“Ah Fan, you managed to avoid the single tax this time because of your young age.
But next year you won't be able to avoid it. You know, what's wrong with Cuihua? Why are you so unwilling?”
Outside the Qing Shi Town tea stall, a sturdy young man with a dark complexion grumbled.
Across from the sturdy young man, another young man, dressed in a linen long-sleeved shirt with a fair complexion, rolled his eyes.
The fair-skinned youth put down his tea and slammed the table, gritting his teeth.
“Da Zhuang, you know nothing! Cuihua is only fourteen years old!
This is a crime, a crime!”
The fair-skinned youth's name was Chen Fan, a time traveler.
Well, he didn't have any cheat codes.
If it wasn't for his literacy, he wouldn't have been taken in by the village head of Zhaojia Village.
It's likely that Chen Fan would have starved to death within a few days of his transmigration.
Now he teaches students how to write in Zhaojia Village and does some odd jobs to get by.
Da Zhuang didn't react in the slightest to Chen Fan's frantic behavior.
The villagers of Zhaojia Village were used to Chen Fan's occasional crazy episodes.
Many people speculated that Chen Fan had gone mad during his exile.
“What crime? The County Magistrate didn't say it was a crime.
When my second brother and my second sister-in-law got married, she was also fourteen!”
Da Zhuang simply thought Chen Fan was crazy. Cuihua was so beautiful.
If Cuihua's family hadn't looked down on him, he would have already asked his mother to propose marriage to her.
Although Cuihua's family also looked down on Chen Fan, a vagrant.
But he couldn't deny Chen Fan's good looks!
The girls and wives in the village, who wouldn't drool over this guy?
“You're a vagrant who has been registered, your birth month is whatever you say.
But next year you'll be over a year old, and the single tax is a hundred copper coins!”
Da Zhuang was still kindly reminding him, gulping down the hot tea in his bowl.
The single tax wasn't levied just once.
As long as you reached the age, it would be collected year after year, and it would increase every year.
Chen Fan was also a lazy bum, the land he cleared didn't produce much at all.
It was only because Chen Fan was quick-witted and could often find odd jobs that he didn't starve to death.
“Don't worry, money is easy to earn!”
Chen Fan's eyes gleamed, he had been in this world for almost two years.
Over the past two years, Chen Fan didn't just sit around.
The opportunity Chen Fan had been waiting for had arrived.
Li Shimin, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, had launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident and ascended to the throne, declaring it to the world.
Chen Fan no longer had to worry about sticking his neck out and getting involved in the fight for the throne.
After all, this world wasn't simple.
Take Da Zhuang in front of him, he could lift a thousand-pound boulder, he was incredibly strong.
But in this world, he was just a stronger villager.
One can imagine how powerful Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were.
He, with his skinny arms and legs, would be crushed to dust if he got involved.
Da Zhuang scoffed at Chen Fan's boasting and turned his head to look at the road.
“You're just bragging… Woah, Ah Fan, look at the beauties!”
Da Zhuang was in the middle of his criticism when his eyes lit up, and he waved to Chen Fan.
Chen Fan, pulled back from his thoughts by Da Zhuang, snorted with disdain.
I've seen countless movies, and there are beautiful women everywhere on Douyin.
What kind of beauties haven't I seen?
You're just a hick, you can only appreciate Cuihua.
Chen Fan turned his head nonchalantly and looked into the distance.
Two beautiful women were walking towards them from the direction of Qing Shi Town.
The woman on the left was charming and lovely, her willow-shaped eyebrows adorned with lively eyes that seemed to speak.
The woman on the right was dressed in a blue silk robe, her face like jade, a real icy beauty.
One was lively and energetic, the other was cold and imposing.
The contrasting temperaments that should have clashed were instead perfectly harmonious in them.
It was like a beautiful scene of ice and fire, floating before the eyes of the audience.
“Damn, Da Zhuang, I was wrong, I shouldn't have doubted your taste!”
Even with Chen Fan's experience of seeing countless beauties in his previous life.
He couldn't find three or five people who could compare to them.
“No, the ones behind those two beauties, aren't they the One-Eyed Wolf!”
Chen Fan had after all been exposed to countless teachers, and he quickly broke free from the beauty.
Then he frowned and looked at the five men behind the two women.
The man at the head had only one eye.
He was the notorious One-Eyed Wolf, a rogue leader from Qing Shi Town, known for his viciousness and cunning!
But at the moment, the only eye he had was filled with greed and lust.
“Two beautiful ladies, where are you going?”
The One-Eyed Wolf saw that there were few people around, so he immediately called out to two of his men.
Two of them stayed behind, the other two followed the One-Eyed Wolf as they accelerated, blocking the two women.
The woman in blue became even colder, raising her hand, but she was stopped by the woman in purple.
The woman in purple's eyes sparkled with excitement.
Then she quickly disappeared, clutching her chest, and cried out in panic.
“Ah, you you you, what are you going to do!”
“You bastard, I…”
Da Zhuang was filled with anger, his hands propped up as he was about to stand up.
But Chen Fan narrowed his eyes, suddenly reached out and pulled Da Zhuang, whispering.
“Da Zhuang, wait!”