Chapter 349 The sorrow of the longevity species, the estrangement of years
"Who's wrong?"
The five-element level city lord of Shimonomi City, Takano Kei looked at Li Guanqi, his face full of anger, "Who is wrong in this matter? Is the knight wrong?
No, he is brave enough to do what is right, isn’t he?!
But what about the result?
If someone does bad things with good intentions, is it possible that because he has good intentions, we still encourage this kind of behavior?
I hate some knights.
Really, disgust from the bottom of my heart.
They will only do it for their own selfish desires, for the so-called grudges, for the so-called aid, and cause even worse consequences!"
"boom!!!"
As he spoke, Takano Kei seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and punched the sky. The terrifying power of the punch burst out, instantly shaking away thousands of meters of white clouds!
"..."
But Li Guanqi remained silent.
Regarding the case mentioned by Kei Takano... well... of course that knight acted like a bastard, but when something like this happened, shouldn't we also mention the shogunate's inaction?
But after all, Kei Takano was the shogunate lord who was on official pay, and he had a stand for what he said, so he was not surprised.
As an outsider, Li Guanqi could see it more clearly.
It turns out there is no difference between Sakura Shogunate and Nanjiang.
The oppression of the common people by the noble class...or rather, the extraordinary class is everywhere.
Southern Xinjiang is like this, and so is the Sakura Shogunate.
This is the extraordinary worldview.
The aristocratic class composed of extraordinary beings is above the common people. Even the laws will clearly define the privileges of the nobility in black and white. This is the case in the "Southern Border Code", the "Sakura Code", and even the "Luo Code" is similar.
Li Guanqi didn't like this kind of thing very much.
But he knows that he can't change the world now. Just trying his best not to be changed by the world is already trying his best.
"Let's talk about going back to Honey City."
Li Guanqi sighed softly, looked at Takano Kei, and said in a deep voice: "The samurai of the Aoyagi family destroyed the Honey Water Gang, causing the honey in Honey City to be unsalable. Is it possible that the shogunate has nothing to do about it? Before finding a new sales channel,
Doesn’t the shogunate have any disaster relief funds?”
"have."
Takano Kei had no expression on his face, "Although I didn't receive half a gold coin, I must have received it according to the "Sakura Law", but..."
The city lord looked up at the sky and said nothing more.
It is most taboo to talk deeply when communicating in a shallow way.
But Li Guanqi is not a child anymore, so how could he not understand the underlying meaning?
greedy!
All the pensions issued by the shogunate were embezzled by the people above, and they were deducted layer by layer until they were pushed to the bottom. Takano Kei didn't even receive half a gold coin.
"well……"
Li Guanqi sighed helplessly.
Sakura Shogunate, Nanjiang, and even Daluo are actually pretty much the same.
They rely entirely on the force of the extraordinary class to rule, otherwise they would have collapsed long ago.
But this is actually normal.
How could such a huge country, which has been controlled by a few fixed gatekeepers for a long time and lasted for three thousand years, be an idealistic dreamland?
Annoying.
Li Guanqi's impression of the Sakura Shogunate was originally that of romantic and beautiful cherry blossoms dancing all over the sky.
But that's just geography.
The beautiful thing about this land is just its geographical environment.
As for the knight...
Li Guanqi's reverie about knights was originally the kind of happy grudges, one person with one sword, drinking wine and riding horses, enjoying the world at ease.
However, when he came to the first stop of the shogunate's arena, this reverie turned into a dreamlike shadow, shattered and dissipated with a "pop".
What Kei Takano said makes sense.
Many knights in the arena are people who only care about their own temporary gratification and do not care about the consequences. They only care about solving the immediate problems and don't care about the subsequent consequences.
but……
Li Guanqi understood very early that there is black and white in the world.
There are things that are unsightly and there are things that are fascinating.
In the world of the shogunate, there should be some knights with true chivalrous hearts.
The shogunate court should also have ministers who truly love the people.
It's just that he hasn't met her yet.
Go ahead.
Li Guanqi's [Sakura Blossom Journey] has just begun.
"Then what next?"
Li Guanqi looked at Takano Kei, "Is Honey City finished like this?"
"Of course not."
Takano Kei shook his head.
The city lord looked into the distance and said calmly: "The basics of the honey industry in Xiaye are still there. If those merchants who only recognize the leader of the Honey Water Gang don't come, there will always be other merchants from other places who can join forces to establish a sales channel with a large enough appetite.
Then they will control the economy of Honey City like the previous Honey Water Gang and become the next Honey Water Gang... As for whether this 'new Honey Water Gang' will be better or worse?
