Chapter 017: Not chasing?
I have to say that the public security in Bianjing City is really not very good.
On their way out of the city, Lu Sen and Hei Zhu encountered two more fights in the streets between martial artists.
Although the conflict was not as intense as the previous one, it still injured some people around, but fortunately no one was killed.
After leaving the city, the sun was setting and the gates of Bianjing City would soon be closed.
There were very few people leaving the city, but there were still long queues of people entering the city.
If they cannot enter the city today, these people will have to spend the night under the city wall.
Walking on the official road paved with orange sunset glow, Lu Sen asked: "Heizhu, have the martial arts heroes in Bianjing City always been so... bold and reckless?"
"They were even more arrogant before." Hei Zhu recalled, "They shouted every day to punish treacherous officials and villains. They moved around in Bianjing City, and no one could do anything to them. I heard that there was a very powerful beggar who ran to the palace and lived there secretly for a few years. He stole food from the imperial kitchen every day, until one day he got drunk and snored on the beam and was discovered. In the end, several masters in the palace joined forces, but he still escaped."
Lu Sen couldn't help but sigh: "This is really amazing."
Heizhu nodded repeatedly, "In the past, those knights were really arrogant and unruly. It was not until more than two years ago that Bao Fuyin brought Zhan back from other provinces and appointed him as a direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion. At that time, Zhan was just a guard with a sword, and he had already arrested many knights in the city and put them in jail. Half a year ago, Bao Fuyin became the prefect of Kaifeng, and Zhan became the chief constable. He had the power to mobilize the constables of Kaifeng Prefecture to encircle and suppress the knights in Bianjing City, which made them behave themselves a lot."
Hearing this, Lu Sen finally understood why Zhan Zhao, who was obviously a martial artist, could be qualified for such a high position as a third-rank swordsman. You know, Bao Zheng was only a fourth-rank civil servant at that time.
Because the imperial court needs Zhan Zhao to suppress those lawless chivalrous knights.
It can also be regarded as an act of buying bones with a fortune: Look, as long as you submit to the imperial court and behave yourself, you gangsters can also become officials.
That's roughly what I mean.
However, the Zhao Song dynasty valued civil officials over military officials. Although Zhan Zhao was a third-rank military officer, he was far inferior to Bao Zheng, who was a fourth-rank officer, in terms of actual power and status.
It is estimated that even an eighth-rank civil servant with some real power can control Zhan Zhao, a third-rank sword-bearing guard.
Then the two of them hurried on their way, chatting about the interesting stories of the knights.
By the time he returned home, Lu Sen already had a vague understanding of the people in this dynasty.
The world of this era is full of talented people and masters.
The Three Evils of Mianzhou and the Five Rats of Xiankong Island that we saw before were just a small group of well-known figures in the world.
There are many people with famous names in the world, and their reputations are widely known.
Even ordinary people have heard a lot of it.
Zhan Zhao was considered the best among the younger generation. Among his peers, only the Northern Hero Ou Yangchun could barely surpass him.
In addition to his nickname of "Royal Cat", he also has the nickname of "Southern Hero".
The North-South Heroes sound impressive, and they are indeed impressive, but they are only the top among the younger generation.
Above them, there are veteran masters such as Zhuiyue Cicada Wing Sword, Qingfeng Zei, Dagang Iron Fist and so on.
Most of these old masters retired to the mountains to cultivate their bodies and minds, and pondered the higher levels of martial arts.
I have rarely taken action.
When Heizhu was a beggar, he heard a lot of such strange stories and would be very excited when talking about them, with even dances and gestures.
But after listening to it, Lu Sen shook his head secretly.
The more names a Jianghu person has and the more widely they are known, the more prosperous this "small world" or "underground world" is.
This also proves that this era is more chaotic.
The knight breaks the law by force.
With a weapon in hand, he can move freely and violently, and he is hard to restrain himself, and he naturally develops murderous intent.
Besides, knights seek the pleasure of revenge, and it is common for them to get angry and kill people if they are looked at too long.
This is also the norm in the entire world.
You kill me, I kill you, and then accidentally kill an ordinary person. Isn't that normal?
Not many heroes in the martial arts world care whether they hurt someone by mistake or not; they only care whether they enjoy the fight enough.
