fluttering night wind

When Sun Shuye was about to speak, Bai Yan said: "Wait a minute, Sect Master Sun, please ask the others to go out first."

The people in the ancestral hall were very dissatisfied and made a lot of noise.

Sun Shuye suddenly raised his arm. He described him as weak and weak, but he was quite powerful in the clan. When everyone saw him, his voice gradually lowered. Sun Shuye said: "I'm talking to Bai Dianzhu, you go out first."

The burly man who was the leader said: "Sovereign, if these two people make things difficult for you, what should you do?"

Bai Yansheng opened his arms and said: "You have searched both of our weapons. Now that we are unarmed and in a dangerous place, what can we do to intimidate the suzerain? You can rest assured that I will leave after talking with the suzerain."

The big man was still very vigilant, and said: "There are people who are unarmed and can come and go freely."

Seeing that there was no end, Sun Shuye quickly waved his hands and said, "How about this, Ji Ren, you stay at the door, and everyone else goes out."

Everyone had no choice but to file out, only Sun Jiren stood at the door with his back facing the three of them, like a gatekeeper.

Sun Shuye looked at the wild goose, in the flickering candlelight, a pair of long and narrow phoenix eyes could only feel introverted, Xuanyuan said solemnly: "We have no malicious intentions, just want to tell the people above that adding [-]% of the gift is absolutely unacceptable. of."

"Fifty percent? Isn't it thirty percent?" Yan Sheng blurted out.Ziying tugged at the hem of his clothes from behind, and he suddenly understood.

Throughout the ages, there has never been a collection of taxes according to regulations.Take the Great Xia Dynasty as an example. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the tithe tax was set, that is, one out of ten was taken, and it was stipulated that no tax would be added forever.Excessive donations to handymen are even more numerous.If it is a landlord, it can still be supported, but if it is a tenant, half of the harvest will be taken away by the landlord, and the remaining harvest will not even be enough for its own rations.

After all, he was only a courier, not a warehouse household, and he didn't know whether the extra [-]% was in Linxi County or Dongping County.Thinking about it, the officialdom is as black as crows in the world. If there is no extra tax, where will the expenses of these officials come from, and how can they support such a ostentation only by salary?

Seeing that he was silent, Sun Shuye's gaze became colder, and he said, "Bai Dian signed this way, so you can't make the decision?"

Bai Yansheng met his gaze and said, "Does the suzerain know why he added the gift?"

Sun Shuye chuckled, and said: "Yizhou has been in chaos for a long time, public and private are wasted, thousands of miles of resources are not easy to come by. This battle must be fought, but if I take away seven or eight out of ten of your rations, you won't be able to get it until tomorrow." In spring, Linxi starved to death all over the country, and the corpses were buried."

Although he was suspected of exaggeration, Yan Sheng thought of those yellow-faced, emaciated, and ragged villagers, but couldn't bear to refute him, so he said: "Has the suzerain thought that the matter of resisting grain can be big or small. Let's not talk about it, Chongming In the ninth year, the Xue family in Fuyang revolted, and the governor of Yangzhou led the crowd to attack them.

Sun Shuye suddenly coughed violently, his cheeks were tinged with blush, and he sighed after coughing: "In today's world, Guizhou and Li have been invaded for a long time, father and brother are dead, children have fallen, ten families are nine, and the bones are not collected. Even if you live in this world, What is there to say about life? The teachers of the imperial court are supposed to protect the people's safety, but they have been ineffective every year. In the world, maybe Meng Ye's soldiers from the Ming Dynasty will attack, so what's the use of protecting such a court?" He said in the end almost with a mocking tone.

What Yan Sheng is most afraid of is this kind of person. What he accuses is definitely not one person or one incident, but the unfair world.He was speechless, but Ziying suddenly said, "Sect Master Sun, is there anyone in Linxi who has migrated here recently?"

Sun Shuye was taken aback for a moment, then realized immediately, and said: "You suspect that I was provoked by others to gather people to make trouble?"

