Chapter 380 So Thin

The day after Jiang Zhe and his team left. After all the documents for the case, including those for the sect and the provincial governor's office, were finalized and printed, and then Wang Shuliang left.

However, Yuanye and his 1,000 cavalrymen were still guarding the city gates and strongholds.

Looking at the heavily armored soldiers, the people of Xiangu County were still in a panic.

After the case was over, Ximen Kankan and Liu Shushan left.

After all, they had been in the sect for three years, and they had just returned home to reunite. It had only been a few days before they were called over by Duan Rong.

However, their trip was not in vain. They helped in such a big case, and it was recorded in the documents. This was very helpful for them to advance to inner disciples three years later.

Shen Mizhi saw that Xiao Yu was in a bad mood, so she stayed and compensated her for a few more days.

From the case to Xiao Zongting's burial, Duan Rong was very busy during this period.

This day, he finally had some free time.

In a secluded room in Ximen Mansion, Duan Rong sat cross-legged on a bed behind a screen, with his five hearts facing the sky, breathing in and out.

He devoured Shen Qing's weapon spirit on the day Wei Ziyang was besieged.

That is, the first level of Liuhe Sword, the martial arts of Yuanqi Realm.

The weapon spirit had been digested and absorbed that day, but Duan Rong finally had the opportunity to quietly study this martial arts of Yuanqi Realm until today.

The first level of Liuhe Sword has been completely integrated into Duan Rong's soul.

At this time, he is already very familiar with the method of breathing in Liuhe Sword.

Duan Rong began to deduce breathing according to the path of breathing in the method in his mind. Half an hour later, Duan Rong opened his eyes with astonishment.

"This heaven and earth Yuanqi... is so thin?!"

After Duan Rong began to breathe in and out according to the method of Liuhe Sword, he could sense the existence of heaven and earth Yuanqi after entering the state.

But at this moment, in the room where he was, there were only two strands of heaven and earth energy floating there like cow hair.

Duan Rong's mind moved, and his consciousness suddenly released.

At this moment, the astonishment in his eyes became even worse!

In the vast space covered by his consciousness, in the vast twilight at this moment, there were only more than ten strands of heaven and earth energy floating there...

Duan Rong couldn't help but smile.

This heaven and earth energy is so thin that it can be counted? !

Saying that it is thin is really a compliment to it. In fact, the accurate description should be that the weather energy here is between almost nothing and extremely thin.

The heaven and earth energy is so thin that even if Duan Rong is very familiar with the first level of the practice, he can't break through to the energy realm.

Duan Rong only thought of that day when Jiang Zhe and others were practicing qigong and regulating their breathing, they would open a black jade box that was emitting cold air and put something like "candied haws" from it into their mouths.

Although Duan Rong didn't know what that thing was, now that he thought about it, that thing must contain extremely rich heaven and earth energy.

In fact, Duan Rong had already seen in the classics of the sect's Sutra Collection Institute that the heaven and earth energy in the secular world was thin, but he really didn't expect it to be so thin.

This is not thin, this is almost nothing!

Duan Rong then thought of another reason, perhaps related to the remoteness of Xiangu County.

In the sect, that is, in Changliu Mountain, the heaven and earth energy is still quite rich.

And the most concentrated place is the underground world with distorted space.

In fact, the laws of heaven in this world can no longer give birth to heaven and earth energy. This is also the fundamental reason why the heaven and earth energy is thin.

The real source of heaven and earth energy is in the space of the ruins of gods and demons.

Because the laws of heaven in the ruins of gods and demons are different from the laws of heaven in this world, there is a constant flow of heaven and earth vitality in it, which spreads around...

The underground world with distorted space is the laws of heaven in the ruins of gods and demons and the laws of heaven in this world. The endless years between the two have formed a strange space. The laws of heaven in it are different from those in the ruins of gods and demons and this world. It is an independent space of different dimensions.

In other words, the concentration of heaven and earth vitality in the entire Qingzhou should be centered on the Changliu Mountains, spreading to the surroundings and decreasing in sequence.

Xiangu County is so remote that it can be said that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so the weather vitality here is almost non-existent.

Duan Rong was thinking so, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

He jumped off the bed, walked over slowly, and opened the door.

I saw Zhu Xiaoqi standing outside the door with a food box.

She was petite, and the food box was not big, but in her hand, it seemed big.

Duan Rong stepped aside, and Zhu Xiaoqi came in with the food box.

She put the food box on the table, and immediately brought out two plates of snacks, smiling: "Miss Yu, I made them by myself, let me give them to you. One plate of osmanthus cake, one plate of rose cake."

