"Your trick is really ruthless!" Gu Jiao shook his head at Xiao Nan on the side.

Xiao Nan looked sideways, under the sunset, but saw that several members of the Gu family were tall and well-proportioned, with silver hair tied up in their ears, draped like a waterfall, and with exquisite facial features, they were simply a group of elves from foreign lands.

Seeing that Xiao Nan was in a daze for a while, Lu Miaoying snorted angrily, and scratched in her heart, "As soon as I see a beautiful woman, I have such a virtuous character." She wanted to cover her restless eyes with both hands.

He came back to his senses, but before he could respond, the leader of the counter climbed up the hill from the gentle slope.

"All the disciples of the Star Moon Sect have arrived, and none of them are bad. ”

"So is Songhemon. ”

"The offshore sect is also all here. ”

Although the expressions of this group of people were cold, they seemed to have reduced a lot of resistance to him in their hearts.

"They know they're camping here, right?"

"Yes. Several people replied one after the other.

"Those of us, let's get together here and discuss our plans for the future. Although Xiao Nan said this, his tone was also plain and gentle, but in his heart he thought differently: I don't need to discuss with you now, you just need to do what I tell you!

Everyone nodded, but they didn't make a sound, but suddenly Wei Shuangqi exclaimed, "Sister, look, Yan Fang and Yuan Hong are here." ”

When Xiao Nan heard this, he saw a group of people rushing over, and he was overjoyed, "It's just in time, I'm going to go to them." ”

"You, what are you looking for, what are you looking for them?" Wei Shuangqi looked at him vigilantly.

Xiao Nan groaned slightly, and replied calmly: "Let them coax their own city lords." ”

"You're ......!" Wei Shuangqi's eyes widened angrily.

And Xun Yue, who was still mourning in Xun Qianhu's arms at this moment, couldn't help but laugh out loud when she heard the words.

Wei Shuangqi waved his hand at Xun Yue angrily when he heard this, but she turned around and avoided it.

"Miss Lu, Miss Wei, ah! Brother Xiao...... Brother Xiao!" Yan Fang and the others saluted Lu and Wei very regularly, but they rushed over to Xiao Nan excitedly.

"Brother Xiao, I haven't seen you for a long time. Shan Tingting and Zhou Qing also came around.

"Hey, what about me, you pretend not to see it?" Wei Shuangqi's eyes widened, looking at the group of people surrounding Xiao Nan in disbelief.

"Little City Lord," Shan Tingting turned around and grabbed Wei Shuangqi, "Hey, Little City Lord, why is your face like this?"

Before Wei Shuangqi could make him small, Xiao Nan took Yan Fang and Yuan Hong's hands, and said excitedly: "You guys came just in time, I need you to help me." ”

"What are you helping, Brother Xiao, just open your mouth!" Zhou Xing did not hide the joy in his heart.

"Brother Xiao, tell us what to do, and we'll do it right away. Yuan Hong's younger brother Yuan Sen also said.

Xiao Nan saw the old man again, his heart was bright, he smiled, and said half-jokingly: "There is something in front of me, I need your help, I see that you brought dozens of people over, help us go to the surrounding woods to find some firewood, light a few bonfires, we are all from Jingcheng rushed over ......." ”

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Xing walked over to the group of people brought from Yuecheng.

Xiao Nan then looked at Shan Tingting and Zhou Qing, "The food you cooked is exceptionally delicious, and I still remember it after decades." We're all hungry right now. ”

"Brother Xiao, no problem, the seasonings are more complete now, and the mushrooms we found from the Quehuan Swamp, no matter what kind of beast meat the soup is brewed, it is delicious, Zhou Qing and I will make it for you later." "Shan Tingting is still the same as when Xiao Nan first met, like a girl, red and white, delicate and beautiful.

When the crescent moon rose, several fires were blazing on the hill, and dozens of people sat around the fires in several places.

A few copper pots brought by Shan Tingting and borrowed from others were steaming by the fire, and the fragrance was permeating.

Xiao Nan sat with Lu, Wei, Xun, and Gu, and Yan Fang and Yuan Hong were also among them.

"Hey!" Xun Yue touched Xiao Nan on the right side with his arm.

"Well, what's wrong?"

"Do you want to eat barbecue? I'll go roast, I'll store a lot of Yuli. ”

"Of course, but you're also tired, so rest today. ”

"Hmph, you know I'm tired!" she puffed up, but she got up from her chair and took out the delicate grill and peeled ingredients.

Xun Qianhu looked at her sister, who had been spoiled by thousands of people since she was a child, and now she was meticulous to accommodate one person, and her heart was also full of mixed feelings.

"Brother Yuan, why didn't Yan Xiuyun come?" Xiao Nan asked. Dream Island Library

"She led a group of people to the Quehuan Swamp a few days ago, and now the population of Qicheng ~ has exploded, and almost all of them are ordinary people, just filling their stomachs is not an easy task. Yuan Hong replied solemnly.

"Do you have to go to the Quehuan Swamp to hunt and feed them?"

"Mostly. Yan Fang held a branch in his hand and unintentionally stirred the fire, "There are too many people, although the small city lord has tried his best to invest a lot of financial resources in Qicheng from Songhemen or other places, but it can only be solved for a while, if this continues, no amount of money can fill this bottomless pit, not to mention that now there are evil spirits in troubled times, and the number of refugees who flee to Jingcheng will definitely increase indefinitely." ”

"You didn't make any other arrangements?"

