At this point in the situation, there is no need for further communication.
Mu Qing sat on the horse, frowning at the people blocking the road, thinking silently, what would Butcher Hu do if he were here? What about Yuejiu?
When he was in the Liu family, he promised the beauty that he would not be a cold-blooded assassin or kill innocent people. If he were a sword, he would be willing to put on the scabbard for the sake of his future freedom.
But could these arrogant and arrogant people in front of me be innocent?
When they were at home, they might be good fathers to their daughters and good husbands to their wives, but now they are acting unscrupulously, blocking roads and stealing money and sex. Even if they are in wrong order, they are no longer innocent.
For the first time, Mu Qing thought so much before taking action. Inexplicable thoughts abounded in my mind, and I was restrained from doing anything.
Liu Chaoge once said that he hoped that he would not break away directly. He was still the same person in Hidden Valley. Thinking of this, Mu Qing became less confused. When he raised his head, he realized that the refugees around him had slowly moved closer to the city gate.
They were half-clothed, with sallow complexions and skeletal figures. Their cloudy eyes were motionless as they stared at Mu Qing's situation, as if they were expecting something to happen.
Sun Ren and the other bandits from Iron Bone Village had their identities revealed inadvertently. They were stunned for a moment, and then they came to their senses and gathered around Mu Qing's horse.
"If you dare to be unreasonable to the young master, I think you are the ones who are impatient with life!"
There was a sound of cracking silk. In order to make it easier for them to enter the city, Sun Ren and the others had wrapped most of their weapons in cloth strips. At this time, the cloth strips were shattered on the ground, and they all exposed their weapons extremely fiercely.
"Do you want to rebel?"
The fat general looked at the indifferent Mu Qing, his face turned livid, and in a panic, he quickly called his men to go to the city for help.
Mu Qing didn't want to pay attention to the person in front of him anymore, so he called Xiao Wuling to his side, "Go and ask the people over there if there were these rules for entering the city at this gate."
Xiao Wuling ran over happily, but those who could not understand also regarded Xiao Wuling as the god of plague. As soon as Xiao Wuling ran in front of someone, that person quickly stepped back.
Xiao Wuling finally found a person who didn't hide when he saw him and stood blankly in front of him, only reaching his shoulders. Regardless of whether the other person objected or not, he pulled the person in front of Mu Qing.
"Sir, those people seem to dare not offend them."
"Yes." Mu Qing also dismounted and looked at the man Xiao Wuling had brought.
This man was thin, and he was pulled along by Wu Ling who was like a bamboo pole. He was swaying and unsteady. At this time, he was even thinner than Xiao Wu Ling.
"Don't be afraid." Mu Qing looked at the little muddy face under the unkempt hair and said softly, "Can I ask you a few questions?"
"Okay." The person's voice was very soft, and I couldn't tell whether he was a man or a woman. He raised his face slightly, and his big, clear eyes were revealed under his wisps of hair, "But do you have water and food? ?”
Just as Mu Qing nodded, a gust of fragrant wind swept in front of her. Wang Xiuwei took out an exquisite food box from nowhere. She bent down slightly and said in a loving tone: "Little girl, I only have some red bean and glutinous rice cakes here." .”
"Ah, are you a girl?" Hearing Wang Xiuwei call her little girl, Wu Ling was stunned for a moment, tilted his head and looked at the small bamboo pole next to him. This time he reacted, quickly released his palm, and took two steps back.
Because he was afraid that the other party would run away, he knew that he had been holding on to the other party's wrist just now. When he let go, he saw that the slender wrist was already a little blue.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Xiao Wuling apologized quickly.
But the little girl didn't care about this at all at this time. The tip of her nose moved slightly, her eyes widened, staring at the food box in front of her. When Wang Xiuwei opened it, she glanced at Wang Xiuwei first, and when Wang Xiuwei nodded, she held up a piece of red bean cake. , and started eating in small bites.
Wang Xiuwei squatted in front of the little girl and looked at her eating manners despite being very hungry. She sighed and said, "Eat slowly. You will follow us into the city in a while. Sister, please eat well."
"Hmph, you still want to enter the city?" The fat general who was still in a stalemate with Sun Ren and the others laughed strangely. His eyes fell on Wang Xiuwei's back and never moved away.
Most of the clothes in early summer were light and close-fitting. Because she bent over and squatted down, the clothes between Wang Xiu's waist and hips stretched to the limit, clinging to her waist and hips, perfectly exposing the continuous curves of Gushan to the eyes of the fat general. inside.
As soon as he thought about waiting for a moment, reinforcements from the city would arrive, and the gaze from the thick slits of his eyes became even more unscrupulous.
"Noisy!" Mu Qing just turned around to take the water bag from the saddle, and was slightly startled when he saw the fat man looking in the wrong direction and looking in the direction he was looking.
He was closer to Wang Xiuwei. The woman's clothes were probably made of cicada silk, which was cool and thin. After stretching, the delicate skin like white jade was about to come out through the clothes.
Seeing that the fat man still didn't know how to restrain himself, Mu Qing felt angry and raised his hand with a sword energy, knocking him away.
The blue sword energy was very fast, and it still left a bit of heat after cutting through the air. After hitting the opponent's chest, it did not cause any physical damage, but the opponent's fat body wrapped in iron armor was like a big meat ball. It rolled on the ground a few times and then stopped moving.
Mu Qing was quite satisfied with his simplified Li Huo Po Ling move.
"ah!"
"He killed my lord! Retreat to the city wall and find reinforcements."
A water bag appeared in sight. Wang Xiuwei did not look at what was happening behind her. She turned her back and asked, "Did you kill him?"
