171 When night fell, it was soon time for dinner, and the dinner table was very quiet, because there were only Ji Ran and Ji Xuan."
Still haven't found it," Ji Xuan asked with a smile.Ji Ran glanced up at this magic stick and shook his head.When he saw that he had finished eating, he ordered the servants to come in and clean up the table.The townspeople here are not in the habit of serving on the table when they eat, and this stone dining table is specially made by Ji Ran after he came here.Trees are scarce in Guna Town, even if they are built by an old stonemason in the town, the craftsmanship is average, the materials are quite solid, and no five or six people can easily lift it.Ji Ran was about to leave the restaurant, but when he saw Ji Xuan's look of wanting to speak and stopping, a little curiosity rose in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of thing would make this god stick dare not speak.Under the direct gaze of Ji Ran's eyes, Ji Xuan finally said."
Don't you think it's very similar to the same thing you usually use" After saying this, Ji Xuan got up and left.One of the things I usually use Ji Ran tilted his head suspiciously and thought about it, and suddenly, his eyes lit up.The night sky in the Demonic Core Desert was darker and more empty than it looked in the city, and the wind and waves with tiny grains of sand lapped against the window lattices.The design of the windows in the town of Guna is noticeably different from that of the city of Regoz.The windows of Regoz City are so quiet that you can easily see the outside from the inside, and the borders are very finely patterned.The windows in Guna Town are gray and seem to have a layer of raw edges, thick and heavy, and the window frames are also unpretentious, as long as they do not leak the wind.The people in the town usually blow out the lamp early and go to bed, and the lamp oil at night is a money-consuming thing, and it is not easy for most of the townspeople in Guna Town to maintain food and clothing now, and they still have spare money to buy lamp oil.But although the townspeople took off their clothes and lay on the clay kang, no one could sleep.Why, I'm worried about money?
Although there is still some green space in the town, it is controlled by a few large households, and ordinary townspeople who want to graze or plant something on that land have to pay taxes to the big households.And whoever is the biggest family in this town, it is naturally the mayor of Marado.Three-quarters of the remaining oasis is the mayor's private estate.Just after the Spring Festival at the beginning of the year, the mayor Marado released a message to sell all the oases in his hands, and the townspeople were excited by this and robbed the sky one by one.Smashing pots and selling iron, borrowing houses and selling children, it was easy for many families to make up enough money, and they happily bought some land in Marado's hands.The families who managed to buy the land walked with the wind during that time.Although the family has been emptied and the foreign debt is still borrowed, as long as there is an oasis in hand, the money will always come back.Who knew that just after the spring was busy, the grass seeds had only grown half a turn after they were sown, and the news of the change of the mayor of Guna Town came from above.One by one, the townspeople were stunned as if they had been hit by five thunderbolts.Marado's time as mayor of Guna was so long that the townspeople forgot that he was just a flowing man.On that day, some of the townspeople came to their own land, pulled out the grass that had risen in half, and wept as they pulled it back.Others grabbed the dirt in the field and shoved it into their mouths, and howled like beasts in their throats, but no one understood what he was crying about, and when he had finished venting, the numb townspeople were silent again with blood and tears in their hearts.They sent Marado away with hatred, and waited anxiously for the new mayor's orders.I don't know when the new mayor will order the land to be taken back.During this time of waiting, many townspeople inexplicably had a lot of gray hair on their heads.When the sun broke and the dew was still hanging on the plants, a team of horses appeared on the horizon north of the town of Gunna.Now the town's defenses are very weak, and many of the slaves in the hands of Belimus have disappeared without a trace, but fortunately, slaves are people's private property, as long as the master does not pursue them, then no matter how many disappearances will not cause panic.Most of the people who Belimus now arranged to defend the city in the town are temporarily recruited townspeople, these people have no formal training, and the queue is also procrastinating, but the salary is very cheap, as long as Belimus can hold up the scene as the captain of the city defense, the others will not care.As soon as the group of miscellaneous soldiers saw the dust and smoke billowing in the distance, they immediately panicked, and shouted loudly one by one: "Come on, come on, someone is attacking our town" The bronze bell of the ancient town that had not been sounded for a long time was also ringed, and the town was in chaos for a while.Some women hurriedly cleaned up, shouting for their babies everywhere, and then preparing to drag their families away.But they were all stopped by the old people at home, and when the horse bandits attacked the town, they ran out and wandered around, which was really called death.So these adults and children smashed the old man's arrangement, drilling water tank by water tank, hiding hole by hole.But there are still some people who don't understand these and run out in a panic.For a while, the people in the town were panicked.Ji Ran didn't bother to wipe his face, so he hurriedly dragged his skirt and jumped on the horse, galloping to the tower on the north side of the town.By the time she had climbed the tower, the caravan had reached the gates north of the town.Seeing the familiar faces in the team, she gritted her teeth in anger.Waving his hand and ordering the town gate to be opened, Ji Ran went down the tower with some breathlessness.Sure enough, as soon as the town gate opened, Yeyi led the team in, and when he saw Ji Ran, he smiled and said: "Why are so many people coming out of the town early in the morning?"
