"This..." The steward knew that these were angry words, so he just watched the elder pretending to carry out the order. In fact, he bent down to pick up the papers flying everywhere. In fact, he had read these papers, but he just said
Despite his understanding, he couldn't help but laugh at the content on this paper.
The great elder looked at the steward and scanned the contents on the paper. He became even more angry and snatched several pieces of paper.
"Tuen grain? Deliberately raise prices in winter and increase profits by 10%!
Processing fabric? Process the collected raw materials and sell them at twice the price!
Earn high shipping costs at no cost!
.........Does it mean that you don't want to pay for people to work for you?
And this is even more outrageous. The whole government eats and fishes every day? Do you have to worry about what others eat?
These idiots, I will see what kind of trouble they can make in the end.
Zhongxian, tell me, are they full enough?" The elder slapped the papers in his hand onto the table.
"I don't dare to speak nonsense!"
"Is it related to Li Xiaofeng? But that child is only nine years old! How do these idiots know how to take precautions in a place like this?"
"Report!" At this time, a doorman ran to the door of the hall and helped the steward. Otherwise, the steward would not dare to talk to the elder about such a sensitive topic. Even if he wanted to talk, he would have to find a place to talk alone. Even if a guard here talked,
If what he is about to say spreads out, I am afraid that in a few days, his descendants will have to imitate Li Xiaofeng and kneel at the stone gate of the archway.
"When?" The steward calmed down and cleared his throat.
"After Li Xiaoxi said a few words to Li Xiaofeng when they passed by the archway just now, they have been kneeling under the archway together with Li Xiaofeng for two quarters of an hour."
"Oh, this little girl, why is she here to cause trouble at this time? Go and bring her over to me."
Just as the doorman turned to leave, the elder added, "Bring Li Xiaofeng here too."
Not long after, the doorman came to the entrance of the hall with two children walking hand in hand.
"Grandpa Grandpa" Li Xiaoxi first took a look at the hall and saw that there were no outsiders, then he plunged into the arms of the great elder and gave him a bite on the face.
"What did Xiaoxi eat just now? It's so sticky." The elder pretended to blame Li Xiaoxi while wiping the saliva on his face.
"Watermelon" Li Xiaoxi pouted her lower lip, feeling a little aggrieved.
The elder saw that the little lips were redder than watermelon flesh, and they were very cute. He happily pressed Xiaoxi in front of him. When he saw the bruises on Li Xiaoxi's knees, he was so distressed that he could not speak.
Li Xiaoxi saw that the elder suddenly stopped talking and stared at his knees. So he bent down and raised his legs, staring at his knees. After looking at it for a while, he just smiled stupidly "hehehe". The elder was about to say something scolding
What, the little girl slapped her on the face again. So I signaled the steward to quickly bring some bruises, and then applied the medicine to Li Xiaoxi myself. During this period, Li Xiaoxi was in pain several times and wanted to run away, but every time he saw the big
The elder's self-blaming eyes would take the initiative to comfort the great elder.
"It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt. It will heal quickly after applying medicine."
Li Xiaofeng was watching quietly from below, without disturbing the grandfather and grandson. However, as soon as the elder put the bottle on the table, Li Xiaoxi jumped down.
"Okay, great elder, brother Xiaofeng has something very important to ask you, so I'm going to leave first." After saying that, he turned around and ran away.
"Slow down." He reluctantly looked at Li Xiaoxi who was running away. The elder took back his mind and looked at Li Xiaofeng.
"Tell me, I'm really curious about what you want to say."
"My family is willing to give up all the current business in exchange for my father's life."
"Boy, that's what you want to say? It seems that I think highly of you. What can save your father's life now is how to pay a fine."
"Great Elder, I don't mean to offend you. All goods, money, all account books and formulas, except for our family's lives, can be handed over."
"Haha, no offense? I want to hear no offense."
"As long as our family is given a condition to continue living, we are willing to continue to serve the city's businesses in the next five years until the successors of each major family can operate the projects they have taken over."
"Five years? Haha, you are so confident that in five years, you will be able to sit in the position of a guard?"
The elder stared at the child Li Xiaofeng seriously for a while, and saw a maturity that should not belong to him in the child's eyes.
"Okay, I agree."
"Thank you, Great Elder."
"I don't understand why Li Xiaoxi likes you so much with a personality so different from hers. Children should act like children."
"The Great Elder is so complimentary!" Li Xiaofeng bowed his hands.
"Hey, Li Xiaofeng. You are a genius. Many people like geniuses, and many people are jealous of geniuses. As for me, I have no problem with geniuses, but I just don't like you. You don't have to make me like you, because that's not important."
