Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 114 0113: Many News

Hearing this prompt tone, Cheng Zongyang was stunned at first, and then he was ecstatic! He immediately looked towards the counter.

Sure enough, three familiar red crystals were placed on the table!
"2530 points, equivalent to 843 points per piece! 157 points cheaper than the one swipe from the inventory!"

Although the points amount is not much, it will be a lot in the long run, and the handling fee will be reduced as the level of the cabin increases.

Although he knew that the handling fee was also a price difference, he still saved a lot relatively speaking.

Gradually calming down his excitement, Cheng Zongyang looked at the three soul crystals in his hand with a sharp gaze.

He left the hut immediately, gave Ma San some instructions, and left the wilderness with the body of a wolf.

He had to hurry up while there were probably still bodies outside the county town.

He hadn't been there for a few days, so he didn't know what was going on in the county. In short, he had to fill up the soul crystals first. He could figure out a way to deal with the corpses later.

After coming out of the wilderness, Cheng Zongyang looked around and carried the gray wolf's body back home.

The current station area has expanded a lot. It took a lot of time to clear the tree stumps and other things on the 10 acres of land, but fortunately it has all taken shape. Farming this year has been slow, so we can only wait until next spring.

The number of bamboo houses has increased by several. Better earth houses, storage cellars, etc. are also being planned.

These are all things that Cheng Zongyang has gradually planned out over the past five days.

The adults were also a little surprised to see Cheng Zongyang come back so quickly.

But when I saw the gray wolf, I understood.

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "I was lucky to come across it. I brought it back first. By the way, I have to go out for a while, and I guess I may not be back so soon. Dad, you and uncle can just do the medicinal bath as before and see if it can be tasted today."

"Okay." Cheng Guanghai then asked, "Bring some food. It's almost noon."

"it is good."

After leaving the wolf to his fathers to deal with, Cheng Zongyang left Neishankou with his bow and arrows and a backpack.

The locations of the entrances and exits to the inner mountain pass are not fixed, which can reduce some traces of trampling.

In order to save time, Cheng Zongyang put all his things into the wilderness world and set off lightly.

Half an hour later, he arrived at Jinqiao Village. Looking at the still empty village, he shook his head slightly and quickly rushed to the county town.

Another half an hour later, two miles away from the county town, Cheng Zongyang was perched on a tree, looking at the situation outside the city through a telescope with a frown on his face.

The situation outside the city was much better this time than it was seven or eight days ago. A large number of refugees were cleaning up things outside the city. It was no longer the messy, disgusting scene before.

Seeing this scene, Cheng Zongyang knew that Chang Younian must have completed the reorganization of the city.

Before fighting the outside world, you must first make peace with the inside.

As for the corpses of the warriors he needed, he knew that so many days had passed and even if some warriors had died, their corpses would have been useless.

Put away the telescope and rush out of the city immediately.

However, the pile of corpses had been cleared away, so he thought about it and headed towards the mass grave.

If you want to deal with these things, you can only throw them over there.

Sure enough, after a quarter of an hour's journey, when they arrived at a place, they saw a shocking scene - countless charred corpses were thrown around the mass grave, emitting a foul stench, and it became a habitat for countless flies and mosquitoes.

Cheng Zongyang held his breath, ignored the disgusting scene, calculated the range of the three soul crystals, and placed them in three locations to avoid conflict.

After marking the location, he quickly left.

If you want to fill up the progress quickly, you can only put it here.

After some disguise, Cheng Zongyang sneaked into the city with the pass he found at the mass grave.

Although both families were wanted, the portraits were still somewhat different from the real people. Don't overestimate how detailed a face can be drawn through oral description.

If you just add a crooked mouth and squinting eyes, this portrait will be useless.

Of course, the premise is that no one knows him.

After entering the city, Cheng Zongyang walked around and found very few people.

After the refugees stormed the city, the streets were already sparsely populated, and now they were even more desolate. Only a few people gathered at the door of some shops.

A large number of shops were still closed, and he saw many people carrying a bowl of porridge and walking carefully along the roadside.

The shops that were blocked by some people were basically rice shops. They were basically shouting "Buy rice" and "Open the door".

"It looks like even if the plague is cured and the refugees are settled, the fundamental problem of food and water shortages cannot be solved. The plague and refugees are just the result of the impact."

Passing by some places, we also saw many county workers dismantling the half-built wooden frames of water wells.

Soon, he arrived at the door of Li Lu's house.

As soon as I arrived, I saw Li Lu's family carrying two coffins out, apparently preparing for a funeral.

Li Wang and her daughter-in-law cried so hard that they were almost out of breath. Li Lu just had red eyes and remained silent, letting the master who was doing the machination arrange things.

