Beauty Steals the Country [End Times]

Mu Xishan went back to the house to wash up. The face towel that had been left to dry overnight was only slightly damp. Resisting the desire to frown, he rinsed his mouth with yellowish domestic water, and the cool liquid filled his mouth, calming his mood a little.

There are still handwritten materials on the bedside table. These were written by him after he let Jiang Feng leave last night, and then took him back to the bedroom to work overtime. One stroke at a time, he wrote until his eyelids were overwhelmed and wanted to close, and his fingers were rubbed. red.

What is he trying so hard for?

For the power in your hands?Responsibility derived from power?Responsibilities... At this time, Mu Xishan couldn't help but think of his former master, Simon.

He once set off with Simon, and during the launch of the military exercise, Simon gave an impassioned speech, and the soldiers under him were full of enthusiasm, throwing their heads and blood on the battlefield. Among them, a war warrior was chopped off his arm in order to save his comrades, and in the night not long after, The warrior and his comrades celebrated their victory in a bar, raped a woman who insulted him in a whim, and were brought to court.At that time, Simon's expression was silent, speechless, filled with disappointment and regret.

Afterwards, Simon rescued the soldier against the pressure of public opinion, but also practiced hard, and then the man became the one-armed general who will be famous in the future.

What did Simon say then?

"People's behavior often depends on the environment, beliefs, and hopes. The environment of the military exercise makes the soldiers boil. My appearance is their belief, the belief in fighting for the empire. Victory is their hope. The empire needs them. Victory They were needed, so they were all-powerful heroes at that time. In the bar, the environment was indulgent, belief was pushed to the back of his mind, a broken arm made him lose hope, and a soldier who won glory for the country became disabled People—so the abuse from the opposite sex makes people do evil with one thought.”

He asked Simon, why did you save him?

Simon said, "People need to be guided. Society, mentors, family members, one mistake, cannot deny the whole of a person. I can't just watch my soldiers become useless when they are injured for the empire. If he gives up on himself , I will save him, I represent the empire, and the empire will never give up any people who paid their blood for him."

Mu Xishan sighed, and withdrew his thoughts. At this time, a long time had passed, and Lu Bao's voice was heard outside the door, "The man was caught, the newspaper was also found, and the stolen goods were taken together. Do you want to go and have a look now?"

"go."

Mu Xishan looked away from the manuscript, opened the door and went out.The car stopped outside the City Lord's Mansion, and Jiang Feng was already sitting in the back.Mu Xishan took a seat next to Jiang Feng, Lu Bao sat in the co-driver, and secretly observed Mu Xishan's mood through the rearview mirror.

"Why are you looking at me?" Mu Xishan raised his head and met Lu Bao's eyes through the mirror.

Lu Bao was shocked for a moment, and obediently looked away.

The car passed by the small square, surrounded by many residents, spontaneously cleaning the glass with a broom, scolding the thief who stole the newspaper while sweeping.Mu Xishan's gaze stopped there involuntarily, and saw another group of residents move a piece of glass that was removed from nowhere into the crowd, and the cleaners next to him immediately vacated their seats.

"What are they doing?" Mu Xishan frowned slightly.

Lu Bao looked around and pointed to the residential area near the square. Mu Xishan followed his line of sight and found that the window panes of some houses were gone.

In the small square, the man who was the porter put down the glass. Several people around were gesticulating and discussing something. Then another person opened the toolbox and took out a cutting knife to cut the glass into the size of a window. Lu Bao explained, "This... ...It should be that some residents knocked down the windows of their own houses."

The car drove past the front of the small square, and some residents saw Muxi Mountain sharply, and rushed over to the car immediately.

Mu Xishan saw a man who was installing the glass cut his hand because of distraction. Because the incision was very long, the blood flowed profusely in an instant, but the man didn't care about the blood on his hand. Instead, he wiped the blood on the glass first. Clean it, then quickly installed it, and ran to Muxishan's car with the flow of people.

"Do you want to stop?" The driver saw that Mu Xishan's face was still expressionless, and he didn't dare to stop, but slowed down because of selfishness.

