"My lord, are you really from the capital?" Pillar asked, somewhat disbelieving.

In the tent, Yi Xiaodao and Wei Youming looked at the dozen or so big men kneeling in front of the case, and a group of soldiers surrounded them in case they suddenly broke out and hurt people.

"Can I lie to you, can this barracks and army lie to you? You go and see the armor banner, is it your Donglu's? Yi Xiaodao said to the outside.

The pillar asked with a bitter face, "That... Then why did the imperial army come... We really don't have the money to pay the New Year's tribute..."

Yi Xiaodao glanced at everyone, and more than a dozen big men couldn't find a good piece of clothing, so he nodded and said, "I believe this." Tell me where you came from and what you are doing in the woods. Look at you like this... I feel like I'm prepared. ”

"It was the Taoist who asked us to come."

"Big Bull!"

Yi Xiaodao asked, "What Dao Chief?" What's inconvenient to say? ”

The pillar glared angrily at the big bull who spoke, and the big bull pointed at Yi Xiaodao, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zhuzi, good official, give us buns to eat..."

Zhuzi looked at Da Niu's smiling appearance, sighed helplessly, turned around and said to Yi Xiaodao: "We are all farmers who farm in Richeng, if it weren't for King Donglu going too far, we wouldn't be like this." In previous years, the annual tribute was one tael of silver, but this year we were asked to pay twenty taels! Even if we plant land for four or five years, we may not be able to have twenty taels! ”

"Later, you killed the officials and rebelled?" Yi Xiaodao continued with his words.

"No, we are all our own people, how dare we kill officials and rebel? But a month ago, a group of people came, saying that they were going to lock some dragon in the sea, and they lived in the city of the day. The county magistrate sent people to them to ask for tax money, but they drove them back. The county magistrate went in person and was beaten by them, and even took the county magistrate and the master away. ”

Yi Xiaodao asked, "They are what you call the Taoist?" ”

"No, after they drove the county officials away, let us build them some kind of platform, and they will work every day without paying them. They didn't beat us, but we couldn't run away... The fields are all deserted, and our houses have been occupied... Later, a Taoist chief came and fought with them. The pillar said fifteen-ten.

"And then?" Yi Xiaodao listened with relish and asked.

"Later, the Taoist was defeated, but they didn't feel embarrassed, so the Taoist took us away." Pillar said.

Yi Xiaodao nodded and praised: "This Dao chief is a good person... So you guys made it all the way here? ”

"Yes, I lived twenty miles to the east after coming here, but I met bandits here not long ago, and I fought with them again. Yesterday evening, the Taoist chief found that the birds in the forest were flying for no reason, so let us come here to have a look..."After the pillar finished speaking, he shrunk his head and knelt on the ground, and said no more.

Yi Xiaodao suddenly realized, he thought that it was some kind of fierce characters who beat that group of bandits to pieces, but it turned out that they were all hungry and full of croppers.

Looking at this group of scrawny and shrunken men, Yi Xiaodao felt pity: "Go back and call your parents and family, come here to have a good meal, find a place to live, work hard, don't do evil!" ”

Wei Youming stood up on the side and said, "Okay, you guys go down and wait first, this is the barracks, don't run around, be careful of the sword without eyes!" ”

Zhu Zi and the others got up and withdrew from the tent, Yi Xiaodao turned his head to look at Wei Youming, he knew that this burly general had something to say.

Sure enough, Wei Youming walked up to Yi Xiaodao and said: "Lord Yi, although I am also very sympathetic to these people, but they all have wives and children, and distributing military rations is a taboo in the army, if... We don't have much to eat, so if it's all right, let them go." ”

It turned out that Wei Youming was distressed about the military rations. Although the Great Qi Dynasty is now supplemented by tribute from all over the world, it is still overstretched, and the five thousand feather forest troops sent to Yi Xiaodao have done their best to Zhao Yizhi. Although he got some supplies in Nanhuai, he couldn't make ends meet after all, and distributed food to the people, so he unexpectedly felt that the soldiers would be hungry.

Yi Xiaodao also fell silent, he did have the idea of distributing military rations to the people, and he also knew the importance of military rations, but when he saw these hungry people, he still wanted to rescue them after all, after all, he also grew up eating hundreds of meals.

"I'll go and see it first, if there are not many people, let their parents, wives and children also report a meal, if there are too many people..."

"Lord Yi!" Wei Youming was anxious.

Yi Xiaodao turned a deaf ear, stood up and said, "That's it!" After speaking, he walked out of the tent and asked the soldiers to call the pillar and others who had just withdrawn.

"You lead the way, I'll go to your side first to see if what you say is true or false." Yi Xiaodao said undoubtedly.

The pillar was still hesitating, and everyone behind him urged: "Brother Zhuzi, let's go, this is a good official." ”

The pillar couldn't stand the urging of everyone, nodded and agreed, Yi Xiaodao took five hundred sergeants, followed the pillar and the others out of the barracks, and headed east.

Yi Xiaodao and his entourage came to the East Village, twenty miles away, and as soon as they entered the village, they heard Lang Lang's voice reading: "The Tao is the way, the Tao is very Tao; The name is famous, and the name is not very famous..."

Yi Xiaodao glanced at the pillar in surprise: "You can't eat enough, and you still have books to read?" ”

The pillar lowered his head and replied, "It's the long... said that the baby can't read or read... I'm teaching the baby..."

