The Book of Heaven

Chapter 184 Breaking the Cocoon
The Zeng family was burned to the ground!
The Zeng family was robbed by bandits!

The bandits are the slaves in Zeng's mining area!
After the sky brightened, more and more news began to flood Jiading City.

As Ma Zheng expected, the first thing the generals of the guard did after seeing the tragedy of the Zeng family was to ask Jiading Governor to order the city to be closed.

While the four gates were closed, there were more sergeants wearing armor and armor on the top of the city, a crossbow was put on the top of the city, stones and rolling logs were also transported to the wall, and the whole Jiading City fell into a state of turmoil.

Although both the government office and the guard house know that the possibility of the thieves attacking Jiading City is extremely small, but even if it is just in case, the preparations must be made, otherwise if it does happen, the person who will lose his head may be It's not one or two.

Although the gates of the city are closed and the level of security on the walls is alarming, some well-informed people, such as a few big businessmen in the city, can still get first-hand information about what happened to Zengjiazhuang outside the city last night. It was clear before noon.

The slaves in the mining area escaped, not only killing all the guards in the mining area, but also attacking Zengjiazhuang, and the last fire burned Zengjiazhuang to nothing.

Since it was a slave riot and not an invasion by foreign enemies, then Jiading City must be impenetrable and there will be no problems at all. The rich merchants are not court officials, so they don't care about any responsibilities. Instead, they watched the Zeng family be destroyed and exposed. A fat piece of meat - the coal mine.

Since the fire broke out in the Zeng family, the entire Zhuangzi was completely burned, and the descendants of the Zeng family were almost dead, which meant that these coal mines lost their owners.

According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, the land without an owner naturally belongs to His Majesty the Emperor, and the local government manages these lands for His Majesty the Emperor.In other words, the coal mines that once belonged to the Zeng family have now become fat meat for sale in the hands of Mr. Fu Yin. Whoever has a better relationship and pays more money can get these coal mines!
Including Qi Mingdu, everyone who thinks they are entitled to a share of it has started to make preparations at this time. The relationship that needs to be done has to be left, and the funds that need to be raised need to be raised.

The closure of the city gate did bring certain difficulties to these people's preparations, but snakes have snake paths, rats have rat holes, and the Eight Immortals have shown their magical powers across the sea.

The rich merchants who are distracted by money will never ask why the slaves in the mining area suddenly escaped from trouble, who is the "leader thief" among the survivors of the Zeng family, and why they plan to plot against Zeng's village like this .

No one connected the matter of Zengjiazhuang with chalcedony, but even Hongyan and the others discovered that those people who were determined to get Ma Zheng's bottle of "intermediate chalcedony" a few days ago seemed to be in an instant. Lost interest, not only didn't come to ask, even the people sent to monitor them seemed to have retreated.

No one would associate what happened in the Zeng family with Red Eyes and other bastards. First of all, they didn't have the guts. Time is irrelevant.

"The young master seems to be practicing martial arts in closed doors. Alas, it seems that we can only rest these few days."

The red eyes who always like to eat and do things are lazy, but now they are extremely anxious because they have nothing to do. His state surprised the two subordinates.

"Brother Eyes, this, isn't this a good thing, anyway, the young master is willing to support us, the more time drags on, hey, the more we enjoy."

The monk has nothing to offer, but the pot cover frowned, and said: "I said, Brother Eyes, you don't really think of that one as a young master, do you?"

"His martial arts are so high, if he is willing to take him in, I would like to join him, but I think he will look down on a bastard like us." Red Eyes said noncommittally.

"No way? Brother Eyes, are you crazy?" The monk touched the stubble on the top of his head, wrinkled his facial features and said, "Who said he is quite generous, but have you ever thought about it? If you really follow him, then But it's really like being dependent on others, we are used to being free in this life, can we live on?"

Regarding the reaction of the monk and the lid, the red eyes just curled his lips, but he kept some words in his heart and didn't say them to the two of them for the time being.

In the early hours of the morning, when the siren sounded in the city, Red Eyes woke up.

After he got up, he first asked his buddy to inquire about the situation, and then ran to find Ma Zheng after he had settled the situation.

In fact, he didn't think too much at first, but when Ma Zheng opened the door, his red eyes smelled a bloody smell, a strong, unresolved bloody smell.

Maybe Ma Zheng himself didn't notice, the suit he was wearing was already splattered with blood, but he walked out of the Shura field, so he couldn't smell the stain on the clothes at all.

However, to the red eyes, the strong smell of blood was as obvious as it was placed under the eyelids!

The fire outside the city, the thieves, and the smell of blood on Ma Zheng's body naturally made the red eyes connect at once, so in his heart, Ma Zheng's image suddenly changed.

Although Red Eyes was afraid of Ma Zheng a while ago, he still classified Ma Zheng as a "liar who knows martial arts". In a sense, he was not much better than Red Eyes.

Liars are nothing more than courage and thoughtfulness, there is no difference in essence.

But when he felt that Ma Zheng was related to the burning and killing of Zengjiazhuang, he stopped simply thinking that Ma Zheng was just a liar.

"Maybe he still has a lot of secrets, but everything he does is earth-shattering. Unless he is crazy, he should have a strong background."

Red Eyes guessed like this in his heart, that's why he considered whether to really become Ma Zheng's long-term follower. Although being a bastard is free and easy, it can't be a bastard for a lifetime.

And during the day when the city was on guard and red eyes were tangled, Ma Zheng sat cross-legged on the bed all the time, concentrating on guiding the breath in his body, slowly penetrating those closed branch veins.

This is the ultimate step to break through the second-rate peak and step into the first-rate realm.

In a sense, the second-rate state has opened up all the main meridians of the human body, which has greatly improved the skills of the human body in all aspects, and even the internal organs can be strengthened in long-term practice. People in this state, As long as he didn't die violently, his lifespan would naturally be greatly extended.

However, these main meridians are not the only ones in the body.

For most cultivators, no one will tell them the essential difference between the first-rate realm and the second-rate realm before they set foot in the first-rate realm, and they themselves do not have the ability to perceive the next realm in advance, so they can only expect "it will happen when it happens."

However, Ma Zheng is different. Although no one has really taught him what the state of first-class state is, but his own special situation is more sensitive to the changes in his body than anyone else.

He already knew where the real change from the second-rate realm to the first-rate realm lies, so the direction of his efforts is more clear, and naturally he can get twice the result with half the effort.

To put it bluntly, he is now like a butterfly hiding in a cocoon, and as soon as the time comes, he can break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly.

(End of this chapter)