As the downfall of the Republic of China, there was a Taoist priest named Uncle Jiu

Gu Tian talked about his experience when walking darts: "When I was walking darts, it was the time when the Boxers were raging, and the place where the Boxers were raging was a miserable place."

"It wasn't the Boxers' looting, but because of the imperial court. The imperial court wanted to wipe out the Boxers, where did the new army get their salaries? The local government must pay for the food, but will the local rich and gentry pay? Collect money."

"Usually in this case, these gentlemen will pay the tax!"

"In fact, in some places, the Boxers didn't even need to come, and the people have already been made miserable by corrupt officials."

"The people are like fish and meat, ready to be slaughtered."

"Babies pay taxes when they are born, pay taxes when they marry a daughter-in-law, pay taxes when they die, and pay taxes when they kill pigs and sheep."

"Watching a play to pay taxes, sleeping to pay taxes, blacksmithing to pay taxes, fishing to pay taxes, begging to pay taxes, digging out excrement to pay taxes, you have to pay taxes while lying down waiting to die."

"In short, in their view, everything in the world can be taxed."

Gu Zhou is aware of the chaos of this era. Daniel, Ergou, and Gu Jun were dumbfounded when they heard this. It was the first time they heard that people had to pay so much tax.

Although Qingshan Town is poor, it really doesn't have so many levies and miscellaneous taxes. It seems that the officials above see that Qingshan Town is so poor, and they can't pay too much.

Of course, on the other hand, the clan in Qingshan Town is powerful and xenophobic, and the people from above may not be able to collect taxes.

Too much clan power is a bad habit in some cases, but Gu Zhou also values ​​the clan power in Qingshan Town. If he can integrate into it, this clan power can naturally be used by him.

"Ridiculous! Really ridiculous!"

Gu Zhou let out a long breath.

Gu Tian looked faintly: "In short, in the eyes of those officials and lords, the people are not human beings at all, but grass, and every stubble can be regrown. If you don't beat the people to their bones and suck their marrow, you will never give up."

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Suddenly, shouts came from the front, and four people were carrying two stretchers, which were covered with black cloth, but the people on the stretchers could be clearly seen shaking with the stretchers.

boom!

Two of them moved too much, and the person on the stretcher fell heavily to the ground. He was a scrawny, emaciated dead man with his eyes closed.

The two looked as usual, put the body on the stretcher, and disappeared in a flash.

"Master Tang's smoke den died again, and this time two people died at once."

"Who says it's not? Don't be surprised. Anyway, every now and then, a few corpses can always be brought out of Mr. Tang's smoking den. Anyway, they are all smokers. People don't raise officials, and people die. Master Tang's smoking den continues. make money."

Gu Zhou said silently, "The opium den..."

Looking up from a distance, there are actually three opium dens on this small street, which are already operating in a grand manner.

Gu Tian sighed: "This kind of opium den is everywhere. I don't know how many people have been ruined by it."

"Young master, what a coincidence, we met again."

A clear and familiar voice sounded, Gu Zhou froze, turned around slowly, and smiled dryly: "What a coincidence."

Suspected to be a mandrill covered in human skin, it stood two meters away, tilting its head, looking at Gu Zhou with a smile.

Depend on!

Such a big Daxiang County, unexpectedly met again.

This demon is definitely after me!

"Young master, why don't you go for a walk together?"

She smiled.

"No, I'm tired of shopping."

Gu Zhou refused decisively, turned around and strode away.

"Young master, we will meet again."

she yelled behind her.

Gu Zhou staggered and almost fell to the ground, the devil wants to meet you again, MD, I must kill you!

After walking far away, Gu Zhou felt the heat coming from the talisman paper in his arms. He was excited and clear-headed: that mandrill confused me just now, but luckily I have a stone talisman.

"What's the situation? Why is this mandrill staring at me? Could it be that the more I think about it?"

Gu Zhou was very puzzled, took out the talisman paper, and the enthusiasm gradually dissipated.

