Chapter 519 One Hundred Thousand Hungry Ghosts

"Good fellow, I didn't even plan to go in, but you smell my scent?"

Hu Ma didn't expect that this kid would come to him after just a round, so he smiled, took out a piece of blood food from his sleeve, handed it to the lame kid, and said, "Tell him."

"Be prepared early, the food snatchers outside are coming soon!"

After instructing the lame kid, Hu Ma took a big step, comforted Xiao Hongtang who rolled her eyes on his shoulder, and then went over the mountains and ridges.

Yang Gong, the lame kid, stared blankly at the piece of blood food in his hand, and the whole ghost was stunned. He stuffed it into his mouth, then trembled with happiness, and returned to the village happily.

He felt satisfied for a while, and when he walked past Yang Gong, he didn't even say hello, but Yang Gong picked him up with his hand, and raised his hand to teach this guy a lesson.

But he lifted his nose and was surprised: "Blood food?"

"Where did you steal it from? I haven't smelled the smell of blood food for a long time..."

"..."

The lame kid was lifted in the air, still beaming with joy, saying: "Mr. Hu is blessed, Mr. Hu makes a fortune..."

"Huh?"

Yang Gong was surprised: "My brother Hu Ma is here?"

Looking around, he couldn't see anyone, but he was even more surprised: "Why didn't he come into the village to drink with me?"

The lame kid thought about it, but reacted and shouted: "Mr. Hu said that the people who robbed food outside are coming, the people who robbed food are coming..."

"My brother came to give me a letter?"

Yang Gong understood after hearing this. He was born in a poor family and knew the weight of the three words "robbed food". He immediately looked solemn and took the kid to discuss important matters with Lao Taishan.

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“We have found the origin of the banner…”

In the government office in Mingzhou, some people were sitting together to discuss things. However, the hall was not solemn and dignified, but looked like a restaurant. The table was full of wine and meat, and everyone was eating and eating. Even if they were choking, they still stuffed their mouths with food.

Even the person who came in to report the news first took a look at the meat on the table, swallowed his saliva, and seemed to have forgotten what to say.

The general Tianming, who was sitting in the middle, picked up a pig leg on the table and threw it to him. The person who reported the news took it quickly, took a bite, and then stuffed it into his arms, and then said: It is our seventh altar envoy. ”

“This person was preaching and asking questions in the Hegouzi Village in the west. In just half a day, he killed all seven of his followers, including himself. The means were so cruel that he didn’t even report back. ”

“Someone else raised their banners and attacked the Red Lantern Society in the name of the Truth Church, which caused a mess.”

“…”

After hearing this, everyone in the room stopped drinking and looked up, looking a little surprised. Someone said, “The Seven Altar Masters are very capable, how could they be easily harmed? Could it be that the Red Lantern Society took action and the thief cried thief?”

If it were before, some people would doubt that the Red Lantern Society did not have the courage, but now, with a full house, no one answered. The general of destiny sneered, “I have long seen that the Red Lantern Goddess has a deep foundation.”

“You say she is just a small altar god, and the temple has just been built, but looking at the incense base, it is probably not worse than that of a prefecture…”

“She pretends to be a ghost and shows weakness. Don’t underestimate her!”

“…”

The people who listened nearby were all shocked and stood up and said, “What should we do? Please give me your instructions, General.” "

General Tianming was silent for a long time, but suddenly waved his hand and said, "Wait for me, let me go in and discuss some ideas, then we can talk."

After saying that, he actually stood up and went straight to the inner house, leaving the people in the house looking at each other with strange expressions. After a pause, they continued to eat and ignored him.

General Tianming went directly into the inner house and came to the upper room door given by the wives of officials in the government office. He straightened his clothes, then kowtowed respectfully and said, "Madam..."

Before he finished speaking, a soft voice rang out from the inner hall through the door: "Since I promised you, we are husband and wife, why do we need to perform this empty ceremony?"

"Yes."

General Tianming answered respectfully, stood up, and was about to push the door, but the person inside said, "Let's talk outside. I don't like the smell of you. When the bloody smell on your body is gone, let's meet again!"

General Tianming said, "Yes. ”

He then took a step back and said, “I just want to ask, how long do we have to wait after we come to Mingzhou?”

The person in the inner hall said, “We said before that we came here to see someone, but now that the person we are waiting for has not shown up, we can only wait.”

“Yes.”

General Tianming responded, but whispered, “But my 20,000 soldiers and horses can no longer hold on, and are waiting for us to transport food and grass back. Now we can eat fish and meat here, but there, I’m afraid there are not enough people to eat…”

The person in the inner hall fell silent, and after a long while he said, “If you can’t even wait these few days, how can you accomplish anything?”

