On the second day, the county watchman's house

"Congratulations to Xiao Xian's nephew, this document has finally arrived, Xian's nephew has been waiting for a long time, right?" Huangfu said with a high smile.

"Yes, I didn't expect it to be so troublesome to go through the procedures in the ministry. Xiao Yat said.

"Well, the virtuous nephew doesn't know, I heard that this procedure really caused a lot of controversy, and I heard that the official Shangshu Ge disagreed, after all, the virtuous nephew didn't have a reputation before. But fortunately, Master Ji went south on a business trip this time to do things on orders, and he had the right to cut first and then play, but it didn't affect the overall situation!"

"Then thank you Master Ji for your full support!" Xiao Yi sighed.

"Virtuous nephew, this is Lord Huang Yihuang, the salt commander of the Shancheng Salt Farm. Lord Huang's official residence is seven products, and he was the same Jinshi and the first. Huangfu Gao introduced Xiao Yi.

"Xiaguan meets Lord Xiao, and asks Lord Xiao to take care of him!" Huang Yi said, Huang Yi is in his fifties, but he is in good spirits, but he looks very energetic.

"Lord Huang is polite!" Xiao Yat returned the salute.

"These are a few salt lawsuits from the salt fields of nearby counties. Huangfu Gao didn't introduce them one by one, and it is estimated that he didn't recognize them, after all, these people were not officials in Shancheng, nor were they the leaders of Yancheng.

Xiao Yi knew that Si Cheng was the commander's deputy, usually from the seventh rank or the eighth grade, Xiao Yi's current official position is the special envoy of Qingzhou salt transportation, theoretically all the salt farms and salt transportation officials in Qingzhou are his subordinates, but his official position is temporary, naturally there is no deterrent and binding force, but Xiao Yi doesn't care. If you really want to be a salt-making official, you still don't want to, so it's okay, you can have a good time, just get the mountain city salt farm first.

"And this is the official uniform, pipe hat, paperwork and identity token of the virtuous nephew. Xiao Yi took it from the adjutant beside Huangfu Gao.

After that, Huangfu Gao told Xiao Yi about the way of being an official and the official system of the entire Qingzhou, and Xiao Yi's eyes of the province were black, and Xiao Yi did not come out of the county guard mansion until the afternoon.

Early the next morning, just after breakfast, Xiao Quan came in with a thick stack of prayer stickers.

"Young Master Yi, these are all posts to meet Young Master Yi, there are thirty-six copies. ”

Xiao Quan said with a smile.

Xiao Yi picked up one at random and opened it, it was a prayer post from a salt merchant in the mountain city, put it down casually, and flipped through it a few times, all of which were sent by salt merchants with names and surnames all over Qingzhou.

Xiao Yi knew that since he received the documents from the Ministry of Officials yesterday, he could nominally manage all the salt merchants in Qingzhou, and of course, when the best refined salt began to be sold, his Xiao family could be regarded as a salt merchant, and he was one of the most powerful salt merchants in Qingzhou.

And as the news of Xiao Yi's appointment as an official spread all over the mountain city, the Xiao family became the focus of the entire mountain city for a while. For three days in a row, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit Xiao Yat.

The Xiao family has been immersed in grief since Xiao Qian's death, due to the weakening of the overall strength of the Xiao family and the further deepening of the conflict with the Tang family, many people are in panic, and even some peripheral Xiao family members began to secretly take refuge in the Tang family.

Now Xiao Yi has become the second most powerful person in Shancheng, not only his own influence has increased greatly, but also the confidence of the peripheral personnel of the Xiao family has greatly increased, and the Xiao family has a faint tendency to suppress the Tang family and the Qi family. Clear-eyed people can see at a glance that when the Xiao family's salt shop opens one after another, I am afraid that it will become the largest family in the mountain city.

With the rise of Xiao Yi, the situation in the mountain city changed three times a day, and even the Tang family's search for Miss Tang became secondary, and one order after another was issued from the Tang family's study, and the plan for Xiao Yi and the Xiao family gradually became clear.

