Chapter 265: Poor Family, Orphaned Young, Much Suffering

The sky gradually darkened.

The candlelight flickered, the mountain peak pen holder cast a long, slanted shadow on the long desk, and the ink that hadn't dried yet reflected white light.

"Always feel like something is missing..."

Xu Yuelong looked at the small characters on the recommendation form, reading word by word, confirming that the wording was fine, but the feeling of missing something still lingered in his heart.

"Strange..."

He picked up the comparisons of Ran Zhongshi and Xiang Fang Su again.

The content and form were no different.

Introducing merit, ability, giving some praise words, belonging to the routine practice; recommendation letters and merit request forms should be written like this.

But placed on Liang Qu, it always felt incomplete.

What exactly was missing?

Xu Yuelong frowned in thought, unintentionally looking at the word "outstanding."

Outstanding.

Talent, virtue...

Xu Yuelong suddenly realized. He put down the volume, lifted his sleeve, and continued to lick the brush with ink.

"He rose from the humble, poor family, orphaned young, much suffering, once had neighbors extend a helping hand..., repaid with a spring...,

Charitable, has a reputation in Pingyang County, once served as a chief priest, the whole township submitted to him..."

Adding more than two hundred words, Xu Yuelong put down the brush, read it through, and no longer felt any regrets.

This was complete.

He wrote few recommendation forms; where did people like Xiang Fang Su have any humble beginnings or suffering?

To want to repay kindness, one must first have kindness.

Whose family could have kindness to the sons of Dukes and Earls?

It couldn't be written at all.

Following the habit, he didn't remember for a while that Liang Qu was different from them, that there was really content about virtue that could be written, using examples from reality as evidence.

Not to mention anything else, just being a chief priest was a big plus.

One of the orthodox reasons for the current emperor to succeed to the throne was that the late emperor had once let him be the chief priest of the ancestral temple to preside over the sacrifices, which shows a glimpse.

"Looking at it this way, it's really possible to jump two levels..."

Promotion is not uncommon, but Liang Qu is at the age of dancing elephants (15-20), too young.

Saying it can be seventh-rank, after the Ministry of Personnel's assessment, it will mostly only give a from-seventh-rank, promoting one level.

Xu Yuelong grew up influenced by his family and was quite clear about the ways of the Ministry of Personnel.

Being too young is a disadvantage for promotion, not intentional, but reality is like this; too young is hard to convince the crowd.

No hair on the mouth, things are not firm.

Going to a medical clinic to see a doctor, the older the doctor, the more popular, preferably with a big beard, all white, definitely a miraculous hand, a generation of divine doctors.

Older age represents stability and rich experience.

Wanting an exception, only if excellent enough to compensate for the age disadvantage.

Both virtue and talent, virtue before talent.

It's hard for Liang Qu to jump levels just by merit, but Xu Yuelong filled in the virtue part, so it's no longer a luxury.

The gap between seventh-rank and from-seventh-rank is not small.

As the saying goes, seventh-rank sesame official; below seventh-rank is not even sesame.

Ninth-rank, eighth-rank, and even from-seventh-rank are no different from errand-running officials in essence; the power they hold is only worth mentioning relative to ordinary people.

Before the Great Shun, below seventh-rank didn't even enter the Ministry of Personnel's register, directly promoted and appointed by local officials.

Except for special territories like Pingyang County, most other local county magistrates were seventh-rank, and only at this level could they be considered to be truly in contact with power.

"This kid, have to call him to treat me to dinner."

Xu Yuelong shook his head and laughed, confirmed that the ink on the paper was dry, and closed the volume.

Liang Qu didn't know what Xu Yuelong was doing. At this time, he was soaking in the Great Marsh, exploring whether there were any lost treasures around. He had started going underwater during the time waiting for the black fog to dissipate, but he had been busy moving materials for the past two days after the black fog dissipated, interrupting for a few days. Now he was out slacking off again, exploring whether there were any treasures or weapon remnants nearby.

