Back in Zhuangzi, Shen Yun said to Hong Bo: "Uncle Hong, I plan to go to the county seat tomorrow. Do you have anything to buy?"

He knew that Hong Bo had always wanted to go to the county town to see if the Chen family had returned. However, I was afraid that I would be disappointed at that time, so I never thought of going to the county seat before he and Tianniu talked to him.

Sure enough, when Hong Bo heard this, a gloom flashed in his eyes, and he waved his hand: "In the county town, everything is expensive." There is nothing missing at home, and it doesn't cost money. ”

Now, Zhuangzi lives together with them. Brother Yun is still young, he has old arms and legs, and the sweet girl can't stand it. This year's spring ploughing can't be moved again, and the grange can only continue to be deserted. On the days when you sit on the mountain and eat empty, you must save some money to spend. Fortunately, he had made sufficient preparations before, hid all the rice, grain, and household belongings, and he could still live this life.

Of course, what touched him the most was that Brother Yun was young, and he went to the mountains every day to collect firewood, hunt, and shoulder the burden of supporting his family.

Moreover, Brother Yun is growing up day by day, and his ability is getting bigger and bigger. After the New Year, Brother Yun even became a small langzhong decently. If he has a headache and brain fever, or a sweet sister coughs a few times. When Brother Yun saw it, he probed their pulses and cooked two bowls of herbal soup. They drink it and tend to get better quickly.

Brother Yun is so capable, he is fully confident that he will persevere and pull the two babies up.

He has been adrift for most of his life, and he knows best how to be a man to be content. In such a world, God can let him guard two good babies, live a quiet life, and he is very satisfied with no illness or pain.

Shen Yun didn't say anything more.

The sweet girl has grown a little taller, and she can already run with Hong Boman Zhuangzi and help dig wild vegetables, but she is still too young to go far and go to the county seat.

Therefore, the next day, Shen Yun got up early in the morning, took the dry food prepared by Hong Bo, and went to the county seat alone.

The last time he went to Yong'an County, it was last winter. After months, his feet grew stronger, and he spent almost half the time on the road than before.

When he arrived, the east gate had just opened.

After a few months, the gate tax went up again - the untouchables entered the city, and each person collected fifteen big dollars!

What's the difference between this and grabbing money?

Shen Yun was angry in his heart, and at the same time, he finally understood: why there were few people on the official road, and there were few people at the city gate.

Good citizens are still not exempt from tax exemption. He took out the road guide and successfully entered Yong'an County.

Originally, I thought that in a few months, the people who fled would return home one after another, and the East City Gate Market would at least be much more lively than before, if not to say that it would return to its original state. I don't want to, when I entered the market, I saw that it was even more desolate than before!

There were a lot of people sitting on the side of the road. All of them are vegetable, unkempt, and dressed in tatters. It's late spring and early summer, and there are still people wearing dirty and torn cotton jackets with their chests and stomachs exposed.

Shen Yun also spent most of the year in the county. He knew that these people were untouchables in the county town who had lost their way to make a living—the city gate tax was so expensive that the displaced people from outside could not enter the city gate at all.

The family has nothing to eat, and they can't find a job to do, so they can't get by, so they can only come out to beg. In the market, people come and go, and it is easy to beg for food, which is the most attractive place for them.

Looking at people's dull eyes, Shen Yun wondered in his heart: Wasn't the war disaster already over?

The bazaar was dirty, messy, and smelly. Not a single roadside stall is missing. Even the last time I visited, nearly half of the shops that had opened were closed.

Shen Yun relied on his memory to find the third blacksmith shop, which was opened.

However, in his opinion, the shop is not far from closing. The shop was deserted, and there was not a single apprentice, only a half-hundred-year-old man squatting in the dilapidated doorway with a sad face, his eyes closed. Under the thin summer shirt, the bulging muscles on the arms can be faintly seen.

Needless to say, this is an old blacksmith who has been hammering iron for decades, and he is also the owner of the shop.

Shen Yun glanced at the plaque on the door. The black wooden sign hung with cobwebs reads "Zheng Ji Old Iron Shop".

"Master Zheng, may I ask, are there any iron nails for sale?" he stepped forward and asked.

Blacksmith Zheng raised his head sharply and said again and again: "Yes! Yes!"

When he saw the person clearly, the brightness in his eyes decreased significantly, and he got up stupidly and asked, "How many do you want?"

Shen Yun looked through him and looked into the store. The earthen oven of the black hole hole is cold. The bellows and other objects next to it are covered with a layer of dust. It is enough to see that Master Zheng has not opened the furnace to strike iron for a long time. What is sold now can only be the previous inventory.

So, he replied, "How much can your store sell?"

Blacksmith Zheng couldn't help but look him up and down. That's right, just an ordinary country boy.

"Well, it's too much. Three or four catties are still available. He answered.

Shen Yun didn't hesitate: "I want to see the goods." If it's appropriate, it's all for it. ”

"That's nature. Blacksmith Zheng was overjoyed and hurriedly introduced people into the shop.

He turned out a rusty oiled paper bag in a corner that was also covered with dust, and opened it in front of Shen Yun: "Little brother, please take a look." ”

Shen Yun raised his eyes and saw that they were all inches of iron nails, and nearly half of them were rusty.

