Ruins of the past

Hao Xiangtong waited at the gate for a long time, and immediately greeted Chu Qiguang as soon as he came out.

She wanted to ask Chu Qiguang how he knew so much, but when she opened her mouth, she felt that it was not good to ask other people's secrets directly.

When Chu Qiguang saw Hao Xiangtong walking over, he thought he was here to urge the update, so he said directly: "I'm going to be busy next time. The story will be interrupted for a few days."

"Huh?!" Hao Xiangtong was stunned. Seeing Chu Qiguang leaving in a hurry, she sighed in her heart. She originally thought that she and Mr. Chu were barely friends, but now she saw that the other party did not seem to be a general. She took it to heart.

‘I’m afraid that telling me stories is just to build relationships and use me to talk to my father. ’

Thinking of this, Hao Xiangtong felt a little disgusted when he looked at Chu Qiguang's back, feeling like an abandoned puppy.

She squeezed her fist and said, 'I really want to beat him! ’

At this moment, Chu Qiguang seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly turned around and looked at Hao Xiangtong: "I'm asking for leave these days. I'll come over and update you in a few days, and I'll talk for an hour at a time. "

Hao Xiangtong couldn't help laughing immediately after hearing this: "Really?"

Chu Qiguang said sternly: "This person has always said one thing, and he has never told a lie in his whole life."

Hao Xiangtong thought about Chu Qiguang's upright character who didn't love money or be flirtatious with women, and nodded in agreement: "Then I'll wait for you."

Chu Qiguang waved and thought on the way out: 'I almost forgot to maintain a relationship with Hao Xiangtong. After all, we are the seeds of the future Taoism, so we still have to maintain a good relationship. ’

…

Next, Chu Qiguang went back to the yard and recalculated the next situation in his mind.

Then looking at Chen Gang who was just starting to shovel the feces of the cat monsters, he called Chen Gang over and asked him to find some time to find the stray dogs and keep an eye on Hao Fulai, the housekeeper of the Hao family.

When Chen Gang heard this, his eyes flashed and he asked, "Is there something wrong with Hao Fulai? Brother Dog, do you want us to do him?"

Chu Qiguang said angrily: "Gangzi, don't just think about beating me up all day long. When something happens, you have to learn to use your brain more."

Chen Gang nodded and his eyes flashed again: "Then let's tie him up?"

Chu Qiguang rubbed his brows, and then suddenly slapped Chen Gang on the head: "When did I ask you to kidnap someone? Just do what I asked you to do, and don't use your cleverness to me."

Chen Gang touched his slightly swollen head and thought weakly: 'I was just told to use my brain more. ’

After telling Chen Gang not to do unnecessary things, he asked the dog demon to keep an eye on Hao Fulai.

Looking at Chen Gang who kept nodding, Chu Qiguang thought in his mind: "Chen Gang, this kid, will probably only be a thug in this life. But such a single-minded person can be used with peace of mind sometimes."

Chu Qiguang asked again: "Is there anything else you don't understand?"

Chen Gang immediately said: "Brother Dog, now I have to shovel poop for more than a dozen cat monsters every day, prepare food for the dog monsters and cat monsters, make cat wine, and follow you to greet and send them off at night, and then I have to Practicing martial arts is really something I can’t do.”

Chu Qiguang nodded when he heard this. It was indeed a bit difficult for Chen Gang to do so many things alone.

"In this case, I will give you ten taels of silver tonight. You go back to Wangjiazhuang tomorrow and bring your two younger brothers over to help me work together."

Chen Gang nodded happily when he heard this. He had always thought that his two younger brothers could have a future by farming in the village. It's better to go out and do big things with Brother Dog to be successful.

After Chen Gang left, Chu Qiguang called George and asked, "Master Qiao, what was the ending of the story about Mr. Wu Ge that you told me last time?"

George rolled his eyes and thought: "Wu Siqi, Mr. Wu Ge? He will have good fortune in the next ten years and reform a lot of government affairs. But the final outcome will be that ten years later, his house will be confiscated and his family will be exterminated, and his family will be wiped out."

"Why? Of course the emperor wants him dead, because he changed the reform to the royal clan and wanted to cut down on the royal family's daily expenses. That's fine. He even wanted to cut down on the current emperor's ability to practice Taoism. "

At this point, George glanced at Chu Qiguang subconsciously, and then continued: "A powerful person once said that Mr. Wu Ge was just a knife used by the emperor to reform. When the knife is used up, it must be thrown away. Moreover, the purpose of the current emperor's reforms is not to enrich the country and strengthen the people, but to amass wealth through reforms and use it as material for his own cultivation."

