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The days before the expiration of the four-year period passed very quickly, and there were four third-level towns and cities under the rule of Qin Du Town, but when it was close to winter, it was suddenly attacked by a violent brute beast, and the tens of thousands of people in the town did not survive. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the past few years, the movement of the brute beasts has been much greater than before, and nearly a hundred third-level towns and cities in the east and south have been destroyed, and even several times, even the second-level towns and cities on the border have almost been lost.

Fortunately, Qindu Town is located in the west of the southern border, and it is the first time in more than four years that a third-level town and city under its rule has been destroyed.

In fact, this destroyed third-level town was also established just a few years ago, because the area drawn down resembles a ship's sail, and is called the single sail corner, and the new town is also called Xinfan Town.

Originally, Qindu Town did not intend to spend strength to help establish it, but Xinfan Town's southern border of the Nanyu River was the only breakthrough point for Qindu Town to open the water route.

Once the water road is opened, there will be one more choice for resource sharing with Nancheng Xuanwu, which is definitely a good thing for the development of the town, and even the boat god is unwilling to give up.

Therefore, the 2,000 troops set out from the town of Qindu, fought for several months at Danfanjiao to clear a large area of quiet land, and spent another year to initially establish the fortifications of the third-level towns and cities.

However, even the establishment of a third-level town and city will not be simple.

Most of the inhabitants of Xinfan are low-class people, and the food reserves transported from Qindu Town are not sufficient, and there is no problem with the suppression of the army in the early stage, but at the end of the year, 1,600 soldiers returned to defend Qindu, and Xinfan, who only had 400 troops left, began to frequently have cannibalism.

Under the public security conditions, the development speed of Xinfan cannot be improved, and the construction in the past three years has only completed a semi-finished product.

In October, the brute beasts raided and hoarded winter reserves, and Xinfan Town was suddenly attacked by the wading brutes of the Southern Regions River, and the four hundred soldiers were all wiped out in just a few hours, and the town without resistance became a wasteland in one day.

This incident brought a lot of panic to the townspeople of Qin Du.

There is indeed a lot of news about the destruction of third-level towns and cities, but the sense of crisis generated by such a situation in the adjacent land under the rule is far greater than the panic when hearing about the attacks on other second-level towns and cities.

In addition, the second-level town of Sting, to the east, was also swept away by the end of October, and the talk of the brute beast about to attack the abandoned ship country began to spread gradually.

This kind of remarks, as the mayor of the town, Chang Mingqi was powerless to suppress, and the people were panicked for several months, and many townspeople secretly packed up their belongings and wanted to move to Qinzhen, a first-class town.

Fortunately, October was over, and the brutes seemed to have stockpiled enough grain to disappear in an instant, as if months of large-scale attacks were just child's play.

Therefore, the churning people's hearts have gradually calmed down after months of stable life, but the news of the destruction of Xinfan has been discussed endlessly in their mouths.

......

Town Pavilion, Conference Hall.

"Mayor Chang, the original decision to establish Xinfan was proposed by you, in order to help you, our Qin family, as well as the Du family, have all spent all their efforts on manpower and material resources, and now it's good, most of the four hundred soldiers who died are from my Qin family, and the supplies of the Du family are all empty, what should you do about us?"

Qin Yulin, the current head of the Qin family, is tall, with extremely strong tendons, thick eyebrows like two handfuls of ink, and his chin and cheeks are also knotted, but his hair is all shaved, and his eyes are as if he is full of fierce light, which is full of deterrence.

The words in his mouth were light, but the threat in his eyes was obvious, and beside him, sitting was Du Qisheng, the current head of the Du family.

Compared with Qin Yulin, Du Qisheng is much more gentle, with a slightly round contour of his face, a typical businessman's face.

At this time, he also nodded: "The head of the Qin family is right, in order to support the mayor of the town, my Du family has enough supplies of three thousand black coins, but in the end I only got the news that a brute beast broke the town, and no one in the clan feels good!"

In terms of age, compared to Chang Mingqi in his sixties, Qin Yulin and Du Qisheng are only nearly fifty years old, and they should be a little lower, but when they talk to the mayor of a town, they are a little arrogant.

Chang Mingqi squinted at the two tightly pressed faces in front of him, groaned for a long time, got up and left the conference table, and turned his back to the two family heads: "Indeed, the construction proposal of Xinfan Town was put forward by me alone, and the construction failed at this moment, and it is impossible to say that everyone has no losses." But ......"

His eyes stared at the snow-covered white roof outside the house, and his voice became a little cold: "Two thousand army expansion quotas, three trade routes, please don't forget these terms and conditions!"

In a word, Qin Yulin and Du Qisheng glanced at each other.

In their impression, although Chang Mingqi has a cold personality, as soon as he enters the town, he decisively takes the rights of the town defenders in his hands and establishes a three-legged situation, but he is always on the most disadvantaged side, if it were not for his identity as a Xuanwu army, the two would definitely set him up as a puppet unceremoniously.

