Qingshi walked on the street, watched people coming and going, and appreciated the unique civilization and customs that have existed for thousands of years.

Turning a corner, there was a mutton restaurant. Sitting at the table at the door was an old man holding a pitch-black tobacco pipe. When he saw a bowl of mutton soup in front of him, the wrinkles on the old man's face were like chrysanthemums in full bloom. He put the tobacco in his mouth.

Beside him, he rubbed his hands and picked up the chopsticks.

At this time, a group of people came from the other side, with a pale and frightened girl tied up in the middle. They were dragged forward.

When passers-by on the street saw their clothes, they all moved out of the way and were very frightened.

The old man drinking the mutton soup frowned, the chopsticks in his hands broke, and his face looked ugly.

Qingshi glanced at it, raised his eyebrows slightly, and walked to the old man's table: "Old man, can you sit down?"

The old man nodded.

"Who are those people? Why are they kidnapping people on the street? Others seem to be afraid of them?" Qingshi looked across and asked.

The old man withdrew his gaze, sighed, and then looked at the bluestone: "Young man, are you a foreigner?"

"How do you know?" Qingshi knew it in his heart, but still asked.

"I can't even recognize the clothes of the Nie family slaves, they are only foreigners!"

"Well, I'm here for the first time today. Dad, I've heard that the Nie family is called the actual ruler of Baihe County. It turns out that those are the Nie family's slaves! The Nie family is also a century-old family with a good reputation outside. Why?

A woman was tied up in the street? People on the street were still very scared?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down, if you are heard, you will suffer!"

"Why, you can't even say it? Are you so overbearing?"

"well!"

The old man glanced around, sighed, and lowered his head.

"Don't worry, I'm just a title family, but I'm not afraid of them!" Qingshi smiled confidently, "Can you tell me about the situation of the Nie family? A century-old family can be considered a big family, and it should maintain its reputation! Why do you hear that?

Isn’t that what you saw?”

The old man just shook his head, obviously afraid and did not dare to speak clearly.

"Of course that's not the case!" A very thin old man walked over from the side. His face was wrinkled, his eyes were cloudy, his head was bald without a single hair, and he was wearing a linen robe.

It seems as if the wind blows and I will see the world again, but my steps are very steady.

After saying that, he sat down, looked at the bluestone, and said happily: "You little kid, you really don't know. When talking about the Nie family in Baihe County, if you praise it, that's it. If you say it in a bad way, you will probably be punished.

When their minions hear this, they will kidnap you, or send you to mines to mine until you die, or starve you to death in dungeons, or feed them to the monsters they raise, are you really not afraid?"

Without waiting for Qingshi's reply, the old man drinking the mutton soup said, "I guess you must have no children!" He lost interest in the mutton soup and lit up his dry pipe again.

"No children, no worries, that's what you mean, right?" the bald old man said with a smile.

"Yeah!" The old man with the dry pipe nodded and lowered his voice, "In Baihe County, who dares to talk about them unless they are not afraid of death?"

"You two husbands, there is no one around you, why don't you tell me the specific situation of the Nie family?" Qingshi became interested.

"Alas!" The old man with the dry pipe sighed, hesitated to speak, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "There is one thing that has been kept in my heart for decades. I think of it every day. It devours my mind every day. I have nightmares every day.

If I hadn't cultivated my fighting spirit, my bones would have been buried in the earth long ago!"

"I have a second brother from my family!"

"He is kind and helpful, and he has never been in trouble with his neighbors!"

"I clearly remember the day he got married!"

"On the way the bride was brought back, she was seen by a descendant of the Nie family and snatched away in the street. After hearing this, the second brother hurriedly went to argue and was beaten to death. After the bride was defiled, she was also beaten to death, and both

Feed the monster!"

"This is not enough. When the second brother's parents found out, they went to report it to the police. They were arrested in court and the body was thrown into a mass grave the next day!"

The old man's eyes turned red.

"There should be many such things, very, very many!" The bald old man sighed, "The Nie family has a strong man. After countless years of operation, Baihe County, both overt and covert, are all controlled by them. Under the power,

Being domineering is lawless and unscrupulous!"

"Yes, it's not just overbearing, it's simply unscrupulous!" The old man with the dry pipe gnashed his teeth, "Nine out of ten households of my neighbors were bullied by relatives of the Nie family or by evil slaves. Three or four households were destroyed and people were killed in the street!

Robbery of men and domination of women is a common occurrence; destruction of families occurs every day. One year, I secretly calculated that in that year, hundreds of people were killed by them overtly and covertly in the county."

"No one cares?" Inexplicably, Qingshi felt heavy in his heart.

"Guan?" the old man with the dry pipe sneered, "The empire is decayed, and the government is colluding with them. No, it should be said that they are all their people! There is no place for reasoning. In the county, it is generally accepted that when you meet the Nie family, you have to bow your head.

, you have to kneel down if you are bullied, and you have to accept your fate if you are targeted by them. If you really can’t survive, quickly hang yourself in a well to save the suffering! By the way, you also saw the group of people just now, it is obvious that it is robbery.

I don’t know which family of the women who came here will be destroyed again. I still don’t understand, those so-called strong men who are above us just watch the people suffer and ignore them? Do they really treat us like ants? "

"Alas!" The bald old man sighed softly, "There is nothing we can do about it!"

"Why is there no way?" The old man with the dry pipe was angry, "The law is the way, but they take the lead in not obeying it! Strong men, they are so high up, looking down at us and other ant-like figures, how can they care about our life and death? We are all the same, they are all the same.

They are a bunch of money wolves without parents!"

"I heard a saying!" the bald old man said, "Our empire also has powerful enemies, such as monsters, which are always threatening our human race! We have been fighting with them for thousands of years, but powerful monsters have always existed, and we need to strengthen them.

There are also evil gods who are always coveting our territory, and we also need strong people to protect it. But there are only those strong people, how can we take care of it? We humans have a large number, but there are few strong people, so we just think that there will be small chaos in the territory.

It doesn’t matter, this may stimulate the growth of geniuses. Giving the strong some privileges is also a way to stimulate the emergence of strong people!”

"Privilege? Method?" The old man with the dry pipe showed a sad look, "Those with strong titles are superior, is this not a privilege? They enjoy the title, this is not a privilege? They plunder our land, this is not a privilege? That's it, we are weak,

We live a humble life, but they are not enough. They rob our children and destroy them at will. They can kill us at will according to their mood, and they can even arrange a crime for us at will to deprive us of our property and land.

, even life. Under the tranquility of the empire, no, under the tranquility of the nobles, we are slaves who can be beaten and killed! Just because we have no conditions to practice, because we are weak, we are born with a low life? Empire? Those so-called

Extraordinary? Bah!”
Chapter completed!