"Brother Zhou, did you meet someone you know just now?"

Ergou suddenly asked curiously.

Gu Zhou's alarm sounded loudly, and he glanced at Daniel, Gu Tian, ​​and Gu Jun, and saw that their expressions were as usual, and it was immediately clear that the four of them had been recruited just now, and Er Gou didn't recognize the mandrill, but it was clearly wearing a mandrill. Original skin.

I decided to buy five long knives and spent the night in anxiety.

At dawn, the group set foot on the road back to Qingshan Town.

Before setting off on the road, Gu Zhou told them: "Once I put the backpack on the ground, you immediately retreat five feet away, the farther the better."

The first hour and a half was safe and sound, just when Gu Zhou thought that the mandrill would not come after him, a clear voice like juanjuan spring water reached Gu Zhou's ears: "Master, where are you going, why don't you go together."

coming!

Gu Zhou's pupils shrank, and he sat on his horse and looked into the distance, only to see a carriage chasing him in the distance. The driver of the carriage was a man with a sallow and numb face, and the mandrill was waving at Gu Zhou with a bright smile.

People who don't know the inside story will only think that it is a delicate and pure girl, and they will never think that it is actually a mandrill in human skin.

"Attention! Watch my movements!"

Gu Zhou got off the horse with a low drink, and then he could clearly feel the talisman in his arms getting hotter and hotter. This kind of warmth stimulated his mind to be clear all the time, and he recalled his plan in detail.

"Young master, this is the third time we have met."

The carriage stopped, Mandrill got out of the carriage, and walked down with the hem of her skirt.

Chapter 11 Siege!

The mandrill's human skin is about seventeen or eighteen years old, tall peach, wearing a green brocade leather jacket, the color is very bright, but under the reflection of her face, even the brilliant brocade has become pale, Like a budding peony flower, it is beautiful but not coquettish, gorgeous but not vulgar.

The body is light when walking, and the words and deeds are dignified and elegant.

Her black hair is like lacquer, her skin is like jade, her beautiful eyes look forward, and there is an indescribable charm in every frown and smile.

Just looking at it can make a man feel an urge to pour her into his arms and love her.

"The concubine has met the young master and met him three times, which shows that the concubine and the young master are very destined, and I don't know the young master's name."

The mandrill gave a salute.

Gollum~

Gu Zhou heard that Ergou and Gu Jun were swallowing their saliva, and he secretly thought something was wrong, and after thousands of reminders, he was still tricked.

Glancing at Daniel from the corner of his eye, he frowned slightly, with a hint of bewilderment.

As for Gu Jun, his cheeks twitched, as if struggling.

"Not so good."

Gu Zhou's heart was pounding, and he responded with a smile: "My servant, Gu Longcheng, I don't know what to call Miss?"

With that said, Gu Zhou put down the backpack containing the bomb.

Fortunately, although the four of them were recruited, they still remembered what Gu Zhou said. When he put down his backpack, he took the mule and the newly bought horse and walked away.

"My concubine's name is Mengran, who is the son's servant?"

Mengran was puzzled.

Gu Zhou smiled: "Maybe he doesn't want to disturb our conversation."

Meng Ran's pretty face blushed, her eyes were like silk, her bare hands lightly brushed her hair, and she put her hair on her ears, that kind of shyness really made people's hearts flutter.

The talisman in his arms was scalding hot, Gu Zhou's heart was awe-inspiring, his face remained unchanged, he raised his hand on his forehead to cover the sun, and said, "Miss Mengran, the sun is a bit hot, why don't you sit under the shade of a tree?"

"Okay."

Meng Ran coquettishly covered her mouth with a chuckle and walked under the shade of the tree.

Under the sun, its body projected a figure, but in Gu Zhou's view, this figure was extremely ferocious, with teeth and claws open, wanting to choose and devour.

Behind it, Gu Zhou's face became gloomy, and he ignited the fuse as quickly as possible, counting silently in his heart: 10, 9,8,7,6, [-], [-], [-]...

