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The spring of the 3153rd year of Emperor Qianlongchang - February 17th.
Nearly eight years have passed since Wang Shouzhe crossed over.
This is a season of warm spring and blossoming of all things.
Dingpu Ferry.
A large ferry slowly docked in the deep-water port area.
As soon as the docking bridge was paved, the crowd descended in an orderly manner. They held a card and passed through the gate one after another.
The card was only the size of a child's palm, but it was exquisitely crafted, like gold but not gold, like jade but not jade, showing a slight purple in the sunlight.
Inside the card, there seems to be a piece of cardboard inlaid, on which is written the birthplace, name, age, and simple appearance and body characteristics.
As long as the person holding the card passes through the gate, the heavily armed gate guards will just check it briefly, and greet them with a smile: "Welcome home."
Those who pass will also thank you in return: "Thank you for your protection."
But those who don't have cards need to go through another gate. The gate was relatively crowded, and the gatekeepers looked stern, examining each passer-by, and required the other party to provide a large number of official guides. If there was no guide, they would be sent back immediately.
Even if there is a guide, someone will ask him about his origin, purpose, and how long he plans to stay in Ping'an Town. The interrogation is extremely strict, and if something is wrong, they will be deported immediately.
After passing the interrogation, a thick paper card was issued, admonishing him that the safe town should not exceed one month, and a large copper was charged for the construction cost.
You don't have to accept it, but you can go back and forth wherever you go, and you can take the next ferry back at your own expense.
On the ferry, several people dressed as traveling merchants formed a small traveling merchant convoy. Because they were accompanied by a carriage, they were placed in the last batch.
At this time, a young traveling merchant in his twenties watched the scene from a distance and said, "Brother, what is that lavender card?" Obviously, it was his first time to do business in Ping'an Town.
These traveling merchant carts were loaded with refined salt, rough salt, rough iron, rough copper and other materials, all of which were bestsellers in Ping'an Town. In particular, refined salt and rough iron will be purchased at high prices by blacksmiths and grocery stores almost as soon as they get off the carriage.
And they will buy some snowflake candy, thick cotton cloth, brocade cotton cloth, ordinary porcelain, and other things with high prices from Ping'an Town. After working so hard on this trip, they earned quite a bit.
"Purple card." An old traveler in his forties or fifties said enviously, "This is the identity card of the local people in Ping'an Town. Today's Ping'an Town is not the same as it used to be. If outsiders want to move to Ping'an Town, they have to buy it at least once. Only 20 acres of land and a house can be allocated an identity card. With an identity card, you can enter and leave Pingan Town at will."
"Hey, I heard that the price of land and houses in Ping'an Town is very high now." The young traveler enviously said, "Could it be possible that even those lowly tenant farmers are also issued ID cards?"
"Speak carefully." The old traveler hastily stopped him.
But it was too late.
A few rough men in fine cotton clothes beside them gave them a hard look: "What's wrong with us tenant farmers, why are we so low?"
The old traveler hastily apologized for the young man: "I'm sorry, everyone, but the young man is not sensible. He doesn't know the tenant farmers of the Ping'an Wang family, and they have a very high status now."
The high status comes from the high income and the importance Wang attaches to them.
Today, the per capita annual income of Wang's tenant farmers has exceeded 30% of the per capita income of owner farmers in Ping'an Town. The only explanation for such an upside-down result is that Wang's farm income has become very high, and tenant farmers have benefited accordingly.
You must know that since the owner farmers in Ping'an Town are cultivating the No. 9 fine varieties of the Wang family, and they can enjoy the discount price of pest control from the spiritual insect master, the income of the owner farmers in other places is much higher than that of the owner farmers in other places.
It can be seen that the high income of Wang's sharecroppers is beyond the imagination of many people.
Those tenant farmers of the Wang family let it go, and didn't bother to argue with them. They chatted and laughed freely: "I heard that the daughter of the old Zhang family married a self-cultivator? I remember that girl works in Canzhuang, right? Really I don't know what he thought, but let his daughter marry like this."
"There are fifty acres of fertile land at home? Is the boy still an apprentice blacksmith? If so, he is a good match."
"Old Liu, I heard that your family has put up a shop outside the second phase of Zhuwei Garden? This is the whole family's savings for many years, right?"
"Well, that's right, the three boys in my family have some talent in sewing, and they will graduate in two years. Opening a tailor shop can be regarded as supporting themselves. Our old Liu family can't farm for generations, right?"
"What's wrong with farming? It's not easy to be a tenant farmer of the Wang family now. You have to check your identity and skills, and you have to work in a peripheral farm for a few years..."
"That's true, but there is a tailor shop to add a craft, and the income is not low. The shop is also a good investment."
