The young men of the village quickly carried out a dozen baskets of salted fish from the storehouse and stacked them on the dock, and after doing all this, they could only wait anxiously for the big ship to come closer.

"Yan Shu, this thing is not enough to pay your village's taxes!" The big boats couldn't dock at the village dock because of the draft, so a few small boats came down from the big boats.

Before the boat could get closer, the man standing on the bow of the boat at the front shouted from afar.

"Lord Ji Ling, it seems that there is still half a month until the day of paying taxes, right?"

When all the young men in the village saw that this Lord Ji Ling had come over in person, they immediately became nervous, and only a young man with short red hair standing at the front of the dock arched his hand at Ji Ling and said.

"Really? Do you know that the tax collection policy in this town has been changed, from the original collection once a month to once a half month! So today is the day of the tax, yes! ”

After listening to Ji Ling's words, everyone's faces immediately changed, and even those who were hiding in the house and eavesdropping became sad.

The tax collected once a month is a little unbearable, and now it is changed to half a month, which will completely make it worse.

Originally, Yan Shu felt that it was not good when he saw these people, and he thought about getting the harvest of this half month, so that he could get rid of these people as soon as possible, but who would have thought that these people were so insatiable that they directly doubled the taxes.

"Lord Ji Ling, our village is small, we can't go farther, and we don't have much harvest every month, after paying taxes, it can only be enough for the young and strong to eat, and the old and weak women and children can only rely on the wild vegetables picked on the island to satisfy their hunger, and if you add taxes, we are afraid that we can only starve to death!"

"Don't you have any wild herbs to eat? Yan Shu, this matter is not without room for relaxation, as long as you select a dozen stronger people from your village to join us in Wind Thunder Town, so that you can not only pay half less tax, but also get some salary! With these salaries, won't the food and clothing in your village be solved? ”

"But my lord, without us people, do you think the people in the village can go out to sea to fish so smoothly?"

"This is something that Lord Ben has also considered for you, isn't there logging in your village? It just so happens that our Wind Thunder Town is going to expand again, and there are so many trees on this island, as long as you cut down wood, our town can collect all the orders! Well, then you don't have to worry about it, right? Ji Ling pointed to a pile of wood piled up at the head of the village and said.

"My lord, this logging is also manual work, even if we add us, we can't cut much in a day, otherwise, I will go with you to become a soldier, and the others will stay in the village, what do you think?" Hearing that he wanted the people in his village to cut wood, Yan Shu's heart immediately tightened.

There are several fierce beasts living in the mountains of this island, if it weren't for the fact that there are many stuffed beasts on this island, enough for these fierce beasts to eat, plus my own village was built on this side of the island, I am afraid that my village would have been restless. Even so, the village is in danger of being wiped out at any time, because some new members have been added to the beasts, and when these new members grow up, they will be separated from their parents on the other side of the island, and they will cross the mountains to settle here.

When a woman from a village was gathering wild vegetables, she saw two beasts, one large and one small, roaming around the village, as if they were patrolling their territory.

This indicates that the range of the beasts is beginning to extend to this side of the mountain.

This is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous thing, so when the young people of the village go out to sea, they will cut down trees in the mountains and surround the village so that they can defend themselves against the attacks of fierce beasts in the future.

"What can you Yan Shu do alone? Hmph, this time you're either going to come up with enough tax revenues or you're going to come with us! Ji Ling clasped his hands on his chest and squinted at Yan Shu with contemptuous eyes, and said.

As soon as he had finished speaking, he heard an unfamiliar voice coming from the village.

"How much tax do they have left? I made it up to them! ”

"What are you, and you made it up for them!" Ji Ling subconsciously said disdainfully, but before he finished speaking, the whole person immediately became sluggish.

Not only Ji Ling, but also those who came with Ji Ling, all of them stared in that direction with their eyes wide open, without even blinking their eyes.

What's more, even the weapon in his hand fell into the sea.

Even the young man in the village standing on the dock turned around, full of disbelief in his eyes.

"Yan Shu, when did you have such a stunning appearance in your village? Lord Ben has decided, and from now on the tax will be paid against them! Ji Ling looked at that side greedily, with saliva in his mouth, and rushed to Yan Shu.

"But my lord, these people are not from our village!" Although the tax from now on was deducted, Yan Shu did not dare to agree.

"Yan Shu, do you think Lord Ben is a three-year-old child? How can they not be from your village when they appear in your village? Are they the ones who came down from the mountains? Seeing that Yan Shu dared to refuse him, Ji Ling immediately became angry, he jumped directly from the boat to the dock, raised his arm and was about to pull Yan Shu's collar.

"Congratulations, you guessed it, we really came down from this mountain!" The people who appeared in the village were naturally Xiang Xiaotian and the seven of them, originally Xiang Xiaotian didn't want to care about these idle things, but Tang Mengling and the others thought that such people had ruined the happy scene in the village, so they decided to help.

Although Xiang Xiaotian said congratulations, his tone was very cold, the other party wanted to use Tang Mengling and them to offset taxes, but I have to say that it really touched Xiang Xiaotian's scales, so in Xiang Xiaotian's eyes, Ji Ling and these people were all dead.

And the reason why these people haven't died yet is because Xiang Xiaotian hasn't figured out how these people should die.

"It's not funny at all! Boy, looking at your fearless appearance, do you think you are very powerful? Although Ji Ling said to Xiang Xiaotian, his eyes never left Tang Mengling.

Ji Ling's straightforward eyes looked directly at Tang Mengling and their brows.

Tang Mengling and the others were not very good, seeing that Ji Ling was so rude, Su Mei'er immediately glared, and Ji Ling's eyes burst open like light bulbs.

"It's not funny at all! Boy, looking at your fearless appearance, do you think you are very powerful? Although Ji Ling said to Xiang Xiaotian, his eyes never left Tang Mengling.

Ji Ling's straightforward eyes looked directly at Tang Mengling and their brows.

Tang Mengling and the others were not very good, seeing that Ji Ling was so rude, Su Mei'er immediately glared, and Ji Ling's eyes burst open like light bulbs.