Chapter 262.

“Master, it’s all packed.”

Dressed in a white layered and complicated Luo skirt, with exquisite makeup, Su Su, who was a beautiful woman, delicately said.

Li Miaozhen nodded slightly, opened the incense bag tied on her waist, swirling suction surged out, a dozen or so ghosts in the general tent in ingested.

“What a pity, you still haven’t broken through to the Fourth Grade Realm.” Su Su sighed and said:

“Otherwise, with the level of the Human Sect’s disciples, there would be no match for you.”

“Can a Yuan Ying not be cultivated so easily.” Li Miaozhen sighed helplessly.

She had been stuck in the Jindan Realm for two whole years.

The banditry in Yunzhou has been cleared out, and Li Miaozhen cooperated with the local army in Yunzhou, as well as the two Jin Gongs to attack the mountains and pull down the fortresses, leveling the largest few fortresses, while there are dozens of small mountain fortresses.

Of course, Yunzhou banditry is like a maggot on the bone, multiplying and surviving in this land for hundreds of years, and can’t be eliminated just by saying it can be eliminated.

In a few years, it will die back and take root again.

The results at hand were as far as the local army could go. Yunzhou would be stabilized for some years, and Li Miaozhen was satisfied with the result.

Next, she’s off to do her own thing – a celestial battle!

The Celestial Sect and the Human Sect were to discuss the Dao once every a year, and before that, the outstanding disciples of the younger generation of the two sects were the first to collide, warming up for the Celestial-Renowned Battle.

Li Miaozhen was one of the most outstanding figures in this generation of Heavenly Sect disciples, and the other was Li Miaozhen’s senior brother, also a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, who held a fragment of the Seventh Earthly Book.

But the guy is in the Northeast, whoring himself into oblivion.

“It’s a pity that that obnoxious stinky egg has fallen, or else he could have helped me look into the Su family’s extermination case.” Su Su suddenly said.

Li Miaozhen looked at the charm that accompanied her growing up, her heart moved, in fact, Su Su’s home is not in the capital, that guy, even if he wants to check, it is not possible to leave the capital, a thousand miles to check an old case.

Su Su herself understands this, but she always hangs on to it from time to time, seemingly lamenting the extermination case, but actually lamenting that shameless man.

Therefore, to be too much to forget ah …….. Li Miaozhen let out a sigh of emotion in her heart.

When a friend or family member dies, you can’t help but mourn. Lovers change their hearts, and resentment is mixed ………. The seven passions and six desires in this world are all karmic fires, or else it is said that the depth of love does not last long.

The only thing that will last through the ages is ruthlessness.

Leaving the military tent with Su Su, more than four hundred Fei Yan troops assembled in the square and waited quietly.

Four hundred generals unloaded their armor.

Li Miaozhen slowly swept through the generals, at this time, some of them, some changed into civilian clothes, some wearing rough linen clothes, some dressed like a rich man, some are ragged as a beggar …….. This is their original initial appearance.

Flying Swallow Army is a miscellaneous army, members from all over the world, including the disciples of the Beggar’s Association; there are the four seas of the jianghu prodigal son; there are robbing the rich to help the poor chivalrous robbers and so on.

They all gathered in Yunzhou and organized into an army because of one person, and that person was called the Flying Swallow Woman.

And now that Li Miaozhen is leaving, this army will naturally disperse.

After the end of the banditry, Yang Chuannan had privately approached Li Miaozhen, wanting to incorporate the Fei Yan Army into the regular army and train it to become the trump card army of Yunzhou. It was hoped that she could convince the generals of the Fei Yan Army to stay in Yunzhou.

But none of them wanted to stay.

“Over the past year, we have fought side by side, uprooting hundreds of mountain strongholds of all sizes and beheading thousands of bandits. Wherever we have passed, the people have been able to rest and recuperate without fear of banditry. Wherever we have passed, merchants have been able to trade and support their families. Wherever we go, the light of justice is shed. …….

