As the black-faced man known as the axe god walked forward, the surrounding men also showed up their wooden sticks and iron rods, and several people also showed a few bright machetes in their hands.

The axe man grabbed the cuff of Shuli with his left hand, and wanted to go to the side, but he didn't expect this thin-looking Shuli to move.

He was annoyed, and with a wave of his right hand, a punch hit Shuli's waist, and when he was about to hit his waist, the axe man was happy, this was his nirvana, and he used to fight with others like this, and it hurt so much that they couldn't straighten their waists for a long time.

This thin monk should have confessed here! He was happy.

Suddenly, he only felt his fist tighten, and a chill hit his arm, and he looked down to see that his arm was broken and rolled to the ground, and he instantly screamed in pain.

However, this axe man has a ruthless strength, taking advantage of the numbness caused by the severe pain of the broken arm has not subsided, he gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and shook his heart hard, and suddenly waved his right hand and slapped it over, wanting to give Shuli a big mouth, and slap him to death.

However, before he could swing his slap, a chill hit again, and he suddenly had a thrill, and quickly withdrew his remaining hand, as if awakened by a nightmare, his blood-red eyes widened, and he fell backwards to the ground.

At this time, the people who followed the axe man outside forced up, and some people went to hold down his arm to prevent him from bleeding to death, and the others looked at Shuli, and they were already frightened, but they just stared at their eyes, but their feet seemed to be rooted, and they didn't dare to move at all.

In the courtyard, there was a commotion among the surrounding men, and more than a dozen people each lifted their wooden sticks and iron bars, and rushed towards the fire monkey and the others regardless of it. Seeing this, Shuli threw the green snake up, the blade of the green snake was upward, suspended in the air a few zhang high, and as Shuli pinched the sword trick in his hand, a large number of cyan runes fluoresced and emitted, forming a bright green protective cover in an instant, enveloping and protecting everyone, along with uncles and aunts.

Although Shuli's personality is gloomy, after the enlightenment of the Buddhist scriptures over the years, he has been somewhat contaminated with the compassionate spirit of Buddhism, even if he can put them to death with just one breath at this time, he is still a little unable to do it.

If it had been before he escaped into the empty door, when the scholar was carrying out the task of Qu Geling, let alone cutting off their arms, I am afraid that the courtyard would have been full of corpses by this time.

The dozen or so men didn't appreciate it, and they started together, slammed on the fluorescent protective cover, and relied on their strength to chop and chop indiscriminately. But the cyan fluorescence of this protective cover flowed, and there was not even a trace of fluctuation.

The second brother was immediately furious, and took his mace from the subordinates on the side, the mace glowed with a faint silver-white light, and it looked like a cultivator had blessed it with magic powers.

I saw him raise the mace above his head with both hands, and slashed down with all his strength, the silver-white light exploded instantly, the power impact spread, and the cyan protective shield actually shook for a while.

Seeing this, Shuli's expression was still very indifferent, but the men around him were overjoyed, and they all held wooden sticks and iron bars again to beat the protective cover.

Shuli was still about to make a move, but at this time, the fire monkey took a long breath, spit out violently, and with a bang, a crimson fire dragon several feet long took shape, and its eyes breathed fire, rotating around the fire monkey.

The fire monkey's mind moved, and suddenly the dragon's head looked at the sky and let out a long roar, the dragon's body shook, and rushed straight towards the crowd, the dragon's body swirled, and there was a burst of chaos and stirring.

Suddenly, the surrounding men were set on fire one by one, and their buttocks were burned, or they rushed out of the courtyard and ran to the river, or they rolled around, raising puffs of dust, flying everywhere, and the whole courtyard was in chaos.

Seeing that the mission was completed, the fire dragon returned to the fire monkey's side, and his body slowly dissipated, turning into aura and being sucked into the body by the fire monkey.

"Come back for me! Get up! What are you afraid of, we have the masters of Qingping Temple as backers, let me rise up and kill them!"

The second brother was holding a mace and scolding there, and the black-faced axe man approached with the severed hand, his face was extremely ugly, and he trembled his lips and said in a trembling voice: "Second, second brother, they are also cultivators, we can't beat them, let's go!"

The second brother's face was full of meat, the oil on his face reflected the fire on everyone's clothes, his eyes flashed, he snorted coldly, put away his mace and waved it at the injured brother, and shouted "Go!" and rushed to the gate of the courtyard.