But in the past three years, the attitude of the mayor of this town is different from the previous neutrality, but it has become more and more powerful, if before, now the two joint palaces like today, they have already received the expected feedback, but now what they hear is a-for-tat confrontation.

Qin Yulin's bald head moved forward, wanting to continue to exert pressure, but Chang Mingqi took the first step and said, "But I heard that the youngest generation of the Qin Du family is the oldest of eighteen, right?"

This was asked suddenly, but Qin Ziyu of the Qin family and Du Tianwen of the Du family were indeed eighteen years old, although the two heads of the family were frowning, they still nodded towards Chang Mingqi, who turned around and suddenly smiled lightly.

"In this case, if I make the decision, let the two young masters settle in Heilin Town and take charge for me, it can be regarded as letting the juniors exercise, what do the two family heads think?"

The sudden proposal made the two who were still sitting suspicious.

They couldn't figure out the meaning behind Chang Mingqi's words, Heilin Town was another third-level town under Qin Du's rule, but it had always been under the control of the town mayor, maintaining the operation of the town defenders.

In front of him, Chang Mingqi opened his mouth and took out his piece of land and threw it directly in front of the two families, acting so indifferent, how could they not be surprised and puzzled.

Could it be that you want to attack the juniors of the two families?

Du Qisheng doesn't care, after all, Du Tianwen is just a concubine, for him, in fact, there are more obstacles than blood and family affection, but Qin Yulin is different, Qin Ziyu is his own flesh and blood, and he is his only son, so there are naturally more concerns.

Chang Mingqi looked at the two family heads with a smile, making them feel a hint of provocation, and a faint ridicule, mocking them for not daring to even talk about the flesh to their lips.

Without hesitating for long, Du Qisheng nodded: "Indeed, after the juniors' training, they can rest assured that they will maintain the operation of Qin Du Town, and I have thanked the mayor for Tianwen in advance." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, then turned their heads to look at Qin Yulin.

The extremely thick eyebrows wrinkled deeply, and the safety of his own son and the temptation of the fat on his lips were constantly contrasting in his mind, and it was difficult to choose.

But in the end, in the face of the wordless urging of the other two, he still made a decision.

"Since the mayor of the town has said so, let's let Ziyu go to work out for a while!"

The three of them burst out laughing, seemingly cheerful, but each of them hid a little inexplicable meaning.

With a smile, Chang Mingqi looked coldly at the snow scene outside the pavilion.

Little junior brother, it should be coming soon!

......

"Wear more!"

It was still cold in February, and the boy calmly put a brown-black shawl made of yak skin on the old man.

In just a few months, the old man, who had not changed for three years, began to grow new wrinkles rapidly, the bloated parts all became loose skin, his appetite began to weaken, and he spent several times longer in the chaise longue under the eaves than before.

Doddering.

This is a word that the boy has managed to find in his memory.

Feeling an extra layer of clothing on his shoulders, the old man frowned a little unhappily: "Are you old when I am?"

"Nope. The boy looked at the angry old man and shook his head: "It's just that this shawl suits you very well, and it looks good in it." ”

"Oh?" the old man's hand suddenly touched the beast hair on his shoulder, which was extremely soft, rich and clear, and the color seemed to be really good-looking, and a little joy appeared on his face.

After a moment, the old man calmed down: "Ximing, answer me a question." ”

"Hmm. ”

"Do you think my life is worth it?"

The boy looked at Xiao Suo's expression in front of him, and opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer, because for the old man, he only knew the four years he had spent together.

The old man smiled: "Also, this problem, how can you know!"

After being silent for a while, the content of the conversation suddenly changed: "Mayor of Qin Du Town, you know, right?"

Raised his eyes and looked at the old man: "Well, Chang Mingqi, twenty years ago, he was sent from the Xuanwu Army and came to Qindu Town to be the mayor. ”

The words "Xuanwu Army ......" The old man murmured in his mouth, and then said softly: "Mingqi, you are your senior brother." ”

In addition to being surprised, the boy frowned slightly, this news was a bit conflicting with everything he had done in the past six months.

"Don't worry, your senior brother knows about you and the boy of the Du family. Seeing the boy's sad expression, the old man was a little maliciously happy: "However, he will help you." ”

"After leaving my side, your senior brother will take care of you in secret, so you can contact me more. ”

The topic involved the word "leaving" again, and the two fell silent again.

As night fell, the boy returned to the hut and pulled out under the bed an object the size of a man's head, on which were carved three fireballs, very fine.

Holding the wooden box, the boy went out of the house again and handed it to the old man.

"What is this?"

"You open it!"

The old man was a little curious, looked at the expressionless boy, pressed the opening of the box, and pulled out the lid on the top.

Call!

A faint flame floated up, reflecting the white slippery inside, and a sweet smell came out.

"Today is Valentine's Day!"

The old man looked at the boy with drooping eyes and wanted to laugh, but felt that his eyes were very sour: "So what?"

The boy took a step back, blocking the cold wind and keeping the fire from going out.

"Happy Birthday!"