“Li Miaochen thanks all of you brothers for your unfailing companionship, however, there is no banquet that does not end. The journey to Yunzhou has come to an end, I will move on, and it is time for you all to go home and reunite with your family and friends.

“The road of life is long, or bumpy or smooth, or sorrowful or sad, I hope that we remember the time in Yunzhou, do not forget the beginning.”

Speaking here, Li Miaozhen looked at the four hundred generals, clasped her fists, and in a resounding voice: “But do good deeds, don’t ask about your future.”

Four hundred generals clasped their fists, their voices like a wild tide:

“But do good and ask no questions.”

This was the Fei Yan warrior they were willing to serve and follow.

…………

South of the border.

The reason why the Companions were called barbarians was not that they drank blood, but that they were compulsion-based, and their cultivation system and living habits all fit the compulsion.

This is how you can cultivate the compulsion and assimilate it with the compulsion.

To put it more appropriately, the development of the Compassionate Race is “Compassion-based”, and therefore the level of civilization is not comparable to that of the “human-based” countries of the Dafeng, the Western Regions, and the Northeastern States.

The civilization gap is reflected in various aspects, the most obvious of which are culture and architecture.

The Companions still use the hieroglyphics of ancient times, and their architecture is dominated by yellow mud and grass huts, using pottery rather than porcelain.

However, the clothes worn were not much different from the people of Dabong. The Southern Border Companions were good at growing mulberry and raising silkworms, and the quality of the silk they collected was several times higher than that of Dabong.

However, they were not good at weaving, so they were often undercut by Dafeng’s merchants who bought high-quality silk or bartered for ready-made fabrics.

The Berg Mountains are a hundred miles across and rich in produce.

In the mountains, there are countless birds and beasts, herbs and wild fruits. Below the mountain is a fertile land, densely populated with rivers, where the base camp of the Li Compass Ministry is located.

The Likou tribe has reclaimed thousands of hectares in this plain, with part of the tribe farming and part of the tribe hunting, bartering with each other for food and clothing.

Carrying an ox-horn bow, Mo Sang returned from his hunt with a team of sons and daughters, some carrying hundreds of pounds of wild boar, others carrying colorful mallard chickens, and returning fully loaded.

Moisan saw his sister Lina, who was picking vegetables with the women, in the field at the foot of the hill.

Lina was wearing a simple style cloth dress, revealing two slender and well-proportioned calves, the climate in the southern border was hot, and the Da Bong’s Luo skirt and long sleeves couldn’t be worn out here, so the Companions would have the Da Bong clothing cut and modified.

The hemline only comes to the knee and the sleeves are short to the elbow area.

“Lina!”

Mo Sang shouted and waited for his sister to raise her head before he continued, “Grandmother Heavenly Compass sent the Snow Eagle yesterday to send a message for you to meet her today, why are you still dawdling here.”

Lina visibly froze, then slapped her head, “Oops, I forgot, Moosan why didn’t you remind me earlier.”

Moxan heard the hans behind him let out a roar of laughter, and the women in the field followed suit.

For a moment the air was filled with rapture, but Moxan felt a little ashamed and turned back to the hanyou and angrily scolded them, “What are you laughing at.”

On the other hand, Lina, wearing sheer cloth boots, washed her hands by the stream, intending to go to the Sky Compass Tribe a hundred miles away.

Seeing this, Mo Sang hurriedly shouted, “The dam in the Sky Compass Ministry is missing an opening, so you remember to help repair it.”

“Got it!” Lina answered crisply and ran away.

……..

Compared to the Force Compass Ministry, the Sky Compass Ministry was more like a county town of some Da Bong Dynasty, although it was a bit more simple, but it got rid of the grass huts and was dominated by yellow mud houses and brick houses.

The Ministry of Heavenly Compassion was built at the foot of Lok Ha Mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, a terrace lined up, there is a dam on the mountain, yesterday suddenly broke the dike and washed out the terraces.

