"Let's finish eating. ”

The gentle woman looked at the very obedient girl and said softly.

The girl immediately began to eat a bowl about the size of her face.

The gentle woman laughed with emotion.

She didn't expect that Gu Liren had spent countless years looking for a suitable disciple, and in the end she couldn't, and even asked Yu Zuochi to participate in the Mirror Pool Sword Meeting, but Gu Liren himself found a satisfactory disciple in the border city.

As for himself, he has been adrift for most of his life, and he never thought that when he was hidden in Changling, he would meet such an amazingly talented girl in such ordinary streets and alleys.

"You are born to feel the qi of my sect, and his achievements will definitely far surpass mine, but unfortunately he is also a woman. ”

She looked at the girl and sighed.

The girl was almost finished, she had food in her mouth, her eyes lifted from the rice bowl, she didn't understand the words, but she thought the woman was amiable, and she couldn't help laughing.

The gentle woman reached out and flicked the rice sticking to her cheek.

There is actually no difference between a man and a woman, practicing and fighting, but this woman knows that women are easily trapped by love. For ordinary women, the world they see is limited to a corner, but the more powerful the woman, the more she will see, and the more wonderful men she will meet.

Her master is also a woman, and her life is unfortunate, as for her, she can't get it if she wants to live a dull life, so she thought that even if she wants to accept an apprentice, I'm afraid she will choose a male apprentice, but the appearance of this girl at the moment may be the will of God.

However, Gu Liren's disciple has also arrived in Changling, and he has won two sword competitions in a row before.

Thinking of this, her outstretched fingers condensed slightly in the air, and she hesitated whether she wanted to go and see this disciple of Gu Liren.

She was pondering, but the girl cried out excitedly.

People walk by from time to time outside this courtyard, in fact, even if someone sees this gentle woman at this time, they can't see how abnormal, but in the eyes of this girl, when this gentle woman is hanging her head and contemplating, her fingertips are several black flowers that are constantly growing and dying, which is very beautiful.

.......

"Changling is very large, and counting the resident merchants in the countryside over the years, I am afraid that there are more than 800,000 people. ”

An old man stood in front of the window, stood with his hands in his hands, and asked Gongsun Qianxue slowly, "In the past five years, the urban area has expanded again and again, you see that the previous piece is called the Black Water Pond, because of the low-lying terrain, many dirty water in the ditch are washed over there, and in another month, the weather is getting hotter, and the air over there will be filthy and unspeakable, but even so, it has gradually become a street and alley." Why do you think the city is a place like the Black Pond, which was previously disliked and avoided by people, but now it is a lively place?"

This old man was just wearing ordinary cloth clothes, but between his words, there was an indescribable bearing, even if he was just talking to Gongsun Qianxue now, it felt like facing a lecture hall of tens of thousands of people.

Of course, Gongsun Qianxue understood the true identity of this old man, so even she didn't dare to make a mistake, and said honestly: "Teacher, you seem to be asking a few questions, do you want to ask why the city is expanding again and again, or why are there people living in these places?"

The old man was quite stern, turned his head to look at her, and said in a slightly cold voice: "It's all a problem." ”

Of course, this kind of teaching is not what Gongsun Qianxue likes, but she knows very well that this old man is old-fashioned, and if she can't give an answer that he is satisfied with, I'm afraid she will have to spend it here all the time.

So she frowned and said: "The urban area has expanded again and again, naturally because there are many people who come, there are many people who come, and the land is not convenient enough to live. ”

"If you're a student from another county, that's fine. The old man smiled coldly, "You are from the Gongsun family, even if I pull a gatekeeper from the Gongsun family to ask, it is not only your eyes." ”

Gongsun Qianxue's face was a little hot, so she thought about it a little seriously and said, " I heard that whether it is Chu or Zhaodu, entering the city needs to be carefully inspected, not only the goods must be carefully inspected, but also the personnel should be carefully interrogated, especially the merchants of other counties or foreign dynasties, that is, what kind of business do they do in the capital, how long they stay, and what their whereabouts are, but our Changling is not so strict, only the cultivators will be noticed, and the merchants who come and go, even if they buy fields and build houses here, are very convenient. ”

Hearing her say this, the old man's face softened slightly, but he still couldn't help but snort heavily, "Just need to be serious, you will naturally be able to think about the pass, but if you don't blame, you will mess around." ”

Gongsun Qianxue lowered her head and stuck out her tongue, but she didn't dare to say a word.

"But it's still too shallow, the key you see is convenience, it is true that the population of Changling is so expanded, the main reason is that trade is extremely convenient, far more than the rest of the dynasties, but what is the essence?"

The old man's gaze fell on the streets and alleys of different heights and heights in the distance, which seemed extremely chaotic, and said sarcastically: "Yu Shengshang's deliberately lax decree, even some borderless places, do not investigate the construction of their own houses, and for foreign business travel, the control is also deliberately not strict, so that many businesses that cannot be done outside have moved to Changling, and now some horse thieves on the border of the enemy country sell stolen goods, and there are fixed dens in Changling." Some sinners and exiles are also hidden in Changling, so Changling is three religions and nine streams, and there are so many people of all colors that it is beyond imagination. ”

"Deliberately loose decrees, this naturally has a cleverness, but for more than ten years, Changling has been the center of trade in the world, rich in wealth, but now there are many disadvantages, the disadvantage is that the miasma of black smoke, enemy forces are numerous, and conspiracies are naturally everywhere. ”

The old man paused slightly, but he became serious, and said: "The most important thing is that there are many outsiders, and all kinds of ideas and styles are different, which makes many Changling people forget that they are Qin. If the saint is young and strong, and the energy is vigorous, he will naturally converge one by one and slowly rectify it, but now that the saint is seriously ill and has been unable to restrain it for several years, it is not easy to clean up this chaos now. ”

"If the saint returns to heaven and the new emperor ascends the throne, there will be great changes in Changling immediately. This may not have much to do with ordinary people, but your grandson's family is probably the first to bear the brunt. ”

The old man looked at her seriously and said, "These truths, the children and nephews of other families can not understand, but you have to understand." You can not argue, but you can't not be ignorant and taken advantage of. ”