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They broke off a few green branches and placed them in front of them. Then they tiptoed, bent over, and sneaked towards the village.

"Minister Yu, is this okay?" The student next to him blushed slightly and followed behind Yu Yan with a hunched back.

He has never done such sneaky things in his life.

"It can happen!"

Yu Yan said in a loud voice: "We are almost entering the village, and no one has noticed us."

The few of them rushed forward a few dozen meters again, then stopped and squatted behind the bushes.

It was afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, and the villagers all stayed at home to rest. Apart from the noisy chirping of summer cicadas, the fields and gullies were completely silent.

"Pah!" Yu Yan slapped the insect that had climbed up his calf to death, and a red dot the size of a soybean immediately appeared at the place where he was bitten.

"As expected of Green Water Village, it's really rich."

At the entrance of the village stands a tall door frame with three characters handwritten by a wealthy man engraved on it. Although every household has a wooden house, earthen walls and green tiles can be seen everywhere.

“After all, it’s the number one village in the county.”

"Ouch, this mosquito is biting me to death."

"Do the kids also take a lunch break?"

The kids in the village are full of energy all day long and they don’t want to take a nap.

If he is not swimming, he is climbing trees. He also shoots birds, fishes, catches cicadas, and frogs... He is good at everything.

"Maybe the children in Green Water Village are different..."

Before he finished speaking, a childish voice rang in his ears.

"What are you doing?"

Yu Yan shuddered and fell backwards to the ground. Then eight or nine kids gathered around him and looked at him with their big eyes blinking.

Suddenly, a big toad jumped out of the baby's backpack.

"Lonely——"

With a kick of his legs, he jumped onto Yu Yan's face...

Chilly and sticky.

"what--!!!"

The shrill screams pierced the sky, and in an instant the forest birds flew away and the frogs croaked continuously.

The frogs and sparrows that were either dressed in or hanging on the dolls were frightened and took advantage of the chaos to escape. In an instant, the birds flew away and the frogs jumped.

There are some things that we were not afraid of when we were young, but become extremely afraid of when we grow up.

For example, frogs, earthworms, caterpillars, silkworms...

Some people even began to be afraid of snails.

Several kids were busy catching frogs, while Yu Yan and others huddled together in fear.

"No future!" The leading kid, who was about twelve or thirteen years old, looked at Yu Yan and others with contempt.

"This... Young Master."

Yu Yan smiled with difficulty: "Are you from Lushui Village?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" The leading doll was wearing a satin jacket, blue-gray linen pants, and thick-soled cloth shoes.

She had a braid on her head and a colorful string on her wrist that she hadn't taken off during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Yu Yan looked at the small harpoon in the other person's hand, and his heart trembled: "We are just passing by..."

"Alang."

The leading kid rolled his eyes and said, "Why don't you wait here first, I'll go talk to the villagers."

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing the other party about to walk away, Yu Yan immediately called out: "Young men, we are just passing by, not..."

"That won't work." The leading child said, "My grandfather said that it is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar."

"Since you are passing by my Green Water Village, it is fate. How can you not come in and have a sip of tea?"

The child looked at Yu Yan and the others and thought to himself, you guys are so cowardly, you must have bad intentions.

How could he be let go?

The student next to Yu Yan couldn't wait and asked directly: "Kid, how many children under the age of 15 are there in your Lushui Village?"

This time I'm here to find out the situation.

The Tang Dynasty’s census was like a piece of cake, who knows how many people were hidden.

"Why are you asking these questions?"

Wawa's eyes were alert, and he said, "Green Water Village is so big, and I don't know how to count, how can I calculate it?"

"Tell me to go back and ask my grandfather, my grandfather is Muramasa!"

"So you are Feng Ji's grandson!" Yu Yan suddenly realized that he had seen Feng Ji when he came here before. He was a somewhat old-fashioned old man.

I heard that he has read a lot of books and is well-known in this area within a hundred miles.

"Do you know me, Grandpa?" The kid breathed a sigh of relief: "Wait, I'll go get someone."

He couldn't handle it anyway.

After saying that, the kid ran away with his friends.

Yu Yan stretched out Erkang's hand, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Not only did he know Feng Ji, but he was also fooled by that old man.

"minister……"

Several people looked at each other. They just happened to run into the village kid this time. The villagers wouldn't play tricks on them, right?

"Wait, then."

Half an hour later...

Lushui Village was as quiet as before, even the children who had entered the village before were nowhere to be seen.

With the cleverness of the old man Feng Ji, he probably already knew that he was coming.

Yu Yan glanced at Lushui Village dimly and said, "Acai, I really hate using tough measures."

The owner of the manor said that when dealing with the people, communication is the most important thing.

But some people are unwilling to communicate.

He took out a letter from his arms and placed it on the stone pillar at the entrance of the village to hold it down.

"Let's go."

He turned his head and took a look: "Times have changed. It's not good to be complacent."

If you don't see the girls of school age from Lushui Village when school starts, then it's not them who are coming here.

Boys do not have to be forced to go to school in the village, but girls who have not received an education must go to school, otherwise compulsory education will lose its original meaning.

Even if the people despise him, compulsory education cannot be ruined in his hands.

……

Jianguang Temple.

Teams of soldiers surrounded the gate tightly, with the leader riding a horse and pointing his gun at the vermilion gate.

"Jianguang Temple harbors murderers, defrauds believers of their money, oppresses and enslaves tenants, lives a luxurious and decadent life, and indulges in wine, meat, and beautiful women..."

"Now that the evidence is solid, we have been ordered to arrest the monks in the temple."

Xiaotan Temple.

"Xiao Tan Temple sheltered the barbarian spies and illegally collected gold, silver and money..."

Shrine Department.

The officials in brocade and jade robes were carried out by the black-faced soldiers, crying and shouting for their injustice.

"Why are you shouting? It's as if you've suffered a great injustice. So it's not you who is corrupt?"

“It’s unfair…”

"If you shout again, I'll break your legs!"

"..."

There was chaos in the department.

Inside the city.

The last chapter of Journey to the West was published in the last weekly report, and today is the day the review is published.

The reviews of the weekly are no worse than the sales of the weekly. The scholars and literati are always quarreling in the reviews, cursing each other back and forth. Each of them thinks he is right, and the sharpness of their words is eye-opening.

For example, the theme of today's review is [How to evaluate "Journey to the West"], and several review magazines have expressed their opinions, and the argument has been going on for nearly two months, with words such as "獠奴狗贼" and "狗贼" all coming out.

The streets are bustling with people. After a year of text and phonetic propaganda, newspapers and books are no longer exclusive to literati and students.

Ordinary people can buy it and read it with some hesitation.

far away.

The old man and his two sons walked into the city gate carrying a few baskets of red-skinned eggs.

A year ago, he was dragged into the library by Master Li, and learned characters such as "草" and "日" by looking at pictures.

After learning to recognize a few words, he began to raise chickens scientifically using methods from farming books, and has now become a large chicken breeder in the village.

Even the children and grandchildren in the family have started raising chickens during the slack season.