Lina, who had often played in the ministries as a young girl, breezed up Mount Fallen, and after a long trek through the mountains, she saw the collapsed dam entrance.

Dozens of people from the Heavenly Compass Ministry were seen standing at the edge of the reservoir, and at the head was none other than the white-haired Heavenly Compass Granny.

Lina’s eyes skimmed over them to the reservoir, where the body of a monster floated in the water, more than ten feet long, its body covered in black scales, its head pointed, its neck slender, and its claws with membranes.

Granny Tengu noticed Lina and waved her over.

Lina lightly rose and leaped among the rocks and came to Grandmother Sky Compass, saying in a delicate voice, “Grandmother, what kind of monster is that.”

“Auger!”

Granny Tian Companion revealed an amiable smile, “I don’t know where it came from, but it destroyed the dam, and all the seedlings that the tribe had just planted were washed away.”

“Oh.”

It was the first time Lina had ever seen an auger, but she had heard of them, monsters that lived in the densely intertwined waters of the southern border and scurried around along the dark underground rivers.

One of Lina’s uncles is said to have been eaten by an auger while playing in the water.

“You help gather some stones and plug the gap as early as possible.” Granny Sky Compass said.

“Ta-da!”

Doing hard labor Lina is the most professional, she immediately ran away, half a quarter of an hour or less, the crowd heard the sound of dull footsteps, follow the sound, a “rocky mountain” slowly moving.

This rocky mountain is more than 20 feet (60 or 70 meters) high and can create shocking waves when thrown into the reservoir.

The rocky mountain didn’t move over on its own, but was carried over by Lina, who was just as tiny as an ant compared to the twenty-foot boulder.

The crowd of the Heavenly Compulsion Ministry did not change their faces, as if they had long been accustomed to it.

Among the seven tribes of the Compassion tribe, the force compulsion department is known for its strange strength, Lina’s father, Long Tu, that is the real mountain moving, when he fought with the great Feng, he carried a mountain and threw it at the army, smashing thousands of people to death.

The boulder moved slowly to near the dam, and then with a rumble, Lina set it down.

The crowd stood on the dam and looked down, only to see Lina slowly sinking her waist, stabilizing her horse, brewing for a few breaths, and then suddenly “hey thick” roar, a punching fist on the surface of the boulder.

In a clicking sound, a spiderweb of cracks appeared on the surface of the boulder and spread rapidly, falling apart in an instant and turning into pieces of rubble.

Now, the materials for repairing the dam were available without the hard work of collecting them by the people of the Heavenly Compass Ministry, greatly saving time and labor.

Leaving the tribesmen to repair the dam, Granny Sky Compass took Lina down the mountain and returned to her residence, a courtyard with a patio.

Granny Tian Companion’s daughter-in-law was drying the bodies of the parasites that were used as medicine guides in her yard, while her son was raising parasites in the backyard.

Granny Tian Companion took Lina straight into the house, took out a wooden box from the cabinet, “snap” the box opened, inside lay an alabaster worm, shaped like a scorpion, with six articulated limbs.

The two dark eyes on the top of his head look a little cute.

“This is the Seven Extinction Compass that Granny’s old companion refined, before he left, this compulsion was only half refined, Granny spent twenty years and finally finished it.” Granny Sky Compass pushed the box to Lina and said:

“It’s yours to keep now.”

“For me?” Lina was a little surprised.

“It’s not for you, it’s given to you for safekeeping, and you’ll be gifting it to a worthy person in the future.”

A series of question marks flashed through Lina’s mind.

She hadn’t understood where things were going at all when she was suddenly gifted with the Seven Extinction Compass and told to pass it on to a person of destiny.

Grandmother Heavenly Compass covered the box and said, “Do you still remember what Grandmother told you, the story of those two thieves.”

Lina nodded vigorously, “I remember.”

At the same time she remembered Three, then again, Three hadn’t passed on a book in a long time, and the Earthbook chat group was back to its former calm.

