Take Taobao with you to another world

Chapter 431 Homecoming and Sugar

"I didn't expect the effect of the performance to be so good."

"Because it was really barren before."

"Scarcity doesn't mean total acceptance. It's just that beauty and truth are inherently powerful."

"Will there be such an event in the future?"

"It's integrated with labor, education, training, and of course there will be."

"How long will it take to see the effect?"

"at any time."

"How does it manifest in behavior?"

"That depends on the objective environment."

The New Year's performance, which lasted for three full days, was, as expected, a complete success.The peasants in distant places were content, with their "pocket money"—their labor remuneration had been advanced in kind at the trade fair, so all they got was "pocket money"—and New Year's gifts, plus those they The things I have worked hard to accumulate can be said to be on the way home with a full load.The convoy was escorted by mercenaries, plus the reputation of the Gentiles - after the white boat went to Prinhall, probably no one thought that the power of the Gentiles could not go out. All in all, they were so happy, Returned home safely.

Obviously he was going to pay off the debt, but he was very proud as if he was returning home.

The hired mercenary leader watched these happy villagers with cold eyes, and sneered at their stupidity.

Obviously so stupid, so incompetent, but so lucky...

Why?

Even if it was a paid job, the mercenaries couldn't help but feel uncomfortable about it.They were well-known in this industry, but they sneaked out of the city as soon as they received a private letter from a spy. A group of people boarded the boat at night, and crossed the canyon torrents all the way. I got the seal in the interview, and before I had time to look at the city, I left in a hurry, walked from the bustling land into the wasteland, walked straight along the rutted road, and came to the so-called construction site full of dust. Finally got to rest.

In all fairness, their rush all the way was not an embarrassment to their employers—foreigners are notoriously not embarrassing inferior people. Although the construction site is not as prosperous as the city, the hospitality for them is not bad. Catch up with the troupe's performance, unlike those laborers who still have to work every day, they have all their time except for consultation meetings with their employers. They can stay on the stage from morning to night and never leave.

Thinking about these three days really passed like a dream!I ate well, slept soundly, and saw the performances I had long admired, and found them to be more exciting than I imagined, which was fascinating, although it was a little annoying to have to help the foreigners to maintain order off the stage , because there are too many people coming from various construction sites (this confirms the news from the city again), but when the troupe finished the day's performance and the actors came to the audience with their notebooks to ask their impressions, because they Being the closest, seeing the most, and having knowledge elsewhere, actors care about their opinions—even if they can't say anything useful.

However, in three days, the mercenaries' views on foreigners had changed. When they had to leave the open and messy construction site, many people showed reluctance.

The task of escorting the villagers is extremely boring, because since the foreigners built this new Mahi city, the surrounding bandits have been completely emptied, and the few times of showing off their force made all the evils shy away. To pretend to be a trail-cutter, the road is safe.The reason why these mercenaries can receive this job with a lot of money and little work is because the foreigners (for unknown reasons) keep the boundaries, even if they have shown their fangs to the surrounding people several times, it is not easy Use your own force to invade the territories of other lords.

The road is boring, the villagers are noisy - they have obviously been spoiled by the foreigners in a short time, and they are so defiant that they judge their employers in front of these mercenaries: how many people they have, whether they look young or old , who was a slave not long ago, but now he is able to control so many people, with a look of special ability. If the city owner of Xinmaxi City becomes the king himself, how many nobles can there be among them?Maybe none of them, after all nobles should not touch the soil...

More than once, other mercenaries secretly asked the captain: "Do they know what they are talking about?"

"Heh." The captain sneered.

But they have professional ethics and will not do much other than fulfill the employer's arrangement. The convoy continued along the increasingly bumpy and tortuous road, and arrived at the first village in less than two days.The villagers with big bags and small bags jumped out of the carriage, happily, at first they walked quickly, then turned into a trot and ran towards the intersection. It is a kind of protection to follow behind, but it attracts the other party's vigilant gaze.

