Chapter 4: True Purpose
Shuanghe County is in a strange calm at this time, it is the most remote and poorest county in Hengzhou, there has been no immortal official stationed for a long time, almost forgotten, not only Qingzhou, even Hengzhou has many people feel that its existence is unnecessary, this year it suffered huge losses in the war with the Yi people, half of the more than 100 villages under it were swept away in this terrible invasion, and even the high walls of the county town were pierced.
Normally, after such a disaster, powerful people from all sides who want to take advantage of the chaos to expand their strength and wealth will jump on the stage and toss around, but this time, the fairy officials who showed their prominence at the time of the catastrophe would never allow them to do so. Probably because she had some undignified comments about these "decent local people" during her visit to Hua Lin, she drove the most decent families in Shuanghe County to be like the farmers in Jiming Village—that is, she apportioned to each of them a sum of "donations and security expenses" that greatly exceeded their usual taxes and was greatly less than their tax payable. After getting all these things, she used the money and materials to the places that the big families originally wanted to use, such as repairing the wall and subsidizing the disaster victims—after such a change, she smeared the popularity that the big families originally wanted to win onto herself.
Such a rampant expropriation is supposed to provoke a wave of resistance in Shuanghe, but since Zhang Qiuguan's head hangs high in danger, this undercurrent that was unruly when she has not yet arrived in Shuanghe is frighteningly calm at the moment, not to mention the usual prevarication and delay, even all kinds of non-trivial thoughts about her in private have disappeared, and everyone really treats her as a fairy official rather than a brainless beauty doll when facing her.
They truly saw the power of the Immortal Officer.
When the three elders of the Xiao family arrived, they used immortal magic to repair the city wall, and these pretentious big families didn't even dare to cough, and the rumors from the yamen said that the Xiao family was about to divide Shuanghe into an enclave in order to completely sweep away the Yiren forces, and the female fairy official and the three elders were only the first batch of pioneers, and there would be more heavyweight immortal figures leading the army here, and when the big families saw that countless elephant legs were about to sweep the sky of Shuanghe County, the only reaction they had time to make was to lie on the ground, and the female fairy official wanted to give something。
The rumors released by the three elders about Xiao Ruyun are indispensable, if these things happen on Qiyun Peak, more than one of them will stand up and reprimand Xiao Ruyun, but this is the Shuanghe where mortals live, and this matter of misleading some mortals who are dying in the twilight of life can be used in the eyes of these immortals to use their universal method of treating mortals to "deal with my bird matter" Come and deal with it, besides, this is where Xiao Ruyun is responsible, everything should be in her charge, what they have to do is to repair the city wall as soon as possible, and then return to Qiyun Peak, not to mention whether Shuanghe mortals will feel that they have been deceived, and it is none of their business if Shuanghe will boom next.
When they discovered that the city wall in Shuanghe County was another mystery, and the construction was not as simple as they thought, these elders who wanted to repair the city wall and return to Qiyun Peak had no time to care about Xiao Ruyun's government affairs.
As a result, the reorganization of Shuanghe County has been carried out with unprecedented efficiency.
When Hua Lin came to Shuanghe County, he saw a new atmosphere, Xiao Ruyun had repaired the wharf, and even made up for some of the damaged parts in the past, and there were two new cargo ships staying on the wharf. Some people may wonder why the lower reaches of the river have been frozen, and there are still cargo ships at the wharf of Shuanghe? This is because the pace of commerce and trade at that time, especially in Shuanghe, a remote county, was far from being comparable to that of Qingzhou Prefecture. Why didn't the ship unload the cargo and go directly to another merchant's cargo? Because the merchant ship that runs the first line of Shuanghe is not once a day, or even once a month, a businessman may only go once in half a year, and spend more than a month buying and selling goods in Shuanghe, if you sail to Shuanghe every day, there will not be so much cargo to be delivered, so you might as well slow down, anyway, you won't delay anything, right?
"She's done a really good job," Hua Lin stared at for a while, and praised, "A layman is better than a hundred old officials here who claim to have accumulated years but don't put their minds on business." ”
"Yes, but it's an old official," Xiao Qianqiu said, "She can't give you any guidance in cultivation, let alone resources." ”
"Practices and Resources...... Is that much you can think of?"
"The life of a mortal is like the morning dew, and although a monk who cannot achieve true immortality is longer than a mortal, it is only longer. Xiao Qianqiu's words are very clear, in his years as a true immortal, I don't know how many mortals and monks have witnessed the joys and sorrows of monks, Xiao Xinglong and Yu Pendant didn't really love each other at the beginning, and their love was stronger than gold, but what was the result?
Xiao Xinglong's father didn't ask about his son's whereabouts after leaving the customs, others couldn't see through it, but in Xiao Qianqiu's opinion, it couldn't be more natural, because there was no need to ask, he had been in retreat for a hundred years, if his son became a true immortal, the two would naturally see each other, if he didn't become a true immortal, he would die sooner or later, what was the difference with him?
Only after a long time can we talk about other things, and the true immortals who have seen thousands of years of change know this truth. can't last long, such as Xiao Ruge, who has exhausted his calculations and thinks he has a plan, in the eyes of many true immortals, he is already a dead person.
Now Xiao Qianqiu looks at Hua Lin and Xiao Ruyun, they are also average, good or not, they must both become true immortals before they can talk about it again, otherwise, someone will care if the sea dry stone sworn by a pair of crickets who can't withstand frost and snow is true or false? It's almost the same as a joke to people.
Hua Lin's answer was not in this direction at all: "I came here neither for cultivation nor for resources, but to witness one thing, and now I have witnessed it." ”
"What?"
"There is still a possibility for the world to be saved. ”
“?”
"Now I'm going to go and verify it further. After Hua Lin finished speaking, he turned around, turned his back to Shuanghe County, and walked farther and farther, straight to the foothills in the distance, and walked deeper into the mountains.
"Hey, aren't you going to see her?" Even Xiao Qianqiu could only ask such a sentence for a while.
"If I had said that from the beginning, would you have followed me obediently, without being mischievous halfway?"
“......”