The Thirteenth Chapter
The cold wind slays and snow dances all over the sky.
In the cold winter, on the mountain roads southeast of Jingzhou, two groups of people were confronting each other. On one side was a large group of ragged refugees, while on the other side were the father and son of the Li family who left home to the city and the tribesmen who were traveling with them. Behind them were twenty livestock carts loaded with food.
It was originally planned to take his son to go on the road after the Lantern Festival, but unexpectedly, some changes in the city made the Li family's father and son have a journey early.
Originally, Jingzhou was in good weather this year and it was another good year, but unexpectedly something happened when it was about to start a sickle and harvest.
The current divine path has subsided, and has eliminated the upward path of the monsters and monsters in the world, but has become a coveted by immortals. They are lucky and caught as mount pets. They are unlucky and are dismantled eight pieces of skin, scales, claws, flesh, and blood pills have become materials in the furnace, and the soul has become magic weapons and spirits. Therefore, they find places where they are rarely visited to clamp their tails, and a day will be counted as one day.
There is a large lake hundreds of miles east of Lishan Mountain, called Yunmengze. Originally, this large lake shrouded countless aquatic monsters, but it could not withstand the Dandan attacks of the immortals around it, and now it can be considered as the lake and sea clear.
There is a small lake beside this marsh, but there is a white dragon living inside. It was still young and did not catch up in the Battle of the Sky. After the war, it could be considered as a cautious and dedicated practice, and made up its mind to never show its head.
But even so, it could not escape the disaster. It was because it accidentally planted willows and would accidentally save a young man surnamed Long. The young man later became an immortal master, and his fief was next to this small lake in his hometown. Because he was grateful to the white dragon for saving his life, he covered up his past for it.
The descendants of the Long family also followed the orders of their ancestors, and the relationship between the two was quite good. This family offered some blood food during the holidays, while the white dragon made a rain for the family.
It is also the fate that it should have had this disaster. When it was in the golden autumn season, when it drove away a rain cloud from heaven, a female cultivator and her companions came to Yunmengze to play. What's more coincidental is that the female cultivator has a magic weapon that can detect demonic energy. No matter how well the white dragon does cover the kung fu, there will be no escape before the magic weapon.
The female cultivator with the highest cultivation level of the immortal family is just a qi cultivation, but her status is the granddaughter of the head of the Nanli Sect. How can a famous disciple tolerate evil spirits?
What a beautiful fairy girl who hates evil, she kills her without saying a word. This Bai Jiao has always been timid, and he can easily kill everyone, but he turns his head and runs directly into the depths of Yunmengze.
The female cultivator and her companions naturally chased after her, but the difference in cultivation was too big and the Bai Jiao finally escaped.
How could Nanli Mingzhu, who was very good at talking, missed this opportunity to eliminate evil and left disaster to the local people? So she began to summon nearby colleagues to come and help.
When people in the immortal family heard about this kind of righteous act to benefit the people, they also had the opportunity to show their faces in front of the fairy, let alone to have a relationship with the Nanli Sect, one of the Four God Sects... The immortal who refines his own identity will not take action easily, but the innate real person and the immortal who refines Qi are naturally obliged to do so.
For a moment, Yunmengze's group had arrived, and the treasure energy reflected the sun and escaped the light everywhere. Unfortunately, this white dragon did not practice the magical powers of his home for hundreds of years, and he never let go of the hidden kung fu. Even the magic weapon in Nanli Mingzhu could only vaguely specify a direction. So the fish and turtle in Yunmengze were overwhelmed.
After a few days, I still got nothing except for letting the immortals eat the lake food until they feel nauseous.
If so many people from the Immortal Sect gather, everyone's face would not look good, especially these immortal masters were doing their best to help the people clear the atmosphere of the demon, so they took all their communications to the lake to Mingzhengdianxing and question the matter.
The Bai Jiao didn't know what was wrong, but he actually showed up to rescue him and had a great battle with the immortals waiting by his side.
What a fierce dragon with turbulent flames, he killed many people in the immortal sect and finally rescued the dragon's grandson.
The tradition of this immortal family is to attack the younger ones and the older ones. Needless to say, it led the immortal in the God Refining Stage. After all, the immortals were immortals, so they decided to remove the firewood from the cauldron. It was simple to say, which was to drain the lake water in Yunmengze and let the ferocious beast have nowhere to hide.
It is natural that it is time to kill demons and eliminate demons. Before I could inform the mortals along the coast, the monks started to do the trick. So... the coast of Yunmengze is vast, and all the villages of all sizes are formed.
The lives of mortals in the surrounding villages are low, and death is naturally harmless for monks. Of course, they do not care about the autumn harvest of the surrounding villagers. The water in the field is not drained for a while, and the early rice will not be sown next year. In addition, the houses at home are destroyed and displaced. What's worse is that there will be an epidemic after the natural disaster...
To make matters worse, this practice changed the climate in southeastern Jingzhou. The warm winter that has always been warm and pleasant here has been heavy snow this year, and the severe cold even caused the rivers that have never frozen. Fortunately, there is a magic circle in Lishan Village that changes the climate, otherwise even the Li tribe will suffer.
Of course, these trivial matters have nothing to do with the masters of various families. In the end, they did not capture the evil thing. Wouldn't they still feel depressed and unhappy? Why did they still care about this worldly affairs in the world? Even the local immortals sighed that they were unlucky and sighed that they did not seize this opportunity to show their faces in front of the masters of the Nanli Sect.
Helplessly, these victims either went out to seek food for relatives or went to Tieshan City, the largest nearby city.
Originally, Jingnan could be regarded as a fish and rice town for exporting grain. Although local grain is a little expensive during the New Year Festival, the poor outside Tieshan City will still be able to afford it. Moreover, during the New Year Festival, these people have returned to their hometowns for the New Year, and there is no food shortage in the city.
