Chapter 115: Loyalty
Feng Jiming is nine years old today, with blonde hair, a fair and smooth complexion, and he is not at all as stocky and dark as the Hanshan faction, which is completely different from the Meng Kun that Jiang Feng once tried to woo. Compared with Jiang Yunqi, who has been pampered since childhood, he has a little more insight into the precociousness of the world, and the etiquette is thoughtful and complete, but in terms of cultivation, there is only a double spirit level, and he may have been delayed by the Hanshan faction.
"From now on, you are a member of the Assayama Sect, do you understand?"
"Yes, follow the instructions of the master. ”
"Say goodbye to the horse seniors. Jiang Feng suddenly got up, wanting to deliberately tease Ma Taiji, and also test the young man's heart by the way, but he heard the handsome young man bow and salute, and said solemnly:
"Senior, please take care of your body. If you have nothing to do, come to the Asayama Sect as a guest. ”
"Take care of yourself!"
Ma Taiji didn't look angry, "Brother Jiang, then please." He was sharp, clenched his fists, as if there was something urgent, flew a few steps, and disappeared into the wilderness.
Mattheji left, but Jiang Feng made a difficulty.
If before the martial arts, he could have let Jiang Hai or Wang Yi register and make a register, and attached Feng Jiming to the ordinary family with the same surname at will, and took advantage of the opportunity of the martial arts to select talents, to cover up his identity and record it on the door wall by the way, but now that the martial arts have passed, he can only deal with it in the way of foreign mortals.
Within the sect, there are only three people who can accept apprentices: Wei Ruoguang, a monk invited from outside the Wei family, Huangfu Runsheng, a deacon of the War Division, and Zhou Xing, the town guard of Donghu County, these three people are considered to be "proficient" in the combat class Xuan-level monks, although the latter two are suspected of "pulling generals from the sting", such as Zhou Xing, who is barely better than himself when he fights alone, but he is much stronger than several elders.
Most of the eight strong people in Huiwu were under Wei Ruoguang's sect, and the remaining few were assigned to Huangfu Runsheng and Zhou Xing, and more of them either stayed in the family and grew savagely, or they stayed in Luochuan helplessly, and lived in the Mengjiao Division, making money by the way to maintain penance, and occasionally receiving part-time teaching from Wei Ruoguang, Zhao Wenjun, and Ding Baozhen.
Jiang Feng once thought about whether to set up an inner gate and an outer gate to change this loose situation, but the two still need Xuan-level monks to manage, the inner door is easy to say, Wei Ruoguang may be able to temporarily serve as a part-time person, and the outer gate lacks a person who knows some general affairs and can give guidance in practice.
Feng Jiming really has nowhere to go, it is impossible to stay in Dayi County, it is too close to the Hanshan Sect, and Jiang Feng himself can't accept any more apprentices, think about Jiang Chengzi and Jiang Yunqi, they don't have enough leisure to discipline and guide, they belong to a free-range state, and if they add one more, they will only have the status of master and apprentice, but in fact, they will be misguided.
He originally wanted to go to the "Ningfeng Shop" that sold treasures and fakes again, but with Feng Jiming, it was quite inconvenient to move, so he could only change the plan and turn back to the "Black Donkey Zhang" Dayi branch, and couldn't wait for the maid Zheng Keyi to wake up, leaving a short message to explain one or two, so he hurriedly took Ding Lingyu and Feng Jiming, the imperial envoy Feizhou, and flew all the way south.
Although Ding Lingyu is ordinary, she has experienced a flight, and this time she has adapted a lot, sitting quietly on the flying boat, laboriously reading a few Taoist books that Jiang Feng threw to her. And Feng Jiming, who is a double spirit, although he is from a corner of the cold mountain, he does not look frightened at all, he sits quietly in his place, enjoying the scenery along the way.
Determination is extraordinary, this son will have achievements in the future.
Jiang Feng couldn't help but secretly wonder.
"Master Jiang, this is the Qianshan Sect?" Feng Jiming suddenly asked.