Therefore, it is quite rare to find a knight-errant master like Zhan Zhao who has a moral bottom line, is willing to protect ordinary people and stand up for ordinary people.
No wonder those martial artists started making trouble as soon as Zhan Zhao left Bianjing City.
The repressive nature is liberated.
When the two entered the yard, Xiao Linqin immediately ran over and said happily, "Thank you for your hard work, my dear, and also Brother Heizhu."
She was still a little scared to stay at home alone.
There was only the sound of the silent wind in the forest, and it was already evening, the sky was mostly dark, and the night owls in the forest were calling loudly.
In this kind of environment, being alone, even adults would be scared, let alone a little girl.
Back in the yard, Lu Sen took out the things he bought from the system backpack, and also took out enough cooked food for the three of them.
Ringo and Kurozuya were chewing scallion pancakes, their mouths full of oil, and they were eating with gusto.
Lu Sen sat on a stool, sipping slowly while checking his system interface.
After three busy days, I finally have time to study the cheat code seriously.
First of all, this thing is not humane at all.
It doesn't have any prompt tutorials, and only one interface can be open at a time.
For example, if you open the character attribute interface, the backpack interface will close automatically.
If you open the recipe interface in your field of vision , the backpack interface will be closed and cannot be listed side by side.
This made Lu Sen, who liked multi-threaded operations, extremely uncomfortable.
The most important part of the cheat code is the recipe system. The backpack system is also very practical, but it is not as important as the recipe system.
There are so many recipes that if you keep scrolling down, it feels like there is no end to it, and the icons are so densely packed.
Lu Sen estimates that there are tens of thousands of species.
And many recipes are almost impossible to achieve.
For example: Foundation Building Pill.
Requirements: Alchemy table, top-grade thunder spirit grass x10, thunder stone x2, spiritual energy pill x2.
He can build an alchemy table, but where can he find things like top-grade thunder spirit grass, thunder stone, and spiritual energy pills?
I've never heard of it.
He stared at the recipe for a long time, becoming more and more greedy, but finally closed it.
Many recipes are really magical, but if you can’t make them, no matter how powerful or magical they are, it’s all in vain.
Then he opened his character attribute interface.
He had studied this interface when he first came through.
There is nothing worth mentioning about it, no data chart, no points added, no skill learning and other functions.
He was just taking a look out of habit now.
Just with this one glance, he said "hmm".
Because he found that an item of data in his character attribute table had changed.
Character experience: 3/365
Except for the few hours he had just traveled through time, he had not opened the character system interface in the past three days.
I have been in this world for three days and have 3 points of character experience?
A little bit a day?
If this guess is correct, then after tonight it should be 4 o'clock.
One year to get promoted?
It’s quite interesting. Does it mean that the longer he lives, the more powerful he becomes?
After upgrading, will the character experience required increase?
Is there any other way besides automatically getting a little bit every day?
Such questions circled in his mind.
Lu Sen looked at the character interface for a while, then closed it and opened the equipment interface.
The equipment interface is even shabbier, with only three grids.
They correspond to the three types of equipment: 'weapons', 'armor', and 'accessories'.
Although the number of equipment that can be equipped is small, it is good that it does not take up weight, and the "armor" and "accessories" can be replaced by the "skin" system and are not visible.
Regular clothes are a kind of "skin", so outsiders can't see whether Lu Sen is wearing armor or not, which is very comfortable.
As for the "accessories", they require gems to be synthesized, and Lu Sen doesn't have any gems now.
Although Yang Jinhua sent some jade, it was not considered a gemstone.
He turned over and over his golden finger and studied it for a long time.
Gradually, he discovered the limitations of the golden finger.
The basic crafting recipe, or item, does have no quantity limit or cooldown limit.
But it is limited by the amount of external resources.
If you cut down too many trees, the mountain will become bald; if you dig up too much soil, big holes will be left on the ground.
High-level items have very powerful effects, but they have cooling time restrictions or quantity restrictions.
For example, a small round barrel is a magical tool for transporting water.
But you can only make two... Now in the recipe column, the item for the small barrel has gone dark.
Cannot be crafted.
So, will there be quantity limits for other high-level items?
After your level is raised, you will need to test whether you can unlock more item limits one by one.
Just take it slow.
After admiring the moonlight in the yard for a while, Lu Sen got up and went upstairs to sleep.
