Chapter 132: Inquiring
Su Qian didn't know that Zhen Xiao was now delusional and wanted to marry her, after coming out of Canglan City, he drove the willow leaf boat all the way to the north, and half a month later, he finally arrived in Qinchuan City.
Qinchuan Castle used to be the main city of the Yue family, and the small families in the surrounding cities were also attached to the Yue family.
Since the Yue family was wiped out, the small families in the surrounding cities have been divided by other family sects, and the ones who have benefited the most are the Gu family and the Qianfu Sect that are the closest.
And now the largest Xiuzhen family in Qinchuan City is surnamed Guan, and its strength is second to that of several major families, and it only guards Qinchuan City, and is not attached to any sect family.
Perhaps because of the fact that this Qinchuan was the former main city of the Yue family, the families of various sects also acquiesced to this matter.
When Su Qian arrived in Qinchuan, it was early in the morning, and the villagers of the surrounding villages were either carrying burdens or driving ox carts to the city, and there were not many people along the way.
Su Qian collected the willow leaf boat on the nearby mountain, transformed the robe into the outfit of an ordinary village girl, changed his dress, carried a large bamboo basket on his back, and put a few hares and pheasants in the mountains in the bamboo basket, and walked along the official road to Qinchuan City.
Not long after, an ox cart came behind him, and Su Qian gave way to the side of the road, intending to let the ox cart pass first.
When the ox cart passed Su Qian, it stopped, and the old man who drove the cart said to Su Qian, "Little girl, are you going to the city alone? There are still several miles away from Qinchuan City, and there are still vacant seats in my ox cart, and one person only needs five spirit beads to carry you to the city gate, how about it?" .81z.ćőr/> Su Qian turned his head when he heard this, and there were several women and little girls sitting on the ox cart, and sure enough, there were still a few vacant seats.
So Su Qian smiled and said, "In this way, thank you uncle."
As he spoke, Su Qian took out five spirit beads and handed them to the old man, then put the bamboo basket in the middle of the ox cart, and then sat on the ox cart.
When the old man saw that Su Qian was sitting firmly, he shouted and drove the oxen to the city gate.
Sitting next to Su Qian was a woman in her thirties, she looked at Su Qian carefully, and said with a smile, "Little girl, why did you go to the city alone to catch the market?"
"I'm alone in my house." Su Qian responded.
"Oh, poor thing." The woman said with pity, and sighed, "Hey, it's not easy to live now, and your girl's family is also hard."
A woman next to her heard this and said, "But isn't it, now this day is getting more and more difficult, there are more and more spirit beads to be handed over to the city lord every year, if it goes on like this, the days will not go on, hey, if you want me to say, it is still the previous master of the Yue family, and now this Guan family......
Before he finished speaking, someone hurriedly said, "You don't want to die, in case this is known to the Guan family, don't forget about the matter in Liujiazhuang."
"Oops." The woman slapped her mouth, "Didn't I say bald, none of you heard, you didn't hear, I didn't say anything."
After speaking, he closed his mouth like a clam shell, and did not dare to say a word.
The reason why Su Qian was dressed up in disguise was to find out about the affairs of the Yue family back then, this was Qinchuan City, if she asked the monks in the city about the affairs of the Yue family, she was afraid that it would cause some suspicion.
At this time, after hearing the woman talk about the Yue family just now, Su Qian pretended to be curious and asked the woman next to her: "Auntie, what is the situation of the Yue family of this Guan family?" Isn't the lord of the city a close family? Which is the Yue family? My family lives in the mountains, and I am alone, and I don't know much about this place, so tell me that I don't commit any taboos."
The woman looked at Su Qian, and didn't want to say it, but she felt that it was not easy for the little girl to be alone, so she whispered to Su Qian: "You are young, it's normal not to know, I just whispered to you, just remember it yourself."
You are in Qinchuan City, but don't mention the Yue family, this Yue family was the city lord of Qinchuan City more than ten years ago, and then it was wiped out, so the Guan family was replaced as the city owner, when the Yue family was there, the people around Qinchuan City were blessed, they didn't have to pay taxes at all, and the Yue family would distribute spirit beads to the big guys every year for an annual fee.
Since changing the Guan family to be the city lord, the people around here have to pay the spirit beads every year
It's okay at first, it's not much, but in the past two years, there have been more and more, and now I'm still paying taxes per capitation, and if it goes up like this, the big guys won't be able to afford to eat, hey!"
As she spoke, the woman sighed and shook her head, looking helpless.
Su Qian frowned slightly, he was very disdainful of the Guan family's style, how poor he was, and he had to scavenge oil and water from the mortal people, even regardless of the life and death of the people.
"Then what's the matter with Liujiazhuang?"
The woman refused to speak, but waved her hand, "It's not a problem, don't inquire, lest you invite trouble."
Su Qian was slightly startled when he heard this, thought about it, and quietly handed the woman a low-grade spirit stone: "Auntie, I don't say it outside, I just want to have a bottom in my heart, so as not to accidentally offend the noble."
The woman looked at the lower grade spirit stone in Su Qian's hand, and her eyes lit up.
This is a low-grade spirit stone, a low-grade spirit stone is a hundred spirit beads, with this low-grade spirit stone, at least this year, there will be two people in the family who can pay taxes guaranteed.
The woman looked at Su Qian, and secretly thought in her heart, this girl is really not bad for spirit beads, as soon as she makes a move, it is a low-grade spirit stone, no wonder Lao Cui Tou wants five spirit beads, she promised so happily, you know, they take Lao Cui Tou's car, and one spirit bead can sit back and forth.
In the end, she still didn't resist the temptation of that piece of lower grade spirit stone, and the woman quickly hid the lower grade spirit stone into her sleeve, and then talked to Su Qian about the things of the year.
"Whew." The woman's voice was even quieter, almost close to Su Qian's ear and said: "Speaking of this, it's still *** ago, it is said that there is a person in Liujiazhuang who had a conflict with someone, and he didn't know how to talk about the Guan family between the beating and scolding, but one of them said that the Yue family was involved in the affairs of the Yue family back then, so after the Yue family fell, the Guan family was the dominant family in Qinchuan City.
As a result, it didn't take long for the two people who were fighting to die in an accident, and then the landslide next to Liujiazhuang buried the entire Liujiazhuang, and in the middle of the night, none of them ran out, and I heard that it was miserable."
After that, the woman hurriedly said, "Of course, these are all hearsay, and they can't be true, but since then, no one dares to talk about the Yueguan family, but it's true, I'm afraid of causing trouble, this immortal family's methods, who knows."
Su Qian listened to what the woman said, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, does this Guan family have anything to do with the mastermind behind the murder of the Yue family?
Seeing Su Qian's stunned expression, the woman hurriedly said, "You just know, don't say it, I don't recognize it anyway."
Su Qian hurriedly smiled and said, "Naturally not, I just listen to it, don't say it."
The woman breathed a sigh of relief, and saw from a distance that Qinchuan City was almost there, thinking that she would not meet this little girl in the future anyway, and she got a low-grade spirit stone in a few words, and her heart couldn't help but rejoice again.