When I opened my eyes for the first time, under the dim red fire, the young man was confused and saw three people, a bear and a monkey surrounding him.⊙,

"I finally woke up, this guy is really able to sleep."

"Do you want to prepare for something?"

"Do you still have to think about it? Just ask why this Wuji Kingdom is like this."

"I just woke up, maybe I'm not very awake yet, so I have to let him rest for a while."

Just as everyone was talking, the man was stunned for a moment, nodded his mouth, and closed his eyes in a daze. After a while, there was no movement again.

"I fainted again? Could it be that I was shocked to you?"

"Have you ever seen such a dizzy person? I guess he hasn't woken up yet."

The black bear bent down and looked carefully, and the breath from his nose rushed directly on the man's face.

Gradually, the man's face began to look a little ugly.

The monkey stretched out his fingers, and everyone looked at the man's hand. He saw his ten fingers trembling slightly. After a closer look, his thighs were also shaking.

Suddenly, everyone understood what was going on. They stood up one by one and looked at the man lying on the bed in the middle.

Soon after a scream, the man sat up, rolled and rushed to the side, shouting loudly: "Don't eat me! Don't eat me! I'm too thin, not delicious! Not delicious!"

In a blink of an eye, he had already shrunk to the corner of the wall, blocking a wooden barrel lid in front of his chest, staring at everyone with wide eyes, especially at the black bear spirit.

The candlelight on the table swayed slightly. Everyone was also watching him quietly. It was just a stalemate.

After a while, Xuanzang shook his cassock and took a step forward.

The man shrank in shock and turned the lid of the wooden barrel towards Xuanzang.

Helplessly, Xuanzang had to fold his hands together and bow, saying, "This donor, I want to go to the West to obtain scriptures, but happened to pass by here. I would like to ask the donor, what happened here."

The man stretched his head and asked carefully, "Are you... a monk?"

Xuanzang nodded and smiled faintly.

The man swallowed dryly and asked in a low voice: "What about them? Monk... Aren't monks vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name? Why are they with monsters? You can't be a monster, right?"

Xuanzang looked back at the monkey and the black bear spirit and said, "These are friends who are my monks who will never harm you."

"Monsters don't eat people? How do you... prove it?"

As soon as the words were finished, the monkey was already stepping forward with the golden cudgel. Xuanzang wanted to go forward to stop him, but the monkey pushed him away with one hand.

"Don't worry about this matter. I'll ask, otherwise I can't ask until dawn. It's endless." As he said, the monkey used a golden cudgel to press the lid of the man's bucket blocking his chest. He said with a smile: "Guess, if I want to eat you, will you run away?"

As soon as these words were said, the man's face suddenly turned purple and he was almost crying.

"I'm asking you." The monkey emphasized again expressionlessly.

At this point, the man seemed to wake up and shook his head with a sad face.

"Isn't this going to end? What else do you need to prove it? Isn't it just a proof that you are still alive? Now I'll ask you, what happened here?"

The man looked at Xuanzang with a flashing look.

"Say! Don't look around!"

The man quickly closed his eyes and shouted, "I...I can't explain clearly. Anyway, it's very messy now!"

He looked at Xuanzang and the monkey said again: "Then tell me where did you originally live, what kind of business you are engaged in, and why did you live here?"

The man swallowed dryly and replied with a trembling trembling, "I'm a little... I'm evading debts."

"Doesn't debt avoidance? Tell me more carefully."

The man nodded heavily and said, "The small one is a merchant, a grocery store opened at home... There is a wife and children at home, and the parents are alive. Although the family is not considered wealthy, life is considered stable. The prices of the previous year soared, His Majesty issued a notice saying that he would calm prices and ban the gouging moves, and set up officials and businessmen. If prices rise, they will sell, and if prices fall, they will sell. Then...and..."

When he said this, his words choked. The man lowered his head, opened his eyes slightly, and looked sad.

The monkey thought for a while and said, "It's a good idea, it's better than banning the price increase directly. Then what?"

The man hummed twice, sucked all the runny nose back, and replied carefully: "Then...then something happened. The official came to my store to purchase a large amount of goods, and gave them a low price. He turned around and sold the goods he had originally purchased, and asked for a high price... After a while, the young man... not only lost all his property, but also owed a large debt to the government and was unable to repay it. His father was so angry that his mother also went with him... In order to avoid the debt, the young man fled with his wife and children, but he ended up encountering bandits again..."

At this point, the man, who was a seven-foot man, started crying loudly in front of everyone, crying so hard that he burst into tears and heartbroken.

Seeing this situation, everyone was stunned.

After a while, the monkey asked again, "What's wrong with the others? There should be a few people who avoid debt like you, why are there no one in the villages we pass by?"

"This...is a long story, and I'm afraid I can't explain it thoroughly."

"It's okay, you know how much you say." The monkey removed the golden cudgel, moved a chair and sat in front of the man, and said, "Let's listen slowly."

