Volume 1 The First Spiritual Path Chapter 2 Poison Rice
......
As the sun sets, Heyang Town goes downstairs to the outer building, hangs the pot to help the world and Zhang Lan, and sets up a mountain villa to raise beggars, opens a granary on the ninth day of each month, and is sympathetic to the people. One by one, the little dolls held sugar figures in their hands, sat on the stool and shook their heads, chanting nursery rhymes praising Zhang Lan.
Zhang Lan is the owner of Fengchime Villa, not only will he open a warehouse on the ninth day of the new month to release grain, but his business is also getting better and better. The downstairs of Heyang Town is the place where the grain is opened on the ninth day of the first month of the month.
At this time, Zhang Lan was smiling here to deliver food to the people, but there was not much left of the packaged food behind him. Seeing this, an old man who was a little older immediately shouted: "What's the matter, why is there only so much rice, isn't there no more to me? I said Master Zhang, won't you prepare more? You have to make so much money every day, and you will be deducted to death if you send some rice!"
Zhang Lan only sighed helplessly when he heard this, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry uncle, I came early, and I didn't bring a lot of food, but ...... My wife will be sending food soon, don't worry, absolutely everyone will have it!" As soon as these words came out, many people immediately sighed.
What's the matter, I said, Master Zhang? Won't you prepare more? I'm still waiting for this rice to boil at home!
Yes, yes, how long will your wife come? We're all starving!
Just when everyone was talking, there was a sparse sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and sure enough, following the source of the sound, I saw the carriage brigade walking towards this side, followed by Su Jinshan, Zhang Xiyu, and Zhang Lan got out of the carriage one after another.
I saw Su Jinshan shrugging her face and looking at those people with a displeased expression, but she didn't say much, Dong Yichen was also surprisingly consistent with Su Jinshan's expression.
Zhang Lan immediately came to Su Jinshan, smiling brightly, "Madam, you have worked hard, it just so happens that I have no food!"
Su Jinshan just glanced at Zhang Lan, and said angrily: "Hmph, if it's gone, it's gone, but what you want to do is a good person, but what you are ushering in is complaining, I really don't understand what you're thinking!"
"Haha, it's not easy for big guys!" After speaking, he walked to the carriage and unloaded the goods with the others, and then Zhang Lan came to the side of the carriage.
Zhang Xiyu and Dong Yichen greeted each other.
Father!
Uncle Zhang!
Zhang Lan nodded and replied, "Well, Yichen, you don't seem to have slept well, what's the matter?
"No, Uncle Zhang, go and rest! Let's unload it here!" Dong Yichen said.
"No, no, big guy!"
Then everyone began to unload the goods. Due to the large number of goods, it inevitably caused many people to complain for a while, and even some excessive people couldn't care about queuing, shamelessly stepped forward to grab food, fortunately, there were more than ten people in Fengling Villa, and these people were reluctantly stopped.
"Don't worry, don't grab the rice, don't worry!" Zhang Lan shouted loudly, then turned around and whispered to his couple: "Madam, we unload, you will be responsible for distributing the grain!"
"Cut, I have been a good person for decades, and I guess I have become their lambs, these people are simply hooligans! In the future, this grain will not be distributed, and they deserve to starve to death!" Su Jinshan's words were accidentally heard by a few people next to her.
One of the young men rolled his eyes and said angrily, "What is this that Madame said? I really don't understand how Master Zhang fell in love with you." ”
"That's it, even if it's rude, there's no sense of proportion in speaking, what does it mean to starve us to death?"
"Yes, you must apologize to us! Your family has made a fortune, and it is right to distribute food to us people! As the saying goes, the wool comes from the sheep, and the money you earn is not also scavenged from us?" For a while, many people began to make noise, and Su Jinshan was also helpless and gritted her teeth in anger.
Seeing this, Zhang Lan hurriedly apologized for it, and after unloading the goods, he began to quickly send food.
Although Dong Yichen was reluctant, he still gritted his teeth and delivered food for him, and muttered helplessly in his heart, heh, I really don't understand why Uncle Zhang wants to do good things for this group of white-eyed wolves, they are clearly some morally kidnapped hooligans, more hooligans than me.
"The owner of the village, I am a little unwell today, I want to ......," the yellow steward on the side said suddenly.
"Haha, it's okay, it's okay, we have enough manpower, Huang Guan is busy for a few days, you have to rest, you can go down!" Zhang Lan said.
Seeing this, Dong Yichen just muttered to himself: "Phew, obviously I just want to make an excuse for being lazy, sneaky." After thinking about it, Dong Yichen also pretended to have an uncomfortable stomach, and said, "Uncle Zhang, I seem to have eaten something wrong today, and I am also a little uncomfortable, I can ......."
Zhang Lan nodded and said, "Of course you can, Yu'er, you accompany Yichen to the clinic to have a look!"
Zhang Xiyu frowned, and was just about to uncover Dong Yichen's mask, but his mouth was covered. Then the two followed Huang Steward all the way.
"Take your hands off. You obviously didn't eat anything today, why did you lie to my father that you had a bad stomach?" Zhang Xiyu said indignantly.
Dong Yichen hugged Zhang Xiyu's neck with a gossipy face and said, "Hey, hey, I'll tell you...... Last night when I went to the toilet and saw a dark shadow, I chased after it, not wanting to see the yellow steward sneaking in the back mountain. ”
"What's so strange about going to Houshan? I'm still in a hurry to send food with my father......" Zhang Xiyu said and prepared to turn around and go back.
