At this time, someone had already moved a chair next to her, Lin Xi hurriedly helped the old man to sit down, the little girl was very lively and cute, no longer as timid as before, running around Lin Xi, living like a beautiful flower butterfly,

"Old man, didn't you go to the northern border with Teacher Zegg's arrangement. Lin Xi remembered that Mr. Zige said that there was vacant land on the northern border, and that he would arrange for his grandfather and grandson to live there.

"Mr. Zige is a good person, it happened that there was a war on the northern border at that time, and it was not peaceful, so he rearranged for someone to send me and Xiaohua back to our hometown, and left a lot of money for us to start a new life. ”

"But the old stone was willing to donate the money to all of us, but unexpectedly, it was still like this. At this time, the old village chief took over the conversation, but his words were full of sadness.

Then, everyone began to talk one after another, and from the angry but helpless accounts of the villagers, Lin Xi gradually understood what happened in these two villages,

It turns out that this remote city called Stoneflow City is not very peaceful, not because of orcs or natural disasters, but because of the city lord.

The city lord is insatiable, not only forcing the villagers to pay a variety of land taxes every year, even in disaster years, but also changing ways to embezzle the ownership of the land from the villagers, such as some villagers who cannot pay enough taxes on time because of the reduced grain production due to the weather, they will be forcibly taken back by the city lord, and then half-politely and half-threatened to lease the land to the villagers.

The villagers will be starved to death immediately after leaving the land, even if the city lord does this equivalent to charging twice the rent a year, but they are helpless, the city lord relies on Shiliu City is his, and there are a large number of thugs under him, so he threatens them all the time, even if they are extremely angry, but they can only swallow their resentment and grievances in their stomachs,

When Lin Xi heard this, his hands were already clenched into fists, and his hands were even more bruised, but the facts told by the villagers next made him even more angry.

In addition to doing everything possible to squeeze the hard-earned money of the villagers in this way, this greedy city lord has other methods,

Due to the remoteness of the place and the long distance, whenever the orcs come to attack, although the emperor [***] team will strangle these orcs with all their strength as now, but the army is limited after all, and a village like such a distance cannot be taken into account, but fortunately, the empire has also arranged another set of plans to try its best to protect the safety of every citizen, that is, in the autumn when the orcs are infested, the empire will ask Stoneflow City to send some of its own guards to be stationed here to protect the lives and property of the villagers.

But the city lord did not do this once, in order to save the expenses of the guards, but also to prevent the guards who obeyed him from any casualties, the city lord simply ignored this critical moment, and actually ordered the guards to stay in Shiliu City and not to be dispatched, although this did not directly kill the villagers or make the already poor family become ruined, but undoubtedly, it is more hateful,

It opened the door to protect the villagers, allowing the orcs to invade, and should have done good deeds for the benefit of the people under his rule, but this city lord was pushing the people into the fire.

Lin Xi even learned from everyone's narrative: In fact, every year in order to compensate for the losses suffered by the villagers when the orcs invaded, the empire will send a considerable amount of disaster relief money through the city lord, but even the city lord who guarantees the villagers through the most critical and difficult times is also greedy, and he is all greedy.

He didn't go to look at the villagers in the village who were brutally killed by the orcs, and he was indifferent to the villagers who were starved to death because of hunger, he only sat behind the high mahogany table in the city lord's mansion, and counted with a smile how much money he had scavenged from the empire and the villagers this year.

Such a city lord, what is the use, when Lin Xi heard this, he had already stood up "ho", his teeth were biting his lip tightly, and blood was flowing out,

After returning to the village, the old man gathered everyone to advance the emergency funds for the villagers who could not afford to pay the land tax and were facing the resumption of the title deed by the city lord at any time, which solved the urgent needs of most of the people in the village.

Later, some of the surplus money was also used for this, because last year's drought reduced grain production, but the insatiable city lord still insisted on collecting taxes in equal amounts.

It wasn't until the old man spent the last silver coin that he could make all the villagers survive.

And today, if it weren't for Lin Xi's appearance, even if the villagers could escape the slaughter of the orcs, they would still be unable to pay taxes to the city lord because their fields and houses were destroyed and their food was taken, so they would face a situation of displacement.

For two whole hours, Lin Xi and the villagers didn't care about lunch, the villagers were full of anger, angrily denouncing the city lord's despicable, ruthless and vicious practices, while Lin Xi had a gloomy face, hearing the villagers' complaints, even he, an outsider, felt extremely indignant, only felt that there was a ball of anger burning in his chest,

If he didn't completely solve this matter for the villagers, Lin Xi felt that he couldn't leave it at all, and he had no shame to face these poor villagers.

After having a not sumptuous but enjoyable lunch with the villagers, Lin Xi immediately walked out of the room and said to the people behind him, "When I come back, I will go back." ”

After speaking, Lin Xi didn't look back, according to the description of the villagers in the morning and a simple map in his hand, he walked straight towards the City Lord's Mansion of Shiliu City,

When he was about to walk out of the dense forest, Lin Xi seemed to think of something, after opening the space ring, he put one of the magic suits that Anthony gave him on his body, and suddenly, the previous coarse black clothes were gone, replaced by an expensive silk shirt, and there was even a pattern made of gold wire between the cufflinks, not only clothes, but also pants and shoes, all of which were high-end goods that others could see at a glance,

The brown hair on his head has shortened a lot, and it has turned flaxen, and even his height and appearance have changed a lot, and now, even if Anthony is standing in front of him, he must not recognize that this young and somewhat frivolous young master Jin Gui will be Lin Xi,

The magic suit is really not an ordinary thing, it can make people change a lot in an instant, and unless you recite a spell to actively clear this dress, otherwise, its effect can theoretically last a lifetime, the last time she went out of her uncle's house to the old house, in order to get rid of the person who was following him, Lin Xi had already used a set, at that time, almost under the noses of the five people, he changed his appearance and swaggered and continued to walk, but the five people didn't even feel half an abnormality,

After the big change, Lin Xi got out of the dense forest, walked along the rugged path for more than an hour, and finally met a slightly more populated country hotel before it was dark, and slept hastily for a night, and the next day Lin Xi took a carriage into the city and began to approach the city lord's mansion.