One person, one sword, I have guarded the lonely city for 70 years

Chapter 168 The Rise of the Patriarch of the Gao Family

"The Gao family? Doing business?" Song Yun immediately thought of the Gao family's caravan that was slaughtered by Jing Jun.

The Beiting veteran guarded Anxi and lacked supplies. Only the Gao family caravan was willing to come to Anxi regularly to trade, which helped a lot.

It's a pity that the caravan was discovered by Jing Jun later and was slaughtered. Song Yun picked Gao Hanqing from the corpse pile.

At this moment, Gao Lanchun scolded the young man in brocade in a low voice, telling him to go back to the house and not go out.

After the reprimand, she hurried back to Song Yun, smiling embarrassingly: "The youngest in the family is still ignorant in her teens, so she wanted to take her to Anxi for exercise."

After being scolded, the young man in brocade clothes lowered his head and secretly glanced at the strange young man beside his sister, only to find that the young man was also looking at him, and he was startled.

"Not going back yet!" Gao Lanchun glared at him.

Song Yun waved his hand. "Not urgent."

Being sent to Anxi at the age of thirteen or fourteen is not as simple as "exercising". Judging by the timid appearance of this young man, he may also have a cowardly temper. Most likely he was bullied.

"What's his name?" Song Yun asked.

"Gao Tingsong." Gao Lanchun was a little panicked, not knowing why Song Yun became interested in his younger brother.

Song Yun: "Come to Anxi at such a young age, it seems that you are not welcome in your Gao family."

Gao Lanchun was a little embarrassed, "He was a concubine, and his mother died early."

Song Yun guessed what was going on as soon as he heard it, shook his head slightly, and said no more.

If this young man Gao Tingsong is really Gao Hanqing's ancestor, then he will help him when he has the chance.

Smiling at the boy, Song Yun turned and left without revealing his thoughts.

Gao Lanchun glared at the young man, and hurried to follow.

The boy Gao Tingsong remained where he was, watching the back of the young man in white curiously.

Gao Tingsong could feel that the inexplicable friendliness of this young man in white was completely different from those who bullied him...

Song Yun walked around the city, combined with [Anxi real-time map], carefully inspected every house, and found nothing unusual.

All the houses built here are ordinary dwellings, basically taking shape.

According to Gao Lanchun, the construction of An XC District will be completed in a few days.

At that time, the Patriarch of the Gao family will come to check the results in person and arrange the next tasks.

"After building so many houses, who are they going to live in? There are so many people living here, how can we solve the problem of eating and drinking?" Song Yun was curious about these questions.

Roughly estimated, this urban area is enough to feed 5 people.

However, Song Yun is very clear about Anxi's natural conditions. There is little food and water, so it cannot be self-sufficient and cannot accommodate so many people.

Unless the outside world keeps sending supplies.

"Uh, I don't know either." Gao Lanchun shook his head, "This is why many members of the Gao family opposed the construction of Anxi, but the owner said he had his own way."

"Oh? Tell me about your Patriarch." Song Yun suddenly became interested.

The next "big event" may be related to this person.

Gao Lanchun suddenly showed pride, and said a lot, all of which were legendary deeds of his own Patriarch Gao Shan.

This Gao Shan was just an ordinary warrior in the Great Xia Era, at the level of a third-tier warrior, walking in the bodyguard bureau.

After the fall of the Great Xia, Gao Shan's cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds. In just 20 years, he has crossed the three realms of martial artist, innate, and grand master, and has become a strong master at the peak of the grand master, only one step away from the martial saint.

He is only in his 50s now, and he is in his prime, and he has every hope of being promoted to Martial Saint.

In the past 20 years, Gao Shan has controlled the Escort Bureau, and based on this, he has operated various trades, and the business has grown bigger and bigger, becoming the largest business family in Xu State.

Gao Lanchun was about to continue to show off his Patriarch's cultivation speed, but when he saw Song Yun beside him, he suddenly lost the intention of showing off, and swallowed all the words back.

No matter how fast the Patriarch cultivates, he is faster than this mysterious young man in front of him?

A master of Taoism who is in the possession of the body in his early 20s, I am afraid that he will become a ghost before the age of 30, right?

Song Yun raised his eyebrows slightly, "When you were in your 30s, you were only a third-rank warrior, and then it took you 20 years to cultivate to the peak of a master?"

Gao Lanchun explained: "Great Xia is destroyed, the world is in chaos, and opportunities have increased. The Patriarch's ability is already strong, so it's not surprising to seize some opportunities for cultivation."

"Perhaps." Song Yun was noncommittal.

Practicing martial arts is not like practicing Taoism, physical talent is important, and age is also very important.

Only a third-tier warrior in his 30s, he will be innate at best in this life.