Oh.
Who knows.
In short, new sales channels take time, and reality has proven that one month is not enough.
It will take at least ten more days.
I contacted many, many honey buyers, and spent a lot of effort to re-integrate part of the honey market in the Shogunate, trying to establish a new sales channel for Honey City.
The basic prototype has been formed.
It will be fully formed soon.
But before that, the current situation in Honey City was enough to make me unbearable.
That idiot samurai from the Aoyagi family, if it weren’t for him, Honey City wouldn’t be like this at all… Oh, by the way.”
With that said, Takano Kei turned to look at Li Guanqi, "Mr. Jincheng, after talking so much, I seem to have led me off topic. Didn't you say before that you came to Honey City to find someone?
Who are you looking for?
Meeting is fate. I would be happy to make friends with a four-elephant level warrior. Let me know, if I can be of any help."
"Stupid samurai."
Li Guanqi's face was expressionless, "Looking at the time of his appearance, if nothing else happens, what I'm looking for should be the idiot samurai from the Aoyagi family you mentioned."
"..."
Takano Kei was speechless for a moment, "You, you are his friend?"
"No."
Li Guanqi shook his head, and then said calmly: "I don't know him, I just heard that he is a four-elephant level warrior, and a sword-wielding warrior, so I want to ask him for a swordsmanship and seek a breakthrough.
The reason why I heard about him was because he acted righteously in a nearby town.
I still think he is a man who wants to be a knight, a warrior who wants to do justice.
But this does not affect the fact that he is now labeled as "brainless" in my mind.
I'm going to find him, beat him up, scold him again, and let him know what kind of stupid thing he did."
"..."
Takano Kei frowned slightly and hesitated, "But his identity is not simple."
"not simple?"
When Li Guanqi heard this, he immediately grinned, "So, his 'green willow' is indeed the green willow of wood?!"
"So you know."
Takano Kei was startled for a moment, then nodded, "Yes, he is from the Aoyagi family, one of the Nine Sakura Warriors. His name is Aoyagi Ryota, a mid-level four-elephant level samurai.
When Ryota Aoyagi destroyed the Honeywater Gang, I happened to be away from the city. When I came back and learned about it, I was very, very angry and wanted to kill that idiot samurai to vent my anger.
But after some investigation, I found out that he was from the Aoyagi family.
Then what else can I do? I can only come back. I can’t afford to offend him, but I can always hide."
"Aoyagi Ryota..."
Li Guanqi repeated the name softly, then looked at Takano Kei, "Takano Castle Lord, where is he now?"
"Liuye County!"
Takano Kei carefully looked at Li Guanqi's white hair and blue eyes. For a moment, he couldn't think of any big family with such characteristics. Finally, he had to say: "If you are confident that you can defeat him, you must not offend him, let alone kill him."
He, he is a member of the Qingliu family after all.
Liuye County is considered one of the fiefdoms of the Qingliu family.
Of course, if your surname, Mr. Kaneshiro, is fake and the real power behind it is greater than the Aoyagi family, then just think that I, Kei Takano, am talking nonsense."
"Thank you Lord Takano for the reminder."
Li Guanqi smiled and saluted him with cupped fists.
"If nothing else, I wish Xiaye an early return to its past prosperity, and I will take the first step."
…
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Sakura Shogunate, Liuye County.
This is a shogunate county town that is neither big nor small. It is not small in scale, but it cannot be called grand. The city owner is not strong, but his cultivation at the Five Elements level is not weak either.
The economy is not very developed, but the ordinary people in the city are living a good life.
Mediocrity is the only label for this county.
Of course, it can also be said that Liuye County is a slow-paced small town in the mountains.
However, starting half a month ago, the pace of this county seems to have suddenly picked up.
Because of the arrival of a warrior.
…
"Hey, shopkeeper."
In a tavern in Liuye County, almost all the diners turned their heads and looked at the tall figure slowly stepping across the threshold of the tavern in the dark red dusk.
It was a tall young man with white hair and blue eyes, carrying a long sword wrapped in a cloth strip on his back, which seemed to be without a scabbard.
The handsome and masculine face and the tall and strong body, if placed in other places, will definitely attract the attention of young girls who are just beginning to have an affair.
Although this is a tavern, there are no girls, just a group of drunken men.
But these drinkers looked at the white-haired man at this moment, and each one of them showed the same expressions of admiration, envy, and fear.
Because his hair color and eye color are different from ordinary people, and he also wears a sword, he must be a samurai with a different blood.
