attack stream of life

After some time, the green spread silently in this silent land.

Qingchuan accidentally heard the chirping sound of a bird in the early morning of a certain day. He stood at the window and followed the sound. He didn’t know when a family of white-headed and black-necked birds settled on the welcoming pine at the door, and the bird’s nest was neatly built. , is a regular circle, and it seems to have a little petals on it.

It's really a fastidious family.

Maybe sometime this luxurious and warm family will have a new member.

On one side of the house, he dug a well, and built an octagonal well mouth with the same dark green bricks, with a pulley for fetching water on it, and two small fishes were stocked in the well as the "Jinglong King".

Not far from the well are two fields opened by Qingchuan, one is planted with wheat, and the other is planted with cabbage, cabbage, carrots and other vegetables.There is a scarecrow on each plot, which is kindly sponsored by the puppet master and can really drive away birds.

The laborers are the paper figurines, a paper figurine can work non-stop for more than ten hours, Qingchuan cut a bamboo basket of paper figurines for later use.

Between the vegetable garden and the lake is a large meadow. The vigorous grass emerges from the gaps in the meadow, with oval, slender, paw-printed leaves and red, blue, yellow, and purple flowers. A spread out tapestry corresponds to the grove that has already taken shape on the opposite side.

Qingchuan saw bees flying in and out of the beehive that had been put down before, collecting nectar in the woods on the grass.They are busy among the flowers, bringing a touch of vitality to this place.

Due to the increase in planting trees, the water level of the small lake has not decreased. The lotus seeds sown by the lake have adapted well, and green lotus leaves have grown. There are also lotus buds emerging, but the lovely dragonfly has not yet arrived.

There is a breeze in the air, which is recent, and it slides gently across the water, bringing in a few fallen leaves as well.

A lot of aquatic plants have grown on the banks on both sides. They were originally there, but they were dormant because of the dry water.With these microorganisms and algae, most of the fish, shrimps and freshwater shellfish released by Qingchuan survived, and sometimes their figures can be seen gliding across the aquatic plants.

Suddenly one day came the fog.

Qingchuan was wearing a sackcloth coat and was clearing the land at the foot of the mountain behind the house. He was about to plant some bamboo, but at this moment he raised his head slightly, and a cool and damp breeze came in, because the nearby soil had just been turned over, and there was still some soil in it. breath.

"Is it rainy season?"

Those guests who are about to enter here, have they already felt the sincerity of his master at the first time?

"Hello, you have entered the private domain - Silence, a brave new world that is about to be reborn. Welcome to settle down, live temporarily, travel, and work here. I wish you a happy life."

Almost at the moment of stepping into the scorched earth, passing through an invisible barrier, this voice suddenly sounded in the ears, and everyone who heard it was startled.

"That voice just now?" The man in the gray-brown felt hat looked at his two companions nervously, "Did you hear that?"

His two companions were less courageous than him, so they kept nodding their heads in fright, stood there for a while without incident, and then asked hesitantly: "Is there a powerful Mage who lives in this place? He asked us to come here to settle down and travel ?”

This is a question that everyone finds strange. Who would invite refugees like them?Not even good enough to be a slave.

These are the three wanderers, who have no hometown to return to, and are wandering around like little mice.This is not the first time they have come to Silence, although it is very barren here, but at least there are no monsters and bandits, and it is safe for them to crawl to survive.

They came here to collect some unburned, broken things left by the predecessors, such as tiny gold and silver, cracked gems, and even some magic materials.Others look down on these things, because a busy day is enough to pay for a drink, and the price/performance ratio is too low.

Those people would rather control women to sell themselves to earn their drinking money.

But enough for the three of them.

Don't expect much, just enough to survive.

"Brother, there are people here, so shall we... still leave?"

The unshaven man in a felt hat pulled his hat, "I was robbed of picking up garbage before, and now all the money is exchanged for dry bread. If you don't leave, you will die. They are big people, and they don't pay attention to small things. Yes, let's be careful."

The other two thought about it too. They really had no choice. They didn't have strong strength or the help of their family members. Now they carried all their property on their backs, and they couldn't survive if they didn't leave.

