Qingzhou Mansion, Mansion.

Dangdangdang –

There was a knock on the door in the study, and the prefect Zhou Ning stopped the brush in his hand, looked at the picture scroll on the table, and said in a deep voice:

"Come in..."

Squeak –

"Your Excellency."

The person who came was the officer and soldier who led people to the Blood Suppression Knife Gate not long ago, named Li Feng, but today he was not wearing a suit of armor, but a domestic servant's casual clothes:

"What are you looking for me?"

"It's nothing, just ask, how is the mess of the Blood Knife Gate."

"Lord Hui, the news that the Blood Knife Gate was exterminated by my Qingzhou Mansion has spread in the rivers and lakes, and those incense pavilions under the Tianhe Sect, as well as Tingyuxuan of the imperial court, have even rushed to invite people to tell the story, and make up the scene at that time."

"That's right..."

Zhou Ning nodded slowly:

"Looks like you've been going to these two places a lot these days."

"Uh..."

Li Feng paused:

"The subordinates are... For the sake of probing, so small... I went a little bit. ”

"Okay, it's not enough to go."

“……”

Li Feng was speechless, and Zhou Ning held a brush to re-sketch and write on the scroll:

"This listening to Yuxuan and Ningxiang Pavilion, the competition has been fierce in recent years, and this little opportunity is also to compete to find a storyteller... I heard before that the Ning Xiang Pavilion also recruits handsome men everywhere..."

"It does. However, people go to high places, water flows to low places, Tianhe Sect expanded from Yizhou at the beginning, to Jingzhou, and then to Qingzhou, the territory of Sanzhou, how many people in the sect alone have to raise, Qinglou as the main business of Tianhe Sect, and has the role of eyeliner, and it is not possible to compete. ”

Li Feng echoed the voice, and at the same time secretly looked at Zhou Ning's picture scroll.

Then he found that Zhou Ning was writing dots at this time, marking and annotating, and it turned out that he was figuring out a map.

A map of the whole world.

The eleven prefectures of the Great Zhou Dynasty, including Jingshi, were divided very concisely and clearly, and Zhou Ning marked most of the plots in vermilion characters.

Qingzhou, Yizhou, Jingzhou, west to the southwest of the three states, marked with [Tianhezong].

Jingshi, Yuezhou, the two states due east, plus the fairy island off the coast of Yuezhou, marked [Wuliang Mountain]

Yunzhou in the northeast direction, marked as [Zenzhen Temple]

Obviously, this is a rough indication of the geographical scope that the three cases can affect today.

In the two states of Liangzhou and Mangzhou, a little north of Yunzhou, Zhou Ning used a smaller red pen to mark it as [Zhenbei Wang].

These two states have been under the jurisdiction of Zhuyue Mountain, the king of Zhenbei, since the period of the first emperor Zhaotong, and to the north of the two states, it is the northern country that has fought with the Great Zhou for many years.

……

In addition to the above, the remaining three places of Huaizhou, Jinzhou, and Yangzhou, Zhou Ning did not mark them with a red pen for the time being.

Then he used a smaller ink pen to mark the positions of the six factions.

【Ningxiang Hall】

【Listen to the Rain】

【Kyushu Dart Bureau】

【Soaring Tower】

【Ask the Sword Sect】

【Biluo Valley】

The remaining smaller characters are the distribution of the twelve gates.

I don't know when this map was first written, the current [Three Sects, Six Sects and Twelve Sects] on the rivers and lakes are all marked on it, although the marks of the twelve gates have been deleted in several places, but the three sects and six factions have never moved.

It can also be seen from this point that this map was at least drawn after the first emperor "pacified the barbarian town" and destroyed the old group of six factions such as Longding Villa.

"My lord, you have nothing to do, this is..."

"Phew! You're idle! ”

Zhou Ning glared at Li Feng:

"The situation in the world, real-time updates, this is called idleness? The twelve sects are different from the three sects and six sects, after the Blood Sword Gate is destroyed, won't there be new sects lined up in the twelve? I can't write it down? ”

"Yes, yes, yes..."

