Lord of the Desert

Chapter 342 Fried Peanuts

On the night of July [-], Hong Fanku sat up all night.

Although Tang Xingqing was hiding in the wing, she was probably angry and did not sleep well.

Early the next morning, the two met again in the courtyard.

Tang Xingqing came out with the wooden basin, her expression still looking haggard. From the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the person still sitting on the wicker chair, so she raised her chin and looked away.

It was as if there was only air in the courtyard except for her.

Under Hong Fan's watchful eyes, Tang Xingqing went to the well to fetch water, went straight back to the house, and slammed the door again with her instep.

Hong Fan watched the whole process silently.

He finally couldn't help but laugh until the door slammed and shattered in the yard.

Perhaps because she is young and has experienced a lot, the Tang family's young lady is extremely experienced in some aspects, but seems naive in other aspects.

After this fuss, most of the freezing coldness on Hong Fan's body faded.

"call."

He exhaled the turbid air in his lungs, rubbed his face with Yanliu Jin in his palms, and took the initiative to knock on the side door.

Boom, boom, boom.

There was no reply.

Hong Fan held the door panel, guessing that Tang Xingqing was now a bit like her elementary school classmate who had an awkward situation in her previous life - whoever spoke first after drawing the [-]th parallel probably meant surrender.

So he took the initiative to speak.

"I'm sorry about what happened last night."

It took six or seven heartbeats before there was a reply.

"Huh, no need to say sorry; I am your prisoner after all. If you don't kill me, it will be a mercy."

The tired voice was somewhat triumphant.

Hong Fan didn't pay attention to the other party's weirdness and knew that this incident was over.

Not long after, the peasant woman brought breakfast.

After Hong Fanlisuo finished eating, he went out to "pretend".

After all, wherever there are people, there is endless work.

After all, workers who don’t need money are in short supply everywhere.

This time he was not doing things to help others, but just wanted to calm down through this kind of mechanical activity with obvious results.

On the first day, Hong Fan stepped on the rice hammer and said to himself, "People are never equal, and the value of individuals to society is never the same."

On the second day, Hong Fan repaired the small dock in Yishan Lake and thought about "seeking to change production relations, based on changing productivity."

On the third day, Hong Fan was digging the grain cellar and nagging Gu Yixin, "Only if everyone in the world can practice martial arts can we save Dahua."

On the fourth day, Hong Fan went to chop wood in the forest at the foot of Tingshan Mountain, feeling depressed that "Martial arts training cannot change the old society."

until the fifth day.

Hong Fan stacked straw for half a day. After having lunch, he lay down on the hill-like haystack to rest.

Close your eyes and see bright darkness.

The sun penetrates from all over the body.

He took a deep breath, smelling the smell of autumn hay on his nose, and was suddenly embarrassed by his stupidity in the past few days.

Learning without thinking means nothing, thinking without learning means nothing.

Anyway, he is just a person who has a relationship with heaven and man. He has never been to Shenjing and does not know Zulong.

It is a very simple truth to avoid thinking too much when you understand too little.

Walking steadier and standing higher are more important to him than anything else at this stage.

Thinking of this, Hong Fan said "Oh", turned around, buried his hot face in the haystack, and let his butt kiss the sun along the way.

Five days passed.

The shock of witnessing the blood sacrifice at Fengyunding finally subsided completely.

Hong Fan is certainly a person who likes to look far away.

He likes to use theory to guide practice and then use practice to feed back theory.

He likes to use framework methodology to analyze even small problems.

But he is also a very pragmatic person.

Hong Fan lay on the haystack he had made with his own hands, thinking back on the journey since crossing over.

Join Qi as a supervisor, write papers, get to know Zhuang Liren, establish Tianhe Bank...

Every step is a borrowing effort, and every step is just to solve the problem at hand, not to talk about the long-term future.

[Completing things that match this stage at each ability stage in life is called taking small steps. 】

【If you keep walking, you can reach a thousand miles. 】 He thought lightly, and the debate with Tang Xingqing and the thoughts that couldn't stop for a few days, like wild boar collisions, flowed in his mind.

