Chapter 713: Chapter 206: Rebel Fan Wu? The Dog Meat Magistrate and the Old Taoist (10,000-Word Mega Chapter, Please Subscribe)_1

The brash wastrels barged into the inn, and unexpectedly, they heard Xing Fengzi utter such a phrase.

A look of shock crossed their faces for a moment. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

They were aware that their reputation in this county town was not particularly good.

But in truth, they didn’t really care, after all, they were no saints. What did they care for reputation? Was reputation as important as silver? Was reputation as important as Little Cui’er in the brothels?

As long as these guys didn’t badmouth them to their faces, they would pretend nothing had happened.

Moreover, they were confident, certain that no one dared to speak ill of them in their presence.

Because anyone who dared to do so had long since been thrashed by them and thrown into prison.

Now, those audacious fools still hadn’t been released!

This tyrannical feeling truly fascinated these wastrel rangers.

Because they felt... even they, the usually unwelcome rogues, had become officials whom everyone feared.

Even though there were always those who said they were just a pack of dogs raised by the officials, they saw themselves as the officials.

As a result...

What these ruffian rangers had not expected was that in the process of coming to collect taxes, someone actually badmouthed them to their faces? Actually said they were not good people?

Several shop assistants in the inn were also frightened by Xing Fengzi’s statement.

They all stared at Xing Fengzi with dumbfounded expressions.

Looking at the table where Fan Wu and others sat.

These shop assistants... had already warned Fan Wu and the others, thinking they should have realized that the tax collection team under the Magistrate known as "Dog Meat" was not to be trifled with, right?

But who would have thought, under such circumstances, that little Taoist Priest in the Daoist robe would still utter such words!

This... this...

Wasn’t this ignoring advice? Wasn’t this seeking death?

The shop assistants inside the inn exchanged glances, and one of them, a bit kinder, mustered his courage to come over, and then said to the ruffian rangers, "Honorable sirs, please calm your anger. They are outsiders, not from our county town. They do not understand our local situation."

"The words of that little Taoist Priest... may have offended you, sirs. Please don’t take it personally. After all, ignorance is not a sin, right? Hahaha!"

"Get lost!!" One of the ruffian rangers pushed the shop assistant away with such force that he almost fell to the ground. Then, with a very unfriendly look, he turned to Fan Wu’s table.

A sinister cold smile cracked on the man’s face, and he said, "Outsiders, huh? Not from our county town, right? That’s correct, outsiders have to pay taxes too!"

"And..." The malice in his eyes was unmistakable, and frankly, he didn’t bother to hide it.

"And outsiders have to pay even higher taxes! Thirty percent of all your possessions must be handed over!"

Thirty percent of all possessions? Even Yun Jiuqing was taken aback by such a blatant demand.

Their group’s provisions and such... were mostly managed by Yun Jiuqing, and she was aware that they had roughly two to three thousand taels of silver in total.

After all, the silver notes of the Great Zhou Dynasty were frankly unusable in the Great Yan Dynasty, so those notes had not been brought along.

They only brought two to three thousand taels of minted silver.

If it were thirty percent of three thousand taels of minted silver, wouldn’t that be nine hundred taels of minted silver?!

To give these wastrel rangers several hundred taels, even close to a thousand taels of minted silver for no reason?

What a joke?

Among Fan Wu and his group, the most irate was Liu Feng... because he had intended to show Daoist Priest Fan and the others the warm hospitality of the Great Yan Dynasty.

But instead, the first thing they encountered after coming to a county town was like this.

The Great Yan Dynasty’s customs had yet to be shown to Daoist Fan Wu and his company, but its repulsive side had already made a disgraceful appearance.

Although this kind of repulsiveness had little to do with Liu Feng, he felt extremely embarrassed.

Or to say, these several fellows had completely disgraced the Great Yan Dynasty!

So, in the face of these guys’ demands...

Liu Feng simply replied coldly, "Not a single copper coin. Go stay wherever it’s cool."

It’s normal to be subservient when facing powerful demons or Evil Gods.

But to kowtow to such ordinary villains, he would utterly be unworthy of the title of Cultivator!

"What?!" The ruffian rangers instantly flew into a rage, glaring at Liu Feng with gritted teeth.

One of them even shouted in fury, "You bumpkins from outside, don’t think by saying you don’t have a copper coin on you, we’ll let you off! Whether you have money or not is not for you to say, it’s for us to say!"

"I see that you simply don’t want to pay taxes! Alright then! Are you aware that just yesterday, the Magistrate issued a decree, saying whoever is unwilling to pay taxes, no matter if it’s a man or woman, old or young, will get twenty lashes!"