Duan Rong looked at Zhu Xiaoqi.

Zhu Xiaoqi was still wearing mourning at this time, and her clothes were plain. But her eyes were bright, her lips were like peeled lychees, and there was a faint smile on the corners of her mouth.

Duan Rong said: "How is her mood recently? I went to see her yesterday, and I seemed to see her secretly wiping tears. Why do you have the mind to make snacks today?"

Zhu Xiaoqi sighed and said: "A few days ago, Miss Shen often accompanied her to talk and laugh, and her mood was better. The day before yesterday, Miss Shen left, and she was a little depressed again. I thought of teaching her to make snacks to kill time."

"Really?" Duan Rong looked at the two plates of snacks with interest. The appearance was good.

Xiao Yu has been escorting for many years and has always been a female knight. Xiao Zongting has no son and seems to raise her as half a son. He never knew that Xiao Yu could make snacks.

Zhu Xiaoqi said: "The snacks made by the lady are all here. This is a piece of the lady's heart. You must eat it all."

After Zhu Xiaoqi finished speaking, he covered his mouth and smiled, squatted and bowed, and then left.

Duan Rong's eyes moved. Zhu Xiaoqi's last look at him seemed a little strange.

But Duan Rong was really hungry. He sat in front of the table, picked up a piece of osmanthus cake, and took a bite.

Duan Rong's face changed slightly when the cake entered his mouth.

"This is... too bad!"

He reluctantly swallowed the cake in his mouth, held the half cake in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and really couldn't eat it, so he put it back on the plate.

At this time, he already understood the meaning of Zhu Xiaoqi's strange eyes when she left. She must have known that it was unpalatable, but she gave it to him and told him to eat it all.

This girl, is she deliberately making trouble for me? !

Duan Rong found a piece of rice paper and wrapped the two plates of snacks. Anyway, he was hungry, so he just went out to eat something and took care of the two plates of snacks on the way.

If Xiao Yu or Zhu Xiaoqi asked him about it, he would say that he had eaten it all.

Although the case had been closed, Guo Xiangbao, the newly appointed magistrate of Xiangu County, was still busy and had no time to rest.

Just two days after Jiang Zhe and Wang Shuliang left, the soldiers sent by Yuanye to Wei Yutian's old house found a large number of mummies in the pond next to the pavilion in the backyard.

After the soldiers reported the matter to Yuanye and Guo Xiangbao, the two ordered the organization to turn over the silt at the bottom of the pond.

As a result, hundreds of mummies and skeletons were found.

After the examination by the county coroner, all the mummies and skeletons were female.

Guo Xiangbao wrote another document on this matter, one to the provincial governor's office and one to the clan.

After a few days, Yuan Ye and his 1,000 cavalry also withdrew from Xiangu County.

Since then, the market in Xiangu County has slowly begun to gain popularity...

Although on the surface, Xiangu County seems to have returned to its former tranquility, the county magistrate Guo Xiangbao is still at a loss.

Although the case has subsided, the wound left by this case in Xiangu County is really too big.

He is now seizing the assets of major business houses, and he is thinking about how to deal with them?

In the past three years, Sun Qian cleverly set up excuses, suppressed and oppressed them in various ways, and took the assets of major business houses from their original owners, either by selling them at a low price or by cleverly seizing them.

Some people wanted to confront Sun Qian, but within a few days, they were wiped out overnight.

No mistakes, just read the content of the book in 16-9!

Sun Qian closed the case with the grounds that it was a vendetta and there was no clue.

After that case, the original owners of the major business houses either hid or moved away, and no one showed up again.

But in the past few days, these people have emerged from the deep pool and started to use various relationships to get in touch with the new county magistrate Guo Xiangbao.

They hope to abolish the transactions with Sun Qian's subordinates and take back the assets that were sold at a low price that year. After all, those people are all followers of the Filthy Blood Cult. Their transactions were all signed in front of Sun Qian, the county magistrate, and they were obviously forced!

Guo Xiangbao has been thinking about this matter in the past few days.

Even if he confiscates all these assets, it is actually within the law.

However, that would be detrimental to the long-term stability of Xiangu County, and more importantly, to himself.

Guo Xiangbao was inclined to return the assets to the original owners of the major forces, but he had to give them some benefits.

Guo Xiangbao rubbed his hands and poured a big mouthful of strong tea into his throat. "Hello, I'm fine, everyone is fine! If you don't show some appreciation after returning the things to you, wouldn't you think I, Guo, am a sucker?"

Guo Xiangbao put down the teacup and thought about how to extort money from the major forces.

Half a month later, Xiao Yu and Zhu Xiaoqi had gone through mourning.