Ziying persisted and said: "Otherwise, who made the military equipment on the mountain? Who opened the ditches outside the city? They were all repaired recently."

Sun Shuye's eyes flickered, and he couldn't answer for a while.

Yansheng was interrupted by him, he straightened his thoughts, and said with great emotion: "Sect Master Sun, what you said just now, Yansheng took it very seriously. It's just that there is no need to say anything about complaints. Before I came, Master Fu had ordered elite soldiers to guard the key pass. The arrow is on the string. The so-called death is worse than life. I plan for the Sun family. The suzerain calms down everyone, disarms them, and entrusts me with the order of Linxi to take away. According to the rules, [-]% of the regular tax will be added to the regular tax. Four, never charge more than a tenth, just expose this matter, and treat it as if it never happened, what do you think?"

He is very generous, if there are Yangguan roads everywhere in this world, why bother to go to Liangshan, just because the conditions are good, people are even more suspicious, Sun Shuye can't help but think about it.

Sun Jiren, who had been standing at the door listening all the time, yelled, "Sect Master, you can't listen to him. Officials are all like dogs. Let Linxi Order go, and we will have nothing in our hands. It's like giving the head of a bandit. How can we delay it?" An axe? Now that the peak of treacherous officials has risen, and with one talisman, the crimes are as high as the competition, and the whole family is destroyed."

I don't want him to be a rough man, and he also has some words in his stomach, but there is some truth in what he said. Killing an official is no different from conspiracy.Ziying snorted coldly and said, "Then what do you say?"

Sun Jiren choked him, but couldn't think of a clue for a while.

Ziying said: "The world's public weapons cannot be obtained by force, and there is no hope of luck. Although the strength of Xiang Ji will eventually be defeated. Do you think that if you raise your arms and shout, the world will listen to you? The interior of the Three Wus is not a place for soldiers. What's more With a small county in the corner, how can I be a servant? I am overwhelmed and hit a stone with an egg."

Sun Jiren's face flushed red, he gritted his teeth and looked at him, wishing he could chop off this eccentric little girl to make her quiet.

Sun Shuye frowned and thought for a long time, he forced a smile and said: "This is really the only one who died after all the hardships in the ages. I don't know how many percent of Bai Dian's signature will count?"

Bai Yansheng's blood welled up in his chest, he swept his gaze awe-inspiringly, and said loudly: "The family ancestor is the Baijian of the Marquis of Huainan, which has been handed down from generation to generation in a narrow sense. Although the signature is light on words, a word from Yansheng is more important than a thousand pieces of gold."

There is a forceful aura in his voice, which makes people respect and fear. If Sun Shuye wants to live in a sad city, he might as well give it a go. Sign up for it?"

Bai Yansheng smiled heartily: "Why don't you dare?"

So Sun Shuye hurriedly asked someone to bring in some cases, pens, inks, papers and inkstones.With a big wave of Bai Yansheng's hand, the pen traveled like a golden knife. Sun Shuye was fascinated by watching it, but he felt startled every step of the way. Seeing that he retracted his pen, he couldn't help but look at this young man differently.

Ziying stood far away with her hands on her hips, as if she was planning something in the dark.

After Bai Yansheng finished writing, he threw down the pen barrel, reached out and touched his waist habitually, but found nothing, then smiled and said: "My portable sword is a gift from Jingzhou Governor Pei Xiu, so I will pledge it to Sect Master Sun."

Sun Shuye was overjoyed and said, "It's very good."

Ziying said: "Sect Master Sun quickly bring Linxi Order."

Sun Shuye nodded and ordered Sun Jiren to invite people. Seeing that they were so straightforward, Bai Yansheng was afraid that they would play tricks and something would happen to Linxi Ling, so he asked Ziying to go with him, which was exactly what he wanted.When there were only two people left in the ancestral hall, Yan Sheng said softly: "Sect Master Sun, there is no one here. Can you tell Yan Sheng about the cause and effect of the incident in detail? I always feel that there is something strange about it."

