After Su Mingan returned to his room, he fell asleep immediately.
Due to the night levels of the Demon King and the Hero, he is now extremely sleep-deprived.
But before he had slept for long, he was suddenly awakened by the noise outside.
"In order to ensure the safety of the East District... the Royal City... taxes..."
"Please... please... if... we..."
The noise outside became louder and louder, giving Su Mingan a headache.
He sat up and rubbed his eyes, and the watch on his left hand suddenly lit up.
"Good afternoon, Master! It is now 3:12 system time. I will play some relaxing music for you to wake up..."
"Shut up." Su Mingan said.
The light from the watch was immediately retracted.
A timid voice came from the watch: "Master, you haven't given me a name yet."
"Get it yourself." Su Mingan stood up from the bed and listened to the noise outside.
"But Master, how can you name something by yourself..."
"Then your name is A-Du." Su Ming'an said casually.
Adu was the name of the goldfish that Su Mingan used to raise.
The watch seems to be very happy with its name.
Su Mingan walked to the door and listened to the sounds coming from outside.
"Sir, 30% of the taxes are already costing my life. Can you report this to the King's City..."
Su Mingan pushed open the door.
On the garbage-covered bluestone road, a tall man stood in the middle of the road with a cigarette in his mouth. Behind him were several guards wearing royal city uniforms.
"How dare you disobey the order from the Royal City?" The man shouted at the crying woman on the ground, "The barrier is fragile now, and the storm is rampant. Increasing the tax by 10% is already considered merciful by the Royal City. You parasites who only care about your own survival, there should be a limit to your selfishness!"
The man stepped forward, snatched the jade ring from the woman's wrist, and turned away without paying attention to her pleas:
"The day after tomorrow is tax day. You parasites, don't forget to pay your taxes honestly! Praia doesn't support useless people!"
Residents nearby went to help the woman, patted her on the back and tried to calm her down.
"Casanna, don't be sad, everything will be fine..."
"The child's father just went out to sea. We have lived in Praia for generations, so how did we become parasites..." the woman sobbed.
"Casanna...why don't you go to the tavern we introduced to you before? They should be able to give you some money to help you get through this difficult time..."
Under the residents' persuasion, the woman's expression kept changing.
Finally, she nodded with difficulty.
It seemed that the "pub" as people called it was an extremely scary place for her.
Su Mingan leaned against the door, watching the scene happening not far away.
In the room next to him, an old lady was operating a sewing machine. The machine was squeaking and there was a slight sound of thread and cloth rubbing against each other.
"Hey, let me see who's standing at the door... Young man, young man, hey, from Su Lin's family!"
As Su Mingan turned around, the old lady's voice came from the window.
Su Ming'an hesitated for a moment, and the old lady opened the door and let him in.
The house is not big but looks very clean. There is only a screen separating the dining room and the bedroom. From time to time, a woman's coughing could be heard from the other side of the screen.
When Su Ming'an entered the house, the granddaughter Lele came out holding an empty bowl of medicine. When she saw him, she frowned slightly and seemed to be on guard against him.
"Le Le, let me have a chat with this young man." said the old lady.
Lele curled her lips, turned around and continued to walk behind the screen.
Sitting next to the sewing machine, the old lady sorted the clothes in her hands.
"Young man," she said, "are you still going to sign up for the Soul Hunt?"
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"When you didn't come back last night, I knew you would become a soul hunter... Don't be nervous, I don't blame you." The old lady smoothed the cloth and said, "Since the feast at sea is about to begin, I wanted to ask you for a favor."
Su Mingan said: "You say."
Communicating with local residents would help him collect some information, so he did not refuse.
The old lady grinned.
She put down the needle and found a photo.
The photo was extremely blurry, and the faces were also blurry. One could only vaguely see a family of four standing in it.
She stroked the black and white photo with trembling fingers, and after a pause, handed the photo to Su Mingan.
"Young man, you are Su Lin's child, a good young man." She said, "I am old and can hardly walk. I can only live in this small house all day and night..."
Su Mingan took the photo.
"I would like to ask you to send this photo to the Central Soul Hunting Department." The old lady said: "After the soul hunters died, their photos will be kept by the Central Soul Hunting Department. I thought that the old man could not come back, so I fulfilled his wish... I hope that I can still see their faces clearly in this photo..."
Su Mingan took a look.
The photo is blurry and it's impossible to tell who is facing who.
"It's clear." He said, "I will submit it to the Soul Hunting Department."
He took the photo, and the old lady seemed to want to say something.
"You've probably seen it in the past few days since you came back." She said softly, "This Praya is not a charity hall."
Su Mingan remained silent.
"You saw what happened just now. The royal city has increased taxes, and we can't do anything about it..." The old lady said, "I saw a knight of light coming to the neighborhood last night. Maybe the church can't tolerate a neighborhood as poor as ours..."
"Knight of Light?" Su Ming'an guessed that it was probably Xie Lude who came to him last night to do a mission, but unfortunately he was still in the South District Soul Clan last night: "It shouldn't be the church. They don't seem to care about these things."
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