Strengthening starts from the county magistrate

Chapter 32: Unlit fire at night in Fengjiang! (four thousand chapters)
Early in the morning.

Li Tieniu came to report.

He was the only catcher, and he didn't really need to touch it. Cao Zhengxiang searched the warehouse for a long time but couldn't find a sound catcher's clothes.

In the end, he was only given a waist badge and a rusty catcher's long knife, which is considered to be an official post.

I thought that the next job would be guarding and patrolling, but in the end there was none, but I ate the second breakfast together in the small courtyard.

Shen Mu burped: "Old Cao, you take Tieniu to check your household registration. I can pay someone to clean the ancestral hall."

Cao Zhengxiang put down the rice porridge in his hand, and took out a money bag from his cuff: "My lord, there is one hundred coins in it, and I have two people to clean it, not more than twenty, so don't be fooled."

Shen Mu smiled, he finally needed pocket money, when Li Tieniu was reaching for it, Li Tieniu suddenly said: "That ruined ancestral hall in the north of the city?"

"you know?"

Li Tieniu shook his head: "I saw it when I was carrying firewood for the people in Fuye Lane over there. I don't know the details. I heard that it has been abandoned long ago?"

"It's too broken, it will easily affect the appearance of the county, so clean it up." Shen Mu explained.

Li Tieniu's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "My lord, why don't you give this cleaning job to my wife, it only costs fifteen yuan!"

"Uh, okay..."

After breakfast.

Cao Zhengxiang took Li Tieniu out of the government office.

Along the way, Li Tieniu couldn't help but rejoice. Whether he should say it or not, he was a good catcher. On the first day he was on duty, he made fifteen cash, which is not such a cheap thing outside.

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autumn.

The weather in Fengjiang is much cooler.

At some point, Song Yizhi sat in the gazebo again, still with clean and simple hair and a beautiful side profile.

If it weren't for that red armor, maybe the autumn wind would be able to blow a ripple on the hem of the skirt, and it would be a scene of sinking fish and wild goose.

Shen Mu thought for a while, then stepped forward and asked.

"Miss Song, don't you want to polish today?"

Song Yizhi sat on the stone bench in a daze, he came to his senses when he heard the words, glanced at Shenmu, and answered the wrong question: "Has the Luding Qi Mansion been stabilized?"

"Yes, it has basically stabilized, and the next step is to open up new Qifu acupoints, but there is no suitable exercise yet."

Song Yizhi nodded: "The speed is not bad, but my experience is that you'd better slow down in the furnace environment, and then try to open as many Qi Palaces as possible, as long as you can delay."

"Procrastinate? Is there any explanation? Liu Changfeng said before that it is only necessary to open the Qi Palace required for majoring in exercises." Shen Mu looked puzzled, the two of them said something different.

Song Yizhi blinked, her clear and beautiful eyes were like the color of yellow leaves in autumn, she explained: "What he said is right, but on the side of Middle-earth Shenzhou, almost everyone started to contact him after entering the room. Cultivation method, and before that, the only task was to open up the Qi Palace in the casting furnace."

Shen Mu thought for a while: "However, if there is no guidance from the exercises, we don't even know where those Qifu acupoints are exactly? Then how to open them?"

"So, you only need to look at the location of the qi palaces of those exercises, instead of actually practicing the exercises, and that's fine."

After Song Yizhi finished speaking, Shen Mu suddenly realized that what he said seemed to make sense, but the question is, what is the purpose of opening so many Qifu acupoints?
Seemingly seeing Shen Mu's thoughts, Song Yizhi continued: "Qifu's acupuncture points are mainly for absorbing vitality and practicing exercises, but in many places there are too few upper martial arts, and there are even no existences beyond the upper martial arts, so there is no No one knows what the most fundamental purpose of the Qi Palace is."

Shen Mu was confused when he heard it, but he still asked: "What is it for?"

"The real purpose of Kaiqi Fuqiao Point is to build a longevity ladder that can go up to the tenth floor, that is, the tenth level, or even higher."

"Isn't the Ascension Realm the end?" Shen Mu asked in a daze.

"No, the Ladder of Eternal Life can build the tenth step. It's just that many Ascension Realm overhaulers want to go up, and the ladder will be unstable. Some people just glanced at it and then fell down again. The worse ones may fall to the bottom of the ladder. It is possible in the middle martial arts realm."

Shen Mu showed surprise, but that was all, these things were too far away for him, he actually wanted to know another thing more.

"Ahem, Miss Song, are you a sword cultivator?"

Song Yizhi raised his eyebrows: "Yes."

"Then look, can I be a swordsman? I'm talking about a real swordsman, that is, the kind of swordsman who has a natal flying sword."

Song Yizhi's eyes were startled when he heard this, and then he looked at Shen Mu.

a long time.

