"Young City Lord, you can count it back, the City Lord is looking for you. As soon as Fang Xu returned home, a short and fat old man came over and said hurriedly.

"Uncle Cheng, what's the matter, look at your hurried appearance. Fang Xu handed the reins to the old man's hand and asked casually. This Uncle Cheng is Zhao Cheng, and now Zhao Cheng is also in his sixties, although his spirit is still very good, he can no longer stay in the army, so he took the initiative to become a housekeeper in the City Lord's Mansion.

"I don't know, you can go, but it should be a good thing. Zhao Cheng smiled and led the horses in the direction of the stable, while Fang Xu took steps and headed towards the Tower of Babel.

There are a total of nine floors in the Tower of Babel, and he can enter and exit freely in the bottom eighty percent, only the ninth floor is the perennial retreat place of his father Fang Hong, and it is not allowed to enter without permission. Of course, you can't do anything if you want to enter without permission, because when you walk to the door, your mind will be confused for a while, and then you will forget the purpose of your visit.

"Mother, what are you looking for me?" Fang Xu stepped into the room, and a middle-aged woman was flipping through some documents behind a desk.

This woman looked to be in her thirties, graceful and extremely beautiful, and you could see how beautiful she was when she was young.

"Xu'er, where are you messing around? When the beautiful woman saw Fang Xu coming, she also had a smile on her face, and after seeing that there were a lot of stains on her body, she couldn't help but blame and said.

"Mother, I just went hunting, but unfortunately, I didn't find a tiger, otherwise I would have been able to make a big tiger for my mother with a tiger skin. Fang Xu smiled, reached out and touched his head.

Since he was a child, he rarely saw Fang Hong, so he was closer to his mother.

"You kid, my mother can still send you a tiger skin. The beautiful woman shook her head and stretched out her hand to the door of her head, but her eyes were full of relief.

"By the way, mother, what are you looking for me for?" Fang Xu asked curiously, what is the matter to find someone to inform him, why did he deliberately call himself.

"You see I almost forgot, Xu'er, you are also a big man, and you are at the age when you should start a family. Mother asked for you, the fourth princess of Tartary has a gentle personality and good appearance, and she just matches you......" The beautiful woman patted her palm lightly and said with a smile.

However, before he finished speaking, Fang Xu's face changed, "Mother, you told me not to interfere in my marriage, you don't know, I don't look down on those vulgar fans at all, you don't want me to be with someone I don't like for the rest of my life." ”

Fang Xu is talented and Wen Taowu is first-class among people, where can he look at an ordinary woman, so this marriage has been delayed. Originally, Xie Chaoyu was not in a hurry, anyway, the child was still young, so let's wait for another two years. But in a blink of an eye, Fang Xu has also reached the age of twenty-three or four, and if he doesn't get married again, when will it be delayed.

"That's what your father meant. Seeing that Fang Xu was so stubborn, Xie Chaoyu had to come up with a killer feature, although Fang Xu was closer to her, he listened to Fang Hong's words more.

"Father...... He...... How could he do this!" Fang Xu clenched his fists tightly, and his eyes were a little red. Seeing him like this, Xie Chaoyu sighed in his heart, maybe he was too spoiled by this child, everything went according to his wishes, and such things were also for his good, why didn't he listen to it.

"Tomorrow, I will let Uncle Cheng take you to Tatar to propose, you go down and prepare first. Xie Chaoyu tried to make his tone a little more stern, and waved his hand to Fang Xu.

Fang Xu came out of the Tower of Babel, but the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, although he had read through the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, he did not learn the truth of the Three Principles and Five Constants of the Science Sect, but thought that people are independent and self-sufficient, although their parents have the grace of nurturing, they cannot interfere in the lives of their younger generations. This kind of commanding arrangement made him extremely disgusted.

"Since you have to let me get married, then I won't do it, I heard that I was born in Daming, and I haven't seen it yet. If you have to force me, then I will run to Daming. A thought rose in Fang Xu's heart, his eyes gradually lit up, young people always have an impulse to be not afraid of heaven and earth, their brains are hot, and they dare to do anything.

After a few thoughts, Fang Xu returned to his room, quietly began to pack his clothes, and when it was night, he quietly lurked out of the city.

His skills were already extremely powerful, although he could not step into the transcendent realm, but he had also reached the peak of what manpower could reach, and the soldiers patrolling in the city of Tongtian could not detect his movements at all.

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Daming Shuntianfu.

In the past 20 years, the Ming Dynasty has not been harassed by the north, at most, the coastal pirates have become more and more rampant, but these are all mustard diseases, which cannot shake the national capital of the Ming Dynasty, so no one in the court has spent too much energy on the pirates.

Since the last court cane, although the country has been in turmoil for several years, it has also completely beaten those Confucian scholars honestly. In the next 20 years, no one dared to fight against Zhu Houxi anymore.

And Zhu Houxi is also very good at playing with the balance of the court situation, although it greatly limits the power of the eunuchs, but it allows the Xinxue sect to enter the political stage, and fight against the science in the court situation, which side is strong, will support the other side.

Because there is no external trouble, the national strength of the whole country has steadily increased a lot, but in the eyes of all officials and even scholars, this emperor is still a faint monarch. Because the emperor actually revered Taoism, he specially ordered someone to build a West Garden, and he himself practiced alchemy in the West Garden all day long, and most of the trivial matters were handed over to the minister.

"Whew. In a palace in Xiyuan, Zhu Houxi's blood flowed rapidly, his whole body was red, his blood was surging, and wisps of smoke rose from his top door.

And in a Dan furnace in front of him, the flames in it were blazing, and the lid of the furnace shook up and down, as if it was about to collapse and explode at any moment. And not far from him, more than a dozen palace maids knelt on the ground, their bodies trembling slightly,

"Bang. Suddenly, Zhu Houxi slapped his palm in the Dan furnace, and the entire Dan furnace made a huge sound, the lid exploded, and an invisible force blasted out, and several palace maids were impacted by this power and flew out directly.

Zhu Houxi opened his hand to probe forward, and then threw it into the jade plate on the side, and immediately "clanged" more than a dozen golden pills, faintly glowing with colorful light.