Things couldn't be clearer.

These are just the stress of being powerless.

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In the 29th year of Zhenghe, it was the tenth day of August.

Huaiyang Kingdom, outside Longqiu Town.

The autumn sky is high and the clouds are light, and the wild geese are floating in the sky.

At noon (two o'clock in the afternoon), Hong Fan asked Gu Yixin to take him to a spacious place where he could perform martial arts.

So the latter took him to the military camp martial arts field outside the town.

This is a broad rammed land a hundred feet long, just like Liangzhou surrounded by earthen walls, leaving only two entrances and exits on the north and south.

On all sides of the field, military flags embroidered with the Chinese character "Yum" were fluttering in the wind, and there were officers in twos and threes, each occupying a place to practice.

However, they all recognized Gu Yixin and did not dare to disturb him.

Hong Fan came here to finalize a new killing method.

Four months after entering the realm of heaven and earth, he had fully absorbed the burning sand and gained a foundation for further advancement.

"I used to face many-on-one or one-on-one battles, but it's different here in Huaiyang."

Hong Fan sat down on the stone pillar and said.

"I need a killing method that can cause a large-scale devastating blow in a battlefield environment to multiple enemies with warriors as the core - I mean the army."

Gu Yixin looked solemn, obviously listening very seriously.

Hong Fan became more involved.

"Area strikes and changes are what Sand World specializes in."

"The life star control object is based on authority, and it is easy to cover a large area, but it is very troublesome to increase the killing intensity of a single point - especially once the distance is extended, whether it is precise control or speed and intensity. It all means huge consumption.”

"The fire technique is just the opposite."

"High temperature itself means lethality, so to increase the power, you only need to increase the heat - it is nothing more than a partial stacking of the quantity and quality of the true energy."

"But if you expand the range while maintaining the lethality, its efficiency will decrease exponentially."

"Take the 'Seven Steps of Fan Cage', a killing method passed down in my family's Yanliu Gong, as an example."

"This move can turn seven steps around the body into a high-heat furnace. It is extremely sharp in both offense and defense."

"It's a pity that seven steps is only a little over one foot, and the range is too small - I once tried to expand the seven steps to eight steps. If the radius increased by one-seventh, the volume would increase by [-]%, and the consumption would triple!"

“But what if the two could be combined?”

At this point, Hong Fan paused slightly and raised the corners of his mouth.

"Infusing sand with fire creates an environment with high heat and lethality, but it does not use true energy to act directly, nor does it use flowing air as a medium..."

His eyes lit up with excitement.

"Brother Gu, with your talent, you must have guessed what I meant!"

"Clam?"

Gu Yi Xin Meng came to his senses and took a breath.

"Fire, knot, combine with sand?"

he stammered.

"Um, fried peanuts?"

Hong Fan was speechless when he heard this - what Gu Yixin said was actually a pun.

He couldn't tell whether the opponent was confused or smart for a moment, so he simply explained straight away.

"Well, that's actually what I think."

"High temperatures will naturally cause air flow, leading to a sharp increase in heat loss and consumption, and it is beyond the power of the realm to directly use true energy to continuously cover a large area."

"It is better to use gravel as a high-temperature carrier and air as a natural insulation layer to reduce the consumption of Yanliu Jin through thin distribution."

"At the same time, I control the sand and dust to make high-speed concentric rotations to compensate for the density with speed."

"In this case, the utilization rate of Qi will be greatly improved, the lethality will not be reduced too much, and the continuity and scope will be guaranteed..."

When Hong Fan mentioned the wonderful point, he couldn't help but slap his thigh.

Then, he saw Gu Yi's straight eyes.

PS: Going to bed at sunrise and waking up at sunset makes it seem like living in the dead of night, which is really not good.

So yesterday I tried to find a way to forcefully adjust my schedule back.

There should be another chapter today.

(End of this chapter)