Song Yin in the last days

"Is this Ming City?" Xiao Wu asked.

In fact, this is not so much a question as it is an exclamation.

Before coming here, he had already heard a lot about Mingcheng from Gu Yu, but no matter how much he heard, it was still not enough to see it with his own eyes. Can't stop admiring - Ming City is more like a city than Yunzhi, it is still a prosperous ancient city with strong ancient style, tall and majestic, towering into the sky!

As a mountain city, like Yaoli, Ming City was built according to the mountain, but the scale is more than ten times larger than that of Yaoli. They are still two or three miles away from the city gate. The situation inside the city is not clear, but the city wall As high as 16 meters, beyond the city wall, you can vaguely see a large area of ​​dark houses. Among them, several "towers" are particularly eye-catching, with pointed roofs pointing directly to the sky... For elementary school students who grew up in remote areas, it is not just "towering into the sky". Cloud" Well!

Gu Yu let out a "hmm", with complex eyes, which not only contained reverence and envy, but also unwillingness and entanglement, and said, "Those towers are temples."

Someone nearby sneered and laughed at them: "Beast slaves are beast slaves, and they haven't even been to Mingcheng."

Xiao Wu's eyes dimmed, but his anger quickly turned to disdain, and he let go of his clenched fists, with a look of "I don't know as much as a kid" - he has official duties, Do not jeopardize public affairs because of personal grievances!

The bear boy was completely irritated by his attitude, he rushed up and punched him, the elementary school student who endured the humiliation flexibly avoided it, and endured it again, of course, while being patient, it didn't prevent him from stretching out his legs and tripping the opponent neatly.

Seeing that the bear child was falling to the ground, a big hand stretched out beside him to catch him firmly.But the man had just secured the brat, and when he raised his hand, he slapped him: "How many times have I told you that you are not allowed to make trouble when you arrive in Mingcheng, and you don't want to make trouble!"

"I haven't arrived in Mingcheng yet..." Xiongzi argued in a low voice.

"The city gate is ahead, and here is Ming City! From now on, if you dare to cause trouble for me, I will see if I can't beat you to death!" Before he finished speaking, he slapped you again, the force was not light, and the bear child was completely beaten He lost his temper and was carried away by him in a disheartened manner. Before leaving, the strong and strong man deliberately turned his head to look at Xiao Wu, his eyes were dark and full of warning.

Xiao Wu shrugged his shoulders, but he hurriedly stopped halfway through the shrug. This habit did not match his personality and had to be changed.

The one big and one young just now were father and son, they met on the road the day before yesterday, it took a full six days to walk from Fengxialing to Mingcheng, and there were about twenty villages along the way, the father and son came from among them of a village.The natural conditions in these villages are not as bad as Fengxialing. The most obvious thing is that there is not much water shortage. If there is water, you can grow sand fruits and crops, and the living conditions will naturally be much better.

But in Xiao Wu's eyes, these people's lives are also very poor. They eat a kind of pancake made of sweet potato powder mixed with sand fruit powder every day, which is not the case for the poorest family in Xianyin Town.But when they faced the villagers of Fengxialing who were traveling with the sand beasts, many of them were filled with a sense of superiority. More than once he heard someone call them "beast slaves" contemptuously, and the children inevitably felt conflicted.It is very likely that it is his attitude of "not being friendly enough" and "not being envious enough" that annoyed Xiongzi, who always challenged him. If Li Xia hadn't been suppressed by "official affairs", Xiao Wu's shoes would have been fisted a long time ago "Beat him!"

When the two children clashed, Gu Yu and Li Xia watched silently, until the father and son walked away, Gu Yu whispered: "Don't pay attention to them, say that we are beast slaves, they are still serfs, at least we don't need to spend money Please God attendant enter the village to wipe out wild beasts." These villages are not covered by sand beasts, and the god envoys have not given them anything to defend themselves. The villages are often attacked by mutant beasts, so in addition to paying taxes to Mingcheng, they also have to spend money. Qian invited God's servants from Mingcheng to clean up and suppress, and life may not be so easy.

"Forget it, let's hurry up and line up." Li Xia greeted the two of them.

"Are they queuing here to enter the city?" Xiao Wu was dumbfounded.The team in front of them was at least two miles long, and everyone carried various crops on their shoulders, and some of them came here with livestock like them.