But Cheng Zongyang also noticed that one of Li Lu's hands was in a plaster cast, which was obviously broken. But he also suddenly noticed that Li Lu had entered the rank!

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang left silently and returned to his residence.

There was still nothing wrong with the house. He looked at the well in the yard and took out a stone and threw it in.

As a result, I could only hear a shallow sound of water below, without much echo.

"The water level in this county is constantly dropping. The county government should be digging a deep well. But they haven't started yet. Why did they remove the wooden frame?"

Cheng Zongyang recalled the scene he saw on the road. He shook his head slightly and was glad that he did not bring his family with him.

Otherwise, his family has food to eat and water to drink every day, which makes it easy for people to target him. Unless he doesn't light a fire!

Besides, even if he could find an excuse to get meat from outside the city, how would he solve the problem of water? Use the excuse of leaving the city to get meat from outside the county? A few times would be fine, but if it was too much, would he think that so many people in the county would not be able to catch up?

It's not like now, eating and drinking freely in the mountains, happy. Even if we want to go to the city in the future, we have to wait until the drought is over, and it is impossible for everyone to go to the city.

At that time, his family had several warriors in charge, and apart from the local wealthy families, even the gangs might not dare to provoke them.

"Don't be in a hurry, be steady." Cheng Zongyang murmured, covered the wellhead with a wooden board, and walked towards the backyard.

Entering the wilderness world again, Cheng Zongyang continued to practice the Wind Step.

You are about to learn this physical skill.

It was night in a blink of an eye.

In the wilderness world, Cheng Zongyang glanced at the progress of the Wind Step on the interface and shook his head helplessly.

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Wind Step (94/100, not yet mastered)

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He was helpless as he only gained 8 points of proficiency after spending most of the afternoon.

The pace of the steps and the rhythm of the breath are really not fast enough. It is far inferior to the experience and skills bought in the market hut.

This skill can only be learned by yourself slowly. I looked at the clock on the wall of the hut and it was already six o'clock in the evening.

He asked Ma San to skin a wolf and remove the meat from two thighs. He and Ma San ate one and he planned to take the other one out to give to Li Lu.

There is plenty of wild game in the wilderness, so you can eat meat every day.

Martial artists need meat as a tonic. Given the current situation in the city, with Li Lu's wealth and status, it would be good enough if he could buy rice.

As for meat, it is probably only those who are rich and powerful can eat it at will.

A wolf leg weighing more than 30 kilograms is enough for Li Lu's family to eat for several days.

After the meal, Cheng Zongyang quietly left, carrying a wolf leg packed in a sack.

A quarter of an hour later, he knocked on Li Lu's door.

When Li Lu saw Cheng Zongyang, he was also surprised.

"Brother Cheng, why are you here?" Li Lu stepped aside and said, "Come in and talk."

Cheng Zongyang smiled and walked in. The latter looked outside and quickly closed the door.

The main room had been cleaned, but there was still a faint smell of corpse, which was covered by the remaining smell of incense.

"Aunt, please go and deal with this first, otherwise it will easily get out of hand. I'll talk to Uncle Li." Cheng Zongyang handed the sack to Li Wangshi, whose eyes were red and swollen.

"What is this?" Li Lu asked first, but he had no intention of opening it, as that would be impolite.

Cheng Zongyang said, "I killed a wolf in the mountains and cut off a leg of meat. I brought it here for you. Uncle Li, you know me."

Hearing that it was meat, Li Lu, who was about to refuse, could only nod his head after hearing the last sentence and handed it to his wife: "You go and deal with it. It must be 20 to 30 kilograms."

Not only can we hunt prey these days, but we can also give away so much meat, which is a great favor.

Li Wangshi's complexion became more normal. She had been eating rice and noodles prepared by her husband these days. Although there was no meat, she didn't have to eat only one meal a day. But there were still two children, so she had to give them some meat to keep them strong.

"Thank you." Li Wang said with difficulty in her hoarse voice, and then went to the kitchen.

"Brother Cheng, let's talk in our room." Li Lu knew that Cheng Zongyang wanted to talk to him about something, so he took the initiative to invite him.

Cheng Zongyang nodded and followed Li Lu into the room.

A moment later, in the room.

Cheng Zongyang began to listen to Li Lu's account of what had happened in the county during this period.

Give out porridge and water, give medicine to save people, dig wells to get water, eliminate martial arts gangs, integrate all powerful families, and control all independent martial artists...

Cheng Zongyang was terrified after hearing what happened. He was even more glad that he did not come to the county, otherwise he would have joined in!

