Chapter 391: Hungry People on the Road
Immediately, she rushed into the kitchen, threw out a clear water charm, extinguished the fire in the stove that was already on fire, and casually applied a dust removal technique: "Yan'er, I won't be summoned by the teacher in the future, don't easily step into the kitchen!" ā
"Yes, the disciple obeys the master's orders! Master, I-" Yan'er stood a little cramped at the door, trying to explain to Su Qing.
Su Qing glanced at him and couldn't help but smile: "Go and freshen up!" ā
Yan'er hurriedly washed her face, ran to Su Qing again, and said very sincerely: "Master, I just thought that Uncle Qiao was here, and you would definitely entertain her to eat here, as an apprentice, I can't-"
Su Qing smiled and waved his hand and said, "I understand your intentions, but Yan'er, you are really not suitable to stay in the kitchen, don't be reckless in the future." ā
After Yan'er went out, Su Qing also had this wish, Qiao Xiaojia went to Yunzhongjian in the past, unless there was any urgent matter in the peak, he would usually stay for a few days, at least he would rely on a meal before going back.
This time, the two hadn't seen each other for many years, and she thought that Qiao Xiaojia would stay here for a few days to catch up, but she didn't expect that she only stopped for less than half an hour, and then hurriedly turned back.
As a result, three days later, Su Qing solved his doubts: it turned out that Qiao Xiaojia was going to leave for Beihai, and he sent Su Qing a message talisman before leaving.
Looking at the spirit rune in his hand, Su Qing's heart tightened inexplicably: I always felt that Qiao Xiaojia's trip would not be very smooth.
So, Su Qing immediately replied to a spirit rune, and according to the worries in her heart, she explained some precautions, but when the news reached the spirit rune peak, Qiao Xiaojia had already taken Yao Xiaogu out of the sect and headed for Beihai.
"I really can't think of anything in Beihai to attract Qiao Xiaojia, just go. And with a disciple, in case-" Su Qing complained to Lu Pei, who had just come out of the customs.
"Hehe, Fairy Qiao has always been casual, not a small section, she is now a foundation building monk, she can at least escape when she encounters general danger. Besides, there are seniors in Beihai, so there should be no danger. Lu Pei smiled and comforted her.
Su Qing sighed and said, "I hope so, Senior Brother Lu, what is the matter with you going out this time?" ā
After the five layers of intake and continuous air. Lu Pei spent most of his time practicing in his room. Very few out of the customs. Today, it was rare to see him walk out of the room.
Lu Pei said indifferently: "Recently, my cultivation has been stagnant, and I have some inexplicable troubles in my heart, so." Decided to come out and breathe a sigh of relief. ā
Hear the words. Su Qing thought about it again and again. Or decided to tell him about the war between leaving the country and the original country, and other countries. Who knows, Lu Pei just smiled indifferently after hearing this: "Su Qing, since I entered the Tao, it is convenient for the secular family to break away from the relationship, I will not interfere in these things, originally, there will be some disputes between secular empires every once in a while." ā
I didn't expect Lu Pei to think so well, he was still born in a royal family that left the country, and he still didn't want to take care of the affairs of the motherland. So, are you really too worried about worldly things?
"Su Qing, how do you understand these things so clearly? Could it be that you have been to leave the country recently? Hmph, the generations of the Lu royal family have all been fascinated by the desire for secular power, and they have not even produced a single disciple with spiritual roots in the past hundred years. Lu Pei mentioned leaving the royal family, and his words were also full of dissatisfaction.
"Senior Brother Lu, if leaving the country is really destroyed by other countries, you-" Su Qing didn't give up and tried to ask. Who knows, before she finished speaking, she only heard Lu Pei say indifferently: "Then it is clear that the national gas is exhausted!" ā
Su Qing couldn't help but praise: "Senior Brother Lu is really determined!" ā
Lu Pei looked at her fixedly and said, "Su Qing, the cultivation realm itself is full of dangers, and the various sects are not as stable as you think, as monks, how can we have the strength to take care of worldly affairs?" ā
After speaking, his expression became solemn, and he looked out with a worried look for a long time.
