SWDnovel Chapter 176
Chapter 176
Qin He returned to the crematorium and bought a barrel along the way.
As soon as the crematorium was cleaned, Bingmasi's body was brought over.
There are a lot of them, enough for two to three per crematorium.
Qin He picked three of them, closed the door and cremated the corpses.
As soon as the calf left, the big bastard felt guilty and worked hard, not daring to say a word of nonsense.
With its efforts, within two hours, all three corpses were incinerated.
All three are disaster victims from other places, and they are still from the same clan.
Surnamed Yu, the clan has more than two hundred members and has been passed down to the sixth generation.
It can't be said that they are very rich, but the clan has land and acres, works hard, and has enough food and clothing.
But as the world became more and more chaotic and more and more people fled, the government could not collect taxes, so it could only increase taxes for these people who hadn't escaped.
The remaining half of the tax is doubled, and the remaining quarter of the tax is quadrupled.
Regardless of how many people pay taxes, the total amount of tax money can't be shaken anyway, and if they don't pay, they will be arrested and beheaded.
To make matters worse, various rich families, dignitaries, and wealthy merchants took the opportunity to buy people's fields at low prices, staking the land wantonly, and taking advantage of the fire to rob.
And they don't pay taxes.
People either went bankrupt or sold themselves as sharecroppers.
As a result, the people at both ends and Dali became poorer and poorer, while the "worms" in the middle became more and more moist.
Hundreds of members of the Liao clan were forced to become refugees in this way, and went to the capital with a glimmer of hope in their hearts. As a result, 90% of them died on the way, and the remaining 10% were buried under the heavy snow, and there was no one who could breathe.
Qin He felt depressed when he saw it.
Although the memory of the predecessor has faded, it still inevitably leaves traces.
The great misfortune in troubled times is very similar.
Breathing out softly, Qin He left the crematorium, walking aimlessly.
On both sides of the road, you can see refugees huddled in corners everywhere, so silent that they can't even hear the wind, and their bodies are covered in snow.
Some are one, some are a bunch.
Some places can even stretch from one end of the street to the other.
The howling cold wind can take away any trace of warmth from a person's body. Even if he finds a hiding place, if there is no food in his belly, he still can't survive for two days.
The huge capital is like a torture chamber at the moment, and all those who are hungry will be mercilessly frozen to death.
No mercy.
"Wow~"
At this moment, a baby cry reached Qin He's ears.
The sound was extremely weak, mixed in the wind and snow, if it wasn't for the wind and ears, it would never be heard.
Qin He fixed his body, quickly locked the position, turned around and walked more than a hundred steps, and came to a corner.
There were two people in front of them, a man and a woman, their heads and faces were covered with snow, and they had been frozen to death.
The man was holding a wooden stick and staring at the front. There was a swaddling baby in the woman's arms, and the faint voice came from inside.
Peeling off the snow, it was a baby, wrapped thickly in the adult's clothes, the small face was black and blue from the cold, the breath was weak, the eyebrows were covered with a layer of ice, and the baby was crying weakly without a sound.
In front of the man glaring, there were three refugees who were frozen to death, staring greedily at the baby in the woman's arms.
It's a sinful picture.
Three refugees tried to take the baby for food, but the baby's parents desperately protected it.
In the process of stalemate, evil is also frozen together.
The three refugees never had the chance to snatch the baby, and the baby's parents never had the chance to protect the baby.
"commit a sin."
Qin He shook his head, reached out to pick up the baby in the swaddle, and left straight away.
...
At the same time, the Zhongshan Palace is separated by a wall.
Decorated with lanterns and festoons, there was a lot of voices.
The red lanterns are hung high, and the inscription "Fortune is like the East China Sea, longevity is better than Nanshan" is particularly eye-catching.
Today is the 50th birthday of Xu Tianen, the king of Zhongshan. The palace is full of guests and friends.
The flowing water banquet in the palace is different from the flowing water banquet that ordinary people understand, the kind where one eats one table and walks the other.
This is a real "flowing water" feast.
The guests sat around, and in front of them was a "flowing water" full of wine fragrance. Floating on it were lotus lanterns with candles and various delicacies supported by lotus leaves. Flying in the sky, swimming in the water, running on the ground, everything you can eat, steamed, boiled, fried, steamed, steamed, hot, cold, raw, Hangzhou pastries Yangzhou's noodles, Suzhou's fish sauce and Luzhou's soup.
The same is true for the Manchu Banquet.
Flowing water is not water, but a river of fine wine!
Under the rotation of the beautiful maid, the bamboo wine wheel maintains the activity of "flowing water", and the water vapor is dense.
During the banquet, graceful dancers danced like a fairyland on earth.
The guests all had oily faces, drunken eyes, or laughed loudly, or raised their glasses indulgently. There were more than two hundred people, and it was very lively.
Xu Tianen, the king of Zhongshan, sat on the main seat, his face was full of red light.
"I wish the prince a long life and a three thousand years old!"
"Your Majesty He is blessed like the long flowing water in the East Sea, and your life is not as old as Nanshan!"
"I wish the prince, Yaochi, will not grow old in spring, and let Yue Yufangchen be half as young as he is 100 years old!"
"..."
Reputable guests kept getting up to toast and toast, and Xu Tianen also toasted frequently.
Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.
A housekeeper brought a wet towel, and Xu Tianen wiped his face. At this time, the housekeeper whispered: "My lord, the messenger came to report that many tenant farmers in Yongqing County asked for a delay in paying rent due to the cut-off of the autumn harvest, and injured our tenants. There are about 500 renters, please decide."
"What should I do to resist rent, do I need to say more?"
Xu Tianen snorted coldly, and said: "I rented the land to them, and they should pay the rent regularly. What does the natural disaster have to do with us? It's not a natural disaster caused by us."
"But my lord, the autumn harvest in Yongqing is over, and those people really can't hand over the food." The butler hesitated for a moment and said.
"Fart, they are a bunch of unscrupulous people. This king gave them the fields. They don't pay the rent and hurt others. They retaliate against them. Don't talk nonsense with them. Kill those who take the lead, and no one will dare to make trouble. Yes." Xu Tianen said, and added: "This year's land rent cannot be less than a grain of grain, but it is clearly written in the lease agreement that they are lazy if they can't grow grain, and they deserve to eat the soil and gnaw the bark."
"Yes, my lord." The butler could only bow his head and agree.
Xu Tianen threw down the towel, picked up the chopsticks and was about to take a bite, but found that the wine river, which was full of beautiful things just now, was actually empty.
Just as he was about to have an attack, he suddenly realized that a young man in coarse linen clothes was holding a pair of chopsticks and waving them about a dozen seats below his head, which was airtight.
All the food that passed by was stuffed into his mouth.
One and a half chickens, three pork knuckles.
What's even more strange is that this person actually held a baby in his arms.