But he didn't let Zhou Heng and the others wait long, he was preparing to interrogate the widows, but Zheng Long ran in and said, "Oh no, the widows committed suicide by hitting the wall!"

Zhou Heng was not annoyed after hearing this, but he was a little surprised that the widow had such courage, and said to Zheng Long: "Then you drag him out and burn him!"

And that night, he and Zhao Min stayed in the county office. The inner houses are also dilapidated, and only a few of them are still intact.

Zhao Min on the side found a pot in the county office, found a few catties of rice, and scooped up rice in the kitchen to cook.

Zhou Heng had nothing to do and accompanied her in front of the stove.

Zhou Heng smiled: "Hehe, I didn't expect you, the county lord, to cook on the fire!"

Zhao Min, who was cooking, gave Zhou Heng, who was standing and talking without back pain, a pair of health balls.

There is no light in this house, fortunately, Zhou Heng no longer needs a lamp, and Zhao Min doesn't need it, but when the fire at the bottom of the stove comes out, the room is still full of light, and it looks extremely warm in this cold and deserted county office.

After living in the county government for two days, a large amount of grain was transported from nearby counties, Zhou Heng instructed everyone to put the grain outside the gate of the county government, and then wrote a notice: "From now on, all those who settle in the city can receive 100 catties of grain per person, up to 50,000 people, and those who assist in building the city will receive three taels of silver per person per month." ”

Zhou Heng also asked everyone to post it widely and post it to various towns and towns, so that the surrounding people would know.

Everyone on the side was stunned when they saw the notice: "How much silver does this cost?"

Among them, Wang Ji frowned and calculated, and said to them: "You must know that the county seat will be completed, at least 2,000 people will be needed, and it will take six months to complete, and this alone will cost 40,000 taels of silver, plus the distribution of grain, 100 catties will require 12 taels of silver, and 50,000 people will be 60,000 taels of silver, and now the county is empty of money and grain, I don't know what good plan the adults have?"

I saw Zhou Heng on the side as if he was carrying a cornucopia in his arms, took out 500,000 taels of silver tickets and handed them to him, and said: "Now, they are handed over to you to be fully responsible, this is the silver left by my ancestors, and it will be used here this time, but I don't like publicity, everyone just needs to say that it is the appropriation of the imperial court." ”

Hearing this, several people stretched out their tongues: "This ...... Could it be that you are the God of Wealth, sir?"

Wang Ji on the side took the silver ticket with emotion in his heart, and said secretly: "This ....... No matter how rich there is, no one will spend it like this! I have never seen such an official, hum, these days, which official is not only in but not out, but also not in and out of it, it seems that the hard days of our Qingle County have finally come to an end, and a good official has come!"

I saw that the county government had posted a notice, and one of the people was skeptical at first.

A few people came to inspect, and the result turned out to be true, everyone carried a hundred catties of grain back, looked at the rice bags on their backs, and couldn't help but go back and run to tell each other, and then the people all over the city came.

The next day, people from the nearby mountains also came down, and Wang Ji kept arranging for people to go out to buy grain, and the number of grain trucks increased to several hundred.

In the following days, a number of people from nearby townships also arrived. Ten days later, the county's population had rapidly increased to 50,000, and the empty houses were now full.

Now, the popularity of the county seat is already there, well, with food, there is no need to worry about life in the short term, Zhou Heng is now thinking about how to build a city, his current strength is no problem to kill some widows, but it can't solve the fundamentals, he must leave a guarantee for the people of the county, a strong city wall and heroic soldiers, is a good guarantee.

I saw that Wang Ji on the side had gathered 2,000 people, and he was waiting for him to order the start of work.

But Zhou Heng ordered to wait, so that everyone went up the mountain to quarry, and sent a large number of people to build a kiln to burn bricks, and then Zhou Heng himself walked around the original city wall, and found that the city wall was short, not thick enough, and incomplete, and there was no repair value, except for a section close to the Qingle River in the west that could also be borrowed, the rest had to be pushed to rebuild.