"Wait!" the fire monkey leaped in front of them.

"What do you want to do!" the second brother's eyes were fierce.

The fire monkey said lightly: "Apologize, and compensate the uncle and aunt's livestock." ”

"Hmph!" the second brother was full of disdain: "They were originally monks and households, renting the fields of Qingping Temple, paying tribute and paying taxes every year, which is justified!"

The uncle and aunt stood up tremblingly, shook their hands, and said: "That's not the case, we used to tell the master of Qingping Temple that we would only pay tribute once in five years, and this year is only the fourth year, and it is not time yet. ”

Originally, your two sons, like us, were the Buddha households of Qingping Temple, and they paid grain once every five years, which was a gift from the masters of Qingping Temple to you, and a blessing from the Buddha's alms.

"But your two sons, not only do you not know about the Entu report, but you still can't think about it, and you run away to be soldiers!

The uncle and aunt were speechless, presumably they also knew about their son's going to serve in the army.

"What about being a soldier! Isn't it a good thing to be a soldier in this world and defend your family and country? You actually dare to bully the soldiers, and you are not afraid that the government will come to settle accounts with you!?" Xiu Gu said angrily as she helped her uncle and aunt.

"What about the government!?" The second brother raised his head and was triumphant: "The Buddhist and Taoist temples of Dawu Country have always been 'not lost to the government by an inch of silk, and rice is not entered into the public warehouse', what they rented was originally a field belonging to Qingping Temple, and the government couldn't control it when it came, so it was just a few beasts, and no matter how many more were killed, it was nothing!"

The fire monkey kicked the second brother away, and the second brother fell out with a bang, lying on the ground and humming, unable to get up, and the other subordinates hurried to help.

"I don't care!" Xiu Gu let go of her uncle and aunt, walked to the side of the fire monkey, stretched out her hand to block the hospital door, and her face was stubborn: "If you don't compensate today, don't think about going out of this door!"

One wind and one side step, standing side by side with her, eyes fixed on those people.

The second brother finally got up, glanced at the black-faced man, took out a few copper coins from his arms, threw them in front of the uncle, and wanted to get up and leave.

"Not enough!" Xiu Gu said categorically. In fact, she didn't know much about the value of the Wufeng coins of the Great Martial Kingdom, but she wanted them to pay a little more.

The second brother's face trembled, and he took out a golden Wufeng coin from his arms and threw it on the ground in front of the uncle very reluctantly.

"Let's go!" they finally escaped from the courtyard in embarrassment.

When the others saw it, they shook off their burnt clothes and followed.

Not far away, the second brother stopped, turned around and said, "You remember, today the uncle will let you go first, you'd better not pass through Qingping Town, otherwise you will be good-looking!"

The fire monkey and the others didn't care, and went over to help the uncle and aunt clean up the yard.

The uncle and aunt hurriedly stopped and stopped: "Thank you masters for your rescue, where do you dare to bother you to do these little things, this place is filthy, and please don't get dirty." As he swayed, he prepared to clean the yard.

"It's okay, we're not afraid, not to mention that we spend one night and have nothing in return, and it should be. "The fire monkey also often does chores in the back kitchen in the temple, and he has helped Yifeng and Xiugu kill fish before, even if it is the blood that the monks avoid, for him, it is nothing more than that.

But the uncle insisted on refusing, the uncle was still in good age, and after recovering his mind and body, he worked very quickly, and after a while, he moved the killed livestock aside and sorted it out.

And the aunt was busy washing the yard with water, and the two cooperated tacitly, in an orderly manner, and couldn't intervene for a while. Just look at them looking at the animals, and sigh for a long time, with a little sentimentality.

By the time they were ready, it was already dark.

Yifeng and his brothers ate dinner in the uncle and aunt's room, and several people returned to their residences to prepare for rest.

Fire Monkey, Shuli and Yifeng are crowded into one bed, the three of them are evenly shaped, and they are not too crowded, but Yifeng can't sleep.

"Second Senior Brother. A wind called.

"What's the matter, Yifeng. The fire monkey closed his eyes.

"Where is the Qingping Temple they are talking about today?"

"In Qingping Town, every time I go to buy supplies in the temple, I need to pass through them, Qingping Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in Qingping Town, the incense is vigorous, there are a lot of people who come to add incense and oil to pray for blessings every day, if it is a New Year's holiday, it is even more crowded.