The Great Elder wanted to find some expression on Li Xiaofeng's face, but in the end he was disappointed.
"Go back. Fuxiang Restaurant still belongs to your family. It is your family's ancestral business. Your great-grandfather promised back then that Fuxiang Restaurant would provide all the drinks for the meeting hall banquet. No one dares to ask for this hot potato."
"Thank you, Great Elder" Li Xiaofeng bowed again.
Three days later, when the case was finally settled, a veteran elder was suddenly involved. The defendant Li Jinming "earned unsuitable wealth, which led to a deficit in the city's treasury and affected the interests of all the people in the guardianship." He became the tax elder in charge of the prison.
The younger generation had no way to embezzle the tax revenue of the guardian city. Businessman Li Jinming failed to report the knowledge and confiscated all property except Fuxiang Restaurant. Elder Yang directly dismissed him from the position of elder.
Originally, this incident had nothing to do with Li Xiaoxi, but the rumors were true regardless of what was said. In order to make things more interesting, of course they had to turn the turning point of the matter on Li Xiaoxi, whose popularity has not completely disappeared.
Nowadays, the title would be "Shocking, a two-year-old girl solved a case that had been unsolved for half a year in just three sentences." If it were a marketing video account, the first sentence would definitely be "Pay attention, this two-year-old girl easily solved the mystery within a year."
Overthrow the two major forces."
The last thing is that the Great Elder left the seclusion early on Li Xiaoxi's third birthday. Not only did he personally go to Li Xiaoxi's house in the outer city to congratulate him, but he also announced the good news that he had successfully established the foundation at the banquet. He also held Li Xiaoxi after the foundation was established.
The second flight. That day, the laughter of Li Xiaoxi and the great elder could be heard in the sky, in the city, on the city wall, and outside the city wall.
For the first time, Li Xiaoxi looked at the place where she had lived for three years from the air.
It wasn't until that moment that she realized that the layout of the streets and alleys where she usually ran turned out to be a semicircle close to the river. It was built in a semicircular shape radiating outward from the central meeting hall. Xiaoxi did not expect that the meeting hall was actually nothing but large when viewed from the sky.
There is nothing special. Between the meeting hall and the river is a stone field the size of a football field, which is connected to a suspension bridge that leads to the other side. It is said that this is the bridge that connects the two sides every eleven years. Normally, only two can be seen on both sides of the river.
The big logs stand there, and if no one is told, no one can guess that this is a suspension bridge that can be assembled in a quarter of an hour or two.
As for the scenery on the other side, the scenery on the other side was not interesting. The Great Elder did not want to lead Li Xiaoxi across the river, and the closer to the mist, the more uncomfortable it became. So the Great Elder turned around, flew around the city wall first, and then just like leading Xiaoxi
It's like visiting your own city, slowly floating in the air.
Logs as big as the foundation pillars of suspension bridges are very common in the outermost city wall construction. The city wall is about 10 meters high, and the main building material is such wood. The largest wood is used as the main structural support, and then it is made of wood.
Other woods of different sizes and functions were used to create shapes, and finally the city walls were tamped with stone and clay.
One level inside is a desolate road extending along the city wall, mainly because that road is rarely used. The great elder said that it is the road that the guardians under the city wall occasionally use to transport supplies to each other, and it is also used for the Spring Festival.
The track of the project. There are several rows of wooden houses on both sides of the city gate and at the north and south ends for the accommodation of the guardians, but most of the time more than half of the guardians stay on the city wall.
Inward, between the city wall and the residential area are farmland and livestock areas. This area is the largest, including land that has not been cultivated or was later abandoned. The area is basically more than three times that of the residential area.
The outermost layer of the residential area is usually populated by farmers who rely on agriculture as a living condition. The second circle in the inner area is populated by craftsmen with equally low status. The craftsmen include more miscellaneous craftsmen, tailors, blacksmiths, opera singers, merchants, etc.
Wait. Further in there are people with higher status or wealth. There are already some two-story or three-story buildings here. They are usually responsible for collecting taxes, opening hotels, urban management and sanitation, government offices, etc.
They are all on this floor, which is also the most prosperous and bustling area with the largest population. It can be understood as the order of residence of farmers, industry, merchants, officials, and wealthy families, and it is also the order of status.
After that, there is the last layer, which is the area where the guardian families are located. Most of the people on this layer have at least 5 or more people in the family who are guardians of the city-state on the city wall, or they have made great achievements on the city wall for several generations.
A family of great heroes. They usually have no worries about food and clothing. At least one of the elders in the family has a seat in the council chamber. They are also the center of power in protecting the city.
