For the rich is not benevolent, for the king is not virtuous, for the ministers are disloyal, for the people are uneasy, the superior is not the low, the inferior is not the high, the beginning of the disaster.

------------ "The Book of the Emperor - Trouble"

Runan-gun, autumn.

As soon as Dao Sheng and the others' carriage entered Runan County, more than a dozen knights waited for a long time, and the first one saluted the carriage and said, "I heard that the scholar has arrived, and the envoy has specially ordered me to come and greet him." ”

When following the knight into the city, everyone passed by a farmland, there was an old farmer in the farmland, Li Xing dreamed that the farmland had long been barren, but the old farmer was still farming there by himself, and asked curiously: "Old man, you don't seem to know how to farm." ”

The old farmer was not angry when he heard this, but sighed.

The knight came and explained to the people, "This is a madman from Runan, who is good at doing extraordinary things and saying extraordinary things. ”

Then the knight said to him: "This is a distinguished guest of the envoy today, a scholar from Luoyang, you don't want to talk wildly. ”

Unexpectedly, the man laughed and said, "Those who will die are useless to save." ”

When the knight heard this, he was about to reprimand him angrily, but Dao Sheng stopped the knight, and then saluted him and said, "Heaven can do nothing, humanity can do it." ”

Xiao was dismissive of Dao Sheng's words, and just scolded: "Stupid man!"

Qian on the side was about to explode when she heard this, and someone actually scolded her teacher for being a stupid man, but after looking at the Taoist who was not angry, Qian had no choice but to give up.

Dao Sheng sighed and said, "The Tao is different, but the Tao is not the same." Then he left the city and went to the city.

"Sir, don't be angry, that person has always been like this, if it weren't for the fact that the adults thought he was quite literate and reluctant to kill him, with his attitude, he would have been cut down a long time ago. The knight came and said.

When I arrived at the designated banquet place, it turned out to be a restaurant.

As soon as Dao Sheng and the others got out of the carriage, they saw a young man with a snake head being beaten by several human teenagers, and the people around not only did not stop him, but cheered for a while.

"You damn bastard, the next time you dare to show up here, I'll break your legs. The young man at the head was full of pride, thinking that he had taken the limelight.

However, as soon as he turned around, Qian grabbed his arm and twisted it hard, and the boy's arm was dislocated, Qian was also of mixed race, and because of this reason, he was bullied in his childhood, so he hated these bullies the most.

The boy rolled on the ground in pain with his other hand on his arm, screaming miserably.

Seeing this, the other teenagers fled in fright, and the half-human, half-snake boy thanked Qian and left the place.

"Sister Qian, you're going upstairs, come on. Xiao Meng'er, who was not far away, shouted loudly at Qian.

On the second floor of the restaurant, seeing Dao Sheng and others going upstairs, a middle-aged man sitting on the upper seat came up and saluted Dao Sheng and said, "Sir, please take a seat." ”

Then he said to Li Xingmeng and the others: "These two girls and this son, please sit here." ”

After Daosheng returned the salute, he sat on the throne generously, and then the middle-aged man introduced himself to everyone, it turned out that he was the newly appointed Runan Economic Envoy, Wangqiu.

Wangqiu poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all, and then began to introduce: "This is Mr. Daosheng, the great scholar of Luoyang Library. ”

All the guests saluted to Dao Sheng, and the envoy continued to introduce a few of the guests to Dao Sheng, and after this was over, everyone talked and laughed at Yanyan, and was full of wine and food.

"Why don't you introduce us?" said Xiao Meng'er dissatisfied.

A wealthy businessman next to him heard this and asked Xiao Meng'er, "Dare to ask this ...... Well...... What is the relationship between the girl and the Taoist senior?"

Before Xiao Meng'er could answer, Xingkong replied proudly: "The teacher has been teaching us for a long time. ”

"Oh...... Childe, I will toast you, and I will ask Childe to take care of you in the future. The rich merchant complimented the starry sky with a smile on his face, making the starry sky fluttering.

However, just as Starry Sky was immersed in compliments, the arrival of a girl with jasmine on her body and a long black dress attracted Starry Sky's attention. Seeing the starry sky staring intently at the jasmine girl, the rich merchant said: "Childe is in love with this person, she is the niece of the envoy, Dai Yan'er, it is not impossible to succeed as a son, and the contemptible person is willing to make a match in the middle." ”

Starry Sky saliva unconsciously flowed out, and when he heard this, he only knew that he nodded vigorously.

"Wow, it's a shame, how can the teacher have a disciple like Senior Brother Starry Sky. Xiao Meng'er on the side covered her eyes and was extremely disdainful of the starry sky's behavior.

Qian really couldn't stand it anymore, pinched the flesh on Xingkong's waist hard, and said: "Forget about Yingchuan's Chu Lian, if you want to think of women like this, I don't recommend sending you back to Yingchuan to meet your old lover." ”

Hearing Chu Lian's name, the starry sky trembled with fright, although Chu Lian looked weak on the outside, but in fact he was extremely domineering, and he simply regarded the starry sky as a toy to satisfy and be happy.