Su Qing glanced at him carefully: "Senior Brother Lu, what is unspeakable about you?" Can Iā"
"No, Su Qing, I am grateful that you can take me in to practice in the cave mansion and provide me with a high-grade spirit pill. It's really nothing......" Lu Pei denied it again and again, but the more this was the case, the more Su Qing had something on his mind.
Wouldn't it be that he thought of Lu Qiu'er again, looking at Lu Pei's back, Su Qing couldn't help but think of the woman who had harmed him so far, but Lu Pei was still obsessed with her.
Sun Yi's heart flashed again, looking at Lu Qiu'er's picture with a doting expression, Su Qing suddenly felt as if her heart was pinched, and she was uncomfortable.
Su Qing took a deep breath, walked out of the small courtyard and came to the spiritual grass garden in the back mountain, with a neat and neat spiritual grass exuding spiritual energy, her heart was a little more relaxed.
In this way, Su Qing was busy cultivating the company, practicing swords, alchemy, medicine, and watering the crops in the palm of his hand every day, and he slept extremely sleepily every night.
Soon, half a year passed, she had accumulated a lot of food and medicine in her hands, and looking at the shelves full of medicines in front of her, Su Qing decided to go to Luoyang again, and by the way, find out how the secular war was.
So, she sent a message talisman to the real person of the Jade Rank, took this food and medicine, and sent Liuyunzhan to Luoyang directly after leaving the sect.
Along the way, I saw countless hungry people fleeing due to the war, and the largest number of tens of thousands of people were all heading for the direction of the original country.
Most of them were old and weak, women and children, and some people died of illness and hunger from time to time, Su Qing really couldn't stand it, so he turned into a wandering Taoist priest and came to a group of migrants.
On Wednesday, when the dog was dragging his emaciated wife forward, he felt a flower in front of him, and then a god descended from the sky.
Before he could react, he saw a large piece of hula kneeling around: The mountain calls for the gods to help! Gods help!
Su Qing looked at it a little unprepared, and as she appeared, she knelt down a large number of hungry people, and hurriedly shouted to everyone to get up: "Folks, hurry up, I'm just a little Taoist, I know some micro Taoism, I don't deserve to be called a fairy, you guys get up quickly!" ā
As a result, after calling several times, these people still couldn't kneel, and there were many people who couldn't get up anymore after kneeling like this!
Seeing this, Su Qing couldn't care much, only to see her hand raised slightly, and those hungry people who were originally prostrate on the ground stood up involuntarily.
On Wednesday, the dog also knelt down with everyone, inexplicably held up by a force. He shouted like everyone else, 'Immortals, immortals!' As a result, there was no sign of the gods.
"Let's let go, don't squeeze forward, feed him this water, and he will wake up naturally!" I only heard a calming voice coming from behind me, it turned out that the fairy was saving the little bolt that had been lost for a day.
I don't know if I'm hungry or sick, the little plug has been lost yesterday, and I'm almost out of breath. The people of the same village persuaded the little bolt father to leave him behind. But he was reluctant.
thinks that at the beginning, his two sons died on the road like this, and since the children are gone, his wife's health has been getting worse day by day. I'm afraid it won't last long.
Now. "This little brother. Hold on to your lady and feed her this pill! The voice of the fairy suddenly sounded in his ears.
I don't know when, the gods have come to their side. Hand him a cyan elixir with a faint medicinal fragrance.
Wednesday Dog was stunned, hurriedly took the elixir, shook his hand and carefully moved it into his wife's mouth, only to see that the fairy immediately gave him a bottle of fairy dew: "Feed her this water and melt the medicine." ā
As soon as he got the small and valuable jade bottle, the immortal disappeared in front of him. While helping his wife's limp body, he looked up: the fairy was buried in the crowd, and only a corner of snow-white clothes could be seen in the distance.
