Nine and a half people and his party received an unusually grand reception in Baicun Village.

As soon as the news of "Bai Shake led three guests into the village to rest" spread, the entire Bai Village moved, which Jiu and a half didn't expect at all, and it was even more unexpected by Bai Shake. Originally, Bai Shao didn't expect to trouble the villagers in the same village, after all, there are some stories between himself and Jiu Ban and his party, which are not too friendly and can be put on the table, if the other villagers are too enthusiastic and cause Jiu and Ban and his party to tell these things, after all, he will not be able to get over Bai Sha's face.

But the development of things is always unexpected, when Bai Shaking and the nine and a half people are about to walk to the entrance of the village, they are suddenly seen by a few children playing at the head of the village. It may have been a long time since they had seen any guests from the village, so the children rushed back to the village, and in a short time the news spread throughout the village. Therefore, when Bai Shao led Jiu Ban to the entrance of the village, he saw that many villagers were already waiting here.

"Welcome, welcome, you must be Xiao Doudou's guests, right?" The village chief took the lead, and a group of villagers stood at the entrance of the village to greet Jiu Ban and his party, and the village chief among them was particularly enthusiastic, he held Jiu Ban's hand tightly as soon as he came up, and said a lot of words. "Along the way, you see that there is really a lot of dust on this body, and I will take a hot bath at home in a while! Everybody said yes!"

"Yes!" the villagers behind him echoed, and then smiled. Jiuhan and his party also laughed, but it was not the enthusiasm of the villagers of Baicun who laughed. The name is interesting, hahahahahahahaha.......ha

It's just that this laughter was covered by the heartiness of the villagers, and it was covered by the red face and red ears that were shivering and ashamed.

Then, the three of them were arranged to follow a few villagers to rest separately. The villager who was responsible for receiving and settling Jiuban was named Bai Da, a middle-aged man who was a strong man and a simple middle-aged man, and the first thing he said when he saw Jiuban was: "Hello, my name is Bai Da, everyone calls me eldest brother, and you call me that." ”

Yes, your surname is white, I don't call you eldest brother, do you call you second brother?

Bai Da doesn't like to talk, but this is in line with Jiuban's wishes. In the process of following Bai Da back to his residence, Jiu Ban had time to carefully observe the appearance of Bai Village. In fact, Baicun is not big. There are no more than three or four passages horizontally and vertically, and dozens of households are scattered respectively. This white village is located in the east of Chaos Flame City, but it is a good place by the mountains and rivers. The villagers live a life of sunrise and sunset, and even when they walk around the village, they still occasionally see farmers planting rice in the paddy fields on the side of the road.

As the sun set, a patch of red gradually stained the direction of Flames City in the west. The remnant sun is like blood, appearing from the west and disappearing from the west, where the Flame City is located, making Jiuhan feel some palpitations and uneasiness abruptly. Today's sunset seems to be a little too red, does it imply something?

Nine and a half didn't know, and I didn't want to think about it.

Soon, it was time to settle down and wash the dust. Nine and a half spent nearly half an hour grooming himself in the white house. Fortunately, Bai Da is not married and lives alone, otherwise Jiu and a half might be a little embarrassed.

Before I finished freshening up, the sound of gongs and drums sounded in my ears at the ear of Jiuban, which was similar to a kind of carnival celebration and feast. was pulled out of the door by Bai Da in a hurry, and Jiu Ban shook his hair that had not been completely dried up for a hundred years and said to Bai Da: "Big brother, why are you in a hurry, isn't it too early?"

"It's too late, the banquet has already begun. ”

Sure enough, the banquet had already begun when they arrived. After the long table is paved, I am afraid that it is several zhang long, and Wu Liangzi and Wei Xi are sitting in the lower position of the village chief, with a mature appearance with a board and eyes. Jiu Ban shook his head, but when he saw the enthusiastic appearance of the villagers in Bai Village next to him, he couldn't refuse, so he could only sit down next to Wu Liangzi and be a "distinguished guest".

The gongs and drums are noisy, and the singing and dancing are leveling. The song is a wild song of a mountain village, and although it is not very high and water, it is not considered a person in the upper and lower riba, but it does sound very pleasant. As for the dance, it is not clever, and in Wu Liangzi's eyes, it is just a group of people jumping around.

But everybody was very happy.

The wine and meat have not stopped, and it seems that Baicun is indeed a relatively rich and hospitable village, Jiuhan thought.

Jiuhan's idea was completely overturned by the village chief of Bai Village at the end of the banquet, just because of the village chief's words, he Jiuhan has changed his views on many things, and even fundamentally changed some views.

The village chief said: "Nine-and-a-half, nine-and-a-half......" The village chief was a little drunk, and he drank a little too much, and then he took another sip of wine and continued: "Do you know that Baicun is not rich, but because you are Xiaodoudou's guests, Baicun will come up with the best things to entertain you." Not for anything else, just because you're a guest of Little Doudou......"

