Chapter 62: Youyan City
A dilapidated horse-drawn carriage drove on the official road.
Originally, the official road had to be leveled with labor every year to ensure that the imperial court vehicles and the army passed in a critical time.
Now it's full of potholes, and it's very difficult to walk.
Again and again, almost breaking the wheels.
The driver was an old coachman, and it was an old horse who pulled the cart.
However, even with such a stable combination, which can no longer be stable, driving on the official road of Qi State, it still "clucks" and "clucks".
Inside the carriage sat a fat rich man, who was swaying his fat upside down at this time, and he was enjoying himself.
Behind the carriage were two gray-faced, ragged gentlemen, one with his head bowed, his chest hunched and his breath closed, the other with his shoulders slumped.
Such actions, combined with their disguises, are enough to destroy the temperament they have cultivated since childhood, as if they were ordinary family members who have been flowing since childhood.
At most, he is a little taller, but as a martial arts practitioner and a caretaker of the home, it is normal to be taller.
"Youyan City in front, master, let's really go?" The old coachman reined in his horse and asked.
"That's still fake!"
The rich man in the carriage said: "I am also a figure with a head and a face in Huangshan Village, can I still be pressed by that Lizheng?" If he can come to Youyan City and buy one monster's fangs back, I can buy ten fangs and go back! β
"But he doesn't look like it's real." The old coachman complained, "Sir, what are you gambling with him, won't it be over when you go back for a drink?" β
"It's not that I'm angry, it's the turtle grandson of the dog grass, who said that a lot of poor ghosts in our village have died, and if the field tax is increased in the coming year, the tax will have to be levied from my head." The rich man muttered, "Blind his dog's eyes!" β
"My family has not paid a single bucket of rice tax for three generations, just because he holds a monster fang, can he scare me and make me pay taxes?"
"I just don't buy ten fangs, I have to buy two or three, and I will override him and let him know that if you want to collect my taxes, you can't even think about it."
One of the two "family members" behind the carriage couldn't help but speak: "Then why doesn't the old man take out the money to buy fangs to pay taxes?" β
"Can the be the same?" The rich man scolded in the carriage, "I bought the monster fangs, I can enjoy them at home, and I can take them out to show off." β
"Pay the tax, that's throwing it into the water!"
The old coachman said again: "Master, further north of Youyan City, you will go out of the border of Qi Kingdom, which is the closest city to Yan Kingdom. β
"I heard that there are monsters everywhere in Yan Kingdom, maybe they will send monsters to make trouble in Youyan City......"
"Lao Yang, don't talk nonsense, go to Youyan City!" The fat rich man was already impatient to hear it, and slapped the carriage and shouted, "I don't believe it, in Huangshan Village, I am talking and counting, or is he talking and counting!" β
Lao Yang, who was driving the car, didn't say much, urged the old horse, and continued to move forward.
The two "family members" glanced at each other, slowly followed behind, and whispered.
"Brother, how did this world become like this?"
The eldest princess Jiang Yunshu said in a low voice, her chest was stuffy by the cloth, and she couldn't straighten her chest and waist, and she was really tired to make an ordinary family look vulgar.
"I don't know why it became like this in a blink of an eye, it's completely different from what I remembered." The eldest prince Jiang Yunhu deliberately drooped his shoulders and spoke.
"Do you remember when I fell once?"
"Well, since then, you've lived in seclusion and won't play with us." Jiang Yunshu said.
Jiang Yunhu rode slowly and whispered his memories: "That time, I didn't feel too seriously injured, and I came to my senses when I was on the road. Then I had the idea to try out the doctor's skills outside. β
"When I returned to my mansion, I first called the doctor from the palace and asked him about his diagnosis."
"I also called my cronie Xiao Duozi, who grew up with me, and asked him to find a doctor from outside."
"I'm thinking, sometimes it is said in books that there are masters among the people; Sometimes it is said in books that the royal doctor is the best...... What will the doctor that Xiao Duozi find look like? β
Jiang Yunshu listened carefully and laughed: "I thought you were sick from a head fall!" β
"Did the foreign doctor wake you up?"
"That's right, after that doctor learned that I was the eldest prince, he scolded me directly, saying that he would rather die than treat the future faint king!" Jiang Yunhu's face was full of bitterness, "I never thought that a doctor who was randomly invited from the street would have such an answer." β
"I scolded him for a while......"
"Poof!" Jiang Yunshu smiled and lay on the horse, "You, a dignified prince, scolded him?" β
"His scolding is so ugly, of course I have to scold him, I can't let him take advantage." Jiang Yunhu explained, "After scolding for a while, I can see that he is not a bad person, and he can probably see that I am not that kind of bad person." β
"I asked him sincerely, why did he scold me, my father, and the royal family of Qi State...... He talked about how our family hurt nature and reason, was arrogant and lascivious, increased the land tax, and the people could not survive. β
"I asked him, the tax on the field is obviously made by the imperial court, and the royal family doesn't even know about it, why should it be counted to the royal family, and he was also surprised, isn't the imperial court your family?"
"At that time, I knew that our family was no longer a royal family, and the Tian family was the royal family who really controlled the imperial court, and we were just a few targets on the surface, and the people all over the world regarded us as enemies."
Speaking of this, he raised his head and motioned to the fat rich man in front of him who broke the carriage: "However, even if the Tian family has increased so many taxes, the rich people and tyrants everywhere still haven't paid a little tax. β
"The poverty of the people can be imagined......"
These words, the more he spoke, the heavier they became, Jiang Yunhu couldn't bear to say any more.
Jiang Yunshu didn't say anything more.
This already filthy and tattered Qi country, even if the Tian family, who conspired to usurp power, is gone, it will be difficult for them to clean up the mess......
The carriage drove slowly, and when it arrived at the gate of Youyan City, two columns of soldiers were guarded with expressionless faces.
In addition, there were several people from Tian's shops wandering around, watching passers-by.
After seeing the dilapidated carriage, the soldiers first rushed up to search the inside of the carriage.
Then the people from Tian's shop stepped forward to take a closer look at the internal structure of the carriage, searched under the carriage, and finally looked at the two gray-faced and obscene guards, and scolded them.
The fat rich man was so frightened that he was about to cry: "Official, official......"
"Hahahaha, get out!"
"Let's go into town!"
The soldiers waved to the people from the Tian shop and let them enter the city.
Phewβ
Finally, I entered Youyan City.
Further north, there is a group of demons rampant, and the chaotic Yan Kingdom.
Jiang Yunhu and Jiang Yunshu looked at each other, and finally felt a sense of security that they could retreat at any time.