"Everyone can practice swordsmanship, and the way of swordsmanship can be comprehended casually, but the natal flying sword needs talent, and it must be the constitution of the innate sword embryo, otherwise the natal sword cannot be conceived."

Shen Mu looked expectantly: "Then...then I am?"

Song Yizhi's eyes were indifferent, but he was very helpless in his heart. Could it be that his words were too euphemistic and not obvious enough?Explaining so much, I just want to tell you, aren't you?

"Actually, most sword cultivators are not innate sword embryos, but they can still have the demeanor of sword cultivators. No one stipulates that innate sword embryos must be stronger than others."

Shen Mu was stunned for a moment, then he finally understood something, he sighed: "So, am I right?"

Song Yizhi opened his mouth slightly to comfort him, but he still didn't say anything, she was afraid that after saying this, he would hit Shen Mu even more.

Because in that battlefield where sword cultivators are everywhere, innate sword embryos are only valued at the child stage. In front of the real strong, the most worthless thing is talent.

while thinking.

Song Yizhi pulled out the slender narrow knife from his waist for the first time. There was a string of antique copper bells on the handle of the knife, but it never rang.

If someone saw it on that battlefield, they would definitely sigh.

Because there was once a swordsman who liked to use knives, which was very impressive.

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The head of the east of the city.

A young man in a gray Taoist robe was confronting a slovenly man, and something unpleasant seemed to have happened.

Looking carefully, it was actually the two who bet in the restaurant on the day Shen Mu beheaded the murderer.

The unshaven man had a sad expression on his face: "Fuck, I'm really convinced. You people in Qingcheng Mountain are all like this? Can't you afford to lose? Isn't it just winning your drink money? As for chasing after it?"

The Taoist man in Qingcheng Mountain looked disgusted and said angrily: "You fart! I have nothing to say if you won the bet before, but I ask you, why did you deliberately lose to me yesterday? Did you want to frame me?"

The drunk scratched his chest and rubbed the mud ball twice: "I said, is there something wrong with you? Is it wrong for me to lose?"

The people from Qingcheng Mountain sneered: "Hmph, so, you admitted it? You deliberately lost that piece of lightning-proof sacred tree of unknown origin to me. What's your intention?"

The man looked sad: "Hey, hey, people have to speak conscientiously. Do you think I'm willing to give it up? It's priceless. If I don't have money, I can give it to you?"

"Get out! You still want to lie to me! I asked, there is no one like you in Leiyun City! Moreover, a few months ago, a direct descendant of Leiyunshan died outside for no reason, and all the belongings on his body were gone. Now, the only thing missing is this piece of lightning protection tree, don't tell me it's a coincidence, you picked it up on the ground!"

The man's eyelids fluttered: "No, brother, I, I was wronged. To be honest, I was drinking outside that day, and then I accidentally picked it up on the ground. It's a coincidence. You don't suspect that I killed him, do you?" ?”

The man in Qingcheng Mountain had a look of hehe, your uncle, do you still have to doubt it?

The evidence is all in hand, it's not you and me who are flying backwards to eat shit!
"I give you two choices. One is to explain to the people in Thunder Cloud City with me. How they deal with it is up to you and them. The second is to return this thing to you, and you can exchange it for me. .”

The down-and-out man was so angry that he scratched his head and grinned his teeth: "Damn! I'm so poor, I don't have anything else, just a piece of wood, do you want it or not!"

The man in the Taoist robe shook his head: "First, this thing is not yours. Second, it is hot to the touch, and if you put it on your body, you may suffer Lei Yuncheng's revenge."

"What do you want?"

"I don't want the things anymore, return them to you, this matter has nothing to do with me anymore."

While talking, a piece of wood was thrown over.

The man took it and sighed: "Damn, what's the matter if you can't send out the broken thing you picked up? Are you sure you don't want it? Then I have nothing else to give you."

"Hmph, no need, I keep it for myself to buy a bar." The man in the Taoist robe chuckled and disappeared on the spot.

The man curled his lips, and the pitch-black wood flew back and forth in his hands. While playing with it, he muttered: "Oh... pick up a broken thing, and there will be trouble."

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It gets dark fast in autumn.

It was already dark in Fengjiang City before the meal.

Inside the government office, Shen Mu and Song Yizhi were staring at each other in the courtyard.

The atmosphere seemed a little awkward.

Cao Zhengxiang's investigation is rather cumbersome, and she hasn't come back yet, so I'm afraid no one will cook tonight.

In this half month, either Song Yizhi will not be here, but when he is, there is a high probability that he will come over to have a bite. Cao Zhengxiang's craftsmanship is still very attractive.

It's just that they haven't eaten since noon.

Shen Mu squeezed the purse that Lao Cao gave him in the morning, took a deep breath, and broke the silence.

"Hey, Miss Song isn't going out today?"