"I heard that the temple gate was made of wood in the past, and then it was squeezed and rotted several times, and now it is replaced by an iron door, even the threshold is iron, but it is smooth, and it is stepped on in the middle, and the incense is very good. ”

"Then the master in Qingping Temple should have a lot of incense money, why do you want to bully uncles and aunts?"

The fire monkey thought for a while with his arm on his pillow, and said: "I heard that Qingping Temple was rewarded with a lot of good land by the county order, and there are rich squires from all walks of life who have also bought a lot of fields for Qingping Temple in order to seek good fortune.

However, the monks of Qingping Monastery would not do it themselves, so they rented it to farmers near the fields and collected rent regularly, which was called monk households.

At the end of the year, the monks in the temple could not collect the rent, so they recruited some people from among the monks who paid more rent and were very active in paying food, called Buddha households. Give the families of these Buddha families preferential treatment for paying food and taxes, or give them monthly money so that they can help the temple collect rent.

"Because the farmer cultivates and eats according to the sky, there are good years and famine years. When they can't pay the rent, the Buddha households will try their best to help the temple collect the rent and grain by any means to ensure the temple's wealth, otherwise their benefits will fly away. ”

Yifeng looked at the thatched roof with his eyes open, and said: "However, if a farmer really encounters a famine, can't grow food, and can't eat enough, how can he still pay the rent and field tax?"

The fire monkey said: "The Buddha households don't care so much, whether they pay for rent or not, they are likely to use the farmer's own field, and when their own field is finished, they will use livestock, and if the livestock is gone, they will use farm tools to arrive, and the farm tools are gone, so they will demolish the house and sell tiles, and even I heard that there are still children and daughters." There is no way, the Buddha Tuhu and the temple are pressing too hard, everyone knows that they want to live, but if they live, there are always people who can't live. ”

Yifeng muttered, "No, I always feel that monks shouldn't do this......

"If it is handed over to the local squire and landlord to collect, won't the result be the same?" the fire monkey said casually without thinking much about it.

Yifeng was silent for a long time, writhing his body and restless.

The fire monkey closed his eyes and touched Yifeng's little head and patted it, and said, "Okay, don't think about it, this world is like this, and we can't help it." ”

The moonlight was cast from the wooden window of the hut onto several people, and the faint moonlight covered the three of them like a blanket, but Yifeng felt a new chill, colder than the moonlight.

Shuli tilted his head, his eyes looking out the window at the silver-gray moon.

He was born in a scholarly family, and his education since he was a child was to help the world, and he knew more truths than the two of them, and he could perceive that if this development continued, there would be chaos in the Great Wu Kingdom.

This state of affairs even surpassed the scene he saw in Qifeng City more than ten years ago, the people in Qifeng City were depressed and distressed, and they were also withered in the world, but at least they could barely make ends meet, no matter what, they would not be so miserable, and they would not pawn their children and their families to ruin.

But now just with this small place in Qingping Town, he felt the sorrow of the world.

What the fire monkey said is not an exception, but a common one. Under the ruthless urging of the temple and the Buddha family, there have already been people who have died, and he dare not imagine that if they were not there today, the peasant couple would not be able to think about it for a while, or fight to the death with the Buddha family, or be heartbroken, and the consequences would be even more unimaginable.

He descended from his scholar's house and was determined to seek a way, help the world, and save the common people.

But the farmer in front of him lost the farmer's most precious livestock in the blink of an eye, and in the future, he may only be able to use his body to pull carts and transport goods to the farmland, and it is very likely that the grain will not be recovered, and the rent will not be paid, and then he will continue to be forced by the Buddha family, he can't stay here all the time, what can he do?

Kuang Fu Tianxia is just a distant dream in his heart, and at this moment, he seems to have returned to the kind of lost soul that has just come down the mountain and his dream has been shattered by reality.

The shadow of Shu'an, who had been killed by his own hands, had mixed into his mind as it had done countless times before.

Yes, Kuang helps the world, why is the world? He can't even save his own junior brother!

He once wanted to join the army, wanted to be a soldier, and wanted to change this kind of panic in the world, but as soon as he thought of the various corruption and chaos in the imperial court mentioned by his father, and the hidden discipline of the calligrapher for thousands of years, he was disheartened.

Amusing.

But he always felt that there was a way to change this situation, and strangely, his intuition told him that this path might be at the foot of a wind.