"What is it like to be acacia?"

"Acacia is bitter, very astringent, and there is a little sweetness in the bitterness. ←，”

"What about the 'Acacia Bell'?"

"'Acacia Ling' is a murderous weapon. ”

"Can lovesickness also kill people?"

"Enter my lovesick door, know that I am lovesick, like a haunt, immortal and never disperse. ”

"Lovesick at first sight. ”

"Life and death obsession. ”

"Liangcheng Inn" has a lot of guests every day.

There are Jiangnan teenagers with silk scarves around their necks, there are also high-rollers with beards like halberds, heroic heroines, and prodigal sons in the rivers and lakes.

Liangcheng, in addition to loneliness, is never lonely.

Today is no exception, the long queue of guests who are holding the bow and asking to see them extends from the door of the inn to the thirteen long steps outside the door.

Walking the rivers and lakes, everyone will inevitably encounter tricky people and difficult things.

If you can afford the price, and what you ask for does not violate the morality of martial arts, "Liangcheng" will help you settle those tricky people and things.

The people of "Liangcheng" are not Daluo immortals, they also need money and food.

Recently, few people have seen the appearance of Leng Beicheng, this person is like a god in a Buddhist temple, awe-inspiring, but untouchable.

The affairs of "Liangcheng" are taken care of by a woman named "Flower Eighteen", a beautiful and charming flower girl. She is as passionate as fire, and she regards money as her life.

But the strange thing is that today Hua Eighteen only received one guest.

A scholar.

——Sheng Jintang, the "Blowing Eyebrow Pen" of the "Beiliang County" Bookstore, is a talented, good-looking, ambitious, and promising young official.

Gu Jintang, the head of the "eye washing gun", the Yin silver blade of the "heart scissors", and the "blow eyebrow pen" Sheng Jintang of the book office, this combination of "washing, cutting and blowing" are all more powerful and capable officials on the ground in "Beiliang County".

This time, Sheng Jintang came with a request.

-- Cai Jing abolished the new law, extinguished the new party, and took sole control of the government, and the exorbitant taxes imposed by the imperial court on the people became more and more onerous, to the point that it could not be restored.

According to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, the farmers were taxed once a year in summer and autumn according to the mu. The six northern provinces have to pay one bucket of official taxes for one stone per mu of barren land, while the seven relatively wealthy southern provinces have to pay three buckets of taxes per mu, or silver. Silk, silk, cotton, and cloth are enslaved.

In addition to the grain tax, there is also a tax on the grain. All men between the ages of 20 and 60 are required to pay a large annual tax on the amount of money or silk at the same time.

Other "miscellaneous changes" stipulated by the imperial court and local governments, such as agricultural tool tax, cattle leather tax, silkworm salt tax, shoe money, etc., are as numerous as cattle hair, and the people can hardly bear the burden and suffer unspeakably.

In particular, since last year, the subordinate members of the "Ministry of Industry" have been corrupt and irregular, and their supervision and handling have been ineffective, with the result that the embankment of the estuary of the "Beiliang River" has burst, thousands of acres of fertile land in the three counties under the rule of Saibei have been destroyed in Hongze, and the people have not harvested any grains.

Lord Xi Qinggu sent people into the mountains several times to persuade the anti-tax mountain people to lay down their arms and settle disputes peacefully with the government, but they all returned in vain.

Cai Yaoyang, the commander of the soldiers and horses here, was young and radical, and led the Xiang army into the mountains to suppress the mob. Relying on the geographical advantage, the mountain people led the van army like headless flies to fight in the mountains for more than a month, but they did not make any contributions.

Cai Jing, who was far away in the "Beijing Division", was furious when he heard this, and first scolded his proud protégé and "Beiliang" county commander Xi Qinggu, and then ordered one of the "nine generals" under the "Power Gang" of the "Power Gang" to be monitored by the "Zhenbei Army" and the "decapitated general" Guan Shanyue to lead the army to extinguish the rebellious people.

Cai Xiang doesn't care how many people die, what he cares about is how much face he loses.

In this way, it is difficult for Xi Qinggu, the parent official of "Beiliang County", on the one hand, he does not want the people under him who have no fists and no courage to hit stones with eggs and lose their lives for no reason, and on the other hand, he does not dare to disobey the bloody order of his boss Enxiang. In a dilemma, Xi Qinggu decided to send someone to the "Liangcheng Inn" to find his daughter Ruoqian, and try to persuade the mountain people to abandon the uprising and avoid this unilateral massacre in which the army participated.

The most powerful person around Xi Qinggu is the self-proclaimed "Three Heroes of Beiliang" "Washing, Cutting and Blowing" combination, but unfortunately one of the "Eyewashing Guns" Gu Jintang died in the early years in order to protect his life by the remnants of the "Chaotianmen" Wutian monk, and the other "Heart Cutting Knife" Yin Yinjian has always been secretly close to his sworn enemy, Cai Yaoyang, the prisoner of soldiers and horses, so that Sheng Jintang, a weak scholar with the "eyebrow pen", has become the best candidate for the important task.