Ziying followed Sun Jiren to see Linxi Ling.At that time, the sky was completely dark and the mountain wind was blowing, but there were winding alleys and bluestone roads. Although the houses were covered with thatch and painted with white powder, the doors were clean and there was no shabby atmosphere.Some of the doors were not closed securely, and a villager poked his head out of curiosity, causing Sun Jiren to cast his eyes sideways, and then retreated inside the door.There is water flowing in front of the door of each household, and pine smoke torches are lit, and when I look up, there is a prairie fire on the hillside, and I don’t know whether it is the stars in the sky or the lights in the world.

After walking a cup of tea in the narrow alley, it suddenly became clear to me that there was a tall mansion standing on a flat ground. There were two stone lions at the entrance, a drum on one side, and a plaque hanging high on it read: Lin The three characters of Xifu.The entrance was even more brilliantly lit. Dozens of people surrounded the mansion with open flames and swords and arrows.

Sun Jiren said a few slang words to the leaders, and those people opened the door to let him and Ziying in.The mansion is no different from any other mansion in Dongping. It is full of rich trees in the kiln forest and is extremely luxurious. Sun Jiren stopped, pointed to a huge Taihu stone rockery behind the screen wall and said, "You know how that stone was pulled up the mountain?" Is it? How many people fell to their deaths because of that stone?"

Ziying felt so sad that she couldn't speak, and immediately walked past him to go deeper into the mansion.

The two walked into the lobby one after the other, and saw a fifty-year-old man sitting in the middle, wearing an official robe, dozing off on the table, with his arms folded and a square thing in his arms, Ziying carefully At first glance, it is the official seal.

He rolled his eyes, thought about it, walked up to Sun Jiren, and whispered a few words, Sun Jiren's expression of surprise and doubt dissipated in a moment.

Sun Jiren walked up the hall with heavy steps on purpose, Linxi woke up a Jiling, raised his head to see the person, trembling while hugging the official seal tightly.Sun Jiren swallowed his anger and said: "Master Zhao, someone from Dongping Mansion has picked you up, you can go."

Linxi Ling was stunned for a moment before he realized that he couldn't believe his ears, and asked straight: "Where, where?"

Sun Jiren pointed at Mencius Ying, and said: "My suzerain said, you can leave with your family." After he said this, he stretched out his hand and snatched the official seal from Linxiling's arms.

"My seal, my seal." Linxi Ling stretched out his arms to reach, but he couldn't reach it anyway. "This seal is my lifeline, and I want to take it with me."

Sun Jiren said seriously: "My lord, it's safer to keep this square seal in the county government. Think about it, what if you lose it on the road or get robbed by thieves? The county government is your home, what treasure is better than keeping it in your own home?" What would be more appropriate?"

Ziying endured the hard work below with a smile.

For some reason, Linxi Ling felt that his mind was not enough. Once he thought that what he said made sense, he stopped arguing and shouted to the back hall: "Come out quickly, go back to Dongping."

Ziying was curious for a while, and looked behind him. After a while, she only heard the sound of skirts swinging, and seven or eight Yingying Yanyan came out from behind one after another, graceful and graceful, all surrounded by big bags and small ones. Linxi makes weeping words.

Ziying clicked her tongue and said, "Could it be that these are all the family members of the adults?"

Sun Jiren rolled his eyes and shouted impatiently, "Shut up, we're all leaving."

As a result, all the beauties gathered in the rain and scattered, and they all rushed down the hall holding Linxi Ling.Sun Jiren took them out of the mansion, and was worried again, how can this go?

Mencius asked, "Is there a carriage?"

Sun Jiren said: "There is a car in the government office, but it can't hold so many people."

Mencius sneered and said, "Lord Zhao will ride with us, and the rest will walk back if they can't fit."

