Chapter 393 Isn’t This Weird?

So, Li Yan understood that this was the only chance. If he missed it, Yanghe County would never have such a chance again.

Therefore, this acting county lord exhausted all his efforts and sought help everywhere. Whether it was Jiang Taiqing, the head of the Demon Suppression Department in the prefectural city, or Chen Xiao, the imperial envoy in the county city, he did not let anyone go. His purpose was also very simple, that is, to get benefits.

He was not afraid of wearing shoes even if he was barefoot. Even Jiang Taiqing was afraid of Chen Xiao, the master. Only Li Yan was really not afraid. At most, he would be slapped to death. If he was not afraid of this, what else did he have to worry about?

Therefore, the final result was that the reconstruction of Yanghe County was completed ahead of schedule, and the city was also expanded.

After these things were done, Nangong Nei, the prefectural lord, was not stingy and directly appointed him as the county lord of Yanghe County, finally removing the word "acting" in front of the county lord.

Then the county lord Li Yan rebuilt the county military department, the demon suppression department, and the inspection department, and worked together with the major families in the county to restore order in the city.

He also won a lot of benefits from the big families in the city and provided livelihoods for the people. The county finally became a little lively.

Li Yan actually knew that Yanghe County was congenitally deficient and it was difficult to develop further, so he simply reduced the taxes to a very low level. Anyway, the taxes in Yanghe County had never been paid, and they were all kept for local use.

In order to reduce the burden on the people, he simply cancelled all the taxes that could be cancelled, and the remaining part was barely enough for the normal operation of the county government.

Such a bad operation made the people's lives better, at least much better than when Yan Chengyun was the county lord.

And isn't this what the people want? Ordinary people never expect their parents to bring them wealth and class leap. What they want is just to live and work in peace!

Is this request difficult? In fact, it is not difficult. As long as the county lord does not levy taxes and extortion, does not help the tiger, and does not mess around, if the taxes can be reduced a little more, that will be enough!

Therefore, Yanghe County today seems to have not changed much, but it also seems to have changed a lot.

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Unconsciously, the young man had crossed the desert and came to the wall of Yanghe County.

He looked up at the lights on the top of the city and the soldiers coming and going on the tower, as if thinking about how to get in. But he just hesitated for a moment, and someone above his head had already discovered him.

"Who?"

The young man was a little surprised that these soldiers were alert and found him so quickly. Of course, a big reason for this was that he had never thought of hiding himself.

He heard the soldiers' questions and was thinking about how to answer, when someone on the tower spoke again.

"This guy is so brave. It's already dark at this time, and he is still outside the city?"

"Is it weird?"

"What's weird? It's obviously a person! Can't you see?"

"But whose good person is dressed like this? Without clothes?"

"This... seems to make some sense, but what if he is in trouble? Maybe he met a robber on the road..."

"Robbery, are you kidding! Where can there be robbers around Yanghe County? Can you rob clearly? There are more monsters than people. Who is he robbing? Monsters?"

"What should we do?"

"Let's ask first. If there is no problem, just pull him up!"

"Okay, ask!"

"Hey, the one down there, are you a human?"

As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers around were stunned. Is there such a question?

The young man under the city was also stunned for a moment, and finally answered: "Yes!"

"Look, he said yes!"

"Nonsense, if you ask this question to a smart demon, the answer will be the same! Where's your brain?"

"Then ask!" The soldier was dissatisfied.

"Ask!" The man nodded, "Hey, that person, are you from Yanghe County? Or from another place?"

The young man answered again, "Another place!"

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm lost!"

"Lost? Why don't I believe it? You are not a demon who came to deceive us, right?"

"No!"

When the young man answered the last question, both sides fell silent. So, what did he get out of the question? It seems that there is no gain. After all, if it is really a powerful demon, it seems that it can also give these answers.

But if it is concluded that this person is not a human based on this, it seems unreasonable.

All the soldiers on the top of the city were a little anxious, "What should we do? Has anyone seen anything?"

"No, but he doesn't have any strange aura and no malice! Maybe he is really a person!"

"Let him in?"

"Not good! What if we let a monster in at night?"

At this time, a soldier who had been silent from beginning to end interrupted, "In fact, if he is really a monster, and can transform into a human body, and can answer questions fluently, he will probably not waste time with us!"

"What do you mean?"

The man said in a faint tone, "Because we are not worthy! Even the protective magic circle of Yanghe County... is useless!"

Everyone fell into silence. After a long time, someone said, "What you said does make some sense, but why is it so uncomfortable to listen to it?"

"Maybe it's because I like to tell the truth!"

"Pull him up!" The commander of the city defense army finally spoke. He also saw that the man under the city did not look like a monster, so there should be no big problem. At most, there might be something wrong with his identity.

But as city defense troops, they never take this kind of problem seriously. After all, there are too many such things. Their main task is to prevent the invasion of monsters.

The soldiers under his command immediately dropped a bamboo basket from the top of the city.

The young man under the city stared at the bamboo basket for a moment, then climbed into the bamboo basket in an orderly manner and squatted down.

When everyone pulled the young man to the top of the city, all the soldiers around him drew their swords and looked alert. Although they were roughly sure that there was nothing wrong with this person, they could not be careless and still needed to be careful. If this person really had a problem, they would immediately rush to kill him.

However, the young man just hid in the bamboo basket honestly, looked around, and did not do anything out of the ordinary, nor did he suddenly turn into a monster to scare people.

After confronting him for a long time, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and put their swords back into their sheaths.

"Look, I said he was a human! It turned out to be true!"

"Shut up!"

The city defense commander took two steps forward and looked up and down at the young man in the bamboo basket, "You can enter the city!"

The young man got up from the bamboo basket and nodded, "Thank you!"

"No need, although I don't know your origins, I hope you don't cause trouble in the city. I don't think you are a bad person, but I don't know what happened to make you look like this. If there is something you can't solve, you can come here to find me, at least you can have enough food!"