Late at night, it's as quiet as water.
Outside the window, moon shadows intertwined on the trees, like countless twisted devil shadows.
Lu Changsheng lay quietly on the bed.
Over the past two months, the situation in the county has been eerily calm, as if it were just before a storm.
Even the weirdness outside the city has become much less, which is extremely abnormal.
Such abnormal behavior made him very alert.
He just wants to live well with his family in this troubled world.
"It seems we need to speed up our exploration of the Cangyun Mountains."
These days, the clone of the alien beast may have encountered some difficulties, causing the source energy points to slow down.
After a few days, Lu Changsheng must control the pangolin to solve some problems.
Just when Lu Changsheng was enjoying a brief moment of peace.
Outside the county town, in a dark room.
A beautiful woman sat on a jade chair, with murderous aura all around her and an extremely powerful aura.
A masked man in black was kneeling in front of the woman.
"Your Excellency, everything is ready. When do we start?"
The man looked very respectful and his tone was sinister.
"Let's take action at the end of the year. Go and notify the Black Mountain Bandits first... The nets are already laid out, how can the fish be far away?"
The woman's voice was very cold.
"I respect your orders."
The man in black bowed and then stepped back.
After the other person went away, the woman looked quietly into the void ahead, her eyes dim, as if time was passing.
"It's been decades. I wonder what the next time we meet will be like, County Master? Hehe..."
...
The next day, early morning.
Lu Changsheng and his two companions had just finished their meal in the courtyard when suddenly, the sound of gongs and drums came from the street outside the courtyard.
Immediately afterwards, a group of people walked into their yard.
The middle-aged man in the lead was dressed in Confucian scholar's clothes and a white crown hat, looking very elegant.
The man was holding a document in his hand.
On the tray in the hands of an attendant beside him was a set of neat official uniform, which looked quite gorgeous.
"Master Lu, congratulations."
A middle-aged man in scholar's clothes walked up quickly with a smile on his face.
Lu Changsheng immediately stood up to greet him, looking a little puzzled.
He has always been very low-key and seldom interacts with others. I don't know what the other party is up to today.
As if he had seen through Lu Changsheng's doubts, the middle-aged man spoke directly without further ado: "After consultation between the county lord and Lord Qin, Lu Changsheng is hereby promoted to the Yellow-rank Demon Suppression Envoy, with eighth-rank treatment, and granted an official robe and seal..."
"Hasn't it only been half a year?"
Lu Changsheng was stunned. He didn't expect it to be so fast.
"This time, more than ten people were promoted exceptionally, including two others who completed their missions independently."
The middle-aged man smiled faintly.
"Thank you for coming to announce the good news, sir."
Lu Changsheng bowed, very politely.
Seeing this, Fang Qing, who was standing by, quickly took out two silver ingots and handed them to the other party.
"Thank you, sir."
"You're welcome, ma'am."
The man took the silver and smiled even more.
Afterwards, the man said goodbye and led everyone out of the yard, presumably to inform other colleagues.
Looking at the people walking away, Lu Changsheng had a calm expression.
"It seems that the county government and the Demon Suppression Bureau have already made some plans, otherwise they would not have allowed them to be promoted as an exception."
You should know that after becoming an official Demon Suppressor, he will be an eighth-rank official registered by the court. The Yellow-rank Demon Suppressor will also lead a group of apprentice Demon Suppressors.
Lu Changsheng opened the document and found a house deed inside, located in the inner city.
"Changsheng, has he been promoted successfully?"
Fang Qing's face was full of surprise.
I didn't expect that in less than half a year, I would have completely crossed this threshold.
But she knew that many people had failed to get promoted.
"Let's move to the inner city today. The environment there is better."
Lu Changsheng smiled slightly.
"Well...we'll go clean it up now."
Fang Qing and her brother ran quickly into the house with happy faces.
noon.
Lu Changsheng hired a carriage, loaded it with his own supplies, and slowly drove towards the inner city.
By the time they arrived at the city square, their former neighbors had already received the news and had all gathered around.
After confirming the news, they were all surprised.
"Master Lu, congratulations, do you still remember me..."
"Lord Lu, we drank together before..."
A group of people rushed up to establish a relationship, and some even tried to claim they were relatives, but they were all ignored by Lu Changsheng.
Lu Changsheng drove the carriage and went straight past the crowd towards the inner city.
Seeing this, everyone on the field looked regretful.
...
The inner city is much smaller than the outer city, but it is extremely clean and tidy.
There were still soldiers guarding the city gate, and they only let people pass after checking Lu Changsheng's documents.
Most of the people living there are high-ranking officials in the county, as well as some martial arts masters.
Most of the Yellow-level and Black-level Demon Suppressors are also in the inner city.
It can be said that the inner city is the essence of the entire county.
There are also many brothels, and it is very prosperous.
After one stick of incense.
Lu Changsheng and his group arrived at the door of the new house.
A pair of stone lions lie quietly in front of the door, looking very majestic.
There was still some oil on the vermilion door, obviously it was often taken care of.
"This is it."
Lu Changsheng checked the deed and led the two of them inside.
The yard is very large, with all kinds of rockery gardens and a very pleasant scenery.
"Is this our new home from now on?"
Fang Qing was filled with joy and fell in love with the mansion at first sight.
Who would have thought that in just half a year, they had moved several times and things were getting better and better. It was like a dream.
Lu Changsheng looked at the surrounding scene carefully and felt a little touched.
At this moment, he had begun to enter the upper class of Changping County.
After half a year of hard practice.
Over the next few days, the three of them took care of their new home.
Although he had a new home, Lu Changsheng still bought a house outside the city the next day as a place to stay.
He had some things to deal with in the outer city, so it was naturally inconvenient for him to return at night.
At the same time, the news about Lu Changsheng and others' successful promotion spread throughout the county.
Countless civilians and low-level warriors were all very envious.
With this official position, there are so many things you can do.
Lu Changsheng also officially came into everyone's attention.
He fought back as a commoner and became an official demon-suppressing commander, which caused a sensation inside and outside the county.