Chapter 40 is riddled with trivia
"There's something wrong with the two officials."
The mourner did not leave, he looked in the corner, his voice was very small, and said it to Feng Xiaoli.
Come here at night, there should be more people than less, there are so many dead people, report it, and it is also an accident to deal with.
"What?"
"The two of them were dressed in official clothes, carrying sacks in their hands, carrying lanterns, and looking for something in the bodies."
Yan Yao looked very carefully, these two people were thieves, they wore official clothes to hide people's eyes and ears, so that people with thieves did not dare to come here, so that they could seize the opportunity.
"Today I disposed of a lot of corpses and put them everywhere for easy claim, and these two people did not examine the wounds of the wounds and touched the things on the dead man's body."
Feng Xiaoli climbed onto the roof and took a closer look, as the mourner said, he was making a fortune from the dead.
"You don't care, do you?"
The mourner planned to watch the excitement on the side, and asked more.
"Dead man's thing, bad luck."
Feng Xiaoli took out a white cloth from the space and wrapped it around the corpse, took out rouge gouache, and smeared it on his face.
"What do you do, man face, smear something!"
"Don't move, or it'll be uglier!"
She took the rouge and smeared it on his face, a face hideous and terrifying, like a terrible ghost.
"Hair is not messy enough......"
The crown and hairpin that tied his hair on the head of the deceased were removed, and the thing fell on Feng Xiaoli's hand.
She was playing beside her, and for the sake of realistic acting, she gave him a float charm, which could be suspended in the air without touching the ground.
"Go, pretend to be a ghost and scare them, let them know the difficulties and retreat, and in a few days, the relatives of these people will come to collect the corpses and identify people by what they have on them."
"Am I your servant?"
He despised it, this woman is sick, and she made him so ugly, just to be scary.
Why don't you just shoot and run, it's not simpler and rude, why bother.
"Yes or no, what's the point, you are now at my mercy and recognize the reality."
The wanton smile on his face was particularly dazzling.
"Go ahead."
She just deliberately played tricks on people, who let the dead have a bad heart.
The wind talisman in his hand flashed, and soon, it disappeared into nothing.
"Go!"
The cold wind was blowing wantonly, and the two of them were steaming.
"Niu Wu, this wind is blowing really hard, take the bag well, don't be blown away."
"This thing is calm, it can't blow away, but why are there so many blue flames on the ground......"
"Blue flames?" Niu Wu raised his head and looked around, and intermittent earth fire came out, "This is a ghost fire!" ”
"Ghost Fire...... Let's go, we're in trouble...... People died in this place a long time ago, not in the past two days! ”
Niu Wu's face suddenly became gloomy, and the things in his hands fell to the ground.
"Why are there so many...... How do we get out......"
They ran away, and Feng Xiaoli threw the dead man down and let him scare him.
"Ahhhh Hell! ”
"Help!"
Ghost fire behind him, female ghost in front of him.
This can't run away at all, and the two of them knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, telling the purpose of 1510.
"Ghost adult, the small one only wants to make a fortune, I really can't open the pot, there are young and old people in the family, it's not me who killed you, there is a debtor who is wronged, you find whoever kills, go back and burn more paper for the adults, and please let the ghost adults let go of the small one......"
"Can't escape ......"
Niu Wu whispered to his frightened companion next to him, "Hurry up and beg for mercy, maybe you can survive." ”
"Begging for mercy, where we run, where this ghost fire chases, if this is brought home, it will be a big trouble to affect the children at home."
"Why do you disturb my purity...... Who told you to come! ”
The ethereal voice, with resentment, made the two of them tremble.
"The little one didn't mean to disturb the purity of the adults, but the life was too sad, and the little one couldn't pay the taxes and was afraid of being taken away, so he was greedy......"
"Be clear!"
Feng Xiaoli listened in the back.
"Xuanwu State ordered to levy taxes, but the floods for many years could not grow food at all, and we went to work hard, and it was not enough to eat, drink and Lasa all year round...... This year's tax is ten times that of previous years, and if you don't pay enough money or food at the yamen, you will take away everything in your family to pay off your debts, and you will have to confiscate your children and sell them to Ya Po, and go elsewhere to work as a servant to pay off your debts. ”
"We want to do some small business to pay taxes, but we can't do a small business, I heard that a lot of people have died, and there are dignitaries among them, so we set off here."
"We stole this dress, thinking that it would be easier to get out."
Feng Xiaoli came out of the shadows, and there was ghost fire under her feet, she was not afraid of these at all.
"Hell!"
Feng Xiaoli walked out, dressed in white with the ghost fire behind him, and the two hugged each other in fright.