"That's right, the one below is the Asayama Sect. ”
"How many years has it been since the Assayama Sect was founded?"
"More than 700 years, are you interested in this?" this child's question is a little incomprehensible.
"I'm just asking. Feng Jiming showed an innocent smile, "The natural features here are well maintained. ”
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The purpose of Jiang Feng's trip was Fuyuan Town, and there was more than one thing to do here.
The first thing is about the Xiao family, Xiao Mingbao and Ren Xiaolong of this sect have found a mysterious cave here, and Xiao Mingbao has been damaged because of this, although Ren Xiaolong escaped, but also caused a lot of turmoil in this sect, this matter was originally because of the passage of time, and there is no further relationship between himself and the Qianshan Sect, but there is the problem of Chu Wenyin, a potential candidate for the deacon of the Mengjiao Division, if this matter can be investigated clearly, and there is a chance to cure Xiao Mingbao, then it is very likely to win Chu Wenyin's joining, and solve the problem of the deacon of the Mengjiao Department being vacant because of lack of money to hire, and, because Chu Wenyin is not only good at Mengjiao, but alsoThe ability of "Spirit Plant" is undoubtedly a great help for the development of the Asagima Sect.
It's a pity that this woman is a little cold, Jiang Feng recalled the first encounter in the Chu family in Zhenwu City, and it was not pleasant.
Another thing is that when he was in the Hanshan faction, the commission of Li Yufeng, an official of the Imperial Wind Sect, about the traitor Li Xianwu of the Imperial Wind Sect, although he only took a piece of Qin Wuyuan's "Blue Sea Shell Picking" as a reward, and it has not been sold for cash, but it is entrusted by people and loyal to people, this matter still needs to be handled carefully. Jiang Feng expected that this Li Yufeng's official position would not be too small, and it might be useful to deal with the Imperial Wind Sect in the future, which would be much better than that smiling tiger Gu Chuanfu.
Ling Shao, this one-sided ground-level cultivator, I'm afraid he has forgotten himself.
Fuyuan Town is located in the west of the central part of the Asa Shan Sect, the north of Warm Valley County, and its style is as declining as every town that has not yet changed into a county, depressed, lacking vitality, and even because the three towns have become counties and Luochuan has opened up and moved in, some wealthy families who originally lived here have moved away, or only some small families have been left to guard the empty mansions.
The weeds have turned green, and the smell of early spring is much stronger than that of Dayi County, where the cold has not subsided. Jiang Feng collected the boat, slowly descended with Ding Lingyu and Feng Jiming, and followed the narrow stone path in the countryside into Fuyuan Town.
The mountains in the distance are majestic, the spring is whining, the feng shui is good, but there is no spiritual vein distribution, there are several ancestors of the Asagama Sect buried, it is said that there was no town here, only because the descendants of the tomb keepers of the past dynasties gathered, there is Fuyuan Town today, and now the barren grass is overgrown, the mountains are vast, the tomb keepers of the ancestors have changed for several generations, and even forgot their mission, if it were not for the tombstones and sealed soil, perhaps the traces left by those ancestors would have been found long ago.
There is only a handful of loess left.
Jiang Feng looked at the changing clouds outside the distant mountains and couldn't help but sigh.
Different from what is seen in the air and in the wild, the town is quite lively, the children running around, and the old man squatting in the corner of the wall to soak up the sun, all add a lot of life to this place, Jiang Feng first wants to find Li He, the town guard of Fuyuan Town, among the town guards who have registered and made a register in the sect, this name is not conspicuous.
However, Li He was not at home, and asked a few chatting old men, only to know that this morning, there were all the leading figures in the town who went to the mountains to worship the sages in the morning, and they had not yet returned.
What's going on?
Originally, I thought that everyone had forgotten the previous heads of the Asshan Sect, could it be that I had wrongly blamed them? I was quite ashamed in my heart, and I was thinking about it, but I saw a neatly dressed, uniform, and even somewhat solemn team on the narrow stone road of the distant mountain.
Is this the return of the sacrificial sweep procession?