General Tianming didn’t speak, but he didn’t leave.

The person in the inner hall was silent for a while, then he sighed softly and said, “Forget it, blood and food can’t be rushed, but you can first collect food and go back to ease the hunger over there. ”

"But you also remember, as long as it can alleviate the hunger and panic there, don't bring the Guanzhou style to Mingzhou. There is Laoyin Mountain here, and Zhenshanfu Lord is a kind god, and he has great supernatural powers. , I can’t tolerate your behavior.”

"..."

The destined general breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "I know, thank you very much."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and came out, as if he couldn't control himself if he stayed for a moment longer. When he was far away from the inner hall and before he entered the lobby, several confidants hurriedly wiped their mouths and greeted them. It's out.

They all asked in a low voice: "General, what did the... lady inside say?"

"Oh, let's wait."

The destiny general sneered and said: "I said it so well at the beginning, but in the end I opened my mouth and kept silent, just waiting. They promised me that batch of blood food a long time ago. It is in the warehouse, but I have to wait for a red light. Will hand it over."

"The food on the ground is within reach, but we are forced to just watch here..."

"..."

Hearing this, the protector beside him had a look of worry on his face and said, "General, we can wait here. We have good food and drink, and living there for a hundred years is not enough, but over there at home..."

"Yes, I know."

The destiny general sighed lowly and said: "It's not that I don't understand, they want to use my hand to force an unknown person to come out, but we have tens of thousands of people waiting for food, so where is the time?" Are you thinking of playing with them in such a small way?"

"Fortunately, she has nodded now, so let's prepare to raise food first!"

"..."

"Can you finally raise food?"

Hearing what he said, the two guardians beside him were overjoyed, their fists rubbed against each other, and they seemed to be about to leave immediately.

"oops……"

But at this moment, there was a low cry of panic next to them. The three people turned their heads to look at the same time, and saw a man with a small hat on his head and an arrogant expression falling out from behind a clump of flowers. It was this Mingzhou government office. The little tax collector there has been waiting on them.

Xian was eavesdropping just now, but was frightened by their words.

When General Tianming saw him, he just sneered: "If I had known you were hiding there just now, since you heard it, you wouldn't have had to repeat it again, right?"

The tax collector's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly said: "General, I'll forgive you. Everything else is fine, but this area of ​​Mingzhou hasn't collected food for twenty years. I'm going to collect food suddenly. I'm afraid... "

"That's your business."

The destined general sneered and said solemnly: "I want not a single grain of the one hundred thousand dans of grain and grass that I want. Give it to me in full."

"Don't be aggrieved. I already know exactly how much rice, grain, livestock, cattle and sheep are in your fields, warehouses, and people's homes. I just want you to raise a hundred thousand loads. What does it mean?" event?"

"If you feel that your manpower is too small to accept, that's okay. The manpower I brought is still enough. Starting from tomorrow, I will follow you to the countryside..."

"..."

These words made the little tax collector tremble with fear, and he hurriedly ran back to report it. All the officials in the government office were so frightened that they almost fell over after hearing the words: "This... this has always been the case." Be careful, you're afraid something like this will happen..."

"In the end, they couldn't help it?"

"Now that our Mingzhou has not strictly collected taxes for twenty years, and the weather has been good, it has become so stable. Now that we have to collect these 100,000 dans of grain, doesn't it mean that we have to collect all the arrears for the past twenty years? "

"..."

"..."

"Miss, that person from the Truth Cult has a huge appetite. You asked him to only take part of it for emergency use, but I'm afraid his appetite won't be full..."

In the inner hall vacated by the government office, there were also people who whispered advice after General Tianming withdrew: "If you accidentally go too far, even if you..."

"I know they are greedy people. Hey, what kind of good food can they be if they can eat up an entire city?"

The young lady's voice sounded faintly: "The Meng family said he was some kind of destiny general, but in my eyes, it is better to say he is a personal devil general."

"It's just that since the Meng family and the adults in the family think that he has a good destiny and can attract the attention of noble people, and there are tens of thousands of people waiting for him, then what if he can tolerate big things regardless of trivial matters?"

"This time, he will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to collect grain like crazy, but it doesn't matter. I have already listened to the adults and recite the soul-inducing spell every day, but my cousin still hasn't even shown his face. But they didn’t even send anyone to say hello.”

"Since this cousin is so arrogant, what if I put some pressure on him?"

"If even this step can't force him to show up, then if the tens of thousands of hungry ghosts from the Truth Sect really want to come to Mingzhou, I'd like to see if he still has some toughness..."