Chapter 606 Visiting Old Friends

North Sudao

Daxing City

As the Daozhu, the northernmost part of the Yangtze River, the current geographical location of Daxing City is particularly eye-catching. After Pang Ba, a former general of the Great Sui army, raised the banner of the Qing dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, he used Daxing City as the foundation for a long time. When Pang Ba's army crossed the river and headed north, he also took Daxing City as the starting point.

Daxing City has a history of at least five hundred years. As the first important Jiangnan town established by Emperor Taizong of the Great Sui Dynasty after the southern expedition, there has never been a lack of attention. The reason why Li Xiao chose this place as the place to attack Nanchen was because the strategic location here was extremely important.

It is an important hub in Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

The most famous one in Daxing City is Meiyuan.

This is the only stop that emperors of the Sui Dynasty must go to Jiangnan.

As one of the seven famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, five Emperors of the Sui Dynasty have been inhabited by the Emperor, and the status of the Jin family, the owner of Meiyuan, can be imagined. Speaking of which people have forgotten how many years the Jin family has been the master of Daxing City. No matter which dynasty or family ruled the Central Plains, the Jin family has always decided in Daxing City. Even if this is the capital of Xinnan County, there is a county magistrate, and even if this is still in the Daozhu, there is a governor. But no matter which adult is, as long as he is still in Daxing City, he always has to visit Meiyuan first.

Zhou Huaien, the governor of North Sudao, is a frequent visitor to Meiyuan. The people in Daxing City often see the governor's carriage parked outside Meiyuan.

As one of the twenty-four governors of the Great Sui Dynasty and a true rank of the border officials, Zhou Huaien's actions in Daxing City are inseparable from the support of the Jin family. If his decision had any conflict with the Jin family, he would never insist on doing it alone but would do it according to the Jin family's wishes.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Huaien's governor was particularly stable. The Ministry of Personnel of the Sui Dynasty sent people to conduct official inspections every year. The inspectors of the Ministry of Personnel would secretly visit various places and listen to the people's sentiments. Then, based on the political achievements written by local officials in various places, comprehensively assess whether the local officials are qualified.

Among the twenty-four governors, Zhou Huai'en ranked among the top ones in the evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel every year.

Speaking of which, he did not have any outstanding political achievements, but his victory lies in stability. During his tenure, North Sudao has never done anything that has made the court worry. Because it is close to the Yangtze River, there are naturally many floods, but he never reached out to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for a tael of silver to repair the embankment, but he did not miss anything he should do.

So even though he finally chose to stand on the side of the rebels, the local people did not scold him a lot. After all, over the years, Zhou Huai'en has done a lot of things for North Sudao.

Since Meiyuan can be called one of the seven famous gardens in Jiangnan, it is naturally praised. This garden can be called a model work of Jiangnan gardens, and it exudes a sense of beauty everywhere but does not look petty.

Every time Zhou Huaien comes to Meiyuan, he will find different beauty from it.

Sitting in the pavilion beside the Hei Pool, savoring a pot of 1-grade croaker tongue that is worth enough for a middle-class family to spend a year on living, he was a little lost when he looked at the koi in the Hei Pool. The eldest son of the Jin family, who is also the current affairs of the Jin family, looked at him and smiled and said, "What are the worries of the Governor today?"

Kim Se-hoon

If Fang Jie heard this name, he would immediately think of the general Jin Shixiong who is struggling to support in the northwest of the Great Sui Dynasty. In fact, Jin Shixiong did come from the Jin family in Daxingcheng and was Jin Shixiong's third brother.

Kim Se-hyung is already in his fifties, and Kim Se-hoon is the eldest son, and he is already sixty-two.

Unfortunately, he has the final say in this family. He has been waiting for this day for many years, but he has a healthy and long-lived old lady, and an old lady with absolute desire for power. But even so, no one dares to underestimate the old man of the Jin family.

"Does the Third Master come back if there is news?"

Zhou Huai'en asked.

