Chapter Twenty-Seven: Meeting the Dead in a Foreign Land

In the next few days, Shi Zhiyi would either practice in his room and figure out the Eight Styles of Beiyuan that Old Man Fu had passed on to him, or he would tour Wuwei City with Yu Zhongqian.

Fu Qianru's two sons have been pestering Yu Yining on the day they first arrived at Fu's house, and then I don't know if Fu Tingru was stimulated by Shi Zhiyi, so that these two little guys suffered from the disaster of pond fish, and were locked in the practice room by their father every day to practice, but this time Yu Yining was liberated, and they had to pester Yu Zhongqian and Shi Zhiyi to go out shopping together.

The northwest style of Puzhou is very different from Kyoto. The county lord of Yi Ning had a rare opportunity to go out without being accompanied by his elders, and he was suddenly like a bird out of the cage, unrestrained.

She dragged the two of them around like a curious baby every day, and seemed to have inexhaustible energy, and after a few days, Yu Zhongqian and Shi Zhiyi were tired and miserable. When Old Man Fu's birthday finally arrived, both of them actually had a feeling of getting out of the sea of suffering.

As recognized as the number one master of the human race in the world, Old Man Fu's 80th birthday has been treated ceremoniously by all forces. Yu Zhongqian and Yu Yining brothers and sisters are the grandsons and granddaughters of Old Man Fu, but they are also the most suitable candidates to represent the royal Yu family.

Although the Yuzhou Daxi family has always had a lot of friction with the Fu family, as a powerful family with a heritage of 10,000 years and a profound heritage, it is natural that it will not lose its manners at such an important moment.

Among the many convoys that came to celebrate his birthday, Shi Zhiyi inadvertently found the banner of Yunqi City's "Jade Belt Liuyun". Father sent someone too?

After listening to Old Man Fu talk about him and his grandfather, Shi Zhiyi can understand why his father rarely mentions the Fu family and Old Man Fu to him. Old man Fu is his grandfather's best friend, and he almost became his father's father-in-law, but his father regretted the marriage contract, causing his grandfather to die of depression.

Although it is understandable to say that the marriage is decided by himself, and Mr. Fu has never expressed his dissatisfaction with his father in his words, whether his father faces or mentions Mr. Fu, there will be an invisible embarrassment and self-blame, and escaping may be a solution that makes both parties not so embarrassed.

Therefore, when Shi Zhiyi saw the convoy with his own flag passing through Xieyang Street, the surprise in his heart can be imagined.

There are too many people from all walks of life who come to celebrate his birthday, so naturally it is impossible for them all to live in the Fu family's residence like Shi Zhiyi - in fact, only the Yu brothers and sisters and Shi Zhiyi have this treatment.

Other birthday teams, including the major families, are staying in the post stations or inns in Wuwei City, so that dozens of inns in the city are all full, thanks to the Fu family's preparation in advance, expanding a number of post stations, and renting some houses for entertaining guests, otherwise I am afraid that a considerable part of the birthday party will not even be able to find a place to stay.

After inquiring about the location of the Yunqi City convoy, Shi Zhiyi said hello to the Yu brothers and sisters, and went to visit alone.

Taking out the Yunqi City City Lord Token, Shi Zhiyi easily met the person in charge of the team, Lu Jianghe, the head of internal affairs of Yunqi City. Lu Jianghe is about sixty years old, and since Shi Zhiyi's grandfather, he has been sitting in the position of the head of internal affairs.

The most impressive thing about him was a gray-white goatee on his chin. Shi Zhiyi remembered that when he was just sensible, every time he saw Lu Jianghe, he would curiously pick his beard, making him cry and laugh.

Lu Jianghe's cultivation in the later stage of his ascension to the hall was inconspicuous in the mastery of Yunqi City, but his talent in internal affairs was praised by everyone: from the salary distribution of six guards and one horseman, logistics and supplies to the management of more than 200 neighborhoods, Taoist enrollment, and medical hall operation, he and his more than 100 people could all handle it in an orderly manner, and he had never made a mistake for decades, so he won Shi Huaichuan's trust and belonged to one of the core figures of Yunqi City.

