The Emperor is Above

Chapter 22: Bad News Continues, Niuniu Visits
"Brother Shi Gu, we haven't seen each other for a few days, and you have become more beautiful and charming."

After just a few days of not seeing each other, Tun Shigu's originally chubby body seemed to have gained weight. It seemed that Tuan's family was indeed well off.

Being teased by Qing Yi like this, Tu Shi Gu was not embarrassed. His fat face showed nervousness and excitement. When he got close to Qing Yi, he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, have you heard? The king was attacked yesterday."

"Hmm? The king was attacked. Is he injured?"

Qing Yi's brows suddenly frowned. Xing State was a powerful country in the Northern Wilderness. If even its king, Lord Xing, was attacked, then this series of events would be very complicated. It seemed as if there was an invisible black hand behind it.

"After all, the king is a third-grade warrior, so how could he be injured? After the winter festival, he went to Yuanshan in the western suburbs of the capital for winter hunting, and was attacked by a fourth-grade giant bear monster.

In the end, the giant bear was killed. Its body alone was more than three feet long and weighed at least 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms. Ten sixth-rank upper-rank armored soldiers of the Black Armor Cavalry took turns to carry it back to the capital. Tens of thousands of people saw it with their own eyes. "

Tu Shigu said with regret, "If only I could have this bear skin, I could make the armor from it and present it directly to the king.

But what is strange is that these giant bears should be active in the deep forests and hibernate in winter. The king suspected that someone deliberately led the giant bears to him. "

"I suspect the same thing!" Qing Yi couldn't help but nodded. "This winter is not peaceful. You should have seen the letter from the guard. With so many things happening, you still have the mood to come to me?"

"Of course I saw it! That's why I came here!"

Tu Shigu said with a little excitement, "On the one hand, it is to remind you to be more careful recently and train the young and strong people in the village well, and on the other hand, it is to quickly make these armors.

The more peaceful the time, the less attention we masters of armor and weapons will receive. The more turbulent the times, the more sought after the armor and weapons I make will be.

Especially since the king has been attacked, he will definitely take this turmoil very seriously, so I will become rich soon, brother!"

At this point, the Pig Master Ancient God said mysteriously: "Brother, have you heard? Last night, the Bailiangli where Bailiang Zhengzhi was located in the east was almost breached by a group of wild boars.

Fortunately, the old man was still as powerful as he was in the past. He wielded the heavy sword very well. Despite being seriously injured, he used a trick to kill the ninth-grade pig monster. Otherwise, the entire Bailiangli would have been razed to the ground by the herd of wild boars.

It’s a pity that the old man has a stubborn temper and has no intention of selling the ninth-grade wild boar, otherwise the armor he made would be extraordinary.”

Qing Yi ignored Tun Shigu's complaints. The news of strange beast activities nearby made him take it more seriously. He gathered the villagers together to explain the recent crisis and told them not to go out unless it was absolutely necessary. Xizi, Huaimu and other young people were repeatedly reminded of this.

Chai Yong led the young and strong men to raise and reinforce the already repaired high wall again. The wall was two zhang high and one zhang and five feet wide. The snow in the trench was also cleared in time. After widening and deepening the trench, many traps were set up. Huaiqiuli suddenly became a small city with strong defenses.

Tun Shigu hurriedly carried out the second tanning process, and then began to make wild wolf skin armor and wolf tooth weapons. He wanted to find a noble person who could help him before he needed them.

As time goes by, more and more bad news comes from around.

The usually safe area of ​​the capital began to suffer more and more attacks. A large number of strange beasts broke in without warning, making the city guards responsible for the cleanup extremely busy.

In the endless jungle of the Yuanshan Mountains to the west of the capital, there have been many incidents of mountain ghosts and mandrills injuring people, and there are even powerful strange beasts lingering on the edge of the forest.

The area to the east near Jiming Lake was even more chaotic. Not only were there more herds of beasts roaming around and attacking villages, there were even ghosts roaming around.

Some people claimed to have seen with their own eyes several men in black robes fighting fiercely with a ghost that was ten feet tall.

However, most people did not believe these words, because the people who said these words were crazy, and few people were willing to believe the words of a madman. The powerful city guards were unable to protect the safety of the capital, causing the atmosphere in the pavilions around the capital to become increasingly tense, and more and more nobles and civilians had to choose to protect themselves.

On the contrary, Tun Shigu was smiling every day. Recently, his family sold a large amount of stockpiled armor and weapons at a high price. He was in a good mood and gained weight.

Even Qing Yi bought fifty sets of cowhide armor, twenty shields, and a batch of swords, spears, halberds, and other weapons from the Tuan family to arm the young and strong troops in Huaiqiu.

Tuan Shigu also generously gave ten mulberry wood bows. The bows were standard infantry bows with a range of more than twenty feet. Each bow also came with thirty arrows, but they were all arrowheads made from ordinary cow and sheep bones.

Chai Yong was very happy to get such a group of armored soldiers. The young and strong men in the village have been practicing martial arts every day recently. The top fifty with the best performance were selected, and put on cowhide armor and standard weapons. They looked really good, which aroused the envy of young men in the village such as Xizi and Huaimu.

This year's New Year passed in a flash amid crises.

No one was in the mood to hold New Year celebrations this year. Even Tun Shigu only went back for one day on New Year's Day and then returned to carefully make armor.

Qing Yi practiced and ate a lot for half a month, and then entered the God's Spirit Realm to be tortured again. The speed of his physical strength increase began to slow down, but he had a strength of 1,500 kilograms, but he still remained at the initial stage of body building.

The toughness of his skin and flesh is still increasing, and although his bone strength is also increasing, all aspects meet the standards of the initial stage of body building.

"Snapped--"

"Snapped--"

Qing Yi remained calm as he broke pieces of firewood as thick as his thighs, and brought them into the kitchen for Aunt Bo to use for burning. He worked for a long time without even breathing hard.

"My goodness, brother, your increased strength is really scary!"

After a busy morning, Tu Shigu leaned against the sun in the corner, basking in the sun and waiting for Auntie Bo to call for dinner. He muttered in surprise,

"The mulberry wood bow I specially gave you is a strong bow of ten stones, but you broke it. It seems that you have to find materials to make a strong bow yourself."

"I think only a bow made of exotic beasts' tendons and bones can meet my needs. The meat at home will be gone in a couple of days. I will go out hunting to see if there are any suitable raw materials. You can help me make one then."

After so many days of getting along, Qing Yi has gotten to know Tun Shigu's personality and temper thoroughly, and is no longer polite to him.

"That's no problem! Just leave it to me when the time comes. I can practice my skills there."

Tu Shigu squinted his eyes and answered lazily. He had sold a lot of ordinary armored soldiers in these few days, but he had not found a suitable person to present the wild wolf skin armor that he had just made. This made him a little anxious.

"Big brother, I'm here to see Xiaobai!" A clear girl's voice suddenly came from outside the yard.

Tu Shigu's eyes cracked open and he jumped up suddenly: "Haha, I was just wondering who to find, and here comes a ready-made one."

Qing Yi also turned around to look at the gate, and saw the cute Niuniu standing on the threshold, waving at him with a smile, and the thin and dark old man was also nodding with a smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)