“There is a legend in the Heavenly Compassion Tribe that on the day the Compassion God resurrects, the entire Southern Border, and even the Nine States, will be transformed into a world of compulsions. Although the Compassion Tribe survives by raising and refining compulsions, the compulsions are just tools, and we are still human beings.”

The eyes of the Heavenly Compass Granny showed a complex look: “This is not a legend, it is the end of the Heavenly Compass Ministry deduced from generation to generation, in order to see this future, many seniors suffered from the heavenly opportunity to backfire.

“In order to be able to keep the Compassion God asleep, twenty years ago, the old man came up with a way to steal an object with which he would suppress the Compassion God and keep it asleep for generations to come.

“So he left the Southern Border and was never heard from again, and it wasn’t long before I realized that he was dead when the native parasites he had left in his tribe withered.”

“What was stolen?” Lina clutched the wooden box, her azure, ocean-like eyes sparkling with curiosity.

Grandmother Heavenly Compass shook her head and patted the back of Lina’s hand, her voice kind, “Grandmother is too old to suffer the backlash of Heavenly Chance.”

Why don’t you say that the sky is the limit.

“Last night, I spied a change in fate, that thing is about to come out, and Lina, you’re involved.” Grandmother Celestial Compass stared at her with a burning gaze.

“Me?”

Lina blinked her blue eyes, wondering how she, as an ordinary child, could have appeared in the “story” of the Heavenly Compass Granny.

“Go to the capital, your cultivation is sufficient, you just lack experience, it’s just right to take this opportunity to go to the earthly world for a while.” Grandmother Heavenly Compass added:

“I have discussed this matter with your father and he agrees.”

Going to the Capital …….. Lina examined the wooden box in her hand, realizing that she wasn’t too resistant to such a thing. The first things that came to her mind were Number Three, Number One, and the Golden Lotus Taoist.

…………

At midday, the warm sun hung in the sky, and the Xu Mansion was filled with laughter.

Tables and banquets were set up in the compound, the tables on the left were the Xu clan members, and the tables on the right were Xu Pingzhi’s and Xu Qi’an’s peers and former friends.

The magistrate of Changle County and the fast men of the arresting squad were among them, and of course, there was also the chief constable of the government office, Lu Qing.

Unfortunately, Li Yuchun Song Tingfeng and others were in Yunzhou and could not attend the banquet.

Xu Pingzhi brought Xu Qi’an from table to table to toast, Xu Qi’an originally just coped, but heard everyone congratulating while shouting Lord Viscount …….. Suddenly, he fell in love with this feeling.

When it came to the Zhu magistrate’s table, the fat-headed magistrate lord lamented, “This official has a niece who is 28 years old and quite handsome. Originally wanted to be betrothed to Ning Banquet, but now it seems that it won’t work.”

Magistrate Zhu’s daughter had already married, otherwise she could still barely match Xu Qi’an. The niece wouldn’t be able to, her status isn’t enough.

Sheriff Wang smiled and picked up, “Ning Banquet is now a Viscount, and the only ones who can match him are the ladies of the house and the gentry.”

The crowd laughed.

Neighboring table Lu Qing heard in the ear, the heart is very bad taste, despondent and gloomy.

Originally, with her status as the chief constable of the government office, it was more than enough to match a night watchman. And belonging to the peer group, it can be called a match made in heaven.

However, after Xu Qi’an was knighted, he was among the noble class, so he certainly could not take a female constable as his main wife, which was not in accordance with the rules.

The banquet was not dispersed until two minutes before the hour (1:30 p.m.), with Xu Qi’an and Xu Ershu in charge of seeing off the guests, and his aunt directing the subordinates to clean up the mess.

At three minutes past shen hour, Xu Erlang returned with his subordinates and maids.

True to her word, the aunt ordered the cook to heat up a table of leftovers from noon for Jiro.

“Erlang take a good rest after eating, tomorrow you have to get up early to go to the Tribute Academy to take the exam.” The aunt attentively pinched food for her son.

