"How many sins are hidden in this dark night!" Lin Feng stood at the bow of his boat, stared at the dark night sky in front of him, and muttered softly.

Hearing Lin Feng's sigh, Li Congqian's face beside him twitched, which was considered a response.

There is a reason why both of them are in such a heavy mood.

In the past few days, the army of Tanzhou and Langzhou have been confronting peacefully. During the day today, Lin Feng saw that it was impossible to start a war in the near future and did not want to drink and live with Ma Xi'e all day long. He took Li Congqian, Chen Fei and other brothers to the west and east banks of the Xiangjiang River to check the livelihoods of the people along the way.

The West Bank they first set foot on was a good thing. It was the "land" that the Langzhou army successfully recovered. Except for the occasional disturbance of the people by the army, it was basically a peaceful and peaceful scene. But even so, the suffering life of the people along the way still made Li Congqian, who grew up in the palace, completely opened his eyes. Except for a few families who were still affordable to fish along the Xiangjiang River and do business, the vast majority of the people just guarded a few acres of land, and all of them were barely barely in their homes and had no food.

When they walked into the fifth farmhouse, it was just noon. Lin Feng took out the dry food and used some money to give the housewife who was flirting with food, and asked her to help cook some home-cooked meals. The housewife held the big handful of Chu iron coins and actually called the whole family to kneel on the ground, kowtowed and thanked her, and then shouted with tears in her eyes that her husband would take out all the food she had stored at home and entertain these kind nobles.

It didn't take long before the meal was ready, and a large pot of rice and a large pot of bacon and a wonderful vegetable were served on the table.

When Lin Feng saw the two children standing not far away with great greed, he went over and pulled them over and sat down to have dinner together. The two little guys didn't say anything, and each grabbed a piece of bacon with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth, not listening to his parents' stern shouting beside him.

Lin Feng ordered his brothers to do it themselves and take a bowl of rice and rice. When he turned around, he found that the couple each brought a bowl of rice soup and sucked in the distance. He immediately served two bowls of rice, piled up Lao Gao's dishes, and delivered them to them.

The housewife's tears suddenly flowed down and she murmured: "A kind-hearted sir!"

Lin Feng served another bowl of rice, came and squatted beside them, and asked why they lived so hard in Tanzhou City. Li Congqian also came with the bowl and squatted beside Lin Feng.

The man sighed and lowered his head to eat silently. The woman stared at her husband and replied with a sad expression: "Sir, since the construction of General Tiance's mansion in Tanzhou City, our old Leng has been often taken to the city to build this and that, and we don't care about the family at all. The taxes in the village are very heavy, and half of the harvest in the fields have been taken away. Now, we still owe some taxes in the village, and there are still people coming to pay the money two days ago!"

Lin Feng was speechless and looked at Tanzhou City in the distance with a complicated expression.

Since ancient times, the second generation has cheated their fathers! Ma Yin, the founding leader of the Chu State, can still be said, but the dozen sons he gave birth to "cheat their fathers" one by one!

Exciting heavy taxes and acting recklessly is the unified feature of these "second generations of nobles". In history, Ma Xisheng, the first son of Ma Yin, was known for his love of eating chicken. Because he heard that Liang Taizu Zhu Quanzhong loved to eat chicken, he wanted to "see the virtuous and learn from each other" and had to kill fifty chickens every day. Even on the day of his father's burial, he did not forget to eat a few plates of chicken to make his stomach, and finally died of sudden illness, which was afraid that it would be inseparable from the avian flu;

Ma Xifan, who succeeded to the throne, had a "broad mind" and loved magnificence. He built a special "face project". The Tense Mansion, which covers hundreds of acres and the Huichun Garden, which covers hundreds of magnitudes, are both "masterpieces" left by Ma Xifan.

Where does the money come from when building a big deal? In addition to the necessary trick of increasing taxes, Ma Xifan openly sold official positions and titles, and also specifically stipulated that donation can be atone for crimes. If becoming an official becomes a "business" with clear prices, it can be imagined by individuals. Businessmen will never be willing to do business that will lose money and make profits. Then the situation of the people under these officials will only be worse than that of one day.

