Wu Ruo glanced at Hei Xuanyi and the other officials, they seemed to be used to it for a long time: "Every time you send rice, they will hide in the house?"
Hei Xuanyi hummed lightly: "It's almost the same."
"..." Wu Ruo admired Hei Xuanyi's heart and generosity in his heart. Although the Necromancer Kingdom belonged to the Hei family, it was their duty to distribute rice to the people and prevent the people from starving, but the attitude of the people made people feel uncomfortable. People are chilling. The distribution of rice does not require the people to pay back, nor does it require them to be grateful, let alone spend a penny, as long as they come out to get a rice, but they hide from no one, and people beg them to open the door. Open the door and get rice.
If it were him, he might have turned around and left long ago. However, Hei Xuanyi and the others were still patiently knocking on every door.
When Wu Ruo saw a four or five-year-old thin child holding a small bowl full of many black worms, hungry and stuffing cooked worms into his mouth, his heart softened again. I thought, maybe the people here have a last resort.
He walked up to the child, knelt down and asked, "Little baby, where are your parents?"
Everyone else hid in the house, but this child hid in the corner, eating bugs that others accidentally dropped on the ground.
The child saw that Wu Ruo was wearing a mask, his eyes showed fear, and his body kept shaking.
Wu Ruo thought that because she was worried that Dandan would be hungry at any time, she put a bunch of pastries in the space, and then took out a plate of pastries and handed them to the children.
The child looked at Wu Ruo and then at the cakes on the plate. The fear in his eyes was much less. He carefully sniffed the smell of the cakes. Immediately, the aroma came to his nostrils, and the child's eyes lit up.
Seeing his appearance, Wu Ruo couldn't help but think that Eggy also looked greedy when he saw the food, which made him feel funny.
The child stretched out his small black hand to grab the edge of the plate, and the moment Wu Ruo let go, he immediately turned around and ran away with the pastry, leaving Wu Ruo with a dazed expression.
He smiled helplessly, wondering if Hei Xuanyi Paimi's mood was the same as his at the moment, making it impossible to care about their actions.
Suddenly, there was commotion in the distance.
"People from the old clan have come to grab the rice."
The guards fought with the old tribe.
The scene was chaotic and intense, but most of them used ordinary swordsmanship or kung fu and internal force sparring, and the mysterious techniques they used were all techniques with little damage or lethality.
When the people of the old clan saw Hei Xuanyi coming, they hurriedly snatched a beast cart filled with rice, and rode away on the monster beast.
The guards want to chase.
Hei Xuanyi raised his hand to stop them.
The chief guard reported to Hei Xuanyi: "Report to the prince, the old clan injured seven of our guards and robbed us of a beast cart."
Hei Xuanyi asked: "Is the guard's injury serious?"
"It's not serious, just a sword wound on the arm and thigh.
Hei Xuanyi asked again: "How many households are left without rice distribution?"
"All dispatched."
"To the next town."
"Yes." The head guard asked everyone to get on the car.
After Wu Ruo got into the car, he asked Hei Xuanyi: "Every time you distribute rice, people from the old clan come to grab the rice?"
Hei Xuanyi squinted his eyes: "Not necessarily. If they have rice, they will grab the medicinal materials. If they don't have rice, they will grab the medicinal materials. If they don't have both, they will make trouble. We won't let us distribute rice to the people, and they won't let the people receive rice."
"The reason why the common people hid when they saw you send rice, is it because they are afraid of the people of the old clan?"
"Um."
Wu Ruo frowned: "After the people of the old clan robbed rice and medicinal materials, did they use them?"
"After they grab the rice and medicinal materials, they will distribute them to the poor in other towns, so that the people will be grateful to them.
"They really know how to borrow flowers to offer Buddha." Wu Ruo sneered: "They don't know how to make money by doing business by themselves?"
"They do trade, but we strictly check and don't allow them to take too many things to trade."
Wu Ruo thought for a while: "Are you doing this to prevent them from growing?"
Hei Xuanyi hummed lightly: "Hundreds of years ago, our royal family did not control the people of the old clan to do business for a period of time. Later, they relied on the money they earned to recruit soldiers and horses to rebel and regain their positions. "
Wu Ruo didn't understand: "Since you will meet the old people when you go below the fifteenth floor, why don't you move all the people who are willing to leave here to the upper floor?"
"Don't look at the fact that the old clan is incompatible with us. They take great care of the people below the fifteenth floor. They will send supplies to the people on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year. If we move all the people, the old clan will have no restraint and will become Unscrupulous to make trouble on every floor. Just now you should have seen that when we fought against each other, we didn't use powerful mystic arts to fight, because they were as worried about the collapse of the floor as we were, and they were afraid of hurting the people.
Wu Ruo: "..."
He felt that when Hei Xuanyi said this, although his face was expressionless, he didn't have the deep pain and hatred he imagined. Instead, there was a faint appreciation for the old clan in his tone.
Next, in the several towns we went to, there were old clans making trouble to grab rice and medicinal materials or assassinate Hei Xuanyi, but none of them succeeded.