The person who came was naturally Li Guanqi.
"The shopkeeper's."
Li Guanqi came to the counter of the tavern, looked at the short and fat middle-aged man in front of him, and said curiously: "I heard that half a month ago, there was a four-elephant-level warrior who was very arrogant. After coming to Liuye County, he picked on eight warriors of the same level.
, all were victorious, and the ninth warrior who challenged him in the end was none other than the five-element-level city lord of this county.
Moreover, the four-elephant-level samurai succeeded and defeated the city lord by leapfrogging, and got a fine scabbard from him as a trophy. It seems that it can warm up the power of the sword?
And that arrogant warrior later made a bold statement, saying that if any warrior of the same level could defeat him, he would give the scabbard to the other warrior. I would like to ask... is this true? "
"certainly!"
The tavern owner put down the account book in his hand and nodded with a smile, "Sir Samurai, why do you want to give it a try?"
Li Guanqi turned his head and glanced at Shuiyuejian behind him, with a slight curl in the corner of his mouth, "Why not?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a roar of laughter came from the corner of the tavern:
"Hahahaha, I'm fucking laughing so hard, hahaha!"
"Hahaha! What did that kid say? He wants to challenge Lord Aoyagi? Hahahaha!"
"It's so funny that I didn't even take a pee to see how much I weigh, hahahaha!"
Li Guanqi wasn't upset at all, he just followed the sound with great interest.
They were a group of middle-aged men wearing dark black armor with green willow leaf patterns engraved on it - they were the shogunate defenders of Liuye County.
And it seems that the level is not low.
A dozen middle-aged men, all of them are four-elephant-level alien-blood warriors!
Coupled with the Tōmaru armor that looked so well made at first glance... Well, this was not the level of ordinary soldiers. It was probably a private gathering of city defense officers, and the top officers.
A four-elephant-level officer.
No wonder he laughed.
When he was in the shogunate, Li Guanqi no longer used the sealing technique to hide his martial arts cultivation. After all, displaying the four-elephant level cultivation would save a lot of trouble.
But it is obvious that the cultivation level of the Four Elephants level will not get much respect in front of these shogunate officers who are also at the Four Elephant level. After all, they are officials.
So...how about showing some more?
"boom!"
Li Guanqi's mind moved slightly, and some of the aura belonging to the Wind and Thunder Sword Intent suddenly dispersed. Under his deliberate control, it avoided the ordinary people in the tavern and only took effect on the group of four-elephant-level officers.
"Forehead……"
"..."
There was silence.
The group of officers who were originally laughing were shocked by Li Guanqi's sword intent and stopped laughing.
"What is that?"
A middle-aged officer was slightly stunned, "Where, where did the wind and thunder and lightning come from?"
"It's martial arts imagery!"
Another officer's expression changed slightly, "Is that 'shi'? The 'shi' of a genius warrior?"
"Niang Xipi, why is there another warrior who has understood the meaning of the sword?!"
"Hey, bro!"
At this time, among the group of officers, a fourth-level shogunate officer with long purple hair who looked like the leader raised the black wine jar in his hand and smiled at Li Guanqi.
"Sorry, my name is Tanakagawa, and I am a guard in Liuye County. Just now, our brothers were blind, so I will punish myself!"
"Gululu..."
After that, the purple-haired officer Tanakagawa picked up the wine jar, which was bigger than his head, and started pouring it into the wine.
Well, I punish myself with a "cup".
Li Guanqi looked at this scene and narrowed his eyes slightly.
His master Wang Xiu was right.
Daluo Wufu's "power" has really spread widely, but he has been hanging around at the bottom before and has no idea about the outside world and conditions.
These four-elephant-level officers of the shogunate saw him comprehending the meaning of the sword, but they did not find it shocking. This shows that there are not many samurai of the shogunate who have comprehended the "power", but they are by no means "rare".
And like Daluo, the Sakura Shogunate also created a chain of contempt for different-blood warriors due to the emergence of "power".
Ordinary samurai are not surprising. Only the shogunate samurai who understand "power" will get extra respect.
These officers of the Liuye County shogunate at the level of four elephants looked down upon him when they saw that he was a samurai at the level of four elephants.
However, when Li Guanqi took the initiative to show some of the wind and thunder sword intent and proved that he understood the "power", these shogunate officers even took the initiative to apologize.
In fact, there is another reason for this, which Li Guanqi doesn't know yet.
That is, at this stage, in the common perception of Sakura people, samurai who can understand "power" are basically born in Sakura Jiubu, and they are the children of rich families who cannot be offended.