Because there is a 5-meter-high masonry wall between this layer and the outside world to protect the safety of the heroes' family members, people are accustomed to calling the inner city the inner city.
There is a twenty-meter-wide road connecting the city gate to the inner city wall, which ends at the stone archway. The archway is full of names, all of which are dead guardians. If there are civilians outside the wall,
, then there are wealthy families within the walls. And the names on the stone pillars are the instructions for the wealthy families living proudly within the walls.
Li Xiaoxi's father and uncle are both guardians. Logically speaking, the house is not separated from the inner city by just a wall. However, if there are one or two men among the younger generation who can be qualified guardians or even nurses, or the father
If he and his uncle can make more military exploits, Li Xiaoxi may become the daughter of a wealthy family in the inner city.
In addition, there is another opportunity before him, that is, eleven years later, when the engagement time comes, Li Xiaoxi will marry brother Jian Feng who is separated by a wall behind the wall. By then, regardless of whether the two families will be merged into one family, the elder can think of a way to make Li Xiaoxi
Continue to live a carefree life. But every time the elder thinks of this, he is not in a good mood. He would even rather Li Xiaoxi marry the son of the businessman.
Li Xiaoxi danced and danced all the way and was so happy. After flying back to the courtyard at home, he wanted the elder to take him to fly for a while longer. The elder was actually happy and willing to enjoy the fun of flying in the sky with Li Xiaoxi for a while longer. But after all, he had just
To build a foundation, and to be out of seclusion early, not only did he need to stabilize his realm, but there were also a lot of guests waiting to greet him, and he really couldn't get away. Li Xiaoxi's father saw that the elder was in trouble, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug her over.
Explain to Xiaoxi that Grand Elder Grandpa needs to rest for a while. When Grand Elder Grandpa is not busy for a while, he will take Xiaoxi to fly.
"Okay, Great Elder, Grandpa, pull the hook." Li Xiaoxi reluctantly stretched out his little finger.
"Okay, okay." The great elder seemed to be really tired. He smiled so much that his eyes only had one line left, and he didn't recover for a long time.
"Mama Ting has collected a lot of gifts for you. Xiaoxi, do you want to open the gifts?" Li Hongming gently pulled Li Xiaoxi out of the main hall.
"Xiaoxi, happy birthday." As soon as he came to the side hall, Li Xiaofeng saw Li Xiaoxi at first sight. He looked up and saw Li Hongming holding Xiaoxi's hand, and quickly added: "Li Xiaofeng has met Uncle Hongming."
"Xiaofeng is here. Sit down wherever you want. I'll leave the stream to you. I'll go to the main hall to greet the others."
"Yes." Li Xiaofeng didn't know why when he heard Li Hongming's words, he was so happy that he was at a loss. Just when he was about to respond, Li Hongming had already turned around and left.
"What gift did brother Xiaofeng prepare for Xiaoxi?" Li Xiaoxi looked at the small box in Li Xiaofeng's hand curiously.
"Can you open the stream yourself?"
"Wow, little bird." Li Xiaoxi excitedly held the little bird made of wood. Unlike other handicrafts, the wings of this little bird were particularly large.
"Do you like it, Xiaoxi? This little bird can fly."
"Can it fly?"
"Yeah, let's go to the courtyard and I'll let it fly for you to see."
So in the courtyard of Li Xiaoxi's house, everyone was attracted by this flying wooden bird. When the wooden bird flew around and returned to Li Xiaofeng's hand, Li Xiaofeng was so proud that he wanted to gain Li Xiaoxi's admiration. But he saw
In addition to the smile, Li Xiaoxi's face had a hint of sadness, and he suddenly panicked. He quickly squatted down and asked Li Xiaoxi what was wrong.
"What's wrong with the creek? Don't you like it?"
"I like it very much. Did brother Xiaofeng make it by himself?" Li Xiaoxi carefully held the wooden bird in his hands and did not dare to throw it out for fear of breaking it.
“I don’t know when the great elder will be able to take Xiaoxi Fei next time.”
Li Xiaofeng was silent for a moment, and happily took the wooden bird from Li Xiaoxi's hand.
"Don't be afraid, Xiaoxi, brother will teach you." Once again, the whole audience was shocked that the wooden bird could magically fly in the air for a while and then return to Li Xiaofeng's hand. Li Xiaofeng knelt down and handed the wooden bird to Li Xiaoxi again, and said softly
:
"Xiaoxi, within eleven years, my brother will take you to fly, fly away, okay?"
"Yes!" Li Xiaoxi nodded heavily, his eyes turning into crescent moons with a smile. This chapter has been completed!