Peach Blossom Dock:
Chu Qing bathed and changed.
Zhao Hongxiu led the maids, chattering away as they selected new clothes for him and matched them with all kinds of accessories.
After a long while:
A dashing young man in a gold-and-red robe appeared before the world.
The maids said sweetly, "Young Master is unmatched beneath Heaven!"
Chu Qing shook his head and smiled. "These are all external things."
The maids giggled. "Young Master, clothes make the man just as a saddle makes the horse. This is the Imperial Capital—so long as people see that you are dressed magnificently, they will respect you."
Chu Qing laughed.
His dignity did not need fine clothes like ordinary people did.
What he relied on was supreme slaughter.
"By the way, where is Zuo Yan?"
Zhao Hongxiu straightened his robe hem and said, "She is over by the peach blossom grove!"
Wind and snow swept across the land as peach blossoms unfurled their buds.
Some peach blossoms had already bloomed, swaying and dancing amid the wind and snow.
Some Peach Blossom Tree aberrations had already been born.
They instinctively devoured flesh and blood.
But under the suppression of Chu Qing's Silver Coin, they did not dare approach Peach Blossom Dock, much less devour the people within it.
Raised by Chu Qing, they had become ordinary carnivorous animals:
They ate chickens and ducks, pigs and rabbits.
Under Chu Qing's guidance, Zhao Hongxiu had established a breeding farm outside Peach Blossom Dock.
The livestock inside had to consume secret medicines every day, growing rapidly and becoming strong-bodied.
Among them, rabbits had the highest yield.
These secret medicines were all cultivated by Peach Blossom Dock itself.
With the Three-legged Golden Toad's Silver Coin, despite the freezing cold and sweeping wind and snow, the fields' output had not diminished