Peace Order-Chapter 1481 - 138: All Auspicious Omens Enter the Cauldron, Bestowing Honorary Titles
In the deep autumn of the Southern Dynasty, given the current temperatures, it is nearly winter, but the warmth of the south contrasts starkly with the vast steppe climate of the Northern region, where the farthest place has already seen snow.
On the shaded side of the Holy Mountain in the Western Regions, where snow eternally blankets the mountain’s side, it remains unmelted for long periods, while the southern country just begins to cool, prompting people to add slightly thicker clothing.
Xue Shuangtao extended her palm, and as snowflakes fell, the buds of the early plum under this snow appeared more lively, which slightly entranced Xue Shuangtao. Her blue robes, set against the backdrop of the falling snow and early plum, lent her a slender and simple grace.
In recent days, the nations have finally begun to halt their fierce conflicts, and the intelligence flowing through Changfeng Building has gradually decreased. The focus on the battlefield wanes, replaced by increasing rumors about the court and Martial World.
Countries like the Ying Country and Chen Country possess vast territories, having lasted over three hundred years.
Internal conflicts accumulate within the country, with increasing disputes among aristocratic families, civil officials, and military officers, emerging gradually in the aftermath of war.
Both countries have more or less seen the rise of notorious bandits in the Martial World, mountain brigands gathering hundreds, defying royal decrees, and disregarding the laws and taxes of Chen or Ying Country, taking advantage of both countries’ weakened states to subtly resist the authorities.
During the time when Wolf King Chen Fubi ventured alone deep into Ying Country and besieged its capital, he encountered various Martial World heroes and grassroots figures, most of whom started uprisings, with some achieving success and others imprisoned.
Yet in today’s world, though great battles have ceased, the ensuing impacts and changes continue to unfold endlessly. But in the writings of both countries’ civil officials, overall peace appears maintained, perhaps only the sharpness of a Qilin is considered a true foe in their eyes.
They overlook under such grandeur, the mentality of each commoner, unaware of the turbulence beneath the supposedly calm surface waters.
This current situation truly deserves the phrase, ’Hearing thunder in silence.’
Xue Shuangtao saw the unopened plum blossoms, leaned out from the third floor of the building, and with a hand on the railing, tiptoed to gently brush away the snow on the plum leaves, carefully spreading it on a piece of paper, then used a fine brush to write small characters.
"Today in Guan Yi City, the first snow falls on cold plum, should be sent to inform you."
Xue Shuangtao smiled, folding the letter neatly.
The snow naturally will melt.
But the joy of seeing sudden snowfall in Guan Yi City of South Chen during the transition from deep autumn to winter will presumably stay on this letter, traveling thousands of miles, reaching that person’s desk.
She organized the intelligence gathered over time, selecting the valuable and noteworthy information, waiting until the sun inclined westward, then descended to a plain carriage outside. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Zhao Dabing sat in the driver’s seat, with a flatbread sandwiching green onions and a small bag of salt-roasted peanuts. Xue Shuangtao, clothed in thick garments, boarded the carriage, Zhao Dabing quickly finished the flatbread, pinched two handfuls of salt-roasted peanuts into his mouth.
He clapped his large hands to shake off the coarse salt grains from his palms, then urged the carriage forward.
The carriage traveled far along the main street of Guan Yi City.
Zhao Dabing, while driving, heard Miss inside the carriage seemingly cough softly, also sighed, feeling some worry in his heart—Xue Shuangtao, granddaughter of the fierce Xue Daoyong in chaotic times, but now at twenty, has only reached the Third Layer Heaven.
She had invested too much of her energy in managing Changfeng Building and weighing worldly affairs, he always worried, the scholars say, deep emotions do not last, extreme wisdom leads to harm, Miss is naturally intelligent, depleting her spirit this way may be tiring to her body.
As for whether deep emotions exist.
Zhao Dabing sighed, suddenly recalling the young man from back then who used to eat salt-roasted peanuts with him, back then just a fourteen-year-old child, now almost eighteen or nineteen, perhaps he is.
Already the unrivaled Marquis Qin Wu, dominating across the world.
Though Zhao Dabing’s martial arts are average, even when unmasked, he is just a Third Layer Heaven martial artist, serving as one of Xue Family’s informants during those battles that made Marquis Qin Wu famous.
Marquis Qin Wu’s battle with Military God Jiang Su.
Marquis Qin Wu and the Heavenly Khan are actually the same person.
Marquis Qin Wu traversed the southwest, marching down the waterways.
Marquis Qin Wu decisively defeated Yuwen Lie and He Ruoqinhu, counterattacking Ying Country.
These affairs, the personal experiences of those involved, the trials and struggles, the fierce battles on the edge of life and death, have been erased in retelling, instead becoming increasingly legendary as they are spread by word of mouth.
It’s as if these were victories achieved with little effort.
The invincible legendary image in historical texts has been built step by step, passed from person to person, turned into poems.
But these military achievements, indeed, one is more frightening than the other, more illustrious than the other, during those days, apart from Lu Youxian’s suicide, which gave a bittersweet sense to Xue Daoyong, found that in such a vast Chen Country, there was one less person to drink with.
All other achievements only made the old man’s smile broader and his laughter louder.
Even the weight of South Mountain couldn’t press down the old man’s smile.
The laughter from Xue Daoyong’s small upstairs room never ceased during those days.
