Chapter 52 The nerve-wracking donkey

After eating dumplings, Chen Yinxing and Xu Wei moved a tube of bamboo salt to the car, and then slowly drove towards Changchun City under the expectant gaze of the Xu family.

After counting, Longyue counted, there were about 60 cylinders of bamboo salt this time, and it was estimated that it could be sold for more than 60 taels of silver.

Since Yuan Gang had not paid the salt tax for a few days after his founding of the Kingdom of China, he could still take advantage of loopholes.

Now selling salt is low-cost and high-profit, and there is no need to pay taxes. Simply put, it is just two words, huge profits!

The last time I made money from selling salt, the Xu family tasted the sweetness. In the past two days, people worked overtime overnight, and became more and more energetic, almost forgot to eat and sleep.

Longyue summarized it and said the same thing: the money is in place, but the person is useless!

Xu Jingyang did not go to the city with Longyue this time, but instead took a mixing stick to help stir the salt and soil. This mixing salt and soil is a physical task. Every time he stirs it twice, he will shake his sore arms.

Alas, Xu Jingyang sighed, there is no way, after all, he can't offend the family's Minister of Finance

The little donkey headed towards Changchun City, and Xu Wei roamed the willow branches in his hand and whipped them from time to time.

Chen Yinxing was sitting behind the donkey cart holding Longyue. Next to him were baskets of bamboo tubes of salt. In order to prevent the salt from contacting the air and getting damp, a rattan lid was also stuffed on each tube.

Long Yue was nestled in Shen Yinxing's arms, and the sun shone on her body warmly, making her feel a little drowsy.

The sheep-chan path in the outskirts of Changchun City is relatively narrow, and can only accommodate a car and horse. If a car and horse are also coming from the opposite side, one side needs to give in.

Along far away, Longyue saw smoke and dust rising from the path ahead, and vaguely heard the sound of horse hooves.

It seems that the visitor is moving in the opposite direction from the donkey cart.

Seeing this, Xu Wei drove the donkey cart under the tree next to him early, waiting for the people riding horses on the opposite side to come first.

"Driving!Driving!"

I saw a tall maroon horse rushing out from the smoke and dust, and a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old was riding on her back. The girl was wearing a felt hat, braided braids, and raised her horse whip. She looked heroic and heroic.

Behind the girl was a row of people and horses. The group waved the horse whip and seemed to be in a hurry.

This group of people came from the royal family of Inner Mongolia. This time they came to Dayuan to discuss joining forces to fight against the Qiang people.

The leading girl is Ge Jiamu, the little princess of the Gegemu tribe in Inner Mongolia. She received news yesterday that there were white wolves in this area and there were few white wolves in the Central Plains. So when she heard the news, she knew that the white wolves must be her Hu Liena.

She and the snow wolf Hu Liena grew up together since childhood. They can be said to have a deep relationship, but for some reason, Hu Liena disappeared since she entered Changchun City and could not find it no matter how hard she looked for it. In the morning, I heard that someone had found traces of the white wolf in this area, so I rushed over.

Originally, Longyue's donkey cart had stopped on the side of the road early, and both of them would not be in conflict. Just wait for others to pass first and then return to the road by themselves.

As a result, I didn't know what crazy that was pulling the cart was going crazy, and suddenly ran to the road and rushed to the other person's horse to stumble.

The fast horse was flying towards him like a fired shell, while the stupid donkey was pulling the cart and hitting it upwards like a gust of wind.

This scene happened too quickly and no one expected it.

Xu Wei, who was pulling the reins, was directly lifted out, and Shen Yinxing and Long Yue in the car also threw back with inertia.

Fortunately, Shen Yinxing's reaction was fast enough. She protected Longyue with one hand and grabbed the edge of the car with the other, so she was not thrown out of the car.

The horse opposite was also startled by the stupid donkey that suddenly hit him, and his front hooves jumped high and made a deafening neigh.

"Hiss~hh~"

As he was about to hit, Ge Jiamu on the horse's back suddenly pulled the reins, and the whole person and the straight body formed a 90° angle with the ground.

The horse is tall, and the stupid donkey pulling a cart is not as tall as the horse's legs. Now the horse leaps in the air is directly taller than the donkey's body.

The donkey seemed to be frightened and stood still motionless.

The crazy horse was a little frightened and hit the moon on the donkey cart with the iron hooves the size of a bowl.

Yueyue: "?"

Seeing the horse's hooves that were about to fall like an iron hammer in front of him, Longyue's heart suddenly stagnated.

No, brother, it was the stupid donkey who came over to provoke you. What's wrong with you stepping on me?

Look at me as easy to bully, right?

Still not reasonable?

Seeing that the horse's hooves were about to step towards the person on the donkey cart, Ge Jiamu, who was riding on the horse's back, tried desperately to pinch the horse's back and signaled it to stop quickly.

