179. Chapter 179 Fontaine County--the last fiefdom
"Fontaine County?" Could it be that the Yue family still has private property in that Fontaine County? Yue Jinghua was very surprised. She originally thought that nothing was left from the bankrupt Grand Duke's Palace of Blood Cherry.
The situation is even more optimistic than Yue Jinghua thought. Fontaine County, which is located on the outskirts of the Black Beast Ridge of the Dragon War Empire, is actually the fiefdom of the Yue family.
"When the Dragon War Empire was founded, it followed the title system, except for a small number of princely territories and principalities. Most of the princely families have their own fiefdoms, and the Duke's Palace is no exception." In the early years, Yue Jinghua
Since she was still young, Hongling did not mention the Duke's Palace in detail in front of her.
A fief is a fiefdom awarded by the emperor to his loyal ministers and generals with meritorious service. The ownership belongs entirely to the recipient and cannot be transferred or sold during the journey. Unless ordered by the emperor, the lord cannot be deprived even if he becomes bankrupt.
The taxation or development within the fiefdom are all handled by the recipients. Every year, the fiefdom only needs to pay a certain proportion of tribute tax to enjoy the fiefdom indefinitely.
Maple Leaf Danjun's fiefdom has been left unattended because it is located in a remote area and is close to the outskirts of the Black Beast Ridge. When the former Grand Duke of Blood Sakura was here every month, he would only visit it occasionally for winter hunting.
Later, the Grand Duke's Palace of Xueying fell and the fiefdoms could not be bought and sold. Lierou sent Hongling's father to Fontaine County to help with the management. Hongling's father paid a winter salary on time every year, which can be regarded as the basis for the current situation.
Young Lord Yue Minzhi left behind his last piece of property.
In the Dragon War Empire, a hundred people are a village, a thousand people are a township, and a thousand people are a town. Only nearly 100,000 people can be called a county.
In Yue Jinghua's view, the Duke's Palace, which owns a mountain county close to the Black Beast Ridge, is undoubtedly crying out for poverty with a golden rice bowl. It is simply too frustrating.
"In that case, let's go to Fontaine County. Fontaine County is very close to the Black Beast Ridge. We can take a shortcut and send Mother and Yue Chen there first, and then enter the area where the Black Beast Egg was damaged as mentioned earlier.
"Yue Jinghua decided to send Lie Rou and others to Fontaine County to meet Hong Ling's father, and then rushed to the belly of Xuan Beast Ridge with Teng Wu and others.
After a few people made up their minds, they called Teng Wu over.
When he explained that he was going to Fontaine County, Teng Wu's expression was a little strange, but it was only for a very brief moment, and he quickly covered it up.
Yue Jinghua and others didn't pay attention, and the group assigned carriages.
Tengwu and Yunluo took one, and Yuechen and Lierou Hongling Salman shared one. Yue Jinghua asked for a separate carriage in order to facilitate training. Everyone drove during the day and rested at night.
After driving for several days, we gradually left Boluo City, and everything was peaceful along the way.
After leaving the Shang border, there were fewer and fewer towns, and eventually they turned into vast snowfields and undulating ice ridges.
It was the middle of winter, starting from the Shang Kingdom in Nanchui and heading to the Dragon War Empire and Xuan Beast Mountains in the north. The weather was getting colder.
Fortunately, everyone is a mysterious person, so they don't feel cold even after using the body-protecting mysterious energy. Lierou, Salman, Yuechen and others, who are less skilled in the mysterious energy, also prepared enough fox-fur winter clothes for walking along the way.
Stop and go, it’s not too tiring.
About half a month later, wherever the carriages and horses passed, even the dilapidated farmers' houses seen in the wild earlier disappeared, leaving only a patch of thick snow that had accumulated for several days.
There was no village or shop in sight. After driving for a whole day, we still couldn't find a farmhouse where we could stay overnight. So everyone had to stop, find an open space sheltered from the wind, light a bonfire, and heat up some dry food.
, after drinking some boiled snow water, they went to sleep separately.
After everyone fell asleep, Yue Jinghua, who had already put on his clothes and fell asleep, sat up again.
She looked around, used Pu Zhiyin, and entered the dark poplar forest behind her.
Just when Yue Jinghua ducked into the acacia forest, in the car where she was staying, Ye Zi's figure followed her like a ghost until she entered the forest.
After taking a few breaths of air-conditioning, Yue Jinghua looked up at the sky. It was already around the third watch. At this time of the day until before dawn, the mysterious energy between heaven and earth temporarily dissipated. The evil energy finally came to the cultivation of evil skills and cultivation.
The best time to summon the dark demon is really the best time.
Along the way, in order to avoid Teng Wu's keen sense of touch, Yue Jinghua tried his best to conceal his aura, and never summoned the newly acquired snake girl Gore.
While we are staying in the wild tonight, we can try to let the snake girl Gore absorb some evil energy from the world.
On a winter night, there are few clouds and many stars in the sky, and the sky and the earth seem to form a straight line. White snow that has not melted for several days is piled on the dead trees in the forest. Even though it is night, the vision is brighter than during the day.
Yue Jinghua first circulated the evil power in his body from his Dantian for two small weeks, and then started the dark summoning.
Between the white snow and the snow, a five-star dark-light magic summoning array appeared, and the evil spirits in the forest, like cats that heard the fishy smell, gathered over anxiously.
In the summoning array, Gorgon, a gorgon with blond hair and blue eyes, shook her thin snake tail and made a childlike voice towards Yue Jinghua.
As the evil spirit poured into the Demon Summoning Array, it transformed into the infant Snake Girl Gore. Her eyes could not yet petrify enemies, but her appearance was that of a perfect little beauty, which was very pleasing to the eye.
Soon, a reminder sounded in Yue Jinghua's mind, "The childhood golden Gore acquired enough evil energy at one time and advanced perfectly, transforming into the childhood ice and snow snake girl Gore."
"Ouch, cute little loli, come here, let me take a sip," all the mysterious beasts came forward to congratulate one after another. When Pinjin Silkworm saw the little beautiful snake, he lost his soul. He coveted it and went to the little loli.
Gore's pink face moved closer.
In the summoning array, the little loli Gore with long flowing hair saw the plump meat worm, her delicate eyebrows raised high, the snake's tail swung, and with a snap, the Golden Silkworm was thrown around.
white.
Immediately afterwards, the golden hair flew up, and a freezing cold air shot out from its eyes.
"Crack," the gold-pinned silkworm suddenly froze into a piece of "ice" silkworm that was harder than a popsicle. The mysterious beasts watching on the side were overjoyed, and Yue Jinghua could not stand upright with laughter.
"Rouchu and Xiaoshan are responsible for keeping watch. In a few days, they will arrive at the outermost edge of the ridge of Xuan Beast Mountain. They have found out what types of Xuan Beasts there are along the way, whether they live in groups, and whether there is a beast king leading the team.
," Yue Jinghua gave an order, and Xiao Shan beside him immediately turned into a shadow and quickly disappeared on the snowy field.
Pinjin Silkworm cursed, but he did not dare to offend the snake girl Gore again, so he had to put away his lust, flapped his wings dejectedly, and left.
Yue Jinghua was not afraid of the severe cold. She sat cross-legged in the snow and activated the nine-turn star-making skill in her body. From her body, she radiated light like a star.
Behind him, in the snow, a crystal-clear ice rhododendron bloomed quietly. From the blooming stamen, a poisonous ice thorn shot out, silently shooting towards Yue Jinghua's throat.