The dark sky heralded the coming of night, and a round of curved blood moon hung high in the sky, cold and indifferent, just like the gods and demons who looked at the earth tens of thousands of years ago, looking at the mortals on the eastern wilderness.

Hidden during the day and revealed at night, what kind of secrets does this blood moon hide?

Chen An shook his head and stopped care, turned around, and looked at the city in front of him.

This is a city with navy blue as the main color, the scale is also a large and dry city level, but there is a thick and solid huge city wall protection, with the advantage of the terrain to build according to the mountain, the city wall plus the city base is afraid that there must be a hundred zhang high, absolutely worthy of the grand two words.

Four auxiliary cities are distributed in the four corners of the city, like the most loyal guards, firmly guarding the four sides of the city, and the five cities are faintly dark cannon barrels, and from time to time there are rune lights flashing, if there is an enemy attacking, they can turn this area at the foot of the city wall into a cemetery at any time to bury all the enemies who come to attack.

The destination of Chen An and the others was not the main city of Qingfu, and the cloud boat went straight to a blue-and-white auxiliary city.

Shen Lin introduced Chen An on the side: "That is the base camp of the Gaoyang clan, let's go there to settle down first, and then take you to the main city tomorrow." ”

Chen An nodded, most of his attention was attracted by the fortress-like structure of the city below, and now that he was flying closer, the entire appearance of the city was displayed in front of Chen An, making his face can't help but have a little strange color.

In the Great Zhou, he was a general (the master of the blood division), although he had never fought against the enemy, but he had really commanded the army, and he had also made up for the layout of the army array, the construction of fortifications and other knowledge, at this time, looking at the city below, how to look at how it does not look like four auxiliary cities to defend the main city, but like the main city is defending the three auxiliary cities behind it.

Qingfu City is built on the mountain, built towards the sun, except for the corner of the auxiliary city exposed, the other three auxiliary cities are all hidden behind Qingfu City, and under the ridge on the other side is the abyss, which is raging with the wind that can blow the gold and iron into powder, a proper natural hazard.

That is to say, if the foreign enemy wants to attack the three auxiliary cities, they will have a chance unless they first break through the main city of Qingfu and then step up the stairs, and the three auxiliary cities can break away from the main city of Qingfu at any time and become independent fortifications.

"Where is that?" Chen An asked Shen Lin curiously, pointing to another auxiliary city with a blue and gray main color.

"Oh, that's the Qingyang Clan's residence. Shen Lin didn't doubt him, and replied casually.

Sure enough, Chen An'an was stunned, but he still simply asked thoroughly, and pointed to the remaining one: "That won't be the City Lord's Mansion." ”

When he came, he knew that Qingfu City was dominated by the Gaoyang clan and the Qingyang clan, and the will of the two clans could determine the direction of Qingfu City. But now the entire Eastern Wilderness is a clan republic, and Qingfu City is naturally no exception, to give other small clans a chance to decide their own fate fairly, so a city-state council was established.

There are about twenty-four seats in this city-state council, and a city lord presides over the meeting, a total of twenty-five people, and every time there is a major decision-making move in Qingfu City, it is voted by these twenty-five people. In order to show democracy and fairness and justice, the main city was elected from the small families, and could not be born from the Qingyang and Gaoyang clans, and among the twenty-four councillor seats, about five or six were reserved for the small families, and the remaining Qingyang and Gaoyang clans were split in half.

Therefore, Chen An thought that he could balance the city lord forces of the two families of Gaoyang and Qingyang, who should be the representatives of the small family.

Shen Lin shook his head and said, "Of course, the city lord lives in the main city of Qingfu, and that was originally the station of the Hanyang Clan, and now it is the ordnance base of Qingfu City. ”

"Hanyang Clan?"

"The original four major clans of Qingfu City, Gaoyang, Qingyang, Hanyang, Muyang, Muyang completely disappeared a hundred years ago, and Hanyang became a small family and left Qingfu City, so ......" Shen Lin said that these do not carry any feelings, and the rise and fall of a clan for half a year is indeed just a story for others, and it can't splash the slightest ripple.

"It's all 'yang'?" Looking at the blue-white auxiliary city that was getting closer and closer, Chen An casually chatted as if it were authentic.

"In ancient times, it was the land of the yang time, and the four major clans were divided into four seasons, and they got their names, and later changed their names to Jiang, so the four major clans all had the surname Jiang. Shen Lin also casually explained, most of his thoughts were in the city in the distance, and he had been away from home for more than four months, and he didn't know if his home was okay.

Chen An smiled slightly, Donghuang has retained many old traditions, and likes to take residence as his surname and work as his surname. Shen Lin said that when he divided the hunting four, he was referring to four occupations, Qingyang is spring, the main livelihood, that is, a group of farmers; Muyang is summer, the main operation, you can imagine some foot merchants; Gaoyang is autumn, the main killing, the ancestors of the Gaoyang clan are all heroic warriors, so the so-called Jiang surname Gaoyang is the warrior who lives in the Jiang land; Hanyang is winter, the main collection, and need to build a lot of warehouses to store things, so they are actually a group of craftsmen.

