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"We have important business to do this afternoon. Is that guy trying to slack off?"

"Uh"

Su Yan and Feng Shiqi looked strange and did not tell Zhou You the truth about his whereabouts: "Brother Zhou may have fallen asleep on the roadside after getting drunk?"

"Can these sugary drinks make people drunk?" Princess Luanming looked at the filtered rice wine on the table with a strange expression.

Xia Yu's wine was divided into brewed rice wine and spirit wine. The wealthy man naturally drank the spirit wine, which not only strengthened his body but also restored his spiritual power. It can be said that apart from being expensive, it had virtually no drawbacks.

Being expensive might not even be a drawback for them.

Brewed rice wine is a popular and affordable beverage, available in a wide variety of flavors and types.

Rice wine is a low-alcohol beverage; unless brewed with spirit rice, it won't get a cultivator drunk. Princess Luanming doesn't believe that just any roadside teahouse sells spirit wine. Besides, given their current living conditions, if Zhou You dared to spend two jin of spirit stones on half a jin of spirit wine, Princess Luanming would break his legs!

"Never mind if you can't find it."

Seeing that Su Yan and Feng Shiqi truly did not know Zhou You's whereabouts, Princess Luanming continued:

"We may need to split up this afternoon because the Red King's adjutant just contacted me and asked our office to be responsible for releasing recruitment information for laborers and distributing disaster relief funds for the reconstruction of Flower City through a work-for-relief program."

“Qingya and her master need to be in charge of the free clinic, so I thought I’d arrange some work, who will go to the government office to arrange the disaster relief work, and who will be in charge of the procurement.”

If the construction work in the cultivation world were to be handled by the Ministry of Works, one of the six departments under Yu the Great, the first day would be for drawing up the map; the second day for determining the location; and the third day for earth-elemental cultivators to build the foundation and wood-elemental cultivators to construct the houses. Four days would be enough to build a city of considerable size.

Moreover, the amount of spirit stones required won't be much more.

However, the Red King did not adopt the conventional method, but instead chose the slowest and most expensive method. Although this method was expensive and slow, its biggest advantage was that it allowed flower farmers to also make money.

To put it bluntly, the Red King was essentially giving out money so that those who were temporarily unemployed could have enough to eat, and the clans also agreed to hire some people to participate in the busy farming season.

During Grand Tutor Jin's inspection of the Red King's territory, all of you must behave yourselves. If any security or corruption issues arise, I will kill you all!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 192 The little fox has grown up and has even started having dreams like this (Third update, bonus chapter for monthly votes, please vote!)

"Little Black, go get him and bite his big ass!"

Su Yan stood in front of the county magistrate's desk in the government office, overseeing the work-for-relief program spearheaded by the Red King. Because the Red King had given so much, the government office hall was now overflowing with people, especially energetic young men.

The government office is not responsible for specific matters; it only needs to register the workers.

However, the young cultivators from the flower gardening community rushed to Su Yan's desk to register their names, fearing that if they were a step too slow, they would miss out on a spot and not be able to receive government stipends.

Su Yan's response to disobedient cultivators was also very effective. With a clear and melodious cry, he summoned more than twenty wild animals in the courtyard, which chased after the disobedient cultivators and bit their buttocks.

The fox had only been downgraded from a Class I protected species to a Class III protected species for less than half a day.

Upon seeing so many foxes, the cultivators in the flower area instinctively felt a sense of fear, lest they accidentally kill one and invite the merciless trampling of the Crimson King's army.

Several hundred people froze on the spot, not daring to move even though the fox was biting their buttocks and even shaking its body to tear at the cultivators, for fear that if they used too much force, they would kill a fox.

"Now, go straight to the left of the clinic and you'll see the doctor. Those who want to participate in the flower restoration project to earn a living, line up in front of me in two lines. Come up to me, pick up a charcoal pencil, write your name, and put your fingerprint on it. That will complete the registration. Do you all understand?"

Su Yan slammed the gavel with each sentence, releasing the oppressive aura of a Golden Core cultivator, and shouted as he addressed the cultivators before him, explaining the registration rules.

Under the supervision of more than twenty foxes, the registration work in the government office finally began in an orderly manner.

After thinking for a moment, Su Yan simply transformed into his original form and squatted down on the table, using his manipulation technique to control the gavel and direct the cultivators present.