Now that the form is reversed, there are countless hungry mouths around the city.
Speaking of which, Boss Li also took advantage of this famine and made a small profit.
Coincidentally, a happy event was held in the Tianqi Gate this year. All the important figures in the Tie family went to the sect to congratulate, leaving only a few mediocre branches in the city. They only care about spending the New Year in the city, and they don’t know the miserable situation outside the city, let alone relief.
Seeing that these poor people couldn't survive, they threw their awe of the immortals aside and rushed to the city lord's mansion to ask for food. How could the Tie Family in Tieshan, the city of Tieshan, be blackmailed by the untouchables? It was also the kindest person in charge. The Tie Family just dispatched private soldiers from the clan to disperse the crowd.
At this time, some of the evil men with ulterior motives started to clamor. It is said that the person in charge was the Taiping Dao demon known as "Sharpening Lao Peng". He and his church members encouraged the poor to come to the warehouse area and Dongcheng where the grain stores were concentrated, smashed the shops and warehouses, and snatched all the food they could find.
After the incident, these people also knew that they had caused a big disaster. As soon as they got something, they fled out of the city and went away from the four towns with their food.
The news reached Tie Wanshan, the chief of the Tie Family at the Heavenly Vessel Gate, and he was furious. He immediately sent the outstanding children of the clan back to the city to investigate the demons and save face.
The shops in Li Zhaochang City were also affected. Fortunately, there was no food stored during the New Year holiday, and the house was not damaged much except for breaking a few door panels.
The shopkeeper Du, who was looking at the store, immediately reported the situation to the owner with a message talisman.
Speaking of which, things like the transmission talisman are also special products of the fairy world. In this world, the transmission talisman is not even produced by immortals, and ordinary people can make it if they master the principles. It is just two sets of paper made of special techniques and raw materials. As long as you write the words on one and burn it, the other piece will automatically appear within a certain distance. It can be said to be a must-have item for traveling at home. Unfortunately, it is a bit expensive and it is still a disposable consumable, so it has not yet developed to the point where a person in a certain world has a personal mobile information terminal.
But the store suffered some losses, but now the food prices in the city are soaring, which is a good opportunity to make money in Li Zhaochang.
Originally, there was a Miaojiang River in front of Lishan Village that led directly to the Falling Star Lake. It would take only two or three days to go on a boat. However, this year it was rarely blocked and the boat could not be seated.
Li Zhaochang could only cart all the fields and the large livestock used in the mills at home, and then asked the clansmen, borrowed more than a dozen heads and collected twenty cars, and prepared to transport grain to Tieshan City to make another profit.
The road has always been calm, and Li Zhaochang himself is a "master". The Li family was originally very powerful in martial arts. Now, in addition to twenty chauffeurs and tenants who drove the car, there are also more than a dozen tribe members who also worked in the city. These people are all pretty good.
Therefore, Li Zhaochang was fearless and said goodbye to his family without any preparation, so he took his son on a journey in advance.
But unexpectedly, after leaving the village, I ran into a large group of refugees head-on after walking for a day and night.
Li Zhaochang also complained secretly in his heart. Although the road he traveled to Tieshan City and his home was not very lively and there were not many villages and towns he passed by, he had never encountered any danger. Even if there were thieves in trouble, he thought he was just a hungry man with local chickens and tiles. When his people took out their weapons, they would naturally retreat.
However, although the four or five hundred refugees in front of him were women, children, young and old, the more than 100 young and strong people who took the lead were holding various weapons and even farm tools such as forks and hoes, and some even held only a wooden stick. Although the weapons were simple, they had a solemn atmosphere and looked not so easy to deal with.
In the melee, these food trucks will definitely not be able to be preserved. What's more, if the tribe members suffer from damage, how can they explain to the tribe? Could it be that they would sacrifice their lives and not give up their wealth?
But this good fortune is hard to give up, and the food transported by Li Zhaochang was not blown by the strong wind. He, who has always been smart, also felt a little lucky in his heart, so he became a stalemate with the refugees.
Although Li Zisheng was protected behind, he climbed onto the grain truck by himself while no one was in charge and saw the situation clearly.
He was wearing a cotton hat, cotton boots, and a newly made cotton coat with fur collar, and he still felt the coldness invading. The boy couldn't help but wonder how these ragged refugees came through the cold wind and snow.
Several people walked out of the group of refugees, and one of them clasped his fists and said aloud: "Is Boss Li of the Li family's shop ahead?"
Li Zhaochang turned around and looked at the flag that was inserted into his own grain truck, and walked up and answered, "It's just below. Which boss is ahead?"
"My surname is Peng!" The man who spoke was not tall, but had a thick bones. At first glance, he looked like a farmer with thick hands and big feet. But he had a certain temperament when he looked at his figure and behavior. Especially his face had a messy beard and hair, coupled with thick eyebrows like brushes and eyes with big copper bells, which made him look quite ferocious.
Boss Li gasped when he heard this: "Peng Moudao!"
Peng Doudao is not a native of Jingnan, but a refugee from nowhere. He claims his surname is Peng and has the skill of sharpening his knife, so everyone calls him Lao Peng, so he simply regards "sharpening" as his own brand.
The old man who sharpened the knife smiled: "It turns out that Boss Li has also heard of the bad reputation, so it's easy to discuss! Are the food transported on these trucks?"
Li Zhaochang put a sentence between his teeth: "How are you going?"
The murderous man bowed first and apologized: "Old Peng, I will be with you first. It is not our brother's fault for Boss Li's shop in the city. But Old Peng, I want to do a business with you today."
Chapter completed!