Zhou Heng took Zhao Min and the good hands in the county government, spent a day surveying the terrain together, and found that Qingle County can be appropriately expanded, you must know that the north of the city stands against the mountain, the east of the city expands to the Qingle River, the west borrows the original city wall, the south extends outward by one mile, a city gate is set up in the southeast, northwest and northwest, the city tower is built on the gate, the gate is set up in the gateway, there is an urn city outside the door, there are ten enemy towers for combat along the city wall, a thousand pheasants for archery, the city wall is six feet high, nine feet thick, there is a moat of the Qingle River on three sides outside the city, and there are suspension bridges outside the city gate。

I saw Wang Ji on the side gasping when he looked at the sketch, and said, "Ah? This project is too big! When will it be completed? I think it is better to repair the original city wall." ”

Then he saw Zhou Heng on the side and shook his head: "It is the thousand-year-old cause of Qingle County, you can't be sloppy, if you build according to the graphics I draw, at least you can ensure the peace of the county for hundreds of years in the future." ”

And Wang Ji asked, "My lord, what is the structure of the main body of the city wall?"

I saw Zhou Heng said: "Well~, the exterior is filled with green bricks, the inside is filled with ashlars, the walls are finely filled, and the paste is solid, so that it is very strong, and the city wall of the capital is built like this." ”

Then Zhou Heng asked Wang Ji on the side to order him to go down and prepare first.

You must know that the first step is quarrying, and there are many stones on the nearby mountains, but it is not easy to mine, and it is even more difficult to transport, so at the end of the day, it is only a hundred squares that have been mined, Zhou Heng felt that this was too slow, so he ordered: "Temporary need for ashlars, quarrying five directions and carrying in place will be rewarded with an additional silver tael."

As soon as they heard this, the people in Qingle County immediately rushed to take the lead, and almost all the people in the city were dispatched, and now the mountains and fields are full of people who go to pick stones, and sure enough, the supply of stones is faster.

And the second step is to burn bricks, Zhou Heng let more than 1,000 people in the southeast and northwest of the city four directions to build ten kilns in a row, under the guidance of experienced masters, fired at night, burned out of these green bricks, each green brick is three feet long, two feet wide, and two feet thick.

Finally, the third step is logging, there are a lot of trees in the nearby mountains of Qingle County, and logging is easier than quarrying, so there is no need to worry about this, especially after hearing that "logging can also reward one or two silver", everyone is in full swing.

Three days later, the first batch of green bricks came out, Zhou Heng personally commanded everyone to build the city, he asked the city wall, especially the outer wall, from top to bottom to repair straight, there can be no trace of protrusion, unqualified places to push to start over, after all, this is very important, if you don't repair so straight, when people attack the city and grab the land, what to do if you directly step on the city wall and climb up.

Zhou Heng also specially organized a large group of old people and women who had little strength to do some cooking and boiling water, and let out the words, but all those who participated in the city construction were all free of charge.

For a time, tens of thousands of people in Qingle County worked together to build the city, stones, timber and green bricks were continuously supplied, the city was repaired very quickly, only three months later, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the city wall was finally built!

On this day, Zhou Heng directly announced that all the personnel would go home to rest, have a good New Year, and wait until the eighteenth day of the first month to continue to start work and dig the moat.

Zhou Heng and Zhao Min looked at the thick city wall, everyone was very excited, the city sounded with firecrackers, yes, months of blood and sweat finally succeeded, such a city wall, if there is no artillery, it will not be broken in hundreds of years, everyone feels very down-to-earth, such a year is a little interesting, and there is a hope for the coming year, otherwise the war is in chaos, who has a good mood for the New Year?

But this world is like this, it's like when you pass by and step on an ant, but that's not because you want to step on the ant, but because you don't care if the ant lives or dies.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the incessant sound of firecrackers gradually subsided, Zhou Heng and Zhao Min sat in front of the window, there was no light in the room, the two people counted the stars in the sky through the window, Zhou Heng said faintly: "I really feel a little homesick, I don't know how my father is?"

Zhou Heng suddenly looked at Zhao Min across the table and said quietly, "Hehe, why don't I take you out for a walk now?"

You must know that Zhao Min was taken by Zhou Heng as soon as he came, and he didn't come to Da Zhou to play well except for the first few days.

Suddenly, Zhao Min clapped his hands and applauded, and his beautiful cheeks were full of excitement.

And Zhou Heng said and did it, took Zhao Min's mana out of the window, transported the Liezi Heart Method, and flew two hundred miles in one breath against the wind, only to feel that the qi was not smooth, and stopped to rest for a while, obviously, after a few months, his skill has increased a lot, and after a while, he held the turtle mirror in his hand and took off again, flying while checking whether there was any danger, so a few ups and downs, and he had arrived in the capital an hour later.

Just as he was about to take Zhao Min down to have a good time, suddenly, the psychic treasure jade in Zhou Heng's arms seemed to have some reaction, and it was warm.

"Wait, there's something down there?"

