When Gao Ge regained his gaze, a familiar smell came to his face. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Strictly speaking, there was nothing special in the air in front of them, and the damp sea breeze carried a faint fishy smell, suggesting that there had been an unusually violent storm here not long ago, and dozens of giant salamanders had briefly stranded in the storm, struggling desperately on the beach, cutting through the skin and leaving a bloody smell.

In addition to the blood, there are dozens of minerals surging up at the bottom of the sea mixed with the smell of algae, and if you smell it carefully, you can also find a little human smell, which should be a few cooking smoke wafting from the continent thousands of miles away, which has the strange aroma of brown rice mixed with salted fish.

These are not the familiar flavors of Gao Ge, but they bring a familiar feeling, this feeling is very strange, it is difficult to describe at all, but Gao Ge can be sure that he has returned to the Seven Realms of Tianren with this.

Gao Ge maintained the cultivation of the ninth layer of Qi training, and with the ability to smell, he could easily catch subtle features in the air around him, and in addition to the aroma of brown rice and salted fish, he also smelled a hint of the fragrance of the grassland, which was mixed with the smell of sweat from Tiansu's specialty horse. The smell was already very thin here, and if it wasn't for the Taoist priest, it wouldn't be able to detect it at all. Based on this, it is inferred that this island should be at least 5,000 miles away from Tiansu.

For mortals, 5,000 miles may be a lifetime distance, but for Taoist priests, it is just a half-day journey to travel and fly at will.

"Fool, is this the world you were born into?" Bai Song was not far behind her, her unicorn beast sneezing uncontrollably. It was choked by the breath of the Heavenly Demon Clan, and it didn't slow down after a long time.

Gao Ge nodded. "That Heavenly Demon Ancestor is even more powerful than I thought! ”

Bai Song didn't answer, her originally somewhat happy face began to stiffen, because a group of golden cicadas the size of calves appeared in the sky, which were Yuwen Li's loyal guards, and their appearance here meant that Yuwen Li was also sent back by the Heavenly Demon Ancestor. Perhaps, it's not just her, but someone else.

......

"Who else isn't convinced? Get out!"

This is a slum in the southern part of the capital of the Kingdom of Heaven, where low, bamboo-planked temporary shelters stand tenaciously in every inch where they can stay, not so much in rows as in a row. The architecture of many bamboo buildings reflects the extraordinary creativity of human beings, and there are a considerable number of them, which only occupy the foundation of less than a square table, but rely on the thick bamboo to support the hut that can be inhabited by three or four people.

Children of two or three years old will feel inexplicably excited, laughing and screaming, but adults will be afraid and can't bear to criticize them. The childless vulgar man will yell a few times in time and anger to show his displeasure, but this is often muffled by the thunder, or the louder shouts of the child.

This is the ecology of this slum. People's lives are difficult, but they are optimistic, persistent, and reluctant to give up.

At this moment, however, a fierce man, dressed in armor, was riding on a horse and shouting, and behind him were hundreds of heavily armed warriors.

The atmosphere is a little strange, since the rise of a pope called the Providence Sect more than half a year ago, gradually eroding the power of the king of this country, the king has become more and more brutal, and the supervision of everyone from the nobility to the untouchables has become more and more strict.

Not only that, but the exploitation of money has also become more and more intense, and even for these untouchables who are at the bottom of society, can be said to have no economic ability, and struggle near the survival line all day long, they have to pluck their feathers.

The poll tax is the latest trick, which was just promulgated by the prime minister in the morning on behalf of the monarch, and is now being enforced. As long as you live, you have to pay taxes, which is an almost crazy move by the king to collect money and organize an army against the Providence Cult.

If you can't pay the money, yes, then enlist in the army and get a tax credit.

The slums are not all soft bones, and a few groups of people rebelled angrily, but they were suppressed. Now the little generals blocking the intersection are scolding and scolding to deter the untouchables in this slum.

