Becoming a Saint by Leisure Reading

   Chapter 212 Sister Six, what strength are you?

   Walking out of the City Lord's Mansion, a desolate and dilapidated atmosphere rushed towards Chen Luo.

  At the beginning of the establishment of Dongcang City, the court at that time had high expectations. According to historical records, at that time there were two great scholars, thirty-six masters, three hundred scholars, and a total of 200,000 people and prisoners were recruited. It took half a year to build this Dongcang in this barren land. city.

   "Guang Ya" says: in color it is blue; "Erya · Shitian" note: the east is called the sky.

   Hence the city name "Dongcang".

   "Kao Gong Ji" records: Great Confucian Yingcang, with a capacity of one million people, square twenty-nine, side three gates, nine latitudes and nine latitudes, and nine tracks of Jingtu.

This means that when the Great Confucianism designed this Dongcang City, it was planned that the city could accommodate a population of one million. Each city wall was 18 miles long, with three city gates on one side of the city wall, nine avenues in the city, and nine special carts. rail.

   In fact, at the beginning of the construction of Dongcang City, it did have a short-lived splendor, but because of the obstruction of the sea, it soon fell into loneliness.

  The ground is paved with blue rocks, and now it is full of potholes, and the roadside is overgrown with weeds. Looking around, except for the official mansion that was built in advance, the rest are wooden houses and thatched huts built at will, with no layout at all.

Along the way, the streets were empty. There were people in those wooden huts, or women, or children, or the elderly. Everyone looked out at Chen Luo and Yun Siyao who were walking along the way through the cracks in the doors and windows. , Chen Luo sensed his gaze and looked at the other party's gaze, the gaze immediately dodged, and then blocked the gap between the doors and windows.

   walked for a while, and walked out of the street in front of the city lord's mansion, and suddenly a stench came. The ground was full of black and filthy things, Yun Siyao couldn't help raising his hand to cover his mouth and nose, Chen Luo was not in the mood to continue walking, and suddenly there was a cry in his ear.

   Looking at the sound, there is a thatched hut on the left hand side. Chen Luo walked over with Yun Siyao, pushed open the door, and saw a four or five-year-old boy sitting on the ground crying loudly. A chain was tied to the boy's feet, and the other end of the chain was fixed on a stone pillar. . The little boy held half a blackened bun in his hand, and there were several broken pieces of porcelain on the ground.

  It must be the child who accidentally smashed the porcelain bowl and cried bitterly.

   Chen Luo frowned slightly, just about to take a few steps before the mountain, when the little boy saw Chen Luo and Yun Siyao, he immediately retreated in fear, covered his mouth with both hands, and his eyes were full of unease.

  Yun Siyao grabbed Chen Luo and patted the small gourd pendant hanging on his earlobe. The pendant shook and fell to the ground, becoming Xiao Qi.

   This is a new spell that Xiao Qi didn't know when he realized, and he can turn himself into a small gourd pendant. Between the grandfather's handle and the beautiful sister's earrings, Xiao Qi still chose the latter.

   That little boy had never seen a little girl like Xiao Qi who was made of pink and jade and gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. His eyes were stunned for a while, and he subconsciously wanted to pull his pants down to cover the iron chain on his feet.

  Xiaoqi glanced at Chen Luo, and immediately understood what Chen Luo meant. She jumped up and down in front of the little boy, took out a piece of wrapped sugar cake from her pocket, and handed it to the little boy.

   The little boy hid back with some inferiority, but soon he smelled the sweet smell emanating from the sugar cake and swallowed. Xiao Qi skillfully opened the candy wrapper and handed it to the little boy. The little boy hesitated and took the candy cake. He just licked it with his tongue, showing a satisfied expression on his face, and then carefully handed the candy cake back to Xiao Qi. .

  Xiaoqi took out a handkerchief from his purse, wiped the little boy's dirty face, and shook his head to signal that he didn't need to return it to himself.

  The little boy dodged slightly, worried that he would stain the beautiful-looking handkerchief, but he didn't dodge it. He whispered his thanks, carefully wrapped the sugar cake in candy wrap, and put it in his arms.

  Chen Luo raised his eyebrows: "Why don't you eat?"