"Uncle Lu, it turns out that you are here in person. Although it has only been more than a month since he left Yunqi City, Shi Zhiyi felt very cordial when he saw the people in Yunqi City in a foreign place, not to mention that Lu Jianghe was already very familiar with him.

"Young City Lord, why are you here?" Lu Jianghe's first reaction when he saw Shi Zhiyi was to protect his goatee with his right hand first, and he didn't know if it was a subconscious action that he had developed from his previous painful experience.

"Well, that's a long story. Shi Zhiyi learned from how he met Helian Mingzhi on the boat, how he accompanied him to find his aunt and was ambushed, how he visited Sun's Mansion at night and was teleported to the Sword Gu Altar by the Space Gate, until he collapsed the cave, escaped from death and ran out, but he was slapped inexplicably, and finally was rescued by the Yu brothers and sisters and came to this Wuwei City.

On the one hand, he still didn't know how he triggered that formation, and on the other hand, after talking to Old Man Fu, he thought that the fewer people who knew about this matter, the better, although he believed enough to believe in Lu Jianghe, an old man who had worked in Yunqi City all his life.

Lu Jianghe watched Shi Zhiyi grow up since he was a child, and like many people in Yunqi City, he was also extremely fond of him. Listening to his narration, I couldn't help but feel afraid. But he knew that going out to experience was the only way for Shi Zhiyi to grow up quickly and become a qualified successor to the city lord, and it was a process that every generation of city lords would go through, so he didn't say much.

He thought for a moment and said, "When we passed through Luzhou, we heard two things. One is that Jiangxin Island, which has existed for thousands of years in the Luzhou River, disappeared strangely overnight, and now it seems that it should be caused by the collapse of the karst cave you are talking about. ”

"The other thing is that the lord of Luzhou City, Da Xi Wenhuang, climbed the city wall in the middle of the night with a naked young woman on his back, and was accidentally discovered by the soldiers patrolling the night. ”

"According to what you said, it may be Da Xi Wenhuan who gave you a slap from behind on Jiangxin Island that night - his strength should be similar to mine, you have not entered the extraordinary, and it is really fateful to be able to take a slap from him without dying. And the painting boat you sent away may be his, Jiangxin Island collapsed, and there was no painting boat, so he made himself so embarrassed. ”

"Thinking about it this way, he seems to be miserable enough...... When I fell asleep, a good manor was gone, a good painting boat was lost, and the lord of a city was caught by his own sergeant as a thief, and he was carrying a naked woman on his back...... Okay, we're even. ”

"Young City Lord, don't talk about this matter anymore, you think it's flat, he doesn't necessarily think so. As the lord of a city, he has lost such a big face, and he must have the heart to kill you. ”

"Even if he knows your identity, he doesn't dare to make any moves on the surface, but after all, he is a martial artist in the late stage of his debut, and he was born in the Daxi family, it is still easy to do some actions behind his back. ”

"Thank you Uncle Lu for reminding me, I know what is at stake. Shi Zhiyi nodded and said, "I came with Brother Zhong Qian, but it is not suitable for me to sit on his side for the birthday banquet the day after tomorrow, if it is convenient for you here, I want to sit with you." ”

"That's nature, what's inconvenient about that. You are the young city lord of Yunqi City, how can you sit at the head of a prince, even if he is the grandson of Old Man Fu. ”

What Lu Jianghe said was actually a bit contemptuous of the royal family, because from the point of view of the title, even if Shi Zhiyi's father Shi Huaichuan came, he should sit at the head of the third prince, not to mention Shi Zhiyi, who has no title and no power.

But the people who grew up in Yunqi City, from the high-level of the City Lord's Mansion to the ordinary people, have never taken the imperial court far away in Kyoto in their eyes - this city was built by the sweat of our ancestors, and the demon clan was driven away by the blood of our ancestors, at that time, it was still the world of the Great Qin Dynasty, why did they have to nod to those corpse vegetarian guys in Kyoto because of the ownership of a chair?

In their eyes, the most capable person in the world is naturally their own city lord, and the one who is more capable than their own city lord is only Marshal Shi, the ancestor of the city lord. Although the successive city lords of Yunqi City have never promoted this trend of thought, and even deliberately suppressed it through various means, this cannot change the arrogance that millions of people in Yunqi City have precipitated in their bones for thousands of years.