Nine emperors guarding the gate of the country
Zhongyao woke up and found himself lying on a bed that was twice as big as before. The room was extremely spacious and it was a suite.
This is Zhong Zhizheng's room, and it is also the residence of the fortress masters of all dynasties. It is on the highest floor of the main building.
The sunlight drooped from the narrow window, and it looked like it was afternoon.
My body was cleaned up and covered with ointment. My muscle aches and bone cracks were almost gone. I just felt in excellent condition, but my head was still a little dizzy.
Zhong Yao focused his mind and looked inside, confirming that he was maintaining the state of Qihai in the Dantian.
The divine thought penetrated the sea of air. When I saw the pottery bowl, the rotation of the yellow air vortex slowed down, and a faint blue light flashed in the center of the vortex.
The seed of the green bamboo is still growing, and it seems that you have to continue eating soil to grow.
By the way, that vine demon...
Sensing someone outside the house, Zhong Yao coughed a few times and a small head poked out from the outer suite.
She is a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl with a bun, beautiful facial features and fat cheeks.
The little girl rubbed her sleepy eyes and muttered something. She suddenly became stunned. She turned around and ran away, shouting, "The Lord of Fortress is awake! The Lord of Fortress is awake!"
It’s Wang Mali. Zhong Yao thought it would be better to be the lord of the castle, but there was finally a maid around him.
The girl with a loud name is his niece, Wang Mafu's daughter, and her mother is the concubine of the Zhong family.
When Wang Mali shouted, the next door and downstairs became restless. After a moment, a large group of people entered the house, and the one who led it was Elder Zhong.
Zhongyao asked: "I haven't lie for long, where is that vine demon?"
Everyone smiled bitterly, and Elder Zhong said, "Master, you have been lying for a day and a night."
One day and one night!
No wonder I feel dizzy in my head, it’s because I sleep too long and I feel hungry.
Seeing his eyes parade, Elder Zhong said again: "It was Miss Ji who carried you back, helped you clean up, wrapped the ointment, and stayed until the morning. I made sure you were all in peace before I went back to the room to rest."
It's over, that guy looked at it and touched it all!
Zhongyao's face was dark and red. Thinking about the fact that when they were young, they both tried to get a bath together, so they felt a little relieved.
When they saw Elder Zhong's eyes were covered with bloodshots, and other uncles, including Zhong Zhiqiang Zhong Zhizhong, were all tired. They knew that they had been worried all day, and that the unhappiness had dissipated a lot before.
"That vine demon... I chased after it three miles west and found it huddled into the pool at the foot of the mountain. I did not take any action rashly, and let the clan guards potentially monitor nearby."
Elder Zhong still had fear on his face: "After the vine demon started, all the creepers in the castle died. I really didn't expect that the creepers in the Zhongjia Castle would actually be a monster."
"When I was young, the ancestors of the Chang generation said that those ivy had already been enclosed with a full castle when they were young, and they were at least two or three hundred years old."
"Fortunately, the lord of the castle discovered it in time. If the demon nightmare came, the vine demon would explode and everyone in Zhongjia Castle would die without a burial place."
The old master said with relief: "With my skills, I may not be able to control it steadily. The castle lord not only beat it and escaped back to his nest, but also escaped unscrupulously. It's really..."
The uncle Zhong Zhizhong responded with a shameless face: "Young hero! Xiao Yao is worthy of being a young hero!"
Your attitude is changing too quickly, and you don’t leave me any room to make a fuss.
Zhong Yao waved his hand and said, "On average... cough cough..."
He asked about She's situation again, and Zhong Zhiqiang said gratefully: "The nightmare is so breathless that it has no left, only some flesh and blood wounds, thanks to the castle lord who came to rescue him."
Is it really just a flesh-and-hearted injury?
If you put two bricks down, whether it is your chest or face, you may have been flattened?
Zhongyao was a little guilty and asked Mr. Gao again.
The old man was very knowledgeable, maybe he knew about the situation of the fungus.
Everyone looked at each other, and Elder Zhong sighed, "Yesterday I sent someone to find Mr. Gao, and only found a note in his thatched cottage, saying that he would not come back if he went out for a long trip."
That old man actually ran away?
Zhongyao was very surprised and even a little sad. The old man was half a master and apprentice with him, and ran away without a single explanation.
Soon he figured it out again. Although he was a little affectionate, it was no wonder that the old man had no obligation to share life and death with the Zhong family, nor did he have the mission of taking root in Guanshan and never giving up.
"It's okay, Mr. Gao is not here, so I still have it."
Zhong Yao cheered everyone up: "The situation is critical, we have to carefully sort out our current situation."
He rubbed his stomach and said, "Before this, I have to eat first."
Elder Zhong turned his head and ordered, Zhong Yao added: "I want to eat vegetables, all kinds of vegetables, and fruits, all kinds of them, the more the better."
The elders looked at each other, conveying a certain tacit understanding.
This kid became the lord of the castle, not only was his nature exposed, but he also became even worse!
It’s this nature, why is it so strange?
Since you can "eat" the vine demon to the local area, you should be able to eat the same information from other plants.
When he was looking at the pottery bowl just now, he saw the various soil needed in the countryside, and there were hundreds of varieties, as well as the quantity requirements, how much soil to eat, how much cultivation it would increase. He had to work hard to eat to the second level within three to five months, which was not the time spent on finding soil.
Finding soil through vegetables and fruits is a good way, of course this is just the beginning.
After eating something casually, Zhongyao became energetic and held a new plenary meeting of the Zhong Family Central Leadership in the conference hall on the top floor of the main building.
