The town is deserted, and the rain is dripping.

It was time for lunch time, and it was supposed that a large number of people who were working outside should go home to rest, but at this time, the flow of people out of the city accounted for the majority, because they were in a hurry to check the latest Nanban war report on the bulletin board.

There are even people holding a bowl in one hand and an umbrella in the other, communicating with each other, and speeding out from the city gate.

In fact, for the people of Zhenhuangcheng and Leizhou, the significance of Zhao Yu's expedition to the South Barbarians is far greater than that of the other thirty-five states, because it is the sons of Leizhou who have always been at the forefront of fighting against the wasteland.

The Southern Barbarian Army has never reached out to the Great Xia Imperial Court to ask for a single soldier, and it is all Leizhou's own sons and daughters who have fought bloodily, so once Zhao Yuyong is in the Southern Barbarians, then the young men in Leizhou will have a completely different life, as Zhao Yu said, you can pursue, go on adventures, and enjoy the great mountains and rivers of Great Xia.

I don't know when, between the crowd of people who went outward, there was a middle-aged Taoist priest who walked slowly and leisurely from the city gate, wearing an extremely shabby Taoist shirt, tied around his waist indiscriminately, a large open neckline, revealing some shabby and torn shirts inside, and a hairpin at random with a hairpin on the back of his head A Taoist priest's hair bun, but there were still some messy broken hair scattered with the wind, extremely depressed, but faintly with a sense of dust.

Under the interrogation of the guards of the city, the middle-aged Taoist priest answered as usual with a straight face, and then did not take an umbrella, and stepped directly on the flat rocky ground in the city.

As soon as he stepped into this deserted city, but I don't know if it was an illusion, those cultivators of the higher cultivation sects in the city faintly felt that the entire city seemed to have undergone some changes, and it disappeared in a flash, which was indescribable.

The light rain in the sky instantly wet the middle-aged Taoist priest's Taoist clothes, and his hair was also stained with some raindrops, and then the Taoist priest walked into the city for a distance, then stopped in place, turned around, squinted his eyes to the southwest, and there seemed to be a picture flashing in his eyes.

The shattered earth, the scorched black and toppled trees, the mouth of the canyon once again erupted with a fierce cold, and on such a desolate ground, lay a huge body entangled in ice by a blue-black dragon.

It was the Valley of the Giants deep in the jungle of the Nanban.

Suddenly, a soft call sounded from not far away, and the middle-aged Taoist priest's eyes instantly returned to normal, and then turned his head sideways to look in the direction where the voice came from, only to see an old lady sitting under an eaves near the city gate, waving to him, beckoning to him vigorously.

The middle-aged Taoist priest smiled lightly, took a step, and walked towards the house.

As soon as she stepped under the eaves, the old lady's somewhat old reproachful voice sounded:

"Those of you who came to the town from outside, don't you ask first, so that you don't even bring an umbrella, the weather in our Leizhou, it's rainy all year round, Dao Chief, you wait a while, and the old man will come into the house and get you an umbrella." ”

The old lady got up as she spoke, and then walked into the house, and the middle-aged Taoist priest did not refuse, raised his hands and saluted:

"So I thanked the old lady. ”

After a while, the old lady walked out of the house again with a somewhat stumbling body, holding a rather large black umbrella in her hand, handed it to the middle-aged Taoist priest, and said at the same time:

"In Leizhou, this umbrella is a must-have, don't look at the recent change of temperament, it has been sunny for several days, but because His Majesty went to the Southern Barbarians, even God is giving way. ”

After the old lady finished speaking, she opened her mouth and laughed, revealing half of her teeth, and the wrinkles on her face were also wrinkled, but she was really happy, some time ago, the three young people in black robes told her that His Majesty would Yongzhen Nanban, but he didn't expect the young emperor's methods to be so vigorous and resolute, and he directly led his troops to kill the jungle.

The old lady laughed, and the middle-aged Taoist priest laughed too.

Then the middle-aged Taoist priest helped the old lady to sit down on the chaise longue again, leaned the umbrella to the side, gently raised his hand to sweep the rain on his body, sat on the rattan pier next to the old lady, and quietly looked at the town and deserted city under the drizzle in front of him.

He doesn't look at the people in the city, he doesn't look at the houses in the city, he looks at the past and present life of the city, and the future!

Therefore, there was a little silence under the eaves, and the kind-hearted and enthusiastic old lady did not want the middle-aged Taoist priest who came from afar to be left out in the cold, so she spoke softly again:

"Yesterday I heard that Your Majesty has won the first battle, I don't know how the battle is today?

The middle-aged Taoist priest retracted his gaze when he heard this, and opened his mouth gently, his voice was magnetic and vicissitudes, with the heaviness of time precipitation, and he responded softly:

"Today's great victory, Your Majesty has done better than everyone imagined, including me, and let me come to the southwest for nothing. ”

The old lady beside the middle-aged Taoist priest didn't understand the words in the Taoist priest's words, and the word "great victory" alone was enough to make her smile again, as if the whole person was a little younger, and said with some relief:

"Thanks to Your Majesty, the days of the boys in Leizhou will change a lot in the future, but it's a pity that half of the old body will be buried in the ground, otherwise I want to see what the outside world looks like. ”

"It's different, I see it, the whole town will change, and it will become clearer and clearer. ”

After the old lady's words fell, the middle-aged Taoist priest responded, and then he gently raised his right hand, pointed forward, and spoke again:

"In the future, the town will become very large, and the west will include all the current southwest border walls, and a huge wharf will be built in the south to transport goods, which is extremely busy, and in front of the old man's house, a huge Daxia School Palace will be built, and most of the children of Leizhou will receive education here. ”

"If this prosperous world is really as the Taoist chief said, that's really good. ”

The old lady looked ahead stupidly, as if she saw the huge school palace in the future, and the sound of reading aloud from inside, the boys and girls who came out of the school palace together, talking about the desolate people attacking the city wall again, but which state to travel to Daxia.

"It will be realized, and soon, the whole of Great Xia will usher in a new era. ”

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged Taoist priest stood up, lifted the black umbrella leaning against the wall, and after saluting, he walked to the city gate, and on the chaise longue, the old lady gradually came back to her senses and asked:

"Dao Chief, you have just entered the city gate, and you have only sat here for a while, and you are about to leave the city before you can truly appreciate the scenery of this deserted city?"

"One glance is enough to appreciate. ”

The middle-aged Taoist priest stopped, then turned to the old lady and saluted again, and said:

"I'm going to rush to the north to see an old man, so I'm going to say goodbye and thank the old lady for her umbrella again!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand to open the black umbrella, and stepped out, and his whole body gradually blurred and disappeared into the smoke and rain.

Within one step, the end of the world is at hand, unrestrained!

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