Live as the emperor

Chapter 126 Clues
Hearing Chen Guang's question, the little beggar burst into tears. Chen Guang was the most annoying child crying, especially now that he had no experience in coaxing beggars, he suddenly seemed at a loss, but it was Wu Xin who came over and said a few words to the little beggar , the little beggar stopped crying immediately.Chen Guang asked, "Why do you speak so eloquently?" Wu Xin smiled and said, "Second Master forgot, I just experienced this kind of thing the year before last, so it's a comparison of my heart."

Hearing this, Chen Guang couldn't help but sighed, then smiled bitterly, and the little beggar said: "I can see that you two are good people."

Chen Guang remembered that he hadn't eaten yet, and if it was past the meal time, he could only eat the leftovers, so he said, "Let's go, I'll treat you to something delicious, let's go to the restaurant."

The little beggar hesitated, and said, "Will they let me in?"

Chen Guang grabbed the little beggar's hand and said with a smile, "I treated you to dinner. I paid for it, but you didn't ask for it. Why didn't they let you in? Are they still doing business?"

The little beggar was persuaded, so the three of them found a small restaurant nearby. Just as they were about to go in, they were stopped by the waiter. The waiter said to the little beggar: "Go, go, you are busy. If you want to eat, go somewhere else. You are smelly." Don't disturb my business."

Yoho, a part-time worker calls himself Lao Tzu?Chen Guang didn't like to hear it anymore, he took a step forward and said, "We are here to eat, not to beg."

The waiter in the store looked at Chen Guang in amazement, he really couldn't figure out that the people with such disparity in attire belonged to the same group.

"You guys are really in this together."

Chen Guang said unhappily: "There is a lot of money for your meal, let us not let us eat elsewhere."

"Let, let. Please." Although the waiter in the shop was dissatisfied that a beggar had wandered in, he did not dare to offend someone who came to eat seriously, otherwise he would be scolded to death by his master.

Although it was an ordinary small restaurant, when the little beggar entered, he looked around with curiosity on his face.But many diners in the lobby looked this way.

"Wow, shopkeeper, what did you do? All beggars are allowed in. It stinks."

"Yeah, I went out, but my interest in eating was interrupted."

The little beggar looked at Chen Guang, looking very aggrieved. He whispered: "I'd better go out, I'll wait for you outside."

"What are you going out for? Let's eat here today. Xiao Er, give me a private room."

The waiter in the store was worried and didn't know what to do. When he heard that Chen Guang wanted a private room, he immediately cheered up and said, "That's it."

He led Chen Guang and the others into the private room on the second floor, and lit incense outside the private room. The smell was not so strong, and the other diners became quiet.

Entering the private room, Chen Guang pulled the little beggar to sit down and said, "What do you want to eat?"

"I want to eat, rice, and steamed bread." The little beggar said.Obviously, it was only half a cornbread just now, and he was not full at all.

"It's not enough to just eat, you have to eat vegetables." Chen Guang said.

He asked the shop waiter to serve some meat dishes and some vegetarian dishes, plus a large bowl of white rice, and the table was set up in a short while.

"Eat."

When the little beggar saw this table, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he started gobbling it up regardless of the situation.

"Eat slowly, no one will rob you."

The little beggar's vigilance was completely let go at this time, and he ate a meal as if the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves. He ate more than half of the four or five dishes, and then stopped.

"It's delicious. It's the best meal I've ever eaten. It would be great if my parents could eat it once, but it's a pity that they are all dead." The little beggar looked very happy at first, but said Seeing his parents, his eyes dimmed immediately.

It's really pitiful that parents died at such a young age. Chen Guang asked: "Did he die of starvation or died of disease?" Obviously it couldn't be of old age.

The little beggar shook his head and said, "No, he was killed by the dog officer Peng Cheng."

Peng Cheng?When Chen Guang heard the name, he immediately felt familiar, as if he had heard the name somewhere. After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that a minister had said that this guy was the governor of Wuyuan County when he went to court last time.

Hey, aren't we in Wuyuan County now?Aren't we here to investigate the case?I didn't expect to get in touch with this little beggar. It really didn't take much effort to find nowhere.

Thinking of this, Chen Guang suddenly felt that the meal was not in vain.

As soon as the chat box was opened, the little beggar seemed to be caught in his own memories, and his eyes began to blur.

"It snowed heavily in the winter of the year before last, and last year's crop harvest was not good. Our family harvested little millet and couldn't afford to pay taxes and food. The officers and soldiers came to arrest people, saying they were taking people to offset taxes."

Chen Guang was very surprised, and said: "Is there such a thing?" Taking people to deduct taxes is something that I have never seen or heard of. "and after?"

"Then they came to arrest people. My father ran away, and my mother was caught by them. I was very scared at the time, so I chased after her. My mother and many other people were arrested. Many people in the village were crying. The officers and soldiers who came to arrest him said that they wanted to sell my mother to a brothel. My mother heard this, and when the officers and soldiers were not paying attention, she slammed into a stone on the side of the road and killed her. After my father found out, he I went to find the officers and soldiers and tried my best, but I was also hacked to death with a knife."

Chen Guang was startled, this death was indeed true, alas, pitiful.Is it just because you can't pay taxes?When I was in the capital before, I vaguely remembered that in order to consolidate the rule, Chen Ang was especially generous. He collected ten catties of grain and paid one catty of tax for every ten taxes. , You can still serve hard labor, how can you not arrest people.

"Then how much tax do you have to pay?" Chen Guang asked.

"If you collect a hundred catties of millet, you have to pay a tax of eighty catties," said the little beggar.

"What? Eighty?" Chen Guang almost couldn't help shouting, how much is this, eight times the government tax!The state treasury only gets [-]% of the grain grown by farmers, and [-]% of it is actually embezzled by these officials in the middle!

Chen Guang could feel his blood welling up.

The little beggar said: "Yes, we are planting a year's grain, and we can't eat enough for ourselves, and we can't pay taxes. Those rich people who are officials don't have to work in the fields, and they can't eat enough white rice. ,well……"

With this sigh, Chen Guang seemed to hear the helplessness after going through the vicissitudes of life.

What kind of experience is it that makes a child who is only a few years old sigh like this.

"These officials are really abominable. They should all be arrested and replaced with good officials. By the way, do you have good officials here? Not all officials are like this, right?" Chen Guang asked .

The little beggar thought for a moment and said, "There is one."

"One? Who?"

(End of this chapter)