"Lord Gunshou is from Jiangnan?! No wonder. In the carriage on the way back to Guo's house, Zhang Jiao suddenly realized after listening to Guo Jianliang's introduction to the county guard.

"He is also a good official, at least there are many fewer people starving to death in this Julu County than in other counties, and when the famine came, he borrowed a lot of food from big families and distributed it to the yamen in various places to give porridge and grain, so that many people could hold on for a while. Even my Guo family was borrowed more than 300 stones. Guo Jianliang stroked his beard, and then said: "And after the disaster, he collected the displaced people, helped them naturalize, and organized spring ploughing." Therefore, the household registration in my county has grown rapidly, and there are few cases of thieves and bandits. ”

"Then why did he raise the tax rate?" Zhang Jiao was puzzled.

"Probably to repay the money and food of those big families, after all, I owe too much." Guo Jianliang did not regard himself as a "big family".

"Alas... It's a pity that raising taxes is tantamount to drinking water to quench your thirst. Zhang Jiao sighed.

"He can't help it, he is about to take office, and a big family in Ning Jin bought his position as Taishou from Gaoxiang Marquis Zhang Lan. He estimated that he would resign soon, and he should want to settle these things before he resigned. Guo Jianliang knew a lot of gossip, and he didn't hide it from Zhang Jiao.

"I'm home, sir." A guard came to report.

"I won't go to your house this time, nephew Xian take Jie'er and Xiaoru back, I have sent someone to prepare some gifts to help me bring you Daddy." After Guo Jianliang said this, he got out of the car and went back to Guo's house.

Guo Jie in the car on the side seemed to be ready for a long time, and when she saw Guo Jianliang enter the house, she ran over with Hu Yuer and Zhang Ru with two large packages.

Zhang Jiao also stuffed their packages into the Qiankun bag, and consciously got out of the carriage to drive the carriage.

"Zhang Gongzi, I'll accompany you home." One of the guards shouted at Zhang Jiao, who was about to leave, and then set off after Zhang Jiao in a carriage.

The spring drizzle is very lingering, and the dripping falls on the roof of the carriage, and the distant scenery has become blurred, Zhang Jiao was in a daze while driving the car, he didn't care who was the county guard, nor who owed the grain to those big clans, he only cared about what to do with the people after the county guard was changed, I am afraid that the money spent on such a big official as the county guard was not a few, Zhang Jiao did not think that the people of Ning Jin bought a county guard for charity, but would count the money on the people's heads.

The carriage walked leisurely for an hour and arrived home, and before entering the house, the thin dog Ah Fei wagged his tail at the carriage in the rain.

"Daddy! Auntie! Zhang Ru's little girl stuck her head out of the car window and shouted, and then took Hu Yuer's hand and got out of the car to find her parents.

When Zhang Huailin and his wife heard about Hu Yuer, they unanimously agreed to accept Hu Yuer as their goddaughter, and kept exaggerating how beautiful Ru Xiaoya was.

So under the witness of Yu Ji and Zuo Ci, Hu Yuer recognized her parents and brother on the spot.

"Senior brother, my room is not enough to live." Zhang Jiao has a younger sister and is very happy. smiled at Zuo Ci shyly.

"Well, the foundation has been laid, not bad." Zuo Ci looked at Zhang Jiao and stroked his beard with satisfaction.

He is now the image of a white-bearded old man, with silver hair and fairy bones. Perhaps it is because I think this image is more credible as a witness. Yu Ji dismantled the stage and said that he was originally like this.

"I'll teach you the art of condensation of earth and the art of growing wood." Zuo Ci led Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang to the outside of the house and handed Zhang Jiao a seed.

"The meaning of condensation lies in condensation, and condensation without dispersion can be knotted. Stir the Qi of the earth with the Qi in your body and condense it here. Zuo Ci pointed at Zhang Jiaomei and passed a few incantations to him, then walked to the open space on the right side of the house, pointed to the big one under his feet and said.

Zhang Jiao's body has been ethereal since he built the foundation, and he has been able to mobilize a lot of Heaven and Earth Qi, but he has never known how to use it, which means that there is no "technique" for him to use. After obtaining Zuo Ci's condensation method, he would use it in just a quarter of an hour, but he was not very proficient. As soon as he froze, the ground next to the house had become extremely hard, but the area was relatively small.

After more than an hour of practice, under the eyes of Zhang Liang's worship, he was already proficient in this technique, but the area was much smaller than Zuo Ci, and he knew that Zuo Ci didn't use all his strength last time, but just came easily. And he did it with all his might, and the place where he could condense at one time was only eight feet square.

Zhang Jiao used this method to condense a large area, preparing to make a few more rooms.

Then the learning of the Wood Growth Technique is much simpler, he only needs to simulate the Heaven and Earth Qi into three points of Mu Qi and seven points of Earth Qi into the seeds, but this kind of technique is very difficult to master, because the shape is not easy to control, the house made by Zhang Jiao is crooked, and it will not be separated from the furniture or anything.

Zuo Ci saw what Zhang Jiao had made, saying that it was more like a tree hole than a house. So I couldn't help but take it personally.

Sure enough, Zuo Ci didn't raise his hand much, just pointed lazily, and the three rooms rose from the ground and connected with the original house.

When Zhang Jiao wanted to learn the third technique, he was rejected by Zuo Ci, because the "law" was more important than the "technique" in the foundation building period, and he didn't want Zhang Jiao to delay too much time in the study of the technique.

