Just didn't wait for Zhang Fan to come out of the inn, a female voice shouted behind him: "Senior brother, where are you going, why don't you take me?" ”

Zhang Fan's voice was familiar, and when he looked back, he realized that it was Qiyue who hurriedly said: "Senior sister is out of the customs, let's go, let's go to the street and take a look." There were many people in the inn, and Zhang Fan didn't want to say much, but after speaking, he stood at the door of the inn and waited for Qiyue.

Qiyue listened to Zhang Fan's words, and went to the inn to go outside, while Zhang Fan slowly transmitted the message to Qiyue while guiding, saying that he wanted to find a place to refine medicine and buy medicinal materials.

Qiyue said: "Senior brother, don't worry, every town in the Qin Dynasty will have a public alchemy place, you can refine it yourself or let others help you refine it, let's go find it first, usually on the edge of the town guard mansion, let's line up first, and then go to buy the other herbs we need." ”

When Zhang Fan heard this, he didn't even notice it when he was in Zhenhai Town, and couldn't help but scold himself for being confused. At this time, Qiyue was already asking passers-by where the town guard mansion was.

The two of them could hear clearly, and knew that a street was not far ahead. At this point, the two of them were not in a hurry to move forward, and while checking the shops on both sides of the street, they went to the government office.

There are many shops along the street, and some shops have peach trees planted in the backyards, and if you want to stay in spring, this calm is the peach blossom everywhere, and it lives up to the name of Peach Blossom Town. Occasionally, peaches are still embellished on the branches, slightly shriveled, which is the winter food left for the winter birds, showing the simplicity and kindness of the people of Peach Blossom Town.

Zhang Fan Qiyue and the two walked along the street, and the people on the not too wide street walked in a hurry, indicating the busyness of life. The greetings of the little two in the shops on the street are one after another, confirming the prosperity of this place.

In the afternoon, the sunlight is slightly oblique, and the people under the sunlight seem to be wearing golden armor, but the sunlight is not hot, and the autumn afternoon sun shines on people only with warmth to make pedestrians want to sleep.

In front of it is the town guard office, but there is a group of people blocking the door of the town guard office, the noise is endless, and the official at the door is not annoyed, just a strong apology, and there is no excessive action.

Zhang Fan couldn't help but be surprised, for some reason someone dared to make trouble guarding the government, if the people were reasonable, they would help if they could, and he would not be used to those who were officials in his world.

The so-called sky is three feet high.

The so-called Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.

The so-called one-year Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver.

The so-called arrogance is full of road, and the pommel horse shines in the dust. By asking what it is, it is called a minister.

The so-called official warehouse rats are as big as a fight, and they don't leave when they see people opening positions. The athletes have no food and the people are hungry, who will send the court into the king's mouth.

These are all people who describe the government as officials, although there are also clean officials and good officials, but there are a few of them, most of them are all kinds of stretching out their hands. Even if it's not for yourself, you will have to do all kinds of things because of human feelings.

Zhang Fan didn't want to be an official, and he didn't believe in officials, when his family asked him to be an official, he refused to obey, and finally ran away from home and walked the rivers and lakes. This is exactly that time when he walked the rivers and lakes, so he met the woman in yellow shirt under the peach blossom tree, from meeting and knowing each other to tying the knot. They also spent the moon before and below, and said to each other that they would never fail each other, and they also had the night rain in Bashan, and they talked about love in poems.

It's just whether he can return to the place where he was born and raised, all he can do now is to give himself strength so as not to give up.

Finally, an official in the government office walked out from the inside, went to the door, first saluted the people blocking the door, and then said: "Fellow villagers, it's not that I don't accept your donations, it's just that the annual tribute in autumn this year has already been received, and it is against the law of the country to collect it again." Those who violate the law of the country and overcharge the people's money and grain, peel the skin and pull the grass, and your fathers and elders must not harm me. ”

Zhang Fan listened to the words of the officials, and couldn't help but be stunned, it turned out that the people spontaneously came to donate the income, which was different from what he thought. Look at this official, about forty years old, born with a round face and big ears, a straight nose and a square mouth, but his face is slightly yellow, and the official uniform he wears looks very shabby, and there are a few patches under his armpits and long sleeves.

Zhang Fan pondered slightly, this official seems to be extremely incorruptible, and there are patches on his official uniform, which does not mean that this official must be incorruptible. But the yellowish complexion, which is a sign of chronic malnutrition, will not be disguised. Thinking of this, Zhang Fan couldn't help but admire this Qin Dynasty official, and asked himself if he might be able to be so honest.

At this moment, an old man in the crowd took a step forward and saluted: "My lord, the war in the southwest is about to start, and there has been a shortage of materials at the border in recent years. This is also the art of refining the body that I and other people have exhausted their strength and have never cultivated, if I can be ten years younger, I will have to go to the front line. It's just that what we can do now is to donate all the saved rations and linen clothes, so that the soldiers above the pass can be fed and clothed, and we can't let the soldiers fight in front of them, and they have to starve, do you say it's an adult? After the old man finished speaking, he looked anxiously at the official in front of him, his face full of anticipation.

The official looked at these people in front of him, there were old and young, the older one had white hair, and the younger one was a child, and he didn't feel a trace of pain rising from his heart, and he took a deep breath before saying: "My human race has been a country for more than 3,000 years, and I have been fighting with foreign races for more than 3,000 years. After three thousand years of wind and rain, how many tribes have paid a lot of blood and tears, our human race can take root in this Middle-earth continent. ”

"We defend against the beasts of the west, the sea tribes of the south, and the cross-border attacks of other races. For 3,000 years, our human race has not fallen, and then our human race will fall, as long as our human race is united, we will definitely be able to break through the race that hinders the development of our human race, defeat them, and kill them. After a pause, the official continued.

"Today, all the fathers and elders have donated, received, and received all of them, and I thank you on behalf of the border soldiers. I will write to Your Majesty about this donation, and if Your Majesty has a responsibility, I will bear it alone. After saying that, he saluted again, and then went to the palace, but at the last words, the official had already brought a slight whimper. I don't know if I am crying for the soldiers at the border pass, or crying for the people in front of me, or crying for myself. Or both.

Everyone watched the officials walk into the ya, and then there was a burst of cheers, and the government government accepted it, and finally accepted our donation.

Zhang Fan looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart fluctuated, it seemed that they had come to donate not once, but the officials had not accepted it. Only this time I finally accepted it.

Zhang Fan couldn't stay any longer, so he and Qiyue walked around the crowd and walked towards the alchemy room not far ahead. It's just that at this moment, how can he be calm in his heart.

The soldiers were willing to die for the country, and the people only wanted the soldiers to eat enough and starve themselves.

The government would rather collect less annual tribute, and peel and pull grass for those who collect more annual tribute, while officials are willing to peel and pull grass for the people.

How could such a nation perish?

People are permanent, and then they can change, trapped in their hearts, weighed in their worries, and then do it; Signify in color, sound in sound, and then metaphor. If you enter, you will not be able to live at home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish, and then you will know that you will be born in sorrow and die in peace and happiness (Note 1).

Note: Out of "Mencius" was born in sorrow and died in peace.