These tenant farmers talk about income, and shut their mouths for investment.
But it frightened the young traveling merchant, how could this be a tenant farmer? I feel that the confidence and tone are like rich peasants from other places.
Getting married to a self-cultivating farmer, but still dislike him
"Is the shop in Zhuwei Haoyuan very expensive?" The young traveler asked weakly.
"It's okay, more than a hundred dry gold." The old Liu said, "All the savings of the whole family over the years have been thrown into it, and a lot of foreign debts have also been borrowed."
"So expensive?" The young traveler was shocked. "In other towns, you can buy more than 30 mu of land. Isn't Wang's shop too dark?"
"Young people, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand." The tenant farmer Lao Liu scolded, "Zhuwei Mansion is a place where every inch of land is expensive, and the land and housing prices are rising every year. Many wealthy people in Changning also come to Zhuwei Mansion. Buying a house and land as a separate courtyard. Let’s not talk about Feng Shui and the like next to it, just say that the third-order guardian spirit beast at Zhuwei Lake is guarding one side, which is enough to make the shop worth the money.”
Tier 3 Guardian Spirit Beast
The young traveler was terrified, and then he couldn't help being curious, and started talking to the tenant farmer, Old Liu. The more he talked, the more frightened he became. This Ping'an Town was stronger and richer than he had imagined.
"Did you see that young gentleman in brocade cloth?" Old tenant farmer Liu pointed to a young man patrolling on the pier. Everywhere he passed, some soldiers saluted him.
"Is that... a young master of the Wang family's Zhimai?"
"It is indeed Young Master Wang, but it is a collateral."
"Hey, even the collaterals are so imposing, this Ping'an Wang family is not simple."
"You are natural. Our Ping'an Wang family is an eighth-rank family, and the patriarch's wife is also from the Shanyin Liu family of an eighth-rank family. How can it be easy to join forces?"
The young traveling merchant suddenly became awed. The eighth-rank family has at least one three-spiritual platform, and the two families must have at least six spiritual-level monks. The strength is really strong.
Pedestrians on the ferry, casual practitioners, traveling traders, etc. all passed through the gate in an orderly manner, those who should be inspected, and those who should go through formalities should go through the formalities.
Suddenly.
In the orderly, there was an accident.
In the distance from the pier, a sturdy black warrior rushed towards a ferry that was about to leave the port. None of the soldiers who stepped forward to block him was his opponent, they were blown away with every punch and kick.
"Hey, that's a master, probably at the seventh level of the Qi Refining Realm."
The crowd started to discuss and was surprised. That basaltic practitioner is like a casual cultivator, and it is extremely rare for a casual cultivator to reach such a state. And judging by his appearance, he seems to be very capable of fighting.
Suddenly!
"You hurt someone in my Ping'an Town, and you still dare to run?"
There was a loud shout behind him, and a young man intercepted him at an even faster speed. Not only was he extremely fast, but his figure was like a catkin in the wind, swaying unsteadily, extremely elegant and handsome.
With the entanglement and obstruction of soldiers.
Within a few breaths of effort, the young man entangled the middle-aged casual Xuanwu practitioner. His sword was like a rainbow, opening and closing, and a thick white light shone in the sword light.
This handsome and elegant young man said that the basaltic combat skills and body skills he displayed are exactly the secrets of the Wang family, the middle-level body skills Liuxu body skills, and the middle-level sword skills Wang family's Xuanyuan sword.
Seeing how smooth and smooth he is, it is obvious that he has reached the point where he has achieved some success.
"Wang Shouyong!"
The middle-aged casual cultivator shouted angrily, "Didn't I just hurt someone while eating? You chased me for dozens of miles. Do you really think I'm made of mud?"
He pulled out a steel knife, the style of the knife was fierce and domineering, obviously he wasn't someone to be trifled with.
This person is not weak in casual cultivation, whether it is Xuanwu combat skills or cultivation base.
The two of them fought together with bang bang bang, and they were evenly matched.
Some low-strength soldiers, even guards, dare not go up to help make trouble.
"That's the fifth young master of the Wang family, Wang Shouyong!" Many people recognized the young man's identity and cheered, "Fifth young master, come on, take down that loose cultivator."
"My darling." The young traveler was shocked, "This Fifth Young Master looks like he's only in his twenties, right? He's at the seventh level of Qi Refining Realm, and his skills are still so solid, he might be able to reach the peak of Qi Refining Realm in his forties. Yes, there is hope for this life’s Lingtai.”
"That's natural. Our young masters and ladies of the Wang family are all top-notch."
With the encouragement of the masses, Wang Shouyong became more courageous as he fought, and gradually gained the upper hand.
