Chen Luo ignored their words. He found an empty wall and knocked on the black wall twice. He looked up and vaguely saw soldiers patrolling with torches.
After waiting for a while, Chen Luo grabbed the two women, one in each hand, and leaped forward.
During the intervals between patrols, the soldiers took them over the high wall. The two women were so frightened that they hugged their children tightly and did not relax until they entered the city.
The security in the city became even tighter.
Chen Luo didn't say a word along the way. He took the two women and found a wing room in the backyard of the county magistrate's house to live in. With such a large yard, the county magistrate must be very lonely living alone, so Chen Luo felt it necessary to help him share the burden.
"Sir, we"
Both women were very nervous.
Breaking into a private residence is a serious crime, and now is a critical moment. If they are caught, they will definitely be sent to prison. This is the case when the two of them don’t know that this yard is the county magistrate’s house. If they knew that this is the county magistrate’s house, they would definitely be scared to death.
"I have a long history with the owner of this place, so you can stay here without any worries."
After settling the two of them, Chen Luo followed his spiritual sense to find the county magistrate who was listening to his concubine playing the piano in the backyard. The county magistrate of Anning County was nearly sixty years old and paid the most attention to health preservation. On weekdays, he would have gone to bed at this time, but now the rioters were surrounding the city, making him unable to sleep or eat. If he didn't handle it well, it would cause a civil uprising, and at the very least he would be dismissed by his superiors, or at worst his life would be in danger.
This made him very worried, and he even drank two glasses less of his favorite Huadiao wine.
"Why worry, sir? I have a plan to relieve the refugees outside the city."
Across the banquet, a Confucian scholar seemed to see the doubts in the county magistrate's heart and spoke with a smile.
"Oh? Tell me quickly."
The county magistrate was cheered up and asked immediately.
"Just"
The scholar lowered his voice, and the county magistrate was overjoyed and nodded frequently.
Chen Luo stood on the roof and lost interest after listening to a few sentences. These two people had no spiritual roots and were not from the same world as him. He came here just to find a way out for the two women in the backyard.
When the two of them were discussing enthusiastically, Chen Luo casually added a little something into their drinks and that was the end of it.
Now that the magical power cannot be released externally, one needs to come in person to modify a person's memory. He also needs to borrow the power of the Illusion God Gu. The county magistrate did not expect that a mortal like him could actually enjoy the top-level strange insect of the Illusion God Gu. This specification can definitely be regarded as the highest "adventure" in his life.
Leave the county government office.
Chen Luo found a bookshelf in the inner city.
If you want to know about a place, the best way is to read their books first. There are many hidden contents in the books, through which you can understand the general situation of a place.
Chen Luo mainly read books about gods and monsters. Through these books, he could indirectly learn about the world of immortal cultivation here. By the way, he took this short break to find a way to restore his strength.
The power sensed by the stars in the sky is still suspended above the sky and there is no way to draw it down.
"Why can't we lure him down? Where did Senior Ge go?"
Chen Luo's gaze passed through the roof and looked at the blue sky.
He could sense the presence of the stars, but he just couldn't draw the power down.
This place gave him a very strange feeling, but he couldn't find the source of the strangeness. Except for some feedback from his second brother, the rest of the brain remained the same as in his memory, without any changes.
"Boss, do you have any erotic pictures?" A young man in green walked to the door, looked around, and then asked in a low voice.
That attitude is like that of a thief.
"Sold out, tomorrow."
Chen Luo didn't even raise his eyelids and replied lazily.
The bookstore was originally owned by the county magistrate. After Chen Luo used the magic Gu to make simple modifications, the store immediately changed its owner. He himself also transformed himself into a person from Changshou Village in the east of Anning County, and the store became the ancestral property of their old Chen family.
Chen Luo used the Illusion God Gu to completely change the perceptions of the neighbors around him.
This is the method used by immortal cultivators.
For a cultivator, integrating into the secular world is just a matter of thought. There is a description in the Mythology and Strange Tales that two immortals traveled from a small country and suddenly came up with a gambling idea. The two immortals threw a stone into a wealthy family and used the stone's life as a bet.
If stones are like this, then real immortals are naturally even more mysterious.
Although Chen Luo is not as good as an immortal now, it is no different for ordinary people. The Illusion God Gu can allow him to replace a person's life. If he wants, he can even weave a family for himself, the kind that can be checked by all generations.
"Remember to leave a copy for me tomorrow."
The young man's face was full of regret, and he did not forget to give instructions before leaving. For this reason, he specially left two copper coins on the counter at the door as a deposit.
The erotic pictures were collected casually by Chen Luo after he became a boss.
