Wen Qiuxing opened the personal terminal on his wrist, and the latest message on it read: Hello, Mr. Wen, since your single tax has been overdue for three months, the Ministry of Justice of the Empire has now ruled that you are illegally single. Please arrive at the local Civil Affairs Office on time at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning to accept the country's allocation of objects for you.
Wen Qiuxing: ...
The civilization of your country is really amazing.
But as a citizen of the empire, Wen Qiuxing is not in the mood to complain now, because he has inquired very clearly that if he does not go to pick up the object at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, within 3 days, an uncle in uniform will come over with a gun Catch him and serve his sentence.
Here, being single means going to jail.
This is not the earth, but the interstellar age of unknown year.
In the memories that Wen Qiuxing took over from the body, there is no memory of Earth at all.
So he guessed responsibly that he should have traveled to a parallel space.
Just a week ago, Wen Qiuxing was just an ordinary senior student who was preparing for graduation.
As a result, one day I went out to wander, and when I came back late, I didn't know what happened, and I came here as soon as I opened and closed my eyes.
The unlucky ghost he traveled through had the same name as him, also called Wen Qiuxing, but he was younger than him, only 21 years old this year.
Very young, right
Hehe, but at the age of 21, in this interstellar age that cannot be described in words, he has reached the age of late marriage when he cannot continue to be single without paying taxes.
The problem is that the single tax here is so expensive that ordinary people can't afford it.
Therefore, most citizens choose to find a partner early and get married as soon as they reach the age.
If a baby can be born within the next one or two years, the life of the young couple will be particularly easy.
There are not only maternity allowances specially subsidized by the government, but also various practical preferential treatments.
In the future, all the expenses of the baby will be completely borne by the state.
Therefore, early marriage and early childbearing are already a common phenomenon among people around.
The reason for such a policy stems from Star Wars 100 years ago.
The brutal war led to a rapid decline in population, and the empire had to spend a lot of money to support citizens to have more children.
In the more than ten years after the war just subsided, polygamy seemed to have occurred.
Today's marriage policy is still based on the premise of childbearing.
Anyone who is assigned by the state can apply for divorce as long as they have not given birth within one year and accept the assignment again.
If the above policies are not so unacceptable, then there is one thing that really makes Wen Qiuxing shudder, that there is such an incredible existence of a third gender in this interstellar era.
The body that Wen Qiuxing travels through is a person of the third gender, who can be paired with women or men in marriage.
That is to say, if you go to the Civil Affairs Office to pick up your partner tomorrow, whether you will get a male or a female partner depends entirely on luck.
"..." Wen Qiuxing thought for a while, with a 50% probability, he shouldn't be so unlucky.
The big brother who was so poor that he couldn't even pay the single tax was deeply homophobic.
The other party was probably afraid of being assigned a male partner, so he died of worry.
It sounds like a bit of nonsense.
But it's not impossible.
Besides, why is he so poor
This matter is really a child without a mother, and it is a long story.
It turns out that Wen Qiuxing's parents were also married by the state, so it can be seen that there is no relationship between the two, but they had sex several times during their one-year marriage and accidentally had a child.
Before the child becomes an adult at the age of 18, it can bring a lot of benefits to the parents, so they are actively fighting for the custody of the child while they are divorcing.
It can be said that most of the citizens who are so poor that they can’t even pay the single tax are low-level citizens. Even if they are born, the state will provide educational resources, but whether they can learn and rise to a higher level depends entirely on personal qualifications and effort.
For parents who continue to accept the state-assigned partner with their children, they will no longer control their children when they reach the age of 18.
So, it turned out that Wen Qiuxing was a poor little girl who failed to make the leap from the bottom up and was abandoned by her parents at the same time.
When you reach the age of 21, you have to accept the allocation of the state to fulfill your civic obligations.
In fact, if he can find someone he likes to register for marriage within these three years, it would be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, he seems to be concerned about the identity of the third gender, and has never opened his heart to communicate with others.
Second, singles tax collections multiply with age.
In other words, if the divorce is successful after one year, if you have money, you can continue to be legally single.