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The sun rose and set, and in the blink of an eye, seven days passed.
During this period, Lu Sen and the other two stayed at home and did not go shopping in Bianjing City. At most, they walked around the mountains, looking for some vines, or cut down a few trees, dig up some gravel, and replenish the basic resources in their system backpacks.
The cooked food we bought in the city was enough to feed three people for a month.
Moreover, during these seven days, Lu Sen was also trying to find ways to test his golden finger more.
First, he discovered that there was indeed a limit on the number of high-level items he could make.
When the vegetable field is synthesized to 100 square meters, the corresponding item in the recipe column also dims.
Then my character experience also increased to 10 points, which was indeed one point a day.
So Lu Sen understood that he was not very strong now, at least not before his level was raised.
But if you want to protect yourself, it should be more than enough.
That day, when Lu Sen just got up and walked downstairs, he saw Heizhu standing in front of the first vegetable field he had cultivated, dancing and gesticulating with excitement.
He walked over and found that the green onions and lettuces that were planted first were ready to be harvested.
The vegetable fields are green and lovely.
"It grows so fast, really fast." Heizhu squatted in front of the vegetable field, almost crying with joy, his face wrinkled: "A crop will grow in ten days, and we won't be hungry anymore."
Kobayashi was also there, reaching out and gently stroking the green onions and lettuce, his dark little face full of joy.
No wonder they were so excited. Normally, it would take about a month for scallions and lettuce to grow before they could be harvested, but now, they could harvest a crop in just ten days. They knew exactly what this meant.
In the other nine vegetable fields, there are also many green vegetables growing, such as beans, cabbage, white radish, etc.
Heizhu has discovered that even if the vegetables are not in season, they will still germinate as long as the seeds are sown in the vegetable field.
There seems to be no seasons in the vegetable fields in this yard.
My husband is indeed an immortal on earth.
This incident once again solidified Kurozhu and Ringo's perception of Lu Sen.
"My dear, let's cut some greens to sell. They grow so fast that three people can't finish them all." Hei Zhu looked at Lu Sen expectantly: "Buy some kitchen utensils, salt and oil, some eggs, and some rice. We can cook our own food."
Lu Sen thought about it and nodded in agreement.
To be honest, he is tired of eating steamed buns and fried cakes all day long.
Kurozhu and Kobayashi really like to eat white steamed buns and fried cakes every day. For them, these are rare delicacies in the world.
But they both thought in their hearts that their husbands should not eat the same thing as them every day.
I wouldn’t say big fish and meat, but at least there needs to be oil, salt and white rice.
Otherwise, he would live in such poverty, which is not what a terrestrial immortal should be like.
Seeing that Lu Sen agreed, Heizhu and Ringo immediately harvested a batch of green onions and lettuce and put them in two baskets.
Heizhu then picked up the two baskets with a shoulder pole.
During these seven days, Heizhu and Ringo, in addition to watering the vegetable fields and loosening the soil, went to the mountains to find very thin and soft vines, spent two days drying them, and then forced them to use these dried vines to make two baskets by hand.
It has to be said that children from poor families have strong hands-on skills.
Kobayashi continued to guard the house, and she still didn't dare to enter the city.
Lu Sen and Hei Zhu entered the city of Bianjing.
The city of Bianjing had a large population, so as long as you entered the city, everywhere was a busy market and stalls could be set up everywhere.
Heizhu found an open space by the road, unloaded his burden, and then lifted the white cloth covering the basket, revealing the juicy green vegetables that had just been picked.
Although many people were setting up stalls on both sides and many were selling green vegetables, the green vegetables in Heizhu's two baskets looked obviously more vibrant and delicious.
Many pedestrians who were planning to buy some lettuce to take home immediately turned their eyes over here.
"My dear, you can go for a walk in the city. Leave this to me." Heizhu said with a smile while sitting cross-legged on the ground.
He knew very well that it was unreasonable for his husband and servants to sell vegetables together.
Lu Sen nodded, turned around and slowly strolled around the city with the pedestrians around him.
As long as there is no curfew or a thunderstorm, the city of Bianjing is always bustling.
Not to mention the shops on both sides of the street that were doing very well, even the roadside stalls were densely packed with people crowding in front of them. The sounds of shouting and bargaining were mixed together.
The stalls sold everything from calligraphy and paintings, firewood, utensils, fire-breathing jugglers, to cloth.