   The little boy looked at Chen Luo, and answered boldly, "Leave it for daddy."

  Chen Luo wanted to ask again, but Luo Hongnu's voice came from the door: "Master..."

  Chen Luo turned around, Luo Hongnu had walked in, and Master Qin followed behind him. Luo Hongnu handed the storage order to Chen Luo and said, "Master, everything is done."

   Chen Luo nodded and looked at Master Qin again. Master Qin hurriedly saluted and said, "The herbs have been arranged. My subordinates thought that Uncle should want to know the current situation of Dongcang City, so I came to listen to the order."

   "Not bad." Chen Luo said, pointing to the chain on the little boy's feet, "What's going on?"

Qin Dangguo knew the situation of the household as soon as he entered the door, and replied: "Uncle Hui, the head of the household is Zeng Wannian, who was injured when the barbarian beast attacked the city, and his wife was taking care of him. He must be worried about the children running around. , was taken by the savage beast, and this is the only way to tie the child up."

  Chen Luo nodded. He probably guessed the same way, so he stopped looking into it and said, "Let's go, go back to the City Lord's Mansion, there are some things that Master Qin needs to explain to me."

After    finished speaking, he pointed to the little boy again: "Let's take this child with you."

   "Here!"

  …

   "Uncle, there are currently 4,642 households in Qingcang City, with a total of 16,336 people. This is the household register."

  In the city lord's mansion, Qin Dangguo handed a volume of records to Chen Luo, Chen Luo took it at random, put it aside, and asked, "There are so many people?"

   Qin Dangguo sighed: "Dongcang City had the largest population, when it was first built, because a large number of people were stranded, so it once had a scale of 100,000 people."

   "The increase or decrease later basically fluctuated around 20,000 people."

   "Dongcang City is said to be a big city, but in fact, except for the official residence and some pre-built constructions, it is equivalent to building four walls on the flat ground and enclosing it."

   "It's nothing more than leveling the ground and paving it with stone bricks."

   "The residents are generally gathered in three regions. One is the expansion around the city's main mansion, where officials and scholars are the mainstay."

   "Then there is the east of the city, which is the closest to the Qushui River and is convenient for planting. A group of people reclaimed wasteland there."

   "And then there is the north of the city. Twenty miles to the north of the city is Dayeling. They make a living from Dayeling."

   "Although they are all in the same city, Dongcang City is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many people coming and going on weekdays. It looks like three tribes of barbarians."

   Speaking of this, Qin Dangguo realized that the wording was inappropriate, and quickly apologized: "The wording is inappropriate, Wan Anbo forgive me."

   "It doesn't matter." Chen Luo waved his hand and asked again, "Tell me about the situation of this attack on the city. I remember that wild beasts hate Heaven, so they won't take the initiative to attack the territory of Heaven, right?"

Qin Dangguo quickly explained: "Uncle is right. However, there are always some wild beasts who will be infected by the power of heaven for various reasons, so they give birth to offspring that are inherently impure. Such offspring are barbarian blood beasts. Barbarian blood beasts There is no spiritual wisdom, and the highest is not higher than the fourth-rank realm, but it can travel between Heavenly Dao and Mantian."

   "The closest contact between Manyuan and me in Dongcang is Manhou Valley, which is one of the nine gathering places for wild beasts in Manyuan, so there is a high chance of wild blood beasts appearing naturally."

   "Barbarian beasts don't like the scent of barbarian blood beasts, so they are often abandoned after they are born. Barbarian blood beasts that can survive dare not approach Barbarian Roar Valley, and most of them live in Dayeling."

   "The one who intruded on Dongcang City this time was the Dayeling barbaric beast."

   "Dayeling?" Chen Luo glanced at the specific map in the city lord's mansion, and quickly found the specific location of this place on it.

Twenty miles northeast of Dongcang City, there is a north-south mountain range. According to the map, it is about 500 miles wide and about 2,000 miles long. Half of it is in the land of heaven and the other half is under the barbarian sky. .

"Barbarian blood beasts usually haunt the depths of Dayeling. According to previous years, every winter, when there is a shortage of food in Dayeling, there will indeed be barbarian blood beasts rushing out of Dayeling and attacking Dongcangcheng. But the whole winter is down. , at most, seven or eight, maybe a dozen or so in the sky, but I didn’t expect that there would be hundreds of savage beasts rushing out this time.”