Even living is meaningless, if you can live, you still want to live.

The three of them walked forward carefully, because the outer area had been turned over countless times, so they didn't stop and walked for a whole day before starting to find things to work with stone hoes.

If you are thirsty, you can drink the water in the water bag. This water is poured directly from the river. It has a river smell and has not been boiled.They have been drinking like this for so many years, not knowing that the water has to be boiled, and sometimes they have to resign themselves to fate when they get sick.

People dump rubbish into the river, the river is very dirty, many people get sick from drinking the dirty water, but no one knows, no one tells them.The pastor would only say that they were followed by the devil and asked them to buy holy water, and the pharmacist's potion could not be drunk at all.

If you are hungry, there are some bread in the backpack.It is said to be noodles, but it is actually made of flour made from beans and wheat bran. It is the cheapest food. It is dry, hard and astringent, like bricks. It needs to be soaked with water in the mouth to soften it. After eating, it is still difficult to swallow.

The advantage is that it is easy to keep and full, so they will bring a lot every time they come out.

If they are sleepy at night, they will find a piece of land with a suitable temperature, open it, hide half of themselves in it, and pour soil on their bodies. It is very warm, more comfortable than covering with a thick and soft quilt.In winter, many refugees would run to the vicinity of the Tranquility to soak up the heat, so as not to freeze to death silently in some corner.

The harvest in the past two days was not very good, and the three of them found some worthless metal pieces, not that kind of precious metal, and they couldn't be sold at the blacksmith's shop.Several people hesitated whether to continue walking inside.

The further you go, the closer you are to the aristocratic area, and the higher the probability of valuable relics appearing.I heard that there is also a mage union and a mage tower inside, so there must be a lot of good things left here.There are also the former lord's mansion and the nearby official mansion, maybe there are still some secret rooms and the like.

But the more you go in, the more difficult it is to grasp the direction. If you are not careful, your life will stay inside.

"Let's go inside and have a look. Everyone should be vigilant. If you see anything unusual, you must hide carefully." The eldest brother shook his clothes. Dust and clods, just lie on the ground, and no one will be able to find them out.

Just in case, they also pulled out a hemp rope, which everyone tugged to make sure the front and back could respond.

Now the fog is not so big. When the fog is very heavy in two months, people can't be seen clearly after a few meters. At that time, we need this hemp rope to connect with each other, so as not to lose our way.

If you get lost in a place like this, it's over.

As the saying goes, people make money and birds die for food. This sentence still has some truth.

The three of them originally planned to stop when they reached the urban area, but for some reason, their luck became very good afterwards. They found a piece of burnt silver in the urban area, which turned out to be a cup or something else, so the three of them thought again. , there are silver nuggets here, there should be better things inside.

If you get some more precious gold and silver, maybe you can build a pergola outside if you save it, and you can count yourself as a home.

All three longed for a permanent place of residence.

A humble, yet fervent wish.

In this way, the interests drove the three of them to move forward, and they walked and stopped like this for two or three days, but when they turned around, they found that they had run out of water and only had two pieces of bread left.

Although they did find a lot of good things in the past few days, and even a small piece of gold.But no matter how much money you have, you have to live to spend it.This looks very troublesome.

A person slapped himself hard, "It's all my fault. I said I was leaving before, so I insisted on looking for it again."

"Brother, what should we do now? We have no water, and we might collapse on the way out." The other one was also anxious, his mouth was peeling, but there was only one sip of water in the water bag, and he couldn't bear to drink it.

After all, the eldest brother is older and calmer, "I heard that there is an undisturbed lake nearby, where the water is drinkable and there are some edible aquatic plants. Let's go, let's look for it along the ruins, it must be nearby. As long as there is water, we can live."

The three of them headed towards the big lake next to the urban area without hesitation. As the water vapor in the air increased, they did find it quickly, but...

"What is that? Who actually opened up such a small farm in the Tranquility Territory?"

The three looked at the only piece of green between heaven and earth, where there were ponds, woods, grasslands and vegetable gardens, and a circle of green plants were planted at the foot of the mountain behind, which was incompatible with the dead dark gray around it, like a piece of emerald green gemstone Falling into the plaster, so abrupt and strange.

