The earthly world is human, and the underground world is undead. Although there will be intersections, it has been divided this way for a long time. The world of the undead also has a sky, not just a dark rock top, but the sky is always cloudy, and I don't know what else is behind the clouds. Only the occasional lightning bolt piercing through the clouds tells people that there is something higher above the clouds.

Through the castle window, a gust of wind blew in the dark night sky, carrying the pungent smell of sulfur. Lu Jingzhi covered his nose and slammed the wooden window shut. He hated it, but he didn't run away. The sheer security here alone was enough to cut him off from secretly leaving.

Li Tangtang curled up on the bed and slept, with a leather cushion made of the skin of the Kodo beast under him, and a coarsely woven linen quilt covering his body, which was rough but clean and warm. The ghost ride in the castle is also a relatively high class, and there are more than a dozen ghost pawns under his command, and each ghost pawn also has zombies or ghost slaves as servants. Now Lu Jingzhi has helped the ghost rider to be a tax collector, and has won the treatment of a ghost pawn, so that he can have his own room, and he can also find two zombies or humans to be servants. However, he couldn't get used to it and didn't dare to summon zombie minions, so he only needed two human ghost slaves. A man named "Sijiu" ran errands with him, and a woman named "Yinxin" served Li Tangtang.

I saw that I had been living for two days, and the food I ate was the same as that of the ghost slaves, all grown in the ground. Although there is also some meat, whether it is him or Tangtang, the two of them have no appetite for meat in this environment. The ghost rider was called away by the lord as soon as he came back, and he will be back about tomorrow morning, and when he comes back, he will inevitably ask about the collection of taxes, and this time it should not be something that can be dismissed in two or three sentences.

Lu Jingzhi also lay on the bed, pillowing his hands, thinking about what to do tomorrow. Is it really to find a way to increase taxes for him, or to find a way to escape? Just thinking about it, Tangtang turned over, pillowed his head on his arm, and whispered in a low dream: "Brother Yangyang......"

Lu Jing's heart tightened, Li Boyang was captured by the young old woman, and he hadn't heard any news until now, if he escaped tomorrow, Tangtang was afraid that his life would be difficult to protect. He put his arms flat so that Tangtang could sleep comfortably, remembering that Li Boyang used to sleep with his sister in his arms.

He sighed, and just kept his eyes open until dawn.

Then, sure enough, the ghost rider returned.

"You have to pay taxes, and you can't take whoever you want. Lu Jingzhi tried to convince the ghost rider. In the past two days, he has learned a lot of nonsense from ghost slaves, and he can really see people and talk about people, and he can talk nonsense when he sees ghosts.

"Why!" Ghost Rider doesn't like to talk too much, and usually two low growls can show what he means.

"Some people produce more and collect less taxes, while some people produce less and collect more, which is unbalanced and not conducive to sustainable development in the future. Lu Jingzhi explained.

"Get out!" Ghost Rider was a little upset, "What's the use of development?

"If you want it to be done, you have to have accounts. Lu Jingzhi is also annoyed, it is really difficult to convince this guy.

"No, I just want you to take everything they have and pay me taxes!"

"It must!" Lu Jingzhi roared back, "Otherwise, how do you know how much you have to pay?"

"Pay as much as you can!" the ghost rider roared louder and louder.

"Then what will you do next year?!" Lu Jingzhi also raised his voice and roared, "You said that next year will be twice as much as this year!"

The ghost rider stopped talking, no matter how stupid he was, he also figured out a problem: according to his taxes, he would either die this year or die next year.

"Good!" roared the ghostrider, "but I don't. ”

Seeing that he had succumbed, Lu Jingzhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said, "It doesn't matter, I'll just make an account." "It doesn't matter if you don't have an account, just a pen and paper.

The ghost rider stared at Lu Jingzhi for a long time, and roared in a low voice: "Okay, you do it!" After speaking, he turned around and took a step, turned around again, and put the ugly face that was missing half of the forehead corner and stared at Lu Jingzhi, and was silent for a while before roaring viciously: "Forget about today's matter, but next time if you dare to contradict me again, I will pinch you to death, you know?" Seeing Lu Jingzhi's pale face and nodding in a panic, he left satisfied. In his opinion, the obedience of his subordinates is far more important than their ability.

Lu Jingzhi stroked his thumping little liver for a long time before he came back to his senses. This is too scary, don't bring it like this, it's a big deal to play like this again!

After thinking about it, I can't stop doing it after all. If you really don't do it, the ghost will have to cook himself and Li Tangtang in a pot and make a way to taste the candy. So he shouted, "Forty-nine! Forty-nine! Die for me!"

Forty-nine was originally a young wooden person, because the village could not pay taxes, and Yinxin was plundered by the ghost horse to make up the number, seeing that the two were young, he was not in a hurry to kill the soul snatcher and refine the corpse, but handed it over to the ghost pawn as a servant. This time I went out to collect taxes, and several ghost pawns died, including the two of them. Originally, without the ghost slaves of the master's family, he lost the value of living, but fortunately, Lu Jingzhi also needed two people as servants, so he took them over.

