Yangwu is a wealthy county, with more than 5,000 households and a population of about 30,000 to 40,000.

The city wall is made of rammed earth and stones, six meters high, three meters wide on the top, and a moat of twenty meters wide around it. The river passes through the city and divides the city into two areas north and south, with a total of four main streets, eight streets, seventy-two alleys.

Shi Meng is the captain of the northern district of Yangwu County, commanding twenty constables.

The county yamen runners are divided into internal and external classes. They have no official identities and are recruited from private markets.

The inner squad serves in the yamen, such as the men, grooms, servants, etc., which are usually designated by the county magistrate or brought when they take office.

The foreign class is divided into soap classes, fast classes, and prosecutors. The soap class is on duty, the fast class is arrested, and the strong class is poor in their work. Their boss's teaching history is just a poor miscellaneous officer.

Shi Meng was not sure that he was in a majestic captain title, but his status was extremely low and belonged to the untouchables. He was ranked with the superior servants and servants. His descendants could not be officials within three generations.

He held his head and caught the thief and his salary was only 16 taels of silver a year. His constable speed was even lower, and he only had ten taels, so he could not avoid doing some impure tasks. The so-called officials had no long-term salary, but only made a living by accepting bribes.

As soon as the sky was dawn, they entered the city.

According to Shi Meng, the suspension bridge was usually not closed and the city gate was not closed. Recently, due to the tense relationship between Li and Ji, Yangwu County began to close the city gate after dark.

But here is still four or five hundred miles away from the border. The atmosphere is relaxed and there is no garrison. Even the suspension bridge is not necessary to be closed at night. The county government dispatched eight people from the Zaoban to guard the city gates on all sides, just to behave and can't stand the seriousness.

The Zaoban station hall also serves as a front-drive guard and a guard of etiquette. In addition to playing boards, they can accept some bribes when passing through joints, and there are not many opportunities to get oil and water. When they are on duty, they are energetic and have to take away a green onion when they meet the vegetables sold in the village.

They dare not provoke gentry, but they are very strict with foreigners. They must investigate and search for the road. If they encounter a powerless businessman who carries goods into the city, they must squeeze out oil and water before they are willing to let go.

In order not to attract attention, Chu Fan asked Shi Meng to ride back on the horse, and he followed him with the little girl in his arms.

When the two sects saw Shi Meng returning to the city, they said that the long and short heads of the sect were flattering, and nodded and cursed. When they saw Chu Fan hanging behind them, they were stunned and were about to stop them.

Shi Meng quickly turned over and got off the horse, saying that his relatives came to the city to treat their illness and stuffed more than a dozen copper coins. The two sects refused and called Shi to capture Renyi and waved to let go.

Shi Meng's family is remote and cannot compare to the large tile house in the center of the city, and his face is ashamed.

Chu Fan thought it was good. He had a unique courtyard and planted a lot of flowers and plants.

Shi Meng had long regarded Chu Fan as an immortal master who came to the world to experience it, not to mention that he was his life-saving benefactor, so he was naturally frightened and wanted to serve him with all his heart.

Chu Fan knew this little thought and once again mysteriously told him that he and his younger sister must treat him and his younger sister as northern refugees, otherwise he would lose the meaning of "training".

Shi Meng's wife was in her early thirties, with a gentle personality, simple clothes, and did not wear a crown. She simply wrapped her hair with a brocade marigold. After entering the yard, Shi Meng didn't even have time to pull the horse into the stable, so she quickly called her to boil water and make tea.

Seeing her round face, she smiled and looked very happy, and she called out "Sister-in-law" with a smile. However, this "Sister-in-law" scared Captain Shi Da very much, and she was frightened for a long time before she calmed down.

He sent Chu Fan and his sister to the main hall to sit down. Shi Meng quickly turned around and tied up the horse. He was still worried that his wife would neglect the immortal master in the future, so he went to the kitchen to burn fire and help the kitchen, muttering.

After washing his face, Chu Fan was so happy.

Finally I saw a toothbrush.

The brush handle is keratinous, and a few rows of small holes are drilled at the front end and implanted into the ponytail. The gray powder stained when brushing is a bit bitter and has no foam. It is probably made of crushing the medicinal materials.

Hehe, it's pretty good, pure natural.

The little girl was listless and her face was flushed. She didn't even eat poached eggs, so she could only drink half a bowl of sugar water.

Chu Fan touched her forehead carefully, and it was very hot, so he quickly asked Shi Meng to call the doctor. At this time, Mrs. Shi had already packed the room, so he carried the little girl to the bed and covered it with a quilt, and then pulled out the straw sandals and willow hairpins that she had treasured in her arms.

Shi Meng hurriedly ran out. Who knew that the doctor who was familiar with him went out of the emergency room today. He carried the sedan chair and waited at the door early. After hearing the symptoms, he only prescribed a prescription and asked him to take medicine.

Shi Meng hurried back with three packs of medicinal materials, feeling that he had not done the matter well, so he wanted to go to another clinic again.

Chu Fan heard from the doctor that he felt the cold and it was not serious, so he felt relieved.

After looking at the prescription, it was nothing more than schizonepeta, ginger, tangerine peel, licorice, ephedra, cinnamon twig and other things. I thought it would be fine, but I was unwilling to be disturbed, so I asked Shi Meng not to go to the clinic and buy another bed and bedding, as well as the toiletries for the two of them and the corresponding clothes. In addition, a large amount of books is needed, mainly based on historical, geographical, local and cultural heritage. You can also take some other things, as the more the better.

The little girl took two doses of medicine and then subsided her fever. She felt a little weak and was unhappy.

Chu Fan thought about it, and after a trace of spiritual energy reached her meridian, he immediately became energetic.