There was nothing good near the island, mostly corpses, leftovers from the Golden Horn Shark and Silver Horn Shark, raising quite a few small fish that ate leftovers, but there were no big goods.

He guessed that as grass by the nest, it had all been eaten clean by the Ghost Mother Sect.

It was hard to find a gap today, so Liang Qu swam out more than twenty miles at once, exploring further away, trying to find treasures.

As a result, the harvest was meager for a whole afternoon.

Only caught three big precious fish with fat bodies, belonging to varieties he hadn't seen much, and couldn't name.

Among them, one was crimson all over, with a red hairy tail on its butt, quite peculiar.

It reminded Liang Qu of a precious fish he had casually made up when he was apprenticed back then, also crimson all over, with a cow tail, didn't expect it really existed.

The world is full of wonders.

Bring it back to stew for the master to prove that what he said back then was not false.

The water bottom was lush with grass and trees, and clear waves flowed.

Liang Qu's golden eyes were like torches, carrying a fish basket and sitting on a big crocodile he temporarily controlled.

He looked around, and seeing the light at the bottom of the water getting dimmer, he knew it was getting dark, so he didn't dawdle and headed home.

There are many treasures in the Great Marsh, but the range is also really big, and the difficulty of finding good treasures is still very high.

To date, the only big goods containing water and marsh essence that Liang Qu found himself should only be that sturgeon demon and the old giant clam.

Others, such as the two-life flower, withered and prosperous twin lotus, were all obtained directly or indirectly through the channels of the River Po Office.

"Still have to rely on the vast ocean."

Liang Qu floated out of the water with the fish basket, identified the direction, and used water jumping to approach the island direction quickly.

He wasn't used to the days without the help of water beasts like the fat catfish; everything had to be done by himself, and efficiency dropped a lot.

Martial arts progress slowed down a lot, and the Lei talisman still had one talisman orifice not yet condensed.

Hope the River Po Office can completely clean up the tail in the next two days and return early.

Jumping all the way, Liang Qu shook off the pursuit of two spirit monsters.

The eaves of the building ship appeared on the water surface, and he changed his body shape, bypassed from underwater to the middle of two uninhabited islands, and found the small boat he had dragged onto the island earlier.

Bathing in the sunset, rowing back.

Three suns connected, spanning the west side of the Great Marsh, the pale golden light edge inlaid on the boundary between the water surface and the sky, shining a bit dazzlingly.

But the sunset couldn't suppress the light of the stars. Seven iron-blue big stars rose from under the water surface, emitting cold light, like newly polished iron swords.

The moment the two crossed, the sunset took away the last afterglow, and the night covered Liang Qu like a curtain.

The red light dissipated, and the Ze Cauldron, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly trembled.

The emperor portrait occupying a large area on the cauldron body bloomed with flowing light, triggering resonance among the surrounding gods and water apes.

【Obtained a wisp of red Qi, if fused with ten thousand water and marsh essence, can produce a spirit fish, which can sublimate the favor.】

Liang Qu: "?"

Red Qi?

Where did the red Qi come from?

He looked up at the sky, the residual red glow in the night sky.

Could it be the sun?

The benefit brought by the Binghuo day phenomenon?

But ten days had passed, why did it come today?

Liang Qu's mind crossed with a lot of information, but lacked key clues, unable to grasp it, so he had to focus his attention on sublimating the favor.

The so-called spirit fish can actually sublimate the favor!

Liang Qu had obtained quite a few favors so far: Yinglong, Tian Wu, Chuanzhu Emperor, a full three.

Previously, there had been no opportunity to upgrade the favor, didn't expect to meet it today.

Then...

Among the three favors, which one should he choose?

Liang Qu involuntarily turned his gaze to the Chuanzhu Emperor.

Erlang True Monarch! ===== CHAPTER 266 =====

True Lord Erlang!