On the other hand, in Huizhou, at the junction of Qingzhou and Huizhou, on the mountain road, a thin figure was helping another person to run away in a hurry, both of them were ragged and unkempt, and the man who was being supported was even more pale, his right hand was faintly protecting his chest, and a trace of blood oozed from his hand.

The next moment, the man hurriedly pulled the woman next to him to stop, and the woman looked at the man suspiciously. The continuous drizzle hit the faces of the two, and through the hazy drizzle, it was clear that the two were also rare handsome men and beautiful women. The man's face is like a crown of jade, his hair is high in a bun, and his back is always straight, and the woman is also extremely beautiful, but her face is pale, and she is a little short of breath after walking for a long time.

"What's the matter, Brother Jian, is it an old injury?" the woman asked worriedly.

The man did not answer anything, but changed the stick from his left hand to his right hand, and stretched out his left hand to protect the woman's chest.

A moment later, figures came up from all around, starting with a shirtless man with a bearded face.

"It's time for us to open, the weather is really weird for this bird, and I don't know when the rain will stop, and most of the merchants who pass by will be harmed" The shirtless man said, "Boy, it's your bad luck to meet me!"

"Ah, it's a robber, Brother Sword, what should I do?" the woman looked panicked.

"Yanran, I'll pester them in a while, you hurry up, cough cough!" the man whispered.

"Don't, Brother Jian, I finally found you, and we finally escaped the pursuit of the Xiao family's dead soldiers, I want to accompany you. The woman said stubbornly.

"But... The man was about to say something, but when he saw the woman's resolute expression, he had to hold the woman tightly in his arms, and the man's eyes were a little moist.

"Yo, it's still a pretty little girl, good, good, haha!" The shirtless man's unbridled words drew laughter from the other two dozen companions.

The man's face was solemn, his eyes gradually sharpened, and his right hand holding the stick changed his posture slightly, "Yanran, close your eyes!"

As he spoke, the man's left hand ran over the woman's eyes, and the woman obediently closed her eyes.

Immediately after, Yan Ran felt empty around her, and then heard a scream behind her.

Thinking about the bits and pieces of the two, tears fell like rain.

He is a year older than her, and since he was a child, he has been her umbrella and never let anyone bully her. The woman's body is naturally weak and unable to practice internal strength, which is no less than a bolt from the blue for a woman who is in the rivers and lakes and is eager to practice martial arts.

So in the impression of men, since they are sensible, women are weak and sad, and they need him to protect them.

Men often teach the martial arts they have learned to women one by one, and women learn happily and seriously every time, maybe it is best not to get it, and women are born unable to practice true qi, so they have a more obsessive attachment to martial arts.

Unconsciously, the two fell in love with each other, without the slightest accident, without the slightest twists and turns, this is the heart of the lover.

No one knows what will happen in the next moment, just when the relationship between the two is heating up rapidly, the two families have a fight, and her family kills his family.

So without saying a word, the two turned from lovers to enemies, and the man began to practice killing skills, he was no longer gentle with her, he regarded himself as a sword, a sword of revenge.

Maybe one day, she and her family will be killed by him, if there is no change.

Until not long ago, the man went out to do things, but the woman was uneasy, always feeling that she was going to lose something, so the woman went to the Taoist temple to pray for blessings, who knew that the priest predicted that the lover in her heart would die for life.

Her anxiety grew, and her family forced her to marry someone she didn't like, so she fled her home in search of a man.

In the end, she succeeded and found the man who was scarred and dead, although she suffered a lot. Maybe her heart is not as weak as he thought, but a different kind of strength.

The killing sound and wheezing in her ears continued, and suddenly the woman's right arm hurt, she knew that she was injured, but the woman did not squeak, because the woman knew that if he had not lost resistance, she would not have been injured.

After another quarter of an hour, the sound faded away, leaving only the familiar gasp, and the woman opened her eyes to see the man's attentive expression, he was bandaging the wound on the woman's right arm, and his movements were gentle and careful.