Because we are Bai Shao's guests, do you give everything you can to entertain us?, thinking back for a moment some of the things Bai Shao had done to his friends, he shook his head.

He seemed to want to say something, but because the village chief was already drunk and fell to the ground, he had no choice but to give up.

The moon and stars are scarce, and the sky looks unusually high against the background of rare but bright stars. High and far is not the same as profound, but profundity is above high and far, but under the soft soothing of the moonlight, no matter how deep the night sky is, it also becomes soft. The light of the moon shone on the earth and on the hills, and on the hills, on a man and a woman sitting on the hills, and on a man and a woman, and on the jars and jugs that they held in their hands.

The pair of men and women were Jiuhan and Wu Liangzi, Jiuhan was holding a wine jug, and the wine jar was in Wu Liangzi's arms, a little shaky.

This may be Wu Liangzi's most unimpressive night, and even her master Shaohong may not have seen her like this: the white clothes are still dusty, not scattered, but the hair has completely fallen out. The hair hung down from her face on her head, and some of them hung down in the vat, stained with the smell of wine. In fact, Wu Liangzi is also full of alcohol at the moment, this girl who doesn't know how much wine she can drink drinks in one breath tonight, and she didn't vomit, but she was almost insane.

What is the reason for drinking? I guess it's fun. Why is Wu Liangzi happy to be like this? I'm afraid no one knows for the time being.

Jiu Ban sat next to Wu Liangzi, he gave up the wine cup and drank directly with the wine jug. Although he gave up the wine cup, in fact, there was almost no big difference between not giving up, after all, at this time he was still drinking one sip after another, but the frequency of his drinking and his posture of looking up at the starry sky seemed to have a little artistic conception.

It's just that there are no stars in the starry sky tonight.

At first, the two drank without saying a word, and it seemed that there was nothing to say. But after sitting for an hour, Wu Liangzi, who was even more drunk, took the lead in speaking: "Nine and a half, are you drunk?"

"No, I don't. The nine-and-a-half head did not lower his head, and continued to look at the stars and said.

"What do you say we're doing in this life?"

"I don't know what you're for, I just know that the return to the country is the first thing for me. He took another sip of wine, then lowered his head and moved his muscles a little, so that his neck would not ache.

"Is that so? is it so......" Wu Liangzi sighed, that breath was very heavy, as if to exhale all the resentment and injustice in her heart in one breath. "If the Nine Nations ......"

"You said that if the Nine Kingdoms don't fight for hegemony, they will all be like Baicun today, how good would it be?" Wu Liangzi didn't finish her words, and Jiu Ban interrupted her, and there seemed to be a trace of expectation in her tone: "Actually, I have always felt that the people are the people of the world, and we should not regard the national hatred as family hatred, and we should not affect the grievances between countries to the people." ”

Wu Liangzi gradually felt that her body was a little uncomfortable, and she seemed to be holding back the feeling of vomiting, and she said, "Nine and a half, your thoughts are too simple...... It's true....... What is the foundation of a country? It's the people, isn't it? These thousands of villagers, officials, merchants, and soldiers make up a whole country, you can't deny it?"

After thinking about it for a while, Jiuhan agreed with Wu Liangzi's statement, and then Wu Liangzi continued: "So what? So in fact, the most fundamental contradiction between countries is the contradiction between land, that is, the contradiction of grain. Where does the land come from? The land will never come out of thin air, so we can only rely on plunder, and this is the most essential source and the most fundamental reason for war!"

"Wouldn't it be nice not to plunder?" Nine and a half hesitated a little, and said, "Let's trade, swap, can't we?"

After listening to the things asked by Jiu and a half, Wu Liangzi continued to endure the overturning of the river in his stomach: "Do you know that the reason why people are called people is because there are too many varieties. Greed is the most fundamental sin of man, and with this kind of thing that exists in the essence of man, nothing will change drastically!"

"But ......" Jiu Ban seemed to want to say something more, only to hear a "wow" sound, and Wu Liangzi spit out holding his wine jar. The smell of the filth was extremely pungent, causing nine and a half extremely unsuitable. But out of politeness or some other reason, Jiu Ban still chose to step forward and pat Wu Liangzi on the back, and then moved the wine vat in her hand aside. What he could see was that Wu Liangzi was already a little very tired at the moment, if she didn't move the tank, I'm afraid that the pungent smell would make her even rest, right?