In the city today, the four gangs have been integrated, and the six powerful families have been unified, all of which are arranged and dispatched by Chang Younian.

But more importantly, he wanted to investigate all the warriors in the city and make them either leave or join a unified force. His goal was to control these warriors so that they could work for him!

As a result, many warriors moved out of the county, but more of them joined the unified forces.

Li Lu's hand was broken by a detached warrior who refused to cooperate with the riot. But the warrior was also stabbed to death by Li Lu.

Cheng Zongyang asked: "I can't find out what he wants to do by integrating all the warriors?"

Li Lu shook his head: "I am just a yamen runner. Unless I become a constable, I may be able to find out more. But there is another piece of gossip, I don't know whether it is true or not."

"What?" Cheng Zongyang asked.

"I heard someone came from Kyoto this morning with an imperial decree. Hearing that the county lord was going to be transferred, the lord was so angry that he smashed the desk in the court."

At this point, Cheng Zongyang's face lit up: "Really?"

"It's almost certain, otherwise they wouldn't have made up such outrageous news." Li Lu whispered, "If he was really transferred, the wanted warrants for your two families might have been cancelled."

"Hahaha." Cheng Zongyang laughed cheerfully. "Great. It's better to transfer him. I won't be so cautious. But Chang Younian must be so angry that he would die. Such a good situation was easily taken away by someone."

It was not a wasted trip tonight, as I got to know so much information.

"Yes, I haven't congratulated Uncle Li on his successful entry into the rank system yet." Cheng Zongyang clasped his fists and added his congratulations.

"It's all thanks to the tiger bone wine you gave me last time. Although it's only half a pound, the effect is very good!" Speaking of the matter of entering the culinary art, Li Lu smiled: "This also fulfilled my long-cherished wish. Really, thank you! If you need anything in the future, you can always come to me. As long as I can do it!"

At the end, his tone and attitude became more sincere.

"Uncle Li, you're too polite. Helping you is also helping me." At this point, Cheng Zongyang suddenly asked, "By the way, Uncle Li, now that you have become a warrior, can you be promoted to a constable?"

Li Lu nodded: "The Inspection Department is short of constables now. After Captain Wang learned about my situation, he reported it to the chief, and planned to let me fill the vacancies left by the previous constables who died."

"Promoted to captain of the police at the eighth rank?" Cheng Zongyang's eyes were burning.

Li Lu didn't know what Cheng Zongyang meant, so he continued to nod: "That's right."

"What about the seventh grade?" Cheng Zongyang asked.

"this."

Li Lu's face froze, and he smiled bitterly:
"That's not clear. Normally, a seventh-rank warrior can become the deputy director of the Inspection Department, or even the director, which is ranked from the ninth rank to the ninth rank. This is already the official sequence for entering Daliang, even if it is the lowest official position.

But this requires recommendations. You should also know that when appointing officials in Daliang, personal ability is secondary, and the main thing is recommendation!"

Cheng Zongyang nodded. Daliang originally adopted a recommendation system, and the promotion and demotion of officials were all influenced by the aristocratic families.

This is also the reason why the aristocratic families competed for counties. Not only could they increase the power and territory they could control, but they could also recommend some officials to strengthen the family's power.

After listening, Cheng Zongyang came up with a plan in his mind.

Help Li Lu become the head of the police.

As for the deputy inspector of the Inspection Department, there is no need to think so far now.

As long as Li Lu becomes the head of the police, his power will be greater. Moreover, the stable family situation in the county was destroyed by Chang Younian, which made it easier for Li Lu to do things.

Most importantly, from Chang Younian's previous style of doing things, he felt that the other party was not the kind of person who would do things for others' benefit.

The first question he asked was to help Li Lu become the head of the police force!
Not to mention how much he can help in the future, at least he has an official person in Yufeng County.

You don’t have to, but there has to be a way.

In the future, the Cheng family can move into the county town and use Li Lu’s identity to quickly gain a foothold.

It can also be said that Chang Younian's series of destructive operations have given many small families the opportunity to rise to prominence. In the future, his Cheng family will also have this opportunity.

The destruction of all existing forces means the emergence of new forces.

Before it appeared, everything was in disorder.

Only when there is chaos can one fish in troubled waters and profit from it.

Cheng Zongyang was thinking quietly. Li Lu, who was standing beside him, saw that Cheng Zongyang looked thoughtful and waited quietly as well.

Suddenly, Cheng Zongyang stared into Li Lu's eyes and asked in a low voice:
"If Chang Younian is transferred away and other competing forces emerge, it means that the situation in Yufeng County will be re-cleansed. Uncle Li, can you gain anything from it?"

(End of this chapter)