The sun was hot, curling up the green leaves at the tips.
The bluestone road in Jiangxia City is glowing with white light and steaming.
If the soles of the shoes are slightly thinner, the soles of the feet may be burned after walking along this long bluestone path.
It was an unusually hot day. There were very few people walking on the street, and they all went indoors to escape the heat.
Several young men in jackets were not afraid of the heat. They each waved their folding fans and walked slowly on the hot street to the intersection in the middle of the street and stopped.
"This is it."
A thin and yellow boy in green put his folding fans together, pointed haughtily at the smoothest stone slab in the middle of the intersection, and said, "Ji Qilang, you can fry your eggs here."
A young man in blue with fair skin and delicate features smiled and said, "This stone slab? It's not suitable."
The young man in green glared with triangular eyes and sarcastically said, "Why is it inappropriate? I'm willing to admit defeat and don't make excuses."
The young man in blue, Ji Qilang, smiled and said nothing, looking down at the shining stone slab.
The stone slab is about two feet square, with a green color and black light. It is very unique among the ordinary stone slabs and seems domineering.
Its origin is as special as its appearance - it was laid by King Mengjia of Chu himself.
The streets of Jiangxia City were originally just dirt roads. It was dusty on sunny days and muddy on rainy days.
Although residents often complain, no one has ever thought about changing it.
It was also that year that General Meng Jia, who had been stationed here for many years, finally proclaimed himself king and designated Jiangxia as the royal capital. This street ushered in a new life.
Since it is a royal capital, of course it must show its majesty. The King of Chu ordered all the main streets in the city to be paved with bluestones to give the old appearance a new look.
The State of Chu was newly established and fought for many years. In the past, the state of Qi was looking at it with eager eyes, and in the back, the puppet state of Zhao was sharpening its sword. Money was needed everywhere and money was scarce.
In order to save money, the King of Chu ordered Zhou Yifu, a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs, to lead people to collect bluestone slabs from Nanshan and lay the slab himself, marking the beginning of Jiangxia's urban transformation.
Therefore, this bluestone slab is of great significance.
It is said that the King of Chu is a real dragon, and the dragon's energy can protect the people of the world.
So usually if a child is misbehaved or someone is sick, ignorant citizens will bring a few pieces of paper money and incense candles, come here to pray, then go back and wait. Within a few days, the patient will recover.
Such a high-status stone slab, but now someone wants to fry an egg on it.
"Do you dare? Do you dare? If you don't dare, you are a coward! All of your Ji family are cowards!"
A group of teenagers surrounded Ji Qilang in the middle, refusing to let him go, chattering like hens that had just laid eggs.
"Brother, let's go back, we can't do this." The thin boy grabbed Ji Qilang's sleeve tightly, his eyes were red with fear.
"Cowards! Cowards! You two cowards have come out of the third room of the Ji family, and they will definitely be finished!"
Ji Qilang sneered, closed the folding fan with a snap, rolled up his sleeves, and said domineeringly, "I don't dare? I'm a coward? Are all the Ji family cowards? Are the three houses of the Ji family going to be finished? Let me tell you...
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His slender white fingers touched the faces of the young people one by one, "If the Ji family is a coward, there will be no heroes in Jiangxia! Today I will open your eyes!"
"Bring the eggs!" Ji Qilang inserted the folding fan into the collar of the back of his neck and stretched out his hand with a domineering look.
The young boy in Tsing Yi handed over a basket of eggs and said with a smile, "Please!"