In addition, Wu Ruo found that there were a lot of people attending funerals. After questioning, she found out that because the underground was too cold and lived here for many years, the people couldn't bear it physically. Many people died when they were about forty years old. died.
In the long run, there will be fewer and fewer people in the kingdom of the dead.
If the curse is not broken, maybe one day, there will be no more kingdom of dead spirits.
On the eighteenth floor, more and more old clans appeared, and it became more and more difficult to distribute rice to the people.
Finally, they came to the town of Mo, and Wu Ruo couldn't help thinking of the time when she was rescued by the hag, but she didn't expect that people came here again in the past two months.
Seeing Wu Ruo staring at the street in a daze, Hei Xuanyi asked curiously, "What are you thinking?"
"I was in End Town when I woke up, washed away by the flood."
Hei Xuanyi heard him talk about the rescue of the hag: "Is there any friend of yours here?"
Wu Ruo smiled lightly: "If you stay here for less than two hours, how can you have any friends?"
At this time, the prefect of Xiaoguan Township in Mo Town hurried over with his wife, son and a few servants: "Xiaguan has seen the crown prince."
Wu Ruo raised her eyebrows when she saw the wife of the prefect of the town and his son, isn't this rich and rich
He hooked his lips jokingly: "I don't have any friends, but I have provoked a few enemies."
Hei Xuanyi didn't understand what he meant, his eyes turned cold when he looked at the town's prefect, and said in a deep voice: "Come here, take off the official cap of the town's prefect.
"Yes." The guard ordered.
The prefect of the town and the rich man turned pale with fright, they hurriedly knelt down and asked: "His Royal Highness, the subordinate officials have always been conscientious in their work, and they abide by their duties, so I don't know what the subordinate officials have committed?"
"If you abide by your duty, how can your wife and children run rampant in the town, making the people fearful, and even your own wife and children can't manage how to manage the entire town?"
The faces of the riches and the riches turned pale. They didn't expect that their behavior would cause the town's prefect to lose his position. They hurriedly kowtowed and shouted for grievances: "Your Highness, we have never bullied the people, please be careful."
"This palace will investigate the matter to the bottom, come and take them down."
"Yes."
Under the cries of the town prefect and the others, the guards dragged them to the beast cart. Seeing this, the common people secretly cheered and cheered.
Hei Xuanyi called other officials and asked them to find someone to temporarily take the position of the prefect of the town.
Wu Ruo asked curiously, "How do you know they oppress the people?"
"Eggy once told me what happened after you were washed away by the water, and also said that if I see them in the future, I must beat these villains away.
Hei Xuanyi probably guessed the character of the town's prefect's wife and children from what Eggy said.
Wu Ruo: "..."
His son is really amazing. He knew at a young age to tell his father about the grievances he had suffered, and let his father stand up for them.
Hei Xuanyi whispered in Wu Ruo's ear: "Eggy, you also said that the people from the Qu family made a marriage for you."
Wu Ruo raised his forehead.
Hei Xuanyi chuckled, and then his black eyes turned cold, and he must deal with the Qu family well if he has the chance.
Wu Ruo asked: "The officials below the fifteenth floor are also under your management? Don't people from the old clan come to the Yamen to make trouble?"
"The teleportation array in the yamen needs spiritual energy to maintain. The old people don't want to do such thankless things, so let us manage it. Naturally, they won't go to the yamen to make trouble. All the fees received by the yamen will be handed over to the consumption spirit. The magicians who work hard to maintain the teleportation array, the government didn't make a penny."
Wu Ruo looked around, made sure there was no one around, and asked in a low voice, "Is the passage you dug out on the eighteenth floor?"
"The passage is on the first floor, because the passage is connected to the water sources of each floor, so you will be washed to the eighteenth floor.
When Hei Xuanjue said this, he narrowed his eyes coldly. At that time, Wu Ruo and the others would be washed away, all of which were done by the old clan's spellcasting.
Wu Ruo was surprised and asked: "How deep is each floor of the Necromancer Kingdom?"
He remembered that when he came to the Necromancer Kingdom, he took a boat down to about ten miles before he came to the entrance of the passage. Isn't that floor separated from the land by ten miles
"Except for the first floor which is only ten miles away from the land, the other floors are separated by about twenty miles.
Wu Ruo made the calculations: "So, the place where we are standing is hundreds of miles away from the land, no wonder it is so cold here."
As he spoke, he couldn't help tightening the cloak on his body, and asked casually: "I heard that there are fifty-six small towns and nine big cities on the eighteenth floor, so how big is your Necromancer Kingdom?"
"It should be five times the size of Tianxing Kingdom. At that time, when our ancestors dug the ground, they dug down in a triangular shape, layer by layer. Among the thirteen big cities and three hundred and sixty-two small towns, the smallest area is 18 floors, only in this way will the ground not collapse.
"So big?" Wu Ruo originally wanted to ask something, but was interrupted by the troublesome old clan.
Hei Xuanyi saw that the rice pie was not bad, so he no longer entangled with the old people, and took everyone back to the official for dinner. The dark guard went to the border town on land.
When Wu Ruo, Hei Xuanyi and the others walked out of the Yamen, they were immediately attracted by the lively scene.