After some politeness, the guests went back to their respective homes, and Dao Sheng and the others followed the envoy to live in the house.

When he arrived at the house, Dao Sheng proposed to the envoy that he wanted to go to the gathering place of the Runan snake clan, and the envoy asked an entourage who knew the road to take Dao Sheng and others to the gathering place of the Runan snake clan, but Xingkong said that he didn't want to go to any snake gathering place, and just wanted to stay in the house.

"There can't be no one in the house, I'll stay here in case someone wants to find a teacher. Starry Sky opened his eyes and said nonsense.

"Senior Brother Starry Sky wants to hook up with that Jasmine's sister, that's why I want to stay here. Xiao Meng'er broke it directly.

"Ah...... This, little girl, don't talk nonsense. "The starry sky was a little flustered.

On the way, Qian met the snake boy before, and the snake boy went with him.

"Hello, my name is Lin, and I belong to the Snake Clan, but my mother is a Terran. The human snake boy named Lin nervously introduced himself to everyone.

Lin's mother was sick, but the sorcerer of the snake clan couldn't cure it, so Lin thought of going to the city of the human race under the mountain to purchase medicinal materials, but he didn't expect to be seen by a few teenagers who often bullied him, and beat himself up, fortunately Qian was relieved in time, otherwise his mother's condition would be aggravated.

"Our ancestors have lived in Nanyang for generations, but unfortunately in ancient times, our first group was defeated by the fox clan, and had to flee to this Runan to live. "The patriarch of the Runan Snake Clan introduced the situation here to Dao Sheng in the language of the Terran race, and after the unification of the Human Emperor, the language of the Terran tribe has also become a lingua franca, and other races will learn a little more or less.

In the evening, the patriarch of the snake clan invites everyone to participate in the unique activity of the snake tribe, hunting rats. The Snake Clan will hunt the rats at night that have not yet developed their minds, and will be rewarded according to the number of kills.

Watching the snake clan swallow the raw rat directly into their stomachs, Li Xingmeng and Qian both felt a little sick to their stomachs, but Dao Sheng smiled and didn't say anything.

At night, everyone was assigned a room, but the civilization of the snake clan was backward, and the so-called room was actually a tree hole.

The next day, Xiao Meng'er, who had just gotten up, saw a group of snake people arguing around a few Terran officials in fancy clothes.

"Last time, we just handed over so much iron ore, and we said that we would not requisition our people's financial resources again, do you want to go back on your word?" a young snake man's face was full of anger.

"We can't help it, it happened suddenly, no one wants this kind of thing to happen, we just pass the word for the envoy of the scripture, and you live in Runan, so naturally you have to be loyal to the envoy of the scripture, what does this have to do with what race you are?" said the official of the human race.

"We had been living here for hundreds of years before Wangqiu became the envoy, so why should we be loyal, and it wasn't we begging him to live here. The other snake man retorted.

"What's wrong?" Dao Sheng asked the patriarch of the Runan Snake Clan beside him.

The patriarch sighed and said helplessly: "The envoy wants to transfer the strength of our snake clan to the front line to fight, but we don't want to participate in the civil war with the human race, we just want to hold this acre and three points of land to keep the clan." ”

"Go to war, what kind of war, is it to fight the state of Chu?" asked Qian.

"It seems to be fighting some Yingchuan County, I heard that the envoy of Yingchuan County was killed by his own daughter and usurped the throne, and the Great Zhou court was unwilling to recognize her legitimacy, so the Lord Runan Economic Strategy wanted to attack Yingchuan County. "The patriarch of the snake clan still knows some news from the outside world.

"Ah, isn't Yingchuan County Chu Lian's territory now?" Li Xingmeng wondered.

"Do what you want. Seeing that it was really impossible to talk, the officials of the Terran clan walked away.

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"I heard that the envoy is going to attack Yingchuan County?" asked Xingkong as he sat next to Dai Yan'er.

"Well, yes, Chu Lian of Yingchuan County killed his father and usurped the throne, claiming to be the envoy of Yingchuan Jing, my uncle really can't stand it, so he wants to eradicate this usurper Chu Lian for the imperial court, and now the uncle has gone to the school to order troops, the crowd is spectacular, don't you go?" Dai Yan'er said on the table with the cat in her arms.

"Ha, I'm not going, I'm not going to fight. Xingkong said casually, but he thought in his heart: What is the eradication of usurpation, obviously he wants to grab the territory.

"If you talk to your uncle, you will say that Yingchuan County is poor and hard, and it suffers a loss. "Starry Sky wants to help his old lover.

"Uncle said, for the court to eradicate the usurpation, where do you care about what to suffer or not, ah, so sleepy, I want to take a nap, don't disturb me. Dai Yan'er was a little confused, and her tone gradually became lazy.