Under the whole world, it is not the king's land. On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister.

A long time ago, when Lu Jingzhi was not very good at speaking, his father told him the Book of Poetry. He said that there is not a piece of the land under heaven that no one wants, and there is no one who lives on the earth that is not under the control of the king.

Who is in charge of the king? Lu Jingzhi asked his father.

O king, let it be his own control. Dad said.

Is there no king there?" Lu Jingzhi asked.

The king's king, what is that? If there is a king's king, does it have to be a king's king's king's king? Dad smiled, smiling so happily, as if Lu Jingzhi had asked a very ridiculous but very cute question. Dad's eyes were full of pampering.

Then, Lu Jingzhi woke up. He sobbed a little, and returned from his dream to reality, there was nothing more cruel than this. He saw that Tangtang was sleeping soundly, so he quietly got up and walked out of the bedroom, and whispered, "Four-nine." ”

Sijiu vaguely heard Lu Jingzhi calling himself, and answered sleepily, and then ran in from outside the door, and saw that the strange young master put a finger to his mouth, glad, and hurriedly silenced. Then he waited for the young master to wash his face and brush his teeth, and asked Yinxin to bring breakfast up.

Lu Jingzhi quietly finished breakfast, and inevitably scared Yinxin a few words, asking her to serve the good lady honestly, and if she dared to have a little difference, she would not want her. If it weren't for the fear of waking up Tangtang, Yinxin would have the heart to kneel down and kowtow and swear, but fortunately, the young master didn't say anything and went out.

When they arrived at the castle gate, a dozen zombies were waiting outside. Lu Jing greeted him, hugged him before and after, mighty and majestic. Sijiu was originally waving a flag to let those wandering wild ghosts and rangers know that this was the lord's team's patrol, and if it was okay, don't come to trouble. But then I got tired of it, and I had a plan, so I asked Lu Jingzhi and handed the flag to a zombie to hold, which saved a lot of effort.

Coming out of the castle, I walked to the left along the road, walked for a long time, and almost broke Lu Jingzhi's leg before I arrived at the nearest ghost slave village. Lu Jingzhi gasped and walked forward step by step. Sijiu kept handing out water and towels, and what attracted Lu Jingzhi the most was that Sijiu told him that as long as he arrived in the village, he would have something to eat and drink.

Sure enough, more than half a mile away from the village, someone came out of the village, who seemed to be the head of the ghost slave village, and invited the tax collector and his party into the village. The village chief brought out water, bread, cheese, fruit and other items to comfort everyone, and a little sulfur was prepared for the zombies.

When Sijiu saw it, he was not polite, he took it and stuffed it into his mouth and ate it. Seeing this, Lu Jingzhi gave him a kick in the ass from behind, and scolded: "Stupid, young master, I haven't eaten yet, what are you anxious about!"

Sijiu hurriedly tried to swallow the contents of his mouth, and shouted: "This young master, you are a big man, and you don't look down on their coarse bread and rotten fruits. The village chief has always had another kind of filial piety to the tax collector. ”

Lu Jingzhi kicked again, and said: "Call 'this young master' at home, just come out and call me young master, otherwise outsiders won't know how many young masters you are waiting for." ”

Sijiu hurriedly responded: "Hey, this ...... Master, I remember. After speaking, he was about to stuff the bread into his mouth again, but seeing that Lu Jingzhi raised his feet again, he hurriedly stopped and asked, "Young Master, do you have any orders?"

Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "Even if you have a little eye, give the young master a glass of water." ”

The water in this village is all mountain spring water, which is very different from the well water used in the castle, Lu Jingzhi drank his head and ordered to fill a few more bags and take them back to give sugar and sugar to drink.

The village chief came over at this time and took out a small bag, and put some blue fruits in the bag, which were crystal clear and beautiful. Sijiu said on the side: "Young Master, this is an ice fruit, although this is not the best, it is also excellent." ”

Lu Jingzhi said: "Why are you so familiar with this thing?"

Sijiu said: "The small family grows this thing, and one plant can't harvest three or five ice fruits of good quality a year, and the slightly worse ones are more average, and the taste is not too bad, but it is not worth much." Then the quality is not good, and the taste is not very good, so it can only be used to make wine. However, there is a strange thing about this ice fruit wine, the more ugly and unpalatable the fruit, the more fragrant the wine will be. ”

When Lu Jingzhi heard that this thing was very valuable, he was happy and ordered Sijiu to put it away. The village chief was also very happy when he saw that the tax collector smiled at the ice fruit, and leaned over and said, "Lord Tax Collector, what kind of tax are you going to collect this time?"

Lu Jingzhi ignored him and said to Sijiu: "Sijiu, how did you say this?"

Before Sijiu left the city, he had the orders of this strange young master, and he had to say all the things himself, and the young master only took the shelf, and immediately said to the village chief: "Our young master said, if you have anything good, take it out." The young master wants things and doesn't want people. But if you can't take it out, the young master will pick up the fat ones and tie them up to make up the number. ”

The village chief saw that the tax collector had accepted the bribe, and said that he could talk a little better, but who knew that the tax officer ignored his own ballast, and only let a subordinate talk to him, and said it so scary. If you want to talk about the fattest and fattest person in this village, in addition to yourself, you are your wife.

"No, my lord," the village chief mourned, "the retinue in your castle just collected two barrels of ice fruit wine from our village last week, and now that the new wine has not yet been brewed, there is only a little ice fruit left in the village in the worst condition, you see......"