"Don't scream."
"Nobody told you, isn't this a ghost fire?"
"The bones of the corpse contain a kind of phosphorus, which will be generated after the corpse decays, and the ignition point of phosphine is very low, and it will ignite as soon as the wind drives it, and the faster the person moves, the more wind it drives, and the ghost fire will follow, looking like chasing people for their lives."
"What you just said had better be true, I hate liars."
Feng Xiaoli frowned, Xuanwu is a vast country, and these people should not be enslaved, it is very likely that there were some mistakes when the people above passed the words layer by layer, resulting in the implementation not being in place.
The higher-ranking people rarely touch the root of agriculture, and if food is not guaranteed, let alone any development and cultivation.
"What the little one said is true, the woman doesn't believe it, and she can ask around after she goes out. There will also be officials who will go door-to-door to search for excess food, and if they can't pay enough food, they can only take the house to pay off the debt, in exchange for silver taels to redeem people, so that the family will suffer less crimes. ”
Falling to the ground, he threw his hair behind him and said.
"The two of them don't look like rich people, their hands are calloused, they are people who do rough work, the clothes in the clothes of the officials are white, and the shoes are worn."
"The Xuanwu Kingdom emphasizes literature over military force, and emphasizes business and suppresses agriculture, what they say is no problem, this is the rule left over from the era of the Xuanwu Kingdom."
"The matter of raising taxes was raised by the old minister behind the emperor, the treasury was empty, and the merchants went to settle down elsewhere when they had money, and the money of the Xuanwu Kingdom flowed out, and only went out and rarely entered."
"The old emperor had a problem with his decision-making at that time, and as soon as the new emperor took the throne, he made drastic changes to it, but unfortunately, he forgot how he got up, and now he is a puppet, at the mercy of others, and has no real power at all."
"The suffering is these people below, they have paid for heavy taxes, paid their houses, lost their daughters, sold their sons, and are miserable, and it is unrealistic to want to escape from the Xuanwu Kingdom, and it is expressly forbidden for the disaster victims to flee between countries."
"You know a lot."
Feng Xiaoli saw that he was dying, and he expected that there was still power behind this person.
"I used to be the one who dominated one side, and I still know this bit of gossip."
He pressed the beasts with the breath of fierce beasts, so that they could be his servants and inform them.
"Pick it up."
Feng Xiaoli is no longer embarrassed by the two of them.
"Cultivators, don't you care about these trivial matters?"
"You might as well count on them, you might as well count on demon beasts."
"Famous families, all major sects have long been accustomed to turning a blind eye to these."
"This is also the reason why ordinary people want to have spiritual roots, a person who has attained the Tao chicken and dog ascends to heaven, and an ordinary family has a person with cultivation, which means that this family has undergone earth-shaking changes."
There was indifference on his face, and his voice was cold, when he didn't have any cultivation before.
When he was more miserable than these people, who sympathized with him?
"If you want me to say, you should raze this place to the ground, you ruined the plan."
The anger on his body was a little heavier, his expression was serious, and he kicked away the corpse on the ground.
He was afraid that Feng Xiaoli would be nosy, so he opened his mouth to persuade him.
"You can't fight too many people on your own, don't set yourself on fire."
"You care about me?"
"I'm afraid that if you die, it will affect me, so don't look for death."
Care?
What he cares about is when his ontology will break through the ground and regain the strength it had in its heyday.
Get rid of all those who have insulted you.
Bring new worlds to demon beasts, spirit beasts, etc., instead of being driven to the wild land by the human race to survive.
Feng Xiaoli didn't care about these things anymore, and let these people take their things and leave, listening to the two of them, the beast tide died a lot yesterday, and this matter shocked all sects, and it won't be long before someone will be sent to collect the corpse, and the road up the mountain is blocked, so they can only leave through the secret passage.
"Woman, this secret path is said by Orion, he is old, the two of us are kind to the old-timers, he saw that we wanted to go up the mountain, so he told us here, and asked the two of you not to make a noise."
They carried their things on their backs and left the secret passage with the two of them.
"These gold and silver jewelry, magic weapons and spiritual runes you brought out, pick some that you are familiar with, don't use them in other sects to lock the position, this will become a life-seeking."
She deliberately reminded that she didn't know if there were these artifacts in the inferior continent.
"The woman laughed, most of the people who escaped were cultivators, and those who watched the excitement of the rich and noble people didn't have such treasures, and the two of us were also people with eyes, and they wouldn't bring back eye-catching things, and even if they were brought back, they wouldn't dare to take them to the pawnshop, they would be found by the people in the pawnshop and the owner's relatives."
