Qi An grew so big, it was the first time to participate in a banquet of this level, and he didn't know what to say, so he could only lower his head and drink and eat to hide his embarrassment.

Fortunately, most of the heroes in this group of soldiers participated in the battle of Qingliang Mountain, and everyone knew Qi An's origin and knew that this was a young genius master who came out of a poor mountain village, so they didn't care about his embarrassing performance, and took the initiative to toast and talk to him.

Although Qi An was born poor and young, he was a real congenital martial artist, and he was no worse than everyone here in terms of strength, and he became famous in a battle because he broke into Qingliang Mountain alone and killed Li Liuxian, so the people in the hall did not dare to despise him, but took the initiative to put down his identity and pull over the conversation.

Qi An is quick to think, although he doesn't talk much, but his sentences are just right, neither humble nor arrogant, but his demeanor and expression are a little uncontrollable, and he is a little shy.

After the banquet was over, the guests said goodbye and left, and Zhao Song led Qi An to the study, made a pot of good tea, and sat opposite each other.

"Little Brother Qi, I sent someone to invite you this time, but I want to discuss a few things with you. Zhao Song took the teacup, took a sip, and began to get down to business.

"If Lord Zhao has any orders, please feel free to speak up. Qi An also picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip.

"First of all, last month's suppression of bandits in Qingliang Mountain, the Pingyang County garrison leveled Liuxian Village with almost no loss, you have made great contributions!"

"I've won the prize, I'm just doing my best. ”

"You don't have to be modest, if you hadn't killed Li Liuxian desperately, he alone would have caused a lot of casualties to our soldiers. ”

Zhao Song took a sip of tea and said: "In fact, Pingyang County has never used troops against Liuxian Village, because I feel that the risk is too great, and even if we can win, the damage will be extremely heavy." We have already received information from Gaochang Town, Li Liuxian is the peak martial arts, superb martial arts, extremely brave, ordinary martial arts need at least ten or more to suppress it, plus there are Fan Suo and Li Wei'er from the side to help, unless my Pingyang County garrison pours out, there is no certainty of victory. ”

Zhao Song's words are not false, there are more than 500 bandits in Liuxian Village, which is equivalent to the number of garrisons in Pingyang County, and although the equipment and training are not as good as the regular army, they occupy a geographical advantage. The great master Li Liuxian is the pinnacle of the Martial Sect, and Fan Suo and Li Wei'er are also Martial Sects, plus twenty-seven martial artists, they are the most powerful and arrogant thieves within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Looking at the Pingyang County garrison again, the five full squadrons, the principal and deputy captains add up to a total of fifteen martial artists, and all the commanders add up, one hundred martial artists, and the strength on paper is indeed much stronger than that of Liuxian Village. But the key is that these martial arts sects are all ordinary martial sects, and none of them are peak martial sects, and it will be very uncomfortable against Li Liuxian.

On the other hand, it is even more impossible for the Pingyang County garrison to attack with the whole army, after all, such a large county town needs men and horses to garrison and maintain law and order, and there is not only a gang of thieves in Pingyang County, but if other thieves receive the news and loot the county seat, how much will it lose? Therefore, at best, it is already the ultimate to send a force of two or three hundred people to suppress the bandits, and they dare not say that they will win.

"This time is also because the new county commander transferred from the state capital has just taken office, so happy, eager to make some achievements, not to force the official to lead people to attack Liuxian Village, the official is also forced to unite the other two garrison squadrons, a total of 300 people, together to kill Qingliang Mountain, was ready to fight to the death, but I didn't expect to be killed by you first to kill the bandits in a river of blood. ”

Zhao Song smiled, looking very happy, and continued: " Since we eliminated the largest group of thieves in Pingyang County without much effort, the above was very happy, and gave a lot of rewards, plus a large number of property looted from Liuxian Village, so that our garrison and the county commander were very happy, so after discussing it, I will transfer part of the reward to you, after all, you have the greatest credit, if it is not for your help, it is impossible to easily take Liuxian Village, so you don't have to shirk, I will give you a list when I go back, and then instruct the next person to take you to receive the reward. ”

"Reward?" Qi An was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand again and again, "My original purpose was just to avenge the village and rescue the kidnapped villagers, and I didn't think about asking for a reward!"

"Okay, don't say it!" Zhao Song smiled and patted Qi An's thin shoulder, "The reward given by the imperial court cannot be refused at will, even if you don't want to accept it, you have to accept it!"

Qi An stopped arguing and nodded in agreement.

Zhao Song then said: "There is another matter, but before that, this official wants to take the liberty of asking, how did Little Brother Qi come about?

Qi An replied truthfully: "I learned it from my father. ”

Zhao Song had actually sent someone to investigate Qi An's details a long time ago, but he deliberately pretended not to know: "It turns out that your father is also a strong man, I wonder if you can introduce him?"

