Crazy Xiuxian, boundless magic power

Shangguan Qingyun strolled freely from East City to South City, and the hustle and bustle dissipated.

The houses here are more densely packed, all of them are two-story blue brick buildings, and smoke can occasionally be seen rising from the roofs.

The roads in the south city are relatively narrow and the streets are very clean. From the pedestrians and children on the streets, it can be seen that this is obviously a residential area.

Shangguan Qingyun walked into a street casually and saw a green tree providing shade every ten feet on both sides. The lush green trees and the concrete ground complemented each other, making it look clean and wild.

There are occasional shops open on the street, mostly selling daily groceries and pastries.

He released his spiritual sense to explore and found that the South City was much larger than the East City, and the outer area was still being expanded.

Shangguan Qingyun walked to a small shop selling mung bean cakes and stopped.

The hostess was an ordinary-looking woman of about eighteen or nineteen years old.

She was sitting on a strange chair with two wheels on both sides. When she saw a customer coming, the woman pressed the wheels a few times with her hands and was moved behind the counter by the chair.

Shangguan Qingyun said curiously: "Your chair is quite exquisite."

The woman smiled when she heard this: "Who said it wasn't true? I don't know how Lord Chu came up with this idea."

Shangguan Qingyun smiled and said, "This chair was also invented by Lord Chu?"

"Of course, who else could come up with such an ingenious idea."

After the woman said this, she seemed to remember something and a sweet smile appeared on her face.

Shangguan Qingyun saw that the woman had been sitting there and did not stand up even when guests came. He was curious and used his spiritual sense to investigate. He discovered that the woman's legs had shrunk under her skirt, and it turned out that she was disabled.

He immediately understood the function of this chair, and his favorable impression of Chu Wen increased rapidly.

Inspired by this kindness, Shangguan Qingyun took out a bone-growing pill, handed it to the disabled woman, and said:

"I have a pill here that can cure your leg disease. Take it and eat it."

The woman smiled when she heard this, but did not come to answer. Instead, she said:

"Sir, if you don't have any money, just take a few pieces of this mung bean cake. There's no need to do this. Lord Chu said that when you give someone a rose, the fragrance lingers on your hands."

Shangguan Qingyun was stunned when he heard this. He was actually regarded as a scoundrel who was eating and drinking for free.

He was in a good mood today, and followed the woman's words and joked:

"Okay, okay, then I won't be polite."

After saying that, he reached out and took a piece of mung bean cake, took a small bite and ate it, and found that this ordinary food had some flavor.

"Girl, this pill of mine is not edible to ordinary people. Try taking it."

The woman heard this and took the pill with some doubt, holding it in her hand and said:

"You don't look like a local. What are you doing in South City?"

"I heard that Lord Chu built a new city. I was curious and came here to take a look." Shangguan Qingyun did not lie.

"I see. Then you should take a good look. Our South City is very big, with thousands of families living here."

“I see the old town is still there, but where did these thousands of households come from?”

"Most of us are landless farmers and fishermen. Lord Chu gave us priority to enter the city."

"Since you don't have any land, how can you afford a house in this city?"

"Sir, you may not know that a house in the south city only costs fifty taels of silver. People like us who come from the countryside only need to pay one hundred and forty coins a month to buy one."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Qingyun looked at the small building with two courtyards and realized that he could not make much money with fifty taels of silver.

"Why do you have to pay 140 wen a month?"

"That was someone else's family. Our family didn't pay a penny. Lord Chu took pity on us poor people and asked the bank to advance the money for us. Not only is the interest rate very low, but we can also repay it at any time."

“What is a bank?”

"The bank is a money house specially opened by Lord and Madam Chu. Poor people don't even need collateral to borrow money. They only charge 7 wen interest per month. If they can't pay back the money on time, they can extend the payment. Lord and Madam Chu are really living Bodhisattvas. I don't know how many people they have saved."

When Shangguan Qingyun heard this, he remembered Du Fengzhu's words that sued Chu Wen for pursuing personal gain and making the people suffer, and he felt depressed. This was not seeking personal gain, this was clearly using it for the benefit of the people.

"How do you live here without any land?"

"Lord Chu has already arranged it for us. Each of our families will have at least one worker."

"Worker?"

"It's the guys in the factory."

“Do you have any workers in your family?”

"My parents and my brother all work in the factory and can earn six taels of silver every month."

Shangguan Qingyun secretly praised Chu Wen when he heard this. In this way, the family could buy the small building in less than a year.

At this time, Shangguan Qingyun finally understood why Chu Wen opened so many factories and made so many new gadgets.

It turns out that he was not doing it for himself at all, but for the poor people of Buffalo County.

Thinking of this, Shangguan Qingyun recalled that Du Fengzhu had criticized Chu Wen more than once, and anger rose in his heart.

Fortunately, I made this trip, otherwise I would have misunderstood this good official who loves the people like his own children as a despicable person.

Thinking back to the poems written by Chu Wen, I suddenly felt that Chu Wen’s character was just as Zhao Yunting said: noble and pure.

Shangguan Qingyun was in a good mood knowing that he had such a good official under his rule, and asked again:

"If the factory closes down, how will you survive?"

"Master Chu's factory will naturally not close down. Moreover, we still have an orphanage and a nursing home. Disabled people like me can get a disability subsidy of 300 wen per month. As long as Master Chu is still here, we can live peacefully without worrying about anything."

“What are nursing homes and orphanages?”

"A nursing home is a place that takes care of lonely elderly people, and an orphanage is a place that takes care of orphans. Lord Chu said that as long as the person is a good person, he will not ignore them."

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Qingyun's favorable impression of Chu Wen increased rapidly.

"Girl, take this pill and your leg will get better. I'm leaving now."

Shangguan Qingyun was in a very good mood having done a good deed, and thought to himself: It is true that when you give someone a rose, the fragrance lingers on your hands.

Shangguan Qingyun strolled all the way to West City and found that although the layout and houses of West City and South City were similar, he always felt that there was a difference.

After asking around, I found out that the West City was sold specifically to outsiders. A two-story building with a small courtyard was priced at two thousand taels of silver, which was forty times the price of the South City.

It is said that the price is too high to be in demand and people are scrambling to get it.

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Qingyun did not blame Chu Wen for being cruel. Instead, he praised Chu Wen's strategy of killing the rich and helping the poor as really brilliant.

Walking from West City to North City, the scene is completely different.

The first thing that caught my eye was a huge three-story building with seven large characters written on its outer wall:

Buffalo County People's Hospital.

Shangguan Qingyun spread out his spiritual sense and found that there were forty or fifty doctors sitting in the hospital, and eight Qi-refining monks who were using wood-based magic to treat mortals.

Shangguan Qingyun was not surprised. He smiled and continued moving forward.