I Just Won’t Play by the Book

Chapter two hundred and eighteen touch

.. Dilapidated and mottled low earth houses, the black bottom of the pot on the firewood stove, chickens, ducks, geese and dogs running about on the road unscrupulously, as far as the eye can see, the pile of mud and sand is desolate.

Standing in front of such a village, Jiang Beiran frowned.

The reason why he frowned was not because of the desolation, because even if he implemented a large number of new decrees, it would not take effect so quickly. It is impossible for the desolation of the countryside to be completely changed in a short period of time.

The reason why he frowned was because there were hardly any men in the village, and in broad daylight, there were only a few old women working in the fields.

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This kind of scene was seen a lot before Jiang Beiran was "in his own hands", and many places were like a daughter's country, and there was no man to be seen.

But after he started to patrol, this situation has become rare. Most officials will put some men in the village even if they are pretending. He has not seen such a "daughter village" for a while. .

At this time, Deng Xianghan stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid..."

"No need for words." Jiang Beiran reached out and stopped Deng Xianghan.

Jiang Beiran knew what Deng Xianghan was going to say. Under such circumstances, those who dared to so blatantly ignore the new decree were most likely backed by a sect or a demon sect. If they entered, there would inevitably be conflicts.

However, Jiang Beiran, the sect site, will have to touch it sooner or later, it's just a matter of time. Now that it hits, it's okay to go in and see.

Anyway, the system did not jump the prompt.

Taking Deng Xianghan and the others into the village, a few children who were playing on the roadside saw Jiangbei and immediately scattered birds and beasts, as if they had seen some beasts.

Then a few women who were chatting hurriedly ran back to their house and closed the door firmly with a bang.

Seeing this, Jiang Beiran frowned again. Now he has ordered people to post news of his inspections in various counties and counties everywhere. Everywhere he goes, the villagers are all looking forward to it, waiting for him, the holy general, to bring hope to them.

But this village seems to have never seen such a notice at all. When they see people dressed in luxurious clothes, they feel that they are going to harm them.

"Damn beasts! How dare you come to our village to harm the villagers! I will fight with you!"

Just when Jiang Beiran was going to find the village chief or the security chief, a peasant suddenly appeared in front of him out of thin air, and after scolding him, he picked up a pitchfork and stabbed him.

But the pitchfork penetrated his chest like a phantom.

"Oh Huo? Could this be the spirit body?"

It was the first time that Jiang Beiran encountered such a ghost since he obtained the [Psychic] point, and he felt quite novel.

‘It seems that the role of psychic is indeed to communicate with the soul. ’

Wanting to understand this, Jiang Beiran turned around and said to Deng Xianghan and the others: "Go to the village to see, if there are poor people, please help."

"According to the order."

Wait until the three girls leave? Jiang Beiran looked at the farmer in the state of soul and said, "Do you know that you are already dead?"

"Of course I know I'm dead, but I won't let me go as a ghost... Huh!? You can see me!?" The peasant shouted in horror.

"Huh? See clearly."

"People!!!!"

The frightened peasant ran away like crazy.

"It's obvious that you were squeaking just now... You're really a coward."

Didn't go after the ghost? Jiang Beiran wandered around the village.

The basic facilities of this village are complete. There is a pond in front of the gate? There are rice fields and vegetable fields behind the gate, and there is a yard outside the house with fruit trees in the yard.

But unfortunately, the pond has completely dried up? The rice fields and vegetable fields have also been deserted? There are a few good fruit trees, but most of them are already bare.

"Oh? This is too desolate." Jiang Beiran sighed.

"It's not your dog officials!"

Looking back, I saw that the peasant man who was scared away just now ran back, and Chao Jiang Beiran, who was hiding far away, shouted.

"Aren't you running away?"

The peasant slapped his neck and replied, "I'm already dead anyway! You still have the ability to make me die again!"

"That's not true." Jiang Beiran replied.