Anyone who dares to misbehave will be smashed on the head with the gavel.

"Hmm? Brother Zhou, what kind of image are you projecting?"

Using divine sense is necessary to control objects. Su Yan's divine sense now covers most of the front hall of the government office, so it was very easy for him to detect a very familiar spiritual energy aura in the crowd. He asked the cultivator, who was as black as charcoal and only wearing a pair of underwear, with a strange look on his face.

"Don't even mention it, that woman charges a fee."

Zhou You raised her head with a sullen expression and looked at Su Yan sitting on the table, complaining:

"I told her I had no spirit stones or silver, and she just ripped off my clothes and pants. I even found these underwear on the roadside as secondhand stuff."

This time, Zhou You didn't get any luck with women; instead, she was blackmailed by the older sister who tied her hair up.

The older woman originally had her eye on Su Yan and was indeed in a predatory mood, wanting to have her way with the child. However, she encountered the more assertive and fierce Feng Shiqi. Helpless and not wanting to lose face, she turned to Zhou You and simply took him away from the crowd, which didn't count as a failed attempt to express her love.

Since the older sister doesn't like Zhou You's type, and now that the inn is already open, she's asking Zhou You for some compensation.

Zhou You naturally disagreed, and the argument escalated from a verbal dispute to a physical fight.

That older sister was no ordinary person either, but a human with half-demon blood. Zhou You was at a complete disadvantage in the cramped space of the inn, and even the underwear she was wearing was completely stripped off by that half-demon woman.

"Luckily, there was ashes in the guest room, so I covered myself up in black. No one should recognize me. And I just happened to steal a pair of pants in the back alley."

Zhou You recounted her experience with a helpless expression and explained why she was in such a sorry state.

"Where is everyone else? Why are you the only one presiding over the court proceedings here?"

Zhou You looked at the crowded front hall but saw no one else, so she asked Su Yan curiously.

"Sister Junxia and Sister Shiqi are buying furniture and our bedding and daily necessities, while Qingya and the Fairy Doctor are busy providing free medical consultations in the backyard."

Su Yan shrugged and said, "Although Sister Shiqi and I have tried our best to cover for you, Sister Junxia is still very dissatisfied with your laziness."

"You better be careful not to let anything slip. If Sister Junxia finds out you went on a secret rendezvous, she'll kill you."

"I've already had enough bad luck. It's fine if she's killed, but I'm afraid she'll laugh at me for the rest of her life," Zhou You muttered to herself, looking melancholy as she walked toward the backyard.

As long as one leaves behind a clean reputation, what is there to fear in death?

Although Zhou You thought this to herself, she still quickly ran back to the backyard to wash up and change her clothes before dealing with the hundreds of cultivators in the front hall with Su Yan.

........................

Su Yan and Zhou You were busy until almost midnight before they finally registered the names of over a thousand cultivators.

Junxia and Feng Shiqi returned in the evening. Instead of helping with the shift work, they led the carpenters and workers to move furniture and arrange the dormitories for everyone's needs, with Su Yan's dormitory being the most troublesome.

Many items were no longer available in Flower City after the war, so Junxia had to travel all the way to the capital city where the Red King's Mansion was located to buy them all.

After purchasing everything, a carpenter was arranged to install it and rearrange the bedrooms where everyone lived. Tonight, everyone can finally sleep comfortably on soft beds and recover their energy.

"Boom boom boom——"

After registering the last person, the moonlight was already high in the sky. Zhou You raised the gavel and struck it three times in succession, replacing the original drum, to ring the bell to signal the end of the workday.

The first drumbeat signaled the start of work, the second signaled lunch break, and the third signaled the end of the workday at the government office.

Although she had been working hard for two days and hadn't had a proper rest last night, Zhou You still rang the three-ring signal to leave work with a strong sense of ritual.

"Go, go, go wash yourselves clean! Otherwise, if you dare to step on my dorm floor like that, I'll have to put you all on a washboard and scrub you clean!"

The first thing Su Yan did after getting off work was to skip into her newly renovated dorm room, lie down on the wool carpet on the floor, and roll around.

I would shoo the little foxes away to wash their feet, otherwise I wouldn't let them come to my dorm room to play.

Compared to the previous dormitory, the renovated dormitory is actually more beautiful and comfortable.

