in the ancient last days

Chu Zhao woke up slowly in the warm autumn sun. The fresh air in the morning was mixed with a hint of coolness. The sun was not obstructed by clouds and fell on the spacious courtyard. Hearing the sound, Chu Zhao rubbed his eyes and raised his head halfway. .

"Susu."

The giant fern with dark green roots rustled and crawled on the tree trunks in the courtyard, and the grass blades enveloped the entire courtyard domineeringly, making Chu Zhao almost think that he woke up and came to the primeval forest.

"Tick."

Chu Zhao, who was drenched in dew, said, "..." His face gradually turned dark.

The giant fern swayed its leaves, and its humanized demeanor made people itch. That action just now was definitely a mockery, right?

Seeing the direction in which the opponent's branches and leaves were stretching, Chu Zhao jumped out of the window, and ran towards the big peach tree in the courtyard as if he had been burned, to block the opponent's entry.

The green leaf shook in the air, and it slowly made a gesture of heart.

Chu Zhao: The pen refills are useless. The peach blossom wine under the tree was buried with Jing Ling before he left...Wait, this mutated green grass is so familiar with its movements, could it be that his fine wine has already been destroyed? Are you poisonous?

He quickly squatted down and dug up the soil with a small shovel. After a while, he took out two wine bottles from the pit and found that the mouths of the bottles that had been buried were obviously loose. Chu Zhao frowned and lifted the lid——

The inside of the wine bottle is empty, with only a small piece of fallen green leaf at the bottom, telling the heinous crime of the "little thief".

A word "well" popped out of Chu Zhao's forehead slowly.

The giant fern saw that the situation was not good and was about to run away, but was dragged back by Chu Zhao by the roots and leaves. The tender green veins were stained with blood, Chu Zhao pulled the giant fern in his palm, and his keen mind moved, huh?

Chu Zhao's thoughts were interrupted by the furious shouts of the servants, he turned his head, and the servants in the mansion wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Young master, young master." Seeing the young master grabbing the strange grass, he secretly thought that something was wrong.

Chu Zhao stood up straight: "What's the matter with this weed?"

"You have neglected your duties, what should you do!"

"Young Master," the servant wanted to cry but had no tears: "Well, I don't know when this strange grass came to your courtyard. I've been injured several times, and later found out...as long as you don't take the initiative to attack the other party, the other party will not hurt anyone."

"So you let it steal my wine?"

The other party Nuonuo bowed his head, his face was ashamed: "This"

"Remember, next time is not an example."

"Yes! Thank you, young master, thank you, young master." The servant smiled instantly, took a careful look at the giant fern and left quickly.

Behind.

Chu Zhao turned to a certain leaf that was about to run, clamped its root with two fingers of his left hand, and said grimly, "After drinking so much wine from me, it's time to do something for the new city, huh?"

The giant fern shivered.

**

Chu Zhao walked on the flat road in the city, carefully feeling the changes in the city.

The concrete roads paved in the city are smooth and clean, and the four-wheeled carriages passing by the driveway are grunting. The people who go to and from the streets all have smiles on their faces. Such vitality is unique to the people who feel safe in the last days. some.

"Ah Shan, are you back from duty?"

The tall and burly man responded, striding forward with a long spear in his hands, smiling all over his face.

Someone laughed kindly: "Hey, I heard that your marriage to Miss Xiaotao is scheduled for the end of this month? When will you invite us to a wedding banquet?"

"Definitely." Ah Shan blushed, scratched his head in embarrassment, bid farewell to the villagers, and left with the food.

"That's great. I heard that Ah Shan got a wedding room when he got married. It's said to be a reward from his superiors."

"It's not the hunting team five, the members of the hunting team have always been treated very well."

"Haha, I will send my son to the hunting team to sign up tomorrow when he becomes an adult. It would be great if he can become a small team leader. I can rest in peace when I die."

"Hey, old Wang, do you think that you can be the one if you say it?"

The noise gradually faded away, Chu Zhao adjusted the hood used for camouflage, and continued walking on the street.

Passing by a wine shop on the road, the giant fern on the shoulder was about to move, and he wanted to enter the door to steal a drink, but Chu Zhao slapped him with a slap: "Be quiet."

Aggrieved, the leaves curled up, and the giant fern lay on Chu Zhao's shoulder and made a humming sound.

Chu Zhao looked up and saw a mass of orange lying on the eaves.

"Fatty? Why are you on top?"

The fat short legs were stretched on the eaves, the orange cat dozed off with half-lidded eyelids, it was still chewing something in its mouth, looked up and saw Chu Zhao, and opened its mouth, "Meow——"

Chu Zhao sighed: "Come down."

The little guy must have gone somewhere to steal it again.

Ever since he returned to the new city with him, he was so favored, and the weight he could control a little or two outside was completely gone here forever. Chu Zhao no longer knew how many "secret strongholds" he had unannounced.

Fatty turned over.

