I have an inn in Xianxia

Chapter 171
Sitting in the inn, Pei Yishan was puzzled by Lu Cheng's words.

"Food collection? Why?"

"You'll know in two days." Lu Cheng sat behind the counter, gradually lost in thought.

The scene that Pei Yishan told him was also written in the book at the beginning, but it was not now, but in nine days, and the number of people was more than now, tens of thousands, under the leadership of a Nascent Soul cultivator , They swept the imperial city like locusts crossing the border.

And that same night, it was burned to the ground by a fire.

The situation at that time was exactly the same as now, but the time was delayed by dozens of days.

"Could it be that my existence caused such a thing to happen? The demon king was born, and then the five continents merged, and everything centered on the imperial capital of Zhongzhou. That is to say, now I have been involved in the main line of this book? My Every move that has the potential to make a difference to what's going to happen?"

"Wait, it's not that easy to change. Even though what's happening now is dozens of days earlier than the description in the book, the trajectory hasn't changed at all. On the third day after the food was burned, the bones of the dead appeared in the imperial capital. The meat on it was shaved clean. When the time comes, the palace will open the granary to release grain, but the traitor planted by the devil will also burn down the granary, and then collect the grain. After the grain is collected, whether it is ordinary people or wealthy merchants, It has become a day of a bowl of gruel every day."

Lu Cheng recalled what he thought in the book, waiting to see how things would happen.

In this way, two days passed.

It was an early morning, and a female scream woke Lu Cheng up. He opened the window and looked towards the street.

I saw a woman running past with her face covered, shouting loudly, dead, dead.

Several officers and soldiers surrounded her and asked her what happened.

"Over there, right there, there is a skeleton with... blood all over it!" The woman was obviously terrified, and she stuttered when she spoke.

When Lu Cheng heard it, it happened exactly as it was recorded in the book. Because of his compassion, the family of three paid attention to him, and the assembly time of the "Locust" team was advanced by dozens of days. , but nothing changed.

In the palace, the monarch's study room, the monarch listened to the eunuch's report with a serious face.

"eat human!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, several skeletons have been found, and all of them have been shaved off. There is not much food left in the imperial capital. If this continues, I don't know what will happen."

"In this case, let's open the warehouse and release the grain."

Opening the treasury to release grain is something that will never be done unless it is absolutely necessary. Usually, the people pay taxes to enrich the treasury. Now the feedback from the treasury proves that the people's lives have reached an embarrassing situation.

The news was spread, the Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace, food was released at noon, and people brought their own bowls and queued up to receive the food.

Soon, a long queue formed, and many of them looked skinny, and without eating for a few days, it was easy to torture people into a ghostly appearance.

The rations in the palace are not pure rice, but gruel mixed with a lot of water. There is only a little rice at the bottom of the bowl. Although people can't eat enough, such a meal every day will not starve to death.

No one knows how long this situation will last. Save as much as you can. With the huge number of people, even the national treasury seems to have insufficient confidence.

The rations were released one day, and the dead people were finally brought under control. The monarch ordered people to observe secretly, and after a night like this, there was no trace of the bones on the second day. It seems that no one would like to eat gruel Those of the same kind start.

However, an accident happened very quickly, and there was a traitor in the palace, who turned out to be a first-rank official.

"It's Zhou Taibao, he ordered the treasury!"

"The food in it was burned clean, and now the national treasury is out of food!"

Sitting in the middle of the inn, Lu Cheng could also see the fire in the palace.

Just like what he told Pei Yishan, the palace began to collect food, and sent people to contact every big household, coercing and luring, using both soft and hard tactics, to demand their storage rings.

"In the current imperial capital, everyone is prosperous, and everyone is damaged. If this difficulty cannot be overcome, I don't think the Demon Lord will make it easier for anyone. There are no eggs under a nest. Everyone understands this truth."

Representatives sent by the palace came to Baixiao Pavilion and said to everyone.

"For so many years, our eyeliner is not a vegetarian. We know how many families you have now. It is enough for each family to keep one percent. I think this request is not too much. That one percent, It is also enough to allow you to live a much richer life than ordinary people, the Holy Majesty has already said that if you help him tide over the difficulties this time, he will definitely not treat you badly."

The representatives who came here finished speaking in one breath, and there were too many meanings in it. Tell these family owners and wealthy businessmen clearly that you have our people around you.

Then he brought out the current sage, and whoever refuses now will not give the present sage face.

No one present was an idiot, it's not that they couldn't understand the meaning of his words, Pei Yuan was the first to make a statement and threw several storage rings to the other party on the spot.

"Then I would like to thank Pavilion Master Pei. I will truthfully report what happened here."

"Here, this belongs to my Zhen family."

"My sixth son!"

One storage ring after another was thrown, and the negotiators left satisfied. These rich merchants also looked at each other and said goodbye to Pei Yuan. It seemed that they had to go back and make some arrangements.

"Hey, shopkeeper Lu is really right." Pei Yishan watched the people in the palace walk away and came to his father, "Father, what should we do next?"

"The monarch didn't ask us to hand over all of them, and each of us kept one percent. Although life will not be easy, it is still okay to eat two meals of rice a day. Now the world is like this, so let's bear with it if we can. "

"Master, it's not good." At this moment, a servant ran in from the door with panic on his face.

"What's the matter, you speak slowly."

"Young Master...Young Master, he was caught by someone, and the other party threatened to let you pass, Master, and they have already sent out a message, saying that if they fail to enter you within 10 minutes, they will break the Young Master's legs!"

"That bastard, what's going on!"

Pei Yuan and Pei Yishan got up, and quickly walked out of the gate after hearing the reason from the servant.

Changle Gambling House is located in a corner of the imperial capital. This place itself is just a small gambling stall. When the imperial capital was prosperous, no one even wanted to come here, but when the city was closed by heavy snow, it suddenly became popular here, because Changle The gambling shop opened a betting market, which made countless people who had reached a desperate situation want to fight for it.

It's not that no one is looking for trouble, but there is a cultivator at the stage of transformation behind Changle Gambling Square, who dares to come here to make trouble, and will never see anyone again after being taken away.

If you want to come to the gambling house, you must first go through several alleys and enter a dilapidated small door.

As soon as you enter the room, you can feel the atmosphere of corruption. Some women lose a bet and have no chips, so they use their bodies to pay for a game, and then gamble. In the casino, any transaction occurs at any time. There are even people squatting on both sides of the road.

When Pei Yishan came here, she immediately felt several aggressive eyes scanning back and forth on her plump figure.

(End of this chapter)