”"Morning exercises, morning exercises, I have to drag my family and carry my luggage" "People are happy, how can I care." ”Ji Ran rolled her eyes, there were only two people in this town, she and Ji Xuan, how could she care.Yeyi laughed out loud when she heard this.Only then did the townsfolk know that there had been a joke early in the morning, that the patrol people did not know the new mayor, and that they were too inexperienced and too nervous, and that such a big oolong had happened.Garin's tribe had their own nights to settle down after entering the town, and Ji Ran didn't have to worry about this.The only thing she had to do was stare at the stack of receipts in her hand.These are the receipts that Marado wrote to the townspeople when he sold the oasis at the beginning of the year, in duplicate, one in the townspeople's hands and one in Marado's bag.Marado took these receipts with him when his family migrated, and then they were snatched away by Garin, who returned to Heaven and handed them over.Ji Ran knew that Marado must not have a good heart when he left with these things, if Yeyi took back the oasis after becoming the mayor of the town, then Marado could go to the Fanya Empire with these receipts to sue Yeyi, saying that he occupied the people's private scene.But now that these things are in Ji Ran's hands, and the Marado family doesn't know if they have the life to get out of this spider web desert again, everything is naturally different again.However, the ownership of this oasis is indeed a big problem now, and if the receipts are recognized as useful and all the land is distributed to the townspeople, then the Heavenly Punishment Mercenary Group will be in a financial situation.But if all the land is recovered, they will be hated by the townspeople."
Send a message out, the oasis will only sell one-third, and let them return the remaining two-thirds, and each family can return half of the money they have paid."
In the end, it was Yeyi who made a decision.Ji Ran calculated in his heart, no matter how he thought about it, the townspeople still suffered, "People will agree" Ye Yi's face turned cold, "If you don't agree, you have to agree, or you will confiscate it directly, so that they have nothing." ”It can be seen from the look that in fact, Yeyi is more inclined to the second approach.Ji Ran thought about it, this is indeed a way out of the question, "Okay, do you want to find a reason, after all, it has reduced a lot of people's area." ”Unexpectedly, Yeyi said nonchalantly: "You don't need any reason, you just release the news, I promise that those people not only don't mind, but will thank you." ”A cold sweat broke out on Ji Ran's head, although Yeyi said that he wanted to return half of the money to the townspeople, but the land was only one-third of the original area of the people, that is to say, the townspeople still lost money, so the fact that the people would thank Ke scared her.Worried that the townspeople would riot, Ji Ran followed Zina to paste notices on the signs in the town's four small squares.Knowing that the townspeople were basically illiterate, she also brought a few mercenaries, two people standing next to each sign, and constantly read out the contents of the announcement in order to inform everyone.There are springs in the four small squares of the town of Guna, where the groundwater gushes out, and people usually fetch water here, so there is a lot of traffic.When they heard the mercenaries of Heavenly Punishment say loudly that everyone could go to the Lord's Mansion with the receipt to get half of the money back, and that a third of the land was left for everyone, the townspeople who bought the land burst into tears, and even some knelt down in the direction of the Lord's Mansion, muttering and praying for blessings.Seeing someone kneeling, some of the people around who had not bought the land were also happy that the new mayor was a benevolent administrator, and also knelt down.For a while, the only people standing in the small square were Ji Ran, Qi Na, and the two Heavenly Punishment mercenaries who were still reading aloud.Looking at the dense kneeling townspeople in front of him, Ji Ran only felt that his eyes were a little astringent, this place is not as prosperous as Regoz, but the people here are so simple and pure, their requirements are very simple, not wealth and glory, just want to live an ordinary and happy life.The announcements of the four small squares were posted, and on the way back, Ji Ran saw that the adults and children on the road were full of sincere smiles on their faces, and the voices of people were a little louder than those of previous days, making this originally somewhat bleak and desolate town seem to come to life in an instant.There were even a few townspeople who saw Ji Ran and Zina wearing the regimental uniforms of heavenly punishment, so they pounded the things on their stalls and gave them them, even if it was just a few worthless dried fruits and hard dough cakes, but Ji Ran and Zina were still warm and coaxed in their hearts, and unconsciously, their faces began to smile.，，； mobile phone reading,