After the Fairy Disappeared

  Chapter 214 The golden rooster that lays eggs

  He Lingchuan stared at the note in a daze, feeling a little warm in his heart.

   Without Hu Min’s explanation, he understood immediately:

  These things are gifts of thanks, from the family members of the troops under General Nan Ke. If He Lingchuan hadn't sacrificed his life in the Ghost Needle Stone Forest to blow up the burrow spider's lair and lure away the great monster Zhu Erniang, even if General Nan Ke could escape, how many people in his team would be buried in the Ghost Needle Stone Forest.

  These human lives are not numbers. Behind them are wives and children, high officials, family livelihoods, and worldly happiness.

  How many families have he spared the heartache by sacrificing his life this time? Sometimes people's emotions are so unpretentious, and we must give something to express our gratitude.

   "Surprised or not? Is it unexpected?" Hu Min didn't say anything in advance, but left the surprise to him to disassemble. "There are so many things, let me help you move them in."

   The two of them moved into the courtyard one by one, and half of the space in the small courtyard was gone.

  He Lingchuan felt strange while moving: "Why didn't the thief take these, but stole the fish and firewood from my house instead?"

   "How would I know?" Hu Min shrugged, "Maybe it's too conspicuous to take things in front of your door. Your door has been too busy recently."

  At this moment, a five or six-year-old child was standing by the door and poking his head. Hu Min asked him, "Little ghost, what's the matter with you?"

   "I live there." The boy pointed to the east.

   "I know." He Lingchuan recognized, this is the child of the neighbor's family in the east, the last time Emperor Liushui came to this world, when He Lingchuan went to the house to uncover the tiles, he saw his father tied him to the leg of the table.

   "You are He..." The child couldn't remember.

   "Yes, I am."

   "Wait a minute, don't close the door!"

  The child ran away, and He Lingchuan heard the sound of his footsteps opening and closing the door, and the whole process.

  Then the boy appeared at the door of He Lingchuan's house, holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand:

   "My father told me to bring it to you as soon as you open the door, and thank you again."

   This is a huge bouquet of flowers. He Lingchuan only recognizes amaryllis and red begonias. The white ones seem to be daisies.

  Of course, under the blowing of the cold wind outdoors, the dew quickly condensed into ice beads.

  He Lingchuan quickly took them and put them inside the house to prevent the flowers from freezing: "Is your father also a guard?"

  He remembered that this kid's brothers and sisters were too young to join the army.

   "No." The child shook his head like a wave drum, "but my parents said you saved a lot of people, you are a good person."

  He Lingchuan couldn't help but patted his head: "Okay, thank you, parents."

  Hu Min said: "It's freezing cold, where did your father get so many flowers?"

  The child grinned, missing a front tooth: "I don't know."

   "Where does he work?"

   "He often goes to the command post to deliver things!"

  He Lingchuan and Hu Min looked at each other and smiled, that's why.

  There are special greenhouses in the city to grow flowers. In addition to supplying large households, Commander Zhong’s official residence and mansion also need it. It is said that his wife loved flowers during her lifetime, and Zhong Zhai would change a batch of flowers every few days.

  He Lingchuan dug out a bag of brown candy from the pile of thank you gifts and handed it to the child: "It's for you, take it back and eat it."

  The boy thanked him and went home happily.

  Hu Min patted He Lingchuan on the shoulder: "Unexpectedly, you are already a celebrity in this area, and you don't have to pay for meals."

  He Lingchuan didn't know what it was like: "I really didn't expect it."

Since his adventure in the Panlong ruins, He Lingchuan has experienced life and death battles several times. He has rescued the fairy villagers from the bandits of Woling Pass, and his family and Ke Jihai from the demon puppet master Dong Rui. But which time? No one had ever thanked him so bluntly and warmly.

   This feeling of being loved and thanked seems... not bad.

   "How did the news spread so fast?" He Lingchuan touched his nose, "The battle of Ghost Needle Stone Forest has only been over for a few days, right?"

"After every important battle, the Ministry of Military Merit will send people throughout the city to preach the heroic deeds in the battle. The day after General Nan Ke returned to Panlong City, both you and Sun Jiayuan were posthumously named heroes. If it wasn't too cold now, It is estimated that someone will send flowers to your door. After you were rescued and survived, it caused quite a stir in this area, but it is a pity that you were unconscious at that time and could not come out to receive love."

  He Lingchuan understood.

  Panlong City mobilized everyone to join the battle to defend their homeland in this way of highlighting the advanced and establishing the typical.

   I really didn't expect that one day I would be regarded as a model and role model.

  This feeling is very subtle.

   After all, only he knows that his bravery is based on "immortality".

   For anyone here, death represents eternal sleep, but for him it is just the time of waking up from a dream.

  If he had only one life here, would he have dared to jump into the spider's nest without hesitation?

  He Lingchuan himself didn't know.

  He let out a hey, and chased away his thoughts: "So there are people here who thank me, and people who steal from me?"

  Hu Min looked up to the sky and laughed, and went out first: "Is this your first day in Panlong City?"