"Anyway... What is the name of the new addition of the Twelve Sects to replace the Blood Knife Gate this time? ”

"Go back to your lordship, it's called Qingfeng Village."

"Heh..."

Zhou Ning sneered, this name is more like a bandit than the Blood Knife Gate.

"This Qingfeng Village, how is the situation?"

"My lord, Qingfeng Village is also in the boundary of Qingzhou, it is our people, and they have always made a living in some martial arts halls, and they also do some dart games and casinos and the like, which is different from the Blood Knife Gate, highlighting an honest duty."

"That's good."

"But... It is said that the current boss of Qingfeng Village is a little dissatisfied, and the second master and the third master, from time to time there will be some contradictions, and Qingfeng Village is roughly divided into three factions, and the people's hearts are not very aligned..."

"Well, that's better."

Zhou Ning nodded with satisfaction:

"If he doesn't obey the public, he naturally needs the official to help him serve the public, and the more uneven the people's hearts, the easier it is to listen to outsiders..."

When Li Feng heard this, his eyes rolled:

"My lord, if Qingfeng Village continues like this, what should I do if I mess up and scatter in the future?"

"Nonsense, if Qingfeng Village is gone, the twelve sects can't be without, find another sect to continue to go up..."

"Ahh

Li Feng looked embarrassed:

"My lord, the sect in our Qingzhou realm is always suppressed and replaced, and it is tossed too often, shouldn't it make Long Yan displeased?"

"Tsk, you're not smart if you're stupid! As an official in the court, the three sects and six factions can't move, so they have to move these twelve doors often, which shows that the court can control the rivers and lakes! Otherwise, do you think that the same forces in the rivers and lakes, why do the three sects and six factions have always turned a blind eye to the affairs of the twelve sects? The so-called twelve gates, discharged, were originally specially for the imperial court... Do you understand? ”

"Understood! I see! ”

"Oh yes, the person who killed Xue Gui, the reward for silver hair has passed, right?"

"Well, I used the second-fastest horse in the house, and I should have arrived today... Oh, my lord, I just heard it today, it seems that the one who killed Xue Gui was actually the guard of the Qingli County Lord. ”

"Oh? That's very good, very good, this silver bonus is right..."

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Outside Jianping County, on Qingniugang.

Today's weather is a little gloomy, the spring breeze is not warm, and there is even a slight chill, it just so happens that Qin Lang has made a pot of warm meals, which is especially suitable for today.

"It's good to gurgle in the pot for a while, just drain the rice, and the hot rice soup is ready."

Qin Lang rubbed his hands, and smelled the fresh fragrance overflowing from the side of the pot, not to mention Su Yinhua, even Gu Jin, who had returned to the house, couldn't help but move his throat.

"I'm sorry, Su Nuxia, I don't have meat today, it's a vegetarian dish."

"It's okay, it's okay."

The county lord is a picky eater, and the woman is not a picky eater, so she sat on the edge of the bed and shook her head obediently:

"Qin Lang, what are you doing, it smells so fragrant, it's more fragrant than the previous fish soup."

"Hey, incense, huh?"

Qin Lang rubbed his nose proudly:

"This is my specialty dish, and my sister loves to eat it too."

"Senior sister..."

“……”

The "senior sister" in Qin Lang's mouth, Su Yinhua and Gu Jin had heard him mention it once or twice, and they had never asked in detail, but at this time, while waiting for the dishes to be ready, the two women looked at each other very tacitly, and then Su Yinhua took the initiative to ask:

"Qin Lang, speaking of which, what is your life experience? I'm curious..."

"Background? As I said, my sister and I live in the mountains a little outside of Dazhou, and we depend on each other for our lives. ”

……

When Qin Lang met the big girl Xuanran before, he said that he was born in Orion's family and grew up with his mother, that was because he met Xuanran for the first time and was not familiar with him, and he was poisoned by Xue Guiren's skin mask at that time, and he didn't know that the other party would save him, so he had a strong mouth.

