Shuanghe County is in a strange calm at this time. It is the most remote and poorest county in Hengzhou. It has not been stationed by immortal officials for a long time and has been almost forgotten. Not only Qingzhou, but also Hengzhou has many people. Feeling that its existence is unnecessary, this year it suffered huge losses in the war with the barbarians. Half of its more than one hundred villages were wiped out in this terrible invasion, and even the high walls of the county seat were wiped out. All were pierced.
Usually, after such a disaster, powerful figures from all parties who want to take advantage of the chaos to expand their strength and wealth will jump on the stage and do whatever they want, but this time the female fairy official who showed her prominence when the catastrophe came did not do anything. Allow them to do so. Probably because she had some unsavory comments about these "respectable local people" during her visit with Hualin, she drove the most respectable large households in Shuanghe County like the farmers in Jiming Village. Get up - that is to say, she apportioned a "fund-raising and security fee" to each large household that was much more than their daily taxes, but much less than the taxes they should pay. Along with the money, there were also After getting all the allocated labor and material quotas, she used the money and materials in places that the big families originally wanted to use, such as building walls and subsidizing the victims. After such a change of hands, she He smeared the popularity that the big players wanted to gain onto himself.
Such excessive expropriation would logically have aroused a wave of resistance in Shuanghe, but since Zhang Qiuguan fled in danger, her head was hanging high, this undercurrent that had been unruly before she arrived in Shuanghe was frighteningly calm at the moment. , not to mention the usual prevarication and delay, even all the private thoughts about her have disappeared. When facing her, everyone really treats her as an immortal official instead of a brainless beauty doll. Treated.
They truly saw the power of Immortal Officials.
When the three elders of the Xiao family arrived and used magic to repair the city wall, the pretentious wealthy people below did not even dare to cough. Rumors spread from the yamen that the Xiao family was about to completely wipe out the barbarian forces. Dividing Shuanghe into an enclave, the female immortal official and the third elder are just the first batch of pioneers. More heavyweights from the immortal family will lead the army later. All the big families see that countless elephant legs are about to sweep across Shuanghe. When the sky in He County fell, the only reaction they had time to do was to lie down on the ground and give whatever the female fairy official asked for.
The three elders had nothing to do with the rumors spread by Xiao Ruyun. If these things happened on Qiyun Peak, more than one of them would stand up and reprimand Xiao Ruyun, but this is Shuanghe where mortals live, and it would mislead some In the eyes of these immortals, the matter of mortals who live and die intermittently can be dealt with by using their universal method of treating mortals, "It's none of my business." Besides, this is where Xiao Ruyun is responsible, and she should be responsible for everything. What they have to do is to repair the city wall as soon as possible and then return to Qiyun Peak. Not to mention whether Shuanghe mortals will feel that they have been cheated, it is none of their business if Shuanghe booms next.
When they discovered that the city wall in Shuanghe County had another secret and that its construction was not as simple as they thought, these elders who wanted to repair the city wall and return to Qiyun Peak had no time to take care of Xiao Ruyun's government affairs.
As a result, Shuanghe County's restructuring work has been operating with unprecedented efficiency.
When Hualin came to Shuanghe County, what he saw was a brand new scene. Xiao Ruyun had renovated the dock and even made up for some of the damaged parts in the past. There were two new cargo ships staying at the dock. Some people may wonder why the lower reaches of the river have been frozen, but there are still cargo ships at the docks of Shuanghe River? This is because the pace of commerce at that time, especially in remote counties like Shuanghe, was far beyond that of Qingzhou City. When a ship arrived at the dock, the captain would first stay in the warehouse and slowly wait for the broker to find customers. Sell the goods and wait for the broker to buy enough goods for him before sailing away. Why didn't the ship just unload the cargo and load it with another merchant's cargo? Because merchant ships sailing to Shuanghe are not once a day, or even once a month. A merchant may only visit once every half a year, and spend more than a month buying and selling goods in Shuanghe. If the ship sails to Shuanghe every day, there will not be that many at all. The goods are being transported, so you might as well go a little slower. It won’t delay anything anyway, right?
"She did a really good job," Hualin stared at it for a while and praised: "A layman is better than a hundred old officials here who claim to have been here for many years but don't focus on business."
"Yes, but she is just an old official," Xiao Qianqiu said: "She can't give you any guidance on practice, let alone resources."
"Cultivation and resources...is that all you can think of?"
"The lives of mortals are like morning dew. Although monks who cannot become true immortals live longer than mortals, they are just longer." Xiao Qianqiu's words are very clear. In his years as a true immortal, he has witnessed how many mortals and The monk's joys and sorrows, Xiao Xinglong and Yuzhui didn't really love each other at first, and their love is stronger than gold, but what will be the result?
Xiao Xinglong's father did not ask about his son's whereabouts after he came out of seclusion. Others could not see through it, but it seemed natural to Xiao Qianqiu, because there was no need to ask. He had been in seclusion for a hundred years. If his son became a true immortal, the two would naturally get along. See, if you don't become a true immortal, you will die sooner or later, so what's the difference between you and him?
Only after a long time can we talk about other things. The true immortals who have seen thousands of years of changes all know this truth. Those who cannot last long, such as Xiao Ruge, who has exhausted all his traps and thinks he has a plan, are already dead in the eyes of the true immortals.
Now Xiao Qianqiu looks at Hualin and Xiao Ruyun, and they are just average. Whether they are good or bad, they must both become true immortals before they can comment. Otherwise, some people will care whether a pair of crickets who can't withstand frost and snow swear that the sea is dry and the stone is rotten is true or false. ? It's more like treating it as a joke.
Hualin's answer was not at all in this direction: "I am here neither for practice nor for resources, but to witness one thing, and now I have witnessed it."
"What?"
"The world can still be saved."
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"Now I'm going to further verify this matter." After Hualin finished speaking, he turned around, turned his back to Shuanghe County, and walked farther and farther, straight to the foothills in the distance and deeper into the mountains.
"Hey! Aren't you going to see her?" Even Xiao Qianqiu could only ask this sentence for a while.
"If I had said that from the beginning, would you have followed me obediently and not caused trouble along the way?"
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