"I don't care about this!" Lu Jingzhi shouted, "Either I'll tie you up, or I'll tie up someone who can make ice fruit wine and follow me." ”

As long as it's not yourself or your wife, you can tie anyone. The village chief nodded hurriedly and said, "Young master, you can tie it as you like, you can tie it as you like." Seeing that the young master's eyes were aimed at him, he hurriedly howled: "My lord, I don't know how to make wine, old slave." Seeing that he looked at his wife, he continued to howl: "She won't either, she is lazy, stupid, old and ugly, you took her away, I'm afraid that I will miss your big thing." ”

Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "Count you as acquaintances." That's it, see that you are still honest, young master, I will not embarrass you. You do something for the young master, and the young master will pay your taxes when you have paid it, how about it?"

When the village chief heard this, he was still in a dream, and he pinched his wife fiercely. The village chief's wife screamed and slapped the village chief. The village chief also exclaimed pain and said, "Oh, it hurts." It doesn't seem to be a dream. Young master, what do you want us to do, just say it, my whole village will transfer it to you. ”

"It's not a big deal," Lu Jing said, "Trouble the village chief to send me three or five strong laborers, and go with me to work for two or three days, and that's it." ”

Requisitioning manpower was originally a supplementary means of collecting insufficient taxes, sometimes to excavate and carry sulfur mines, sometimes to collect crystals, sapphires, etc., and sometimes to serve as soldiers to fight. The worst of the war, nine times out of ten, there is no return. At this time, seeing that the tax collector was going to requisition the manpower, the village chief's heart was a little uneasy, and he couldn't help asking, "My lord, what are you going to requisition them for?"

Lu Jingzhi said impatiently: "Of course the requisition is work, is it like a cannibal, young master?"

The village chief rolled his eyes, and he had a plan, and said, "If the adults want them to do some hard work, there are two candidates." It's just that although they have great strength, their brains are stupid, and they don't know if the adults are willing to accept it. ”

Lu Jingzhi was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "That's what you want, it's best if you have a clumsy brain and a lot of strength." ”

The village chief was only afraid that he would take away the young and middle-aged people in his village, and that time and forth, there were only some old people and children left in the village, so he was afraid that he would really not be able to live. At this time, seeing that he was not very demanding, he hurriedly called his son: "Xizi, go and call the stupid two and them to come." ”

This stupid two were originally brothers, and their parents were close relatives, and they gave birth to several children who died young, and only two stupid children survived. Although these brothers have bad brains, they have the strength to do it, only a little worse than the zombies they have refined, and they are not much better than the little zombies. It's just agility and dexterity.

Seeing this, Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "Okay, it's just them." Let's go back to work with the young master. I'll let you go back when you're done. ”

The village chief was afraid that the tax collector would think they were ugly and stupid, so when he saw that the tax collector was satisfied, he hurriedly knocked on the nail and turned his feet and said, "Don't be stunned, don't be stunned, hurry up and greet the adult." In the future, you will listen to whatever the adults say, you know?"

Seeing that the village chief had ordered, the two stupid brothers gave Lu Jingzhi a big grin, and said in unison: "Follow the adults, and take care of the meal." "It seems that this is not the first time that these two people have been requisitioned, and they have made it up.

"Okay, good!" Lu Jingzhi was quite satisfied, "Forty-nine, what are we talking about on the road?"

Sijiuyi listened to his heart and said: This is my turn again, and said to the village chief: "Our young master said on the road, it has been too hard all the way, and there is still a village to go to in front of him, so he has to work hard to make a sliding rod." ”

When the village chief heard this, he hurriedly said: "I can do it, I can do it." There is not enough else in this village, but there is enough wood. "Bingguo wood is a very tough wood, and it is very convenient to get a few pieces of wood to make a sliding pole with ice fruit trees planted in this village.

In this way, the way back is much easier, there is no longer a need to drag your feet, and everyone no longer has to wait for Lu Jingzhi's slow speed. In a few moments, the castle was already in sight.

"Stop," Lu Jingzhi shouted on the sliding pole: "Sijiu, go and ask those zombies, did the tax collector come here before, did he go directly to the city, or did he have something else?"

Sijiu responded, went over to ask, and reported back: "Young master, those zombies said that when the former tax official walked here, he would stop for a while, and walk alone under the big tree over there, about to take a break in the shade." ”

Lu Jingzhi nodded and said: "Silly big stupid two, carry the young master to the shade under the big tree, and the young master will also enjoy the blessings of the tax collector." Sijiu followed, and you guys stayed here and didn't move. The group parted.

When he got to the tree, Lu Jingzhi didn't really look for a place to enjoy the shade, but looked around the big tree, until he saw a piece of ground where all the weeds were withered and yellow, and then stopped. Beckon to call Silly Dasha Er, let them dig a pit here, and stop when they dig something. The two stupid brothers have no strength, except for their strength, and they only have the word obedient. At this time, the adults asked them to dig the pit, and they didn't even ask what they were for, but they went up and dug it.

Originally, Lu Jingzhi thought it would take two hours to dig, but it turned out in less than half an hour. It was a pit full of treasures, dozens of chests of ice mushrooms, more than a dozen jars of ice fruit wine, and a little sulfur and precious stones. All these things add up, and it's more than enough to pay this year's taxes.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.