144 The chief of the village and the tax collector of the kingdom
Hearing Xuanyuan's words, Higginson looked incredulous:
"Hey, what are you talking about!?"
"The last Lord of the Kingdom Knights was a legendary man, and he was said to have the most perfect, strongest, most graceful, and most incredible muscles in the entire kingdom."
"The king wanted to marry the princess to him at that time, but unfortunately he refused on the spot, which made the king furious."
"He disappeared ten years ago, and no one can find him, how could that adult be such a weak guy as Uncle Beggar?"
Speaking of which.
Higginson seemed to remember the magic of Xuan Yuan's ability to say his name in one mouth, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the bearded beggar suspiciously:
"Hey! Uncle Beggar! ”
"Isn't that true?"
The other party slowly shook his head and sighed:
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it."
"I've been here incognito for so many years, and I can be seen at a glance."
He looked Xuanyuan up and down:
"Who the hell are you?"
"Why do you know about me? How much do you know? ”
Xuan Yuan silently raised his head.
Looking over the bearded beggar's head, there was a title frame with a shimmering golden streamer effect, and another silver starfall effect title frame with a much smaller size.
【The Strongest Knight of the Kingdom】
【Former Knight of the Kingdom】
【Ingvar】
The title of glory on Ingvar's head was so conspicuous that Genyuan had already noticed the man who was trying to disguise himself as a nameless beggar on the side of the road.
The title effect on this guy's head is almost much more conspicuous than the entire village behind him.
It can only be said that this place is too much like a game world, and only Xuanyuan himself can see the title, which makes all this a little strange.
Xuan Yuan shook his head:
"To be honest, I don't know much."
Higginson, the blonde boy on the side, looked extremely excited:
"Wow! Uncle Beggar! ”
"Is you really Lord Ingva Knight?"
"It's incredible! You're my childhood idol! Can you show me your legendary perfect muscles? ”
Ingvar sat up from the ground and ignored the blonde boy.
Instead, he looked Xuanyuan and Xiao Pa up and down, and said vigilantly:
"Higginson, today is Harvest Day."
"The village is busy at this time, is there any urgency for you to bring an outsider to the village at this time?"
Higginson opened his mouth.
There was some hesitation, not quite sure what he should say:
"Forehead ......"
Xuan Yuan opened his mouth and interrupted Higginson:
"I just wanted him to take me to meet the village chief."
"If you can, allow me to stay here for three days, and I'll leave as soon as the time comes."
Ingvar raised an eyebrow and looked at Higginson:
"Oh? Is that all? ”
Higginson nodded hurriedly:
"Yes, yes, yes! That's it. ”
Ingvar looked at Xuanyuan with a wary expression:
"Okay, then I'll act with you."
Speaking of this, he warned Xuan Yuan seriously:
"Traveler, don't have any bad ideas."
"I'll keep an eye on you for the next three days."
With that, he got up and followed behind Xuanyuan and Higginson and stopped talking.
Black lines appeared on Xuanyuan's forehead.
What is this?
Powerful NPCs joining the party?
It seems to be a rather troublesome guy, but it's exactly what Xuanyuan wants.
Xuanyuan motioned to Higginson with his eyes and took himself to meet the village chief.
Along the way, I don't know why.
Every household in this village is busy digging pits and burying parcels in the yard at home, and many villagers are digging pits everywhere in the yard to bury parcels.
As you can see, these villagers are of different heights.
All of them grew five big and three thick, and the muscles were even more swollen one by one.
It's just that the head is conical as if it has been caught by something, and it blends in with the body, and the facial features are barely visible.
It can be said that it belongs to the enlarged version of Higginson when he has muscles.
Xuanyuan could barely distinguish between men, women, and children, and could only barely distinguish them based on the color of their hair and hairstyle.
Instead, Higginson walked all the way down the village, greeting the villagers along the way, and could easily identify the different villagers from the same faces.
But everyone was busy, and they just said hello.
With Higginson leading the way, Xuanyuan came all the way to the smallest thatched house in the village, the village chief's house.
Outside the thatched house.
An old man with a white beard sitting outside the house.
The other man's muscles had turned angular, bronzed, and emitted a metallic reflection in the light.
It's very different from the other busy villagers in the village.
The old village chief held a coarse porcelain teacup with a missing mouth in his hand, sat on a broken wooden chair, and drank tea gracefully.
Seeing Higginson leading a stranger over, the old village chief said strangely:
"Higginson? Where did the muscle essence go on your body? ”
"The king's tax collectors, it's almost time to arrive in our village, you must not fail to pay your taxes!"
Higginson waved his hand absentmindedly, and handed the small satchel on his waist to the old village chief:
"Harm! Don't worry about it, village chief. ”
"Look, I used my muscle essence to exchange so much material with others!"
The muscular old man glanced at the satchel suspiciously.
Then came a surprise:
"Shhh Are you cutting down an entire medium-sized forest? ”
"With all the tree cutters in our village combined, we can't cut so much wood in a year."
"Not bad, not bad."
"You naughty baby is finally sensible, you know how to subsidize the family, go back to your parents and hide them."
Higginson nodded: "Okay! ”
"Village chief, this person wants to come to our village for three days."
The village chief nodded in agreement.
Higginson left happily.
After Higginson left, the old village chief turned his head to look at Xuanyuan, and then glanced at Ingvar, who was standing not far behind Xuanyuan.
He took a slow sip of tea and asked:
"Stranger from afar, what are you here for?"
Xuan Yuan was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a loud and chaotic sound of horses' hooves coming from the entrance of the village.
Then they heard a neutral voice, which was heard throughout the village with the sound of the hooves of a horse running on the outskirts of the village:
"The king has an order!"
"All the villages under the castle will begin to be taxed today with a new tax, the breath tax."
"You should pay taxes on every breath, and according to tax calculations, your harvest in the next hundred years will not be enough to pay the taxes for this year."
"Fortunately, our king has been extra gracious, and you only need to pay all your property this year, which will be counted as full tax payment."
"Therefore, this tax collection will pursue a three-light strategy."
"Food light! Treasure light! Essence Light! ”
"All the villagers immediately gathered at the entrance of the village without the slightest delay."
"Now, order you and others to line up immediately to pay the tax, and you must not hide it privately or hide it!"
"The cavalry under his command will carry out a carpet collection of this village, and if you dare to resist, you will be killed on the spot!"
(End of chapter)