Chapter 60 Oolong
Chapter 60 Oolong
"Am I dazzled? That...is that guy Liu Xiahui?" Surprised and shocked, Qingye slightly opened her sexy lips and murmured to herself.
"If the three of us weren't dazzled, that guy should be Liu Xiahui!"
When the figure gradually went away, Qingxin, who had just recovered from his shock, said softly.
Hearing the sound, unlike the girl who was still immersed in the huge amount of information brought by that scene, Qingye also came back to her senses.
She pursed her lips slightly and smiled bitterly to herself.
A great fighter?
Haha, you hid it quite well... Qingye, Qingye... OK! After all these years, you finally have some feelings for a man for no apparent reason, but in the end, he may not take you seriously. Don't you think this is ridiculous?
After laughing bitterly to himself for a while, Qingye turned around and faced the two people beside him, but a hint of gnashing of teeth and resentment appeared on his face.
You are so good, Liu Xiahui!
It's fun to play a bunch of us around, right?
Humph! Don't let me meet you again!
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On the roof of the house.
A man and a woman were wrapped in orange-gold fighting spirit and were speeding along at high speed.
Suddenly, under pressure from the situation, the Little Medical Fairy, who was half nestling in Liu Xi's arms, spoke out:
"Brother, some people are catching up with us!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Xi turned around and saw that, as expected, behind the street below the house, there was a group of more than ten people riding on tall horses with magical beast blood in their veins. They jumped out from a fork in the road and chased after him closely.
Moving his eyes further back, he caught a glimpse of a carriage. It was the same carriage that Mr. Yao had taken after leaving Wanyaozhai.
"Wow! It's been quite some time, but you haven't left town yet? You seem so relaxed?" Liu Xi muttered casually.
"Brother, what did you say? I didn't hear you clearly."
In his arms, Xiao Yixian heard the voice and asked.
"Uh..." Liu Xi was silent for a moment in awkward silence, then changed the subject and said, "Nothing, the horses those people ride are quite strong, and we are almost out of town now, you can prepare to call your flying mount! I am running at this speed all the time, and it is a bit too much for me."
In fact, it was not that he was afraid of the people sent by Mr. Yao to chase him.
As for the dozen or so high-level fighters on horseback, to be honest, even if the number doubled, he would not be afraid at all as he is using the experience card!
He even thought that since Mr. Yao saw that he could use his fighting spirit to leave his body, he must be a great fighting master. But he still dared to send people to chase him. He didn't know what was wrong with his brain, or what was he relying on?
Just for that little bit of ridiculous face?
Or is the value of Wanyaozhai to Little Medical Immortal really worth her fighting to the death with a great fighting master?
Turning his head again, he looked at the group of dozens of riders who were sticking to him like a dog-skin plaster and chasing him relentlessly. Liu Xi changed his mind.
Could it be that he contacted the people from those major mercenary groups, hoping to rely on numbers to crush him to death?
It seems that this is not impossible?
But then again, if he stopped with Xiao Yixian and had a head-on conflict with these people, he would inevitably be concerned about Xiao Yixian's safety and would not be able to move freely. There was no need to be provoked and feel itchy, and then act like a fool, waiting for those people to catch up and then have a fierce battle with them, just to show off?
It’s better to save some energy and time!
From her arms, the Little Medical Fairy took out a long, flat bamboo whistle and gently blew out a sound wave towards the distance.
Qingshan Town does not have city walls like those big cities and fortresses. After all, this is a small town that gradually developed from a small open-air market due to frequent trade between mercenaries and nearby villagers. There are no official fortifications such as city walls, and naturally there are no soldiers stationed in various towns within the empire.
There are no law enforcers here, strength is everything.
It is worth mentioning that, except for the imperial capital, even in the major cities within the empire, there are no official residences such as the City Lord’s Mansion that symbolize official rule. There are only city defense forces used to suppress riots.
As for the collection of taxes under the rule of the empire, it relied on forces such as wealthy families and aristocratic families entrenched in local cities to assist in collection.
To put it bluntly, it is actually the aristocratic families who exploit the local natives, and then the aristocratic families pay taxes to the empire. The empire recognizes the legitimacy of what your family and sect do in the cities under its jurisdiction. Every quarter, the imperial capital will send personnel such as transfer envoys to the local areas to transport taxes to the center of the empire to maintain the operation of this huge country.
This can be seen from Wutan City, which is just a quasi-first-tier city.
The three major families in the city each divided up and operated profitable businesses in the city, such as the market, casinos, brothels, and wine shops and teahouses. In order to prevent chaos in their own industries and ensure a certain degree of order, the major families spontaneously formed the so-called "law enforcement teams" in their respective territories.
To put it another way, the status and role of these families and sects are equivalent to that of local governments. In this case, if the empire wants to maintain long-term stability and safeguard its own rule, it must carve out some of the cake and win over these aristocratic families and local forces.
In this way, we can understand why the empire did not establish city lord palaces in local cities.
In fact, no matter from which angle you look at it, this world is quite free. Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to have a certain level of strength!
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Closer to home.
Without the obstruction of the city wall, Liu Xi embraced the little medical fairy and ran straight out of the town.
Not long after arriving at an open area outside the town, Liu Xi saw a giant blue eagle in the distant sky. It came closer and closer, and in his field of vision it quickly changed from a small dot to a huge monster.
The giant blue eagle circled high above their heads for a while, as if it was checking their surroundings. Or was it a habit before landing?
Looking at the giant blue eagle that was getting lower and lower, at this moment, a burst of dense horse hooves sounds came to my ears.
It turned out to be a group of more than ten riders from behind who caught up with them!
Without even looking at the people behind him, Liu Xi once again embraced the slender waist of the little medical fairy beside him with a soft call, stomped his feet heavily on the yellow ground, and his fighting spirit left his body. Then the two of them soared into the sky, leaping to a height of about thirty or four feet, and finally landed steadily on the back of the blue giant eagle.
Below, a line of guards pulled the reins and looked up.
Liu Xi held Little Medical Immortal in his arms and looked down. He saw one of the guards, who was particularly burly, standing up on horseback. He clasped his fists towards him and said:
"Please don't misunderstand me, Mr. Yao has no ill intention in asking us to come here. He just wants to ask Miss Xiao Yixian for a prescription for detoxification!"
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