"Will it be the new lord?"

Qingchuan built a fence not far behind the house, built a thatched hut, and raised more than a dozen chickens.He will be fed twice a day, rice bran grains and vegetable leaves, and the rest of the time the chicks will peck on the ground by themselves.

Their feces will be collected by working paper figurines and thrown into the fertilizer fermentation tank. Qingchuan doesn't want to come in and step on the chicken manure.

He had just finished feeding his second meal today, and before he closed the door of the chicken coop, he heard the sound of dogs barking not far away.

That was the sound of three hellhounds.

The cubs of the three hellhounds are ferocious and powerful, and they are also very bears. They were thrown to Qingchuan by their troubled father to reform them.Every day is just wandering around, looking for trouble with kittens, catching fish in the water, nibbling on scarecrows and being chased and beaten by scarecrows.

He is a brat who dislikes dogs and is at his most honest.

Qing Chuan was still holding the bag of rice bran in his hand, and hurried to the front, and saw the little hell dog chasing three very embarrassed homeless people very excitedly, spitting all the way and chasing them around the lake.

"Xiao Hei!" Qing Chuan called out the name of the little Cerberus.

The little Cerberus is well-fed and well-raised. It is dark and its fur is as smooth as satin. It is a bit like a German Shepherd, except that it has three heads. Sometimes the three heads fight with themselves, but most of the time they are all three. Noisy others.

And it can't be noisy, and he spits fire in a hurry, and his personality is very irritable.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Boss, they steal food!

Xiao Hei came over immediately upon hearing the greeting, and complained to Qing Chuan.Qing Chuan rubbed its three heads, "Xiao Hei did a great job, eat fried chicken legs at noon." All children can't escape the temptation of fried chicken legs, and Cerberus is the same.

Xiao Hei immediately became happy, "Wow!" Three!

"Okay, three!"

The three homeless men were being chased like dogs. They didn't have much strength, and now they were lying on the ground and couldn't get up. When they saw Qingchuan bringing the hell dog, they were trembling with fright. They wanted to turn around and run away, but their legs were weak. Can't move.

"Big, big..."

This image is really tragic, with a vegetable leaf stuffed in his mouth, and there is still sand, and he is reluctant to spit it out, with tears in his eyes.

Qingchuan looked at them.

The courage of the three of them disappeared at this moment. Whether it was the puppet scarecrow or the three-headed magic dog, it all showed that the owner here was indeed a powerful magician.Even soldiers dare not face magicians casually, let alone ordinary people like them.

"Are you hungry? Do you want to come to my place for a meal?"

"Eh?" All three of them had the same expression, as if they were dreaming.

Are you hungry and dizzy?Why this hallucination?He heard someone invite them to dinner?Ah ha ha ha, must have fainted from hunger.

"I'm the new lord here. I've been here for so long, and this is the first time I've seen people outside. I'm a little curious about what's going on outside now. Come on, I can still afford a meal. Do you want to come over?" Qingchuan asked again.

The three of them had been hungry for a whole day, and their stomachs were rumbling. Now they heard that Qing Chuan invited them to dinner, and said twice to confirm that it was not a dream. They were so surprised that their mouths were crooked.

Have a meal?

Really please eat?

Eat, eat, eat!Even if it was poisonous, they wanted to eat a meal, so the three of them naturally nodded desperately.

A bowl of salted cabbage soup, a piece of fermented semolina bread, that's all, but the three hungry people gobbled it up, and it didn't feel simple, warm cabbage soup and soft fermented bread, even if they usually eat They all feel very luxurious, and it is especially delicious at this time.

They can only see food and nothing else.

Qing Chuan silently waited for them to finish eating, and then he called a paper figurine to come up and take away the plates and bowls.

The Cerberus circled around him, watching the three outsiders vigilantly, baring its deciduous teeth from time to time in a threatening gesture.

Seeing the paper figurine with a face as stiff as a dead puppet, the three people who came back rationally were a little frightened. They were not sure who this man was in front of them. I became suspicious of the food I just ate.

Of course, it is impossible to vomit, I would rather be a full ghost.