After a while, Wu Liangzi, who seemed to have regained some energy, spoke: "Nine and a half, I'll tell you the truth, you listen." As she spoke, she patted Jiuhan's shoulder, as if she had a look. "As long as the nine kingdoms are not unified for a day, then strife will exist for a day. Many things are far from being as simple as you think, no one wants to be the boss, and the world also excludes the losers, don't you find that all history is written by the victors? Unless someone can unify the world and unify the nine countries, then the continent can be completely free from the suffering of war. In the end, Wu Liangzi's voice became quieter and quieter, and the sleepiness finally covered the other consciousness, and she fell into a deep sleep.

In the muttering, Wu Liangzi finally said that sentence.

"Nine and a half...... Thank you ......."

After taking off his coat and covering Wu Liangzi, Jiuhan didn't know where he got the strength to throw the wine jug used by Wu Liangzi away, and even he didn't know where it was thrown. Drinking the last few drops of wine from the flask, Nine and a Half found a comfortable place to lie down. The feeling of sleepiness spread, and even the moonlight dimmed into a different color. Nine-and-a-half decided to stop thinking about the mess for a while and instead enjoy the night.

Consciousness gradually blurred, and in the haze, there seemed to be an abnormal spirit beast coming from the sky. The spirit beast was unusually beautiful, and its body was composed of red and blue on its body, as if it was like a fairy.

Oh, is it Lushu?

Oh, it's Lushu.

Nine and a half finally fell asleep, accompanied by a drop of moonlight, and the night with Wu Liangzi.

But what everyone doesn't know is that danger is creeping in.

Early in the morning, the nine-and-a-half sobriety was caused by Wei Xiyan.

He just felt that his face was a little red and swollen and had obvious pain, and in a few breaths, he woke up in the middle of nine.

"Nine and a half, wake up, wake up, something is wrong!" Wei Xicheng's voice appeared, and then nine and a half touched his face and found some redness and swelling on it, and then woke up.

I was really woken up, and I found that my face was obviously swollen, and Wu Liangzi beside me was still a little sleepy-eyed, and Jiu and a half couldn't help but be a little annoyed. But when he aimed his angry eyes at Wei Xicheng, he saw Wei Xicheng pointing in the direction of the entrance of the village, and then said loudly: "Look, the villagers of Baicun are arguing with outsiders!"

Feeling entangled and excited, he rushed to the entrance of the village, thinking that it was just a clash between the villagers of Baicun and foreign forces, but when he arrived there, he found that it was far from simple: the villagers of Baicun were fully armed and gathered at the entrance of the village, and they seemed to be ready to fight to the death to defend their rights, while at the entrance of the village, standing were their opponents, which was also the most tangled and unusual place, the Kiss troops.

What is wrong with the world when the people of a country are now spontaneously confronting their own armies?

"Don't be stubborn," the commander of the Kiss army said nonchalantly, "Within the jurisdiction of Chaos Flame City, Lord Four-Ear's orders are the law, and it is useless for you to resist, it is better to pay the taxes obediently." ”

"Village Chief, what's the matter?" Listening to the words of the commander of the Kiss Kiss, he was stunned for a moment, pay the tax? Is it necessary to send troops to collect the tax? But the village chief did not pay attention to the Nine-and-Half, but shouted at the Kiss Army: "This is the third time this year that the additional tax has been levied, the food and money have been handed over to you, what do we eat and wear?"

What is the situation of the third additional tax? Do you have to pay an additional tax three times a year? This is unimaginable. As if he saw Jiuhan's doubts, a Baicun villager next to him took the initiative to explain to Jiuhan: "Mr. Jiuhan, you know the judge Si'er of Chaotic Flame City, right? This man always wanted to scavenge a few sums of oil and water during his tenure, so he would collect taxes several times a year almost every year, and the names were so numerous that people were dizzying....."

"When he does this, no one stops him?"

"How can there be!" said the Baicun villager excitedly: "This dog has four ears, and he relies on himself to be a so-called "seal", and he is born with a good tongue, so he will do whatever he wants. In the past, some villages refused to be taxed, but he either skillfully persuaded them to pay the tax, or he imprisoned the entire village for 'disobeying the laws of the state'. It is true that someone in the imperial court has sent someone to check on him, but this person does not know what kind of oil and water has been smeared on his mouth, and all the inspectors sent by the imperial court have always been coaxed by him and coaxed him into a single meal, and he can escape safely after checking him several times! Over time, he will become lawless. ”

As the villagers spoke, Jiuhan suddenly became excited: "Wait! What are you talking about? These four ears are the so-called 'seal givers'?"

"Yes, that's right," replied the villager, "according to his own words, the 'Seal Giver' is a person who is born with great abilities, and his four ears are blessed with a good tongue, and he has always been able to get away with it with this good tongue!"

Listening to the words of the villagers, Jiuhan couldn't help but secretly rejoice. This is really good, the four ears are the "giver", and this fat pig with a flamboyant tongue really deserves to be killed. Killing him can not only continue to complete his plan to borrow from heaven, but also eliminate harm for the people.

It's a double win!