Zuodao Changsheng: I can transfer the price

Chapter 87 The purpose of coming from the capital (3k ask for subscription, ask for monthly ticket)
The time has come to late autumn.

The withered and yellow leaves slowly fall with the autumn wind, bringing a hint of coolness.

It's clearly the harvest time, but the people in Huashui County don't have much joy on their faces.

The people lined up to pay the grain in front of the tax official.

The tax official was so proud that his eyes almost went up to the sky, and only his nostrils could see people.

Holding a booklet recording the weight of grain in his hand, there is a large scale in front of him, and on both sides of the scale are fierce sergeants holding simple knives in their hands.

The faces of the people were full of sorrow, and they poured the grain that had been harvested after a year of hard work into the dendrobium in front of the tax official.

It wasn't until the whole Dendrobium came out of the tip that the people reluctantly tied up the grain bag tightly.

But the tax official raised his eyebrows and kicked the dendrobium, and the grain that came out immediately scattered on the wooden tray that had been placed below.

"What are you doing? Why did you close the bag before you paid enough food? Do you want to resist paying taxes?"

The indifferent words of the tax official's mouth are like a cold knife piercing the hearts of the people.

On the other hand, the soldier with a ferocious face raised the simple knife in his hand, with a cold light.

"Officer, please do me a favor. Without this food, our family will starve to death next year!"

Just a small handful of food made the people in front of them kneel on the ground without dignity and beg.

"What's the use of begging me, we are also helping the government and resisting paying taxes, but we will kill our heads!"

The tax official had long been used to seeing the tears of these common people, and the expression on his face remained unchanged. The sergeant at the side had already approached with a knife.

The commoner was forced to have no choice but to untie the bag containing the grain again, and put the grain into the dendrobium in small handfuls.

The tax official's eyes were polished sharply, and he shouted again with a bit of yin and yang.

"not enough!"

"My lord, I'm really going to starve to death. My two children haven't been weaned yet. The mother of the child has no food to eat. Where can the child get milk..."

The tax official's face darkened, and he tightly squeezed the brush in his hand: "Come on, this trickster dares to resist the tax!"

At this moment, the people who were kneeling on the ground and kept kowtowing felt a shadow covering the top of their heads, so they raised their heads to look.

He found a middle-aged scribe in a Confucian robe, with a child about eight or nine years old standing in front of him.

"His family didn't pay enough taxes, Zhong came to pay for him."

The middle-aged scribe frowned, with a hint of pity in his eyes.

When the tax official saw that Zhong Yunyi was wearing the clothes of a scholar, he immediately put on a flattering expression.

"My lord, you are so kind, you are willing to pay taxes for these mud legs... Do you plan to use grain or convert it into coins?"

And the middle-aged scribes and children are exactly Zhong Yunyi and Zhang Baigui.

Zhong Yunyi let out a cold snort, and took out ten large Qianbao banknotes with a denomination of one hundred yuan from his cuff pocket and handed them to the tax official.

"My lord, you... have given me too much money. The tax paid by this muddy leg is only five or six dollars."

Zhong Yunyi raised his eyebrows and scolded: "You also know that it is only five or six pennies, and you have to kick the dendrobium. If you are greedy for these few pennies, your family will starve to death. Can you live with your conscience? The money is for everyone behind. of the people!"

The tax official's face was gloomy. Although he was willing to give Zhong Yunyi a little face, it was because of the Confucian robe Zhong Yunyi was wearing.

"We are also for the officials. If you don't know, don't interfere with my work here! Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude and take you down!"

Zhong Yunyi's face turned livid: "Okay, I'll see how you take me down?"

The tax official rolled his eyes, and then snapped, "Come here, this person hinders the tax official from performing his duties and the people from paying taxes, why don't you take him down?"

Several soldiers with broadswords next to him leaned forward with ferocious faces at this moment. Zhong Yunyi naturally showed no fear, and the Confucian robes on his body fluttered.

At this moment, there was a rush of hoofbeats.

A white-faced, beardless eunuch in palace clothes was galloping on the street.

"Go away, go away, there is an urgent order, why don't you all go away!"

Some people around couldn't dodge in time, and they were about to be bumped to death by the eunuch driving the horse. Zhong Yunyi's face turned pale, and the righteousness in his body burst out suddenly, and he knocked the eunuch off his horse.

Then he calmed down the horse with awe-inspiring righteousness, and then he walked up to the eunuch.

Seeing that someone dared to attack him, the eunuch was furious at the moment, but found that the person who attacked him was righteous, so he suppressed his anger and looked at Zhong Yunyi in front of him.

"Zhang Changshi... What are you doing here in Huashui County?" Zhong Yunyi naturally had a deep impression on this eunuch, it was he who beat him with twenty sticks in front of the Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace.

"Hmph, Your Majesty has an order, why don't you quickly kneel down to accept it?" Zhang Changshi said to Zhong Yunyi with a very proud expression on his face and a very blunt tone.

As the emperor's favorite minister, even in the face of second-level monks, he still has enough confidence to say such domineering words.

"Then did you ever know that monks in the third realm can meet orders and refuse to worship?"

Zhong Yunyi's tone was not kind, he never liked to associate with these eunuchs, not to mention that the other party almost hurt innocent people just now.

