Chapter 196

Hua Ruge has come to the ancient dragon city for the second time. Last time, she looked at the barren, poverty and chaos here as a spectator, but now she only thinks that her head is big, which is really the worst city in the world.

The ancient dragon city is very large. It takes a few days to ride from one side of the city to the other. It can be said that it's a huge city with a huge number. But it's just because of this that it's more difficult to govern here.

There is not even a peripheral wall, only a thin wall in the center of the city. Hua rugo thought that two nine level spiritualism could destroy the wall.

After walking through the inner city, she went to the following urban and Rural Micro clothes for a visit. Now it's winter. Half of the houses of the rural people are empty. Hua Ruge knocked on the door of one house and planned to take a rest to find out about it.

This is an ordinary family with only one family of three. Two old people and a beautiful girl are about the same age as Hua Ruge.

The family is very careful. If they had not seen Hua rugo as a girl, they would not have opened the door.

The house the family lived in was very simple, there was no fire pot in the house, and the temperature was almost the same as the outside, so it was difficult for Hua Ruge to imagine how to live here.

"I'm sorry. I can't go up the mountain to cut firewood without any labor at home. Let's drink two bowls of hot water to warm my body." Said the old woman, bringing two bowls of water.

"Thank you, old man. I'm sorry." Hua Ruge gets up and takes it and hands it to mink.

Mink took it and nodded slightly at the old man.

The old woman, with a smile, went back to the kitchen.

The old man sat at one end of the table and asked, "young man, why do you come here in such a cold day?"

"I've just come to the city to vote for my relatives." Hua Yuege said politely, but he didn't tell the truth.

She was afraid of scaring people, and she was afraid that people would think she was bragging, but she could not ask anything.

The old man sighed and said, "the world is difficult."

Hua Ruge nodded his head and asked, "old man, I don't quite understand when I first came here. Where are the residents here? Why are many rooms empty?"

"Ah." The old man sighed: "either starved to death, or could not live to go far away to make a living, the rest of us are waiting to die."

Hua Ruge raised his eyebrows and asked, "it won't be so hard. As far as I know, although the land here is poor and not high-yield, there should be no problem in raising the living people. How can they not survive?"

"Young man, I don't know what you come from other places. We produce not only insufficient food but also some money every year. But after paying taxes, most of our families don't have enough to eat."

"We don't have young people to work in our family. We can live by eating less."

"How much is that tax?" Hua Yuege asked.

Before she came here, she knew that there was no tax in the city, and that she needed court subsidies every year, which was totally wrong with what the old man now said.

"Sixty percent." The old man sighed, "my tax hasn't been paid this year. The official has come to urge me for three days. I don't know what to do."

"What?" Hua is like a song.

She knew that the concept of 60% was 60% of all the harvests, which was to take away more than half of them, not to mention the poor land. Even those rich places had been poor for several years.

She had heard that the Deputy City Lord was not a good thing. Unexpectedly, she had no bottom line.

It's persecuting people. It's so far away from the emperor. You can do whatever you want.

The old man sighed.

"Old people don't have to worry, they will get better." Hua Ruge said with relief.

The old man shook his head and said, "young man, you don't know the power of the Vice City Lord. I'm afraid the imperial court can't take him. How can he get better?"

"There is always a way. Maybe the emperor will send a powerful Lord when he faints." Hua Yuege smiles lightly.

"The girl is joking." The old man shook his head.

At this time, the old woman and the girl came out of the kitchen. The old woman was in front of her and the girl was hiding behind her mother. She looked shy.

"The girl was shy when she saw strangers from childhood." "Qiao'er, bring the sweet potatoes," said the old woman with a look back

The girl smelled and put a plate of sweet potatoes on the table. She hung her head and blushed.

Hua Ruge thinks it's all mink. The general girl can't bear to see this look.

"Thank you, my sister is so virtuous." Hua Ruge sincerely boasted that she was almost the same size as others, and she was never close to the virtuous.

"Thank you, sister." Qiao son hears to boast her words finally to have a bit self-confidence, look up way: "elder sister is really good-looking."

"It's not as good as him." Hua Ruge points to mink.

As expected, the girl immediately lowered her head, and her ears were all red.

"The boy didn't see the world, which made them laugh." Although the old man said that, he smiled on his face, without any reproach.

"No, it's lovely." Hua Ruge looks at such warmth and feels a little warm in her heart.

Such a family may not have enough to eat and wear, but it is much better than those intriguing in the big family.

But the bad situation is temporary. Who let her come.

Then Hua Ruge and mink began to eat sweet potatoes. In this cold day, there is nothing more popular than sweet potatoes.

But there are not many sweet potatoes. It seems that they can only eat two.

Hua rugo reached into his sleeve and took out two boxes of cakes. "It's not good to eat only yours. Let's change to eat."

Qiao'er's eyes are fixed on the beautiful box as soon as she hears that there are cakes. She grew up in the countryside and only heard that the cakes are very delicious, but she never tasted them.

"This is what you eat on the way. What can I do for you? Take it back." The old man said.

Hua Ruge's words were not clear when he was scalded by sweet potatoes: "I've arrived. I don't need to go any more. Besides, I can't eat for nothing."

What else did the old man want to say, but the old woman couldn't help saying, "thank you both."

"Thank you for the hot sweet potato."

The atmosphere in the room is very warm, but there are some people who don't make people quiet.

"Bang!"

The gate seemed to be knocked open by something, and then came out a voice: "I'm old enough to sell your daughter without paying taxes today."

The girl is holding the dessert carefully bit, smell the words, throw it to the ground, pale face.

"I'm not afraid. Dad won't sell you. You should hide first." The old man said that his eyes were flustered at the moment, but he did not forget to protect his daughter.

Hua Ruge sits there and continues to eat sweet potatoes. The mink doesn't seem to hear him.

"You two follow the little girl to hide behind. The official is unreasonable. Don't make up your mind again." The old man said.

Hua Ruge laughed as he ate: "old man, I dare not say anything else, but it's unreasonable. I'm afraid few people are my opponents."