Yang Yao also looked up and saw that the wasps were still circling around the big tree. If he wanted to cultivate a swarm of wasps and recruit this group of wasps, he would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
But how to recruit these hornets, he has no idea now, and it is still difficult to implement.
They started walking back, chatting and laughing on the way, and soon arrived at the inn, rented a Feiyun carriage, and came to the road.
When he was about to leave, a young man came next to him.
This man's hair is short and stiff, his eyes are very small, almost narrowed into a line, and his body is muscular. You can tell at a glance that he has great martial arts skills.
He glanced at Yang Yao and said, "Don't leave yet."
Yang Yao was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?"
The young man said: "My name is Cao Youde."
Yang Yao said: "Oh, hello, what's the matter?"
Cao Youde said: "Have you paid the forest protection fee?"
Yang Yao felt a little puzzled and asked: "What's the forest protection fee? I've never heard of it before?"
Cao Youde said: "The resources of the Chifeng Mountains need to be managed. If you enter the Chifeng Mountains for activities, you need to pay forest protection fees."
Yang Yaodao: "Why didn't it happen before, but now it does? Who gave it to me? To you?"
Cao Youde said: "Leave it to our team leader, and you come with me."
Yang Yao murmured in his heart and thought to himself: "I've never heard of forest protection fees before. The Chifeng Mountains are open to everyone for free. That inn belongs to the state. Apart from the inn, I've never heard of any protection fees. "
He followed Cao Youde to a square table and saw a young woman sitting there. This woman was slightly older than him, with a thick body and short braids. The clothes are very ordinary, and he does not look like a public official of the Dolphin Kingdom.
Cao Youde said to the woman: "Leader Xu, he is here."
The woman looked up at Yang Yao and said, "What's your name and which village are you from?"
Yang Yao then told him the name and village.
The woman asked again: "Are there any inner disciples of the Ice Horse Sect in your village?"
Yang Yao said: "No." There is only one outer disciple of the Ice Horse Sect in Dafeng Village, and he is already middle-aged, so there is no possibility of becoming an inner disciple.
The woman smiled slightly and said, "What did you gain in the Chifeng Mountains? Take it out and see."
Yang Yao felt something was wrong and said, "Why should I show you who you are?"
The woman said: "You don't have to worry about my name. I'm responsible for collecting the forest protection fees. Take out this harvest, don't hide it, just give us a tenth."
At this time, many young people gathered around.
Someone among them asked: "There is an inner disciple in our village, do we still have to pay a fee?"
The woman said: "No, if there are inner disciples in the village, there is no need to pay. If there are no inner disciples, you need to pay one-tenth of the harvest as a fee to protect the forest."
When the man heard this, he left happily.
Yang Yaodao: "Why don't those with inner disciples need to pay, but those without inner disciples need to pay? This rule is very unfair."
The woman said: "Why is it unfair? Isn't this very fair? Any village that does not have any inner disciples needs to pay the forest protection fee. Everyone is treated equally, without distinction."
Yang Yaodao: "What about those who have inner disciples?"
The woman said: "Of course there is no need to pay. Everything is fair within the rules, so don't worry. Pay the fee quickly, don't waste everyone's time."
Yang Yaodao: "Hey, it's fair within the rules, but the rules themselves are unfair. Everyone comes to the Chifeng Mountains for activities. If there is a charge, then charge it together. If there is no charge, then don't charge it. Why do you need to use the internal rules? Disciples serve as the basis for distinction.”
The woman's face turned slightly cold and she said, "So you want to go against the rules?"
Yang Yao's face was ashen and he said: "Who set the rules you mentioned? Doesn't he know that fair rules should be made?"
Before the woman spoke, Cao Youde, who was standing next to her, said, "Don't you want to pay the fee? It's already worthy of you to let you go to the mountains for activities. If you don't pay, no one in Dafeng Village will ever step into the Chifeng Mountains again." "
When Yang Yao heard this, he became angry and said, "Who are you, and who is collecting this fee?"
Some other teenagers nearby also started shouting.
"That's right. Your origins are unknown. You don't look like real toll collectors."
"We have never heard of this rule before. You must be fake."
. . .
"Shut up." Cao Youde glared at the noisy teenagers fiercely, "Whoever dares to question again will be beaten. If you don't want to die, just pay the fee."
His hands held each other, and he twisted his neck. There was a crackling sound from his fingers and neck, which was very scary.
The young men next to them turned pale with fear and did not dare to speak any more.
Cao Youde glared at Yang Yao and said, "Do you want to hand it over or not? Don't force me to do it."
Yang Yao glanced at the other person. This young man was about a third bigger than him and more than two inches taller. Overall, he looked much more majestic than him. Although I don’t know what level of Qi refining stage my cultivation has reached.
But since you dare to charge, you must have some strength.
"What will happen if we don't make friends?" Yang Yao pinched his fingers and said calmly, ready to take action.
At this time, he was sure that the so-called mountain forest protection fee was an excuse made up by these people, with the purpose of squeezing the wealth of weaker villages.
"What will happen if we don't meet?" Cao Youde repeated, suddenly stretched out a hand, grabbed the clothes around Yang Yao's neck, pulled him in front of him, and said from a bird's eye view, "My fist will tell you how you are doing. I’ll ask you one last time whether you want to hand it over or not.”
"No." As soon as Yang Yao finished speaking, he punched Cao Youde in the stomach.
Cao Youde immediately flew backwards, smashing the railing behind him to pieces, and finally hit a big tree. The thick trunk of the tree was shaken by the impact.
Before he was beaten, Cao Youde's skin was the same as that of an ordinary person. At the moment he was beaten, his skin all over his body turned gray, as if he had been petrified.
Although he was knocked out and hit a big tree, even shaking the big tree as thick as a bowl, in the eyes of ordinary people, he would definitely be seriously injured or even die.
But Cao Youde was fine at all. He patted his clothes, looked at Yang Yao with some surprise, and said with a ferocious smile: "Boy, you have some strength, no wonder you are so arrogant."
Yang Yaodao: "Who is more arrogant than you? You even pretended to be public officials and came to collect money, specifically to blackmail weak villages. Who are you? If the Ice Horse Cult knew what you were doing, they would definitely not let you go."
Cao Youde said: "Humph, boy, you don't know a lot of things. Blackmail, you are right. I just blackmailed your Dafeng Village, what can you do? Without strength to back you up, you can only be blackmailed, obediently. Just accept your fate."
