Two months later, early winter has arrived. With the first light snow falling sporadically, people begin to prepare supplies for the New Year.

For many poor families, the New Year is like a test. In the cold winter, not being frozen or starved to death is a blessing, let alone other things.

In his previous life, Feng Shao was always alone, and he spent every Chinese New Year alone. He would buy a roast chicken, two bottles of beer, and sit in his rented house watching the Spring Festival Gala on TV. This was Feng Shao's situation every Chinese New Year. The lights outside the window had nothing to do with him, and the only thing that comforted him was the seven-day Chinese New Year holiday.

But after traveling through time, Feng Shao gradually experienced the real flavor of the New Year.

I remember that Feng Shao spent his first year in this world in a serious illness. At that time, he had just been rescued from the snow by Qing Yangzi. Although his life was temporarily safe, he was extremely weak due to continuous freezing and starvation for several days. So after arriving at Taiwei Mountain, he fell seriously ill.

This illness kept him in bed for a whole month.

During this month, the one who took care of him was Aunt Wang, a handyman in Taiwei Mountain. Aunt Wang was already in her fifties at the time. She originally had a husband and a son, but in a natural disaster more than ten years ago, her husband and son starved to death one after another. If it weren't for the head of Taiwei Mountain at the time, who was Qing Yangzi's master, Feng Shao's master, who took her in, I'm afraid she would have starved to death along with her husband and son.

Since then, Aunt Wang has been staying in Taiwei Mountain, working as a handyman there.

Aunt Wang's meticulous care for Feng Shao made Feng Shao feel the warmth of motherly love. This was something Feng Shao had never experienced before in his life. Therefore, after recovering from his illness, Feng Shao respected Aunt Wang very much, almost treating her like his own mother.

Unfortunately, two years later, Aunt Wang was bitten by a poisonous snake while collecting firewood in the back hills. After two days of lying on the sickbed, she passed away.

This incident has always bothered Feng Shao, because Aunt Wang could have saved her life. But Master Qing Yangzi refused to take out the few remaining elixirs of Taiwei Sect to save a mortal who was like an ant to him. It was from that moment that Feng Shao finally realized the cruelty of this world.

That's why Feng Shao had the idea of ​​making everyone equal in this world.

This idea seemed a little ridiculous. Not to mention the people in this world, even in the real world, not many people would think that this idea could be realized, especially in a world where human life was as cheap as grass.

But Feng Shao still wanted to give it a try. After all, in a cultivator's long life, if he didn't find something meaningful to do, then what was the point of living a long life?

Now, Feng Shao finally started the first step in his plan, which was to build a city. His plan was to use this city as a starting point to gradually build a new social system that could influence the whole world.

The road ahead is still long, but Feng Shao enjoys it.

After three months of construction, the city has taken shape. Four city walls, more than 30 meters high and 10 kilometers long, have sprung up, and a huge city defense formation has completed the first step of construction. As the laying of the underground spiritual energy pipelines gradually draws to a close, the first step of city construction is about to be successfully completed.

In the process of building the city, the detailed draft plan of the city has been completed. So next, just follow the plan in the draft to build the city.

At the beginning, when Feng Shao took out the draft of the city plan, everyone was immediately shocked because the city construction planned by Feng Shao was something they had never seen before.

Each of the four city walls has two gates, and the main road in front of the gate is the main road. On the basis of the four main roads, six secondary roads were added, that is, five roads in each direction. The ten roads divided the entire city into 36 blocks, initially forming a chessboard-like pattern.

The thirty-six wards can be seen as thirty-six communities. In addition to the pre-set city lord's mansion, central square and other facilities, the other wards are all living communities with relatively complete living functions. Feng Shao added some livelihood facilities on the basis of the thirty-six wards, such as water supply system, heating system, gas supply system, drainage system, etc., which do not exist in other cities.

Many people today can only learn about the life of ancient people from some costume TV dramas, but in fact, there is still a big gap between the content portrayed on TV and reality. I am afraid that not many people know that in the feudal period, the thousand-year-old imperial capital was too large but the sewage discharge capacity was insufficient, resulting in garbage and sewage everywhere under the imperial city.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government organized a large number of manpower to clean up the garbage mountain, which took dozens of days to remove the several-meter-high garbage mountain. It is said that during the garbage cleaning process, someone dug out cultural relics from the Ming Dynasty, which shows how long this garbage mountain has existed.

These problems that exist in reality cannot be seen at all in TV dramas.

