trouble.

We are not in a hurry, who is called Uncle Xu, a talented person, he grabbed my sleeve casually, jumped out of the attic, landed firmly on the ground, and hid in a corner, carefully observe the movement of the garment workshop, we naturally can not easily leave, otherwise it will be in vain the shopkeeper to our good.

After about a while, he walked out of here, scolded in his mouth, pointed at the young guy and beat him randomly, kicked him in the ass, kicked him far away, and scolded: "Get out, don't lie next time, I don't have time to play with you!" ”

The young man couldn't say what he was suffering, it looked like he had eaten Coptis chinensis, his facial features were all gathered together, and he was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the little one is wrong." ”

It was only when the soldiers went out a long way that he dared to get up and go back to the garment shop, and when he saw that everything had disappeared, we went to the shopkeeper, but we saw that the top of the garment room had been turned to pieces, and the plaques were all crumbling obliquely.

The shopkeeper sat in front of the counter, angrily smashed the deacon on the counter with his hand, and scolded: "These people are really not things! ”

Seeing him like this, Uncle Xu and I felt a little guilty, and I shouted softly: "I'm sorry for the shopkeeper, it's just that we didn't want to provoke these soldiers." ”

When the shopkeeper saw us coming, he suppressed his anger, but his face was still very bad, he said: "Two, this matter has nothing to do with you, usually these, the soldiers will oppress the people, all kinds of traitors, even worse than those robbers on Niutou Mountain, they will no longer be difficult for us after collecting money, but these soldiers come again and again to demand protection money, several times a year, this business is really impossible to do!" ”

I asked in a low voice: "If Xia Liangguo is like this, why doesn't the shopkeeper go to another country, but also have a quiet place, it's better than being scared here." ”

The shopkeeper waved his hand: "In addition to my food and clothing here, I also have some silver, if I go to another country, there is no such good thing." ”

He wiped his face with his hand, and showed a reluctant smile to us: "I can't help it, you two, even if someone finds you, it's not good for me to stay, otherwise there will be more things to do later." ”

It is a love to help us, and it is also a duty not to help, Uncle Xu and I naturally understand, and because we have brought a lot of losses to this garment workshop, the shopkeeper did not let us pay, which is thank God.

He stuffed two taels of silver into our hands with a little guilt, and said: "Since the two of you have no relatives and no reason when you first came here, it is better to go one hundred and eighty miles further, it is better to leave this county and go elsewhere than here, the emperor is very enlightened today, but these moths are wantonly oppressing the people, we have no place to complain, you had better stay away from here." ”

Hearing him say this, we understand that it was the soldiers of this county who proved themselves to be the emperor of Tiangao, so they became the emperor of the soil from here, and they took the people as no people.

Uncle Xu smiled mysteriously at me and said, "Xiao Qiu'er, why don't we go and clean up those dog officials together?" ”

I nodded, but I also wondered how Uncle Xu was so chivalrous and righteous, not like his stubborn character, so he asked, "How can you, this old man, care about the people's suffering?" Don't you often say that being a ghost is better than being a person, being a person can only walk on two legs and live a hard life, but being a ghost is different, flying eaves and walking on the wall, pinching it with your hands. ”

Uncle Xu smiled: "Xiao Qiu'er, you don't understand this, Uncle Xu, I am different from ordinary ghosts, I am a good ghost who only fights unevenly, besides, this is a good thing to accumulate yin virtue, maybe I can have a good baby in the future." ”

Then he said even more excitedly: "Actually, whether to reincarnate or not is also a matter of the future, but the current benefit is that I can still improve my mana." ”

I pinched his ears and said, "Yo! Uncle Xu, now you don't eat those wild meats, but eat people instead, and now I'm afraid that you will eat me in the future! ”

The old man smiled: "These people are not even as good as this livestock, even if I eat them, it doesn't matter, staying in the world is just a piece of garbage, it is better to become a delicacy in my belly, so as to help me improve my cultivation, and I can protect you in the future, right?" ”

Lifting my chin, he said shyly: "Xiao Qiu'er, I won't eat you, you are so fun, if you don't have you, who will play with me?" He Jiuchen, that stinky guy, I don't know which family he has been reincarnated......"

As soon as he said this, he immediately covered his mouth, and I smiled: "It's okay, it's been decades since this happened, and I naturally forget it's okay, even if you're looking for a man for me, it's okay!" ”

While talking, Uncle Xu and I went to a nearby restaurant, had a good meal, drank two pots of wine, warmed up, and fell on the chair very comfortably, picking our teeth with a bamboo skewer and said, "Uncle, when are we going?" ”

Uncle Xu gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be in a hurry, listen to it in this restaurant first, don't hurt a good person by mistake." ”

His old man's heart is actually thinner than mine, I nodded, and Uncle Xu taught me again: "Xiao Qiu'er, you don't know, if you want to find out any news?" Restaurants are the easiest places to hear the truth. ”

I nodded thoughtfully, and he added, "But those drunkards, you can't listen to their bragging, and they can blow the cow to the sky!"

In the evening, the young man came up to our table: "Two, we're going to fight the ocean." ”

Uncle Xu and I got up and walked to the east, this afternoon's work was full of harvest, we heard that there is a huge merchant in the east of the city, named Li Guan, he colluded with the master of the county government, and instructed the soldiers to come to collect taxes, it was okay to collect rent, but he repeatedly harassed the people in the city.

The two of them are a complete villain, of course, the county official in the county government can't escape, how can he not know that he lives here? What the two of them did was to turn a blind eye to what they did, and let the people denounce them, but they still did not accept the paper.

It can be seen that the three of them are colluded, not good people, I heard that there are many rich families in the city, but these three people colluded with each other, became broken children, and moved their families to other places, so this city has become a famous poor county in Xia Liangguo, even so, they can earn more.

The book said that natural disasters were rampant here, the people were displaced, and the emperor was asked to allocate funds, after all, it was the emperor who was far away, and the emperor saw this, and immediately allocated the money, but it was all in the pockets of these corrupt officials.

In this way, these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, all of them made a lot of money, but the lives of the people became poorer and poorer, some of the people who wanted to go to Beijing to sue the emperor, they were stunned and were stopped by them, and they were all put in prison, and all of them died in prison, and the diseases were the same, saying that it was smallpox, but those people were obviously good before, how did they get sick and die when they entered the cell, presumably there is no need to explain the strange thing, there must be something strange, maybe it is these corrupt officials who killed and went to Beijing to sue the people......