Kim Se-hoon shook his head: "The situation in the third brother in the northwest is very hard. Gao Kaitai and Wang Yiqu control the waterway, and Luo Yao's people are blocking him again. Even if I want to help him, I can't help. Now it depends on whether he can bring the team up by himself. If possible... we won't care so much about Yang Zhi, who has been banned in the northeast for more than ten years, and we won't be able to pick up a Pang Ba."

"If it really doesn't work, let the Third Master come back. The tens of thousands of remaining soldiers in the northwest are not worth his energy. With his ability to lead the troops, he will not worry about not being able to accomplish great things in the future."

"Look at it again, you also know that the third brother's stubborn personality is that he can't even get back what he has decided on."

"By the way"

Zhou Huai'en asked: "Why haven't you seen the old lady for a while?"

"she?"

Jin Shixun shook his head: "I don't know much about cultivation. My mother has given me most of the work over the years and has been in seclusion for almost all of her time. When she came out a few days ago, she was very happy and said that she had improved another level. I don't know much about this, so I didn't ask much. However, the higher my mother's cultivation level, the more stable the status of the Jin family will be in Tonggu Academy. The reason why Dong Qingfu always respects our Jin family is because his mother's cultivation is strong enough."

Zhou Huaien nodded: "The old lady went out to walk around a few years ago. It is said that she taught a lesson to a few younger generations who didn't know how to be tall and strong in Tonggu Academy. We are still not as brave as the courage and courage. According to my speculation, even if the old lady's cultivation is not as good as the legendary Wanxingchen, I am afraid it will not be much worse."

"Ten thousand stars..."

Kim Se-hoon curled his lips: "His era has long passed."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was stunned for a moment.

"Who is that?"

Zhou Huaien looked at him and found that there was a hunchbacked old man walking slowly not far away, carrying a package and a long sword.

"Not from Meiyuan!"

Kim Se-hoon was slightly angry: "Those servants are becoming more and more slack and slack, and they put everyone in the garden!"

He was about to get up and ask someone to drive the old man away, but suddenly he was in a daze. The old man came to him for some reason. Shi Shiran picked up the teapot on the table and took a sip, and then gave a little praise in his eyes. The old man who looked like an old plum tree squinted his eyes and looked at him with a faint look: "Wan Xingchen has never had any era, but it would not be difficult if he wanted to have it."

Kim Se-hoon was stunned for a moment, then furious. He pointed at the old man and was about to instruct his servants to take him down, but suddenly he found that there was something extra in his hand, which was sticky.

He looked down, then screamed in shock and fainted.

A human head fell from his hand to the ground and rolled into the lotus pond with a plop.

"Old...Old Lady..."

Zhou Huai'en fell down in fear. When he looked at it again, the old man was still there, as if he had never appeared before.

At this moment, a three-story wooden building behind Meiyuan suddenly fell halfway, with the broken marks so straight that it was cut into three floors in half as if someone had cut tofu. The old woman's body lost her head in the unfallen half of the building.

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Liuzhou

There is a small yard on the west side of the city, which looks ordinary and is no different from the house next to it. However, the owner of this yard has always been mysterious, and the neighbors have never seen him come out. Every day, the servants at home go out to buy vegetables and rarely talk to neighbors.

The little girl from the neighbor's house was born. The man who had just become a father was overjoyed and wanted to invite the neighbors to drink and knock on the door of the small yard. However, a servant came out to ask what he wanted. After he explained his future intention, the servant turned around and went in. Not long after, he handed him a silver letter and said that the head of the family was unwell. This silver should be used as a gift.

Fifteen years later, on the day the little girl got married, the man with many wrinkles on her face thought for a long time, but finally decided to invite her neighbors. Fifteen years ago, she received so many gifts from others for money, but she didn't even make up for a wedding banquet. It was not that he didn't want to, but that the owner of the family refused. So he knocked on the door again and found that he didn't know when the servant changed his name. After he explained his purpose, the servant went back and soon came back with a silver to say that there was a happy event at home, and my owner of the family was also very happy. This is considered a gift.