Yi Xiaodao was curious, and walked a few steps to check, only to see a dilapidated earthen courtyard, a figure with his back to the door, holding a book in his hand, and a group of children sitting behind him, these children were as old as twelve or thirteen years old, as young as four or five years old, each child had a big stone in front of him, used as a table, and sat on the ground, all shaking his head and doing the same.

Na Qianying heard that there was a movement at the door, turned her head to look, and when she turned her head, Yi Xiaodao was taken aback: "Sister Fairy!" How are you! ”

The person who taught was Yi Xiaodao who met in Anhui City and saved his Guanchenzi!

When Guan Chenzi saw Yi Xiaodao, he frowned at first, and then smiled lightly: "It turned out to be you, heh, wasn't it someone who chased Donglu?" ”

"How can you! I've come to see you! Yi Xiaodao was talking nonsense, strode in from outside the courtyard, and rushed to Guanchenzi in a few steps: "Slimmer, more beautiful!" is worthy of being a fairy sister... Ay! Before Yi Xiaodao finished speaking, Guan Chenzi grabbed his collar and slipped out of the wall, only to open his mouth wide in surprise to the children lying on the stone.

Outside the door, Yulin Jun saw that Yi Xiaodao and the Taoist priest were old acquaintances, although they were mentioned, they were not particularly careful, and the first deputy general told the soldiers to be optimistic about everyone, and stretched out their heads to look in the direction of Yi Xiaodao.

"The temperament hasn't changed, what are you talking crazy about!" Guan Chenzi swept out not far away, put down Yi Xiaodao, and gave him a blank look.

Yi Xiaodao "hehe" smirked: "Fairy sister, why are you here?" How bitter is this? Why don't you go back to the capital? When I go to my house in the capital, He Yue'er always talks about you, and you go to be a companion with He Yue'er. By the way, I got married to He Yue'er, don't you know yet, Sister Fairy? ”

Guan Chenzi looked at the dead trees and dilapidated houses in the four wilds, and said: "The world is like living in water and fire, and in a prosperous place, the poor road is like sitting on pins and needles. ”

"How can I understand this article?" Yi Xiaodao said with a smile.

Guan Chenzi turned his head and glared at Yi Xiaodao: "Don't learn from them to speak!" What are you doing here? Not in the capital to accompany his beautiful wife? ”

Yi Xiaodao put away his hippie smile, and only smiled indifferently: "Give them a bite to eat." ”

Guan Chenzi stared at Yi Xiaodao, seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, and he didn't ask: "It's rare that you have such a mind, poor Dao wishes you... Ambition is rewarded! ”

"Poof" Yi Xiaodao couldn't help laughing: "Sister Fairy, have you forgotten my name?" Easy knife! Is there a second person in the world who dares to say that your feet stink? ”

Guan Chenzi's face was slightly red, and he reached out to touch the long sword behind his back.

"Oops, I'm kidding, don't do that!" Yi Xiaodao hurriedly begged for mercy.

Guan Chenzi's hand stretched out to the long sword was put down, and before it was completely put down, it suddenly burst out, drew his sword and rushed towards Yi Xiaodao, grabbed Yi Xiaodao's collar again, turned around, and between the ups and downs, the two sword qi had already swung out!

The sword qi is directed at the West.

"Turn! Don't do it, I have no malice! "The four fields that were still empty just now, but at this time, a young man suddenly appeared, standing on the embankment by the river, pinching the trick in his hand, and the sword qi waved in front of him, and he swung it out with one hand, and actually transferred the sword qi to the big tree next to him, and the big tree broke his waist.

"No malice, sneaky?" Guan Chenzi put down Yi Xiaodao, and a figure exactly like her quietly appeared behind her, but it was pure black ink, except for the same figure as Guan Chenzi, nothing else could be seen.

The man covered his chest and coughed violently twice: "This person is in trouble, I specially rushed to the rescue!" ”

"Difficult? Rescue? Yi Xiaodao was confused: "I can run and jump, what do I want to rescue?" ”

"Your name is Yi Xiaodao?"

"Yes, you just overheard me talking to my fairy sister!"

"On October 16, the emperor personally congratulated the wedding."

Yi Xiaodao didn't dare to answer, because the other party said nothing bad.

"Come with me, go now!" The person who came didn't wait for Yi Xiaodao and Guan Chenzi to react, and hurriedly said.

"At least make it clear first, where are I going with you?" Yi Xiaodao asked with a frown.

"Huhuhuhu"

A giant sword dozens of zhang long fell straight down from top to bottom, and the edge of the giant sword pointed directly at Yi Xiaodao!

Yi Xiaodao raised his head, opened his mouth wide in surprise, and forgot to dodge for a while. In fact, it's too late to dodge, the giant sword sinks extremely fast, and even if Yi Xiaodao escapes at this time, he will inevitably be crushed to pieces.

The young man made a gesture with his hands, and the tips of his fingers shimmered. The young man's hand moved extremely quickly, and he drew an obscure charm, and the charm was so bright that it instantly disappeared into the young man's fingertips and disappeared.

The young man clasped his hands together, only the two fingers flickered, and with his finger sword, he pointed to the sky and lifted it with difficulty.

"Up!"