While chasing the car, the resident asked through the glass: "City Lord, we will fix the glass, don't be sad!"

Because the young child was not as high as the car window, he jumped up and down anxiously, and rushed into the car and shouted: "Your Excellency, mayor, will you still read the newspaper for us? Are you angry and never give us the newspaper again?" ?”

No matter how slow the car drove, it still left the square very quickly. Mu Xishan remained silent and did not make any statement. In the rear view mirror, he could see the residents standing in place disappointedly, sighing at the tail of the car that was drifting away.

The parent patted the child, "Forget it, let's go back... Your Excellency is sure to be angry, and it's all because of those poor and crazy bastards!"

The child reluctantly looked at the completely disappeared rear of the car, then looked at the empty transparent window, and lowered his head in frustration, "But I just want to read a book~"

The car drove for another minute and entered a remote slum from the city center.

The tall buildings on the side of the road turned into low ones, and the white walls turned into gray earth walls mixed with grass stems. The neatly dressed pedestrians were replaced by scantily clad pedestrians, many of whom were even barefoot and couldn’t even afford shoes. , the soles of the feet were worn out with thick calluses, the body was thin and bony, the stomach was sunken, and the hair was thin and yellow. Water charges to wash the body.

Going forward, there is a wall of people, and there are many discussions around it.

The car stopped on the side of the road, and the sound of the engine caused everyone to turn around.

Mu Xishan got out of the car in full view, and the crowd immediately gave way to him. When he walked in, he saw an open space surrounded by crowds. In the middle were the arrested suspects, a family of three, and his accomplice's neighbors, standing next to him. with sticks.

"It's them?" Mu Xishan looked at the tied up man in the middle, unbelievable.

"It's them." The young soldier still told the truth with pity, "Since the newspapers were stolen in the morning, many residents opened their doors in order to find the criminals in time, and took the initiative to let the soldiers check. Our soldiers divided into several groups and searched from house to house. It was only when they got here that they encountered obstacles, and in the end they were forced to search for the stolen goods and got them, and they themselves have already been convicted."

After the soldier finished speaking, the woman in the family of three immediately covered her face and began to cry.

Mu Xishan once again set his sights on these few prisoners who were not like prisoners... The neighbor's boy was an honest-looking boy, his skin was covered with spotty black spots, and he hung his head silently.Beside him is the elder of a family of three, an elderly man, kneeling on the ground tremblingly, with a face full of shame and anger.Next to him is a big boy with a naturally round face, who is skinny.

The young boy looked at the crying mother, then at the onlookers pointing at them, and said blankly, "Why are you scolding us? Don't everyone say that books are very valuable, I just want to have money to eat, don't you I won’t die of starvation if I read a book, but if I don’t eat, I will die soon!”

The woman next to him immediately covered the child's mouth and warned in a crying voice, "Stop talking, Yuanzi!"

Yuanzi shook his head and broke away his mother's hand, "Mom! Why didn't you let me tell you! We haven't eaten for three days, and you told me before that as long as you have money, my brother won't starve to death!"

younger brother?

Mu Xishan looked around, but didn't find any fish that slipped through the net.

Lu Bao saw his doubts, ran to the soldier and asked a few words, then ran back and whispered to Mu Xishan, "That woman is pregnant for six months."

Mu Xishan stepped forward, the woman's abdomen was so hungry that there was only a handful of bones left, and the slight protrusion on it seemed deformed, but he didn't notice it at first.

"Are you pregnant?" Mu Xishan bent down and reached out to touch the woman's belly.The woman was startled, and she backed up abruptly, almost falling down. Yuanzi immediately rushed forward to block her mother, and asked Mu Xishan, "What are you doing?!"

Mu Xishan withdrew his hand and asked, "Where's your father?"

"My father is gone! Otherwise, I wouldn't let you villains bully my mother!" Yuanzi roared, trying to block his mother with his thin and trembling body.