"I also do some business, such as transporting the mushrooms and hunted beasts from the swamps of the Que Huan to the surrounding cities for sale, and I can also make some profits, but compared to the nearly three million people in Qicheng, it is only a small number. ”

"You mean to say that these three million people depend on you to feed them?"

"That's basically it, after all, there are not many things they can do due to environmental constraints. ”

After listening to Yan Fang's words, Xiao Nan's heart was simply galloping, and the matter of building a town and a city was originally an idea of his, but he didn't want to build such a city.

He shook his head helplessly, and forced the chagrin in his heart and said: "What kind of city have you built, you have built a shelter and a huge welfare home. ”

He said this in such a loud voice that all the people stopped laughing and opened their ears to hear what he was saying.

"Although these people are not cultivators, they still have the ability to support themselves, so how can they live entirely on charity? It is better to give them fish than to give them fish. ”

"What do you mean?" Wei Shuangqi, as the city lord, asked, as a girl, she could be regarded as dedicated and meritorious to the construction of Qi City.

Xiao Nan closed his eyes slightly, telling himself to be calm and not to ask them with the concepts he knew, so he explained his previous sentence to everyone.

"Then what should we do? Let these ordinary people do?" Yuan Hong asked worriedly.

"To each of them to the best of his ability, to be self-reliant. Xiao Nan raised his tone, he did feel that the people in this world were unreasonable, but after he took a deep breath, he thought that they were cultivators, and they had an insurmountable barrier to ordinary people.

The two words just said, they understood and understood the meaning.

"Let those who know how to farm let them open up the wasteland and farm, and those who know how to craft will build workshops and provide them with a place to work. "Those who can weave cloth, those who can embroider, those who can do business, and they can arrange for them to open shops in other cities...... Wait, wait, you don't have to go into all the details, do you?"

There was a long silence, a long silence, including among the leaders who sat by the other fires.

"You...... Why didn't you tell us earlier?" it was Wei Shuangqi who spoke, she was a little excited, but also a little angry.

"Trees die, people live, you are the city lord, I don't even know what your head is for!" Xiao Nan glared at Xun Yue, who was leaning on Wei Shuangqi's shoulder.

Wei Shuangqi wanted to snatch Bai, but he couldn't find the right words, so he was angry, so he had to find a branch from the ground and throw it at him.

Xiao Nan took it in his hand, raised his eyebrows and looked around at a few people, and teased: "Listen to me, do you feel like reading a book for ten years?" ”

The woman laughed easily, and her own chuckle came out, and Lu Miaoying, who was sitting on his right, pinched his arm and twisted it, "What are you stinking and beautiful? ”

"Brother Xiao, what you said is right, it is indeed better to study for ten years, please rest assured, I will do what Brother Xiao said as soon as I go back. Yan Fang was so serious that he kept bowing to Xiao Nan cautiously.

"Even if they don't know anything, you can let people teach and train them, as long as they are treated fairly, Qicheng provides them with a fair and just environment, they have the right and obligation to do what they can. ”

Xiao Nan continued to tell them, "Don't raise idlers, it's not good for themselves or Qicheng, otherwise Qicheng will be a dead city." Once all the people do their best, not to mention 3 million, even 30 million people, they will also prosper.

"Then there are children, those who have the talent for cultivation are allowed to cultivate, and the bigger the city, the more cultivators are needed to maintain it. Those who can't cultivate, train them from an early age to learn some life skills and crafts. ”

As he spoke, he heard a disdainful hum coming from afar, and all eyes looked at the discordant voice.

It was none other than Wei Shuangling's third uncle, seeing that everyone was looking at him, he didn't hide it, and said loudly: "Originally, what you said had nothing to do with me, no, it also has something to do with it, after all, the city lord of Qicheng is my niece, you said that cultivating cultivators, not to mention the huge cost, just say that these ordinary children have really been cultivated into cultivators, are they willing and desperate to stay in Qicheng? Won't they find the opportunity to join other sects?"

Xiao Nan raised his eyebrows at him again, and said in the same loud voice: "This guy is right. ”

"What?" Wei Shuangqi glared at him fiercely.

"You...... , what are you calling nonsense, he is my third uncle!" Wei Shuangling was also anxious.

Xiao Nan deliberately made trouble with these two brothers and sisters, but seeing that the two of them were disgusted, he hurriedly sighed and said, "Third uncle, you asked this question at the right time, and you are asking the point." Since Qicheng can be fair and just, and be benevolent to all people, may I ask which sect is stronger than Qicheng where they are located? Even if there are a few unrighteous people, they can go if they want to. If this kind of dissident person still stays in Qicheng, he will become a black sheep and harmful. ”

After Xiao Nan finished speaking, a burst of discussion rang out, "I have met such a person in the sect I stayed in before, and he is indeed not a good bird. ”

"That's true. ”

"Leader Xiao's words are very reasonable. ”

Yan Fang and Yuan Hong also nodded and agreed to Xiao Nan's previous request.

"Brother Yan, Brother Yuan, I first said that I want you to help, but in fact, I want to do some big business with your Qicheng. ”

"Brother Xiao, please speak!"