"It's me who is overthinking."
Probably not the same between continents.
Feng Xiaoli and the others crawled out of the dark passage.
"Where is the Bai family?"
"Which Bai family?"
"The beast tamer Bai family, their daughter is called Bai Jiu."
Niu Wu scratched his head, thought about it carefully, and spoke.
"I know this, on the Los Angeles side, go all the way to the east, pass by five post stations, the road is far away, prepare more dry food."
"I have delivered goods to their family before, the road is not easy to walk, there are bandits, you two be careful."
"Thank you."
……
Bidding farewell to the two, the two set foot on the road of the Bai family.
Feng Xiaoli found a mount, and the dead walked beside him, lying on the back of the mount.
It either sleeps or is on its way to sleep all day long.
"You spirit pet is a sleepy worm and can't wake up all day."
"It's sleeping for cultivation, so that its strength grows quickly, don't be fooled by the surface."
Yan Yao couldn't help but say a few words, Xiaofei is not lazy, it is embarrassing itself like this in order to improve its cultivation as soon as possible, so that it can transform successfully.
"Here's it for you."
"What ......"
"Black briquettes spit out of their mouths."
Fragments of the sword, alas, rusted.
No wonder it's not the same as what you get.
She counted out the fragments of the remnant sword of the organic fate, and what she got was the black coal ball spirit beast egg.
"This thing is evil, don't get too close."
"Don't look at me like that."
The dead man stopped, and there was movement in the grass, and the birds and beasts that flew past passed the news.
"There's someone up ahead."
"Raiders."
"Eight on the left, three on the right, two in the front, four in the back."
"The strength is below us."
The Dead put down the rope and took action to solve it.
I have been practicing in the human world for many years, and it is a piece of cake to deal with a few bandits.
He grabbed a few people in front of him, and everyone saw that there were people behind the young man, and this woman was sitting on the back of the demon beast, so they thought that she was the master of this young man.
"Spare ......"
"The girl spared her life......"
"Are you thieves?" Feng Xiaoli frowned, suspicious, "I don't have any backbone at all, how can I become a robber." ”
"Bring out your heads."
"I am their third master, the second master is dead, the big boss is seriously ill, and the village has nothing to eat, so I want to do my old job."
The third master is a scholar with a crepe of letters, and he has a bit of grace on his face.
"Don't tell me that you're forced to be thieves."
It's only been a long time since this came out, and when I met so many people who were forced to do so, the mistake was the mistake.
"The girl is right, if it weren't for the compulsion of life, who would want to live with their heads up."
"The clouds fall on the mountain and it is dangerous, we don't dare to make up our minds, so we occupy the land on the nearby mountain and become the king." The third master spoke in a crepe, he was tied to him, and he didn't worry at all, "Defeat in your hands today, I will be convinced, and my skills are not as good as death." ”
"When we went up the mountain that day, we knew that it would be difficult to retreat."
"The Xuanwu Kingdom has been fighting for many years, and we can't bear the burden on our shoulders, so we defected here."
Feng Xiaoli was worried, pinched her fingers and counted, everyone saw her pretending to be a ghost, and it was not easy to speak, after all, the strength of the young man next to her was in front of her, and no one had anything to provoke.
"Come out again in fifteen days, and by then, the overall situation has been decided, and the Xuanwu Kingdom will usher in a new life."
"It's time for the exhaustion of qi."
"What do you mean, girl?"
"Internal and external troubles, the people are not happy, do you think there is still a possibility for the Xuanwu Kingdom to exist?"
Feng Xiaoli calculated that the Emperor Star of the Xuanwu Kingdom was dim, and the Phoenix Star was dazzling, moving towards the Emperor Star, someone was going to make a move, no accident, there would be great changes within fifteen days.
"The decay of one place is the prosperity of another, abdication gives way to the virtuous, and the people want it."
"How many princesses are there in Xuanwu?"
"There is only one public body who is weak and sickly, rarely goes out and walks around, and has no cultivation."
"What about the other princes, and what about the current monarch?"
Feng Xiaoli felt that it was necessary for him to collect information from various countries, but there was no need for this, and he would have to leave sooner or later.
"The monarch is the new emperor for a few days on the throne, there is no real power in his hands, several princes do not recognize the five princes as emperors, open and secret battles, turbulent waves, and the forces behind them are different."
"Fifteen years later, let's talk about it."
Feng Xiaoli let them go and continued on their way.
These words puzzled the three masters, and they immediately sent someone to investigate the sick princess.
"What are we doing to investigate the sick seedlings, we are not officials."
"If you want to go, you can go, don't fight with your tongue."