   "Among them, the hunter group in the northern part of the city suffered the most casualties. Seven or eight out of ten seriously injured people are from that area."

   "Fortunately, the city is big enough that you can hide if you can't afford it. After a lot of trouble with the savage beasts, they returned to Dayeling."

  Chen Luo frowned slightly: "Then will they come out again?"

  Master Qin was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Should... not?"

   At this time, Yun Siyao said lightly: "If something goes wrong, there must be demons. This time, hundreds of wild beasts rushed out. It must be a change in Dayeling. If it happens again, it may not be impossible."

   Chen Luo and Master Qin were silent for a moment, Chen Luo suddenly asked, "We don't have a city gate?"

   Master Qin said with a wry smile: "Dongcang City was established for logistics and trade, and there was no danger in the study and judgment at that time, so the city gates were just arranged hastily, unlike other cities that are equipped with formations."

   "I don't know when, that city gate was dismantled and sold privately by the people here..."

  Chen Luo scratched his head with some headache, and remembered another thing.

   "Before Wu Peizhi said that the residents of this city were sacrifices, what happened?" To be honest, he was more concerned about this matter than the savage beasts attacking the city.

   Qin Dangguo hesitated for a moment, and after a moment of indifference, he said, "Wu Peizhi is wrong."

   "Uncle, when you chose Dongcang City, you must have known that the power of the sky will infiltrate Dongcang City, right?"

   Chen Luo and Yun Siyao looked at each other and nodded.

   "Actually, this is a struggle between Man Tian and Tian Dao."

   "Half-Saints once came here to deduce seven days and seven nights. In the end, it was decided that if no measures were taken, this area would slowly turn into a savage world."

   "This is the beginning of Dongcang's fortification."

"This place needs the luck of the human race to eliminate the infiltrating power of the barbarian sky, so even though Dongcang City is abolished, it will not be abandoned. It is precisely because of this that the previous dynasty forced the people to station in this city, but the saints have no objection. "

   "In the eyes of my subordinates, this is a heroic city!"

   "It's just that this matter is recorded in the secret file!"

   "I'm afraid the barbarians don't even know about it!"

   Chen Luo's heart sank, thinking of the people hiding in the house, the child who was locked in chains and carefully treasured after licking the candy cake.

   Along the way, everyone mentioned Dongcang with sympathy, contempt, or ridicule and incomprehension.

   A broken city.

   Little did he know that there was such a task.

   At this time, Chen Luo recalled that when he decided to choose Dongcang, senior sister sent a letter to Zhulin, and the teacher quickly replied with one word - wonderful!

   At this time, Chen Luo understood that when he said in the court that he wanted to choose Dongcang, why the political minister and the law minister looked at him with some meaningful eyes!

   They believed in themselves and could bring the city back to life.

  Perhaps this is the reason why there are eight hundred li outside the capital city.

  …

   "Mr. Qin, I brought some food, grass and cloth this time. Please discuss with Hongnu and distribute these. But it's not for nothing, I have to pay for work."

   "Sweeping the streets, caring for the wounded, preparing for defense... In short, everyone needs to move."

   "I want to see this city alive~www.wuxiamtl.com~Don't be as dead as it is today."

   "Hang Wu Peizhi's head in the most conspicuous place, saying that he withheld the supplies sent by Tianbo City and was beheaded by me."

   "Then, issue a recruitment order!"

   Chen Luo said his orders one after another, Qin Dangguo recorded them one by one, handed over the orders, and turned to leave.

   At this time, Chen Luo looked at Yun Siyao who had been sitting beside him: "Sixth Senior Sister, what is your cultivation base?"

  Yun Siyao seemed to be prepared long ago, smiled slightly, and the shadows of five mountains and five seas appeared behind him.

   "If Confucianism cultivates..."

   "Second-Rank Great Confucian!"

Hey. . In the early morning, the national football team lost in a mess.

   In the morning, I saw that the monthly pass fell in a mess.

   He rushes up, begging for a monthly pass.

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   (end of this chapter)