You should know that the angry horse is as powerful as a tremendous amount. If the horse's hooves are just stepping on it, they can directly penetrate the chests and backs of women and children, and then step them into a mess of mud.

The crazy horse's eyes were red, and he didn't obey the master's orders at all. He held up his iron hooves and smashed them high.

This scene shocked everyone. Seeing that the matter was irreversible, Ge Jiamu quickly closed his eyes and couldn't bear to see the bloody scene that was about to come.

However, what happened next shocked everyone.

After the horse's hooves like hammers were smashed down heavily, Chen Yinxing, who was holding Longyue, subconsciously blocked it with his hand, and then blocked the fatal blow lightly.

Everyone rubbed their eyes.

What?

Nothing happened?

Everyone rubbed their eyes again.

Yes, nothing happened.

The horse's crazy iron hooves were gently blocked by a woman with her hands. The key was that her movements were very casual, as if she had caught a small stone flying in the air.

Everyone present was stunned.

A woman directly used her hands to resist the powerful iron hooves?

It's simply unheard of, never seen.

But this extremely absurd scene happened in front of you.

The crazy macaque red horse also scared Longyue and her little face turned pale.

Her baby daughter was frightened, which made Chen Yinxing very angry. A chill burst out from her eyes when she looked at the maroon horse.

The chill was extremely cold, as if it came from the abyss of hell.

The perception of animals is sharper than that of humans. The crazy macaque horse felt the pressure on Chen Yinxing.

It was a very terrifying momentum, a murderous aura cultivated in the sea of ​​blood.

I was stared at by that look, as if I was the one who was strangled to my throat the next second.

So the jujube horse was no longer crazy, raised its hooves high and gently fell down, and then pretended that nothing happened.

The stupid donkey was also shocked by the murderous aura of Chen Yinxing, and he didn't go crazy. He took the car and retreated to the side of the road.

Gemujia and Longyue were also stunned when they saw this scene.

Ah? What happened just now?

At the same time, a group of uninvited guests came to Mangshu Village, which also lives not far from the outskirts of Changchun City.

The person who led the lead was a man from the government office, followed by a team of servants holding sticks.

Mangshu Village is a small village in Hebei. People in the village live by growing herbs and cotton in saline-alkali land.

The strong men in this village were conquered by Daxing to fight against the Japanese, and then all the men died on the battlefield. The rest were orphans, old, weak, sick and disabled. According to the words of the second housekeeper of the Gongsun family, these people were easy to bully.

After taking over Hebei, King Yuan did not particularly care about these war orphans. After all, they were fighting for Daxing, not for Dayuan.

Because no one in the village joins the army, the taxes in Mangshu Village are different from those in the villages that implement the military field system. The taxes in Mangshu Village are very heavy and they pay various miscellaneous taxes every few days.

When the villagers of Mangshu Village saw the servants coming from afar, they immediately realized that they were here to collect taxes again, so they hurriedly hid in the house.

When those experienced officers saw this situation, they went forward without saying a word and smashed the door, then broke in and pulled the person out.

Half an hour later, more and more villagers in Mangshu Village were pulled out. If they walked slowly, they would inevitably get a stick on their backs.

Soon, a wail sounded over the village.

The village chief of the Mangshu Village rushed over with a crutch and waved his hands repeatedly, "Master!Master, what are you doing? Didn't you just pay the tax a few days ago?"

"It was food tax before. Now we have to collect military rations. Your village will collect 300 shi of military rations according to regulations. Today, no sap of 300 shi of military rations can be lost."

"Three hundred stones!" The village chief of the Mangshu Village turned pale when he heard this: "This year the salinization of the land has become more serious, and the grains in the fields are basically unrecovered. People all rely on the old grains of previous years to survive. Now the grains are almost finished. Not to mention three hundred stones, they can't even get thirty stones!"

Before the village chief finished his words, a servant shouted: "Boss! They still have food to store! We searched a lot, but this group of troublemakers just don't want to pay the food."

A servant was moving out most of the bag of food from a family house.

"My cousin, that's our last bit of food for winter!"

A thin old farmer is trying to grab the grain back.

"Get out!" The man turned around and kicked the old farmer to the ground. The old farmer was about to get up and beat him with a stick. The officer beat him and scolded him: "If you dare to hinder the official business again, you will be arrested and punished in the yamen for serving you!"

The villagers around him dared not speak out, so they could only let the wolves plunder.

"Boss! All the food I have found is here!" A servant photographed the basket used to hold the food.

The leader of the Crazy Master saw that there were not three baskets of grain found in the entire village, and frowned: "This group of unruly people must have hidden themselves! Beat me!"

At the command, families who had not handed over enough food were taken to the open space and were beaten with sticks.

Looking at this scene, the village chief of Mangshu Village was so angry that he shivered all over.
To be continued...