When I first arrived at the flower market, I was penniless. Now I have over a thousand kilograms of spirit stones in my pocket. Back then, the carpets and furniture in my dormitory were of very average quality.

Now they sleep on high-end wool carpets, with lightning-struck wood flooring underneath.

"It's only been less than a week since I left my aunt, but it feels like several months have passed. Luckily, I've been fortunate enough to barely establish myself in the flower-growing area."

Lying on the carpet, Su Yan recalled that when he first arrived in the flower area, he encountered setbacks everywhere and had no way to control the affairs of the government office. The biggest decision he could make was whether or not to sweep the streets today.

Afterwards, Zhou You and he traveled all over the city to inspect industries and think about whether they could come up with a financial plan. Then they encountered an invasion from the Southern Frontier and the Eternal Life Cult. They traveled a hundred miles to summon the Wood Spirit Giant and saved several thousand people.

To this day, the Red King's army continues to purge the southern tribes and the Eternal Life Cult, while the once deserted Flower Office has become bustling with activity.

Thinking about recent events, Su Yan slowly drifted into a deep sleep due to mental exhaustion.

In his dream, Su Yan dreamed of a woman. The woman had her eyes closed and looked languid. She placed Su Yan on her fair, long legs and skillfully stroked his hair.

Su Yan felt the touch was very familiar. At first, she thought it was her mother stroking her, but then she turned her head and saw a strange woman. The woman's long gray hair fell to the ground, but the hair on both sides of her temples and the hair at the back of her head was tied up in a bun, which was secured with a gold hairpin.

She wore a white dress with black ties, and a red shawl embroidered with a nine-tailed fox in gold thread.

The woman closed her eyes, a smile playing on her lips, and stroked the fox with exquisite smoothness, as if she had practiced it a thousand times.

Am I at the age where I can dream like this?

Looking at the woman's slightly aloof face, Su Yan muttered in confusion:

"I hope I won't encounter a payment issue like Brother Zhou did, right?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 193 Dream Back to Reality

"Am I that old now?"

Although Su Yan's mind was still a little hazy, he was now very aware that he should be asleep, and the cold-faced girl with her eyes closed behind him should be a person he had imagined in his dream.

"The dream was so vivid."

Su Yan glanced at the woman again, a strange expression appearing on his face, and asked, "A honey trap?"

The girl with her eyes closed did not answer Su Yan. She seemed to be asleep, and the constant stroking of the fox's back was a completely subconscious action.

Su Yan glanced at the girl with her eyes closed, and the girl's movements froze. She pressed down on Su Yan, who was in the shape of a fox, with her left hand, and reached down to the fox's belly with her right hand, flipping Su Yan, who was originally observing the girl with her eyes closed, ninety degrees.

"what?"

Su Yan changed from sitting cross-legged to sitting upright, facing the distance with a look of astonishment at the girl with her eyes closed. However, the girl behind him with her eyes closed did not say anything. She wrapped her arms around Su Yan's armpits and held Su Yan's small fox-like hands from bottom to top, kneading them a few times as if experiencing the touch, before lifting Su Yan up.

"what are you doing?"

The girl with her eyes closed grabbed Su Yan's hand and pushed him forward. In the instant the fox-like hand was unleashed, the girl's arm and Su Yan's arm completely merged into one. The fox-like hand, hundreds of feet long, flew out from Su Yan's small figure, creating a strong gale that swept away sand and stones, reaching more than a hundred meters away.

Wherever the fierce wind passed, not a blade of grass grew, and a ditch that looked as if it had been artificially carved out appeared on the ground.

Su Yan was stunned, but the girl behind him with her eyes closed did not stop. She still held Su Yan's hand and continued to make moves. Her spiritual power began to flow to Su Yan's arm when she made her move.

"So it's not a paid service? I quite like the older sister with white hair and a youthful face."

Su Yan turned to look at the girl with her eyes closed, his face full of disappointment, and complained, "Are we filming a martial arts movie?"

The classic trope in martial arts novels is nothing more than dreaming of a fairy sister who imparts divine skills to you.

I must have been thinking about it during yesterday's great battle, witnessing the power of a true immortal, which led me to dream of a fairy sister who taught me some divine skills and techniques.

What should have been a very pleasant dream became extremely dull and uninteresting because I realized I was dreaming.