Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 798 Young Labor
The villagers spread word of mouth, and soon they all gathered at Hongxuan's place.Liu Yunxiang glanced over, and found that they were all old people, not one young, not one child.

While Hongxuan was doing this, Liu Yunxiang sneaked away with Zijin.Changhe Village is not big, and there are not many houses. The two searched for each house separately, from one end of the long street to the other. When they met for the last time, they both shook their heads.

"Girl, is Mr. Xue not here?" Zijin scratched the back of his head and asked.

Liu Yunxiang was also puzzled, and when he didn't know what to do, he saw a figure heading out of the village.Zijin shook his spirits, and guarded Liu Yunxiang behind him while drawing out his sword.

Liu Yunxiang turned his mind, and patted Zijin's hand holding the sword hilt, "Let's follow."

"what?"

"That man won't hurt us, don't be too nervous."

Liu Yunxiang took Zijin to the outside of the village, and after a short walk, he saw a thousand acres of fields stretching as far as the eye could see, and the crops were lush green and growing very gratifyingly.

If you look closely, there are two people on the field in the distance, a woman and a man. The woman is weeding, and the man is irrigating.At this time, it wasn't that the man did something wrong, the woman grabbed a handful of grass and threw it on him, while he squatted down with his head in his arms, looking really useless.

"Girl, that man seems to be... Mr. Xue." Zijin said in disbelief.

Liu Yunxiang could see clearly, "It's him."

The master and servant walked over there, the sun was warm, the breeze was blowing, and there was a piece of fertile land beside, Liu Yunxiang felt much lighter.

"Hey, what grows in this field...is not crops, but grass!" Zijin was shocked.

Liu Yunxiang was also taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly stepped forward to have a look.She was born in the servant's mansion, so she could be regarded as a lady of the official family, and she had never been in the field, so at this time she couldn't tell whether the clusters in front of her were crops or grass.

"Wheat should be planted in the field, and by this season, wheat ears should grow on the seedlings. You have seen wheat ears, and there is a bundle hanging at the door of our grain shop." Zijin said.

Liu Yunxiang thought about it for a moment, and looked carefully at what was in front of him, it was just clumps of grass.She looked around and saw that the entire field was covered with grass.

"This... these fields are all deserted."

"There are old people in the village, and they can't walk steadily, let alone farming. These fields can only be left unused."

Liu Yunxiang nodded, that was indeed the case, and she looked at the two people in the distance, "Come on, let's take a look over there."

When they got closer, they found that the field in front of them was wheat, which was much shorter than the weeds, and the growth was not bad, but there was a lot of grass in the wheat field.

While pulling weeds, the woman directed Xue Changfeng: "Quickly change the ditch, the irrigation is too full, and the water has washed away the ridges and flowed onto the grass!"

The woman urged Xue Changfeng to panic, as soon as the shovel went down, the water scattered and rushed away like a beast out of the cage.He blocked it in a panic, but when he blocked this side, that side collapsed, blocked that side, and this side collapsed again. He was so anxious that he started shoveling soil everywhere, so there were holes everywhere.

Seeing this, the woman was so angry that she threw a handful of grass at him, then grabbed the shovel, skillfully blocked the hole, and at the same time, the water flowed to the next ridge.

"You are so stupid, how did you become an official!" The woman scolded Xue Changfeng.

Xue Changfeng was a little embarrassed, "Compared with handling official duties and farming, it's too simple."

"stupid!"

"I can only blame the water for not listening to me."

The woman threw the shovel to Xue Changfeng and asked him to continue watering the ground.

"When will you let me go?" Xue Changfeng asked as he poured water.

"Just give up, marry me obediently, and plant here for the rest of your life."

"It's against the law for you to rob civilian men by force!"

"Let's talk about it after you can escape."

Xue Changfeng glanced helplessly at the iron chains on his feet. It was obviously impossible for him to escape by himself.

Hearing the sound of footsteps at this time, Xue Changfeng raised his head. When he saw the person coming, his eyes widened at first, and then he burst into ecstasy.

"princess!"

Hearing this sound, the woman turned her head quickly, and when she saw Liu Yunxiang and the others, she got up abruptly, grabbed the shovel in Xue Changfeng's hand, and blocked it in front.

"Who are you?" The woman asked angrily.

This woman is in her twenties, probably the only young person in Changhe Village.

"We're here to save him!" Zijin pointed to Xue Changfeng behind her, but just as she finished speaking, the woman came over with a shovel in her hand. Open the woman.

The woman staggered a bit, but she wanted to rush forward, Xue Changfeng hurriedly stopped her.

"Xiu Niang, they are my friends and good people!"

The woman glared at Xue Changfeng, and wanted to fight with brute force, Xue Changfeng had no choice but to say: "They are also from the government."

Hearing this, the woman's face turned blue, and she thought of something, and hurried to the village.

Liu Yunxiang asked Zijin to break the iron chain for Xue Changfeng quickly, "We have to go back to meet Daoist Hongxuan!"

After untying Xue Changfeng, the three ran to the village together.

Xue Changfeng ran and talked about what happened these days. It turned out that he and Hongxuan were led by Gao Yuanwai to visit an old gentleman who used to be a bookkeeper in the government office.When he came back, he passed outside Changhe Village, and he felt a puff of smoke, and he passed out in a daze. When he woke up, he was in the village, with iron chains on his feet.

"Why did they tie you up?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

Xue Changfeng coughed dryly, "They are all old people in the village, only Xiuniang is a young woman who has already reached the age of marriage, so they want to kidnap a man. Firstly, they will be Xiuniang's husband, and secondly, they can also farm land As far as the piece of land you are looking at is the ration of the whole village, but the old people are getting older and can no longer land, so the surrounding area is barren, and they need young labor."

"Why did they turn this place into a ghost village?"

Xue Changfeng sighed, and said: "They can't win the land, and it's a problem to eat enough, but the government wants them to pay taxes and food, so they came up with this idea, making the government think that everyone in the village is dead and dare not go into the village to check .”

"So those who captured many young and middle-aged men, sucked their spirits, and then made them into mummies, are these all fake?"

"They made it up and spread it."

After entering the village, Xiuniang had already told the old people about their being cheated, and the old people were so excited that they surrounded Hongxuan, and they were about to drown him.

Liu Yunxiang hurriedly asked Zijin to knock on the courtyard door next to him, making a bang bang sound.

Because of this movement, the villagers looked towards them.

Looking at these old people, Liu Yunxiang really couldn't scold and move, so he could only scare: "The officials are at the entrance of the village. After an hour, if we haven't gone out, they will break in and burn your village down. How can you white-headed ghosts make trouble!"

As soon as these words came out, the old people looked at me and I looked at you, obviously they were really scared.

It has always been the case that the people do not fight with the officials.

Xue Changfeng stepped forward and said, "Grandpas and grandmas, we came to Yanzhou to investigate the case of Mr. Yang He Yang. You have received the kindness of Mr. Yang, so don't make things difficult for us."

(End of this chapter)