Wen Qiuxing felt that this was okay.
In fact, he doesn't reject marriage. If he can bring a girl back, it would be nice to live together.
If the person you get back is not satisfactory, then it is just right, you can use this year to concentrate on making money, and strive to become a single noble next year, and you can carefully and slowly find someone you like.
Wen Qiuxing thinks so, even though he is still an unemployed youth.
Except for a little savings, it is obvious that he will soon face the problem of running out of food.
This can't be blamed on him, after all, the body was very uncomfortable when I first crossed over.
It took only two days to get better, and then I was immediately given a headache by these messy policies.
To say that Wen Qiuxing didn't have many memories of the original owner, but he just vaguely knew that although the technology in the interstellar era was extremely advanced, most people's living standards were not bad.
But the distribution of power here is very strange.
In the huge universe, there is not only one regime.
The seven known main stars all have their own independent political power and jurisdiction. The reason why the Star Wars broke out 100 years ago was probably because of the land grab.
Wen Qiuxing's main star is called the first main star in the ranking, and it should be the existence closest to the earth civilization. The difference is that the first main star is still a monarchy, and there are nobles and commoners.
Most commoners look up to the nobles and fear the royal power.
A small number of liberals disdain the monarchy and aristocratic system of the first main star.
Usually they will work hard to make money, immigrate to the second main planet, which symbolizes freedom, and become legal citizens of the second main star.
The so-called Star of Freedom means that there are not too many rules and regulations, and there is no need to pay taxes or be forced to marry.
Just think, is this a very good environment
Wen Qiuxing sneered. Although he was only in his early 20s in the original world, he was an adult anyway, and he didn't look at things so naively.
Freedom has always been another embodiment of turmoil.
Those who want to live a stable life, you should wash up and sleep.
Unless you feel that you are really awesome and can do a big job, then it's hard to say.
Wen Qiuxing thought about it wildly, then lay on the bed and whispered: "Turn off the light."
Early the next morning, he got up early.
In this small house of 30 to 40 square meters, there is no extra space, just one bedroom, one living room, one bathroom, and not even a kitchen.
This is very much in line with the fact that the people of the first star do not like to cook. Ninety-nine percent of the small houses in the civilian area where Wen Qiuxing lives do not have a kitchen.
In other words, houses with kitchens are mansions, places where rich people live.
Wen Qiuxing finished brushing his teeth in the cramped bathroom, and wiped the unfamiliar face with a towel.
To be honest, this face looks very young and energetic, very... attracting bees and butterflies.
Wen Qiuxing didn't notice it when he looked in the mirror for the first time, because the original owner had a very stupid hairstyle.
To put it simply, it is the pot head of the Hong Kong martial arts movie star Eight Liang Gold.
"..." Wen Qiuxing tied up his hair with a rubber band when he was taking a shower, and by chance, he saw that the person in the mirror was so damn handsome.
Red lips and white teeth, high nose bridge, rebellious eyebrows and eyes, although he is a black-haired kid, but his eyes are slightly light brown, which sets off the rich and full lips like berries even more beautiful.
Presumably, after thousands or even tens of thousands of years, there is no pure blood in the current race, and they should all be mixed blood.
But it is still rare to mix such eye-catching.
The original owner concealed his own appearance a little, which is related to his homophobia, and his homophobia is closely related to his appearance.
Wen Qiuxing didn't have the bad taste of going out with an eight taels of gold hairstyle to show off, but he didn't have the money to get a haircut either.
With the two money in his pocket, he went downstairs to buy something to eat after washing up.
The streets of the interstellar era are so lively, and all kinds of suspended vehicles whiz overhead.
There are private cars with stylish appearance, and buses with medium distance and medium distance.
If Wen Qiuxing was rich, he could hail a taxi online through his personal terminal.
It is almost the same routine as Didi Taxi in our country.
It's a pity that he has no money, so he can only walk.
It takes half an hour to walk from his residence to the nearest civil affairs hall.
This is still due to the long legs and strong physical strength, otherwise it is normal for the blind chicken to walk leisurely and arrive in an hour.