There are many other interesting surnames, such as Baigong and Zhentao, but then Chen An did not continue to chat with Shen Lin, because the Qingfu Auxiliary City, the residence of the Gaoyang clan, has finally arrived.

The huge cloud ship slowly landed on the lookout in the center of the auxiliary city, and there were already many people waiting here, Jiang Luhan, Xing Mu, Jiang Bin...... and Qingfu City Lord Baigong Valley.

He Baigong was originally a vassal of the Gaoyang clan, and when he heard that something had happened to the head of the Gaoyang family, he was so frightened that his three souls went to the seven spirits.

No, when I heard Jiang Xijun's return, she came with her fat body in tow, and brought sincere greetings and substantial shocking gifts. Actually, he wanted to see Jiang Xijun with his own eyes and give him a crush. After all, he was helped to power by the Gao Yang clan, and if something happened to the Gao Yang clan, he, the city lord, would be the end.

Therefore, when Jiang Xijun stepped off the cloud boat, he jumped over with one arrow step, laughing so much that his facial features were almost invisible, and his whole face turned into a big steamed bun, which was much more than all the people in Gao Yang's family combined.

"I heard that the head of the Gaoyang family had an adventure, it was really a blessing from God, and Gu brought a little gift, thinking that it was a congratulations, not a tribute. ”

Adventure often means luck, luck in the Eastern Wilderness is a proper compliment, without any belittling, God is a great blessing, as for the embarrassment of losing the road, Baigonggu did not mention a word, and praised Jiang Xijun as if he had returned from a triumphant expedition, and he was also a wonderful person.

Jiang Xijun was taken aback at first, but when she saw that it was Baigonggu, she didn't take a posture, so she naturally returned the salute and talked with her. Although the Qingfu City Lord is a puppet, the respect he should have is still indispensable.

Shen Lin was very impatient with this, so he pulled Chen An out of the team first and walked towards the city.

This auxiliary city is not large in scale, but it is fully equipped, manors, artisan shops, commercial houses, acres of fields, and martial arts arenas...... All of them are available, and even if there is a siege, it can be self-sufficient for several years, and it is completely a fortress of war. Thinking about the situation of the other auxiliary cities, they were built as a measure by the big clan to preserve the fire, so that even if Qingfu City is lost, they can live well for a while.

Chen An looked around and was dragged by Shen Lin to a group of buildings, this group of buildings with blue tiles and white walls were the same as other places in the auxiliary city, but they were cleaner and tidier, so the blue and white colors were clearer and more beautiful.

The two approached this building complex, turned into an alley, and went one hundred and ten steps deeper, Shen Lin stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of a set of four-entry courtyards, leading Chen An to walk in and said: "This is my home, now I live alone, you don't have a place to stay, come with me, just find a room, there is no other benefit here is that the place is big." ”

While the two were talking, an old woman in her forties, with an old face and a limping leg, came out of a side room.

Shen Lin saw it and casually introduced: "This is Aunt Wu, who lives next door, and from time to time she will come over to help me wash my clothes and clean my room." Aunt Wu, this is the little brother I just befriended, Jun Yueyi, and the two of us will live here in the future. ”

Aunt Wu nodded at Chen Anhan with a smile before she said to Shen Lin, "Young Master Lin, since you are back, the old woman will leave first." I'll come back the day after tomorrow to pulp and laundry for you. ”

Shen Lin waved his hand and said, "Well, fortunately, you are old, you can go back and rest." ”

Looking at the back of Aunt Wu turning to leave, Shen Lin explained to Chen An: "The family is gone, she is left alone, we will bring her some clothes and food when we come back occasionally, but people like her, there are still many in the entire Qingfu City, and they can't take care of it at all." ”

Chen Anxin was disdainful, there were more poor people in the world, and he had seen a lot, so he wouldn't be sympathetic at all, but in order to cooperate with Shen Lin, he still made a look of relative concern on the surface, but in the blink of an eye, he diverted the topic and said, "You are not married?"

What a man he was, just walking around the courtyard and finding that there was no trace of the hostess here.

Shen Lin shrugged his shoulders with a wry smile and said, "I'm not in danger, why harm other girls?"

It is also strange that the population of the twelve cities has decreased sharply over the years, so it is stipulated that men are sixteen and women are fourteen must get married. But Gao Yang's is good, one Jiang Xijun is more than ten years old, and one Shen Lin is about to stand, making a very bad example, I don't know how this marriage policy will be implemented in Gao Yang's family.

However, the status of men and women in the Eastern Wilderness is basically equal, and the ratio of men and women in the army is almost half to half, so the death rate when hunting demons is also the same, and the number of men and women living in the city is comparable, and the lack of choice is also a limiting reason.

Fortunately, this time, 40,000 people were plundered from the Daqian mine, of which women accounted for seventy or eighty percent, which can definitely greatly alleviate the population crisis in Qingfu City at this time. Of course, this is not the intention of the Gao Yang clan, but they are originally criminals, most of the men were killed when they were in the big dry, and only some women and children were exiled, so there was a situation where there were more women than men.

The blood moon was hanging high, it was not early, and it was tired all the way, Chen An and Shen Lin exchanged good night and went back to their rooms to sleep, and they didn't say anything all night.