Gu Yu explained: "Everyone wants to pay their taxes before the cold winter, and they have to queue for a long time at this time of year."

It turned out that they were all here to pay taxes, but... God, when is this going to be scheduled? !

The primary school student was completely stupefied, completely oblivious to the two pairs of smiling eyes not far behind him.

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When Xiao Wu waited in line until he sighed and sighed and was bored, the four Wu Xiu who also had official duties were doing hard labor in the temple.

They have been in town for half a month.The third aunt didn't have any food left to help them, so she stayed for one night and ate a meal of black steamed buns. Early the next morning, the third aunt took out something similar to the contract and said it was a document for hard labor, and asked them to sign it. They signed the name, then handed over the contract to them, and simply sent them on the road, only confessing that this was their entry document for entering Ming City, without it, they would not even be able to enter the city gate.By the way, before leaving, one person gave three black steamed buns. Of course, all of these were not free. They went on the road with them, and each of them had fifteen large debts. It is said that everything was recorded in the documents.

This contract for entering the city is really evil. After signing it, they will stick to them. The document acted as if he wanted to escape, so he was killed on the spot.

The four are all martial arts, and they have reached the third level after seven years of practice. It can be seen that they are all good in aptitude. After scolding——Mingcheng is far more like "the hometown of magic sticks" than their Xianyin Town. Are the things in Mingcheng so active?For the light ones, it is very likely that they will be arrested as soon as they arrive in Mingcheng, and for the serious ones, they may die on the spot... Fortunately, he and Song Yin were not at ease, so they followed them specially!

It happened that Zhu Xiao was going to Mingcheng, Song Yin simply followed, half to find out the situation, and half to escort these thieves boldly.The matter of the paperwork reminded him that these young people are a little ignorant of their ambitions, and their families are still waiting for them to return home safely, so they can't accidentally get out of it.

So, on the day Xu Lingfeng and Zhou Nan fought, Song Yin and the others had just returned to Fengxia Ridge from Ming City.

But today, the baby son was going to enter the city, and the husband and wife were even more worried, and followed the team not far or near.Song Yin entered Ming City for the second time, and he still didn't dare to take it lightly. Last time, he warned that there was something guarding the city before he reached the gate of Jiuhuantian. Once he used magic, he would be noticed immediately.

Song Yin and the others' "legal status" today is Zhu Xiao's hired worker. It's amazing that Zhu Xiao is actually a "legal resident" of Mingcheng!

Zhu Xiao has followed the Protoss for many years, and he is fearless and tenacious. However, no matter from which point of view, Zhu Xiao is not expected to be a spy. How did he get in?Moreover, it has not been discovered for such a long time!

In any case, for Mingcheng and the Protoss, there is no human being who has more say than Zhuxiao.

According to Zhu Xiao, the Protoss has been operating here for many years, and it is one of their underground bases.Eight years ago, the power communication and traffic in this region were cut off at the same time, and it became a so-called "blackout area". Natural disasters caused the destruction of all cities, countless casualties, and severe food shortages. Afterwards, the survivors killed each other in order to compete for supplies. It is staged on a global scale, how can Mingcheng be spared?

At this time, the Protoss turned from the dark to the bright, using the hoarded building materials to build the bright city, and firmly controlled the surrounding area with the materials in their hands. In just one year, they became "one party vassals", controlling an area of ​​tens of thousands of people. square kilometers.Of course, it is a bit exaggerated to say "control", especially in remote areas, it may be more appropriate to say "influence", and Zhu Xiao is a businessman from these "remote areas".

Because of the sudden rise of Mingcheng, a total of nearly one million people survived on this land. Although it only accounted for 5% of the population before the end of the world, if there is no strong intervention of the Protoss, it will be a problem whether there are 1% of the survivors, so Objectively speaking, the Protoss did a good thing, although it was not his intention.These survivors lived in hundreds of villages and towns, of which Mingcheng accounted for one-fifth, with a population of 20. Under the current conditions, this is probably the limit of the "non-agricultural population" that can be supported.

With so many people and such a big place, merchants are definitely needed. Now there are no cars, trains or planes. Everything has returned to the original caravan era. It is normal to go back and forth for three or four months. For Zhu Xiao, it was tailor-made, so he naturally became a caravan dealer.