There is a light in the room like a bean, except for a bed, there are no other daily necessities, and its shabby degree is visible.

"The imperial court has to collect taxes every year, and our fishermen here are not full of food and clothing, and the fish they catch are all from the imperial court, not like the imperial capital, which is Zhong Lingyuxiu after all."

"This is not right, although the court is taken from the people and the people, but speaking of which, you also rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water, and it has nothing to do with the court in the end."

"I'm a faint gentleman today." The old man next to him was furious, and his palm fell on the table, and the huge appearance seemed to be really hated for the emperor, and when she saw this, she immediately frowned. What do you mean by that? Are these all things laid out today? ”

"No, no, no......" The old gentleman's topic came to an abrupt end, Qiansang knew that they had something unspeakable, probably afraid of slandering the emperor, so let Emperor Yan seal this outsider to stay in the imperial capital, this is the disaster from the mouth.

This place is already so poor, but the old couple is still so generous, and their poor life is not the same, Qiansang's mood has become not very good, but he can only accept the kindness of the old couple.

After a while, the old grandmother went to cook, stewed the only Luhua chicken into soup, and sent it to Yan Difeng and Qiansang, although Yan Difeng was already hungry, but now, in the face of this delicious food, it is completely difficult to swallow.

The words just now were like a heavy stone, pressing on his heart, and now, at last, he couldn't help it, he looked at the old gentleman and asked, "But what is the situation, please tell us in the end." ”

"This ......" the old gentleman looked very embarrassed, but after thinking for a while, he said: "This is all ignorance today, nepotism, this is all given by Emperor Yan." ”

This is probably what Yan Difeng didn't expect, the righteous indignation just now has now become an empty thought, what is the situation, it actually fell on his head!

"How is it a matter of Emperor Yan Feng?" Emperor Yan blocked his eyebrows, and he didn't know what to do.

As for Qiansang, her expression was unfazed just now, and now, it was still the same, she drank the soup little by little, and listened to the old couple talk about their unavoidable hardships. "It's a long story, and now I have appointed my own prince and brother to govern our barren land......"

Emperor Yan Feng suddenly remembered a thing, before, in order to prove his strength, Yan Xuanfeng gave him the most sinister Xichuan and the most barren coastal town Huangzhou.

"This is Huangzhou?" Emperor Yan asked.

"No, this is indeed Huangzhou." The old gentleman nodded, and said; "It was okay here five years ago, but it didn't happen three years ago, and it wasn't very smooth, speaking of which, it's just a matter of sin, but now, there is that official here, and this cool official completely ignores the people's livelihood and withers, and exploits us layer by layer......."

"How do you strip layer by layer?" Emperor Yan wanted to know how the people were miserable, as a prince, he had the idea to change everything here, the old gentleman looked at him and sighed again and again.

"Nowadays, the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, don't you know, as long as we have a girl married, we have to pay taxes, as long as we go out to work, we have to pay taxes, even if we sit at home behind closed doors, it will be a disaster from the sky, we are idle, we also have to pay taxes, people live, it is not easy."

The old gentleman said with emotion, Emperor Yan recalled that this place was relatively barren, and he managed it here before, but he didn't let the people be like this, and even, the people here are much easier than the people in Dijing, but why, is it not the same?

His eyes looked at the old man in front of him, and the old man said: "You came from afar, naturally you don't know something, this black-hearted prince is really bad, we rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water, and now we don't go out to work, it's just a matter of fishing in the sea, but even fishing has to pay taxes." ”

"And the matter of fishing, it needs to go through them, we can't sell fish privately, otherwise they will know about it, and they will immediately beat us up, and now, all the good fish we have here are from the imperial court, as for the rest, needless to say." The old man poured bitter water while holding the contents of the cup and drinking it non-stop.

In order to suppress the anger in his heart, the two of you look at me, I look at you, and after a while, Emperor Yan was silent.

"By the way, in addition to this, there are more alarmist ones, one is Hebo marrying a daughter-in-law, and the other is the dragon god asking for rain." The old lady next to her interjected and said, in this way, the light mulberry next to her also felt strange.

"What is Hebo's wife?"

"But if the wind and rain are not good for us here, the soap will come over, let each of us pick out a girl who is like a flower, put the girl on the mat, and push it out along the sea, and in a moment the girl will be swallowed by the monstrous waves."

"This ...... It is clearly to fool the people, where in the world is there a river? "Emperor Yan is an out-and-out atheist, and as for Assang, he is in a very bad mood.

"What is the dragon god asking for rain?"

"Every year when the weather is dry, the imperial court sends someone down, saying that this person is Qin Tianjian, a closed disciple of Zhang Tianshi, very capable of tossing, and can ask for rain, so every household takes out a tael of silver to them, hey, where can I really pray for rain, speaking of which, this is the court."

The old lady was helpless when she said this.

"I see." Qiansang groaned for a while, and gently held Yan Difeng's hand, it turned out that everything here was caused by Yan Difeng himself, he never thought that the people who would harm him would be so poor, and the people dared to be angry with him every day.

Nowadays, the people's opinion of him is like this, it turns out that they are not resentful of Yan Xuanfeng, but themselves.

"Why don't you go to the court to sue."

"Grandpa Tian—" The old gentleman exclaimed helplessly. "Emperor Yan Feng didn't even pay attention to Yan Xuanfeng, how dare we sue, a few years ago, six people went to the imperial capital to sue, and the matter of the complaint was over, and even these six people had no bones, and it has been three years."

"There is such a thing!" Emperor Yan slammed his fist on the table.

"By the way, don't you have any grandchildren in your family? Why does it look deserted? Qiansang asked, under normal circumstances, at their age, isn't it just to tease their grandson to share the joy of family? Don't...... Asa-san's heart hurts, but I hope things don't look like this.

"I have a third brother's son." The old gentleman lowered his eyebrows and raised his eyes, stretched out his right hand proudly, and put the fingers up, one, two, three, as if showing off.

But alas, all three sons have ...... has died on the battlefield, and the strong men come every year, all the time, saying that they are going to conquer, what else can we do? The old gentleman said.

The old lady added next to her - "Now there are all old and weak women and children here, and there is not even a young man, there is no more." "Assan-san can't count how many times they've heard sighs since they came to this impoverished house.

"Bang bang bang"! "Bang bang bang"! "Bang bang bang"!

It's strange, it's already three watches in the middle of the night, why, suddenly there was a knock on the door outside, the voice was still so rude, the old gentleman immediately became nervous, "Quick, you guys hide quickly, the officers and soldiers are coming, they won't let go when they see a beautiful girl, and as for a young man like you, they won't let it go, hide quickly, I'll open the door." ”