"Today, I want to amass the world's wealth and allow myself to break through to a realm above the Tao."

"But it is too difficult to enter the realm above the Tao. There has not been such a person in the world for more than two hundred years."

Qiao Zhi couldn't help but glance at Chu Qiguang again: "The powerful person who evaluated the emperor said... This emperor has bet the fate of the country on himself. If he really breaks through to the Dao, he will naturally be invincible and the world will be peaceful. . But if it fails, the big man will be doomed."

Chu Qiguang nodded: "It seems that he failed. But if I were him and became emperor, I would still have the opportunity to practice Taoism, and I might take a gamble."

Next, Chu Qiguang thought that Hao Yongtai had already asked for leave for him anyway, so he simply stayed at home and practiced all day.

While practicing martial arts, he looked at the cat demons who were still in military training, and found that after these days of continuous feeding, strict training, and a murder, these cat demons had become somewhat accustomed to today's life, and they were interested in Chu Qiguang and Qiao Zhi also gradually developed a sense of identity.

Following George's order, they stood neatly in two rows, taking turns to sit down, shake hands, lie down, and pretend to be dead...it looked pretty decent.

Chu Qiguang asked Qiao Zhi in his heart: "If you were not here, would these cat monsters run around?"

Qiao Zhi said with assurance: "Don't worry, I have trained them all to be obedient and they will never run around!"

Chu Qiguang nodded and continued to practice martial arts. Because he killed Gu Wei yesterday after getting sick, he felt that his practice today was particularly effective, so he took the time to practice the Yaksha King Fist.

It wasn't until evening that Butler Hao came to the door, looked at him and said coldly: "Come with me."

Chu Qiguang didn't take it seriously and followed him to the back door of the county government office. Someone had already left a crack in the door waiting there.

Hao Fulai said coldly: "Someone has been arranged inside and will take you to the county government's warehouse to find the county magistrate and huidian."

"Remember, you can only read but not copy. And don't let anyone find out. If you are found out, we won't even know you."

After saying that, he raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said with a crooked mouth: "Let's see what solutions you can come up with."

Chu Qiguang nodded and did not react to Hao Fulai's hostility. He just followed the leader inside to the direction of the warehouse.

The guide did not speak to Chu Qiguang, let alone introduce himself.

Qiao Zhi jumped onto the eaves and asked curiously: "Why do you want to call me here today?"

Chu Qiguang said in his heart: "I always feel that Hao Fulai is a bit strange. I'd better ask Master Qiao to follow him just in case. After all, you can only sail with caution."

The leader took the key and opened the warehouse. After bringing Chu Qiguang over, he stood guard outside the door and only let Chu Qiguang go in and take a look.

Chu Qiguang looked at the warehouse in front of him and exhaled slightly: "The development trajectory of Qingyang County since the founding of the country is hidden in these more than ten rows of bookshelves."

"Judging from the data in the Qianliang account books I looked at, there are many bad debts and loopholes in Qingyang County..."

When Chu Qiguang looked through the money and grain account books, he not only learned about the serious gap between the rich and the poor in Qingyang County and the seriousness of land annexation, but also discovered some stubborn tax problems left over from generation to generation.

"I remember that the year I was looking for was...Yongan Year 2."

Chu Qiguang searched for a while according to the year recorded on the bookshelf, and then took out a book of guilds.

"This is it. It should have been copied again. I don't know if it has been recorded..."

With the addition of memory, understanding, and understanding brought by the third realm of spiritual cultivation, he can read at an extremely fast speed, almost at a glance and ten lines at a time, and he can never forget it.

Soon, Chu Qiguang's eyes narrowed: "There is indeed a problem."

He smiled slightly: "If this trick is used, I am afraid that within a year or two, Hezhi County will no longer be able to control the affairs of the Wu family and the Hao family."

Suddenly Chu Qiguang raised his head and listened to the noise coming from outside the warehouse.

…

Outside the warehouse door, the man who brought Chu Qiguang in was yawning out of boredom when he suddenly heard a lot of footsteps approaching.

I saw He Zhixian striding forward with a cold face, followed by more than 20 police officers holding sticks and looking murderous.

"Surround the warehouse for me." Hezhi County gave the order, and the officers immediately surrounded the warehouse.

The man who brought Chu Qiguang in was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and said tremblingly: "The county...the county minister..."

He Zhixian glared at him and kicked open the half-open door of the warehouse: "Search! Find me the person! Who dares to enter the county government without permission, and who is cheating? I will interrogate it today." It’s the first trial.”