Wang's Xuanyuan Jue is a middle-grade cultivation heart Jue. The more you practice it, the thicker and more powerful your profound energy will be, and it will last for a long time, and its endurance is quite astonishing.
The casual cultivator gradually couldn't resist it.
Suddenly, he took out a handful of red sand from his pocket and threw it out, and shouted: "Look at me, arsenopyrite."
Wang Shouyong was startled, and hurriedly slashed back, his sword danced so hard that the water couldn't get in, blocking the arsenopyrite coefficient. It's a pity that he was fooled, those are not arsenopyrite at all, but ordinary red gravel.
The casual cultivator had already taken the opportunity to escape again, rushing towards the ferry that had left the port five or six feet away.
"Oops!" Wang Shouyong secretly thought something was wrong, it was too late to chase after him, if he rushed to the ferry to fight with him, he might hurt innocent people.
"Hahaha!" The casual cultivator laughed wildly, "Let's see if you dare to chase after me on the boat. When I run away, I will never come to Ping'an Town again in this life..."
But before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly, even the momentum of galloping stopped.
His face was a little shocked, and cold sweat rolled down his forehead.
I saw a young girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a goose-yellow women's dress, standing between him and the ferry.
With her hands behind her back, she just stopped there casually, and stopped all the movements of the loose cultivator.
Her expression was calm and unwavering, and she didn't even look at the casual cultivator. The invisible coercion weakened the stunned legs and feet of the casual cultivator.
"Wang, Wang... Wang Luoqiu!" Sanxiu's eyes were full of panic and despair.
"Miss Six, Miss Six is here!"
Among the crowd, someone shouted excitedly, "It's really unlucky for that loose cultivator to meet Miss Six. I heard that Miss Six has already broken through to the eighth level of Qi Refining Realm!"
"That's the old calendar. Miss Six was already at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm before the Chinese New Year."
"Hey, Miss Sixth was only eighteen years old last year, right? This speed of cultivation is terrifying!"
"Miss Six not only has a fast cultivation speed, but also has excellent Xuanwu combat skills. It is said that she has the terrifying strength to leapfrog fighting."
One after another, the casual cultivator's heart sank to the bottom of the valley.
He has been in Ping'an Town for more than a year, and the name of Miss Six of Wang Shiluo's generation has long been known.
But how would he be willing to catch her without a fight? Immediately, he swung his steel knife and slashed at her like a thunderbolt: "Wang Luoqiu, if you don't want to die, get out of the way!" .
No matter what he said, he was also a strong man who had killed fierce beasts in the outer domain, and his Xuanwu combat skills were naturally brave!
"Ah~ idiot."
Wang Luoqiu shook his head and sighed softly, and took a step forward as if strolling leisurely.
That step seemed to shrink the ground to an inch, and in an instant, he had already swayed and approached him, and lightly punched him on the chest.
"boom!"
The casual cultivator seemed to be hit head-on by a ton of fierce beasts, and flew backwards five or six feet in the air before falling hard to the ground. His chest had sunken into a large piece, and he was vomiting blood continuously from his mouth, and his whole body was twitching, and he couldn't get up.
The onlookers were gasping for air, and there was no sound. We all know that Sixth Miss Wang Luoqiu is powerful, but I never imagined that she can be so powerful.
Punch!
With just one punch, that formidable casual cultivator was completely eliminated.
At this time, the young hero Wang Shouyong ran over and said awkwardly, "Thank you, sister Luoqiu, for your help. If you let this thief run into the boat, you will be in big trouble."
"Wang Shouyong, how could you fall for such a trick?" Wang Luoqiu folded his hands behind his back, his black eyebrows raised slightly in dissatisfaction, "You failed the fourth brother's expectations of you, go find him to apologize. "
"Yes, I'll put him in jail first, and then I'll go and plead with my fourth brother immediately." Wang Shouyong said honestly with a bitter face.
"Hmph." After Wang Luoqiu snorted, he ignored him and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Wang Shouyong also knew Luo Qiu's temper, so he didn't dare to delay, and immediately took him back to the prison of the town guard's mansion.
Then he went back to Wang's main house without stopping, and hurried to the outside of his fourth brother's yard.
Once outside the yard, he felt a little scared and ashamed again, and hesitated in his steps.
But before he could hesitate, a gentle yet majestic voice came from the yard: "Old Wu, how long are you going to spend time outside my yard? Come in."
Wang Shouyong trembled, straightened up hastily, bowed his hands in awe and solemnly and said, "Yes, fourth brother."
Afterwards, he walked in, feeling very moved in his heart, he really couldn't see through the fourth brother's cultivation strength more and more.
It feels like the more he chases, the more he feels that the fourth brother is getting more and more unfathomable.
Standing outside the courtyard like this, he could actually be noticed by him.
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