  …

   An hour later, He Lingchuan and Hu Min stood at the Pengcheng Office.

  Liu Gongcao asked for leave for half a day, and Xu Gongcao received them today. This man is thin and small, with an expressionless face.

   "Are you alive?" Xu Gongcao rummaged through the account books after hearing his name, and finally said, "Add you back to the military status, and the credit must be recalculated."

   "It's easy to talk about anything else, just give me that tin house first." He Lingchuan never thought that his stronghold in his dream would be robbed, "My original dilapidated house was just stolen."

   "Families of heroes who died in battle will receive a tin house as compensation." Xu Gongcao looked at him, "Are you a hero?"

  He Lingchuan was also stubborn: "I don't care if I die or not, I burnt down the burrow spider's lair. Why do I have to recount the credit?"

   "The ones given to the living are called rewards, and the ones given to the dead are called pensions. Pensions are generous, understand?" Xu Gongcao responded bluntly, "Since you are alive, you can't get pensions, and the tin house will be downgraded to a water house."

  Hu Min came out to smooth things over: "The water house is also good. I have been to the water house in Zengniu Lane. It is spacious and bright. The residents are either merchants, soldiers, or officials of Panlong City. It is different from the surroundings of your original wooden house."

  Isn’t choosing a house the same as choosing a location?

  Isn’t choosing a house the same as choosing a package and choosing a neighbor?

   Did you choose a pile of wood and a few tiles?

  Xu Gongcao followed: "I live in a water house."

  He Lingchuan had no choice but to obey.

Because he is a single person who has made great achievements recorded in the book this time, the rewards are more generous than before. The silver reward alone is 500 taels, and there are ten acres of high-quality paddy fields, thirty acres of medium-sized fields, and so on. Not counting the rewards, He Lingchuan didn't listen carefully.

  The land in his hand has skyrocketed from a medium two acres to a total of forty acres? Did he complete the transition from poor peasant to landlord?

   Going out to fight is indeed the fastest way to increase military merit.

   Of course it is also the most dangerous.

   "I can't take care of the land myself, so you can rent it out for me." He remembered that Hu Min said that the Pengcheng Department also handles this kind of business on behalf of him.

   Sergeants are usually on drill or on patrol. How can they have time to guard the fields? Their fields are rented out, and tenant farmers grow food crops in exchange for money, so they have a means of making a living.

  Tenancy is a very important part of Panlong City's economy.

   "Or—" Xu Gongcao suddenly took out a land deed, "You can also choose to take out all the rewards for this military exploit and exchange it for a shop on Wanglin Avenue with a ten-year lease."

   "Pavement?" It was the first time He Lingchuan heard that pavement could also be exchanged for military merit.

  Hu Min shouted at the side: "Change, change, of course we have to change!"

"Do you know how difficult it is to get a shop in Panlong City? What's more, Wanglin Avenue is a place that is making money every day!" Hu Min beat his chest, "Why can't I encounter such a good thing? Xu Gongcao , can you change the shop for me too?"

   "There is only one shop, and it was taken back because the 20-year lease expired. This is public property, and you can operate it yourself or rent it out, but you cannot buy or sell it yourself."

   "All the credit you said includes the water house?" The water house is at least two levels higher than the wooden house.

"Of course. If you change to a shop, then when you walk out of the Pengcheng Office, you will only have a land deed." Xu Gongcao said bluntly, "Hurry up and decide, what you don't want is someone who wants it. From here it goes all the way to Wanglin Avenue."

The military reward He Lingchuan received this time, including the paddy fields and other odds and ends, plus a reward of five hundred taels, and a water house that money can't buy, is enough for him to live a decent middle-class life in Panlong City . Do you want to exchange these for a shop whose size and location are unknown, and the contract period is only ten years?

Ha ha.

   "Okay, I'll change." He Lingchuan pushed everything forward, trusting Hu Min's judgment.

  He could only watch helplessly as the deed of the water house that had just been taken out was taken away again.

   The dream of upgrading and improving a large house, I said goodbye to him for the time being.

   When Xu Gongcao finished the last procedure, a smile appeared on his serious face: "Congratulations, you deserve it."

   "Ah?" Does Xu Gongcao have any nephews in General Nan Ke's team?

  He Lingchuan thought his next sentence would be "Listen to me, thank you", but Xu Gongcao was very concise:

   "It's done, next one!"

  So when He Lingchuan left the Pengcheng Office, he only had a shop contract that could blow up in the wind.

   "If this shop can't earn me back one thousand taels of silver, and the ten-year interest of the thousand taels of silver, I will take your house to live in!"

  Hu Min didn't care about his threats, and hooked his neck with one hand: "Buy me a drink! No, you picked a golden chicken that can lay eggs this time, you have to invite Boss Xiao and A Luo to drink together!"

   "I don't even know the exact location, so how good is the shop?"

"Have you visited Wanglin Street?" Hu Min looked contemptuous, "Yes, a poor ghost like you is not qualified to go shopping. Wanglin Street only sells the best things, and there are novelties from other places. Things, high-ranking generals and their families are haunting there."

  (end of this chapter)