So he sent Zhang Jiao to Yu Ji and said that Yu Ji's method was more powerful. Then he took Xiao Zhang Liang to repair the Qi.

"Just laid the foundation, don't be in a hurry to learn so many things. Calm down first, why did the Master give you three months to go home, just so that you could refine your mind in the red dust, you were too anxious to cultivate after you got the Nine Scepters, and when your mind calmed down, I will teach you the Fa. Yu Ji glared at Zhang Jiao, because Zhang Bao was learning to sketch the rune paper, and was interrupted by Zhang Jiao, who hurried in.

"Senior Brother said that the art is only the outer way, and the Fa is the inner way, I just want to ask Senior Brother Yu what the Fa is, and I am not in a hurry to cultivate the Fa." Zhang Jiao was also embarrassed to accidentally interrupt his younger brother's outline, and scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

"Repair? You are wrong, the most important thing after building the foundation is no longer cultivation, it is enlightenment! Enlightenment, enlightenment. You go and rest for a few days, and I'll take you out for a walk later. Yu Ji flicked his sleeves and gave an eviction order.

"Wait a minute, give your scepter to Po to use, anyway, you won't need it for the next two days, just go quietly." Yu Ji stopped Zhang Jiao, who was about to go out, and added.

Zhang Jiao handed out the scepter and walked out of the door. I have nothing to do, thinking about helping my parents prepare medicinal herbs and food.

"It's ready, so fast!" Zhang Jiao entered the medicine warehouse and found that his parents were chatting with the three girls.

"There are not many people coming in recent days, only twenty or thirty people a day come to see the doctor, and it is enough for your mother to cook a big pot of porridge every day, and everyone is hungry." Zhang Huailin looked at Zhang Jiao with a smile, the recent days were like a dream, first the family's life was very good all of a sudden, and then the daily soup kitchen and medical treatment made him feel that he was now the real doctor, during this time by Yu Ji and Zuo Ci guidance, medical skills have also been exhausted a lot, Zhang Huailin even thought about writing a medical book about trauma treatment and plague prevention.

"Why don't you go and practice with your senior brother?" Liu Yue'e had a good chat with her newly adopted daughter, but was interrupted by Zhang Jiao as soon as she entered the door, and instantly forgot what the topic was just now, and asked with some anger.

"Uh... Senior brother said that I was practicing too fast, and I needed to meditate and not be in a hurry to practice again. Zhang Jiao looked at his mother's eyes with disgust and was a little confused.

"Yu'er, your room is ready, the three rooms next to each other, you two can go and have a look, and you can live there if you like." Zhang Jiao said to Hu Yuer again.

Several girls were very satisfied with the new room, and Zhang Jiao took out the package of the Qiankun bag, and quickly cleaned up their rooms.

Zhang Jiao was bored in the house, holding a peach in his hand and eating while walking, and when he ate the peach pit, he was stunned and his heart moved. So he ran out of the house, ate the remaining peaches, and buried the peach pits in the soil.

He meditated on the Qi and recited the mantra of the Wood Technique, guiding the Qi of Heaven and Earth into the peach pit.

A green seedling emerges, and then quickly becomes a tall peach tree, flowers, and bears fruit.

Zhang Jiao picked a peach he had grown and took a bite of it.

"Phew!" Sure enough, it was hard to eat, and Zhang Jiao looked at the peach in his hand in a daze.

"I only remember what a peach looks like, and I can't make the taste of a peach, it's no longer a peach." Zhang Jiao fell into deep thought, and he was indeed a little anxious.

"I'm too concerned about the shape of the technique now and ignore the inner ...... of the Dao," Zhang Jiao thought about Yu Ji's words, looking at the peach tree in a daze.

"yes, I'm so impetuous, I'm eating too fast, I haven't tasted anything like a peach." Zhang Jiao went home and fetched another peach. This time, I was very careful to eat one bite at a time.

When the second peach was finished, he did the same and planted another peach tree.

"Why is it still not right, I obviously think of sweetness, why is it so bitter?" Zhang Jiao frowned. I turned around and went home again to get a peach.

"No, it's sweet, it's sweet, but it's not as good as a real peach...... That... What's the smell? Zhang Jiao was distressed, he didn't know how to describe the sweetness.

So I tried it over and over again. The rain soaked his clothes, and he didn't realize it.

On the tenth attempt, the taste of the grown thing was already very close, but Zhang Jiao knew that although it was similar, the taste of that thing could not be considered a real peach flavor.

"How do you describe that smell? A little sour? Six points sweet? And ......" Zhang Jiao is very persistent, he feels that it is impossible to grow real peaches without thinking of the taste of peaches.

……

When Zuo Ci came back with Zhang Liang, he was stunned when he saw a peach forest in front of Zhang's house, and Zhang Jiao, who was like a chicken in soup, gnawed on peaches in a daze, like a beggar.

Zuo Ci picked a peach from the peach tree in turn and tasted it, and when he tasted the last one, he was so angry that he hit Zhang Jiao's head with a snap.

"You idiot! The more you try to generalize it, the more you can't generalize it, and who says that the ups and downs are not the appearance? Why bother generalizing and naming it? You're on the road, silly boy! Zuo Ci hated that iron was not made of steel, and the last sentence was basically shouted.

Zhang Jiao suddenly woke up, cold sweat flowing.