The surroundings were still familiar scenery, Xu Sheng looked at it attentively, and felt a lot more relieved. He gasped, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and was in a slight trance, and when he looked up, he was just in time for the dazzling sunlight.

"What time is it?"

Xu Sheng asked himself. In fact, it is completely redundant, the mountains and forests here are empty, and there is no one here. Besides, there is no need to ask, just look at the situation, now that the sun is in full bloom, slightly slanting westward, it is almost the time to go.

"...... just now!?" Xu Sheng's voice was a little hoarse. After a long time of being busy and panicking, he didn't get a drop of water, he only felt his mouth dry and whispered, "Is that a dream?"

What a strange dream!

Xu Sheng didn't believe it himself, it was too real, and now that he thinks about it, it feels like a different world, and those details are still clearly visible and vivid.

"Do people have such clear thoughts in dreams, and do they have memories as clear as mine when they wake up?" Xu Sheng asked again, but the note was destined to be unanswered. For some reason, he was terrified of the dream, but he was afraid that it was all just a dream.

What a contradictory mentality! I'm afraid it's a dream, but I'm afraid it's not a dream.

"Don't think about it" Xu Sheng shook his head, leaned on a big tree with a thick bowl, and stood up slowly.

"It's time to go back," he said to himself, feeling drowsy and exhausted.

It took an hour to enter the mountain, but it took twice as much effort to get out. Under the moonlit night, Xu Sheng walked quite smoothly, but now that the sky is blue, he has stumbled three times.

Hungry!

I've been hungry since last night, and I'm stunned by a blood-stained stone and a strange dream. In this way, I am afraid that no one will be able to walk as fast as flying.

All the way down the mountain, but the view is superb. In early summer, everything is full of life, leafy and vibrant. When I arrived in the village, I suddenly became bright, clear and beautiful. At this time, it is almost evening, and it can really be said: the small road is full of traffic, and the flowing water is flowing around. The dog lies on the firewood, and the chicken perches on the side of the road. Mulberry trees are mostly connected to the green grassland, and a little flower color reflects the evening sky. The breeze is coming, the cool air is gusting, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the music is peaceful.

This village is a good place! Not only this village, but also Pingling County, where this village is located, and even the entire Nanjun County, where Pingling County is located, are all great places!

This is South County.

In ancient times, it was called the southern capital, and it was the former dynasty of the previous dynasty, the capital of the huge empire that had been almost forgotten by the world. The empire that once was clothed in endless glory has passed, but the southern county town still exists, and even full of vitality and prosperity, as it was in the past.

Perhaps, it is not as good as today's capital Tianjing, and it is slightly inferior to Shangjing, the capital of the northwest, but it is a well-deserved leader in Zhongzhou and even in the vast territory of thousands of miles.

Not to mention the war-torn Kanto region, the bitter cold and northern seclusion of the wind and snow all year round, and the two prefectures of Zhang and Yue, which are full of poisonous insects, compared with other counties in Zhongzhou, which can be called fertile soil, Nanjun is also one head higher, maybe more than a mile!

It's no wonder that some storytellers and singers made up lyrics and praised:

Since ancient times, the southern capital is a resort,

Masterpieces emerge one after another.

Stretching from north to south for 100,000 zhang,

It is eight hundred miles wide from east to west.

The land is more than one and a half years old,

Granary ships accumulate on the banks of the river.

Even though it is difficult for farmers to cultivate,

Don't worry about three meals a day.

The words are simple and the meaning is understandable.

The life of the people of Nanjun is actually not bad, if a person has no ambition, there is no problem in planting fields every year, eating and drinking, and there will be some surplus. If you are more diligent, work for ten years and eight years, build a house, marry a daughter-in-law, and buy some properties, you will not be left behind.

A lot of people think that way, and naturally they do it that way. Xu Shengjia turned out to be the same, but later ......

As soon as the day is cool, people will be lively, especially in this season, the village people do not do much farm work, three or five gather in a pile, and it is noisy and chattering for a short time.