After Mu Qing handed the water bag to the little girl, he shook his head slightly and said, "Killing this kind of person? I'm afraid of dirtying my hands. This person is a bit hateful, so I let him lie in bed for a few months."
Mu Qing's shot this time was extremely measured and he didn't even use three points of strength. Just because that fat man is completely an ordinary person, except for the fat body, there is not even a trace of internal strength in his body.
"Cough, cough, cough." The little girl took Mu Qing's water bag and took two gulps, her big clear eyes a little brighter, "Okay, you can ask whatever you want to ask."
Mu Qing also squatted down, "Then tell me my name first."
The little girl took a step back, her body a little tense, and she looked at Mu Qing and Wang Xiuwei seriously with her big eyes, and then said softly: "My name is Tantai Jing."
Mu Qing saw the little girl's wariness, and did not ask her about her family background. He asked, "How many days have you been staying here at the city gate? When did the rules for collecting money when entering the city come into being?"
Tantai Jing shook his head and said dejectedly: "My money was stolen when I first arrived here, probably three or four days ago."
"Have you been hungry for three or four days?" Mu Qing looked surprised. Looking at the mud on the other person's face, he guessed that the little girl might have put it on herself. He asked with a smile: "Why are you doing this?" Crowded here? Are they all fleeing?"
Tantai Jing shook his head and said: "They must have fled. They wanted to go to Qingchuan Prefecture, but they couldn't even get through this city."
Wang Xiuwei asked: "What about you?"
"Me?" Tantai Jing glanced at the woman in front of her with good pastries with her big eyes, and said with a small mouth: "I wanted to take a stroll from Qingchuan Prefecture to Youyan Prefecture, but the parcel was left on the road. It was stolen."
"There are my favorite snacks in there, as well as the expenses that I have secretly saved for a long time."
Xiao Wuling also listened to it. He looked at Tantai Jing with surprise and said, "You are so skinny and small, how dare you run around alone?"
Tantai Jing snorted softly, raised her chest and chin and said arrogantly: "What do you know? I am experiencing the suffering of the world, performing and practicing, otherwise I could hit ten of you with one finger."
"Yes, yes, yes." Xiao Wuling laughed in his heart. He couldn't even afford to eat, and he was still experiencing the sufferings of the world. However, when he looked at Tantai Jing's thin and small appearance, he thought of his sister, raised his eyebrows and smiled without making any rebuttal. .
After Mu Qing listened patiently, he asked without any hope: "Do you know why they fled?"
Tantai Jing pretended to be an adult and said: "This Qingchuan Prefecture is so immortal. If we change the boss, the people who are taking care of the boss and his younger brothers can only run for their lives in panic. They don't even have a field." Planted.”
Mu Qing frowned and said, "The city lord of Jinguan City just changed. These people must have been running away for many days."
Wang Xiu slightly blinked his eyes and explained softly: "Brother Mu Qing may not know that before the lord of Jinguan City was replaced, these younger brothers below were, well, the lords of other cities in Qingchuan Prefecture, and some landlords and gentry had already moved After all, the territory is all dead, and whoever surrenders to the new master first will get a bigger and better share."
She pointed at Shule City and said slowly: "For example, the original city lord of Shule City, maybe because of his loyalty or because he lacked a little speculation, was replaced by a jackal who came smelling the smell of blood. In this case, It happens from time to time in the current dynasty.”
Mu Qing nodded, looked at the dull-eyed people, and asked puzzledly: "They should not be involved in these power struggles, why are they running away?"
Wang Xiu sighed slightly: "Why are they running away?" She glanced at Tantai Jing, "My little sister is right. These people are indeed under the protection of the landlords and gentry. To put it nicely, they are common people, and to put it worst, in fact, they are not. Not a slave who signed a contract of sale."
“When the original landowners were purged due to changes in power at the top, their wealth and land would naturally be replaced by those who came after them.”
"These people changed their owners along with the land they cultivated. The contract remains the same, but the rent cannot be paid."
Mu Qing thought of the green and unkempt fields he saw along the way, looked at the people with dull and lifeless eyes, looked at Wang Xiuwei and asked, "Why do they stop farming?"
After Wang Xiuwei stood up, he looked at the movement at the city gate behind him and said sarcastically: "Even if the change of power is completed by bloody means of death, it will continue to ferment for a long time. For example, this Shu Before the lord of Lecheng was replaced, those landlords and gentry who were better off had no time to manage the harvest of the fields. The previous period happened to be an important time for spring planting. These people who cultivated the fields and paid the rent on time were very likely to get paid. Without enough seeds, the land cannot be planted.”
"And when the new owner comes, these people will only collect grain and rent according to the previous contract ratio, or even exceed it. They would like to scrape the ground three feet away, and will not care at all that these people did not get the seeds before."
There was a deep sadness in Mu Qing's eyes, and he nodded: "So they had no choice but to flee. Maybe they were lucky enough to escape from Qingchuan Prefecture and reach Youyan Prefecture, so that they could live on the land again."
Wang Xiuwei looked at Mu Qing as if seeing him for the first time, and asked with a smile: "I didn't expect the young master to be so compassionate. It's rare to see him."
Mu Qing shook his head and walked to the group of people. His eyes wandered on the faces of these people who were retreating numbly. Finally, he stopped when he saw a woman.
He looked at the thin woman hiding behind the crowd and the baby in the woman's arms. The woman's eyes met his and seemed to brighten a little, but when the city gate opened. A team of dozens of people rushed out, and then helplessly dimmed.
Mu Qing listened to the footsteps behind her and asked, "Why did Sister Xiuwei teach me?"