"Oh, this is just a puppet technique." Qing Chuan stretched out his hand, and the paper figurine, which was still alive just now, turned into a small piece of thin paper and landed in Qing Chuan's palm. Wanted to make sure it was indeed a piece of paper.

In fact, Qingchuan can make the paper figurine more flexible and natural, but this requires more energy, and it is really unnecessary.

"Are you the honorable Mr. Magician?"

Magician? ... "Ah, forget it." He is now wearing a hood, and others can't see his ears, so they don't know that he is an elf. All elves are both mages and warriors, and they are born spellcasters.

It's just that the relationship between elves and humans is not very good. Elves don't like the greed of humans, and humans don't like the nobility of elves.

Moreover, the expansion of human beings has caused the elves to retreat to remote corners.Humans have strong fecundity and a large base, and there are many powerful warriors and magicians. Although elves are born warriors and magicians, their number is still too small.

Hearing that Qing Chuan admitted that he was a magician, the three of them relaxed instead, "I don't know what your honorable lord has ordered?"

Magicians are all about equal exchange, and they will not plunder their wealth at will like greedy nobles.Although neither regards civilians as human beings.

Fortunately, although magicians have weird temperaments and are not easy to deal with, they have their own principles in dealing with things and will not mess around casually. For people of low status like them, magicians are more friendly.

"Are you homeless?" Qing Chuan asked.

"Yes." The three of them didn't hide anything. Anyway, they knew it at a glance. They were so destitute and had no serious job. They had to get a quiet collar to survive. Most of them were homeless people without household registration.

The homeless are people who have lost their hometown. Some of them offended the lord and escaped, some left because of the war, and some because of poverty.They don't have fields and houses, and they are disliked by the rulers and local residents, who think they are people who bring disasters and rob jobs.

Like a mouse in the dark, unable to see the light.So stay in each place for a short time, wandering around.

"Haven't you thought about finding a place to settle down?"

This question can only be asked by people who do not understand the suffering of the people.

All three of them smiled wryly, "We don't have any skills, how can we be willing to take us in? Even if they are looking for serfs, they still want young and strong."

"Since there is no place to go, do you want to consider living here? As the first batch of residents, you can enjoy the three-year land and head tax exemption policy. There are also many other benefits. I really don't like the quiet place. place, it's too quiet here."

"Is what you said true?" All three of them were stunned, their eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"You can think about it."

Silence Territory is really a desolate place that is not suitable for living. It takes three or four days to walk to the nearest small town. Basically, there is nothing.If it were someone else, no matter how downcast he would be, he would never consider settling here.

But the three brothers are really tired of being disgusted and disgusted by people outside. They want to have a home and a piece of land of their own. They dream of it.

Only when you have lost it, you will know how sacred the home is.If you have a place of your own, a home, it is worth dying right away.

Qingchuan promises that new residents can get a piece of free homestead and field, which is given to them, but only with the right to use it.It can be passed on to future generations, but it cannot be bought or sold. If you leave here, these lands will automatically return to the lord.

He also lent them food, tools, seeds, young animals and other supplies for survival, without interest, until next year at the latest.

All taxes are lower than outside, and taxes on fields and heads start three years later.

The basic taxes of the outer territories include but are not limited to land tax, head tax, resource use tax (such as the lord's wood, mushrooms, honey, etc. plants that grow on the lord's land and animals that pass through the lord's land and sky), and even marriage There are many kinds of taxes, farming taxes, etc.

Basically, for an ordinary civilian, he works hard for a whole year, less than three-tenths belong to himself, and the rest is tax.

Farmers are used to this kind of life, which has been the case for generations, and the rulers have been brainwashing: because you are of low blood and are untouchables, you must live this kind of life.I don't feel like I'm having a hard time either.

Qingchuan is not as exploitative as it is, nor has it drastically reformed the current tax policy.He just lowered taxes a little bit first.

The land tax is collected according to the upper, middle and lower grades of land, 30.00% for the upper grade, 20.00% for the middle grade, and 20.00% for the lower grade.At present, all are taxed according to the lower-class land.

The poll tax is also reduced. A poll tax is collected at the age of 16, half of the poll tax is collected at the age of 13, and no tax is collected under the age of 13.