His voice was neither loud nor soft, those Yingying and Yanyan were crying loudly when they heard it, and Linxiling comforted her with a trembling white beard, Ziying felt her teeth sore in an instant.He waited beside him for a while, and the veins on his head popped out from the quarrel, and he wanted to beat someone up.Seeing that Sun Jiren called a coachman and drove over with a scented carriage, he hurried over to meet him.

At that moment, the coachman flew up, with a cold light in his sleeve, he passed Ziying and pointed at Linxi Ling.

"Be careful!" Ziying yelled.

So the scream pierced the night sky, the man missed a stab, and turned around again, Ziying was unarmed, and pushed a woman over with her palm, blood was splattered all over, and her face was turned into ashes.Ziying rubbed her body and fought with the man with her bare hands. After more than ten strokes, his heart sank, his heart was frightened, and he shouted sharply: "Who are you?"

The man was dressed in black, his face was stiff, and he seemed to be disguised. His long sword pierced Ziying's arm.

At this moment, Sun Jiren also came to his senses, raised his knife and joined the battle. After fighting for a while, it was almost a foregone conclusion that the man would miss, so he turned around, jumped onto the roof tiles, and fled away on the ridge of the roof.

Ziying also jumped up to the high place with him, and Sun Jiren didn't know how to do light work, but he was familiar with the way, and he chased after him underground.

The anger in Ziying's eyes was almost gushing out, and he chased all the way, but because he didn't have a hidden weapon in his hand, he glanced down to the ground, and suddenly saw the ancestral hall in front of it, and there was a pile of debris in front of the ancestral hall. His pouch.

He was ecstatic in his heart, laughed loudly, and said in a short whistle: "Chunlei Qin is here." Clawed into one hand, the piano bag flew into his hand from a distance of a hundred feet.

Sun Jiren's heart shuddered when he saw him fetching things from the air like this from below.

The leather pouch was torn apart in his hands, revealing a black-gray Zhongni-style lyre. Ziying held the lyre with one hand, and flicked the strings with the other. Three small arrows shot out from the dragon's gums, divided into three directions: upper, middle, and lower. Shoot towards the person in front.The man paused, Zhan Zhan dodged it, but Zi Ying followed up with two swipes, and before he could catch his breath, the six deadly arrows arrived again, only to see the sword light flickering, and the clanging sound was endless.

The sound of fighting alarmed Yan Sheng and Sun Shuye in the ancestral hall. The two ran out of the ancestral hall. Yan Sheng looked up and saw Zi Ying was only ten steps away from the other person above her head. The man said with a smile: "I thought it was the genuine Lian Suo fingering, but it turned out to be only San Suo, how dare you come after me with this little superficiality?"

Yan Sheng was holding a pen in his hand, and he threw it with his hands. The man's body flashed and disappeared into the night.Seeing that he was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, his eyes were closed tightly, and his complexion was pale, he quickly grasped his veins and injected his true energy into his body.After half a cup of tea, he woke up and struggled to the ground, saying: "I'm fine, where is Linxi Ling?"

Everyone turned to look at Sun Jiren, and he said, "It's all right, it's just that a concubine died."

Ziying breathed a sigh of relief, the sound of the wild goose still didn't know what was going on, and suddenly saw Sun Jiren taking a step forward, with some unknown excitement in his voice: "That piano, are you the son of Senior Lei Zhen, a hero from Xiangyang?"

Ziying was startled.Seeing his acquiescence, Sun Jiren became even more excited, and said incoherently: "So it's you, I think it looks a little familiar. In the ninth year of Chongming, the Wuhu besieged Xiangyang. Xia is in the city, organizing against the enemy, and often has a child with him, it must be you."

When Ziying heard him mention the old incident in Xiangyang, her heart ached, she staggered, and the sound of the wild goose hugged him, only to hear him say in a daze: "Xiangyang? It turned out to be an old friend. Lei Zhen is my master, but unfortunately he is already dead. "

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