Genesis Lord

The southern mountain range of Luoshui City, Kuyang Mountain.

Jiang Han, who was wearing a plain suit, and Xuanyuan Qiuxue, who was disguised, were standing in the dry forest among the mountains.Xuanyuan Qiuxue's complexion was a little pale, and she seemed a little unwell; it had been almost three days since the last time she went to the governor's mansion and lost her cultivation in an accident.Now her cultivation still shows no signs of recovering, without her cultivation, it is naturally a bit difficult for her to run around in this mountain forest.

"Drink some water." Jiang Han took off the water bag hanging from his waist and handed it to her.Xuanyuan Qiuxue was not polite, she stretched out her hand to grab the water bag, and gulped down the water. "Are you sure that the blueprint you drew is reliable? We have been searching Kuyang Mountain for almost four hours, and we still haven't seen the traces of the ancient array you mentioned." Seeing that her face had recovered a bit, Jiang Han asked stand up.Xuanyuan Qiuxue frowned, and said: "It's definitely not wrong. Those ancient formations are too mysterious, maybe it takes a certain time or certain conditions to be able to appear?"

Jiang Han shook his head helplessly, sat on the cluttered grass, and said, "Forget it, you've searched for long enough now, and you don't have any cultivation now, so it's better to rest for a while before we talk about it."

Seeing what he said, Xuanyuan Qiuxue didn't object, she took out a silk scarf from her storage ring, placed it on the grass, and sat down directly.After all, she was really tired.Seeing that she was still so particular under such circumstances, Jiang Han couldn't help being a little speechless, "It's this kind of time, why are you still so particular? It really is the temperament of a young lady."

"You know what a fart!" Xuanyuan Qiuxue was a little annoyed, and cursed a rare swear word, "I'm here...that."

"En?" Jiang Han didn't understand at first, and was a little stunned, but when she watched Xuanyuan Qiuxue rubbing her stomach from time to time after sitting down, she quickly understood what she was referring to.Jiang Han showed a clear smile, and took out an iron pot and some ingredients from his primordial space.Xuanyuan Qiuxue watched him go to the side and began to hurry up and down, a little puzzled, and asked, "What are you doing? Are you hungry?"

Jiang Han ignored her, but turned the fire to heat up the whole iron pot, carefully cleaned up the ingredients and began to cook, "This is cold-dispelling ginger soup. The noble girls of Shengtian Kingdom usually drink it when they have menstruation. This. It is boiled with the rare fire ginger in Yangshan, which contains aura and nourishment, which is much stronger than ordinary ginger soup." Xuanyuan Qiuxue was stunned when he heard the words, and his cheeks turned red suddenly. It turned out that he Did you know that you came here, and prepared ginger soup for yourself so carefully?This guy is not as unreasonable as he appears...

Jiang Han naturally didn't know what Xuanyuan Qiuxue was thinking, so he put two bowls of ginger soup on the ground, picked up one of the bowls and handed it to Xuanyuan Qiuxue, "Drink it while it's hot, it'll make you feel better. Look at this It's getting dark soon, and the climate in the mountains is extremely unstable, maybe it will get colder at night, and you don't want the situation to get worse, do you?"

Seeing that he cared so much about her, Xuanyuan Qiuxue snorted dissatisfiedly, took the ginger soup and drank it with relish.At this moment, Xuanyuan Qiuxue did not have the grace and dignity of the past at all, but looked like a little girl fighting for candy, her expression and posture were extraordinarily playful.Jiang Han was also a little dazed looking at the amorous feelings revealed on her body, but he still said unforgivingly: "Change your face quickly, this face is not good-looking! Anyway, there is no one else in this mountain range! You What are you afraid of?"

Hearing his blunt and commanding words, Xuanyuan Qiuxue frowned, put down the small bowl of ginger soup she had finished drinking, and said, "I can just put this face on my face now, in case the mountains Come on, it's very troublesome."

"In exchange, your face is ugly!" Jiang Han still scolded.

Xuanyuan Qiuxue shook her head helplessly, but there was still a trace of imperceptible joy in her heart, it seemed that she was still very attractive to him!She obeyed Jiang Han's wishes, took off the disguise, and revealed her beautiful face.And Jiang Han's eyes on her suddenly became a lot hotter, "What a goblin!"