"You pig-like things, you really don't open your eyes, and you still want to resist? I want to see if the general's big knife is hard or your head is hard? Give you two days, either sell your daughter to make up taxes, or send someone to join the army...... Having said that, there are really a lot of you little girls who look good in the mud caves, and you really have to wash and sell them, and it's enough for you to spend a while......"

Behind it was the unbearable ** words, as well as the energetic laughter of the soldiers.

The sound from outside frightened a little girl in a bamboo building trembling all over, hiding in her mother's arms and not daring to raise her head. "Mother, I won't be caught and sold by them......"

The little girl was only eleven or twelve years old! Although she wore the coarse cloth clothes of a poor man, she could hardly hide her white skin and delicate countenance.

The fear made the little girl's lips white, but her elegant temperament was not affected in the slightest.

The middle-aged woman holding her is also luxurious, and her coarse cloth and rotten clothes are not hidden, and she can't hide her luxurious temperament.

"Qu'er, don't worry, the queen mother will protect you. The woman softly comforted her frightened daughter while patting her son on the back.

It turned out that there was a boy of the same age in the woman's arms, and the boy's face was also pale, and he was so frightened that he couldn't speak.

"Mrs. Xiong, come in!" the woman quietly pulled out a jasper ring from her bosom.

After a short effort, the humble door opened, and a forty-year-old mother-in-law came in, saluting respectfully, "Your Highness...... No, what does the wife command?"

The woman shook her head, feeling helpless to the mother-in-law in front of her, she had escaped from the palace for more than half a year, but she would still call the wrong name from time to time.

But there is no way. When the news of the war on the front line came, the woman heard that her husband was defeated, and her eldest son was nowhere to be found, and she was under the surveillance of the elders in the country at that time, so she could only flee in a hurry with a pair of young children. Looking back now, it was really thrilling every step of the way, and if it weren't for the help of a few loyal ministers, it would have been difficult to get out.

I heard that Gao He has become a monster, and Tiansu is now in the hands of others, and Gao Gao and Gao Ge are nowhere to be found.

Gao Qiwan sighed secretly and handed over the ring. "If we find a reliable place to change, it should be enough to meet the poll tax and our livelihood in the second half of the year. ”

The maid who was cleaning up the sundries not far away stared at Mrs. Xiong, and stopped talking several times.

As soon as she walked a short distance outside the house, she spat viciously on the ground, jumped to her feet and cursed: "Prostitute, do you really think that you are still a queen......?" said a few words, looked at the ring in her hand with satisfaction, showed a strange and smug smile, and thought that the wine and meat at night had fallen again.

She has a very low grade in the Tiansu Palace, and she has no minimum loyalty to the king and queen at all, but she escaped with the Gao Qi clan by chance, and after a long time, there is no restraint, and she sees the downfall of the main family, and her mind is naturally active, if she is not timid, I don't know what she will do.

As soon as he took two steps, he was stopped by a rickety old man, "Mrs. Xiong, don't be ostentatious, beware of being seen." ”

Po Xiong's eyelids rolled, "What if you see it?"

"What do you see? You said it lightly, if someone robs us, where will we get the money to buy good wine and eat......

Po Xiong smiled presumptuously, turned her head to look around, and then stretched out her hand and pointed: "You eunuch, what are you afraid of?" no one ......" The two looked at each other and smiled, and then sneakily walked through the two small alleys, bypassing the soldiers who were still scolding not far away, and disappeared.

In the bamboo building, the maid Xiaohuan watched Mrs. Xiong walk away angrily, and couldn't help but say, "Madam, this Mrs. Xiong is unreliable, she must have changed her money and drank again." ”

Gao Qi sighed and said in a low voice. "I don't know, but what can I do now? The prince and princess are still young, and we can't show our heads for the time being, so we can only let them be presumptuous and take advantage of them, and only hope to get through the current difficulties, and find a better place to hide in the next month. ”

The maid was loyal and wanted to speak again, but was stopped by Gao Qi's wave of his hand. "There's someone out there, you sneak in and see who it is. ”