Zhou Heng looked at the courtyard below, and couldn't help but be a little curious, so he took Zhao Min down.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Heng felt that the Tongling Baoyu in his arms did not react at all, so he said, "It's not in the house." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Min was a little disappointed.

And Zhou Heng said: "Maybe somewhere else in Nafu, let's look for it." ”

He strengthened his mana to Tongling Baoyu, and Baoyu soon had a feeling, Zhou Heng and the others walked in the direction guided by Baoyu, and soon came to a Buddhist hall, he nodded at Zhao Min, and said softly: "It's here." ”

Zhou Heng went in first, Zhao Min followed, and soon, he found a piece of red jade next to the Buddhist shrine, with a very fine gold wire on the side, and only seven or eight crosses on the jade, and the font was exactly the same as what he had seen before.

I saw Zhou Heng on the side take out the other two pieces, refer to each other, ponder for a long time, and seeing that Dongfang wants to be white, he still doesn't understand what the use is.

Zhou Heng had no choice but to put it away, and then study it in the future, Zhou Heng had been paying attention to the changes in the turtle mirror, and then suddenly saw a few black dots appear in the upper left corner of the turtle mirror, and then the black dots quickly extended, coming towards the center where he was, he didn't want to involve this unrelated person, so he immediately lifted the mana and swept over the ground and stopped at Qinzhou in the Vermilion Bird Lake.

And now it is winter, the thousands of purple and red flowers have long disappeared, only the white grass on the ground is waist-high, he quickly planted dozens of thatchs around him, laid out a formation, and then asked Zhao Min to shrink his body and hide in the formation.

Sure enough, after a while, a few people fell in the air, and the place where they were standing was only more than ten steps away from him, and when Zhou Heng looked at it, it turned out to be three non-monks and non-lay people, who didn't know what they were wearing, it seemed to be a Taoist robe, but it was a little weird.

The three of them gathered in front of Zhou Heng's formation, and two of them were facing his position, so they could see very clearly that one had a slender face and a scar on his left eyebrow, about forty years old, and the other was as white as jade, with a graceful demeanor, and was vaguely a radiant and beautiful young man, and the other was wearing a brocade robe with his back to him, so he couldn't see each other.

I only heard the scarred man in front of him gasp and say, "Oh, uncle, what have you discovered? Why are you in such a hurry, I flew one hundred and sixty miles in one breath, and I was so tired that I almost couldn't breathe." ”

The young man on the side rushed to say: "Hmph, senior brother, you have been practicing for three hundred years, why is your skill still so bad? I don't think anything, you are panting like this!"

And the brocade robe man with his back to Zhou Heng snorted heavily: "I need a woman born on the eighth day of the eighth month of August, at three o'clock in the middle of the month, so I specially refined a magic weapon to find her, but since this woman can help me practice, it is naturally not easy to find, but when I passed on the gong to you just now, I suddenly felt that the Qin Wanxing Bell vibrate, but it is really strange, that direction is in this area." ”

I saw the young man on the side and said, "Uncle Shi, don't worry, wait for the disciple to force her out with Xuanyin Jiuyin!"

But I saw the brocade robe: "Haha, you only have a hundred years of Taoism, although you have used the method of the Nine Secluded Maidens to supplement the yang, and now your skills have improved greatly, but I am afraid that you will not be able to blow the Xuanyin Nine Tones well." ”

And while he was talking, he took out an iron flute, put it to his lips, and played it.

Hearing this, Zhou Heng was worried that the sound of the Xuanyin nine-tone flute would hurt Zhao Min, so he hurriedly used his mana to protect the surrounding five feet, and put his Qinggang sword in her arms to let her defend, after all, the group of people in front of him was probably looking for Zhao Min.

Zhou Heng's ears listened to the flute sound and whimpered, at first it was very good, it was very comfortable, he was surprised in his heart, this evil guy played a fairy song! And in the next few notes, it was very uncomfortable, and then it was like this, every few notes appeared a bad sound, which was really terrible.

Zhou Heng on the side worked hard to memorize the tune, only feeling that the tune was very good, the tune itself was not evil, and the evil was only that some key small places were changed by that person, so the originally mellow tune became sluggish and ugly, if it weren't for his deep skills, I was afraid that it would be difficult to resist, and I don't know where the tune was obtained.

Zhou Heng has always paid attention to Zhao Min in the formation, but she is very quiet inside, probably due to the protection of the formation, the Gang Qi and Zhou Heng Qinggang's sword, the flute sound may not be able to pass in.

