Chapter 19: Omen

"Huh!" Xiao Ruyun cut off the head of a pure black rooster with a blank face, and then threw it casually, the chicken had no head and ran around on the ground, blood spilled on the ground. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She closed her eyes for a long time before she opened them.

Unsurprisingly, her sacrifice still failed this time, exactly the same as the previous four times.

This is the reason why she has not returned to the county government for a long time, the four mountains of Shuanghe County have not responded to her prayers, how can she be a county official? Mortals can be county officials, as long as they put incense in the city, no one expects them to be able to defend the land, but she is an immortal official, and only by bringing the four mountains under control can she be said to be truly inaugurated, Shuanghe County has not had an immortal official for too long, and the forgetful and short-lived mortals have long forgotten these rules, and no one has noticed her strangeness in this regard, but this ignorance and ignorance are not entirely beneficial to her.

She still remembers the "welcome" she received on the dock on the day she arrived.

The rules of the fairy family are different from mortals, it is extremely normal for the brothers and sisters of the Xiao family to play together, no one will blush because they show their arms and legs, there is no difference between her eyes and sisters, she knows that some of them may become her future husband, that's all, she doesn't think of anything bad, she chooses clothes only to see comfort and fit. But that day, when she was on the dock, wearing a full set of official robes, she encountered so many undisguised eyes that she had never encountered in her life.

They looked at her like a piece of fresh meat thrown into a pack of wolves.

Xiao Ruyun's lack of experience in living among mortals does not mean that she is a fool, she refuses the "maids" sent by the officials - she remembers how Xiao Rushi had fallen into bad luck by accepting the maids, and finally, after they had wasted a lot of her time, she took the two youngest of them and ordered them to only stay at the door.

She didn't need them to serve and dress, nor did she need them to sweep the courtyard, these things she could use as a kind of practice, and more importantly, she didn't want to do bad things because of them.

The officials were false and wronged with her, why didn't she be false with them.

There are not many people she is willing to order, Tian Sanhu is one of them, on the dock, he is one of the few people who has a restrained gaze, which is enough to prove his intelligence and prudence. The person who introduced her told her that the Three Tigers were famous in the county because of their "ability to fight", and she didn't care about it at all, just a mortal, "being able to fight" was nothing in front of the immortal family!

What she likes about Zhongtian Sanhu is that he has no heels and is diligent, so when she found signs of thunderstorming, he was also one of the few people she brought with her, and when she knew that he was a local of Jiming Village, Xiao Ruyun handed over the restoration of Jiming Village and other matters to him. Others, she is laissez-faire, which seems incredible to the people below, but for Xiao Ruyun, it is necessary to sharpen the knife before chopping wood.

Two hundred years ago, when Shuanghe County was founded, it was actually its heyday, according to the records she read in the county office, Shuanghe County had a population of 60,000 at its peak, but now only one-third is left, and the decaying city is not only the north gate, the entire county is full of empty temples and residences that have become fox dwellings, and because of the long (as opposed to mortal) peace, the county town guard system has almost deteriorated. It is true that there are some soldiers in the city and in the country, but their duty today is not to guard, but to collect taxes and collect benefits (for themselves). Curfews seem to still exist, only because commerce is not thriving enough to open at night. The county officials barely maintained the last order, and the big families hired bodyguards.

Some of these situations come from reports, and some come from what she saw with her own eyes, among all the problems, the poor law and order is the easiest to show in front of the government, because large families will also suffer from it, and other private fraud and other activities are hidden deeper, of course, Xiao Ruyun knows that there will not be only one dead leaf on a tree. She had no experience in how to govern cities, but she grew up in Qingzhou, which was a model for that.

But to rule at a minimum, she must first take office.

However, her inauguration failed.

"What went wrong?" Xiao Ruyun fell into deep thought, there should be no problem with her spells and gestures, the local river also responded to her call, her sacrifice was chosen perfectly, the last time was even chosen by her in person in the village, why didn't Sishan respond to her?