"Unlucky? Why do you say that? Zhang Tude looked at the black stone in his hand, no matter how he looked at it, it was just an ordinary stone.

"I'm sorry, Gongzi Zhang, I was a little excited just now, if you don't throw away this stone, you can sell it to some cultivators, although it is not a good thing, but it should be worth a few dollars, our emperor there uses this to cultivate immortals." Father Chen calmed down a little and continued

"This stone can only be dyed black by torturing people, and the injuries on my body are all left by torturing myself to make these spirit stones turn black, so I say it's unlucky."

"You inflicted all the injuries on your body? Just for these few stones? Zhang Tude was a little surprised, judging from Chen's father's words and deeds, he should be the kind of person who is more honest, he has seen a lot of such people in another world, this kind of person usually lives carefully, never causes trouble to others, even if others bully him, he just endures it silently, but how can such a person leave a torture-like wound on his body?

"It's not all, my nose was cut off by the official who came to collect taxes, because I didn't pay enough black spirit stones."

Chen's father's real name is Chen Yu'an, the son of a farmer in the Southern Zhou Kingdom, he has been an apprentice in the county store for several years, and later the Southern Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by Hou Shu, Chen Yu'an fled back to his hometown, after being a national of Shu for a few years, the original life was going to settle down, but a scholar named Liu Buhuo suddenly rebelled.

Liu Buhuo was originally just a down-and-out talent, but somehow became a general of the Southern Zhou Dynasty's staff, after the Southern Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by Hou Shu, the general retreated to a remote place with his subordinates to restore the country, but was killed by Liu Buhuo, he surrendered to Hou Shu with the general's men and horses, and Hou Shu also rewarded him with an official, but within a few years he rebelled again, it is said that he would have several powerful evil arts, relying on these to defeat the army of Hou Shu, occupied several cities and surrounding villages and towns in the original Southern Zhou, and established himself as the king, the country name Hou Jin, He is also the emperor who cultivated with black spirit stones in Chen Lezhen's mouth.

In just a few years, Chen Yu'an's country has changed three times, but for them ordinary people, whoever is the emperor is the same, a few years after the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, a group of tax collectors came to their village, took out a white and transparent jade, said that this is a spirit stone, as long as this spirit stone is made all black, a piece can be worth a year's money tax, and it can also be used as silver, and then teach them how to make the spirit stone black.

As long as this spirit stone makes a wound next to it, it will absorb some black gas from the wound, and then slowly turn black, after it is completely black, the appearance of the spirit stone will also become rough, and it can no longer absorb black gas.

At the beginning, the villagers were very happy, after all, it was worth it to be exempted from taxes for a year with some minor injuries, but later the emperor wanted to collect more and more black spirit stones, each time higher and higher, and the villagers' bodies began to be unbearable, and even Chen Yu'an heard that some people in the county were cut off by the government because they didn't pay enough taxes, blinded, and became adults.

"Later, the people in the village began to torture their children, and I often heard the cries of children everywhere in the village, and since then, I have tried not to let my daughter go out." Chen Yu'an glanced back at Chen Lezhen, who was following behind, and then whispered to Zhang Tude

Only then did Zhang Tude know that Chen Lezhen was a girl, but in her voice, Zhang Tude frowned

"Then Lezhen's voice is also because of ......?"

Hearing this, Chen Yu'an's whole person seemed to be deflated, and it took a while before he spoke

"Since the child's mother died of illness, no matter how hard life is, I will never let my daughter get hurt at all, but her voice ......... I really can't help it. ”

At that time, her mother was sick and had no money to buy medicine, and she met a young lady from a rich family in the county seat, saying that she would give me a few spirit stones if she let my daughter drink a bowl of water, and my daughter fainted after drinking, and the eldest lady smiled and dropped a few spirit stones and left, and when my daughter woke up, her voice became like that, and finally her mother's illness was not cured. ”

"I heard Lezhen say that someone said that you took her to leave Houjin with someone who wanted to skin her, is this true?" Zhang Tude suddenly remembered what Chen Lezhen had said to him at the inn.

"It's true, at that time, I heard that the emperor who cultivated with spirit stones died, and he changed to a new emperor, so he didn't have to hand over that kind of black spirit stone anymore, I was very happy, but a few strange people came to our village and killed the village chief first, saying that our village chief finally killed the heart element they worked so hard to find, and then killed the rest of our village as well, it was supposed to be my turn and my daughter, but a woman stopped the others, and then said to the two of us that they wanted the skin on my daughter's body, so that my daughter could grow up quickly."

"Knowing the heart element, and asking for other people's skin, this should be some kind of evil cultivation, the emperor who asked for the spirit stone before should also be an evil cultivator, why are there so many weird cultivators in this world?" Zhang Tude thought silently in his heart, and continued to listen to Chen Yu'an talk about what happened later.

"Later, I went to report to the official, but the official said that it was the new emperor who wanted my daughter's skin, and said that the new emperor was a person without skin, so I had to escape with my daughter, I originally wanted to settle down in Houshu, but Houshu was full of military disasters and bandits, and I wanted to take my daughter to Daliang, but I heard that Daliang was even more miserable, there were disasters everywhere, and there were few living people in few places, so we came to Siqi, fortunately, Siqi was quite stable."

Chen Yu'an and his daughter's experience didn't know what to say for a while, and after a while, he spoke

"Then Brother Chen, do you and Le Zhen have any plans in the future?"

"Alas, I'm going to see if I can find a job in this county to support me and my daughter."

"That's it, I still have some silver on me, you and Lezhen find a place to live first, and then plan slowly." Zhang Tude took out a part of the silver from the money bag, and stuffed the rest into Chen Yu'an's hands.

"This can't be helped, Gongzi Zhang, you have already helped us so much, how can I still ask you for so much silver?" Chen Yu'an hurriedly pushed the money bag back, but Zhang Tude didn't take it

"Brother Chen, you will accept it, just as you give me the reward for telling me these things, anyway, I am not short of silver, if you really don't want to go, you can repay me when we meet again in the future."

"Okay then." Chen Yu'an finally accepted the money bag

"I don't know where you live, Gongzi Zhang? I will repay you in the future. ”

"I'm not a local either, I live in an inn now, I'll leave in a few days, don't worry, I'll see you again in the future."

The three of them returned to the inn, Zhang Tude helped the father and daughter each ask for a room, and after saying goodbye, they returned to their own room, and the future days will depend on the father and daughter, and Zhang Tude can't help them all the time.

Zhang Tude looked out the window in the room, thinking about what happened to the Chen father and daughter he heard today and what he had seen and heard in this world these days, and couldn't help but sigh

"Suddenly I miss a mental hospital in another world."