"What on earth are you doing in the village! The valuable things in the village have already been robbed? What else do you want to do!?"

"Hasn't your village posted a notice of the emperor's inspection of the county?"

"Notice? We don't understand that thing? Let's see what it does."

Just when Jiang Beiran was going to ask something? An old woman suddenly followed Mu Yao and knelt down when she saw Jiang Beiran.

"Your Majesty! Do you have mercy? Help us, we really can't live anymore."

Jiang Beiran hurriedly stepped forward to help Auntie up and said, "Auntie, if you have something to talk about slowly, I will help you solve it."

"Oh! God's eyes have opened up. Your Majesty, all the men in our village have been captured, and there are only women left who can't do anything. Seeing that the spring ploughing is about to pass, the fields are still deserted."

"Who took the men from the village?"

"We don't know either! Last year, a group of murderers suddenly came to the village. They rushed in and arrested my son. I chased out and tried to chase my son back, but the murderers were very vicious. Anyone who dared to stop them would kill them. Who! In the end, we had no choice but to watch all the men in the village were captured by them."

'Do not you know……'

During the talk, more women and old people

The wives ran over one after another and knelt around Jiang Beiran in a circle crying and crying.

In the crowd, Deng Xianghan walked up to Jiang Beiran and said, "Your Majesty, we sent some food to these villagers, and they all knew that you were here to rescue them."

Jiang Beiran, who hadn't seen this fight for a while, asked Mu Yao and the others to help the villagers up, and then asked them one by one, and found that they didn't know where their men or sons were taken.

"What about your village chief?" Jiang Beiran asked.

Hearing this question, the villagers were silent for a while, and the last woman answered: "The village chief... The village chief was beaten to death when he stopped those wicked people."

‘Alas, what a pity for a good village chief. ’

Just when Jiang Beiran was thinking about where to start the investigation, the peasant in the state of soul carefully approached Jiang Beiran and said, "Are you the emperor? The emperor who takes care of the people in the world?"

In the exchange just now, Jiang Beiran found that he could communicate with this ghost with his mental power, so he nodded directly and replied with his mental power: "If it is a fake."

"Didn't the emperor know that we farmers should pay taxes all day long! Why do you still come here to deliver food?"

"The emperor has changed, I don't want you to pay taxes, I want you to be full."

"Change the emperor? It's good to change the emperor! The emperor in front knew that he wanted our money. You don't want our money, but you give us food. You must be a good emperor! I kowtow to you!"

The peasant said he bowed his head and kowtowed more than a dozen heads in one go.

"Stop knocking, I can't hear you knocking like that."

"Your Majesty, then go and bring my son back! I'll let him give you a knock, promise!"

"Your son? You know who the man in the village was taken away by?"

"Of course I know! We were all taken away together."

"Then can you find them now?"

"Yes! Of course I can! I just came back from there, and I just wanted to go back to the village to take a look at my mother-in-law."

"Okay, you come and lead the way, and I'll take your son back."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you are such a good person! I'll take you there!"

After leaving some food for the villagers, Jiang Beiran took Mu Yao and the others out of the village and followed the farmer all the way west.

"Your Majesty, where are we going?" Mu Yao asked curiously.

"Go find the men in the village."

"Your Majesty, you already know where they are!?"

Mu Yao was shocked, obviously they were listening to the same group of villagers, but how could the emperor already know where all the men in the village went! ?

'Is this the difference between me and the emperor? ’

Deng Xianghan was also surprised. She really couldn't imagine which of the words just now could tell where the men in the village went.

Only Kong Qianqian took it for granted, after all, she always believed that there was nothing in this world that the emperor couldn't do.

Walking on the road, Jiang Beiran looked at the peasant and asked, "Why were you arrested?"

"Alas." The peasant sighed: "Dig the stone! I dug it day and night, and I don't know what the stone is called. It's green and glows."