The paw grabbed Chu Zhao and wanted to drill into his arms, but Chu Zhao ruthlessly slapped the little paw away: "You are too fat recently, you can't hold it."

"Meow!" Fatty was anxious.

Rejected by Chu Zhao again, he meowed furiously, the hair on his fat head glanced up in the wind, he gave Chu Zhao a noble and glamorous look, then kicked his legs, jumped onto a tree and ran away!

Ran……

Chu Zhao was in a mess in the wind, and the giant fern poked him on the shoulder, in exchange for a cool look.

One person and one grass continued to walk on the street.

After his planning and deployment, the development of the new city gradually got on the right track, and the people began to return to their old businesses. In the short time Chu Zhao walked on the street, he had already seen several shops.

The seafood shop in the north of the city, Zhou Yulang's honey fried shop, and Chen's mother's mud mask wind medicine shop, looking across the door, there is actually a teeth brushing shop? ?

That's right, it is to use the branches to clean the teeth while chanting mantras.

The sharp-eyed Chu Zhao saw that the brush was beginning to lose hair: "...." The toothbrush should be invented sometime. By the way, the toothbrush is made of pig bristles. The earliest invention seems to be a Chinese emperor.

As for the ponytail being too hard, it is not good for the teeth, this will not work.

While Chu Zhao was thinking, a group of boys and girls, thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing red clothes and belts, rushed past like a whirlwind, holding books and cheering.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I'm going to be late for class later!"

"Understood, today the head of the mountain will come to check in person, have you all tied up your waist tags?"

"Yes, yes!"

A girl hurriedly ran past Chu Zhao with her bag on her back. She wore an orange-red crimson gauze gown, with the belt on her forehead fluttering in the air, and a small academy logo was embroidered on the chest.This pattern...how does it look like the school emblem he drew as a joke?

Da Fang followed the others to the front of the academy, and there was already an old man with long beard in green clothes and Confucian shirts standing at the door, the old man stared at these students who were out of tune seriously: "Hurry up, Hugh is late."

The students smiled awkwardly, bid farewell to the head of the mountain, and rushed into the hospital.

After all the little guys had left, the old man's solemn expression slowly disappeared. He stroked his long beard and let out a breath, humming a little tune.

"Yang Lingzhi?" Chu Zhao looked suspiciously at the little old man in front of him.

Yang Lingzhi almost tore off his fake beard: "Master, Master?"

Chu Zhao was confused: "You are..." He remembered that the other party was clearly not that old, how did he make himself look like this.

I feel a little guilty in my heart, maybe I let the other party come to teach and make it like this.

"Ahem." Yang Lingzhi smiled wryly: "Young Master, I have no other choice. The previous appearance...was a bit lacking in majesty, and it was not very convincing."

Chu Zhao nodded understandingly.

Yang Lingzhi: "The Martial Arts Field is open today, and there is a small competition in the academy. Would you like to come and see, Shaojun?"

Play Wu Xiaobi?

Chu Zhao became a little interested: "Let's go and have a look."

In the middle of the academy, like the Chu Family Village, a space was cleared out, which is used to teach students martial arts competitions on weekdays.What Chu Zhao said that day, that he hoped that the academy could become a ray of light in the last days, allowing students to learn a skill of self-defense, Yang Lingzhi remembered everything in his heart.

Today, the best martial arts masters in the academy even rival the members of the hunting team.

within the venue.

Dust filled the air, he leaped vertically, holding a stone stick in his hand, his lips turned white because of too much force.

A sword suddenly struck from behind his shoulder, Tongqing quickly raised his arm to avoid it, and rolled a few times on the ground.

"Bah!"

The long sword left a scratch on the stone stick, Lu Mingyu smiled: "Longqing, using a stick won't work, the sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, it's too much for you to use a broken stone stick that you forged yourself to try to defeat me." Ridiculous."

"I advise you to admit defeat."

Lan Qing wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, stared at Lu Mingyu without speaking.

The other party is usually the number one in the academy, and he was displeased with him, the one who beat him in the last essay test, and this time the competition was even more ruthless in secret.Tongqing's shoulders were in severe pain, but the flame of unwillingness in his heart was burning bigger and bigger. Lu Mingyu's father was the captain of the first hunting team, and he had heard and seen martial arts skills much higher than his mud-legged one, but did this prove that he lost?

No!The teacher said that everyone in Shenshan College, regardless of their superiority or inferiority, is entitled to compete for the first place, and he will never take the initiative to admit defeat.He held his breath and concentrated, recalling how the old general taught them how to use the stick in class, and showed how to fight back a dozen mutant vicious dogs on the spot.

Naoqing shouted angrily, brandished a bone stick and attacked Lu Mingyu.

On the high platform, Chu Zhao couldn't help showing admiration in his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Who is he?"