Given the reputation of mercenaries, their vigilance was taken for granted. The squad leader and his partners spread their hands, showing a harmless appearance.

The villagers can only turn their heads and continue to move forward.

The outline of the village is already clearly visible. Under the dark winter sky, only a few wisps of cooking smoke rise up. The closer they get, the clearer the familiar scene becomes. When someone came, they were startled, and stopped involuntarily, while the other party walked straight towards them.

"Manage, manage things?"

"Okay, you're back!" The governor's eyes widened and he was furious, "Look at this, restless fellow! You must have been bribed by foreigners!"

He waved his hand, "Let's see what blasphemy you brought back!"

The village servants swarmed up, and the returned villagers screamed and screamed angrily. Their instincts allowed them to resist, but another instinct formed after long-term training prevented them from making strong resistance. More than half of the villagers The parcels were all snatched by force, the more parcels were snatched, the weaker the hands and feet of the remaining people, until a parcel that was not tied too tightly suddenly fell apart, the contents fell to the ground, and there was a crisp sound, everyone Looking towards the ground, a light green glass lamp fell among clothes, hand towels, combs, bowls and spoons, dry food, sugar cubes, etc., and the long wick connected to the lamp holder was dragged out, and the liquid flowed to the ground. The smell begins to pervade.

The owner of the package stared blankly at the ground. The village servant rushed to grab the clothes. The person who was accidentally pierced by the broken glass screamed in pain. Some returning villagers looked at the crazy village servant, and some looked at the companion who lost the most precious wealth. .

This lamp... is not something they can get by working on the construction site.

"Hey!"

The squad leader who had been watching shouted loudly.

People seemed to be awakened, and looked at him one after another. Their eyes touched his mount. The fierceness on the chief's face began to be aggressive, and even his tone changed: "Who are you?!"

"Mercenaries." The team leader said casually, "They haven't paid off their debts to the foreigners! Once the seven days are over, they must go back! The names of these people, the foreigners have written down!"

As soon as the word "Gentile" appeared, the chief officer and the village servant seemed to have encountered a beast. Some even took a step back. The steward looked at the mercenaries with hatred, and then turned his hateful eyes to the returning villagers. After a moment of silence, they Turning around, he snatched the package from the standing village official, unwrapped the knot, took out half or more of the contents and threw it into the cloth bag—but didn’t take away the fine-weave work clothes, and then smashed the package heavily on the villager’s chest forward.

"This is the labor tax you should pay!" He yelled, then turned to look at other returning villagers who were still holding packages, and said viciously, "Hand it over!"

The mercenaries silently watched them collect and pay taxes, and the head of the village led the village servants to leave with cloth bags. The villagers walked back to the village slowly, and there were also figures of figures behind those concealed firewood doors.

The mercenaries turned around and left.

The convoy waiting on the avenue vaguely heard some movement. The captain of the convoy—a new Mahi who was picked up by foreigners came to ask them what happened. The mercenary told him, and he went back to talk to the driver of the convoy. After discussing with them, they informed the rest of the returnees about the matter.

Unsurprisingly, the next village also had the lord's tax collector. The mercenaries still followed the returning villagers, watching them fold thick wooden sticks from the roadside mountains, hold them tightly in their hands, lean forward, step by step. Go to the entrance of the village.Seeing such a battle, the lord tax official guarding the intersection couldn't help but panic. Although the village servants also had sticks and he was carrying a whip, the resistance of the returnees was completely out of the imagination, let alone these villagers passing by. Nourished by Gentile-style meals for more than two months, their bodies are much stronger than when they left—at least stronger than the tax officials.

"What are you doing?" he called weakly.

The returnees stopped when they were only a dozen steps away, and the villagers walking in the forefront stared at him like wolves, "What are you doing here again?"

