Phoenix Knot: Butterfly Dance

Chapter 18

The closer I got to the city gate, I found many homeless people. I saw an old man digging hard, dug out a piece of white stuff, and gnawed on it.

"Old man, you can't eat that!" I quickly knocked it away, but the old man hurriedly crawled over to pick it up and continued to eat it.

"This... old man..."

"My lord, you won't understand." A woman next to me seemed to be looking at my white gown: "You are a rich man, how can you understand the suffering of us ordinary people?"

"There is no famine in Baicheng, so why are you here?"

"Hey, who knows what the emperor and the queen mother thought. They increased the exorbitant taxes and said that every place would have to reduce the number of people and recruit soldiers. We were kicked out if we couldn't pay the taxes, the house was confiscated, and we could only eat here root bark, dig some white roots"

"Baigen? This... by the way, I still have some steamed buns." He immediately took off the bundle and handed it to the woman: "You guys share it and eat it."

As soon as the words fell, a group of people rushed up around, it seemed that they were here to grab steamed buns.

"Thank you Engong, thank you Engong!"

Looking at the group of people in front of me, such a group of people, I think I know why Master wants me to go north.

When I entered the city, the officers and soldiers actually asked me for an entry fee. No wonder those refugees couldn’t enter the city.

There are not many people on the streets in the city, but it is not lonely either.

"Get out of the city, and don't let me see you again!"

An old man suddenly fell at my feet, and several people rushed over. The leading man was holding a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with tears in her eyes.

"No money? If you don't have money, use your granddaughter to pay off the debt! Someone, beat me out of the city with sticks!"

"stop!"

Hearing the sound, the man glanced at me, quite disapprovingly: "Little white face, don't meddle in your own business, be careful that the uncle will beat you out too!"

"Oh? Try it. If you dare to be rough on the old man today, don't blame me for being rude."

"You are really tired of life, call me!"

Several gangsters rushed over with thick wooden sticks, pulled out Jingtong's Cold Soul Sword from his waist, picked it up casually, and kicked those gangsters.

Immediately afterwards, they swarmed up, they were just some street punks, looking for a fight, they would solve it in three or two strokes, and they fell to the ground one by one.

The Renjian Inn, located near the city gate, is the most famous inn in Baicheng. On the viewing platform on the second floor——

"I don't know if he is too impulsive, or if he doesn't know the heights of the heavens and the earth, but if he recruits that guy, Baicheng must act."

"It's because we were jealous of that person that we didn't take action for a long time... Didn't he just do, what we have tolerated because of consideration for so long?" Another man in white laughed.

"Yes, look, the officers and soldiers are coming." The man in Tsing Yi pointed to the west.

Yep?Why are the officers and soldiers here?

"Who is fighting here!"

A little explanation will do.

"Oh, my lord, it's these gangsters who oppress the common people..." Before I finished speaking, the officers and soldiers had already surrounded me, so I understood it.

"A group of people..."

"Grab it!"

Leap lightly, step on the shoulder of an officer, kick hard, capture the thief first, capture the king first, and take down the person who gave the orders first!

Put the sword on his neck: "Don't move, unless you want him to die"

"Don't waste your efforts, what good is it for you to take me as a hostage?" the officer leader said disdainfully.

(End of this chapter)