It wasn’t meal time yet, but Xu Erlang had to get up early tomorrow, so he had to eat early and rest early; poor sleep would affect tomorrow’s exam.

Xu Qi’an sat on the side drinking tea and suddenly said, “Er Lang, which ones are tested in the meeting exams?”

As Xu Erlang ate his food, he briefly introduced, “Cursive questions, scriptures, and poetry.”

After a pause, he said, “From the time of the late emperor, poetry was removed from the imperial examinations, until the eleventh year of Yuanjing, when Wang Zhenwen joined the cabinet, and under his impetus, poetry returned to the imperial examinations.”

During the two hundred years of the dispute over Confucian orthodoxy, the poetry world weakened to the point where it had withdrawn from the imperial stage.

“If big brother were to participate in the imperial examinations, not to mention anything else, he would at least be able to revitalize the poetry scene.” Xu Erlang commented objectively as he took a sip of wine and turned to his father, saying quietly:

“Since the end of last year, Big Brother has become famous in the poetry world, and Father has gradually become famous as well.”

Xu Pingzhi, who was teasing his daughter with Xu Suoyin sitting on his knees, froze for a moment before revealing a joyful expression and laughing:

“In fact, it is Dalang himself who is gifted, and my father has not cultivated much, this kind of readers just like to make a fuss ……. How do they praise me?”

The corner of Xu New Year’s mouth quirked, “Complimenting you for being an improper son.”

“???”

Xu Pingzhi slammed the table in anger, “Outrageous, what gives them the right to say that.”

Erlang Xu glanced at his big brother and laughed, “The more poems big brother composes, the more your curses will flourish, father, so I can’t say that you will be able to go down in history in the future.”

That night, Xu Pingzhi was so worried that he couldn’t sleep.

The aunt scolded, “People haven’t even died yet, and you’re thinking about your reputation hundreds of years from now, worrying blindly.”

“A woman’s opinion.” Xu Pingzhi grunted, worried, “Erlang has the qualifications of a chief minister, and Dailang will be able to leave a mark in history in the future. When posterity evaluates them, they will all praise one sentence. But when it comes to me, it’s just four words: improper son.”

Auntie muttered, “Then at least it’s also a name in history …….. By the way, let me tell you something, what if Erlang is sent out in the future, can you find a way to keep him in the capital.”

“Don’t even think about it, he’s a scholar of the Cloud Deer Academy, and expatriation is inevitable. Let’s hope it’s not too far away.” Xu Pingzhi said helplessly.

The students of Yunlu Academy basically had no access to the center of power of the officialdom in the capital. Most of them would be assigned to various parts of the states, and even if they stayed in the capital, they would only be minor officials.

“Why don’t you find Ning Yan and talk to him, he’s a night watchman and knows the princess, he’s bound to have a solution.” Auntie sat on the bed with her legs bent, her eyebrows knitted lightly in the candlelight.

“This is a matter for the Ministry of Mandarins, what does it have to do with the night watchman.” Xu Pingzhi lowered his voice:

“A night watchman monitoring the hundred officials attracts the most hatred from the civil officials, and Ning Banquet stepping in will only backfire.”

Auntie flopped down on the bed and hugged her pillow with a worried frown.

……….

“Knock, knock, knock ……”

Dressed in a white singlet, Xu Xinxin, who was about to fall asleep, heard a knock on the door and opened it to see Xu Qi’an standing outside the door.

“What does big brother want with me.”

Xu Qi’an scrutinized his red-lipped, white-toothed, handsome little old brother and grinned, “Come over here and guess the question.”

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PS: I’m going to have to look up the Chunin Exams in the next chapter, although I’m not focusing on the Congressional Exams, I’m going to do it in my mind.

Seeing as I have such a strict attitude, how about a few monthly votes, and if I can’t, I can woo you.

I’ll make the changes first, then continue to code the next chapter and go back and correct the typos.