Whether it is rising or falling, the people are suffering! Lin Feng sighed in his heart, and had no intention of continuing to eat. He told Chen Fei and others to leave more dry food they brought, and left some money, and got up and left.

After walking far away, Lin Feng turned around and found that the family was still kneeling straight at the door, thanking Lin Feng and the others for their incomparable generosity.

This is the relatively peaceful west bank of the Xiangjiang River, and the east bank is unbearable.

Lin Feng and his group took the boat they found and got ashore at a flat place on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River. They turned to the main road and found that there were basically no people on the road, looking miserable and deserted.

Chen Fei, who was walking in the front, suddenly screamed, and a group of people walked around him quickly. Everyone looked along the direction of Chen Fei's fingers and found that in the ditch on the side of the road, there were two incomplete corpses under the branches!

Judging from the clothing and the exposed torso, the two should be an old man and a young woman. The old man's head was gone and his body was covered with knife wounds; the woman's face was cut to pieces, and there were many knife edges in her chest and abdomen. One thigh was exposed outside, and there was a deep and exposed blade at the base of her legs.

This is the real situation on the east bank. Because it was plundered by the Langzhou army for three consecutive days, the Xiangyin Road on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River has basically become a hell on earth.

Lin Feng pulled aside the children and directed several special forces to straighten the two bodies, digging some soil with the weapons in his hands, and burying them in a hurry.

A group of people walked forward not far and came to a small village.

There is a freshly built straw shed next to the village. The so-called straw shed is actually a simple A-shaped shelf, with five pieces of wood being tied up with straw laid on it. Two branches were blocked at the two entrances in the northeast and southwest, even the front door and the back wall.

Lin Feng looked in through the gaps in the branches and found three children lying soundly on the straw pile on the ground, covered with a few adult clothes. There was nothing beside them except a few unwashed dishes.

"What do you want to do?" A man and a woman shouted in panic.

Lin Feng turned his head and found a pair of men and women coming out of the village. While throwing away the objects on their hands and shoulders, they ran towards this side like crazy.

Lin Feng looked at the military uniforms of his group of people, shook his head with a wry smile, took the lead and took a few steps back, and made way for the door of the straw shed.

The man and woman ran to the edge of the straw shed, and when they looked out, they found that the two children were still sleeping sweetly. They immediately breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed their whole bodies.

The two turned around and protected the entrance of the straw shed one left and one right. The man moved his body forward, blocking his woman behind with his hands, his face filled with smiles, bowed and said with a flattering smile: "My gentlemen, please give up your hands and let the small family go! The villain's house was burned two days ago, and we really had no money and no food!"

Lin Feng shook his head and said only: "We are the army of the Tang Dynasty!" He pointed at Li Congqian and the others, turned around and left.

Li Congqian and Chen Fei immediately understood and took out all the remaining dry food on his body with Duan Rui and the others, gently placed it on the ground, and turned around and chased Lin Feng as if Fei was going to do it.

"The army of the Tang Dynasty?" The man glanced at his wife, who was as confused, and murmured.

At this time, the villagers who were secretly watching from afar also surrounded them, looking at the pile of food on the ground enviously, while surrounding the couple and asking carefully what was going on.

The couple was also confused and could only explain constantly what the group of people called themselves the Tang army.

"That's it! Their military uniforms are different from those in Langzhou and Tanzhou!" A villager suddenly came to his senses and said loudly.

A group of people looked at the food on the ground again, stared at Lin Feng and his group who were almost unable to see the figure. A vague concept suddenly appeared in their minds: the Langzhou army came here to grab food and kill people, while the Tanzhou army hurried in Tanzhou City and ignored everyone's life and death, but the Tang people left food. The Tang army seemed to be different from the Chu army!

Lin Feng and his group were no longer in the mood to change their minds and went south by boat.
Chapter completed!