But the problem also arises.
Li Guanqi, with white hair and blue eyes, looks a bit strange.
So these four-level shogunate officers were a little confused.
White hair and blue eyes?
There is no such feature in Sakura Kyubu.
Are they geniuses from other families?
But the problem is, in the Sakura Shogunate, there are white-haired different-blood families and blue-eyed different-blood families.
But they have white hair and blue eyes...who are they?
No impression.
"ha--"
Soon, the purple-haired guard who called himself Tanakagawa put down the wine jar, wiped the remaining wine stains from the corners of his mouth, then looked at Li Guanqi, and tipped the wine jar in his hand over, signaling that not a drop would be left.
"brother."
Tanakachuan looked at him and laughed loudly, "Don't be surprised, our brothers just don't know what to say. Why don't we come and have a drink together? I'll treat you, so I'll apologize!"
"It's just a small thing, it doesn't matter."
Li Guanqi walked forward with a smile, pulled up a chair and sat down.
He just wanted to inquire about some things, otherwise he would not show his sword power for no reason and gain the respect of these officers.
"You are all officers of the fourth elephant level."
Li Guanqi first looked around at this ordinary tavern, then looked at Tanaka Chuan and others, and asked curiously: "Is there anything special about this tavern? How can I let you choose to drink here?"
Liuye County, City Lord Five Elements level.
So these four-level officers can be considered the upper echelons of power in this county. There are so many high-end restaurants in the center of the city, so there is no reason to come to this tavern for ordinary people.
Somewhat strange.
"This is indeed a tavern."
Purple-haired guard Tanaka Chuan looked around at the old-decorated tavern with his eyes filled with emotion, "But I like it very much. To me, even the Huangyu Building in the inner city cannot compare to this place.
Because this bistro has been with me for many years.
This tavern has been here since I was a child two hundred years ago.
From when I was a child, to when I grew up, I joined the city garrison, became captain of ten, captain of centurions, captain of thousands, and now the guard general, becoming the second-in-command under the Lord of the City.
Over two hundred years ago, this tavern has been with me almost all my life.
The founder of this tavern is a very gentle woman. Her son was living in the mud with me back then, but in the blink of an eye..."
Tanakagawa turned his head and looked at the counter of the tavern, looking at the short, fat middle-aged man with complicated eyes, "Her son's great-great-grandson is going to have a baby."
Hearing this, Li Guanqi looked thoughtful.
Xiehuang said that in this era of alien blood, humans like them who have gained cultivation talents through alien blood can only live for a thousand years at most, and they are all "short-lived ghosts".
But that's the evil phoenix's perspective.
For people like Li Guanqi, a thousand years is not short, and even two or three hundred years are not short.
Compared with ordinary people, most human beings of different blood are considered immortals. Their lifespan is several lifetimes of ordinary people, and they can experience the ancestors and grandchildren of ordinary people for several generations.
Um, but...
Li Guanqi looked around and looked at the tavern with a slightly strange look in his eyes.
Covered by the Tanaka River, this tavern has been open for two hundred years, but it is still only on such a small scale. This...
"Meeting is fate."
At this time, Tanakachuan suddenly picked up the wine jar on the table and poured a bowl for Li Guanqi, "Brother, I want to toast you!"
Then he picked up his wine bowl.
"This is Takeshi Kaneshiro."
Li Guanqi also picked up the bowl of wine he poured for himself.
"It turns out to be Mr. Jincheng."
Tanakagawa smiled while holding the wine bowl.
"cheers."
Li Guanqi handed over the wine bowl.
"Bang."
The two of them clinked their wine bowls against each other, and the slightly reddish wine swayed, spilled over the mouth of the bowl, and spilled onto the table. Together with a few drops of wine stains next to it, it formed a little wet mark on the brown table.
“It tastes pretty good.”
Li Guanqi drank the wine in one gulp, put down the wine bowl, and wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth.
This wine is not a strong drink, but rather sweet, with a hint of sour plum flavor.
It's funny to say that a group of four-elephant-level big men gathered together and actually drank fruit wine instead of strong drinks. It seemed like there was nothing wrong with them, but there seemed to be problems everywhere.
But Li Guanqi didn't mind, because he didn't like drinking either, so this kind of fruit wine could be used as a drink.
"Um……"
Tanakagawa exchanged glances with several colleagues beside him, hesitating slightly, but finally looked at Li Guanqi.
"Mr. Jincheng, I just listened to the conversation between you and the shopkeeper. Do you want to challenge Mr. Qingliu who came to Liuye County half a month ago?"