When you get older, you can practice faster. This is not something that can be done by ordinary chance.

"We have to study this mountain later."

Gao Lanchun didn't know that his Patriarch had become a target. Seeing Song Yun's silence, he thought the "deterrence effect" was good, and smiled proudly:
"My patriarch has strong martial arts skills and great influence. His status in the Xu country is only lower than those of those venerables, and no less than the current prime minister!"

"The Gao family has been in business for 20 years, and there are so many elite fighters, not much worse than those big sects."

"It's really unwise for you to want to be an enemy of the Patriarch and the Gao family. If you have any problems, you can discuss them carefully, and the Gao family will give you face."

After hearing this, Song Yun just chuckled, "I still need your face?"

Pa, raised his hand, and in front of Gao Lanchun, slapped a cloud of blood mist into her forehead.

"You, what did you do?" Gao Lanchun rubbed his forehead, only feeling dizzy for a while, and panicked in his heart.

"A little trick. For the next period of time, as long as you stay honest and don't expose my existence, there won't be any problems."

With his hands behind his back, Song Yun continued to wander around the city leisurely.

Gao Lanchun's body trembled a little. Looking at Song Yun's back, he couldn't help shouting, "What exactly do you want to do to the Gao family?"

"Then it depends on what your Gao family wants to do..."

Song Yun had fully grasped Anxi's situation at this time.

There are now three groups of people in the city, the Gao family, the civilian husbands, and a thousand soldiers who are stationed on duty in Anxi.

The three sides of Anxi are the mainland of the Xu Kingdom, only the northern side is occasionally harassed by the Beiyuan Tartars, so the defensive pressure is not great, and the soldiers are also very leisurely. A small number of them are guarding the gate, and the rest are resting and training in the camp.

In short, it doesn't look like a war is going to happen here. Even if there is a large-scale national war, Anxi will not be fought in the short term.

"What will be the big event?"

Song Yun didn't have a clue for a moment, so he could only stay in Anxi and wait for the head of the Gao family to come over.

That night, he rejected Gao Lanchun's arrangement and did not go to Gao's house.

Instead, he lived with Liu Qi, Li Feng, and Li Wu in the shed of a civilian husband.

Song Yun knew that Gao Lanchun must be full of guard against him, but it was these folks who said what they had to say, and through the mouths of these people, they could better understand this era.

The Great Xia Dynasty, which had ruled for tens of thousands of years, collapsed, and there was no sign of restoration after 20 years. Everyone gradually accepted the fact that Great Xia was really dead.

People are full of confusion, but there are also many people who are ambitious and want to make a career in troubled times.

Li Wu is one of them. At the age of 17, he is eager to practice martial arts and to be famous. He also believes that Song Yun is a master, so he reveals the meaning of apprenticeship and martial arts in his words.

If it wasn't for Li Feng's embarrassment to keep staring at his younger brother, Li Wu would have knelt down to worship his teacher.

Liu Qi also wanted to practice martial arts, but he was much smarter than Li Wu, and he kept answering Song Yun's questions seriously, knowing everything without saying anything.

After chatting for a long while, Song Yun was quite satisfied, and gave three bottles of pills, and also threw out a book of mysterious exercises.

The three of them were so excited that they couldn't fall asleep for a long time, and they kept thanking them.

Li Wu simply got up and went out in the middle of the night, and under the moonlight, compared with the patterns on the exercises, he excitedly gestured.

Liu Qi and Li Feng didn't have that much energy, they got tired soon, and fell asleep while lying down.

Song Yun also lay on the straw mat and closed his eyes to meditate.

In the middle of the night, on the [Anxi real-time map], several light spots sneaked in from outside the city.

In the dark hut, Song Yun suddenly opened his eyes.

The next moment, he disappeared.

Li Wu was still punching and kicking outside the shed, sweating profusely from the beating, suddenly felt a breeze blowing behind him, looked back, but found nothing.

Under the night, in the corner of a street in the newly built urban area.

Several Taoist practitioners with high levels of cultivation, wearing gray cloth robes and large cloth scarves covering their faces, quietly stood in a circle.

They put their palms together, crossed their index and ring fingers, forming a strange gesture, and whispered in their mouths at the same time:

"Void Heaven, Immortal Venerable Kongming..."

From time to time, they swung their spiritual thoughts, observed the surrounding situation, confirmed that there was no one there, and then continued to chant.

No one noticed that not far away, there was a young man in white standing quietly on the roof.

Song Yun looked down at them and listened to them for a long while, but he didn't understand what was being read.

He was about to take a shot to control these people, but found that there seemed to be some kind of hidden change in the night.

Song Yun immediately disappeared on the roof, concealing his aura, and hid in the empty room below.

Not long after, two ghosts and immortals also sneaked into the city, arrived here, and joined the chanting team.

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