Mu Xishan stood up, looked at the old, weak, sick and pregnant criminal, once again experienced mixed feelings, and was about to say something, when a familiar shout came from behind, "I let you bully me as a brother!" Then It was a heavy object attack, Mu Xishan quickly dodged to the side, Jiang Feng stepped forward to hug Mu Xishan who had fallen due to gravity, turned around and kicked out.

Mu Xishan turned around without any danger, and saw Ma Qi, whom he had met once, fell to the ground, clutching his stomach and howling, and three children of similar age ran beside him, surrounded Ma Qi with concern, using She looked at him and Jiang Feng timidly.

Mu Xishan felt the magic wave under the cloak at this moment.

Lu Bao yelled and squatted at the foot of Muxi Mountain, patting the dust on his clothes, pointing at the group of children and shouting at the soldiers: "Where are the wild children, openly attacking the city lord, what are you doing so stupidly?!"

The soldiers hurriedly surrounded the group of children, but they didn't know how to deal with them. Qi Qi looked at Jiang Feng, and Jiang Feng looked at Mu Xishan, and asked, "How do you plan to deal with these people?"

Mu Xishan raised his palm, "Wait a minute, I need a minute to think."

After finishing speaking, Mu Xishan hurriedly got into the car. After the car door was closed, the people outside peeped at each other, and the poor people onlookers whispered. One person whispered in another person's ear, "What do you think the city lord plans to do with them?"

The listener put his hand to his mouth, and replied in a low voice, "I don't know, if you take office as the city lord, you may suffer a lot of flesh and blood."

"Hey... These are poor people. If they couldn't survive, who would steal it? Poor Zhu's daughter-in-law, she is still a supernatural person, if she didn't die on the battlefield half a year ago, leaving orphans behind. The widowed mother and father-in-law have no one to rely on, who dares to bully them!"

Everyone once again turned their attention to the motionless car.

Inside the car, Mu Xishan took out the holy book in his cloak, and saw a golden page on it, but unfortunately it was stuck tightly like a brick. Mu Xishan rolled up the window and called Jiang Feng. Under the sky, the handsome man The young man was wrapped in thin yellow air and dense purple air. Although the yellow air was not as thick as last time, it was enough to open a page. Mu Xishan thought about his words and asked, "Will you be loyal to me? Regardless of any orders? "

Jiang Feng froze for a moment. Although he felt the question was abrupt and the words were strange, he thought that Mu Xishan was hesitating how to deal with the thief, so he knelt down on one knee, "I am loyal to you, anytime, anywhere, regardless of your orders."

The invisible yellow air flew from Jiang Feng's body to the holy book again. After Mu Xishan opened the page, he rushed out the window and said, "I see." Then he closed the window again.

The new page in the book is titled: "Two: The Seven Wise Men"

〖When the envoy encountered the seven saints in distress, he had compassion and taught them day and night, making them the earliest seven magic saints in the future magic history. 〗Mu Xishan looked out of the window in surprise, the crowd of onlookers was dense, each face filled with the suffering of life showed pity, numbness, and intolerance, except that there was no arrogance of the Seven Founding Saints who belonged to history.

He even suspected that the holy book was wrong. "The first batch of sanctified seven sages in history?"

〖Yes. 〗

"Which seven?"

〖Zhu Fang, Zhu Yuan, Long Jia, Lin Baoying, Bai Xue, Zhou Tong, Ma Qi. 〗Seeing the last name, Mu Xishan was stunned... The Seven Sages actually have children, or the Seven Sages are seven children at this time?

Mu Xishan looked out of the window again, and there were only six children in the square inch...the number was not enough!

"They're all children?"

〖They are all under ten years old. 〗

"There are only six children at the scene, where is the last one?"

〖The sage Zhu Fang is also there, but he has not yet been born. 〗

Mu Xishan set his eyes on the stomach of the woman who was nervous because of his long absence in the family of three.Mu Xishan closed the holy book, put it back into the cloak, and pushed the door to get out of the car.

After brewing his feelings, Mu Xishan pursed his lips and said to the thief with a serious expression, "Although you are very pitiful, everyone should be responsible for their actions."