Yang Lingzhi hurriedly replied: "This son's name is Longqing. His parents are people who fled Huizhou from the famine. Now they are both from the new city. His father seems to have been injured outside. Now the family's livelihood is barely maintained by his mother. Longqing is my student. , he studies hard on weekdays, so he pays more attention to him, he is really a good boy."

"Oh?" Chu Zhao nodded, and turned to him: "People from Huizhou fleeing famine. So, there are many people from the outer city entering the city?"

"Yes." Yang Lingzhi looked at Chu Zhao proudly: "Our new city is prosperous and powerful, and you, young master, have a great reputation, which naturally attracts people from the outer city to flock here."

"Then is there any detailed regulations for these outsiders?"

The welfare of the people in the new city is good, but the people from the outer city are different. They need to be screened and resettled when they enter the city, and they cannot enjoy the same benefits all at once.

"You can rest assured, Young Master Ji. Young Master Ji helped formulate the law, and he had anticipated this. Now people from the outer city and officials who enter the city have a complete and detailed plan to act." Yang Lingzhi hesitated after finishing speaking. After a while, he still asked: "Young Master...this time when I saw Shao Jun returning to the city, it seems that Mr. Ji didn't have one?"

"Master Ji is a man of great talent, I don't know..."

Chu Zhao raised his eyelashes and glanced at him leisurely: "You care about him."

Yang Lingzhi laughed.

"Don't worry, he has his own business to do if he doesn't come back with us, it's not what you think."

Yang Lingzhi was relieved, and seeing that Chu Zhao's expression was not right, he quickly changed the subject.

The two cast their eyes on the field again, and found that the situation on the field had quietly changed.

With a loud shout, the stick swept across the opponent's feet with swift force, Lu Mingyu hurriedly jumped to the right to avoid it, but the next moment a gust of wind hit his face with a cool feeling.

"not good!"

It's a pretense!

Lu Mingyu hurriedly raised his sword to block in front of him, but the body of the stick was as heavy as a mountain, and his long sword flew away with one blow.

The circle was filled with flying dust, and he lost his weapon. In less than a quarter of an hour, Lu Mingyu was kicked out of the competition circle.

The crowd below applauded, excitedly shouting Daoqing's name.

Lu Mingyu stood up in embarrassment, the handsome boy's face was covered with gray marks, he was very unwilling: "I lost this time, wait, I will get it back from you next time!"

"Waiting for you at any time." Lan Qing retracted his stick.

Chu Zhao in the distance also stood up with Yang Lingzhi.

"Congratulations, Young Master."

"By the way," the wind lifted Chu Zhao's broken hair, and he glanced at the stage from a distance: "For No.1, ordinary monetary rewards are fine, I think that student's self-esteem is quite strong. But outstanding students His home school should show that he can help his parents as much as possible, and don’t let people be distracted from their studies because of family affairs.”

"Yes!"

"How's the bursary thing going?"

"This matter is about to submit a charter to Shaojun..."

The voices of the two gradually faded away, and the academy students in the martial arts field didn't know that the wise city lord whom they had been thinking about just now stood on the high platform with the head of the mountain and witnessed their contest with their own eyes.

Chamber.

Ah Da reported: "Young master, the Cui family's caravan has delivered the traded horses to the gate of the city, do you want your subordinates to receive them?"

"So fast?" Chu Zhao was a little surprised. In less than half a year, the Cui family prepared [-] horses so quickly?

Cheng Yaojin rubbed his hands, and smiled: "Oh, young master, you don't know. Once the Qujiang banquet is over, everyone will know your reputation, young master. No, the Cui family rushed to send you a good one. The horse is gone."

Chu Zhao ignored this sycophant, and turned to look at Ada in front of him: "Then is the rice grain we traded in Xincheng ready?"

Ah Da cupped his hands: "Young Master, you can rest assured, it was ready last month."

"Well." Chu Zhao said seriously: "Then you, Uncle A, are fully responsible for this matter."

"Yes!"

Ada took the order and turned to leave, while Cheng Yaojin looked at Chu Zhao sadly.

Chu Zhao was unmoved, and leisurely spread out the topographic map near the new city, intending to circle a horse farm.

Seeing this, Cheng Yaojin immediately leaned forward: "The young master is looking for a place with good geomantic omen and terrain? Why don't you ask Master Li? The other party is called the 'Xiao Li Immortal' in our city, Absolutely a real thing!"

"Master Li?"

"Yes, now everyone in the city wants to ask him to make a fortune. Xiao Li's divination is superb, and his calculations are accurate!" Finally, Cheng Yaojin was very excited when he was answered, and he talked endlessly about the other party. Mysterious place.

Chu Zhao narrowed his eyes slowly: "Immortal?"

"That's right, it's Immortal Li, oh, the young master is interested in him? Hey, hello—this servant is going to invite him over!"

Chu Zhao sneered: "No need, I will go in person."

He wants to see who dares to engage in feudal superstition in broad daylight under his nose, and all the bluffing and deceit have come to his territory.

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