"I, I—" Thinking of the lord, the tax collector felt courage in his heart, but when he saw those sticks with thick arms and remembered that they came back from lawless foreigners, he couldn't help swallowing, "I take the lord In the name of—"

"If you're here to collect taxes," the young villager interrupted him viciously, "take this and get out!"

He threw a package made up by everyone, and the tax officer hurriedly avoided it. The village officer behind him caught it a little bit at a loss, "We have paid the tax! After seven days, we have to go back! Don't stop me." We, do you want to offend the Gentiles?"

The last sentence played a big role, and the tax official hurried away. After all, he was not without gain.

After the mercenaries went back, they told the convoy captain what they saw.

It took three days to send all the returning villagers to the village. The convoy finally took a rest in the territory of a lord and made statistics on the situation along the way.

The result of the statistics is that the villages that were intercepted forcibly "taxing" accounted for half of the total, and the number did not seem to be very large, because there were three territories that did not demand anything from their subjects, and their lords had already surrendered to the foreigners , Some time ago, people were sent back to the castle with supplies. On the one hand, they comforted their families, and on the other hand, they warned them to cooperate with the foreigners and not to offend them or anyone who had been protected by them. The convoy stayed in such a territory.

Including the first village that encountered this incident, none of the returnees who were "taxed" did not resist. This is in stark contrast to their return from the fair last time.Although the lords did not dare to easily offend the foreigners, they were afraid of giving them an excuse to crusade against themselves, but it was difficult to control their jealousy and greed. They hesitated to make a move at the trade fair, not daring to grab too much, and only took Halfway through the walk, I got a lot of sweetness. Even though I knew that the villagers were going to pay the debts this time, they probably went there barehanded and came back barehanded. idea.

They didn't seem to have thought that the villagers would resist, and they seemed to be insane. They resisted more resolutely and harder each time. Although they finally got a little more than expected, it was because The Gentiles treated these villagers so unreasonably well, allowing them to get undue benefits for nothing. Even if most of them were kept in their own hands, there was still so much for the lords.

But thinking about what happened to Primhall City, no matter how triumphant the well-oiled convoy passed through the territory, and how hateful the villagers whose souls had been corrupted by foreigners, they still couldn't do anything.

Even if you don't think about the miraculous thunder from the sky, the Gentiles still have a curse of mutual destruction, and they can use this sorcery to drag hundreds of people into hell together-but it happened in Orson County, and it was still They made it into a play, and scared a whole audience out of their wits!

“They may have thought that the drama was us defending ourselves and threatening outsiders,” said the team leader, the Xin Mahi man. “But for us, it was showing the pain of losing a loved one.”

"Us?" The team leader was thoughtful, "Are you friends with that franchisee?"

"I've heard his name, but I haven't spoken to him," said the captain. "If he's alive, we might become acquainted."

"Have any of you had similar experiences?"

"We're from the same district," said the captain. "I've heard his mother's story before."

Before the play was staged, the elf, one of the creators of the script, had come to communicate with him.The captain was very surprised that he could be in the same room with the elf face to face, "God, you are such a lucky boy!"

"There are quite a few of them here, and it's easy to see them in the city, because they often change positions to 'experience life'." The captain said with a smile, "There are also on the construction site."

"Why haven't I seen it!" the captain shouted.

"He has good eyesight, so he can see the performance clearly from far away, and he doesn't crowd around with everyone."

The small captain was sighing, the captain smiled and nodded while lost in thought, suddenly he said: "We will take revenge back."

It took the captain a while to understand what he was talking about, "You—you? You actually, you really...?"

The convoy captain looked frankly at the mercenary who came to make a connection with him.

"Isn't that considered revenge?" The team leader asked in a low voice, "Dozens of nobles died! And all the people on the execution ground at that time! This is a massacre, isn't that enough?"

"It's enough for one life to change so many lives." The captain of the team said softly, "So many people died for this, but in fact, many people didn't deserve to die. This is a tragedy. It's just that Il He's alone, he's utterly hopeless, there's nothing else to do, and those people did the kind of thing that would make the curse the deepest...but it's not people we're going to take revenge on."

