Isn't it necessarily a good thing to have made great achievements?
This is indeed the case for Shen Hao. Whether it is a blessing or a curse, he can't tell yet.
After completing such a big case, if it were in the past, I would definitely be excited to receive a good reward. If there is a merit reward, it can be said to be a certainty. In addition, as Tang Qingyuan and Chen Tianwen said, he is very likely to be promoted by half a level, so that he can successfully enter the ranks of full-sixth-grade officials and obtain the honorific title of "adult".
It seems that everything is a good thing, but in fact, the promotion is likely to bring uncertainty to Shen Hao.
Shen Hao is now a low-level official from the sixth rank of Trial Hundred Household. When receiving the reward, he will generally consider being promoted to one or half a level.
But the problem is that the Licheng Hundred Household Office is a hundred household establishment, and the highest officer is the sixth grade, currently led by Tang Qingyuan.
What if Shen Hao is promoted to the sixth level this time?
If Tang Qingyuan takes advantage of the situation and gets promoted, he will most likely take over as the chief officer in Licheng, because he is Jiang Cheng's disciple, and Jiang Cheng cannot ignore him once he is offered a position.
If Jiang Cheng can't move, then Tang Qingyuan will probably not be able to move either. The reward may not involve the titles of these two people at all, but make up for it in other aspects. Then Shen Hao would be very embarrassed. His rank was low and there was a high probability that he would be promoted as a result of the reward. By then, he would definitely not be able to stay in Licheng as a sixth-grade official because he would have no place.
Not only is there no place in Licheng, but there is no place in the health clinics within the jurisdiction of Fengri City. Shen Hao can only work in the Qianhu Station in Fengri City, and it will most likely be a sinecure.
Winning a print reward but being assigned a casual job was not the treatment Shen Hao wanted, and it was even a hardship for him.
So now Shen Hao's mood is not as exciting as after making great achievements, but instead he is worried. He didn't want to sit in a public house for years with a cup of tea.
However, there was no news from above, and Shen Hao did not dare to ask at this time. Everything would have to wait. I thought Jiang Cheng would definitely ventilate him in advance before the reward was officially announced.
All I can do now is worry.
Sitting in the study, he drank three bottles of wine in a row before feeling drunk. Now that his cultivation has entered the realm of gathering gods, Shen Hao found that his ability to drink was better than before. It seemed to be due to his increased physical strength.
I was so drunk that I fell asleep leaning on the chair in the study.
It was the next day when I woke up again, but it was still dark.
The biological clock has made Shen Hao forget what lazy sleep is.
Opening the door, Xia Nu, this stupid slave, was curled up on the ground at the door, with her pointed ears pulled down. She was sleeping soundly, chirping and mumbling something in her sleep.
The study is a forbidden area in the family, and the family cannot disturb him if he is in it, so this stupid slave must have been waiting at the door last night to take care of him. But he didn't know that he was so stupid that he slept more soundly than Shen Haodu.
Taking a closer look, compared to when she first entered the house, the fox girl's face was rounder, and her body was more prominent and uneven. Sometimes Shen Hao was a little angry.
"Go back to sleep!" Shen Hao bent down and twisted the slave's ears.
"Ouch, ouch! Master? You, you got up so early?"
"What's the morning? Go fetch water."
"Okay." He jumped and ran away.
Shen Hao took advantage of Xia Nu's break to fetch water and went to the backyard to start his morning practice: magic.
Shen Hao usually practices the exercises at night.
First comes Earth Escape. Forming the seals, chanting the seals, performing and concluding them all in one go. In the blink of an eye, people were already walking back and forth in the yard, flashing in and out so fast that it was dazzling and difficult to catch.
The maximum escape distance is now fifteen feet, and the time to form seals and seals is half a breath, which has basically been shortened to the extreme. What Shen Hao needs in the future is the mind seal, and by then the speed of casting can at least be increased. Double.
After that comes Palm Thunder. He kept silent and finally hit a big stone lock specially used as a target with his palm. With a muffled bang, the two hundred kilogram stone lock instantly shattered. The destructive power of this thunder method has begun to appear, and it is similar to that in nature. Thunder and lightning are completely different things.
Now Shen Hao feels that although his cultivation level is still stuck in the first level of the God Converging Realm, his current strength is more than five times stronger than before the breakthrough.
The most intuitive feeling is that when he faces Tang Qingyuan, who is at the eighth level of the God Converging Realm, he no longer feels the same fear in his heart as before. This is the most intuitive change that shows that the gap in strength is narrowing.
The morning exercise didn't take long, but it was very efficient for Shen Hao. Moreover, coupled with his uniqueness and daily accumulation, his growth rate was staggering to him.
Collect energy and Qi. After using the Palm Thunder three times and the Escape Technique ten times with all his strength, Shen Hao would feel a little empty inside his body, and it would take him secretly adjusting his breath for a moment and a half to recover. From this, he could roughly estimate the maximum number of times he could use these techniques in actual combat.
"Master, the hot water is ready."
Xia Nu saw sweat on her forehead and ran to the backyard with a smile to greet Shen Hao back to the house to wash up. She was the only one in the family who dared to come and call Shen Hao when he was doing morning exercises.
The weather has become a bit cooler, and it won't take long for the hot water to stop being hot after it comes out of the pot. So Xia Nu brought out a big bucket every time so that she could manage it for a longer time. I don’t know where her thin arms and legs can get such strength. It’s so different.
During the meal, Aunt Zhang made a rare appearance, a little embarrassed, rubbing her hands as if waiting for Shen Hao to speak. Hu Tian, who was holding a cane, stood beside him. After a month of nursing, the old man's leg injury was mostly healed and he couldn't rest anymore. Now he is wandering around the house again on crutches. The pony was often trained miserable by him.
Shen Hao greeted Aunt Zhang while eating: "Aunt Zhang, sit down, don't be nervous."
"Hey, I, I just need to stand."
"I asked someone to help me drink that wine yesterday when I was treating guests. Don't worry about this. I estimate that it will take a few days to respond. Keep the price. A jar of wine is five kilograms, one hundred Two silver coins, everyone pays this price. And we only sell twenty jars every day, and we close the door when it is sold out. No reservations, no credit. Do you understand?"
Aunt Zhang was a little dumbfounded, as if she was frightened by what Shen Hao said about money.
One hundred taels of silver for a jar of wine? !
Oh my god!
On the other hand, Hu Tian next to him patted Aunt Zhang on the arm and shouted: "Why are you so stunned! Remember what Master Shen told you! Do you hear me?"
"Ouch, Mr. Shen, I remember, but this, this..." Aunt Zhang didn't believe that a jar of wine could be sold for a hundred taels. In her opinion, this was simply ridiculous. I want to say something but don't dare.
How could Shen Hao not see what Aunt Zhang was thinking? He did not explain, but said with a smile: "Just listen to me on this matter. Now that I have joined your Zhangjia Liquor House, I must do a good job, and I can't let you follow me without a trace. In this way, Butler Hu's legs and feet are now I can barely move, go help the Zhang family keep an eye on things, and then come back when you are on the road."
Hu Tian should be. He has long been idle.
After Shen Hao had breakfast, he went out for a business trip.