"Brother Jian, you're injured. The woman wept.

"It's okay, let's go, we can't stay long. As soon as he finished speaking, the man covered in blood fainted.

At sunset, the sky was getting late, and a thin figure appeared on the road leading to Tongxian, gradually, getting closer and closer, and the figure gradually became clear. Behind the woman was pulling a raft made of branches, on which lay an unconscious man, and the woman was so thin that she had to stop after almost seven or eight steps.

The woman glanced at the man behind her, wiped her sweat again, and saw that she was about to reach a ruined temple. The woman finally smiled, and soon it was dark, and there was a place to shelter from the rain and make a fire to boil water.

Half an hour later, the woman opened the broken temple, and was stunned, there were already several people inside.

A middle-aged Taoist girl on the right sat cross-legged, closed her eyes and recuperated, with a fire in front of her that was about to be extinguished. A handful of dust in his hand, not moving.

Seven or eight big men on the left side are also building a fire to keep warm, and there are some dry food and spirits around them. There is also a vicious-looking mother-in-law inside, who coughs lightly every once in a while.

The woman didn't speak, and laboriously carried the unconscious man into the temple, trying to make a fire in front of her, but the fire fold around her had long been lost, and the woman looked at the three waves of strangers around her. After hesitating, the woman walked towards the middle-aged Dao Gu on the right.

"Dao Chief, is it okay to borrow your fire?" Dao Gu didn't move, as if she was asleep. The woman waited for a while, and then said, "Dao Chief, my fire fold is gone, can I borrow your fire to make a fire?"

There was a slight snoring sound from Daogu, and the woman knew that Daogu should really be asleep.

The woman walked to the vicious mother-in-law again, "Mother-in-law, can you borrow your fire and use it?"

The vicious mother-in-law slapped the woman, and the woman closed her eyes in fright. Who knew that after waiting for a while, and without waiting for her mother-in-law's palm, the woman opened her eyes.

The vicious mother-in-law looked at her in surprise, and then her withered hands grasped the woman's arm tightly.

"Good blood, good qualifications, little girl, come with me, how about I accept you as a disciple?"

"Thank you, thank you mother-in-law for your kindness, but I can't practice martial arts!" the woman was scared and stuttered a little.

"It's okay, mother-in-law, my martial arts are different from ordinary people, you can rest assured. ”

"But I have to take care of Brother Jian!" Seeing her mother-in-law's fierce face, the woman did not dare to refuse directly, nor did she dare to go with her.

"You're going to take care of this offspring? He's dying, what are you doing with him? Come with me. After that, the mother-in-law grabbed the woman's hand and tapped her acupuncture points, and the woman suddenly couldn't move.

"Hey, old woman, why are you like this, the little girl doesn't want to follow you, how can you be so strong, let people go quickly!" shouted a big man on the other side.

"You also have to take care of my mother-in-law's affairs, and you're getting impatient!" said the vicious mother-in-law.

"How is it possible, the old woman of Bamboo Island died twenty years ago!"

"That's it, Scholar Kong Rong personally took action, and there is absolutely no reason to miss, who are you?" asked another big man.

"Hmph, how can that old guy who is full of benevolence and righteousness be able to kill me, sooner or later he will destroy his academy!" Granny Zhu said hatefully, after speaking, Granny Zhu stopped talking nonsense, and slapped out, and then the two big men who were two feet away vomited blood at the same time and flew out.

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, please, save Brother Jian, if you can save him, I am willing to follow my mother-in-law!" the woman begged.

"It's just a dead man, it's not worth saving!" After speaking, the mother-in-law slapped the unconscious man. This mother-in-law's martial arts are extremely high, even if Brother Jian is victorious, he is afraid that he will not be able to catch this palm, not to mention that Brother Jian is still in a coma. The woman's face changed greatly, tears fell like rain in an instant, and she fainted under the influence of her heart.