On this day, Xiao Yu and Duan Rong strolled in the garden of Ximen Mansion.

The path in the garden was not cleaned by the servants, and was covered with dead leaves. The feet of the two people stepped on it, making a crackling sound.

"Xiao Yu!" Duan Rong suddenly called her.

Xiao Yu hummed in her throat and continued walking.

Duan Rong said, "I promised you that I would propose to Mr. Xiao when I came back. But I didn't expect that Mr. Xiao would have such an accident. Now, you and I have become a person without relatives and friends."

Xiao Yu stood there, looking at Duan Rong, with a certain emotion flashing in her eyes.

Duan Rong looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Since Mr. Xiao is gone, I will propose to heaven and earth! Heaven is above, earth is below! Xiao Yu, are you willing to marry me?"

As Duan Rong said this, he knelt on one knee, took out a beautifully patterned gold bracelet from his hand, and handed it to Xiao Yu.

Duan Rong used the Western way of proposing in his previous life. In the memory of his original body, he knew very little about the marriage customs of this world. Duan Rong came up with his own idea and expressed his heart directly! He believed that people have the same heart and the same reason. As long as he expressed his feelings sincerely, Xiao Yu would always understand him.

When Duan Rong said that, Xiao Yu was already cold all over, but when Duan Rong knelt on one knee and handed her the shining bracelet, Xiao Yu's tears could not stop flowing.

At that moment, her heart had melted!

In her tearful eyes, she looked at Duan Rong's slightly raised face, as if that face had penetrated countless years and came to her.

Xiao Yu pulled Duan Rong up in a panic and said, "Get up quickly! Don't let anyone see it!"

Xiao Yu had seen how other girls got married, but she had never heard of Duan Rong's way. Although she was very moved, she also felt that it seemed inappropriate to let Duan Rong half-kneel in front of her!

Duan Rong pulled Xiao Yu up and said, "You haven't said whether you agree or not?"

Xiao Yu hummed as slightly as a mosquito, and then lowered her head.

Duan Rong was overjoyed. After two lives, he finally had a wife!

Duan Rong gently put the carved gold bracelet in his hand on Xiao Yu's hand. Xiao Yu stood there and let him fiddle with it.

Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong's gentle and serious look, and her heart was very happy.

Although she lost her father and sister, she was not helpless in this world after all because she could marry Duan Rong.

Since the two had already decided to spend their lives together, the next thing was to prepare for the wedding.

Although Duan Rong knew very little about the marriage customs in this world, Xiao Yu knew it very clearly.

First, she had to find a fortune teller who could deduce the gossip, check the palm prints of the two people, and let the fortune teller choose an auspicious day.

After the day was chosen, it was time to prepare for the wedding and notify relatives and friends.

Duan Rong listened and immediately started to look for a fortune teller. But he had never had much contact in this regard.

Duan Rong went to ask Yang Zhen for help.

As a constable, Yang Zhen happened to have a fortune teller in the area he was in charge of. That afternoon, Yang Zhen took the matchmaker to Ximen Mansion to find Duan Rong.

The matchmaker looked at the birth dates of Duan Rong and Xiao Yu, then took the calendar and drew three dates for them, saying that these three days were auspicious days.

Duan Rong was in a very good mood, so he rewarded the matchmaker with a silver note.

The matchmaker thanked her repeatedly after receiving the silver note and left happily.

Duan Rong and Xiao Yu then discussed the specific date in the room.

Duan Rong preferred the middle date of the three dates, which was the 19th of next month.

"I think we should get married within the three months of our home visit leave. Once these three months are over, I don't know what work the sect will assign us?"

Xiao Yu's voice was infinitely gentle. "Well, you arrange it."

Now that the date has been set, the next step is to prepare for the wedding. Duan Rong thought that he had to find a house to buy first.

After this great change in Xiangu County, there are quite a few idle large houses, and it is a good time to start.

On this day, Duan Rong was about to go to the pawnshop to have a look, but a clerk from the county government suddenly came to see him.

When handling cases, this clerk came here to see him several times, and it was not the first time they had dealt with each other.

"Envoy Duan, my master has important matters, please come to the county government to discuss them." The clerk bowed and said with a smile on his face.

Duan Rong's heart moved. The case has been closed, and I wonder what Guo Xiangbao wants to see him for?

"Let's go!" Duan Rong said, and strode out. Sure enough, he saw two fast horses tied next to the door.

The first time the clerk came to see Duan Rong, he brought a tweed sedan chair, but Duan Rong didn't sit in it at all. The clerk knew Duan Rong's temper, and later when he came to see Duan Rong, he would lead the way with fast horses.