"It's strange that he went to the back mountain, but the people he went to meet in the back mountain!" Dong Yichen said.
"See whom?"
Dong Yichen said with a gloomy face: "Li Rulan of the Li Mansion!"
When Zhang Xiyu heard this, he immediately looked at Dong Yichen as if he was mentally retarded, "Go, go, go, don't talk nonsense here...... Really?"
Dong Yichen clapped his hands and smiled: "Of course it's true, they are too far away, and they don't know what to say in a sneaky way, you say...... What if I tell Aunt Huang about this?"
"It's better not to talk nonsense, if there is nothing else I will leave, you can come over and help later." After Zhang Xiyu finished speaking, he turned around and left.
Dong Yichen wanted to stop it, but after thinking about it, he sighed, "Forget it, it's my business, if you look for a lover, you can find a lover!" and then rushed back.
Moment. The two of them returned to the downstairs of Mantian to continue to help distribute food, although they tossed for a long time, but the number of people here did not seem to decrease.
"You're back so soon, Yichen, are you better?" Zhang Lan asked.
"Well, it's okay already. Dong Yichen then continued to carelessly help distribute food. Until two hours passed, a ragged and tattered beggar came, and Dong Yichen handed him some food disapplausively.
Seeing this, the beggar just shook his head and said, "Son, there are so many more behind you, this is ...... It's not enough!"
"Come on, come on, give it to you!" Dong Yichen disappetized and took another bag to him.
The beggar shook his head, "Not enough, child!"
"I ......" Dong Yichen wanted to refuse. was interrupted by Zhang Lan on the side, "Young man, if you think it's too little, I'm giving you two bags......!" Young man, if you are really homeless, the doors of my Wind Chimes Villa can be opened for you at any time, not only to give you a house, but also to give you a decent job, so that you will not end up on the streets!"
The beggar just nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Thank you Lord Wang for your kindness, Lord Wang is generous and understanding." But...... I'm a prodigal person, and I'm not used to being tied down. To the end...... These two little babies look good, why don't you let them go out and have a good time?"
Zhang Lan just shook his head and said with a smile: "Haha, although it is said that since ancient times, heroes have produced teenagers, and heroes have emerged in troubled times. But...... Whether you can get out or not depends on these young people themselves, I can't decide!"
Hearing this, the beggar just turned away, waved his hand and smiled: "Hahaha, the road is long." But...... Master Zhang is kind-hearted, financially rich, and easy to recruit villains, so beware of it!"
Zhang Lan was also in the same place for a while, and he didn't understand what he was saying, but he didn't think much about it, but continued to send food.
Before I knew it, I was busy until the evening, just when the big guy was about to pack up and go home. A young man swaggered over with a few strong men, his nostrils facing the sky, pointed at Zhang Lan's nostrils and shouted, "Master, you actually poisoned the rice!"
Several people were stunned when they heard this, and they all looked at this person who was looking at him with a puzzled expression.
Zhang Lan saluted and asked, "We all grow this rice ourselves, why do we say that we are poisoned?"
"Hehe, you still don't admit it, someone is coming and take it away!" The man said, and several big sweaters behind him tied up Zhang Lan.
Seeing this, the rest of the people from Wind Chime Villa hurriedly went to stop them. Helplessly, the villa was just a relatively thin person, and he was knocked to the ground by a strong man after two or three strokes.
"Let go of Uncle Zhang!" Dong Yichen pointed at them with a huge log.
"Boy, I advise you not to meddle in things, we are the Lingwei in charge of the Heyang Array, and we received a report that this rice is poisonous, so we came to investigate!"
"Yichen is obedient, I'm fine!" Zhang Lan just waved his hand to signal them to step back.
Lingwei is jointly recommended by the major forces in the East, they are stationed in each county, responsible for managing all the information of the county and the order of the town, as well as the trivial affairs of the common people. If you encounter a major event such as demons and monsters, you need to notify the six major forces and ask them to send someone to solve it. In the past, when the spiritual guards were some awakened spiritual veins, they were sent to serve as spiritual guards because they were not at the level of the root bones and could not cultivate to the highest level, and these spiritual guards generally only wrote small spells, or their strength was better than that of civilians, and that's it. Over time, the power of Lingwei gradually expanded, and slowly became an independent small force, called: "Lingwei City". The sudden establishment of the Acropolis did not arouse the opposition of other big forces, on the contrary, it was very supportive, because the appearance of the Acropolis saved a lot of troubles from these big forces.
Everyone could only watch Zhang Lan being taken away.
Su Jinshan turned to look at the people in the villa and said, "You guys bring all the things back first, and you two will go back with me!"
"No, I'm going too, it's getting late, and it's dangerous for my mother to be alone on the road!" Zhang Xiyu replied.
Dong Yichen also resigned: "I...... Go too. ”
"Too lazy to argue with you. Then Su Jinshan trotted all the way to catch up. The two followed.
"How can rice be poisonous?" asked Dong Yichen as he ran.
Zhang Xiyu just shook his head, "There must be something wrong here, these will be discussed later, let's catch up first." With that, he sped up his pace.
Dong Yichen lowered his head and pondered, "The villa will open a warehouse once a month to release grain, and it has been maintained for decades, why would this kind of thing suddenly occur this time......?" But what's even stranger is why don't we ride the carriage?" and shook his head, and quickened his pace to catch up.