Worker-Peasant Council
After the Vegetable Market was established, residents of Holy Soul Village and the surrounding villages could bring out the fruits and vegetables they grew in their fields to sell, so that people in their own villages could also eat the specialties of other villages.
However, its most fundamental function is to facilitate economic circulation between villages and to deepen the flow and connections between villagers.
The council meeting place was also built here, mainly to be closer to the people.
From a practical standpoint, this means that if conflicts arise between villagers in different villages over minor matters, able-bodied young men who maintain order can resolve them as quickly as possible.
The council members are also able to quickly engage in discussions, formulate corresponding rules, and identify and address any shortcomings.
"Grandpa Jack, after the Vegetable Market is built, let's establish a Worker-Peasant Council. In addition to me, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, the members will be you and the village chiefs from other villages."
Zhou Qing said, "At that time, we will first formulate a general set of rules, and then you and the village chiefs of other villages can take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be supplemented, or if there is anything that is not suitable and needs to be changed."
"No need to change it! Definitely no need to change it! You're all people who've been to the city for school, we certainly don't know as much as you do!" Old Jack laughed heartily, unconditionally trusting Zhou Qing, and even said that if people from other villages had any objections, they could just exclude them.
Zhou Qing was both amused and exasperated. "Grandpa Jack, that won't do. We're just talking theory. The real results will depend on the actual situation. And if there are problems, we need to solve them, not the people who caused them."
"That's true."
Old Jack thought about it and agreed. After all, if the people of Holy Soul Village made a mistake, and he, as the village chief, was too eccentric or even covered it up, he would be looked down upon by the village chiefs of other villages.
In the following month, able-bodied men from nearly thirty villages, including Holy Soul Village, picked up hoes and shovels and began a massive road-building project, guided by the plans and designs provided by Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.
During this time, Zhou Qing also met the work-study students at the Nuoding Academy.
Wang Sheng was naturally among them.
Only at this moment did he truly realize in his heart that Zhou Qing and Tang San really did come from Holy Soul Village.
Xiao Wu's identity remains a mystery; all that is known is that her work-study position was obtained from a shared quota from several villages near Holy Soul Village.
But none of that matters.
At least Wang Sheng believed Zhou Qing one hundred percent. Since Zhou Qing said that Xiao Wu's identity was that of a commoner, he was willing to believe that Xiao Wu was indeed a commoner.
After the planned road was laid out, Zhou Qing removed the stalactites above the Skywell Cavern one by one to prevent them from falling and injuring or killing villagers in the future.
During this time, the villagers naturally learned of the existence of the Spirit Rhyme Turtle.
However, the Spirit Rhyme Turtle, as its name suggests, is spiritually connected. As long as the villagers don't provoke it, it won't actively harm them; at most, it will open its mouth to intimidate them.
As for whether the exposure of the Spirit Rhyme Turtle will attract the attention of the Spirit Hall—
Zhou Qing was extremely familiar with the current city lord of Nuoding City, Romanyac, and the Hall Master of the Spirit Hall Branch, Ma Xiunuo. He simply greeted them and mentioned that he was raising a Spirit Rhyme Turtle, and they naturally wouldn't interfere.
Meanwhile, in Falling Star City, You Hui is the new city lord, and Norman, the Hall Master of the Spirit Hall Branch, is also You Hui's maternal great-uncle.
We're all on the same side!
The city lords and Spirit Hall Master of other cities have no reason to come here to "exorcise demons" for a two-hundred-year-old Spirit Rhyme Turtle.
Unless something truly terrible happens, or there is something profitable to be made.
And then.
The first day of school has arrived.
Upon returning to the Nuoding Academy, Zhou Qing immediately sought out Romantina to inquire about her work during the holiday.
That's right!
Before the holiday began, Zhou Qing also arranged work for Romantina.
Together with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, they investigated the existence of the "Soul Palace".
Originally, Zhou Qing hoped that Romantina would accompany him during the holiday to check on the condition of children under six years old in Holy Soul Village.
But considering that he was taking her, the daughter of the deputy city lord and the city lord, back to the village to celebrate the New Year together, it seemed too ambiguous no matter how you looked at it.
She wasn't an "orphan" like Xiao Wu, but a young lady of high status and influence!
They lured her back to Holy Soul Village—
As time went on, Zhou Qing could imagine Old Jack and the villagers giving her meaningful "auntie smiles."
Therefore, Zhou Qing instructed her to collect relevant information with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm during the holiday.
How to collect it?
Naturally, I went to Falling Star City to find You Hui.
Since taking office in Falling Star City, You Hui has indeed shown some talent as a city lord. Although she is a bit introverted, she has managed everything in a fairly orderly manner and has a good reputation.
With her help, and Romantina's understanding of the basic theories of human Meridians and acupoints, she opened a temporary Child Martial Soul Testing Center, which attracted many residents of the city to bring their children to check which parent's Martial Soul their children would inherit.
With the help of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Romantina's Brain Martial Soul recorded the Martial Soul information of many children under the age of six, and even the Martial Soul information of fetuses in the womb.
This indeed proves the existence of the "Soul Palace".
Then, Zhou Qing began to have Sky Dream Ice Silkworm use its Spiritual Sharing skill to share the data it had recorded with him.
Suddenly, information about everyone from newborn babies to six-year-old children who had not yet awakened their Martial Soul was displayed in front of Zhou Qing in a holographic format.
However, these images are piled up together in a very messy way, and they still need to be classified before we can begin the formal analysis.
First, based on gender, they are divided into two main categories: male and female.
Secondly, they were categorized in detail according to age.
After completing these two steps, Zhou Qing was able to draw some conclusions.
First point:
When the fetus is still in the womb, the Martial Soul is just a point of light, like a seed. Before knowing its type, it is impossible to know what it will grow into.
Second point:
Romantina was fortunate enough to meet a pregnant woman in labor and discovered that when the baby was born, crying and taking its first breath, the point of light inside the baby seemed to be stimulated and began to expand, growing from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a fist.
Furthermore, hazy phantom images of things emerge within them.
By observing the patterns of light clusters within children aged one to six, Zhou Qing discovered that these light clusters, after expanding to the size of a fist, ceased to change.
Perhaps because everyone's Martial Soul is different, the size of these light orbs is not exactly the same, but overall they are all about the size of a fist.
Continuing to observe from one to six years old, Zhou Qing discovered that, regardless of gender, the Martial Soul within these orbs of light were constantly Solidification.
From the hazy and vague state at age zero to the clear and detailed state at age six, the Martial Soul undergoes a process of gradually transforming from illusion into reality during its gestation.
However, this kind of "reality" only reaches the point where it can be released outside the body. To truly transform the illusory into the real, one must undergo acquired growth, that is, cultivation...