Perhaps it was because of a sad relationship. At this time, the man seemed to be no longer as afraid of the monkey and the black bear spirit.

He looked up at the monkey, sat on the ground against the wall, and said slowly: "In fact, the weather here was good, and the people lived and worked in peace. Although there were occasional unfair things, there was no turmoil. The origin of everything should start with the succession of the prime minister as the king."

"The Prime Minister succeeded to the throne as king?"

"Well, the original king passed away, and the old king had no children. Because of the three generations of single generations, the Wang family would be considered a successor. Because the prime minister has always been honest and has a reputation and is deeply loved, everyone unanimously elected him as the new king."

"Then what?"

"Then. At the beginning, it was fine. After His Majesty ascended the throne, he would punish corrupt officials and build water conservancy."

"It's all good things. Then what?"

"Five years ago, the Wuji Kingdom suffered a drought... It was not serious in fact, but some people did starve to death. So, His Majesty ordered the government to open a warehouse to provide relief."

"The government's food is not enough?"

"The government has enough food, and every victim is given food. However, the big problem is the aftermath."

"Say, then say."

The man nodded and continued, "After the disaster, Your Majesty issued several laws requiring a household not to own more than ten acres of land, otherwise it would be either confiscated or given to the poor, or it would be beheaded. In addition, no one was allowed to lend money. After such a stir, several wealthy families in the town immediately raised military pay and revolted. However, they were quickly suppressed. The official army rewarded according to the number of heads... A relative of my... was caught and charged for the heads. This is not over. No one was allowed to lend money, so what should we do when the green and yellow people didn't accept it?"

"For this, Your Majesty issued a new order saying that private people are not allowed to lend, and the state lends, and only collects low interest rates. When they heard this news, everyone was happy, but when they actually implemented it, they were stunned. Those officials not only lend when they were not accepted, but even when they were full of grain, and they also lend a lot... No matter how low the interest rate is, how can this farmer withstand the profits? Several honest farmers I know owed huge debts and ended up losing their families. I originally thought that it was just their business, and we who do business would never be involved, but we didn't expect..."

"And then, refugees were everywhere, and all kinds of bandits and robbers were everywhere like locusts. Your Majesty began to recruit troops to suppress bandits. The original debt was avoided, but now there were more groups of deserters. Your Majesty issued another decree to take charge of the deserters... This time, the whole village fled... Then, His Majesty's decrees were one after another, and then..."

Speaking of this, the man looked a little unable to speak, and looked up and blinked his eyes at the monkey.

There are so many things that have been said, but I haven't said it... After a long time, the place is like this, and it is entirely caused by the government.

For a moment, everyone was silent.

Such a king is never seen before.

After being silent for a long time, Xuanzang slowly walked to the man, reached out to help the man up, and said, "Don't be afraid of donors, I will go to the capital of the Black Chicken King, find the King of the Black Chicken King, and ask him for advice."

"You have to worry about this kind of thing?" asked the monkey.

"Since we are looking for the method of Pudu, we naturally cannot stay out of the matter."

"Master, can you advise Your Majesty?" The man opened his eyes wide and looked at Xuanzang.

Xuanzang smiled faintly and said, "Let's try it out for now."

The man was skeptical.

Just as Xuanzang was talking to the man in detail, the monkey suddenly remembered the case of Wuji Kingdom that he knew.

Isn’t this plot supposed to be a dream for the old king to say that this king was transformed by a lion spirit? Why did it become like this?

Thinking of it, he pulled Tianpeng out the door.

"What's the matter?"

"Don't you think this king is a bit weird? I have never heard of such a person along the way. Why not do this? You and I will go to the palace first. If the king is not different, Xuanzang will let him go to the palace to persuade him. If there is anything strange, you and I can handle it first."

Tianpeng glanced at Xuanzang in the room and said, "Just go, you'd better stay."

"It's done too."

After the entrustment of each other, the monkey quietly returned to the house, while Tianpeng quickly ran to the courtyard, flipped over and soared into the air, galloping towards the direction of the royal capital.

Along the way, Tianpeng deliberately lowered the altitude and flew across the mountains and rivers. The villages and towns along the way were light, which seemed to be an encounter with the villages and towns I saw before.

Soon, he had arrived above the capital.

Compared to the situation along the way, it looks much better here.

He quietly found the location of the palace, and Tianpeng shook his body and turned into a moth and quietly escaped in the night.

Perhaps it is because of the uneven national peace, even in the middle of the night, the entire palace is brightly lit. However, Wuji Kingdom is a small country. It is only a country with only a few cities, so the palace naturally cannot be much larger.

After walking through the heavily guarded palace for a while, Tianpeng found a person who was called "Your Majesty" by everyone.

However, with just one glance, Tianpeng was stunned.

"Is this... a roller shutter?" (To be continued...)

ps: Yes... I feel that this chapter is not well written...
Chapter completed!