It was made by a poor old man.
Thanks to this "Spring Picture", the bookstore that was on the verge of bankruptcy came back to life, and the business improved visibly. Even the sales of the regular books that were originally slow to sell in the bookstore increased.
"The spiritual energy of Liu Gang's father is also very strange. He himself has no memory at all."
Chen Luo ignored the copper coins on the counter at the door and began to think about the memory of Liu Gang's father.
He looked through it last night and didn't find anything special.
Born, married, had children.
Everything is the same as everyone else.
He had also read all the books in the bookstore. There were few useful clues. In these books, Chen Luo did not find any clues related to immortal cultivators. There were a lot of insignificant ghost stories. He even went there twice, but he didn't find any real things. Instead, he became a new character in the nearby "Gods and Monsters".
Gravedigger.
When Chen Luo received the manuscript, he was numb.
The disaster victims outside the city dispersed half a month ago.
Relief grain was sent down from above, and porridge was being distributed in Hanshui City, which attracted all the victims.
Work-for-relief is still very useful in this era.
Chen Luo didn't ask about these things. He was like a passer-by, out of tune with the people here. Two women who were rescued by him before came to the city. They are now distant relatives of the county magistrate. With this relationship, they can be said to have a firm foothold in Anning County.
Some time ago, the two women borrowed the county magistrate's connections and opened a laundry shop next to Chen Luo's bookstore, and their lives are now back on track.
With the help of the county government, no ruffians dared to cause trouble.
"Sir, lunch is ready."
Yunniang's voice came from outside the door.
Yunniang was the first woman to ask Chen Luo for help. She had a son named Wang Xiaohu. The other woman was named Xiaohong, who was a little older than Yunniang and had a much more aggressive personality, as can be seen from the scene where she asked Chen Luo for help.
The two women opened a shop next to Chen Luo's bookstore, firstly to make a living for themselves, and secondly to repay Chen Luo, their lifesaver. Without Chen Luo's help, the two of them would never have been able to enter Anning County, let alone get involved with the county magistrate and live the life they have now.
"I'm a little hungry."
Chen Luo withdrew his thoughts, stood up and closed the door of the bookstore.
This was also the second problem he had since coming here. Without the spiritual energy to sustain him, he would feel hungry every day. There were still about a hundred fasting pills in the cave gourd, and Chen Luo could not use the pills as food. The appearance of Yunniang and Hongniang helped Chen Luo solve a problem.
"The benefactor is here?"
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Matchmaker, who was taking care of the child inside, stood up hurriedly.
Both of them had crawled out of the refugee camp and came to this strange place, Anning County, so it was natural for them to stick together.
"You don't have to be so polite."
Chen Luo motioned for the two to sit down, and then checked the condition of the two children. After making sure that the previous days did not leave them with any hidden dangers, he started to eat the food and wine on the table.
The days passed one by one.
The situation outside is still turbulent and wars break out from time to time.
Fortunately, Anning County is far away from the Central Plains, and its location at the border has become its advantage. Except for the occasional refugees wandering here, this place has been almost forgotten by the warlords fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains. Anning County still maintains the previous rules, and even the county magistrate follows the dynasty's laws when judging cases.
But the dynasty has long been in name only, and except for this small place, no one takes the dynasty seriously.
Time flies, and half a year has passed in a flash.
There were some signs of a dynasty struggle. Liu Gang, who had met Chen Luo once before, had made a name for himself and was said to be working under a high-ranking official. More than a dozen small cities in the entire southwest region were under the name of the Liu family.
Because of the life-saving elixir, Liu Gang found Chen Luo again and wanted to ask him to come out of retirement.
But Chen Luo rejected it.
Chen Luo's bookstore became famous because of this, and many people who wanted to get in touch with Liu Gang found him. Unfortunately, these people were destined to waste their efforts. Chen Luo left Anning County the day after rejecting Liu Gang.
He planned to leave this place and go outside to look for traces of immortal cultivators.
The most important thing is to confirm the guess in your heart.
"Sir, are you really going to leave?"
Yunniang and Hongniang looked at Chen Luo reluctantly. They had known that Chen Luo was leaving early in the morning and had been waiting outside the bookstore.
"Go out for a walk, maybe you'll be back after a while."
After Chen Luo gave the two people the key to the bookstore, he rode his newly bought donkey and left Anning County.
He walked westward along the official road. He passed several cities on the way, saw several large-scale battles and countless displaced victims. After the war, there was a scorched earth, vultures circling, and the setting sun was blood-red. Bandits were rampant outside the city. Along the way, Chen Luo shot down no less than ten bandits, and scared away hundreds of bandits. (End of this chapter)
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