"Are you the monk who entered the third realm of Confucianism and Taoism half a year ago?" Zhang Changshi had a look of surprise on his face, as if some idea suddenly flashed in his mind, his face suddenly changed, and he became humbled.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zhong. It's really gratifying. No wonder His Majesty wants to call you back to the capital. You, a minister of humerus, still have to be in the capital to play a big role!"

Hearing Zhang Changshi's words, Zhong Yunyi's expression was slightly solemn, and he asked with some uncertainty: "Call me back to the capital?"

"That's right." Zhang Changshi showed a sad look on his face, "Your Majesty's dragon health is not good right now, and many imperial physicians are helpless. That's why I thought of you, Mr. Zhong. I'm afraid you were called back to the capital to entrust important matters."

At this time, the tax official didn't understand what happened, and he rushed over angrily and wanted to pick up Zhong Yunyi's collar.

However, Zhang Changshi's eyes burst into a cold light, he waved his hand and spat out blood from the tax official's mouth, and said in his mouth: "Things with no eyesight, can't you recognize our clothes?"

When the sergeants saw that the eunuch was actually a master of martial arts, they were terrified.

The tax officer spat out blood in horror, but he couldn't speak anymore. After all, he was just an ordinary person, and this regular attendant was a master of the first level of martial arts. Still fainted a few times.

Zhang Changshi continued to scold: "What are you looking at, why don't you hurry up and get out, are you guys daring to eavesdrop on major events in the capital?"

Those sergeants looked at each other, glanced at each other, and hurried away to Zhang Changshi.

Zhong Yunyi frowned and looked at everything in front of him, then took the imperial decree sent by Zhang Changshi, opened the imperial decree and frowned after reading it.

"Is Your Majesty seriously ill?" Zhong Yunyi then asked the monk with the imperial decree in his hand.

Zhang Changshi's face changed suddenly, he pulled Zhong Yunyi cautiously, and said in a low voice, "Lord Zhong, keep your voice down...Since you have accepted the order, hurry back to the capital with us, yours." I will arrange for the family members."

Unexpectedly, Zhong Yunyi shook his head when he heard this, and said slowly: "Although His Majesty has issued an order, I have been entrusted by someone else to take care of him. Only after that person returns can I return to the capital with you. .”

Zhang Changshi's face turned red, and his chest was filled with anger and he wanted to curse, but thinking of Zhong Yunyi's identity and cultivation, he could only hold back and said in a deep voice: "You must know that you are resisting the decree! What the hell is he?" What has people entrusted you with that is so important?"

Zhong Yunyi didn't want to explain at first, but he thought that the other party came from the capital to deliver the message, so he explained patiently: "It's a friend of Zhong, who entrusted Zhong to take care of his cat and ghost."

"What? You refused to obey the order just because of a cat and a ghost?" Zhang Changshi finally couldn't help the anger in his eyes widening, and cursed, "Mr. Zhong put it bluntly, you are now As a commoner, if you refuse to obey the edict, even if you have the cultivation of the third realm, it is disrespectful to His Majesty, you may be able to avoid punishment, but your family..."

Zhong Yunyi narrowed his eyes slightly, and said indifferently, "Zhang Changshi is threatening Zhong?"

The aura of the third realm suddenly exploded on his body, and Zhang Changshi was almost out of breath.

It was only at this time that Zhang Changshi suddenly realized that the Zhong Yunyi in front of him was no longer the second-level monk that he was allowed to bully under the blessing of the imperial power.

There are many monks in Daqian in the second realm, and the imperial power can still suppress them, but for practitioners in the third realm, even the imperial power has to give three points of face.

This is why the Seven Holy Army can set off a mighty wave of uprisings by relying on a few third-level monks on the bright side.

Zhang Changshi hurriedly lowered his head and replied, "I dare not..."

"Then dare to ask Mr. Zhong, how long will your friend wait until he comes back?"

Zhong Yunyi pondered for a while, then replied: "Zhong doesn't know either, my friend comes and goes without a trace, it's very mysterious."

Zhang Changshi held back his anger and said, "Then how long do we have to wait?"

Having said this, I have already gritted my teeth a bit.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from not far away, and Zhong Yunyi couldn't help but look up.

"It won't be long, isn't Pindao coming back?"

Lin Shou walked through the crowd with a smile and came to Zhong Yunyi, with a bright peach blossom blooming on his knuckles.

Zhang Changshi looked at Lin Shou wearing the shabby Taoist robe, and suddenly felt contempt in his heart. With a bit of sarcasm, he said in a strange way: "This is the friend you are waiting for, Mr. Zhong? See if this is a Taoist priest or not?" I'm afraid he's a charlatan who doesn't know where to bluff? Or is this person here to make friends with you, Mr. Zhong, and beg for food?"

Zhong Yunyi's face was ugly, and he was about to scold him.

But Lin Shou said with a smile: "Mr. Zhong, didn't the pindao tell you before he left... The time is coming, why wait for the pindao?"

"How dare you, a Taoist priest, ignore our family? Could it be..."

Zhang Changshi was a little baffled by these words, and was about to continue to taunt, but before he finished speaking, Lin Shou turned his head with a cruel smile on his face, and stretched out his right arm to hold him.

"Noisy!"

"Crack!"

With Lin Shou's palm clenched, Zhang Changshi suddenly turned into a pool of blood.

(End of this chapter)