'Ling stone? ' Hearing the description of the peasant man, Jiang Beiran immediately understood what he was talking about.

The peasant man who recalled this incident opened his chat box and sighed repeatedly: "Oh, it is very difficult to dig a mine! After digging for a few days, you may not be able to dig a piece. If you can't dig a mine, those wicked people will only give us some. Drinking gruel, or steamed buns like stones, several people were exhausted because their bodies couldn't stand it."

Hearing this passage, Jiang Beiran suddenly recalled his experience of being deceived into the black kiln. In those days, his life was really worse than death. If it wasn't for the hope of a system, he reckoned that he would not be able to escape at all. That day.

Just chatting and walking over two mountains, the peasant man who was complaining of suffering suddenly pointed to the front and said, "Your Majesty! That's it! The men in our village are all there!"

Jiang Beiran looked at the place pointed by the farmer, and it was indeed a mine.

Mu Yao, who followed silently along the way, saw that the emperor had really found a place, and was shocked again for a while, and she didn't understand how the emperor did it.

Using his mental power to sense the mine, Jiang Beiran found that there was indeed a cultivator in it. Although it was only a Qi level, it meant that the mine did have a sect background.

At the moment of entering the mine, Jiang Beiran sensed the running formation of protecting the mountain, cracked the formation, and Jiang Beiran and his party walked into the mine.

At the entrance of the mine, a guard was stunned when he saw Jiang Beiran and his group swaggering in, then immediately stood up and planned to scold Jiang Beiran, but when he saw Jiang Beiran's gorgeous clothes, he was afraid that he would provoke some big shots, so he changed his mouth. : "What are you doing here?"

Jiang Beiran glanced at the guard and said, "Call out your manager."

The guard frowned, feeling that the visitor was not good, "Our manager has gone out, you can tell me if you have anything."

Too lazy to talk to him, Jiang Beiran shouted directly, "Mu Yao."

Mu Yao, who had cooperated several times, directly pulled out the Shuanghua Sword King and stabbed it on the rock!

Just listening to the sound of "bang", the huge rock collapsed into pieces in an instant and rolled down the mountain.

The guard instantly understood that the person who came was a cultivator, and immediately cupped his hands and said, "Please wait a moment for the three of you, I'll find the manager right away." After speaking, he turned his head and ran into the mine.

Soon, a

The figure walked towards them quickly, and judging from the clothes, it looked like an expert.

When he came to Jiang Beiran, the man cupped his hands and said, "Tao Yingfa, a disciple of the Lower Thunder Sect, I don't know why a few Xuan friends are here?"

'Thundering Sect...'

Jiang Beiran knew that this sect, the sect master was a powerhouse of Xuanwang level, and it was regarded as a relatively famous sect in Hezhi County.

"I ask you, where do the workers in your mine come from."

'I! ? ’

Hearing Jiang Beiran's claim, Tao Yingfa instantly understood that these people were here to smash the scene.

Because he had already heard that the new emperor of Shengguo was patrolling everywhere, and he had posted notices everywhere.

Knowing that the person who came here was smashing the scene, Tao Yingfa was no longer polite, and said proudly: "What kind of new emperor of Shengguo are you? Tell you, don't use chicken feathers as an arrow, when will the imperial court be able to take care of the sect's affairs?"

"I really don't care about the sect's affairs, but I want to care about the people of Chengguo. You are all men caught from the village in this mine, right or not?"

"So what! If you have the ability, you can talk to our Sect Master."

"Okay, then I'll go to Sect Master Tang and talk about it."

Seeing Jiang Beiran turn around and leave, looking at him really looking for the sect master, Tao Yingfa hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "Hey! Wait!"

"What else?" Jiang Beiran asked back.

"Let me tell you, it's never going to end well for the imperial court to fight against the sect. You have to think clearly!"

"Oh," Jiang Beiran laughed, "then there will be."

After saying that, he walked down the mountain.

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