Hearing Jiang Han's blatant words, Xuanyuan Qiuxue's eyes flashed a trace of shame, "If you don't change it, you say it's ugly, but if you take off the disguise, you're talkative!" "Hey!" He opened his mouth to speak, but picked up the ginger soup beside him and began to drink it. While drinking, he said, "Is it not hurting now? You can even argue with me."

Xuanyuan Qiuxue was taken aback when she heard the words, touched her stomach, and found that she had really improved a lot.Moreover, Jiang Han's rude words just now seemed to be deliberately diverting his attention.Thinking of this, Xuanyuan Qiuxue looked at Jiang Han with deep meaning. He is really a careful man, but he often sees his indifferent surface. I really don't know which one is the real him?For a while, Xuanyuan Qiuxue, who was looking at Jiang Han, became a little crazy, and her curiosity about Jiang Han deepened for no reason.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but Kuyang Mountain is not as simple as it looks. When we first came up from the foot of the mountain, I realized that the nearby mountains are not like dry mountains with no people." Jiang Han rubbed his chin, He began to think seriously, and said: "The nearby mountains seem to be uninhabited; but when we went up the mountain, did you find that many mountain roads are not formed naturally, but are artificially formed after long-term trampling. Path. In addition, there are some subtle signs at the intersections between the mountains. For example, Kuyang Mountain, when we walked in from the foot of Nanshan Mountain, I found a light black dry tree branch tied the intersection The big branch of the pine tree. Also, when we pass other hills, there are such signs, but the branches or colors are different.”

Xuanyuan Qiuxue listened to Jiang Han's serious analysis, and after careful recollection, her small face showed surprise, and said, "What do you mean? There should be people here for a long time?"

"Let me tell you in detail." Jiang Han nodded with a smile, "Not long after we came to Xizhou, I asked Luo Bingyun to collect news about Xizhou. There are strange things in Xizhou everywhere. The clues can be seen just from Luoshui City, the main city of Xizhou. But some information Luo Bingyun gave me is more interesting. It is good that Xizhou is barren, but you must know that the tax paid to the imperial court every year The money is still very large. This is the strange thing. The land is barren, and the people don’t seem to be farming. Instead, merchants are popular. All walks of life that can make money are monopolized by local merchants in Xizhou. You say Xizhou Be chaotic, indeed, the governor and his important officials are drinking, having fun and doing some immoral things all day long, but if you insist on saying that this place is chaotic, you can’t justify it. Everything here is running in an orderly manner. It’s just the people They have been squeezed and have no right to speak out. The weirdest thing is nothing more than the fact that many wealthy merchant families in Xizhou obey the orders of the local government."

"Supportingly, merchants are supposed to give nothing away, but every year when the government needs money and food, there are basically merchants to support it. So I have to suspect that the merchants in Xizhou are already colluding with the local government. Among the information Luo Bingyun gave me is not only Including the weirdness of these Xizhou merchants, there are also some uncontrolled local forces in Xizhou, such as martial arts sects, or some violent associations and gangs, all seem to be extremely obedient to the local government." Jiang Han said here, and then After a pause, there was a hint of chill in his bright eyes, and he said coldly: "So the chaos in Xizhou is only for the common people, but it is a positive voice for the rulers. If you want to describe this Xizhou accurately, If you think about the strange situation in the state, it is that this place is not like an ordinary state capital, but rather a small imperial court that has just begun to take shape!"

After listening to Jiang Han's analysis, Xuanyuan Qiuxue was completely stunned, and asked incredulously, "You mean... Zhuo Xingpeng, Governor of Xizhou, wants to plot rebellion?"

Jiang Han chuckled, and said: "I think he has this idea. He wanted to cut off the eyes of the court a long time ago. He has been running Xizhou for a long time. Many things have been deeply ingrained."

"Then why do you want to solicit him? Such an ambitious traitor will follow you with confidence?" Xuanyuan Qiuxue also entered the state of analysis, and her expression became more serious, "Could it be possible, Are you pretending to solicit?"

