Chapter 33 Concerns in the Heart "Wow wow..." Zhang Xianzhong had just announced the disbandment when Ai Nengqi jumped up three feet high on the spot, dancing with excitement as he hurriedly said to his team members, "Wait for me here!" "I have to go get my big red horse, take my spiritual sword, bow and arrows, and then take you for a stroll on the street!" With his youthful spirit, he finally got the chance to show off, so how could he hold back? I saw him turn around in a hurry and run towards the nearby stable! Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier had almost the same reaction. They each said something to their team members, turned around and followed Ai Nengqi, running towards the stable. "Boss." The fifteen team members who were looking at Li Dingguo eagerly asked a tall and thin boy who was about thirteen or fourteen years old, "Do you want to ride your big black horse and take your spear and bow and arrows with you before going out?" His name is Tang Guangqiang, and he is one of the two talented young men in Li Dingguo's team. Now his cultivation has reached the peak of the early first stage of martial arts, and he is only one step away from breaking through to the middle first stage of martial arts.
He is also the best archer in this team except Li Dingguo. He can shoot the target through the air from a hundred paces away with ease. "No need to bother!" Li Dingguo calmly waved his hand and said, "I'm just going out for a walk. Why do I need to be so cocky?" "hehe!" He pointed at several large carriages that had just been driven in from the gate of the compound by a dozen cooks. He looked at the backs of Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu, and Zhang Huier in silence and chuckled, "Look at these guys. They were so happy that they forgot to have breakfast today." "We are not in a hurry. Let's all line up first, have breakfast, rest for a quarter of an hour, and then go out for a walk on the street." He has lived two lives as a human being, but he is not the kind of ignorant boy. Once he encounters happy events, he will be very excited and forgetful. "Hahaha……" The fifteen members of this team looked at the large carriages that had just delivered breakfast, and then looked at the young warriors from other teams who were looking at each other in bewilderment. They could no longer hold back and burst into laughter! Our boss is still much more awesome. The other team leaders are so happy that they forget they haven’t had breakfast yet! The boss at home is much calmer, that's the difference. After a while, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier returned to the compound excitedly on their spirit beast horses and holding their spirit weapons. However, they were stunned to see the sixty-one young warriors happily eating breakfast. Well, they were just embarrassed for a moment and didn't take it seriously at all. Then they jumped off their horses one by one, comforted their mounts for a while, and walked to the cook one after another to get their own portion of spiritual rice and qi and blood soup, then squatted on the ground and ate and drank. The Eighth King was very thoughtful. He knew that these little guys didn't have a penny in their hands, so he specially arranged two confidants to use a large carriage to load two large boxes of copper coins. These copper coins are strung together in strings of one hundred coins, and one string is equal to one hundred coins. After these orphans had eaten and drunk their fill, they lined up and each received a hundred dollars. Then, led by their respective team leaders, they hurried towards the gate. Li Dingguo was too lazy to look at the three guys who were eager to show off on the street. He took his team of fifteen people out of the compound and came to the street outside. Speaking of which, this was the first time he had walked out of the mansion behind him since he had traveled through time and space and been reborn. Although I have the simple memories of my predecessor and am not unfamiliar with this county town, the most common memories in my predecessor's little heart are that I was not well fed and clothed, and I worried about filling my stomach every day. For Li Dingguo, who came from the 21st century in his previous life, this magical world gave him too much curiosity.
This small border town alone is more than ten miles in radius, which is not much smaller than some ancient county towns in the history of the Earth. The population living in this Dingbian city is at least hundreds of thousands, which is more than the urban population of most county towns in the previous life. Because in the wilderness, there are threats from monsters and demons everywhere, and it is difficult for ordinary people to survive in the wild. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the safety of planting and harvesting of various crops, many fields were opened up in various towns. Including the farms, spiritual fields and spiritual animal gardens of the gentry, they are protected by high walls around them to ensure basic personal safety. Even those manors built by wealthy families outside the city were surrounded by solid walls to protect their fields, orchards and other important facilities. Most of the villages and towns where humans lived were protected by walls, and many fields were opened up inside, with relatively complete basic water conservancy facilities built to increase crop yields as much as possible to ensure the food supply in the city. This is the biggest difference between this world and the history of the Earth in Li Dingguo’s previous life. The reason for this is naturally needless to say: because this world is so huge, humans only occupy a small part of the territory, and most areas still have their original terrain and are occupied by groups of monsters and demons. As long as you have the ability, you can go to the wilderness and enclose land to grow crops. As for whether you have the ability to hold on, and whether you will be killed or eaten by those monsters and demons, it depends on your ability and luck. The vast majority of ordinary people do not have this ability. Only powerful officials, noble families, wealthy merchants and government officials have the ability to open up wasteland in the wild. After founding a country, the founding emperors of every dynasty would distribute land to the people. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the situation was reshuffled and this was no exception. Because officials and gentry did not need to pay taxes, they used various means such as plunder and purchase, and after years of accumulation from generation to generation, they annexed a large amount of land, causing countless people to lose their land and become their tenants. Up to now, natural disasters and man-made calamities have become more and more serious, and the court's various taxes have been increased again and again, but all of them have fallen on those ordinary people who still have their own land, making them overwhelmed. In recent years, more and more people have been unable to survive, and some people have raised their voices and started to rise up, and naturally there have been countless rebel armies. "Boss, where are we going?" "Yeah! I don't even know where to go to play now." "I think we can just take a look around the city, then find a big restaurant and have a big meal."... When everyone left the Wang family compound and came to the street, these orphan boys who were originally very excited were all dumbfounded. They all have no home now. Before being taken in by the king, they were homeless beggars who had no food to eat and lived from day to day. Now that this was the first time they were going out to play properly, they naturally didn't know where to go first, and everyone almost simultaneously turned their eyes to Li Dingguo. To be honest, although these orphans have now become warriors, they have not been able to adapt to the new identities because the time they changed was too short. They have not realized that they are no longer the same as before. "Boss, let's go to the East City Land Temple where we used to live, and visit those brothers and sisters who were eliminated before." At this time, Cao Yongxiang, another talented young man standing next to Wang Qiang, suddenly looked a little gloomy and spoke to Li Dingguo. The beggar gang that Li Dingguo used to belong to consisted not only of boys, but also quite a few girls. They all became beggars and wandered around because of their tragic life stories and experiences. Different from other beggar groups in the city, there were no evildoers in Li Dingguo's small group, they were just kind-hearted beggars.
Among them there are not only more than forty little boys, but also more than twenty little girls. The oldest was no more than twelve years old, and the youngest was only six years old. How miserable was the wandering life of a beggar? They are the ones who have the most say. "it is good!" "I want to go see Xiao Douya, too. I wonder how she is doing now?" As soon as Cao Yongxiang finished speaking, a small figure flashed through Li Dingguo's mind, and all the memories of his original body suddenly flooded into his mind, with deep sadness and concern, so he said something to everyone and nodded. After hearing what Cao Yongxiang said, everyone looked unhappy and no one wanted to go out and play on the streets anymore. They followed Li Dingguo and hurriedly walked along the main street towards the land temple in the east of the city. (End of this chapter)