A few days later, Liu Anran and his family hurried back to Kyoto before the first seven days.
At night, in the pavilion in Xiapo's courtyard.
Liu Anran slumped in the chair and kept hammering his shoulders.
"I almost died from exhaustion along the way."
"Hahaha, you have been jolting on the carriage for so many days, how can you not be tired?"
The last time he went to see off Xia Sichou, even a warrior in the innate realm could not withstand such a bumpy situation.
As Xia Po spoke, he filled the bowl with wine.
The two of them drank wine and talked about the past.
When he mentioned that Liu Anran was locked up in a small dark room by his wife because he visited a brothel, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
This is what happens when people reach middle age, they always miss the things of their youth.
"Right? Where's that boy Xia Sichou? You didn't tell me about your wedding?"
"He...he was sent away by me."
"Sent away?"
"Well, before..."
After listening to Xia Po's words, Liu Anran shook his head.
"This is even more magical than the story you told before. I just told you how the plaque in front of my house turned into the Palace of Prince Wushou. I thought I was in the wrong place."
"Okay, stop talking about this and tell me how your job is. Why hasn't it changed in five years?"
"How should I put it? The situation in my place is relatively complicated. Before I came, the two families in the county controlled the entire county and preyed on the people all day long.
It took me six years to eradicate these two big families. If I leave, new big families will definitely breed there and continue to prey on the people.
There are tens of thousands of lives in one county, can I leave?"
Although Liu Anran didn't say how he eradicated the two major families, Xia Po could imagine how difficult it was to fight against such local snakes.
"I didn't expect that you, a person who understands justice so well, would not be promoted for the sake of the people!"
"That's not entirely true. In fact, my place is relatively wealthy, and it can't be controlled by the higher authorities. I am the local emperor there, and you won't leave even if I want you."
As he spoke, he winked at Xia Po, as if to say, "You understand."
"You eradicated the two major families, wouldn't it be because they were robbing you of money?"
"Hey! What are you talking about? It's the county magistrate's business. Can the county magistrate's business be called robbing money?"
Well, this is the Liu Anran that Xia Po knows.
After Xia Changyang's first seven days, Liu Anran left.
As he said, although he is not a good official.
But in this dynasty where officials competed with each other, he was a good official.
The people of Lushui County need such a good official.
After bidding farewell to Liu Anran, Xia Xiangwu came to see him again.
"Brother, didn't you say you would think of a way to help me become the head of the family? Did you think of a way?"
Xia Po patted Xia Xiangwu on the shoulder.
"The apparent head of the family now is Xia Xiangwen. If you want to be the head of the family, you must want to be the head of the family in a legitimate way!
I have to spend more time and seriously think of one for you?"
Seeing Xia Po like this, Xia Xiangwu smiled naively.
"Okay brother, I'll wait for you!"
"Hey, my brain hasn't been working hard lately. If I could have a hundred and eighty taels of silver to buy some supplements, I might be able to think faster..."
"It's just a little money, just leave it to me!"
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Red Yuan thirty-eight years, June.
There was friction at the border between the southern barbarians and the Tianyuan Dynasty.
In November of the same year, a general wearing thin clothes and several soldiers knelt under the palace for three days and three nights.
People in Kyoto are spreading rumors that the general is doing a bad job in order to defraud money from the imperial court.
Three days later, the unconscious general was taken away by a group of men in black, and no news about the general was heard again.
Coincidentally, when Xia Po was having dinner in a tavern, he heard people chatting that the southern border was already facing a formidable enemy, but the current emperor was still ill.
Looking at the dark cloudy sky outside, Xia Po couldn't help but sigh.
"Even if the sun has not set, it may be obscured by dark clouds. If it sets under dark clouds, who would know?"
But he didn't care, he just smiled.
A few months passed in the blink of an eye, and it was the thirty-ninth year of Chi Yuan.
One afternoon, Xia Po, who was meditating, opened his eyes, and all the objects around him floated out of thin air, and then fell down again.
He finally broke through to the realm of Grandmaster, several years later than he imagined.
"I didn't expect that there is such a huge gap between the innate and the master. I really don't know how those who practice ordinary skills can break through this realm."
And even if you practice this magic skill, it is unlikely to break through to the master level.
Because he doesn't care about his longevity, he can practice without any restraint.
If other people who have practiced this magic skill followed his method, they would have died countless times.
Feeling the power in his body, he estimated that he could be regarded as the top combat power in the mortal world.
He pulled out a box from under the bed, which contained a large number of talismans.
These were all painted by him over the years. He didn't count how many he had painted now. He couldn't count them anyway.
He took out a piece of talisman paper, felt the energy contained in it, and forced it to activate.
The next second, the talisman spontaneously ignited, but nothing happened.
It seems that the internal strength of a warrior cannot compare with the spiritual power of a monk...
After sighing, he shook his head.
This has nothing to do with internal strength, it's simply that his strength is too weak.
If you can go up a level and bring the quality of your inner energy to the level of spiritual energy, you might be able to use talismans.
A few days after Xia Po became a master, the emperor, who had been ill and had not been heard from for who knows how many years, actually appointed a crown prince.
If it's just like this, it doesn't matter. The key is that the prince is only nine years old!
The current emperor, Emperor Chiyuan, does not have any heirs, or there is no suitable person to establish a crown prince.
But he chose a nine-year-old man as the crown prince.
This is intriguing.
Not to mention a time traveler like Xia Po, even ordinary people realized that something was not right.
"If he dies accidentally in a few days, will a nine-year-old child be allowed to become the emperor?"
In the winery, a young man in a short shirt finished his drink and suddenly said this, which made everyone laugh.
Xia Po didn't laugh, but was thinking about things.
That this young man dared to say such things in public not only meant that the people were dissatisfied with the emperor's actions.
It also means that the authority of the royal family has dropped to freezing point.
That afternoon, the man who uttered wild words in the winery was taken away.
Xia Po didn't know whether he would come back in the future, but what he said came true.
Just a few days after the new crown prince was established, the emperor died of illness and the nine-year-old emperor took the throne.
Xia Po was completely indifferent to this new emperor and just said two words lightly.
"puppet."
It was only later that Xia Po learned that the new emperor's biological mother was the granddaughter of Zuo Zhongyi, who almost destroyed the Xia family.
Although Zuo Zhongyi is dead and the current prime minister is not from the Zuo family, this is only a superficial phenomenon.
The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were actually firmly controlled by the Zuo family.