"Of course." Jiang Han nodded and replied: "Although he is operating in secret now, his strength is not enough. I don't think he wants to rebel, but wants to separate this Western Province from Shengtian Kingdom's rule After all, he is used to being the land emperor with one acre of land in Xizhou. Now even if he is allowed to sit in my position, he may not be willing, do you believe it? We are in Xizhou now, so it’s good for ourselves , for the convenience of doing things in the future. I have to throw an olive branch to him, otherwise in the border of Xizhou, if he wants to make some big noises, we will be in trouble."

"So, you have already figured it out?" Xuanyuan Qiuxue looked at Jiang Han with a little shock, "I don't have any good feelings for these corrupt officials in Xizhou."

Jiang Han smiled lightly at Xuanyuan Qiuxue's indignant words, and said, "Of course you don't like them, that's because you live in the clouds. You have seen too little evil, or you have never seen it before. Sheng Tianguo is so Big, did the incident in Yurou Township, a local official, only happen in one western state? This is obviously impossible. Do you think those high officials and emperors in Beijing really don’t understand? They know that there is no way to stop these incidents, but they can only slightly To control. From time to time, a few so-called inspectors are sent over to beat and beat. This is officialdom, and this is checks and balances."

Xuanyuan Qiuxue shook her head disdainfully when she heard the words, and said, "Of course I don't know about these despicable evil tricks, and I don't want to know. I just want to ask you, what happened to the three girls I saved that day?"

"They are very safe." Jiang Han replied with a smile: "I thought about killing them before, but I held back. I asked my people to arrange them in a safer and more secret place. Especially in those few days After the tragedy in the Lu Mansion, I knew that these three women had other great uses. You said that if you were Lu Xiuer, you knew that your whole family was killed by a villain who tried to rape you, and you tried to frame yourself, what would you do? manage?"

Xuanyuan Qiuxue felt a chill suddenly, "You mean, you want Lu Xiuer to attack Zhuo Xingpeng?"

"Hahaha, it depends on what Lu Xiu'er does!" Jiang Han showed a chilling smile, and Xuanyuan Qiuxue's body trembled uncontrollably, and his face was not very good-looking, and asked: "Jiang Han, I really didn't know that at your young age, you have such thoughts..."

"So vicious, so deep, right?" Jiang Han seemed to know what she wanted to say, so he interrupted her in advance.

Xuanyuan Qiuxue closed her eyes, let out a long breath of air, and did not reply.However, Jiang Han seemed to recall something, and his expression became extremely cold, "Not everyone is like you, you have a family to protect you from the wind and rain." Only then did Xuanyuan Qiuxue realize that what she just said was not appropriate It's not that she doesn't know that Jiang Han was an orphan since childhood, looking at his resolute and handsome face, her heart seemed to ache, and she looked ashamed, "I didn't mean that...I just felt that, It's not easy for you either."

"Okay, I don't care." Jiang Han shook his head, obviously he didn't care about her comfort, but returned to his usual normal expression, and said, "There should be a lot of gang forces in the southern mountains of Luoshui City. A few days ago, I deliberately reminded Zhuo Xingpeng to restrain himself. Presumably, these forces under his control have also been resettled by him. Even in my opinion, many bandit dens on the hills near Luoshui City also obey his orders. Combined The strangeness of Kuyang Mountain that we found is not difficult to find that there used to be a lot of people living here, and there are some traces of gathering in groups."

Hearing this, Xuanyuan Qiuxue looked around carefully, and suddenly saw the somewhat uneven ground not far away, stretched out her jade finger, and said a little excitedly: "Jiang Han, look, the ground over there is uneven. , there are still some earthen bricks nearby. There is also burnt gray grass beside it!" Jiang Han also looked up after hearing this, his eyes showed a bright color, and said: "That should be the place where the forces entrenched here before It's one of the gathering places. Let's go and have a look!"

Xuanyuan Qiuxue nodded repeatedly, stood up and put away the blanket on the floor, and followed Jiang Han into the place she just pointed out with big strides.After Jiang Han approached, he stepped hard on the uneven ground, and with a "boom", the covered soil sank directly, and what they saw was a cellar with rough decoration!

"Ah!" Xuanyuan Qiuxue stepped into the cellar, covering her mouth and shouting excitedly: "Jiang Han, look quickly, that is the trace of the ancient formation!" Jiang Han immediately looked up and saw the person on the right side of the cellar. There are various painting marks carved on the ground, and the expression has become a little fiery...