Da Zaojun

Chapter 36 Barn Country

Song Wuji cast the spell [Call Name].

Suddenly, the skinny and ugly toilet rat in the field fell into confusion.

No matter what, Song Wuji was ready to go on a killing spree. Even though this skinny humanoid rat looked pitiful, it was not something Song Wuji could sympathize with.

He used a bloody kitchen knife to hack the old and weak toilet rat to death, but before it died it said, "I'm hungry! I'm hungry!" Then a cloud of gray mist appeared.

Song Wuji was unable to dodge and his whole body turned into the shape of a wretched and shriveled rat man.

Song Wuji opened the kitchen book and found that there was only a temporary status of "Rat in the Toilet".

I checked the shadow image of [Toilet Rat] again to see what was going on.

Toilet rats: They live on filth, have thin bodies, are described as wretched, and are numerous. They are the lowest class of slaves in China.

After checking the shadow image, Song Wuji has extracted some key information.

I am afraid that there is a serious division in China. The rats in the warehouse belong to the ruling class, while the rats in the toilet belong to the lower class of slaves.

Judging from the social form alone, it is very similar to the slavery system in the pre-Qin period.

But Chen Xiu and Cat Captain, did they also turn into mice?
Song Wuji continued on his way in the state of a rat in the toilet, and soon saw a filthy shantytown filled with dirty water and a foul smell.

There were several wooden carts filled with feces, water and urine.

Several skinny toilet rat pups, with bellies as big as toads, were scooping up the filth and eating it.

When Song Wuji approached, they became alert, hid behind the manure cart and observed carefully.

But after seeing that Song Wuji was just like them, they relaxed and seemed to know him.

One of the toilet rat cubs said, "Uncle 56, are you hungry?"

Rats can give birth to multiple babies at a time, several times a year, and have an amazing reproductive capacity. Toilet rats are similar.

Song Wuji said, "Uncle is not hungry."

Another baby toilet rat said, "Uncle, the tax collector from the warehouse is here to collect our grain tax. This year, he's offering one pound of meat for one pound of grain. My uncle says the collector is kind this year! Everyone is rushing to cut off and sell the edible meat on their bodies. After all, the meat is on us, and we can grow by eating shit."

The baby toilet rat that had just spoken to Song Wuji showed an expectant expression: "Grandma said that as long as we can save up 500 kilograms of millet, we can go to the Granary China, become a Granary Rat, and change our fate."

"A pound of meat and a pound of grain?" Song Wuji was surprised. Even so, the toilet rat still thought the master was kind?

"Where is the tax collector? I'm going to sell meat too."

"But uncle, didn't you sell yourself just last month? Do you still have any meat on you?"

"Never mind, it's such a rare bargain!" Song Wuji said randomly, "Take me to see the tax collector!"

"The tax collector is with the agricultural inspector. We are so filthy here that the tax collector can't even set foot here."

After that, he took Song Wuji to the agricultural supervisor.

Along the way, there were tattered things everywhere, rats were rampant, and there were also some skinny rat-men, but they had no tails. The rest of their meat was rotten, only their tails were good meat and could be sold for money.

Song Wuji also learned that all the farmland in Cang China belonged to the master of the Cang Rat. The millet planted there needed to be irrigated with the blood and flesh of the toilet rat, and the rice grown there was blood rice.

Toilet rats live on the excrement and garbage of the warehouse rats.

The toilet rats dream of going to the city and becoming the high and mighty hamster masters, but they can only do so by working hard to farm for their masters and giving birth to pups. The more rats there are in the family, the more meat they can sell, and the more likely they are to change their fate.

The tax collector is a tax official who specializes in collecting taxes. The rats have to pay grain taxes. Although the grain is grown for the master, they also have to pay taxes to be qualified to farm for the master. Otherwise, there are too many toilet rats, and not all rats are qualified to farm for the hamster master.

In addition, some toilet rats can enter the city to collect feces and garbage, and they have to pay feces tax and garbage tax.

Every time a mouse is born, a mouse tax must be paid. Every time a pound of meat is sold in exchange for a pound of grain, a meat tax must be paid.

But every year, there are still one or two toilet rats who can turn over and transform into hamster masters. The next year, they will become tax collectors.

Therefore, every year when the tax collector comes to the village, it is the happiest thing for the toilet rats. Seeing the tax collector's chubby body and the gorgeous robes he wears, they feel proud and imagine that one day they can also become a tax collector and become a glorious toilet rat.

Although the agricultural inspector is an official, he is just a toilet rat official. Although the tax collector is an official, he is also a hamster official. There is no comparison here.

When Song Wuji arrived outside the agricultural inspector's house, he didn't think it was much taller and more prosperous than those shanties. It also looked like a pile of rubbish.

There are three layers inside and three layers outside, surrounded by circles of toilet rats.

From time to time, a toilet rat would come out carefully carrying a small bag of grain, but its tail was gone.

After Song Wuji turned into a rat man, his ears became very sensitive and he heard the conversation between the agricultural supervisor and the tax collector inside.

"Recently, a terrifying monster has appeared from nowhere. I've never seen one before, and it's incredibly ferocious! I heard the king had his tail cut off, and in order to grow a new tail quickly, all the people in the country are collecting tails..."

"I heard that it was our Granary Country that recognized the Tiger Country as its suzerain and was going to pay tribute to it."

"We, the Granary Nation, eat grain, but they, the Tiger Nation, eat meat. That's why the King has mobilized the entire nation to win the favor of the Tiger Nation."

"Both. The Tiger Kingdom is powerful, and the king has been invited there to serve as the second king. Now in the Granary Kingdom, many hamsters want to go to the Tiger Kingdom with the king to enjoy the good life!"

"Alas, none of this has anything to do with us. But now that we've joined the Tiger Kingdom, the life of the warehouse rats isn't so good anymore. But no matter how bad it is, it's still better than the life of the toilet rats."

In the yard, the toilet rats lined up one by one. There was a guillotine there. The toilet rats couldn't wait to put their tails into the guillotine. The toilet rats operating the guillotine cut off their tails with force. The toilet rats with broken tails showed a painful expression in an instant.

But when the toilet rat who was weighing told him the weight of his tail, the toilet rat who was weighing grain weighed a small bag of grain for him, and an even uglier smile appeared on that wretched and ugly face.

"Thank you! Thank you, sir!"

He immediately went out happily with the grain. The other toilet rats gave him envious looks: "His tail is really heavy. I heard that in order to make it heavier, they deliberately soak it in rat urine to make it rotten. When it grows back, it will be thicker."

"No, who would buy a tail that smells like urine? It needs to eat grains during the tail growth period. Only by eating grains can the tail grow long, thick, and beautiful, and it can be sold at a high price."

"Those who are reluctant to eat grains have short, thin tails without much meat."

(End of this chapter)