Fortunately, it is autumn.
The weather was a bit cloudy, but neither hot nor cold.
Wen Qiuxing was wearing a washed-out T-shirt, a pair of overalls, and animal leather shoes, which were very common for young people in the civilian areas of the First Main Planet.
There are often many such people in the civil affairs hall, and Wen Qiuxing sees countless copies of him as soon as he enters.
There are those who are one or two years younger than him, and many are older than him.
I am not afraid to open a map and say that 99% of this group of people are poor.
Most of them were filed for divorce within one year, or they were ugly and thought they were unattractive. They came back to try their luck and wanted to allocate a better one.
And like Wen Qiuxing, there are quite a few young people who came here simply because they couldn't afford the taxes.
So when he came in, he found that many people were looking at him.
After all, he is young and energetic, tall and well-proportioned, and looks very good overall, except for the word "potential stock" above his head.
Wen Qiuxing felt a deep chill at this, because most of the people who looked at him were men.
Talk about a realistic question.
There are really very few women who end up here.
Wen Qiuxing knew that he probably had more bad luck than good today.
So his face turned ugly, and after taking the number, he sat down in a corner, took a brochure, and opened it to cover his face.
But this can't block the eyes of others betting on him.
"..." Even if Wen Qiuxing pretended to be concentrating on reading, he still couldn't ignore those ulterior motives and hot gazes.
He really wanted to say, big brothers and uncles, what are you looking at? Look at me, I am also a man you can't get.
As a result, after a while, those eyes really stopped looking at him.
Wen Qiuxing breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt strange.
He took off the book on his face and looked at it casually, and raised his eyebrows: "..." A very...a handsome man walked in from the door.
How tall are you
Wen Qiuxing conservatively estimated that according to the proportion of the opponent's long legs, the net height should be at least 1.9 meters, or even higher.
This is very embarrassing.
Wen Qiuxing was still complacent about his 18-something height in the mirror this morning, but now compared to this tall man who suddenly appeared, his legs were not long enough for a human being, and his face was not handsome enough for a human being.
Even Wen Qiuxing, a straight man, has to admit that this man is very attractive.
The other party's hair color was black, but he had a pair of azure blue eyes, as deep and quiet as the ocean, calm and torrential, undoubtedly a pair of extremely charming eyes.
Looking at the face again, the skin is a healthy wheat color, the facial features are three-dimensional, and the outline is handsome, but it is not all the exotic European style, but the feeling of Chinese-European mixed blood that doubles Wen Qiuxing's favor.
Although this man is dressed in ordinary clothes, he has a strong aura, exuding the aura of telling others not to mess with him.
Therefore, it is unscientific how such a person can be reduced to lose the autonomy of marriage.
Or is this guy a staff member of the Civil Affairs Department at all
Wen Qiuxing soon had an answer. He looked at the handsome guy who had attracted much attention, and after scanning the crowd in the room with evaluation eyes for a week, he walked straight to him and sat down.
It turned out that he was not a staff member of the Civil Affairs Department.
People who come to join in the fun on this kind of day are probably here to lead a wife like him.
"Hello." Wen Qiuxing greeted the other party in a strange manner.
Feng Ting was taken aback: "..." He glanced at the next door lightly, and found that it was a young man with no threat: "Hello."
The voice is quite nice, Wen Qiuxing thought to himself.
After a short exchange, the atmosphere returned to quiet, and everyone waited boredly.
Wen Qiuxing flipped through the book for a while, feeling dizzy.
The gazes coming from all directions made him want to sit in a different position, away from the center of focus.
But Wen Qiuxing has a stubborn temper, thinking about why I should change the seat that Lao Tzu took first.
"Do you want a wife?" Wen Qiuxing asked.
Chatted boringly with the handsome guy next door.
Feng Ting found someone talking to him, turned around and said: "Yes."
He thought to himself, it should be.
"What happened?" Wen Qiuxing said, "You don't look like you can't pay taxes."
"I forgot to pay the tax." Feng Ting replied in a deep voice.
