The next day.

Xia Zhixue and Ouyang Huaiyu were walking on the street, and there were still as many people around as usual.

The city, too, is still the same as ever.

For a while, Xia Zhixue and Ouyang Huaiyu walked on the street, and they also felt a little novel, especially Xia Zhixue walking on the street, and a complicated mood gradually rose in Xia Zhixue's heart.

Just now, they randomly inquired about a few places at the city gate, but they didn't find out what Xing said, about the displacement of residents.

Originally, Xia Zhixue thought that Xing had heard it wrong, it was not that the cities around their country had a situation where residents could not have a stable place, but other places.

Xia Zhixue thought so, but Ouyang Huaiyu didn't think so.

He looked at the crowd of people in the street, and said nothing, he only looked at the ordinary people who walked past them, as if he had found something.

"Hey, Huaiyu, do you want to go to the teahouse to have a look?" Xia Zhixue said, and pulled the sleeve of Ouyang Huaiyu's black robe.

Ouyang Huaiyu also followed his words, and glanced up at the teahouse that Xia Zhixue was referring to.

The location of this teahouse can be said to be the best, with four roads, each of which will pass through it, and it is also the most densely populated place.

"Let's go, go up and have a look." Ouyang Huaiyu said, and took Xia Zhixue's hand. Walk towards the teahouse.

The teahouse is a place to provide people with quiet thinking, and a quiet place to the bustling city.

But the teahouse in this place is different.

Because on the first floor, there is actually a restaurant, and the second floor is a tea house.

Such a design is really unimaginable to ordinary people, and such a decision is too bold.

The purpose of this design is to provide a place for people to meet and drink, but the tea house is the complete opposite, only to provide a quiet and good environment for one person to think about things.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the geographical location of this store that the owner of this store can make such a bold decision.

Xia Zhixue and Ouyang Huaiyu did not go to the second floor, but stayed on the first floor and sat down at an empty table at random.

As soon as he sat down, Xiao Er came to ask Xia Zhixue and Ouyang Huaiyu what they wanted.

Xia Zhixue directly ordered a few dishes and a pot of wine.

After Xiao Er left, Xia Zhixue still had Ouyang Huaiyu's ears, but he was carefully listening to the conversations of the people around him.

The best place to gather information is not on the street, nor outside the city.

It's a restaurant.

Because there are more people in the restaurant than in other places, but people who drink, more people are heroic, and they speak very aggressively, and some even have no scruples.

That's why Xia Zhixue brought Ouyang Huaiyu here.

Because when she was right at the door, she discovered the uniqueness of this shop.

At this moment, Xia Zhixue suddenly heard a scolding sound coming from the door.

It turned out to be a few soldiers in armor, with spears in their hands, and a person in the lead, who also pushed away the people who had just walked towards him.

The same was true of the soldiers behind him, who did not look like soldiers at all to the people who walked by them, they looked like bullies on the street, except that they were still wearing armor.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!! ”

The soldier in the lead yelled.

The movement at the door naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the house.

But the people in the room, except for Xia Zhixue and Ouyang Huaiyu, didn't show much surprised expressions, as if they were used to it.

Looking at this scene, Ouyang Huaiyu couldn't help frowning.

It was at this time that the shopkeeper, who was originally standing at the counter and was busy, hurriedly walked to the group of soldiers: "Official, how do you have time to come to our teahouse today?"

The shopkeeper asked the soldier who took the lead, but the soldier's expression was still nobody, and he looked at the shopkeeper coldly: "Shopkeeper, what day did you say today?"

The leading soldier did not reply directly, but said such a sentence directly and vaguely.

Suddenly, the shopkeeper immediately came to his senses. He immediately asked the shopkeeper on the side to take the money that had been prepared before and put it in the box at the counter. The egg hurts

When he got the money, he immediately gave it to the soldier who took the lead with a smile and a grin.

At this time, the soldier who took the lead, his cold face, eased a little.

But the look was still very domineering, and he took the money bag from the shopkeeper's hand before leaving with the group of soldiers behind him.

It wasn't until the soldiers left that the people who had been a little quiet suddenly returned to their previous bustle.

It's just that at this time, almost everyone's topic has changed.

"It's the middle of the month again."

"That's right, I didn't expect to have to pay taxes so soon, and I see that the shopkeeper took out a lot of money."

"Hey! If you don't do business, you probably don't know that in recent years, every shop has to pay twice as much tax, and even ordinary households have to pay twice as much as they used to. ”

"Well, if you can't pay the tax, you will chop off your finger, and if you don't pay it the second time, you will chop another one, and many people who can't pay the tax have already left the city."

Xia Zhixue and the people at the table next to Ouyang Huaiyu were discussing the issue of state taxation.

Hearing this, Xia Zhixue and Ouyang Huaiyu frowned.

He doesn't remember that he had increased taxes so that so many residents had nowhere to live.

And it's tripled!

This lord of the city.

Taxes were increased privately, leaving people homeless and displaced.

and did not pay taxes, and even directly chopped off the fingers of the people with torture.

Its behavior is simply outrageous!

At this time, Ouyang Huaiyu was a little angry.

He suddenly stood up from the table, and when Xia Zhixue saw this, he probably guessed what Ouyang Huaiyu wanted to do.

Naturally, a person who does such evil deeds as the lord of the city will be punished as he deserves.

But this is not the time, they need to think long-term.

It's just that Xia Zhixue couldn't stop Ouyang Huaiyu, and Ouyang Huaiyu still strode out of the gate of the teahouse.

Ouyang Huaiyu came to the front of the City Lord's Mansion, and at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, there were a total of four soldiers on duty.

Ouyang Huaiyu just walked directly into the gate, but the soldiers guarding the door naturally wouldn't let Ouyang Huaiyu in.

immediately stopped Ouyang Huaiyu.

At this time, Ouyang Huaiyu didn't break through, he only looked at the soldiers on the side and said coldly: "Let your city lord, get out of here!"

Ouyang Huaiyu's voice also contained faint anger.

The soldiers guarding the door on the side were also frightened by Ouyang Huaiyu's movements and momentum.

I felt bad in my heart, so I hurriedly ran to the mansion and called the city lord.

Originally, the city lord was still quietly drinking tea and enjoying the flowers in the elegant pavilion in the mansion.

But it was at this time that the soldier quickly ran to the city lord's side and immediately informed the city lord of the situation in front of the city lord's mansion.

The city lord suddenly felt puzzled, but he didn't know who it was who had the courage to come to his city lord's mansion to make trouble.

He also felt that it was okay, so he followed the soldiers to the gate of the city lord's mansion to check.

At first, the lord of the city came to the gate and saw a young man standing at the gate.

The city lord has always been used to being chic in the city, and for a while, he couldn't even recognize that this was Ouyang Huaiyu, the emperor of the kingdom.

The city lord looked at Ouyang Huaiyu, and he only felt familiar in his heart, but he didn't think so much in the end.

He looked at the man standing at the door, looking at him coldly, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and without saying a word, he said directly: "This is the City Lord's Mansion, you hairy boy actually dare to come here to make trouble!"

The city lord said, and immediately looked at the soldiers on the side: "Why don't you hurry up and arrest me!"