"Why do we have to squat in Guanshan? If we go east, there is still a large area of wasteland that can be reclaimed?"
Zhong Yao mentioned this first. In his opinion, relocation of the clan is the wisest choice.
The elders were so angry that their faces were as if they were pig's liver, and Elder Zhong even shouted: "The law of the ancestors is unchangeable!"
Zhongyao asked what mission the ancestors left behind, and everyone hesitated and speechless.
Zhong Zhiqiang's words are very convincing: "Outside Guanshan, there are all lands of Du State on all sides. Although Du State is a small country, compared with our Guanshan three families, it is still a huge creature."
"If we abandon our land and retreat into Du State, let alone Zhong Family Fort, maybe even Zhong Family cannot maintain it. Du State will definitely dismantle the Zhong Family and act as a minion to drive it. We may still be able to enjoy wealth and honor. The lord of the fort will have to surrender to the king, or even be subordinate to the county magistrate, as slaves and servants."
Uncle Zuiqiang, you have a low cultivation level and a high political point. Didn’t you really come here from Zhang Zhaolusu and others?
Zhong Yao understood that although this was a world of cultivating immortals, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was exhausted, the cultivator's realm was low, and the country was still the main body that ruled mortals.
The three Guanshan families were able to stand on their own outside Du State and did not pay tribute and pay tribute, which was like a paradise. It was not because of how strong the power was, but just blocking the nightmare of the demon. Du State was happy to have this buffer so that he did not interfere with Guanshan.
Everyone wants to be the Emperor of the Mountain King, rather than the slaves under the monarch and county magistrate. Now that Zhongyao is the lord of the fort, his butt determines his head, and he doesn't want to.
Then run away... no, I won't mention the relocation of the clan.
Zhongyao then wanted to talk about the Demon Nightmare, but another old uncle, Zhong Chenglin, talked about adjusting the housekeeping affairs.
Although the Zhong family has few people, there are many industries under it. More than 100 families depend on the Zhong family, forming the outer Zhongjia Castle.
The Zhong family set up several houses to manage the tribe, people's and land affairs.
For example, Zhong Chenglin is the manager of Tian Linfang, Zhong Chengye is the manager of the clan's guard house and the cultivation house, Zhong Zhiqiang is the manager of the common affairs house, and Zhong Zhizhong is the manager of the accounting house.
In addition to weaving houses, stone tiled houses, kitchen pharmacies, utensils, livestock rooms, etc., there are nearly twenty "related departments" in the small Zhongjiabao, which just correspond to the heads of the elders present.
Zhong Yao touched his forehead, and the glory of the official bird illuminated the multiverse. Even such a small family in the world of immortal cultivation has not escaped. It can only be said that this is the nature and limitation of human beings.
He subconsciously wanted to streamline the military and manage the government: "I think it's too troublesome to divide it so much, so it's better to merge it."
The elders were all faced with pig liver again. It was Uncle Zhong Chenglin's turn to shout: "The law of the ancestors is unchangeable!"
Zhong Yao grinned: "What do you mean by adjusting housekeeping?"
Zhong Zhiqiang whispered: "The new head of the Fortress Master should rotate the managers of each house to demonstrate the authority of the Fortress Master."
Even "one emperor and another minister" have been played by you as formalism?
Zhong Yao fell into deep thoughts, and he suddenly realized that he would not be able to do anything to continue to rely on the original system of the Zhong family.
The situation is critical and it is not good to take action rashly, so Zhongyao decided to find another way.
He said calmly: "Since it's a routine, I'm too lazy to care. You guys discuss it yourself and just let me nod."
Then his tone became tough: "But another thing has to be up to me. I can't live in this building anymore and build a wooden house outside the fort."
Everyone was shocked again. This was completely beyond their expectations. If the castle lord could not live in the main castle, then what was the Zhongjia Castle used for?
This stone fort, which was like an army block, was built by the first generations of the Zhong family's ancestors who cut through thorns and thorns and spent hundreds of years of repair. At that time, thieves in the mountains were rampant and demons were rampant. Without such a stone fort, it was impossible to prevent it.
Now, no matter it is a demon nightmare or a vine demon, it is not something that the stone castle can stop. Everyone still lives here, but it is just a habit.
Everyone persuaded each other, saying that safety was worrying. Zhong Yao stared at me: "I build the eighth floor of foundation! The master is in sight!"
The older generations said it was unconventional, and Zhong Yao said: "The emperor guards the national gate and the fortress master guards the fortress gate, which is natural."
When Elder Zhong couldn't help but talk about the "Ancestor's Law" again, Zhong Yao stretched out his hand: "Tell me the words that the ancestors said where the castle lord must live!"
Elder Zhong choked, how could there be such a text?
Zhong Zhiqiang made a smooth move and said that if you have something to do in the fort, it would be too inconvenient.
Zhong Yao said: "The wooden house is bigger and set up an...outside study room, let Shancun be the manager. If you want to find me, let him run errands."
Zhong Zhiqiang's face was correct: "The Castle Lord is wise!"
Zhongyao's attitude was extremely tough and had Zhong Zhiqiang's support. Even Elder Zhong could not resist, so he passed the vote unanimously.
Zhongyao was satisfied, this was a good start.
He had long wanted to move out of this prison-like stone building, not to mention dark and wet. At night, the squeaking wooden beds were clattering, and the breathing was endless. It was like queuing, and it was like queuing, with far and near, and it was different every day.
When Ji Xiaozhu slept with her, the little girl naively asked what was going on. God knew how he respected each other and was not wiped out by the great god who had murderous auras throughout the heavens.
Now there is another reason. He has to eat more soil and it is not convenient to live in a stone building at all.
Chapter completed!