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400, [a story like storytelling]

"Did the guest come from afar?" The man dressed in a farmer diagonally opposite smashed his mouth, savoring the sip of turbid wine he had just drunk, stretched out his chopsticks and held a piece of pork liver, and smiled: "You asked me, but I asked the right person. I had gone north when I was young and walked two hundred miles."

"The geography of our northward here is actually nothing to say. This is Qingtou Prefecture, Xianyingzhou. Further north, there is a flat land. The road is straight and wide. Just walk along the way. Go west to the north and walk for more than a hundred miles. There is a big city with all kinds of fun inside, just like a paradise on earth."

"According to the old people in the village, you can reach the sea by walking 110 miles east, but no one in the village has seen it before. But hawkers often come here to sell shrimp paste and shrimp. It is said that they were caught from the sea east. They taste very good and have a lot of food."

Fang Chang thanked him, brought the bowl and gave him a little respect to the other party, and then took a sip.

The other party did not ask about his origin, but only guessed that Fang Chang came from a farther south.

This is not unusual in the village, because when ordinary people sit at the table, their first words are often "Where are relatives?", and then they can quickly become familiar with each other. After Fang Chang sat at the table, he saw that the people around him greeted each other like this.

But Fang Chang's appearance, with a long figure, a starry-eyed and starry-eyed body, a white dress without dust, a strange backpack and a weapon behind her back, she didn't seem to be doing farm work - in fact, Fang Chang did a lot of farm work on the cliff - in short, this man in white seemed very difficult to mess with, so everyone retreated when facing him.

Then someone next to him saw that they stopped talking about northern geography, so he continued to say:

"I just talked about the haunted city. It was rumored that the city god personally came out to ask for a dream and solved it. I also heard something else. Now the world is in chaos. Didn't our magistrate suddenly increase taxes two years ago? It is said that the magistrate is also preparing to raise troops and attack the nearby prefectures like those in the south."

"As a result, there are experts in the city who can calculate and do it, and it is impossible to break the matter. So in order to ensure peace in the world, on a dark night, they carried two sledgehammers and rushed into the state yamen. It is said that the howlings and weapons can be heard in half of the city, which scared the surrounding villagers and shivered in the quilt, so they never dared to mention them."

"Later everyone said that in that battle, it was a bloody battle. The state yamen encouraged the magistrate to make trouble and surrounded the masters and attacked the masters, and they fought and fought. They were all experts who could fly over the eaves and walls, and almost opened up all the tiles in the state yamen, so they were only levied and rebuilt the government yamen afterwards. Do you still remember it?"

People around you nodded at the same time. For the people, corvee labor has always been a painful thing and their memories will be very deep.

Seeing that the people on the table looked at him, the speaker became more excited. He happily drank a small sip of wine, held a piece of meat, chewed exaggeratedly, and waved his hand:

"That's right! If it weren't for the inside being damaged, why do you need to rebuild it? After all, it's said, 'Officials don't repair the yamen'."

A young man next to him touched his arm and reminded him:

"Uncle Fourth, tell me about that master."

"Oh oh okay." Seeing that everyone's focus was not on the trampling of the state yamen, the raving-talking villager quickly said, "No one could see clearly the appearance of that master. He only said that his two sled hammers were dancing like flowers, and the wind was whistling. The subordinates of the state yamen master were killed when they were touched."

"Then the master killed through the enemy formation and saw that the master ran away, he weighed the hammer in his right hand, shouted loudly, threw it out, and hit the master's back, smashed it into the wall, and immediately got the account."

The villagers looked very talented in storytelling. Some of the people on the table heard it wonderfully and couldn't help but want to applaud, but when they thought that this was the funeral scene, they didn't shout it out.

Just listen to him continue:

"After the master subdued the group, he did not pick up his hammer, but walked straight to the magistrate, grabbed the other party's collar, and asked him to stop recruiting troops and garrison grain. The magistrate was frightened and had to accept it, ordering to stop collecting taxes and disband the gathering of state soldiers."

"As a result, the master stopped when he saw the opportunity, and even forced himself to seek the concubine of the magistrate. The magistrate endured it." He paused and saw that everyone on the table looked at him. With such a degree of attention from the villagers, Mei's eyes were a little confused, "And then something went wrong in this last step."

The young man next to him couldn't help but urged: "What's behind? Uncle Fourth."

"Don't worry, listen to me." The villager waved his hand impatiently and continued, "In theory, the master has achieved his goal, so it is best to stop. As a result, he has become more and more eager to take the beautiful concubine of the prefect, which is a bit out of line."

"Originally, the magistrate was already scared. Seeing that there was no accident, this person was going to take the beauty back, but it turned out to be a big deal." At this point, the villagers almost danced, "The magistrate's concubine was actually a difficult person to meet. With extremely handsome skills, he came out and ran away to find trouble."

"But what the prefect did before had hurt the woman's heart, so the other party ran away before the prefect tried to stay. She lived in seclusion in the city, not knowing where to hide, and no one could find a place."

Hearing this, everyone shook their heads and sighed, feeling very regretful.

They wished they could serve as the governor, thinking in their hearts that if they were the governor, they would definitely be able to manage this place well and would never let that beautiful concubine down.

Fang Chang was naturally different from the surrounding villagers. He felt a little funny when he listened to this story with a very strong romance.

At least for him, he can pick out many loopholes from this story.

According to the information he received before, the monsters eroded the power of the state prefecture all started with the beauty plot. The concubine of the prefect is probably a fairy. From this point of view, all the elements in the story just now were very suspicious, let alone the story of this "unfaithful person".

Anyway, I was on the way north, so Fang Chang was going to the city to take a look and ask what happened.

When we talked about this, everyone drank almost the wine in the bowl, but the owner was not prepared more due to funding issues, and everyone took it for granted. However, no one on the table ate the previous dishes, but was waiting eagerly.

"There's a meal! Be careful not to get hot!"

The young men were carrying long trays and shuttled through the middle of the table. Each wooden tray was on the table and brought the eight buttoned bowls on it.
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