Wen Qiuxing choked for a moment: "Can you forget this thing?"
"En." Feng Ting replied again.
"Oh, then I wish you a girl." Wen Qiuxing said insincerely.
After all, there are so few girls, everyone will be tight to themselves first.
Hearing this, Feng Ting glanced at the young man beside him again, and after a few seconds, he said slowly, "Are you the third gender?"
Wen Qiuxing was taken aback for a moment, then closed his mouth unhappily.
This young man showed all the thoughts in his heart on his face, Feng Ting could see clearly.
It's just that he is a little puzzled, the third gender is a popular group in the empire, and even in the entire universe.
But Feng Ting doesn't want to meddle in his own business, he has too much time to take care of himself now.
Although Feng Ting really doesn't want to admit his situation, he is indeed a person who has no tomorrow after today, and is always worried that he won't wake up the next day.
So, he didn't understand what he was doing here.
He forgot to pay the single tax due to his fabricated identity because he slept for too long, so he was notified of being illegally single shortly after waking up.
It is not impossible for Feng Ting to give up this identity and fabricate another identity again, but it will take time, and what he lacks the most right now is time.
The tyrannical king vaguely sensed something, and his usual vigilance became stronger.
Sooner or later, the other party will find a way to erase his personality that should not exist.
"Are you afraid?" The young man next door might be really bored, and struck up a conversation again.
"Afraid of what?" Feng Ting asked back.
Unexpectedly, Wen Qiuxing had a good temper.
"Take a crooked melon and a bad date back." Wen Qiuxing said, "Look, they are all men, how many of them are girls?"
He pointed to the people around him.
Feng Ting was silent: "..."
In Wen Qiuxing's eyes, he must be lying in his heart.
"Hahaha..." Wen Qiuxing hugged his stomach and laughed for a while, but couldn't laugh anymore when he remembered that he was also one of them.
Hold.
What a lively and energetic person, Feng Ting thought slightly in a daze.
Inside began to shout numbers, the first number shouted was in order, and the second number was random.
It is not difficult to guess that these two are a pair.
Wen Qiuxing glanced at his own number and moved slightly forward.
The pressure made him a little breathless, and he began to lean there and play dead.
"Handsome guy, can I change my number with you?" Wen Qiuxing looked at Feng Ting.
"How do I change it?" Feng Ting didn't care, but this thing is already bound to his identity on his personal terminal.
Wen Qiuxing fell silent for a while, hating high technology.
"That's fine." He said disappointedly.
Feng Ting saw it, and really fiddled with it seriously, but in the end he couldn't find a way to change the number.
"Bless you." That's all he could say.
"Hehe." Wen Qiuxing believed that the other party was sincere.
After a while, fate finally dealt with this poor little man, calling his number and another number.
The young man with an ugly face raised his head hopelessly, and looked left and right to see which dick he was paired with.
Feng Ting heard the shout and stood up slowly.
Wen Qiuxing suddenly felt a shadow cast from around him, greatly affecting the lighting.
"It seems that we are each other's crooked melons and bad dates." Feng Ting's deep and hoarse tone carried more or less irony.
"What??" Wen Qiuxing suddenly jumped three feet high, unable to believe it.
This is hilarious, isn't it
His original intention was to take a soft girl back, but he ended up taking a 1.9-meter general attack boss.
It's too uncomfortable.
"No..." Wen Qiuxing walked in with arms folded.
Seeing the staff, I bent over the metal table and asked, "Can I apply for a replacement?"
Even if it's not a girl, it's okay to have someone who is shorter than him.
"Sorry sir." The staff said, "If you are not satisfied with the partner you have been assigned, please file for divorce after one year."
This made Wen Qiuxing heave a sigh of relief, remembering that divorce is still possible.
"However..." the staff said again: "During this period, you still have to fulfill your husband and wife obligations twice a week."
"What?" Wen Qiuxing was stunned, his whole body exuded the stubbornness of my refusal to accept this information.
Ha, twice a week
Wen Qiuxing: Wo Ri, why don't you kill me with a knife!
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