I have a magical tree

After dinner, Xu Dao began to practice health-preserving exercises. Even though he practiced very quickly, he never slacked off in this regard. He never forgot that strength is the foundation of life.

Moreover, this world is too dangerous. There are warriors who roam the world, but the biggest threat is still the monsters and strange things around.

Although this city is much safer than outside the city, who knows if it will always be safe here, and for some reason, there have been more and more rumors of monsters and strange things hurting people outside the city recently.

If there are only one or two cases, it may really be just a rumor, but if the rumors are overwhelming, it can only mean that the outside of the city is really raging.

The reason why my father Xu Tianyuan disappeared is probably because of this. Otherwise, a warrior who entered the rank and did not make enemies with others, how could he disappear so easily.

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The next day, Xu Dao did a set of boxing and practiced health-preserving exercises in the yard as usual, and then started to eat.

Maybe the news that he saved the old man yesterday has spread, and business is indeed better today. Although the conditions of these patients are very serious in the eyes of ordinary people, they are not difficult to deal with in the eyes of a warrior like him.

By the evening, five patients had left the Xu family clinic with thousands of thanks. Xu Dao counted and found that a total of 530 big money was collected today.

Not bad, but not much, after all, it includes the cost of medicinal materials, and not every day there are so many patients.

This is how it is to open a clinic, especially if it is not well-known, sometimes no one comes for several days in a row.

Moreover, poor people are not so delicate. They will not go to the clinic for a little illness or discomfort. They will delay and come to the clinic only when they can no longer delay and can’t bear it.

But Xu Dao was still very happy, especially because he knew that when these patients were cured, the reputation of the clinic would further feed back the clinic's business. In the future, it should not be a problem for the clinic to earn ten or so taels of silver every month.

Never underestimate the purchasing power of these ten taels of silver. You should know that on weekdays, the price of one stone of brown rice is only six or seven hundred wen, and polished rice is only one tael of silver. Although the price of grain has risen a lot now, ten taels of silver is enough for the mother and her two children to eat and drink for a month. If you buy coarse grains such as sorghum and corn, you can buy more.

Of course, the most expensive are animal oil and meat. These things are expensive. Even the cheapest pork costs fifty wen per catty, and now it is a famine, and it costs a hundred wen per catty, and there is no market for it.

In fact, Xu Dao is satisfied with making a few taels of silver from the clinic every month. The reason why he is willing to do this is just to get through his weak period. The two are used to cover himself up and make money without being in the limelight. In this way, earning too much is not good, it will make people jealous.

Xu Dao put the money away and prepared to go home to give it to A Niang, so that she could buy some food and meat to improve the food.

But at this time, there was a noisy sound outside.

Xu Dao raised his eyebrows and stood up to look at the door of the clinic.

Then he saw several fierce men on the street, staggering over from there. The leader was wearing a black official uniform with a big tax word on his chest.

And one of them was holding a broken gong.

"Dangdangdang!"

"Listen, everyone, collect this month's tax! Two hundred coins per person! Don't think of evading one, if I find someone evading taxes... Hehe, you don't treat yourself as a human being, then I really won't treat you as a human being!"

The man's tone was fierce, and his fierce eyes swept across the street!

Xu Dao frowned, it has risen again, damn, it was only one hundred coins per person last month, and it has doubled this month.

In other words, his family had to pay 600 coins at once, which was almost as much as a stone of brown rice.

He also knew what these people were like. Don't think they were government officials just because they looked like decent people. In fact, except for the one in front, the others were just members of the Black Tiger Gang.

But they did collect taxes. The gang had been in cahoots with the government for a long time.

The government wanted to collect taxes, and the gang wanted to collect tributes and protection fees. Isn't that coincidental? Why not collect them together? Isn't it wonderful to join forces?

The government was extremely rotten and stinky, and those gangs were even more rotten. They were not good at doing things, but they were good at collecting money and bullying the people.

The whole street was noisy, and some people complained in a low voice, why did the tax suddenly increase so much? Although Xu Dao could make a few taels of silver a month, or even more than ten taels, it felt easy, but for most people, 200 coins was also a huge sum of money.

The tax has doubled, and many families may not be able to pay it. In the past, one person paid 100 coins, and they could barely make ends meet. Now the price of food has increased, and the tax has also increased, but the labor price has not increased. This is a huge gap. It's okay for one month, but if it's like this every month, people will starve to death.

"What are you yelling about? Don't want to pay? If you don't want to pay, get out of the city. It's cheaper outside, only 100 coins!" The tax collector in the lead looked around and said expressionlessly.

"You probably heard about the situation outside. I don't know how many people have died in the hands of demons and monsters. You can live in the city and have the opportunity to argue with us about the tax of just 100 coins. It's already our kindness!"

Suddenly, the noisy streets became quiet, and everyone dared not speak out.

In the city, if you can't pay the taxes, then you have to work harder, eat worse, and go hungry more often. If all else fails, find someone to help you with some money, or borrow money. At worst, you have to sell yourself. But you can still survive. But if you go outside the city and encounter demons and monsters, you will die!

It's okay during the day, many demons don't appear during the day, but at night, even in the city there are dangers, let alone outside the city?

Xu Dao's eyes flickered. Although he has been in this world for more than ten years, to be honest, he doesn't know much about this world, only Yanghe County.

In fact, he has never left the city since he grew up, just because there are demons outside the city.

He looked up at the rolling mountains in the distance outside the city. Under the light of the sky near dusk, this rolling mountain with no end in sight did not make it majestic and majestic, but only gave people a sense of oppression and weirdness. It was as if a ferocious beast was crawling there, ready to swallow this small Yanghe County at any time.

"Dao'er, the tax collector is here?" Liu's voice sounded in his ears.

Xu Dao suddenly came back to his senses, and then shuddered because of his divergent thoughts just now.

"Well, the tax has doubled! But I have it here, don't worry about it, mother!" Xu Dao took out a purse from his arms and took out 600 coins from it.

Although the tax was a bit heavy, Xu Dao did not intend to resist the tax. This was not something he could consider with his current strength.

At least, he could still afford it for now. It was only 600 coins a month!