"Ah."

"Aren't you going to eat dinner then?"

When it comes to dinner, Song Yizhi glanced at the back kitchen indifferently: "Master Cao is not here, if he is, there is something to eat."

"..." Shen Mu looked embarrassed, what do you mean?Are you talking about me?
"Hey, I'm afraid Master Cao will come back late today. I don't have enough time to cook. Why don't we go out to eat today?"

Shen Mu felt very uneasy, after all, it was the first time to ask such a beautiful girl out for dinner, anyway, in his previous life, he never went out alone except for the secretary of the leader.

Of course, Shen Mu didn't have other ideas, he just caught up, but in his opinion, it was unlikely that the other party would go.

"Let's go." Song Yizhi replied crisply.

"Hungry..." Shen Mu was stunned, is it so easy?It's not the same as he thought.

Song Yizhi got up and looked at Shen Mu: "What's wrong?"

Shen Mu came back to his senses, hesitated for a moment and said: "It's better to go out to eat casually. I just think that Miss Song's red armor may be a bit inconvenient. Of course, I'll just say it casually."

Song Yizhi looked down at himself, thought for a while and seemed to think that what Shen Mu said made sense: "Oh, then wait a minute."

After finishing speaking, he went back to the room, and walked out again after a while, and he was already dressed in green long clothes, without the red armor and the long spear, only the narrow knife and long sword at his waist were still there.

Shen Mu's eyes were slightly dull.

This was the first time I saw Song Yizhi without armor. Before, it might be because it was too domineering, so people didn't dare to look directly at it.

now,

Only then did Shen Mu really see Song Yizhi's face that must not be more than twenty years old.

The heroic spirit is still there, and most of the country is full of points.With such an appearance, I am afraid that no matter where he is, he is a thriving talent, and he lives up to his name.

night.

The roadside pavements are still booming, and people in Fengjiang like to chat, with a stack of meat buns and a pot of soup and wine, they can chat until late at night.

Shen Mu takes Song Yizhi out.

I found an out-of-the-way noodle shop, and ordered two servings of noodles, served with a few dishes of pickles, and a pot of unknown tea.

It's really not that Shen Mu is stingy, the main thing is that it is really difficult to find a place that is good and unobtrusive. If it is him, it is fine, but Song Yizhi's appearance is too eye-catching.

Although he is not afraid of being pointed at by others, it is always uncomfortable, which can easily affect the good mood of eating noodles.

Shen Mu took a big mouthful of baldness, pulling the noodles very vigorously, but the soup base might be a bit poor, if it was made by Cao Zhengxiang, it would definitely use the old soup simmered slowly with various seasonings.

Song Yizhi ate a few mouthfuls, but she couldn't tell whether she thought it was delicious or bad. Putting down her chopsticks, she looked out of the darkened window and remained silent.

People in Fengjiang City seldom hang lanterns at night.

I don't know if it's a custom or there are other reasons, anyway, for a long time, I'm used to not lighting the lights at night.

Unless it is those night shops that are open until night, there are still some sparks.

Shen Mu had already finished his bowl, and felt very satisfied. Looking at the noodles that Song Yizhi had only eaten a small part of, he felt a great pity in his heart, if he could eat...cough, forget it.

a long time.

Song Yizhi suddenly said: "I heard that you were notorious before, did you do it on purpose?"

Shen Mu paused for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to speak so far-fetchedly, he thought for a while and replied: "It's purely for self-protection."

"So, do you want to keep the border, or take advantage of the county magistrate's position to get benefits here?"

Shen Mu took a bite of the pickled vegetables, it was a little salty, and felt that the rice porridge with Cao Zhengxiang was just right, he responded casually: "Nonsense, of course it is to keep the border, and the benefits are not as important as the border city."

Song Yizhi raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at him in surprise, as if he was different from what she thought.

"Then what if you can't keep it?"

"If you can't keep it up, don't you still have it now?"

Song Yizhi lowered his head and moved his lips slightly, and a smile appeared, which was amazing.

Shen Mu sighed heartily, and clicked his tongue: "You are like this, you can marry someone in the future, I am afraid that no one will dare to marry you."

As soon as the words were finished, Shen Mu felt bad.

Cold sweat, scalp tingling.

Song Yizhi was also taken aback for a moment, then frowned slightly, her eyes flashed cold and arrogant, she turned her head to look out the window, her voice was indifferent but seemed arrogant: "Hmph, if I want to marry in the future, it must be the most beautiful woman in the world." A powerful man must stand upright and protect the common people in the world."

"..." Shen Mu responded.

Isn't it good to be handsome?This gap is a bit big.

While thinking, Shen Mu also looked out the window boredly.

suddenly!

In the dark night, there was a flame bursting out.

Shen Mu's eyes were fixed...

(End of this chapter)