Chapter XVII Tax Collection Date
It's a new day, and the arrival of this day suggests that the dry season is halfway over. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, it is still the dry season that dominates the wasteland.
It was nearly dusk, and the fiery clouds were rolling in the sky, as if they were crying out unwilling to leave.
Fan Sheng walked out of the room, it was a small hotel, but the price was not cheap, the only advantage was that there was no need for identity registration, and the owner was obviously related to the guard.
At this time, Fan Sheng changed his outfit again, from the middle-aged rough mine wasteland to the elite scavenger, the fine big squirrel was draped on his body, the standard crystal gun hung in front of his waist, and the big beard of the wasteland had also turned into a well-trimmed beard.
A few steps down the street lined with shops you can see the wanted warrant for him and the Blood Wolf, who costs 100 Sombra and his price is 10 Sombra. After Fan Sheng saw this, he knew that it was probably Xue Jian and the others who did not truthfully report his true strength to the fierce snake, and it seemed that this fierce snake was very unpopular with his subordinates.
Fan Sheng walked slowly, from time to time there would be a group of Black Crystal Town guards walking into the store with cloth bags on the street, half of the dry season had passed, today was a special day, it was the customary tax collection day of Black Crystal Town.
On this day, all the shops in Sombra Town had to pay twenty-five percent of their harvest in the first half of the dry season, but this was the terms of the time when the Blood Wolf ruled, and now that the Snake was the mayor, they had to pay thirty-five percent this year.
"Elder Wang, why do you have to pay 10% more this year, this year's famine is much less than in previous years, the harvest is not good, pay so much, my family will starve this winter. A tall, thin man in a wild elephant skin complained to the shopkeeper.
This is a shop that sells wild elephant meat, and the tall and thin man is a member of the elephant hunting team organized by this shop, and the owner and the tall and thin man obviously know each other.
The shopkeeper, known as Wang Lao, is in his early sixties, with gray hair and wrinkles between his eyebrows, all of which tell the portrayal of the years. More than sixty years old in this wasteland town, few people can live so long, and the scavengers who can live so long are worthy of praise for their strength and intelligence.
Wang Lao glanced sharply at the grumbling tall and thin man: "The Lord of the Core is not something we can talk about, follow the group to catch the desolate elephant, with me, I won't starve you to death." ”
After the tall and thin man heard Wang Lao's promise, his originally shrunken face squeezed out a smile, he shook his clothes, thanked him, and ran to the back hall of the store.
Fan Sheng stood outside the door, smelling the smell of desolate elephant grease emitted by the tall and thin man shaking his clothes, and sighed at the little wisdom of the desolate people, this tall and thin man didn't really want to discuss the rights and wrongs of the mayor, but just wanted to get a promise from the elder Wang.
He smiled, walked into the barren elephant butcher shop, took out a Noh Crystal from his arms, threw it on the counter, and said, "Here's a Noh Crystal Barren Elephant Whip." ”
Wang Lao raised his head, with a smile in the corner of his eyes, and said, "There is no one who can crystallize the desolate elephant whip, young man. ”
Fan Sheng pretended to be puzzled and said, "Is it? But Boss Lu said that there is!"
When the shopkeeper Wang Lao heard this, his face was immediately unhappy, he reached out and picked up the energy crystal, threw it back into the hands of mortal beings, and shouted in his mouth: "Look at your appearance is decent, but I can't imagine that you are a poor ghost, so let's go to other places to buy a barren elephant whip with a energy crystal!"
With that, Wang Lao blasted Fan Sheng out of the store.
Fan Sheng pretended to stumble two steps, scolded a few words back, and quickly disappeared into the street.
When he returned to the small hotel where he lived, he closed the door and took out the Neng Jing that Wang Lao, the owner of the Wild Elephant Butcher Shop, threw back, and sure enough, a small note was attached to Nengjing: 3rd Floor, Building 12, West Street.
On Tax Day, most of the guards in Sombra Town were sent out to collect taxes, and the tavern controlled by the blood wolf was the only tavern in Sombra Town, and it was also the largest taxpayer in the town.
The plan that mortals learned from the mouth of the blood wolf was to start from today's tax day, starting from the tavern.
According to the news that the blood wolf was inside the guard, it was Xue Jian who came to the tavern to collect taxes, and Xue Jian, as the henchman of the fierce snake, must know where Xin Zheng's wife and children were held. Xin Zheng's wife and children are the reason why the blood wolf has been holding back and not acting rashly.
Therefore, the first step of the blood wolf's plan is to rescue the wives and children of the Xin Zheng brothers who are imprisoned by the fierce snake, which is the task assigned by mortals, because he is the strongest and has the highest success rate.
In the second step, because the place where Xin Zheng's wife and children are imprisoned must be guarded by the core, and the blood wolf side has taken down Xue Jian, who came to collect taxes, so the strength of the fierce snake side will be extremely weakened, and take this opportunity to attack the town mayor's mansion in one fell swoop and regain the general trend.
According to the arrangement of the blood wolf, on the day of tax collection, they will first control Xue Jian, who collects taxes in the tavern, and force him to tell him the location of the fierce snake hiding Xin Zheng's wife and children, and then tell Fan Sheng through Wang Lao Huangxiang Butcher's Shop, and Fan Sheng will go to rescue them.
At the same time, the blood wolf and the middle-aged waiter will quickly occupy the mayor's mansion and kill the snake before the snake realizes the problem, and at this point, the whole plan is over.
Fan Sheng pinched the roll of paper in his hand, since he had already obtained the address, it meant that the blood wolf had caught Xue Jian, according to what the blood wolf said and what Fan Sheng himself had seen, he believed that Xue Jian would definitely know everything for his life.
Then, what he had to do was to rescue Xin Zheng's wife and children, but Fan Sheng always felt that things were too simple, although he had never seen the fierce snake, but just from the words he heard from the blood wolf, he concluded that this person must have some back.
Mayor's Mansion, Office.
"Lord Fierce Snake, as you expected, after Xue Jian entered the tavern, he didn't appear for a long time. It must have been controlled by the blood wolves. In addition, the adult has also arrived at West Street. Street. It's just that the subordinates have two doubts, and I don't know whether to talk about it or not. ”
The fierce snake had a cold face, glanced at his subordinates, and said, "Say." ”
"Xue Jian is a core person after all, is it too wasteful to give him up like this. The second is the blood wolf plus the boy who just appeared, and there are only two cores, we spend such a big price, ask that adult to help, is it worth the loss. ”
Regarding the question of his subordinates, the fierce snake smiled rarely, and he replied: "Xue Jian is stupid enough, so it is most suitable as a bait, and there is no such thing as waste." As for spending ten percent of the tax to ask that adult to help, don't underestimate the blood wolf, he has been the mayor of this Black Crystal Town for so many years, and I have only been the deputy mayor for a few years, according to his temperament, there must be a secret hand that I don't know, so it is necessary. ”
When the night falls, the dark tide surges, and no one knows who is the chess player and who is the chess piece.