Jiang Feng flew to the front and asked a few people to inquire, only to find that the people in the team, as he expected, were all locals, with black and red wrinkled faces, most of them were farmers who cultivated for a living, and as for the ones with some shiny faces, they were squires with heads and faces, and the special black and blue robes were covered on everyone's shabby or new short jackets, making the whole team look neat and consistent, if it weren't for the lack of drum music, Jiang Feng really thought that this was a serious sacrificial procession.
"Are you Li He?" After several people's identification, Jiang Feng quickly found the main master, a gray-haired, face covered with the ditches of time, and a slightly rickety old man, who had served as the mundane guard of Fuyuan Town for more than 20 years.
"It's the villain who has seen the master. Seeing Jiang Feng's seal of the master, Li He hurriedly knelt down and saluted.
"You organized this sacrificial procession?"
"Well, well, sort of. Li He was hesitant, as if he had a hidden secret, and kept looking at the back of the team, as if he was looking for something, but he didn't find it.
"Tell the truth, forgive your innocence. ”
Although the sacrifice to sweep the ancestors is a loyal, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, but it also depends on the day, this is the number of rites, and it has always been responsible for the Department of Etiquette, because of the problem of expenditure, since the ninth generation of the head, the original sacrifice every five years has been changed to once every ten years, since Jiang Feng took over as the head, because the sect's treasury is empty, it has not presided over the sacrifice once. The people privately held ceremonies to commemorate their ancestors, to put it bluntly, it was a transgression, and the crime should be confiscated and reduced to slavery, but in the history of the Asagama Sect, no one has ever done such a ridiculous thing, and naturally no one has been punished.
"This, in fact, everyone was hired by the new rich Li Xianwu, and the cost was paid by him, but anyone who participated in the sacrifice could get three spirit stones. Li He trembled and took out three fire-based first-order spirit stones, held them in the palm of his hand, and motioned for Jiang Feng to check.
Ridiculous!
This is Jiang Feng's first impression, when Li Yufeng mentioned this person before, he explained that he had found something for him to do, otherwise he would cause trouble, he thought it was a polite remark on the official face, but now it seems that this is really the case, this sacrifice to the sages is the business of his own Qianshan Sect, he is an outsider, what does it mean to hire someone to do this kind of thing?
Thinking about this probability, looking at the people in this team, there is no sadness on their faces, and even a little hidden joy of earning money and spending, you know that like yourself, you have no real feelings for the heads of the past dynasties, and you don't know what the meaning of the memorial is.
"What else has he done?"
"Here, after Li Xianwu came, he helped the town build a private school, cleaned up six silted wells, and hired monks to help the village open up 300 acres of barren land. ”
"Every time you get married or funeral, you can receive a congratulatory gift of two spirit stones from him. A middle-aged man behind him added that he was full of strength, in the prime of life, and he was also mixed in the team to receive money, he was as simple as most of the ordinary people here, he had not seen many monks, and for the head Jiang Feng, he was not as respectful and humble as Li He, who had a position.
"His family cured my lame cattle. A voice at the end of the line shouted.
"My house was repaired by him, and it has been leaking for five years, thanks to him as a good man......"
"On the day my daughter-in-law had a difficult birth, he helped hire a doctor and gave me some new clothes. The person behind him added in a rambling voice, "Yes, boss, don't punish him, I see, that child looks like me, it can't be his Li Xianwu." ”
"Nonsense, if you say that again, I have to beat you, Wang Er was stunned!" The previous man was anxious and wanted to make a move, but was pulled away by everyone's laughter.
"No, he will be punished, he robbed my daughter-in-law who did not pass through the door. A big-eyed boy in the back was in a hurry.
", Cuihua didn't take a fancy to you at all, his father won't let you in, and you won't find a puddle to take care of yourself. The crowd's spat soon drowned out his voice.
What is the matter, have I met a good person who loves to cause trouble? Jiang Feng's head was a little big in an instant, and he had to meet this traitor from the Imperial Wind Sect quickly.
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