Discord between local military, political, civilian, and military personnel, and even mutual attacks is a commonplace, and since Cai Yaoyang left the town of "Beiliang", he has believed that he is a member of the Cai family, and he is young and vigorous, and he is domineering, and he has never taken Xi Qinggu, an old and mediocre civil official, in his eyes; similarly, Xi Qinggu, who has served Cai Xiang for many years, secretly sneers at Cai Yaoyang, a yellow-mouthed child who holds the handle of a military attache by nepotism, and disdains.

Sheng Jintang, who was entrusted with a heavy trust, did not see Miss Ruoqian as he wished, and pounced.

The reason is that Leng Ruoqian went to the northwest to fulfill the appointment between Ma Huifeng, the master of the "Wanma Hall" and the "Northwest Horse King", and "Liangcheng", and left the inn with the four maids of "Wind and Snow Flower Moon" a few months ago, presumably because he encountered something tricky, and he has not returned yet.

Sheng Jintang was disappointed, but not desperate.

Because after the flower shopkeeper saw the silver of five hundred taels of white flowers conveyed by Xi Qinggu, a pair of peach blossom eyes shone brightly. She immediately agreed to let the third girl, Leng Ruoya, personally run with Sheng Shengxiu.

Leng Ruoya is a happy girl, she can always bring happiness to the people around her, she is full of smiles, and she infects the cold and dusty world around her with her smile.

Before going down the mountain, Leng Ruoya changed into the gorgeous clothes that her brother bought.

She is dressed in a purple fox fur fur, a purple rat skin cloak, a large mink wind collar around her neck, an autumn mink Zhaojun warm cover forehead, and a deerskin boots.

Before leaving, Ruoya went to the mountain behind the inn as usual to meet Brother Leng Beicheng.

- My brother is in good spirits today, he stands on a boulder on the cliff and looks south, the mountain wind blows in his face, and the robes and wisps of white hair flutter long behind him.

When he has nothing to do, Brother Beicheng will always stand on the boulder called "Tianya" by his brother and look in that direction, with endless lovesickness and sadness in his eyes.

Sister Hua told me that it was the hometown of Beicheng's brother's lover.

- Hua 18 said that Ruoya and her brother's lover look very similar, especially when she laughs.

The girl's name also has the word "Ya".

When Ruoya went to "Liangcheng", her brother gave Ruoya the name, which had another meaning.

"Brother, the girl is going to the county to do errands, and she must obediently listen to Sister Hua at home, and the medicine I prescribed to you should be taken on time, don't play with the child's temper, do you hear? Ruoya tightened her brother's windbreaker in a voice of encouragement.

The elder brother was still the same as before, gently arranging the messy hair on Ruoya's forehead, smiling at Ruoya, gentle and soft.

After a long time, the elder brother stretched out his palm and handed something to Ruoya.

A bell.

A bell that is enough to take the soul of people.

The sound of lovesickness is breathtaking.

"Acacia Bell" has reappeared!

For a long time, "Acacia Bell" is just a legend that exists in the rivers and lakes.

The last time "Acacia Bell" appeared was in the hands of a man named "Du Lumen" twenty years ago, he persecuted sixteen yellow flower girls in order to practice evil skills, and finally was killed by the hero "The Wind Rises" Yun Feiyang in the palm of his hand.

- Du Lumen is one of the one hundred and eight head masters that Leng Beicheng worshipped when he was a teenager.

"Acacia bell, acacia sigh, acacia is like the sea deep, and old things are as far away as the sky. "The words engraved on the bell, the delicate fly-headed small letters, are written on the yellowed porcelain bell in white, and the three purple bamboos on the bell are dotted with residues, and they look like they are killed.

It was Beicheng's brother's own handwriting.

This small glazed bell is very loving, as if it belonged to her a long time ago.

Under the eyes of her brother's love, in the long and short wind chimes, Ruoya jumped down the mountain, like a happy lark out of the cage.

However, after entering the mountain, the joyful Ruoya soon became unhappy.

She saw scrawny and poorly clothed "mobs" with rudimentary farm tools and weapons such as hoes and shovels, standing behind the cottage fortress.

After walking a long mountain road, Leng Ruoya soon became hungry.

Ruoya is a greedy girl, and greedy girls often seem to be hungry easily.

Under the pleading eyes of the girl, Sheng Jintang and Sheng Xiucai had no choice but to beg for food from the mountain people.

"We don't have anything to eat ourselves, so how can we give it to you!" Even if the mountain people had stored grain, they would have already been looted by the officers and soldiers, and it was a fluke to leave their lives behind.

"Then what do you eat, can you live to this day if you don't eat?" Leng Ruoya asked with a small pout.

"We still have something to eat, we eat fluffy grass, it tastes like sugar, and we only want to starve to death. ”

"But you're late, and lately the grass has been eaten up, and the roots have been dug up, so the big ones have to cut the bark to eat. The elm bark tastes good, you can try it, but the neighbors have eaten it up, so you have to eat other barks, and sometimes you can die early if you eat them. ”

"There is also a kind of 'Guanyin soil', which is a stone, boiled with water to form a paste, the taste is fishy, and you will be full after eating a little, but soon the stomach will not stop, and the soil and mud will be reduced to no diarrhea in the stomach, and you will die of swelling. ”

In the mouthful of the mountain people's answers, Leng Ruoya's little nose suddenly smelled a smell of meat, and her purple eyes suddenly lit up.