Land tax and poll tax are heavy taxes. Once these two are reduced, everyone can breathe a little bit.

Resource use tax is also collected, but a free quota is set, such as wood used for heating. The standard for winter months is [-] catties a day, and the standard for other months is [-] catties a day.Additional fees will be charged for more than that.

Marriage tax, that is, the bride is unwilling to marry the lord for the first time, and then pays the money. This tax is cancelled, no more.

The breeding tax is basically 30.00% in the outside world, and here it is reduced to 20.00%.

Then there is the issue of labor and military service.

The outside world is like this, no matter men, women, old or young, everyone has to work for the lord voluntarily for one month every year, without food. Men over the age of 16 wait for orders at any time, changing from farmers to militiamen.

But in Silence, men need to participate in one year of military training when they are 50 years old, and the outstanding ones are selected as soldiers, with basic wages and benefits.If there is a war and the number of soldiers is not enough, men between the ages of [-] and [-] will be selected directly from families with many children.

Then every year, men and women who are over [-] but under [-] have to participate in hard labor, once a year, once a month, and food is included in the labor.

From a modern perspective, this tax is still very heavy, but the three of them were overjoyed and couldn't believe it.

Heavy taxes are exempted for the first three years, and taxes are not heavy after three years. Labor is limited to young and middle-aged men and women, and meals are even provided. Even the lord who is called the messenger of God will not have such a preferential policy.

In fact, the big head tax in the future will be commercial tax. When the commercial tax rises, the land tax and head tax will be reduced again, but there is no need to say this kind of thing now.

According to his own plan, Qingchuan set aside three pieces of land of about [-] square meters on a flat land not far from the lake as their homestead. Each homestead is allowed to have a small vegetable garden and a livestock shed of [-] square meters. The vegetable garden is not taxed.

Then not far behind the homestead, more than 100 meters away, is their own land, one piece for each person, one piece is equivalent to one mu in modern times.Qingchuan asked the paper figurines to reclaim it, water it thoroughly, separate it with ridges, and then put in the wooden sign of "someone's land".

The weather is not bad now, and a batch of grain vegetables can be planted urgently.

As a result, they didn't even care about the house. They borrowed iron farm tools and planted a batch of peas and chickpeas first.The reserved vegetable garden is not idle either, and water radish, cabbage and Chinese cabbage have been planted.

"If you leave the land idle, you will feel guilty." The three said that they would rather fall asleep in the open than plant the food first.

Soon the land was fully planted with plants.

All three of them are full of energy now, and the feeling of working for themselves is completely different.Qingchuan allowed them to use the unburned bricks and stones in the city, and they walked like ants for one or two kilometers every day to carry the stones and bricks. At first, they carried them on their shoulders, but later Qingchuan lent them an ox cart, and the speed increased a lot.

There is a kind of burnt light gray clay here, which is a good binder, almost like earth cement, and they use this clay as a binder.

Little by little, like little ants, slowly build their own home.

The terrain where Qingchuan is located is relatively high, and their house can be seen at a glance. It was built from scratch, but it took only a few months.

This is a single-story house with an attic. The bottom is divided into three rooms of different sizes. One is a dining room and living room, one is a kitchen, and the other is a bedroom. The attic is where food is stored.

This is a very typical dwelling here, and it is a good one.

In the countryside, there are houses built of wood and mud, covered with thatch, with large pavements and no functional isolation.Only wealthy families could afford to live in masonry houses with attics.

The walls inside were smoothed with mud, and there was nothing else, but no one was dissatisfied, and there was a completely different feeling between having a home and not having one.It is also sleeping on the mud floor, sleeping in the wild and sleeping in your own home. Sleeping in your own home will make you feel more at ease, even if this home doesn't even have a door.

Qingchuan borrowed some planks and tools and asked them to make doors, windows and beds by themselves.There are also clay pots for grain and water, clay pots for cooking and a thick quilt.

There were also several sturdy chicks.

Qing Chuan drank sweet and sour lemon tea, and marked a small tick on a piece of paper with a red pen.

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The author has something to say: This world is not a horror type~ leisurely working on infrastructure (*^▽^*)