After traveling through time, I rely on force to survive

The carriage galloped forward, and soon, Xie Xuanan and Li Qingqing arrived at the border town.

Compared with the past, the border town is like a once deserted painting, which has been given infinite vitality overnight.

In the bustling crowd, there were all kinds of accents and laughter.

Some people came back carrying trees that had just been cut down from the mountains, and some brought back newly caught prey and handed them to the woman in charge of cooking.

Someone was sweating profusely, looking focused as he skillfully used an axe or saw to cut the trees into the required size. Soon, a pile of branches was scattered on the ground.

When the half-grown children saw this, they happily picked up the branches and took them to the empty yard where firewood was piled.

There were several piles of dry straw stacked on one side of the open space, and many women were sitting around weaving the roof with the dry straw.

Not far away, next to rows of neatly stacked adobe bricks, someone was concentrating on making one adobe brick after another.

Whether it is the original residents of the town, the newly joined refugees, or the helpers from Qingfeng Pavilion, they are all busy.

Especially those newly arrived refugees, their clothes were ragged and covered in dust, but their faces showed a look called "hope".

Seeing the two people slowly approaching, everyone stopped what they were doing and saluted.

Li Qingqing greeted with a smile, and walked with Xie Xuan'an towards a remote and empty slope.

In the distance, a woman put her two-year-old child aside while she was hoeing the vegetable field.

She was so focused on hoeing that she didn't notice the child had quietly slipped away.

When the woman discovered it, she saw her child handing a bunch of wild flowers to Li Qingqing.

The woman recognized the city lord and was afraid that the child would bump into her, so she quickly chased after him, apologizing and picking up the child.

Li Qingqing smiled and comforted: "It's okay, the child is very cute."

The woman walked away with the child in her arms and returned to the vegetable field to continue working.

Li Qingqing took the bunch of wild flowers handed to her by the child and sniffed it gently. The fresh fragrance of the flowers instantly spread.

She raised her eyes to look at the busy crowd in the distance, smiled and said to Xie Xuanan:

"All they want is to have enough food and clothing and live a carefree life. I hope they can live and work in peace and contentment here."

Xie Xuan'an glanced at the wild flowers in her hand.

It is a kind of wild chrysanthemum that grows in the fields between the mountains. Although it is inconspicuous, it blooms freely and unrestrainedly when all the flowers are withering.

He stared at Li Qingqing's pretty face, a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he jokingly said:

"When we were in Qiushui Town, I didn't see you being so concerned. Now that you've become the city lord, you've actually started to care about the people."

Xie Xuan'an always remembered that he had to spend a lot of money to ask her for help.

Li Qingqing glanced at him sideways, then looked into the distance.

She raised the corners of her mouth and said:

"The management of Qiushui Town is the responsibility of you and Zhou Yimo, and as the lord of this city, I naturally have to ensure that my citizens live a better life."

At that time, she had just traveled here and was still confused and had not yet fully adapted to the environment.

She doesn't even know how to survive herself, so how can she care about others?

Besides, she was a rather cold-hearted person at the time and didn't like to meddle in other people's affairs.

Her temperament has warmed up a little now, also because she has relatives and friends in Dayuan, as well as the soldiers and people of this city.

After hearing this, Xie Xuanan shook his head slightly and responded casually:

"Yuntai County is Brother Zhou's business. To be honest, I'm not really keen on handling official business."

Not only do I dislike it, I also feel a little...disgusted from the bottom of my heart.

"Oh?" Li Qingqing turned her head, looked deeply at Xie Xuanan, and asked:

"I've always been curious. If you hate being an official so much, why did you choose to come to Yuntai County to be the county magistrate?"

Xie Xuan'an lowered his eyes for a moment, then looked at Li Qingqing again, chuckling softly, "I remember saying at the beginning that I asked to be the magistrate of Yuntai County in order to be closer to Brother Yun Jing."

"But why are there old and new whip marks on your back?" Li Qingqing pointed out mercilessly.

There was a hint of arrogance in her tone that even she herself could hardly detect, and she continued:

"Now that I still have some strength, you just need to tell me who hurt you, and I will definitely seek justice for you in the future!"

How could she, Li Qingqing, allow her friends to be bullied?

Before, she was just a village woman in Lihua Village, a small character at the bottom of the rules of Dayuan Kingdom. Even if she had any ideas, she could only hide them in her heart.

Now that I have this position, I am more than capable of dealing with lower-level forces.

If the opponent is more powerful, she can also put on her exclusive mask and appear as the head of Qingfeng Pavilion. Not only will she not implicate others, but she can at least escape unscathed.

Xie Xuan'an was caught off guard when he heard these words, and his face instantly turned red. He awkwardly avoided looking into Li Qingqing's eyes.

In fact, he had been deliberately forgetting that Li Qingqing had seen everything about him before.

Being suddenly mentioned by Li Qingqing at this time was like a stone being thrown into a clear pond that had been silent for a long time.

Xie Xuan'an took a deep breath and tried to calm his inner panic.

He pretended to be looking at the scenery in the distance, was silent for a moment, and finally spoke slowly:

"Let's not talk about this matter anymore... However, I was able to come to Yuntai County because of the help of my mother's old friends."

"An old friend of your mother's?"

Li Qingqing frowned slightly and looked at Xie Xuan'an, "Is he one of the general's confidants?"

"You guessed right." Xie Xuan'an nodded affirmatively.

He looked around to make sure no one was overhearing, then continued:

"This confidant was born into the witch clan. Because he possessed a rare talent for witchcraft, he was persecuted by the Saint Son's faction. By chance, he was saved by the general and has been by his side ever since."

"So, it was he who resurrected the general?" Li Qingqing pondered for a moment and then understood.

"Exactly."

Xie Xuanan nodded. He looked at Li Qingqing, worried that she might not believe him, so he explained:

"He performed a forbidden technique. He is the only one in the world who can perform such a forbidden technique."

Li Qingqing nodded to show her understanding: You saved me from despair, and I used my ability to help you be reborn. It can be seen that this confidant must be loyal.

As for how credible the success of this forbidden technique was, she didn't really care.

After all, she was able to travel back to the Abyss from the future, so it was not surprising that some talented people wanted to use forbidden techniques to resurrect people.

However, if the general were to be resurrected, it would certainly cause a sensation. At least Xie Xuanan would not secretly tell her these secret histories.

Now there is no such strange thing happening, so I guess it has not been successful yet?

Li Qingqing began to feel curious, but at the same time, she didn't quite understand.

It has been more than ten years since the general passed away. Why is this confidant so obsessed with resurrecting a person who has been gone for many years?

When she thought of this, she couldn't help but ask with some doubts:

"When does he plan to resurrect the general?"