After listening to Mu Xishan's words, Ma Qi and Fang Yuan struggled to make a fuss again, but were stopped by their friends and mother respectively.The woman lowered her head and wept, begging in a low voice, "If you punish me, punish me, please bypass my child!"

Mu Xishan shook his head, "The perpetrators, regardless of men, women, or children, must be one of them."

The woman burst into tears immediately when she heard the sound. She was not afraid of going to prison, but she didn't want her child to spend her childhood in a dark and small room at such a young age.The onlookers are all poor people who share the same illness as women. Compared with the high-ranking city lord, they can understand the suffering of the Fang family members better. Some people start to wipe their tears, and some people start to quietly walk out of the crowd. As a result, some people whispered, "It seems that there is no room for turning around."

In the silence of the crowd and the crying of the young mother, Mu Xishan said something that shocked everyone.

"I am guilty with you."

Although this is to pave the way for taking away the Seven Sages later, if poverty is really a sin, Mu Xishan will not shirk his responsibility, at least after he took office, he will not allow such things to happen on his land as a matter of course.

Mu Xishan said in a flat, even calm tone:

"You are guilty of theft, and your human nature is compromised by poverty. I am also guilty—as the city lord, I let the people in the base have no clothes and no food. In order to survive, I committed crimes! But you know, I am the lord of the city, so I have the right not to put myself in prison, and therefore, I will not lock you up. However, I cannot bypass you!"

Speaking of this, everyone knew that Mu Xishan really planned to let some people go.There were sparse applause from the crowd, and then it became louder and more orderly.Mu Xishan continued: "From today onwards, you will enter the city lord's mansion to serve, and you will not be free until the value of these newspapers is repaid."

The people around showed unexpected expressions, and the woman kowtowed to Mu Xishan in gratitude. Fang Yuan still couldn't figure out the situation, so the smart Ma Qi rushed to Fang Yuan's side, patted the little brother on the shoulder, and whispered in his ear: " Lucky boy, you are going to enjoy yourself!"

Fang Yuan asked innocently, "Didn't you go in and work and suffer? It sounds like we won't be paid and let us do free work?"

Ma Qi slapped Fang Yuan's head with his slap, "Fool, that's the city lord's mansion. There are so many girls queuing up to get in. They live in a big house, eat good food, and even take a bath."

Jiang Feng looked at Mu Xishan, lowered his eyes, his heart was agitated.Leaders rarely feel that they are wrong, especially in this chaotic world where force is paramount, violence is the most common way to control violence. Ordinary people make mistakes, whoever cares about your reasons and sufferings, just kill them with a single blow.Not to mention poverty... It was the first time Jiang Feng saw that some leaders would feel that the people were poor and it was their own crime.

The soldiers took away the thief and his party. Ma Qi was about to drag his companions away with envious eyes, when the city lord suddenly raised his finger and pointed at him.

"The person who attacked me, take him away together." Then he moved his finger and clicked on his three good friends one after another, "And his accomplices."

"Yeah!" March made a cheering gesture with the back of his hand, and hurriedly pulled his good friend to follow up happily. He didn't know that what awaited them in the future would be the difficult and seemingly useless "Magic Dictionary First Compilation" "In the conference room this morning, all the high-level officials gathered together.

Before Mu Xishan came back, his behavior was transmitted back to the meeting room first, and became the focus of everyone again.

Jiang Jundu screamed: "Oh! Since the city lord took office, I feel that my heart is not enough after getting up every morning!"

Gui Chengmei pursed her red lips, "It's also the first time I've seen such a castellan who doesn't look like a castellan—you can say, the castellan who looks the most like a castellan!"

Feng An covered his head and said, "Although you have confused me! But I have to say, I really admire our new city owner from the bottom of my heart."

Qian Sheng said, "Now I don't care what the city lord who can never be idle has done to buy people's hearts! The matter of renting the vacant house has been negotiated with Panlong Base yesterday, and there are still a few days until the personnel are resettled, and the funds are also available." I haven't received the money, now I only care about whether that bitch Lu Bao got the gift money or not?"

Gao Shen didn't speak, but Yan Su brought up another topic, "Did you forget that tomorrow is hunting day?"

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