"We're going to go back to the source and ask why this happened. Then, we eliminate that source."

When the team leader returned, a familiar companion came over and told him that the team leader wanted to see him.

He made his preparations, and then heard the regimental commander say to him, "You've done a good job."

"You did a good job of getting the foreigner's subordinates to befriend you so quickly." The head of the regiment stared at him and said, "Tell me, you just always like to hook up everywhere, that's why you are with those new Mahi people Get along well, or is it because you have other plans that you go to them to find a new way out?"

"I am deeply in love with someone, I am fascinated by her, and I will never betray her." He said sincerely, "That is money, Captain. Haven't I always been like this?"

The group leader's hawk-like gaze was still staring at him, as if he wanted to see into his bones through his face, the squad leader let him look at him, his body language showed that he was a little nervous, but overall he was calm.Finally the captain laughed.

"Of course I know that you have always been a good guy, and you have never failed to live up to my expectations." He said, he took out a money bag, and immediately attracted the attention of the team leader, who tossed the bag and let the coins There was a pleasant sound of the collision, and at the same time, he looked at the captain, "Now, I have a good job for you."

"My good leader, then you can give it to me quickly, whether I go to heaven or hell, I will go."

The captain took two steps closer to him.

"Join the New Marsh City." He whispered.

The team leader was taken aback, "That's it?" He looked at the team leader suspiciously, "Anyone can join that city, and it doesn't refuse anyone."

"Of course we don't want you to enter like that." The leader said, asking him to stretch out his ears, "We want to give you a chance..."

The squad leader listened attentively, and a trick flowed into his ears, but he remembered what the team captain had said to him at the end of the conversation.He said, "Your captain is the second son of an earl, and he has always been in close contact with his elder brother." The captain pretended not to care, and said, "So we have always been well connected." The captain looked at him, Ask: "What if all these roads lead to the gallows?"

Guys, you guys are a bunch of guys.The squad leader named Rosal Young thought to himself.

Terrible.I like.

The alliance rose from the westernmost tip of the continent when the vast majority of people were ignorant of it. As its first step to explore the outside world, the New Mahy City caused violent shocks in a considerable range after it landed.No matter what other people call the pioneers and the city they built, people are firmly attracted by it and the changes it promotes, like a powerful vortex on the surface of a calm river, turning everything around it. involved.

Tracing the footprints of the pioneers here, we can see the intertwining of chance and necessity, but from a certain period, the accidental factors became less and less, and a kind of will appeared more and more clearly in the pioneers and their followers Even though rumors, prejudices, and self-righteous interpretations have been blurring their images and distorting their actions like a fog, under the action of an unstoppable force, the context of the city's development is still between reality and spirit. A level is rapidly extended.

Winter is coming to an end, spring is coming, and the seeds planted will eventually germinate.

But before the seeds that can destroy everything that is stable as a rock germinate, Fan Tianlan, one of the sowers, will return to the industrial city again.

The new year is approaching, and he has to go back to report on his work.

The journey has been smooth sailing, everything is going well in the alliance, and everything is progressing steadily.Since the situation in Xinmaxi City is becoming more and more stable, and the elves have made some contributions in medical treatment, Fan Tianlan will be able to meet the people he wants to see as soon as he returns.

The last meeting was not far away, but when he saw each other again, he still had to say: "I've been thinking of you."

Yun Shen smiled.

"I miss you too." He said softly.

Yun Shen stretched out his hand to hold his hand, and with a little strength, pulled him over, pressed against his forehead, and asked softly, "Do you want some candy?"

Fan Tianlan: "?"

He wasn't a kid, he wasn't at all...but an instinct told him to say yes.

Then this little dragon who thought he was already very strong and mature, and would never admit it even if he acted like a baby, ate his own sweet candy.