Bragging and seem to be a man's nature, especially when there are many people, and there are a few big girls and little daughters-in-law around, this nature is even more revealed.

This group of peasants, who rarely even go out of the village, talked about the general trend of the world.

"Did you hear that?" A young man took the lead: "The Chixiao Army Chen Army has 500,000 troops, and they have surrounded the Bishui Pass, with three layers inside and three layers outside. I heard that those Chixiao soldiers are all skinned and drinking blood, with green faces and fangs, so many people, don't really beat Bishui Guan. ”

"What year and month have you heard from here?" said a tall thin man with an eyebrow and a head leaning together; "The Chixiao Army is an old thing from many years ago. Now, that's the world of the Green Forest Army. My buddy has just retreated from Bishui Pass, saying that the Green Forest Army has wiped out the Chixiao Army, and after the reorganization, there are 800,000 people! Now 800,000 people are besieging Bishui Pass!"

"800,000? 8 million is not rare. An old man with white hair knocked on his cigarette gun, coughed twice, and said: "Isn't it the same thing that whoever sits in the world in this world? You and I just farm as usual, and now those official masters who eat people and don't spit out bones are better than the rebels with green faces and fangs? ”

"That's a good thing," a big man nodded in agreement, and then took over the conversation: "I entered the city yesterday, and I heard that the tax is going to rise again. ”

"What!?" said in unison, and the audience was shocked. The expressions of those present all changed abruptly and whispered. Even if there are a few people who don't speak, they are still leaning in and listening carefully.

Obviously, compared with the general trend of the world, it is still the personal gains and losses that are more attention-grabbing.

"How much?" asked the tall and thin man first.

"Alas" the big man sighed, and then slowly stretched out three fingers.

3 out of 10!

"Fuck," someone immediately scolded his mother, "and this will not let people live?"

"It's not easy, my family of seven is not easy, so it's even more difficult. ”

"You're okay, a family of seven, and there is still a foil to some extent, what can we do with orphans and widows?"

Complaining, as expected, almost everyone is, but none of them can come up with a solution. In fact, if you think about it carefully, what can farmers do?

"Hey, lotus, you're not right. As long as you want, the old and young masters of the whole village are eager to help you two mothers!"

"Ha-ha-ha-ha!"

At that time, some people joked, and the peasants were simple-minded, and this time they forgot most of the former's sorrows, and laughed at the time.

Fuck you, the dog can't spit out an ivory in its mouth, and it will squirt feces all over its mouth. A middle-aged woman with a decent posture pinched her waist and scolded, but she didn't look angry.

Well, I said, guys, it's not that hard. The old man knocked on the cigarette gun again, took a hard puff, and then said slowly: "After all, the tax increase is just a rumor, and besides, the wind and rain have been smooth over the years, and everyone has some surplus food, if the tax is really raised, everyone tightens their belts, and they can get by." ”

"Elder Zhang's words are not bad" Dahan took over the conversation again and said: "If we can't survive, then how can people from other counties live?

Xu family!

Everyone couldn't help but smile when they heard this. Comparing goods has to be thrown, people have to die more than people, and everything is afraid of a comparison. It's really difficult to raise taxes, but it seems to be so difficult compared to the Xu family.

It doesn't matter if I'm worse, there are people worse than me, and most ordinary people will think this way.

"Ahem" Just when everyone was about to start another wave of heated discussions, someone coughed twice at an inopportune time, and the sound was very loud. Everyone followed the sound and saw a half-grown man sitting under the big willow tree, pinching his throat and bowing his head silently. Behind the kid, there was a man standing next to the big willow tree.

Everyone watched intently.

Oh, it's not Xu Sheng!

At this moment, he was looking ugly, after all, he was a scholar, and his ears were red.

Embarrassing, so embarrassing. Everyone looked at Xu Sheng, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

"That Xu Sheng, have you eaten?" someone was the first to break the silence, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere.

"I've eaten it" Xu Sheng replied vaguely, and as soon as he said it, his intestines were full of regret.