Now, he spends an hour and a half every afternoon. Practicing with such iron nails, within half an hour, he will get rust on his hands. And rust is the most difficult thing to clean after sticking.

What's more, practicing flying flowers over willows is material-intensive. Rusted nails are not durable.

"It's all rusty......" he was disgusted.

Blacksmith Zheng was extremely embarrassed, and said apologetically: "In the past, I wouldn't dare to show such goods to my little brother." Alas, since the war broke out, the iron and stone have been cut off. Charcoal is also getting more expensive day by day. Don't hide it from my little brother, my shop was handed down by my father, and it has been open for decades, and this fire has never been extinguished. Now, however, I haven't opened the furnace for more than four months. This bag of iron nails was still made before the war accident last year. At that time, there was a guest who nailed a total of fifteen pounds. It's all he picks and chooses. If in the past, such goods were given to the little brother for nothing, and I would not have been willing. It's embarrassing, I'm afraid of smashing my own signboard. Just for now...... Alas, the shop has not been open for more than ten days, and the house is almost unable to open the pot. I'm not afraid of losing this old face...... If the little brother wants it, give a steamed bun money. ”

Shen Yun thought of what he saw in the market, and couldn't help but ask, "Isn't the war disaster over? Why is the business in the shop getting worse and worse?"

Blacksmith Zheng sighed, put the oiled paper bag on the long wooden table on the side, and spat out bitterness: "Where is the war disaster over? That is the fake news released by the Immortal Mansion, which is specially designed to deceive people!"

The little brother doesn't live in the county, I don't know. More than two months ago, Zha Dashuai led the immortal Fu soldiers to the provincial capital to kill the rebels. Two months before they set off, the Immortal Mansion began to collect the 'Suppression Tax'. Before the army could be raised, taxes were collected three times.

We finally looked forward to the departure of the army, and within a few days, Xianfu was going to continue to collect the 'suppression tax', saying that it was that Zha Dashuai fought a battle with the rebels, and failed to capture it, so he besieged the provincial city and vowed to trap the rebels who had shrunk into the city. Therefore, this tax had to be paid before the war was over.

No, in the past two months, the Immortal Mansion has collected four more 'suppression taxes', and each time it is heavier than the other. Everyone didn't have any business in the first place, and they all relied on their old books to support them. In this way, the business can no longer be done, so it can only be closed. However, Xianfu said that the shop was closed, and the tax that should be paid still had to be paid. Isn't this trying to force everyone to death? Many old neighbors who were deceived by the Xianfu quietly locked up their shops again, took their families out of the city, and fled for their lives. If it weren't for my daughter-in-law, who was pregnant with her eldest grandson, she would have run away when she saw that she was about to give birth. As he spoke, he glanced at the door and whispered, "Little brother, life in the city can't go on any longer." Listen to my advice, it's better for you to go into the city less in the future. ”

Shen Yun will be skeptical. He couldn't help but think of the scene on the way back, when the eldest prince angrily beat the immortal rune soldiers and let the refugees go home.

How do you look at it, the eldest prince and the immortal rune soldiers are all dedicated to summer cultivation, not like they are deceiving refugees.

"Is it only Yong'an County that collects taxes like this? I heard that the eldest lord of Shixiu County is from Xianmen. The eldest son of his family was very chivalrous, and once whipped the immortal rune soldiers and helped many people who fled. They shouldn't be taxing like that, right?"

No, Blacksmith Zheng sighed again and again: "It's all the same." A few years ago, Zha Dashuai was promoted to an official and commanded the three counties. On the first day of taking office, Zha Dashuai put the eldest family of Shixiu County in prison. I heard that the crime was obstruction of military affairs, and the sentence was a capital crime. Originally, before the army set off, they were going to sacrifice their family to the flag. No, the day before, the old man's fellow disciples came to rob the prison and rescued everyone. The eldest lord of Shixiu County, as well as the eldest prince who is a capable disciple in the Xianmen, have all ended up like this, how can the eldest lord of the other two counties not be afraid? They don't even dare to let a fart in front of Zha Dashuai. The new lord of Shixiu County is a close confidant of Zha Dashuai. Zha Dashuai said that he wanted to go east, and the three masters would never go west. ”

It turned out that the eldest prince had suffered a catastrophe. Fortunately, the auspicious people are in heaven, and the eldest son's family was saved and escaped. Shen Yun was moved and glad for their family.

As for Zha Dashuai, before the checkpoint, he had heard the eldest prince mention it. This should be the general Cha.

Hmph, the immortal rune soldiers who slaughtered innocent refugees, as well as the fairy rune soldiers who set up roadblocks to rob refugees and bully men and women, needless to say, are all his subordinates. The rebels came, and this guy fled from the provincial capital to Shixiu County, and he was actually promoted! Then, he still had the face to put the whole family of the lord of Shixiu County, who had defeated the rebels, to prison and sentenced him to death!

Such an immortal court, to paraphrase the master's words, is to reverse black and white, which is really ridiculous!

===Dividing line===

A certain peak thanks to the book friend for the sachet of the sullen big boy, thank you!