I saw the man on the side whimpering and blowing for a long time before stopping, and said hatefully: "Hell! I can't even force out the nine sounds of Xuanyin, is this person dead or alive? It's really a strange thing!"

And the man with the scar said: "Hehe, uncle, that must be dead, after all, you will always take action yourself, who in this world can escape?"

But the young man said, "Uncle Shi, why don't you look around again?"

Hearing this, Zhou Heng couldn't wait to kill him with one palm, and stared at him fiercely a few times to remember his image.

And the mysterious brocade-robed man didn't stop the young man, he saw the young man brush away the dirt with one palm, stretched out his hand and moved three times in a row, trying to lure Zhou Heng and the others out of the void, but there was nothing.

I saw the mysterious man on the side change his face suddenly, and said angrily: "Damn, what kind of person doesn't know whether he is alive or dead?

As he was talking, he turned his head to look around Zhou Heng and knew that the other party's skills were far superior to his own, and the young man alone was not under him, so he hid in the formation and didn't dare to move, the three of them searched nearby for a long time, but they still didn't find it, and finally left in a huff.

At this moment, a round of red light just rose from the east, and the golden light was sprinkled in this Suzaku Lake, the center of the lake had not yet frozen, and the waves were sparkling, and Qinzhou was also shrouded in a layer of fresh pink mist.

Zhou Heng said to Zhao Min on the side: "It's okay, come out." ”

Zhao Min appeared holding Zhou Heng's Qinggang sword, his face was still a little pale, and he said timidly: "I listened to their words clearly inside, and the flute was blocked by your sword, so it was not harmed, so ...... The person that person is going to find must be me, after all, my birth date is exactly the same as he said!"

Zhou Heng on the side took out a quaint long piano from the storage space and said, "Then you listen to that tune, how about removing the sluggish part?"

Hearing this, Zhao Min looked up at the sky and thought about it, "It should be very good, we can try,"

As he spoke, he put the piano that Zhou Heng took out on the ground, sat down cross-legged, and played it while recalling the song just now. There were a few places she couldn't remember, Zhou Heng told her the music score he had memorized before, and she saw her slowly playing it on the side, and the sound of the piano was extremely beautiful, attracting a few cranes to dance around, and both of them felt very comfortable.

When the sound of the piano was about to end, she suddenly played a syllable wrongly, and accidentally played out the bad sound! She "groaned" in her heart, and suddenly, the blood in her body almost coagulated, and her face suddenly turned red, Zhou Heng on the side saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly reached into her arms, took out the pill, and sent it to Zhao Min's mouth, Zhou Heng's pill played a role, and after a while, Zhao Min's face went from red and swollen to slowly relieved, and his face was a little pale.

Zhao Min on the side couldn't help but touch his chest with his hand, and said: "Oh, this song is so scary, the beauty is like a heavenly sound, and the dangerous place can ask for the soul and kill the soul, it is worthy of being called that person's Xuanyin Nine Sounds." Looking around, she found that there were a few cranes lying on the ground, when she walked over to look, it seemed that she had died in the sound of the piano just now, she stroked the crane's white feathers, her tears fell, and she said while sobbing: "It's all my fault, I played it wrong, how can there be such a harmful tune!"

Zhou Heng on the side stretched out his hand to take it and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the crane is not dead yet!"

I saw Zhao Min on the side touch it carefully, sure enough, the crane's heart was still beating, Zhou Heng stepped forward to crush the pill he had refined before, and fed each crane a little, the time was not big, those cranes fluttered a few times and stood up, and then spread their wings and flew away, and when it was noon, Zhou Heng took Zhao Min to leave Qinzhou and came to the Hanlin Courtyard, and sealed ten taels of silver to the gatekeeper on the side, saying that he was Luo Musheng's friend, please check Lord Luo's residence.

I saw the man on the side walking inside, muttering: "Hmph, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, who is not resting at home?

After a long while, he came out, and saw him holding a piece of paper in his hand, and said, "Hmph, I finally found out Lord Luo's address, and it was written on it." ”

Zhou Heng and Zhao Min took the address, thanked the gatekeeper and turned to leave.

Luo Musheng's home was not far away, in a quiet courtyard two or three miles away.

Zhou Heng handed over the prayer note first, and saw someone running in to say goodbye, and after a while, Luo Musheng hurriedly walked over, grabbed Zhou Heng's hand, and said happily: "Brother Xian, why are you here! Please come in! Alas, why did you bring a sister over, please come in! Please come in!"