Qi An shook his head: "My father left home a year ago and is missing, and even I don't know where he is. ”

Zhao Song sighed with some regret, and turned back to the topic: "What I said next is related to cultivation, I don't know if Little Brother Qi has heard of the Qianqing Academy?"

Seeing Qi An shaking his head blankly, Zhao Song explained: "In order to cultivate talents, the court set up schools in various counties in Kyushu, called Qianqing Academy, which is the only martial arts training institution established by the government. ”

Qi An wondered, "What does this have to do with me?"

"Of course it matters!" Zhao Song said with a smile, "All the people of the Great Qiandi Dynasty who have the strength of the Martial Sect will have the opportunity to enter the Qianqing Academy for further study, where there are guidance from famous teachers from all walks of life, a large number of cultivation resources are provided, and there are innate exercises leading to the Qi Condensation Realm, and the path of cultivation will be much smoother." The reason why I have summoned you this time is to ask if you are willing to study at the Qianqing Academy? If you wish, this official can write a letter of recommendation and send you to the Qianqing Academy. ”

Qi An was stunned for a moment after hearing this: "It turns out that there are such good things, I have heard that there are countless strong people in the court, and there are countless cultivation exercises, it turns out that they are all true!"

Zhao Song laughed and said: "As long as you are willing, the official will immediately repair a book for you, and in a few days he will send someone to send you to the backing county with a letter, which coincides with the enrollment of this year in the Qianqing Academy at the beginning of next month, with my letter of recommendation, I believe you will be able to easily enter the backing branch!"

Qi An didn't refuse, smiled and hugged his fists and said, "Thank you Lord Zhao so much!"

Zhao Song waved his hand: "No need to be polite, it is the official's job to recommend talents for the court, and the official also sees that you are a young hero and have a lot of talent for cultivation. ”

After talking about the matter, the two chatted casually, and Zhao Song called someone to lead Qi An to the guest room to rest.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Song sent someone to summon Qi An for breakfast, and there was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy beside him, who was introduced to know that this person was Zhao Song's eldest son Zhao Zheng, a martial artist who cultivated and also worked in the army, and was a soldier commander under his command.

"Today it is the turn of the official to patrol the defense, and I will go out after breakfast, this is the dog Zhao Zheng, and he will accompany you to the county government to receive the reward later. ”

After that, Zhao Song didn't talk too much, hurriedly finished breakfast, and went by himself.

Zhao Zheng had a good temperament, and he admired and admired Qi An who killed Li Liuxian, but chatted with Qi An a lot, and he hated seeing each other late.

"Brother Qi, take a look, this is the court reward that your father has won for you. ”

Zhao Zheng handed over a list of rewards, detailing a series of rewards, including a beast demon Neidan, a bottle of Peiyuan Dan, ten jade coins, a treasure knife cast in fine iron, and finally a two-entry mansion that occupies an acre of land in Pingyang County.

For example, in Qinghe Town, where Qi'an passed by at that time, the town tax was ten copper coins per person, and the sum of the town taxes of one million people added up to 10 million copper coins, and in terms of the population size of Qinghe Town, the flow of people was about 1,000 people per day, that is to say, just these ten jade coins were equivalent to the tax revenue of the entire Qinghe Town in the past three years.

Of course, Qinghe Town, which is under the control of the two major warrior gangs, is not only a town tax, but also a business tax, a protection tax, a residence tax, a transaction tax and other cleverly named taxes.

However, Qi An didn't pay much attention to coins, he had collected corpses for a whole year, and he had accumulated a lot of wealth, so he mainly looked at other rewards.

Pei Yuan Dan is an extremely precious auxiliary cultivation medicine for the Martial Sect, it must be known that the cultivation of the Martial Sect is mainly by absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth, and the Pei Yuan Dan is refined with several precious medicinal materials, containing pure heaven and earth vitality, taking one pill is enough for several days of penance, this bottle has twenty pills, at least saving one or two months of cultivation time.

However, the most precious thing should still be the beast demon Neidan.

What is a beast demon? It is a beast that cultivates into a refinement, turns into a demon, opens up spiritual wisdom, and surpasses the innate martial sect in strength, which is equivalent to the level of a monk. If you want to kill a beast demon, it is impossible to do it unless the monk makes a move, or a large number of innate martial sects besiege and kill regardless of attrition.

And the inner pill is the essence crystallization taken out of the body of the beast demon, which is usually used as an alchemy material, and can even be used for refining weapons or other purposes.

As for the treasure knife made of fine iron, it is much worse than the previous ones, and it is not a rare thing to enter the house twice, after all, the land price of the county is not too expensive, and it is not as expensive as the county town.