Cultivation of Immortals Begins with Drilling Wood To Make Fire

Everyone was shocked.

There was a moment of silence in the arena, and everyone stopped what they were talking about just now.

Everyone turned their eyes to see the man in white who suddenly appeared and threw a lot of goods on the ground.

But the team steward looked at the goods on the ground, walked up and bowed and said: "Thank you, hero, this is exactly the goods we lost."

Fang Chang nodded and said, "That's good."

"I don't know, how did the thief deal with it?" The team steward continued to ask.

"Run away." Fang Chang said perfunctorily, but the team steward thanked him again, and reluctantly offered some money as a gift, Fang Chang had no choice but to say again: "No need."

Then he turned his head and left.

His feet were so fast that the people behind him could only see his gradually shrinking back, and then they talked and speculated endlessly, and it took a long time for him to disperse. Maybe there will be different versions of this matter in the future. I don't know if it is "the hero captures the fast-footed thief" or "the strong man shakes the mountain with three punches".

These have nothing to do with Fang Chang, he has already slipped away.

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The further south we went, the warmer the weather became. After traveling a hundred miles, the breeze blowing on our face felt a little warm.

Looking up at the surroundings, it turns out that the treetops are green.

Due to the long hours and angles of sunshine, although it is winter in the north, there are still people working in the fields here.

Fang Chang has carefully observed that they are taking advantage of this season to put in effort to tidy up the fields at home.

Most of the fields here are paddy fields. Unlike the dry fields in the north, intensive cultivation requires more manpower, energy, and more time. Of course, the field will reward people with equivalent results, and with a little more effort, more harvests can be guaranteed.

In the words of old farmers educating their children, the fields never lie.

Along the way, there are still many traces of military disasters, and there are still many unidentified families, which shows that this rich place has also suffered a lot. Fortunately, this area has been occupied by the rebel army, and many scholars were sent as officials, with some rebel soldiers, to try to govern one side and benefit one side.

In this process, there will naturally be many mistakes and omissions, and many mistakes.

But the overall situation is still positive, because the people have bright eyes and can always tell who is really for their own good, so they are very tolerant. Some elders, often with many years of life experience, go up to meet and talk a few times, just to let them have more knowledge.

At the same time, those who participated in the rebel army and their family members also received payment and family letters from the army. Due to the strict military management, the deduction of military salaries among the rebels is very rare and very slight, and often as many as 90% can be obtained, which is the best in the world.

People with a wide range of knowledge say that this is also one of the foundations for the invincibility of the rebel army.

Further to the south, the water network becomes denser. There are more rivers than roads here, and the transportation on foot and by horse and horse is far less convenient than that on ferries.

Fang Chang went to the countryside to do as the Romans did, found a small boat, paid a few pennies, and let him support himself to go south.

The boatman is wearing a bamboo hat and gently supports the long boat, and the small boat shuttles through the water, very light and fast.

This kind of boat is the main means of transportation in this area. It is narrow and low, with a canopy made of bamboo strips, painted black for anti-corrosion. There is only a straw mat inside, and passengers often sit on the bow, looking ahead, talking and chatting with the boatman, and the journey passes in such a leisurely way.

"The guest came from Jiangbei? That's really far away."

Compared with the Central Plains, the accent here is a little softer, and like the mountains and rivers here, people are generally handsome. Hearing the boatman's exclamation, Fang Chang smiled and said: "The Central Plains and Jiangnan are close together, and the distance from here to the north of the Jiangjiang River is only a few hundred miles away. This world is not too big, and it is a family."

The boatman did not relax his hand holding the wormwood, and smiled at Fang Chang who was sitting on the bow:

"Guests have traveled far and wide and seen a lot, so of course they feel that the world is very small. People like us who go boating every day, wander around here, and can't walk dozens of miles a day, naturally feel that the world is vast and unimaginable."

"To put it bluntly, it is still related to the distance and time of walking in all directions. If one day, ordinary people can travel around at ten times the speed now, then it is not too bad to say that the world is ten times smaller."

Fang Chang clapped his hands and laughed loudly, and praised:

"Haha, it's very reasonable. The boatman's words can be called true insight. How old are you this year?"

"Fifty to three." The boatman smiled, looked up at the sky and said, the gray beard on his chin swayed, "My grandson will soon be able to punting, but the new magistrate here , said to let children of his age know a few words as much as possible."

"I can't say whether this matter is good or bad, but the new magistrate is a kind-hearted person. It just so happens that the family is relatively well-off, so he sent him away. Now I can write the names of the whole family. My old Yang family, several generations Rendou University can't read half a word, and now he is about to produce a literate young man."

Fang Chang turned around and said:

"Congratulations, boatman."

"Hahaha, I'm happy with you." The boatman was very excited, and he asked Fang Chang: "Guest, are you going to the south? But it seems that you still want to visit the vicinity."

"The boatman has good eyesight," Fang Chang said with a smile, "Is there any good place worth visiting this week?"

"That's not true, there are just some ordinary things around." The boatman kept holding on to the wormwood, and then shook his head after thinking for a while, "If there is a basis for a lively place, one is the prosperity of the city, and the other is the market not far in front. city."

Fang Chang hummed and continued to ask:

"Then is there anything to say about the bustle of the prefecture and the market?"

Faced with this tricky question, the boatman did not hesitate. He thought for a while and replied:

"Fucheng is naturally a good place. There are shops that are not nearby, skilled craftsmen that are not nearby, and food and drink that are not nearby. People from all over the world like to go to play. Although Fucheng years ago It suffered from a military disaster, but luckily the imperial court attacked it quickly, and the place recovered its old appearance after a short period of recuperation. Now that a school and a library have been opened there, and the popularity has grown, there are many good places to go.”

"The front market is also quite famous in the surrounding area. It used to be a grass market at the time of my grandfather's grandfather. He bought some surplus food, sold some fish and shrimp caught from the river, fished water chestnuts, and sold some The bamboo shoots that were dug, the prey that was hunted, or the cloth woven by the family, and the soles of the shoes. There are only one or two yamen helpers, and they collect a few cents of tax money there.”

"As a result, one or two hundred years later, whenever there is a new gadget, the people around still like to go to that market to sell it, because there are many people and people there, and it is the most suitable for doing business. Over time, this place has become a big place. If guests are interested in the place in Fucheng, they can go and have a look."

Thank you, the scholar on the sixty-sixth floor, for the reward.