But the majority are still various snack stalls.
He bought some candied fruits and ate them while walking. After finishing, he bought a string of candied haws... They were so sour, so he bought some fried tofu to satisfy his craving.
Then, while eating tofu, I watched a burly woman with her upper body naked, performing the moves of breaking rocks with her chest and splitting bricks with her legs.
The woman's muscles were as gnarled as those of green pines, her legs were as thick as pillars, and her face was like that of an evil demon. Although her upper body was naked, she did not give people any erotic desire, only her brute force and strong body were shocking.
When she finished her performance, there was a burst of admiration and cheers from all around, and coins fell like rain.
Lu Sen also threw two copper coins over.
Then he ate fried tofu, turned a corner, and saw a big house in front of him. On the plaque at the door were two big characters "Yang Mansion".
It turned out that he had unknowingly arrived at Tianbo Street.
Lu Sen thought, since he was here, should he go to Tianbo Yang Mansion and have a seat?
At this moment, a white shadow flew out from the high wall beside the gate of Yang Mansion.
The man had his face covered and his features could not be seen clearly.
Thief, assassin?
Lu Sen now had a good relationship with the Yang family. Just as he was about to draw his bow to shoot the man down, he heard a delicate shout from inside the yard.
"You little thief, you dare to steal in broad daylight. Do you really think that there is no one in our Yang family?"
Then a slender red figure jumped out. It was Yang Jinhua.
She held a large bow and drew the arrow in mid-air.
The white masked man in front looked back at this scene, and his body suddenly fell rapidly and fell into the crowd on the street.
Seeing this scene, Yang Jinhua's pretty face turned cold. If the arrow was shot at this moment, it would easily injure pedestrians on the street.
She took back the longbow and arrow, shook her hand and threw them back into the mansion, then pulled her right hand at her waist and pulled out a silver whip.
Then she fell from the air, swung her right hand forward, and the silver whip whistled in a semicircle and shot straight down from the air.
The man in white quickly took two steps back, and the silver whip fell from half an inch in front of his nose and hit the bluestone slab in the middle of the street. After a crisp sound, it left a deep whip mark.
Seeing this scene, the man in white's eyes showed horror.
Yang Jinhua had already shown mercy just now. If you move again, you will probably be whipped by her and you won't be able to dodge.
"You little thief, if you run again, I'll whip your forehead into three pieces." Yang Jinhua's pretty face was filled with fear. She stepped on the bluestone slab with her right foot, and a circle of dust and several cracks appeared on the slab. "Just surrender and wait for your punishment."
At this moment, her black hair was fluttering and her bright red clothes were rustling, she was extremely domineering.
Lu Sen was watching her stepping on the bluestone slabs and couldn't help but marvel at the scene.
Just now, the female Rakshasa raised her legs to chop bricks. That's because she is very strong and her legs are as thick as pillars.
But Yang Jinhua...she has a straight and slender body, a slender waist, and naturally straight and long legs. She can actually break the thick stone slab easily. How much strength does it take?
Although both of them are female warriors, the difference between them is so huge.
One is as strong as a king kong, the other looks pretty and lovely.
It's really magical.
The pedestrians around reacted at this time and ran away screaming.
The masked man in white looked at the pedestrians around him, his eyes rolling as if he was thinking of a way to escape.
Yang Jinhua seemed to know what the other party was planning. She flicked her whip in the air and shouted, "Yang's disciples are catching thieves. Unrelated people should leave immediately. Anyone who stays will be treated as an accomplice of the thieves. I will keep my word."
The pedestrians around ran faster.
There was despair in the eyes of the man in white and mask.
Yang Jinhua stared at the other person intently. At this moment, she saw a white shadow standing still beside her. She turned her head and shouted quickly, "Boy, if you don't leave now, I will treat you as an accomplice of the thieves and whip you to death. Go!"
Then she quickly turned her head and looked straight ahead of her.
But less than half a second later, her whole body stiffened, her head slowly turned to the left, and an incredible look appeared in her eyes.
Lu Sen put a piece of fried tofu into his mouth and chewed it, looking at her quietly.
Yang Jinhua's expression gradually changed from surprise to sorrow, and then to extreme embarrassment.
After a while, Lu Sen said, "The man ran away, aren't we going to chase him?"