But after staying with Su Yinwan and Gu Jin for a while, Qin Lang didn't want to hide too much from them.

Of course, proper concealment is necessary.

After all, Senior Sister was recuperating from her injuries in retreat on the Tianshan Mountain, if it was only about herself, it would not hurt Qin Lang to tell Su Yinhua and Pan about his situation.

It's not that he doesn't trust Su Yinhua and Gu Jin, it's just that people are in the rivers and lakes, and it's always right to be cautious, for example, Qin Lang heard that those people in the Five Poisons Sect in Yizhou know some soul searching Dafa or something.

……

Now that Su Yinhua asked about his life experience again, Qin Lang still adhered to the principle of "what should be said, what should not be said, not said".

"Qin Lang, you said that you and your senior sister depend on each other, but what about your master?"

"There is no Master."

Qin Lang shook his head:

"When my sister picked me up, she directly recognized me as a junior brother, and later I asked her why, and she said that she was old as a master."

“……”

Qin Lang's words were true, so the speechlessness in Su Yinhua's eyes and Gu Jin's eyes who looked at each other were also true.

"Then your teacher, don't you have a name?"

"Nope."

"How old is your senior sister?"

"I don't know, she doesn't say, but it looks like... It's about the same as Su Woman. ”

"Huh? I seem to remember that you said before that killing Xue Gui was to avenge your senior sister, right? ”

"Well, Xue Gui is dead, and now there is one left."

"Who?"

"Nangong Zhuo."

Qin Lang said the name of the last person recorded by the senior sister in the "Heart Demon Record", the name of the big devil who asked Qin Lang to "plow his court and sweep his hole".

Not to mention this stubble, Qin Lang didn't realize it, but at this time, Qin Lang's eyes suddenly lit up.

Although there is very little information recorded about this elusive big devil, as the sister of Emperor Su Yinhua, maybe he should have heard of this person.

"Nangong Zhuo..."

However, the county lord just blinked, and then asked Qin Lang a stupid question:

"Her surname is Nan... Or is the surname Nangong? ”

“……”

Qin Lang couldn't hold back his expression of crying and laughing:

"The surname is Nangong, jade is not a weapon, have you heard of it?"

"Nope..."

Su Yinhua frowned, and asked Gu Jin again, Gu Jin thought about it carefully, and also said that he had never heard of this name, and even the surname [Nangong] had never heard of any name in the rivers and lakes.

"Forget it, I didn't expect to find this person so easily."

After all, even the senior sister said that she was elusive, once the other party changed her name and surname, or even changed her skin like Xue Gui, without any clues, Qin Lang could only find a needle in a haystack when looking for her.

"Let's eat first."

The pot was almost gurgling, and after Qin Lang put it out neatly, he put a small bench upside down on the table, lit a candle in the middle of the bench, and built a "small stove", put the dishes from the big pot to the small pot, and then sat on the "small stove", and the Su silver bottle that he saw suddenly lit up.

"It's been a long time since I've eaten the side stove~ Qin Lang, you are so amazing, this is okay!"

"It's a little shabby, but it's good to eat hot."

The dishes in the pot have finally been unveiled, Qingzhou's local salty and salt-marinated snow mushrooms, plus sliced tofu, the simple two ingredients have been stewed in the pot for enough time, but they have stimulated a wonderful taste that is extremely delicious and rich, even more than meat.

"Is it delicious?"

"Uh-huh! Sumire, you can also eat more, it's hot, and your body is warm and comfortable after eating! ”

"Come, I'll teach you, eat with a spoon like this."

Qin Lang took a spoonful as he spoke, the soft and tender white tofu and the salty and fragrant snow mushroom, with the hot soup, poured it on the rice, just looking at it made people's appetite move, and one bite down, Qin Lang couldn't help but shake his head and hum a little song:

"Ate pickled cabbage and rolled tofu~... The emperor is not as good as me...~"

“……”

“……”

Qin Lang was obviously a little carried away, and after singing, he found that the sister of "Emperor Lao'er", as well as his personal guards, were staring at him directly.