"I know that you are all feeling bitter and depressed, but this is the intention of the higher-ups! I am a small city lord and I can't be the master at all. I have already been working for everyone's benefit! Alas, you don't understand me... It's hard for me too!"
The voice of the parade weakened slightly. Some people were speechless after listening to Li Zhixi's explanation. Some people thought about the credibility of the words. Some people believed some of them, but they always felt that something was wrong. They wanted to refute but could not think of words. Some people did believe in these reasons, but they did not dare to speak out due to the shouts of the people around them.
"Don't listen to her sweet words! We must unswervingly defend our interests! Brothers! What do we want!"
"Grain! Grain! Grain!"
Li Zhixi sounded embarrassed and said, "Alas! I am the lord of the city and the official of the parents of the people, that's all! I will endure some hardships and give you some food. As for the higher-ups, I am willing to take the responsibility on my own! Folks! Do you think it's okay? It's not that I don't want to give you food, but it's also difficult for me! I have made the biggest concession!"
Li Zhixi, with his eloquent tongue, gave everyone another shot of strong medicine:
"I can only come up with 500 tons of food, otherwise, I can't explain it to the people above! When I am held accountable by the people above, I will no longer be a city lord. When the time comes, there will be a city lord who enforces the law impartially, but he will not distribute food to everyone like me! I... I still want to serve everyone all the time!"
"What evidence do you have that Spirit Hall is in urgent need of a lot of food!" someone in the crowd asked.
"This is Spirit Hall's request. If you don't believe me, you can read the notice!" Li Zhixi coughed twice and asked his subordinates to show a forged order to the unsuspecting people.
It reads: Spirit Hall is going to war against the two empires recently, and is in urgent need of a large amount of food and supplies. Please urge the people under your rule to pay for it in order to prepare for strategic needs - Spirit Hall Saint: Bibi Dong Book
Gui Mei laughed out loud and said happily, "This Li Zhixi is also a character. Everyone's impression of His Holiness the Pope can't be erased, so they created a saint. They bullied the common people who don't know much about saints!"
Li Zhixi indeed explained, "In the past few months, Mr. Pope has gone to the front line to survey the enemy's situation! Holy Maiden is in charge of the palace, and I have no choice! We Suotuo City Holy Maiden is very dissatisfied with the food that has paid in the past few months! I am a humble person, so I can't help it! Don't worry, when His Holiness the Pope comes back, I will report everyone's pain and suffering one by one, so that everyone's grievances can be vindicated!"
Li Zhixi walked out of the sedan chair. At this moment, she was crying so hard that her makeup was all stained. She swore to God:
"Everyone, please leave now and go to the branch hall to collect the five hundred tons of food! Everyone, work hard and join me in enduring it a little longer. As long as you endure it until His Holiness the Pope comes back, then there will be food! There will also be wages! There will also be holidays!"
"This..." The people were dubious, mainly because their information was indeed closed, and they had no idea what Spirit Hall's situation was now. Li Zhixi's strategy was not very clever either. She just used the information gap to keep telling lies to make a big deal, temporarily stabilizing the people in front of her, letting them disperse first, and then go back to work honestly.
Seeing that the people were still hesitating, Li Zhixi simply took another dose of strong medicine. She waved her hand and had a group of Suotuo City Spirit Branch Hall officials brought up who were tied up.
Hugo has investigated all these officials, and indeed none of them are innocent. They are all extremely vicious officials who squeeze the common people to death.
Li Zhixi believed that it was impossible to hide the scapegoat from the common people, so he simply cut off his tail to protect himself, and tied up some of his subordinates who were really evil-doing and showed them to the public.
"I know that everyone is suffering, and it is indeed my negligence as the city lord. Today, I am here to kill this group of corrupt officials who eat food and do nothing, to vent their anger, and to make up for my lax governance. I promise that in the future, I will strictly restrain my subordinates and never let them harm the people! Folks, look at this, is this okay? Everyone, please leave. If you continue to be patient, as long as His Holiness the Pope comes back, we will all be saved!"
Li Zhixi sings hymns crazily for our great Qian Xunqian Pope.
"Oh? Really?" came an evil voice, pouring into the minds of everyone present.
People marching, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know who you are!
But when Li Zhixi heard this voice, her body trembled crazily and collapsed to the ground. But soon, she adjusted her condition, quickly turned on Martial Soul, and said eagerly to her guards, "Quick! Help me block it!"
Li Zhixi's face turned pale at this moment, his original calm demeanor was gone, and he ran backwards like crazy!
The guard soldier couldn't recognize who the voice was, but seeing how panicked Li Zhixi was, he must be a big shot that she couldn't afford to offend!
"What a great show! Li Zhixi, it's a pity that you don't become an actor! I would like to ask, when did this saint write this notice?"
The person speaking is none other than Holy Maiden--Bibi Dong of today's Spirit Hall.
How can Soul Douluo, who has just been promoted to level 80, be the opponent of Peerless Douluo, who is level 99? Spirit Bone and Bibi Dong are both in the Six God Equipment Each piece of the Six God Equipment Spirit Bone on his body is no less than 200,000 years old. Bibi Dong was slightly cut with Death God Scythe, and a deep crack was cut in the air.
Bibi Dong's other hand reached into the crack, and with one tug, he grabbed the escaping Li Zhixi out of the black hole.
Li Zhixi's whole body cultivation was crippled. At this moment, he knelt on the ground like a dog, crying and begging Bibi Dong for forgiveness:
"Holy Lady, I was wrong! I shouldn't have slandered you! You have a lot! Spare my life! Please! Spare my life! I... I have many, many Gold Soul Coin! I... I also have Spirit Bone! I can dedicate them all to you! As long as... as long as you can let me live!"
"You should know my temper!" Bibi Dong said coldly.
Li Zhixi felt a chill all over his body. Yes, there is a saying that has been circulating in the Spirit Hall: "I would rather offend Pope than offend the saint!"
It means that Qian Xunqian and Wen Rou, as Pope, are amiable. As long as they don't make principled mistakes and don't violate the laws of the Spirit Hall, even if you dance on her head, she won't kill you. She is still too Wen Rou!
But Holy Maiden Bibi Dong is different. She hates evil very much. Twin Martial Souls's extremely dark attributes make her character tainted with some evil nature. If you do something wrong, her big Sickle will be on your head!
Seeing that Li Zhixi couldn't survive, he finally added fuel to the fire and wanted to take advantage of this cold and cruel Holy Maiden!
"Oh, it's Holy Maiden here! Why don't you admit what you did!"