Sioux City, Seven Mile Street.

A hundred years and a thousand years is the time that can only be measured by several generations or even dozens of generations combined, and falling on this ancient street may be a few degrees of prosperity and a few degrees of decline.

Returning here after more than three years, there is a huge gap in experience, identity and strength, but Zhou Ran is still Zhou Ran.

When he returned to the ancient street, Zhou Ran's first sight was not Jin Guichun, but the innermost coffin shop.

has lived next to the coffin shop for more than three years, and Zhou Ran has never felt that there is anything special in that place. But today, when he stepped into Qili Ancient Street, he felt a sense of depression that he couldn't speak.

It was as if behind the closed door of the coffin, a pair of deep eyes were watching him.

This coffin shop with an unknown number of owners is said to have existed before the appearance of Qili Ancient Street, and there are similar coffin shops in many thousand-year-old cities. On weekdays, there is hardly anything special to see, and in troubled times, someone will come out of these coffin shops with a long tradition to collect the corpses.

Life and death are no trivial matter, but life and death are also ordinary things.

For thousands of years, the coffin shop with a small face may have collected more corpses than this ancient street has welcomed tourists.

Kun Yu saw that Zhou Ran suddenly stopped and did not move for a long time, so he followed Zhou Ran's line of sight. But he didn't feel anything except seeing the few tourists on the street, so he called Zhou Ran in a low voice: "Brother Ran!"

Brother Ran, this is Star-Lord and Kunyu's new name for Zhou Ran.

Star-Lord was looking at this ancient street curiously, and when he heard Kunyu's voice, he immediately looked back at Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran retracted his gaze, and the corner of his eye swept over the snowball on Star-Lord's shoulder, seeing that this beast emperor did not have any abnormal reaction, but he was very sure that this was definitely not his illusion.

"It's fine. ”

Zhou Ran put away the doubts and vigilance in his heart for the time being, and said with a smile to the two people around him: "Let's go." ”

Today's Jin Guichun is more lively than when Zhou Ran left, but it still looks very deserted compared to the surrounding shops.

Zhao Yuanhui was flipping through the account book behind the counter, and when he looked up and saw Zhou Ran coming in the door, he was overjoyed.

I saw Zhao Yuanhui walking quickly to the door, and regardless of the fact that there was still a table of guests sitting in the tavern, he saluted directly: "Instructor!"

Zhao Yuanhui three years ago felt like a poisonous snake, no matter how well it was hidden, the cold buried deep in his heart would be revealed from his eyes from time to time. I don't know if it's because the decline of the Zhao family has made him let go of the hatred in his heart, or because the three years of experience have made him more able to hide, and now he actually gives people a very comfortable feeling.

Zhou Ran stared at Zhao Yuanhui's eyes, and Zhao Yuanhui met Zhou Ran's eyes without the slightest fear and evasion.

After looking at each other for a moment, Zhou Ran smiled and said to Zhao Yuanhui: "You are very good!"

This should be the first time he said these three words to Zhao Yuanhui.

Hearing these three words, Zhao Yuanhui was excited.

Regardless of whether the Zhao family has declined or not, they are not qualified to know what happened in the imperial capital during this time. And although Zhao Yuanhui, who runs the old tavern with his heart, also has some ways, he doesn't know that Zhou Ran is not only the chief instructor of the Blood Army, but also the third director of the Ministry of Supervision. Even though he is still a general, he is actually at the same level as the nine generalissimos. But the reason why he was so excited was simply because these three words were said by Zhou Ran and had nothing to do with Zhou Ran's identity.

Letting go of the obsession in his heart does not necessarily mean that his heart has changed dramatically, but Zhao Yuanhui is indeed learning to change.

Everyone is changing, for better or for worse.

The guests at the table looked over a few times when they heard the commotion, but they just smiled and turned back and continued to drink and laugh.

Today, when the top level is vigorously promoting the plan for all people to be soldiers, physical training halls for elementary school students, middle school students, high school students, and even major military academy students have sprung up one after another.

The top brass and the military encouraged this, and even set up a special department called the Physical Fitness Committee, and it was extremely high-level, and it was directly commanded by one of the nine super senior officials. The military also sent two generals to serve as deputies of the Physical Fitness Committee, one of whom was Ye Baiyan, the former minister of supervision and now director of the supervision department.

Zhou Ran is now sitting in the position of the head of the Ministry of Supervision, even if he doesn't plan to take care of anything, but he is still Ye Baiyan's top boss in the end, if there is a major matter on the side of the Physical Fitness Commission, Ye Baiyan will come to him to sign.

The physical fitness committee, which has great power, has a very clear hierarchy of physical training halls in major cities, and has the ability to supervise.

For these physical training gyms, the attitude of the top level is extremely clear, and it must be vigorously supervised while being strongly encouraged.

The higher-ups can allow the gym to make huge profits, but it will never allow the existence of a gym that misleads people's children. Once such a thing is discovered, not only the person in charge of the gym and the person in charge of the city's physical fitness bureau will be directly sentenced to death, but it is said that even their families will be thoroughly investigated.

It is a matter of the plan for all the people to become soldiers, and even more so to the future fortunes of the country, and there is no room for negotiation in this matter.

In addition, although the Physical Fitness Committee did not make it clear, it strongly encouraged the major physical fitness centers to recruit retired soldiers as physical fitness center instructors, and the tax department will also reduce taxes according to how many retired soldiers there are in the physical fitness center.

But where is it so easy for retired soldiers to grab now?

When the Physical Fitness Committee was still being formed, the military took the lead in announcing the lifelong system for military personnel.