At this time, Sijiu heard the greeting, hurriedly ran over, and said, "My lord, what are your orders?"

Lu Jingzhi lost his temper and said: "You are a dead man! Didn't you tell you that you are not allowed to be called an adult, only 'this young master'?"

Sijiu shrank after being scolded and said, "Shao...... Young Master!"

Lu Jingzhi scolded again: "Pig, didn't you say that you want to be called 'this young master'?"

Sijiu was so frightened that he didn't even dare to look at him, and said, "This young master, what do you command?"

Lu Jingzhi lost his temper for a while, his mood was a little better, and he said, "Go and get paper and pen for the young master." Master, I want to write. ”

Sijiu didn't move, and looked at Lu Jingzhi in a daze. Lu Jingzhi was also stunned, is there such a person? Let him not move anything, and he still doesn't reply! Immediately said angrily: "Why don't you have long legs? Don't you go quickly!"

Sijiu panicked: "Young master...... No, this young master, that ...... What is pen and paper? ”

Lu Jingzhi said impatiently: "It's just something to write...... Wait, do you know words?"

Sijiu said: "Young master...... No, no, this young master, what are the words you are talking about?"

Lu Jingzhi felt a little dizzy, what kind of person is this, he doesn't even know what the words are, he hasn't been to elementary school and his parents have taught him? Holding back his anger, he said: "It's written on paper for people to read." "By the way, I don't know what paper is. He was speechless, looked up at the stone dome, and waved Sijiu out.

As soon as Sijiu walked to the door, he suddenly heard Lu Jingzhi shouting: "Sijiu, Sijiu!" So he hurriedly ran back and said, "This young master, what else do you command?"

Lu Jingzhi thought about it again and said, "It's okay, I see if you can run fast." Go down. ”

Sijiu felt that this young master was really strange, so he had to go down. Although this young master is small and has a good temper, he is as good as he is, he does not beat himself, nor does he command others to beat him. But his request is strange enough, why do you have to see if you are running fast enough? So in his heart, he added a strange word to this young master, this strange young master.

The strange young master was sitting on the table at this time, bursting into tears. What's going on, the people here have never seen a pen or paper, and they don't even know a word. You have to say ugly nonsense when you speak, and I really don't do it. But don't you do it, in case the ghost rider with the horns of his forehead starts a fire...... He thought about the ugly face that scared him just now, so he had to sigh resignedly: There is no pen and paper, Lao Tzu will do it himself!

So he shouted again: "Forty-nine!"

This time, Sijiu didn't let him call a second time. Since this strange young master wants to see his speed, it is better to wait by his door, and if he has something to call himself, he will jump out quickly. At this time, when he heard the master's call to himself, he hurriedly jumped out and answered: "Here, here......! This young master, what do you command? ”

As soon as he came out like this, Lu Jingzhi was startled. Where did this pop up, don't you scare people so much, okay? Anyway, you can let me suck my nose and come out again. He glared at Sijiu, but unexpectedly, the tears that were still in the frame of his eyes fell again.

"Less...... This young master, are you crying?" Sijiu is so blind, don't you see the young master turning his head away here? and asking, if this is not a serious matter, I will punish you to clean the toilet! Lu Jingzhi took a deep breath and said: "Ah, young master, I'll cry to relieve my boredom, can't I? Don't talk nonsense, the young master will let you do something." If it's done, you can continue to follow me, and if you can't do it, you can jump into the soul refining pool by yourself. "The Soul Refining Pool is a place where souls are taken and corpses are refined, that is, where the living are refined into zombies. said that whoever goes to the soul refining pool wants his life.

When Sijiuyi heard this, how dare he say anything else, so he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Young master...... No, this young master, don't be annoyed. What do you want, the little one will get it for you desperately. ”

Lu Jingzhi was only scared of him, firstly, because his embarrassment made him see it, and he was inevitably unhappy in his heart, which scared him to relieve his anger; second, he was afraid that he would be lazy and slippery, and he would be scared to do things seriously. At this time, seeing that Sijiu was really scared to death, he was a little unbearable, but he still had to stand up on the shelf, and said: "Stand up for me! How stupid and stupid you are, I'm afraid that you won't be able to do things well, but fortunately you are a little clever, otherwise I really don't want you, young master." Now listen carefully to me, one less thing, don't blame the young master for not showing you mercy. ”

When Sijiu heard this, he hurriedly nodded yes, and peeked at this strange young master, and saw that his face was not bad, so he dared to stand up slowly, bowed his head and said, "Shao...... This young master, please command. ”

Lu Jingzhi said: "The bark outside, pick out the old ones for me and peel some of them, don't be thick, make them thin, the bigger the better, if they are all finely broken, you will ......" Originally, I wanted to say that he should jump into the soul refining pool, but thinking about how scared he was just now, I couldn't bear it, so I changed my words: "You just give the young master a piece of glued into a big one, do you hear?" In addition, bring some slender hard charcoal strips for the young master, as well as thicker linen, and bring some too. ”

Sijiu nodded yes, but he didn't know what this strange young master wanted to do.

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