Mrs. Shi does have a good cooking skills, and she stews chestnuts and red dates every day, and does not care about the style of sweet and sour pork ribs.

The little girl's thin face gradually became plump and rosy. She ran around and helped the kitchen with housework and learned needlework, which was so clever.

Shi Meng has only one son named Shi Tai. He is only six years old, and he is like a follower, and he is surrounded by his young lady all day long.

In more than ten days, Chu Fan only took Gardenia out of the hospital and took a walk once.

I only do two things in the rest of my time, reading books and practicing qigong.

Most of the streets and alleys are dirt roads, occasionally there are bricks and stones, and the open channel and ditches are discharged, which is quite clean. The market is filled with people, shoulder to shoulder, and the shouts of hawking come and fall. It scared the little girl in the countryside and held her brother's hand tightly, for fear of getting lost.

I encountered something strange in a quiet alley.

At that time, a middle-aged man in a small businessman was tangling with a fierce woman. Suddenly, a man waving a rope and a ruler, shouting that the yamen cadre Niu Ding would enforce the law and insist on dragging the businessman to meet the official. Passers-by either covered his face or hurriedly avoided him.

When Chu Fan saw that the man did not hang his waist sign like Shi Meng, he took a look at him. Could it be that he was plainclothes?

The businessman was not clear about his argument and begged for mercy, but the woman pulled him to death. The big man glared at Chu Fan fiercely and threatened, "Don't meddle in other people's business."

Chu Fan was unfamiliar with the place and was unwilling to cause trouble. He led the little girl back, but his ears stood up and listened.

As expected, the three of them argued for a while, and then began to bargain in a low voice, and the merchant finally paid the money to settle the matter.

Chu Fan guessed that this was probably a so-called "Immortal Jump" scam. But if a public servant went in, it was a bit like "fishing law enforcement".

Shi Meng got back a bunch of books every now and then.

With books, Chu Fan began to teach the little girl to read seriously.

However, every time she couldn't bear a stick of incense, her little head began to start to get a little bit, and her eyes were blurred.

Once I went out and took a sip of water, and when I came back, I saw Gardenia sleeping with a thick book in her arms. It was more effective than taking any sleeping pills.

Chu Fan almost laughed out of his teeth and had to stop his hard teaching work. Anyway, a woman has no talent and is virtuous. In the future, the little girl is highly respected, so it doesn’t matter.

Gardenia is happy and happy, as if she was granted a general amnesty.

She couldn't study, but she was very concerned about studying with Shisao Shi, and in a few days she embroidered a peony flower in a very good manner. Her straw sandals and willow hairpins were also washed clean by her, and she kept them like a treasure.

Chu Fan sorted out hundreds of books with complex content to confirm the limited information provided by Yang Qi, Shi Meng, Huang Tang, Lao Cangtou and others, and gradually pieced together the development history of this world, with a rough outline.

Today, the four countries compete for hegemony.

The Wu Kingdom in the east, the Yue Kingdom in the south, the Yong Kingdom in the west, and the Yan Kingdom in the north.

Like Li, Ji, Ba... they can only be considered a medium-sized person, and Xu was mixed with it, and they had waited for dozens of small radish head countries.

In the past, as a slave, I saw that I was full of slaves at first sight. After I came out, I realized that this era was not a slave society.

There are many slaves, one is that the war has led to a large number of people becoming prisoners, and the other is that the family-born system has led to the descendants becoming slaves.

For the country, too many slaves will weaken productivity and royal power, reduce taxes, and restrict them must be imposed. However, the statistical work cannot keep up with it. The wealthy families have tens of thousands of slaves, and the reporting is often only a few thousand or a few hundred.

Lao Cangtou believed that slaves from Li Kingdom would be pardoned after fleeing to Ji Kingdom, and only knew one thing, not the other.

The countries that have made the alliance recognize each other's identity as slaves. You are slaves here, and you are slaves there.

Among hostile countries, there are preaching the Dharma for pardoning the other slaves, but fugitive slaves need to do three years of hard work. As for whether any slaves have become commoners, only God knows.

After reading the vast number of classics, Chu Fan discovered that the reason why the world is like this is entirely due to the existence of monks, that is, cultivators.

An ordinary monk is respected as a wizard.

A mage with high spells is respected as an immortal master.

The powerful people among immortal masters often become national masters.

The national teacher ignores civil affairs and generally does not get involved in wars, and only takes action when he is alive and dies.

Once the national teacher takes action, the war between the two countries will turn into a battle between the national teachers.

If the national army is defeated, the country will be destroyed.

Three hundred years ago, Yue Kingdom was just a medium-sized country, and the national teacher Huang Long Zhenren had not returned for 20 years. The neighbor Youguo took the opportunity to launch a war, and his troops were unstoppable and his troops arrived at the royal city.

When the city was broken, the Huanglong Zhenren descended from the sky and killed Cang Songzi, the national commander of Youguo. The 200,000 troops of Youguo fled and were killed and drifted with blood. Yue took advantage of the situation to destroy Youguo and thus became a big shot.

How did Xu, a small country with a large area of ​​only a few counties with a population of only a few million survive?

One situation is that the national master has been reluctant to return, and the surrounding neighbors are slowly eroding, but it is difficult to show off the knife. Once it is confirmed that the national master cannot return, it will be destroyed in a daze.

Another situation is that the national teacher has no successor. Before ascending, he asks friends from all over the world to take care of him. It is generally limited to ten years. If the national teacher is not invited as a protective umbrella during this period, neighboring countries will slowly erode.

As long as the Immortal Kingdom is not convenient for the immortal masters who promise to take care of them, they turn a blind eye. Once the time comes, they will eventually be done.

The rise of small countries is because the national teacher is strong.

The decline of a great country is because the national teacher is no longer able to do it.

A person is responsible for national destiny.
Chapter completed!