That is to say, if you are lucky enough to be favored by a certain legion, you will be a member of the military for the rest of your life.

Although different classes have different rigid rules for age and physical strength, even if they are over age or have to retire because they do not reach the strength level, the treatment and level they enjoy will not change. Regardless of whether or not he has done other work in the future, as long as he is alive, the military will always have a good salary. In addition to ensuring a salary that can ensure that ordinary people have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, those who have retired from the military are also the targets of competition from the Ministry of Supervision, the National Security Department, the Police Department, and some other powerful departments.

Behind these departments, there are also major consortia and major forces from all sides.

None of the major legions now are progressive, and they don't even think about it if they don't have enough strength. The reason why those people pushed out of the legion are so sought-after is also related to the fact that the legion is too tightly stuck.

When you go in, you are talented, and how can you be a waste if you roll around in the legion?

Fortunately, the top brass suppressed it from above, ensuring that at least one-third of the retired soldiers who retired each year joined the gym. If it weren't for this, the elementary gymnasiums for elementary school students and the intermediate gyms open to middle school students would not survive. However, the high-level physical fitness hall for high school students and the top physical fitness hall specializing in major military academy students do not need to bother with this, because the military academy extreme physical fitness hall will be permanently stationed by major military schools, and the corps-level physical fitness hall is even set up by each legion.

After all, military schools need students, and legions need powerful newcomers.

If you want to recruit people with good qualifications and talents, you must lay out in advance.

Sioux City can not be compared with the neighboring magic capital, but it is also a big city in Sioux Province second only to the provincial capital Jinshi, and there are countless large and small physical fitness halls in the city, because it is really impossible to recruit retired soldiers, without violating the rules of the Physical Fitness Committee, many primary physical fitness halls and intermediate physical fitness halls simply directly hire military academy students as instructors.

Not only Sioux City, but almost any city can see young people being called as instructors, and many people have long been accustomed to it.

The guests at this table in the old tavern are all ordinary people, and they are also new guests in the past two years, and they don't know Zhou Ran, so they subconsciously think that Zhou Ran is a student of a military academy. As for the older Zhao Yuanhui saluting Zhou Ran and calling him an instructor, in their eyes, it was more like a little joke between young people, and no one took it to heart.

Ding Sanjin, who was Jin Guichun's partner, smiled shyly when he saw Zhou Ran, turned around and went to clean up the tables and chairs.

Since Dongmen Chuxue handed over the cloud-swallowing bag to him and told him that it was Zhou Ran's explanation, this kid who looked thin and weak and had no sense of existence had changed his attitude towards Zhou Ran a lot. But his life was saved by Shang Qingluo after all, if Shang Qingluo hated Zhou Ran and asked him to kill Zhou Ran, he would not hesitate, nor would he show mercy.

But after killing Zhou, he would personally bury the person.

Of course, the premise is that he has that strength.

Ding Sanjin can be a cleaning man, but Shang Qingluo, who is the heir of Tianwu Peak, can't do it. After he came to the old tavern, he went directly to the second floor, but the next day he was thrown down by the neck of Tsing Yi, who was driven back.

The appearance of a Fan Kui is already scary enough, and now there is a little girl who seems to be on par with Fan Kui, God knows how shocked Shang Qingluo's heart is. The second floor is not allowed to stay, and the backyard where Tsing Yi is located cannot be entered casually, and Shang Qingluo can only sleep in a room with Zhao Yuanhui at night, otherwise he can only work with Ding Sanjin in the lobby of the old tavern.

During the day, Shang Qingluo either sat at the table by the window of the tavern in a daze, or went around Qili Ancient Street, and he hadn't gone too far yet, because he had always been jealous of this world.

Before he had been outside for long today, Shang Qingluo fled back in embarrassment.

No way, who made him grow a face that attracts bees and butterflies?

Before he figured out the rules here, Shang Qingluo didn't dare to kill those bees and butterflies, so he could only choose to escape every time.

Just stepped into an old tavern where there were no guests, Shang Qingluo saw the girl who made him chill come out of the backyard, and respectfully greeted Zhou Ran, and said with a little awe: "Young master!"

Shang Qingluo was already annoyed by a group of brainless women, but now that he saw this scene, he was in a worse mood, he really wanted to run over and ask Zhou Ran loudly who he was, and what the hell was this place.

But he didn't dare!

Even if Tsing Yi's attention was not on him, Shang Qingluo didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary.

From the first time she saw Tsing Yi, Shang Qingluo was afraid of her.

That kind of fear, almost deep in the soul.

Zhou Ran knew that Shang Qing had fallen, but he still looked at Tsing Yi who was half-squatting and saluting him.

From the moment Ding Shizhu thought that he was fused with his body, as long as Zhou Ran was willing, he could peek into all the inner thoughts of these five people at any time, and it was even possible to know what the relationship between Ding Shizhu and his parents was.

So far, Zhou Ran has never done this.

It's hard to do something, and it's even harder not to do something.

But this is the bottom line of his life.

Now Qingyang is sleeping, Chengqi and Chiyu have disappeared, only Fan Kui of Dingjun Mountain and Tsing Yi in front of him.

Zhou Ran can use Fankui with confidence, and he has never regarded him as a servant. But for this girl who had been with him for a long time, Zhou Ran didn't relax at all, and didn't even dare to make her feel that he had never thought of killing her.

Because Tsing Yi, who looks as weak as a weeping willow by the river, is a madman, a madman born to kill!

There is only one way for Zhou Ran to suppress this madman, and that is to make her afraid.

Always afraid!