Chapter 23: Naturalization of Liuli Island
Chapter 23 Naturalization on Liuli Island
Just as Li Fan was thinking, a somewhat fat looking youth not far from him came over.
The youth patted Li Fan’s shoulder and said, “Brother, you look a bit familiar. I don’t know what position you hold in the Great Li? Or maybe a rich merchant from which continent?”
Li Fan shook off the youth’s hand on his shoulder with a slap, then gazed at him coldly without a word.
The fat youth immediately felt as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake, and a gust of coldness rose behind him.
Although he felt that it was a bit humiliating to be intimidated by a single look, the fat youth was also a bit of an eye candy. Li Fan looked plain and ordinary, but with the hidden aura of non-irritation, it was obvious that he had been in a high position for many years.
Not simple generation!
The fat young man came to a conclusion in a flash, and then left with a sense of humor.
Seeing this, everyone else knew that Li Fan was not very amiable, so no one came to talk to him after this.
In the swaying of the lights, the voices of the crowd became smaller and smaller, and gradually all of them fell asleep.
There were no words for the rest of the night.
On the second day, before dawn, the crowd was woken up.
A middle-aged man with a long beard, wearing a green colored robe, walked to the crowd with his hands behind his back.
“In a moment, I will take you all to receive your household registration. After receiving the household registration, you will officially become a member of Liuli Island.” The middle-aged man looked around and said in a cold voice.
When the crowd heard the middle-aged man’s words, they all showed excitement.
“Remember, don’t say anything you shouldn’t. Otherwise, I won’t guarantee your lives.” The man narrowed his eyes and added.
The crowd also knew that what they had done this time was not to be seen in the light of day, and they all nodded their heads.
After that, under the middle-aged man’s orders, Li Fan and the rest of them all changed into tattered and torn clothes.
Afterwards, they were taught a set of unified words and techniques.
“You are all residents of the Western Dayu Island. Because of the wind disaster, the island was destroyed, so you fled here. If anyone asks, this is what you will say.”
All of them also said yes.
Afterwards, the middle-aged man took the lead, and under the watchful eyes of four or five black-clothed men, the crowd left the cave along a dark passage and came to the ground.
In the residential area of the city, after circling around for an unknown period of time, they finally arrived in front of a mansion.
Li Fan noticed that although their line of dozens of people was not small, most of the residents on the island just casually looked at it and stopped paying attention, apparently being used to it.
Not from the mansion door in, the doorway boy went in to inform soon after, and then returned, leading the crowd from the left side of a door, to a hall.
Inside the hall was quite spacious, before Li Fan and others arrived, two or three batches of hundreds of people had already gathered.
Even so, it did not seem crowded.
The middle-aged man’s eyes signaled the crowd to wait patiently.
Soon, it was Li Fan’s turn for them.
“Steward Zhao!” The middle-aged man greeted.
“These are the victims who are coming to be registered?” Steward Zhao looked to be in his fifties or sixties, a bit pale. But his eyes were exceptionally sharp, and after scanning a circle of the crowd, he said with a smile or not, “Sun Zhang, these victims are all either rich or noble!”
Sun Zhang was not flustered and just sighed, “Yes. Before, they were all rich and noble families on Dayu Island. Unfortunately, without the blessing of the Immortal Master, a natural disaster struck, and all the wealth and glory became a sham. Now they can only come from far away to our Liuli Island for refuge.”
After saying that, Sun Zhang pulled out a thing from his pocket and handed it over to Steward Zhao without moving. Steward Zhao glanced at it and accepted it, then also sighed: “Some days ago, the wind disaster was rampant, and even our Liuli Island was affected. The western islands suffered even more losses, it is said that more than two hundred islands were razed to the ground, and I don’t know how many mortals’ souls returned to the sea.”
“Fortunately, Immortal Master was merciful and ordered us to aid the victims. It’s a good thing that your Heavenly Treasure House is so attentive! Don’t worry, I will definitely report to the Island Master truthfully. When the time comes for the Immortal Master’s reward to come down, you guys will definitely get your share.”
Sun Zhang was overjoyed at his words and kept saying compliments again.
Steward Zhao listened while he went through the naturalization procedures for everyone.
Before long, it was Li Fan’s turn. Steward Zhao glanced at Li Fan and a hint of a different color appeared in his eyes.
“What is your name?” Steward Zhao asked.
“Li Fan.” Li Fan answered truthfully.
“Here, put a drop of your blood on it.” Steward Zhao stroked his pen and wrote the word Li Fan on a rectangular thing that looked like jade but not jade and paper but not paper, then handed it over.
Li Fan bit his finger and dripped the blood.
Subsequently, the blood seemed to have a spirit and drilled into the word Li Fan.
“Keep this spirit talisman safe, from now on it will be your proof of identity. You will need to present this spirit talisman for a host of small and large things such as receiving work, distributing food, and responding to inspections on the island, so do not lose it.” Unlike to other people, Steward Zhao was obviously much more cordial to Li Fan and also explained more.
This caused Sun Zhang and the rest of the people to look sideways.
Not knowing that this Steward Zhao saw something, Li Fan did not say more words of thanks. After nodding, he put away the spirit talisman and walked straight to the side.
The distribution of the household registration was very efficient, and soon, the pedestrians all got the household registration of Liuli Island.
The expressions of the crowd were all very excited.
After leaving this place, they did not return to the previous cave. Instead, they were brought by Sun Zhang to the compound of a mansion.
“Now that the household registration has arrived, the deed can be signed, right?” Sun Zhang said to Su Changyu who was in the crowd.
Su Changyu carefully took out a thin piece of paper from his bosom, then bit his finger and solemnly wrote his name in blood.
After the party had finished signing, the thin paper ignited without fire and turned into a wisp of green smoke that drifted to an unknown destination.
After burning, only the last small piece of the deed remains.
“The so-called three deeds and the end. In the future, as long as we wait for us to completely settle down, I will sign the final deed as agreed.” Su Changyu said in an unassuming manner.
“Hmph, dealing with you Leaving Realm is just troublesome. If it wasn’t for the sake of the …… Immortal Master, we at Tian Bao Lou wouldn’t do this losing business.” Sun Zhang snorted coldly, somewhat dissatisfied.
However, he didn’t say anything more after that, and instead explained what the people needed to pay attention to on the island afterward.
“All residents of Liuli Island can receive a residence by presenting themselves with a household registration spirit talisman. Although it’s only in the remote outskirts of the northernmost part of the island, but at least there’s a place to shelter from the wind and rain. In addition to this, for the first year of your naturalization, you can receive a certain amount of free food every month. Of course, if you’re used to mountain delicacies and can’t get used to eating this free relief food, you can also go to the island at your own expense to gorge yourselves.”
……
Sun Zhang’s mouth was dry after saying a whole lot of words, and he stopped to take a break, but he suddenly heard Su Changyu’s voice inquiring.
“I wonder what we have to do if we want to cultivate?”
And this was exactly what Li Fan was concerned about, at that moment he pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
(End of chapter)