Twenty years later, the man died of illness, and his wife asked his son-in-law to help him inform the neighbor. The son-in-law knocked on the door of the neighbor's house. A servant with a strange face asked what he wanted to do. He explained his future intentions. The servant came back and handed him a letter of silver and said, "The head of the family is also very sad for the misfortune in your family. The old neighbor who has been decades has left, and this little silver is the wish of the head of the family."

Ten years later, the woman with gray hair led the family to say goodbye from house to house. After her parents died, she moved in with her husband. Now her son has already started a family and works as a copywriter in the county yamen, intending to take their family to live in the county yamen. She missed her son, so she decided to move away. When she knocked on the door next door, a little Shutong asked what she wanted, and she explained her purpose. The little Shutong went in and came back and handed a heavy purse.

It was only then that she remembered that she had never seen the head of the family that the people next door said from memory. She didn't know what kind of person she was. Now she is old, but the head of the family has never appeared in her sight.

She realized something in a daze, and three words appeared faintly from her mind.

Practitioner

Yes, if she was not a practitioner, how could she have such a strange habit? How could she live like this longevity? So she gave a deep bow at the door, murmured, saying that there was a god living by her side, and then left in awe.

Afterwards, her family was killed halfway through the way to the county seat. If she hadn't murmured, she might have been able to go to the county security to enjoy her old age. Perhaps, her father shouldn't have knocked on the gate of the house from the beginning. She didn't know that the old neighbors nearby had moved away for various reasons and died halfway through. Therefore, the newly moved here didn't know who lived in the small courtyard.

The two little book boys were walking and chatting in a low voice, their voices were very light, and their steps were lighter. Today was the first day they came to the yard to serve the head of the family. The servants before were too old, so they were replaced by them. They were selected from the more than 300 servants of the Chen family in Haining, and they were smart enough. The old man who lived in this yard seemed to like the service of the little book boy with beautiful eyes.

The two of them didn't know what the burly and tall old man was, but they only knew that the head of the Chen family brought them with them last night and explained a lot of things halfway.

A little book boy pushed open the door and lifted the curtains for his companions. The other little book boy walked in with a tray, which was a bowl of rice porridge and a few plates of exquisite side dishes. When they entered, they first leaned over to salute, stood up and were startled.

In the room, there was an old man with a hunchback sitting opposite the owner.

"You have regarded this house as a cave for cicada cultivation. It has been shrinking for seventy or eighty years... But your heart is never there in the cave, so you can't take that step in the end."

The hunchbacked old man reached out to bring the rice porridge on the tray, and then finished drinking the rice porridge with the side dishes.

The tall old man looked at him and asked seriously: "Why are you coming out?"

The hunchbacked old man wiped the sticky rice grains on his beard: "I'm going to die, I'll take a few old friends down to have tea."

The old man Gao was silent for a while and said, "You are really unreasonable. We have not done anything for so many years. We just don't want you to come out, but you finally came out. This rule was set by you at the beginning. People above the Pure Land are not allowed to participate, but you are now breaking this rule."

The hunchbacked old man curled his lips: "I was beaten to you before, so you followed the rules I told. This rule was originally determined by an unreasonable person. Whoever has a hard fist is the reason? In addition... there is one of the three people killed by Zhang Yiyang, and you really shouldn't test me like this."

After saying this, the hunchbacked old man stood up, picked up the package and walked out of the house with an ancient sword. The two little book boys looked at each other, not knowing what happened. After a few seconds, a pair of transparent cicada wings suddenly emerged from behind and flew into the sky. After a few seconds, he fell from the high clouds and smashed two deep pits on the ground.

Finally, he moved into the cave. Unfortunately... he was separated.

The hunchbacked old man continued to walk forward tremblingly with his ancient sword, but disappeared in an instant.

“So tired…”
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