At the countdown to 2, Gu Zhou threw his backpack at the mandrill, and when he heard the whistling wind behind him, he suddenly turned around, only to see Gu Zhou's backpack flying towards it, and suddenly the alarm bells rang in his heart, and an inexplicable sense of danger struck him. mind.

Rumble!

A terrifying flame suddenly exploded, and amidst the deafening noise, a cloud of flames several meters high rose up. The calm air was instantly torn apart by the flames, and the strong air flow violently swept across a radius of ten meters.

The ground in a radius of tens of meters shook violently. Even if he ran for more than ten meters at the moment the bomb was thrown and lay down on the ground, he could still feel the scorching air behind him.

The fire spread out, and a big pit with a radius of two meters appeared at the place where the bomb exploded. With this kind of power, not to mention people, even elephants would be blown to pieces.

Under the deafening bang, Gu Tian, ​​Daniu and others also got rid of the confusion of the mandrill, woke up in vain, and looked towards the place of the explosion.

Roar!

Roar!

A breathtaking roar sounded.

Gu Zhou was dumbfounded, didn't the bomb kill him?

"die!"

Mandrills tore apart the ragged human skin that had been blasted.

Chi Chi Chi Chi!

Pieces of jet-black sharp nails grow wildly, about two feet long, like sharp knives, and then swipe at themselves, center, cut off from the center of the eyebrows, there is a "chichi" sound, and then pull backhand, peel off the drape A decent piece of tattered human skin.

God knows how dangerous it was just now. At that moment, the mandrill escaped from the center of the explosion at the fastest speed in his life. Even so, he was seriously injured.

"Stop standing still, kill it! It was seriously injured!"

Gu Zhou yelled to remind Gu Tian and others beside him.

"Roar!"

The ear-piercing roar like howling ghosts and wolves is full of indescribable ferocity. The mandrill's true face is undoubtedly terrifying. Its body is covered with bluish-black tumors, like a piece of bluish-black armor, and its one leg is like an old tree disc. Each toe is one foot long, like a tree root, which can support a mandrill to stand firmly.

But at this time, there were several bloody, deep gashes on this one leg, with blood gurgling.

Its right hand is only connected to the body by skin and flesh, drooping on the right side of the body.

There are also many blasted wounds all over the body.

Although he was seriously injured, a demon with a head as big as a bucket, a ferocious face, sharp teeth like saws, and fierce eyes emitting fierce light still made people tremble with fear.

Gu Zhou has been in close contact with tigers before. To be honest, when he really hears the roar of a tiger, he knows why the tiger is the king of beasts. It is a sound that can really make people's legs go weak.

And the sound of this mandrill is more terrifying than that of a tiger.

boom!

Amidst the sharp roar, the mandrill rushed towards it swiftly, but before it arrived, the stench was already blowing towards its face, with a ferocious force.

"Hi!"

Gu Tian let out a low growl, shortened his stature, swiped his long knife,

clang!

laugh!

The blade slashed across the mandrill's throat, as if it had hit metal, but the mandrill was flesh and blood after all, and was seriously injured by the blast. The knife on the throat flashed with blood, which also made it lose its balance and rolled a few times in the air. Circle, fell heavily on the ground, and hit a big tree.

However, the wound on the throat was nothing to the mandrill. After rolling around a few times, he stood up again and continued to pounce towards Gu Zhou.

Gu Zhou lied to it miserably, and it hated Gu Zhou the most in its heart.

next moment.

"Roar!"

There was a shrill scream, and a cold light flashed, and a flying knife was stuck in the wound on its throat.

Without giving it any time to breathe, Daniel, Ergou, and Gu Jun pounced on it.

With one move to chop Huashan, Daniel split the mandrill's shoulder with a single blow, and Gu Jun and Ergou also left two wounds on it.

The mandrill was in excruciating pain. It swung its big claws and made a shrill sound of piercing through the air, and it hit the big cow, causing him to stagger a few steps.