Feng Shao had visited many cities when he traveled in previous years. As early as that time, Feng Shao had the idea of ​​building a city, so he would always subconsciously collect relevant information about local urban construction to find out the advantages and disadvantages. After comprehensive analysis, Feng Shao discovered that the common problem in the cities of this world is that the basic livelihood facilities are not perfect. The first problem to be solved is the water supply and drainage.

Although there is a river next to the city, the river is too narrow and the flow is not enough to supply the whole city, so Feng Shao set his sights on digging underground. He could dig out natural spiritual energy veins, so how difficult would it be to dig out groundwater?

So Feng Shao dug 36 deep wells in the city, led out the groundwater, and then laid water supply pipelines under the city, each well supplying drinking water to a neighborhood. However, water wells are different from gas wells. Gas wells have to be depressurized, but water wells have to be pressurized, otherwise the groundwater cannot be pumped up. Feng Shao originally planned to build a water pump, but when he was halfway through the design, he couldn't help but slap himself in the face.

I forgot that monks have their own methods.

Of course, there is no such magic array in the existing magic array that is specifically used for pumping water. However, magic arrays are designed by people. As long as the principle is understood, it is not difficult to make a magic array for pumping water. Feng Shao found a few people and worked together for two days to develop a magic array for pumping water. Then he carved the magic array on the well, and then used the spiritual energy pipeline to inject spiritual energy, and a steady stream of groundwater came out.

The groundwater is much sweeter and more refreshing than river water, and it is also infiltrated by spiritual energy for many years, so drinking this groundwater can actually prolong one's life. Even ordinary people with no cultivation can easily live for eighty or ninety years if they can drink this groundwater for a long time.

(When the author was young, he lived in a rural area in Beichen, Tianjin, where he drank groundwater. The water tasted much sweeter than so-called mineral water, but it is a pity that it is no longer available today. Rural people generally live longer than urban people, perhaps because of this reason.)

As for the sewage pipes, this is even simpler. Just refer to the underground sewage pipes in the present world. There is no need to worry about purifying sewage, because there are not so many chemicals in this world. Ordinary domestic sewage is completely harmless after simple treatment. The treated sewage will not be discharged into the river, but will be introduced into the nearby farmland. Filth such as rotten meat and feces is actually the best fertilizer for farmland.

As for the heating system and gas supply system, since this thing is still a bit advanced for many people, only the preliminary underground laying work has been completed for the time being. After the planning of the above-ground buildings is completed, the subsequent laying work of the heating system and gas supply system can be completed.

Feng Shao put a lot of effort into this city construction plan, adding many functions that ordinary people think are impossible to achieve. The scale of the entire city has even exceeded that of Qingdi City, becoming the largest city in the entire Dongzhou.

But the prerequisite is that the city can be built.

During the process of city construction, Feng Shao and his team encountered many problems, but they were overcome one by one. Gradually, a brand new city appeared on this land. Although it is only in its infancy, everyone can feel the glory of the city after it is built.

Quietly, the end of the year has arrived.

Because monks have a long life, the New Year's Eve does not mean much to them, and most monks do not have the habit of celebrating the New Year. However, since everyone has been busy with the same thing during this period, they have established deep friendships at work, so the New Year's Eve is of great significance to everyone.

When the Taiwei Sect disciples were in Taiwei Mountain, they had the custom of celebrating the New Year. This was set by Feng Shao because Feng Shao believed that if a sect wanted to be strong, internal competitiveness was important, but cohesion was also important. He thought it was necessary to let the disciples deepen their relationship with each other during the New Year.

Therefore, a few days before the Chinese New Year, the disciples of Taiwei Sect purchased a large amount of supplies for the Chinese New Year from the surrounding cities. Since they joined Taiwei Sect, this is the first time they have celebrated the Chinese New Year outside of Taiwei Sect. Although a lot of things have happened in the past year, fortunately, their most beloved senior brother is still by their side. Even if they may encounter many difficulties and setbacks in the future, they believe that as long as the senior brother is there, nothing can stump them.

But for Zuo Linglan and other disciples of the Jiuyou Holy Land, "New Year's Eve" is a relatively unfamiliar term.

They watched curiously as the disciples of Taiwei Sect were busy preparing for the New Year, and were also curious as to why the New Year's Eve would bring smiles to their faces. After being curious, they could not help but join in, preparing supplies for the New Year and decorating the venue with the disciples of Taiwei Sect, and in the process, they finally understood the significance of the New Year to them.

So they also began to look forward to the New Year.