Su Qing originally planned to ask these hungry people why they all went to the direction of the original country, but when he saw that among these people, many of them were critically ill, as well as those who died of starvation, he couldn't help but feel compassion, and at first he only treated those who were dying.
As a result, she found that most of these people were seriously ill because they had not been able to eat and eat food and clothing, and they had been starving for a long time. So, Su Qing simply took out a storage bag containing grain.
When a group of hungry people looked at the gods and poured out the inexhaustible white rice from a brocade bag, they couldn't help but kneel down again and call the gods to come to the world.
It wasn't until night fell that Su Qing looked at the bowl of rice in each of the hungry people's hands, and a large pot of broth was cooking in the cauldron in front of him, which already exuded a strong smell of meat.
"Old man, where are you going?" Su Qing turned his head sideways and asked an old man who was standing respectfully beside him, as if the group of people in front of him were listening to him.
The old man saluted her very respectfully, and then he spoke: "Back to the immortals, I heard that the southern opening of the country welcomes the people of Li into the city, and they are still opening warehouses to release grain. ā
"Therefore, several villages near us are really unable to let people live because of repeated conscription and taxation, so I took my family out to find a way out." The old man said in a desolate tone.
Because, not only do they have to leave the village where they grew up all their lives, but they also have to leave their homeland, and if they are really taken in, they dare not think about it.
But in today's situation, I can only go out with hope, and after all, many people in the surrounding villages have already gone out.
Su Qing sighed and said, "I look at the direction you are going, but you want to go to the original country?" ā
"Immortal and wise, Xiao Lao'er, these people are going to the Great Plains! I don't know what the gods have to say? The old man bowed his head and answered. He raised his head and looked at Su Qing with blazing eyes.
"Do you know that the current war itself was provoked by the original country, and when there is a war everywhere, a lot of grain and grass will inevitably be consumed, how can there be surplus food in the country to supply the hungry people of other countries?" Su Qing asked with a solemn expression.
Hearing this, the old man suddenly fell to his knees with a thud: "Save the gods and show us a way to live!" In fact, for defecting to the original country, the little old man has no bottom in his heart, but he is desperate and has no choice but to do it! ā
As he spoke, he cried bitterly, and when he saw this, nearly 100 people nearby also knelt down and begged at the same time. Although the country has increased its taxes due to the war, forcing them to have no way out, the thought of going to another country is also very terrified.
Su Qing looked at the number of hungry people kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but feel a sense of burden in his heart, if he let it go and really went to the original country, it was likely that there would be no one in ten.
She surveyed a radius of hundreds of miles with divine vision, and found nearly 10,000 hungry people, and at the same time, she also found a fertile mountain valley that could accommodate thousands of people.
So, Su Qing painted the nearby terrain on hemp paper, and then found a literate scholar to come out, mark the specific location of the mountain depression, and teach him to take these people into the mountain from tomorrow.
Seeing the hill where even the leaves were light, Su Qing couldn't help but sigh at the cruelty of the war and the ignorance of the people in this world.
In her opinion, the barren mountains and wilderness can be settled, but these people have been holding on to the place where they have lived for generations, and the land is so fertile that it seems to them that there is no crop to grow.
"Immortals, can you really settle down here?" The only literate scholar in this group asked, looking at the mountain stream full of wild grass, trees, snakes and insects.
Su Qing originally planned to just point out this place to everyone and leave, but when she remembered that even if these people found that place, they might not be able to survive without her guidance.
Sure enough, the old man who was in the position of leader pointed to the river flowing in front of him and said, "Immortals, if you say that this place is the only river that can support people, but there is no food to eat around, and we are afraid that it will be difficult for us people to live." ā
"I see that you all bring farm tools, and here are surrounded by mountains and rivers, the soil is fertile, and there is no disturbance of tax and military service, why can't you settle down?" Su Qing grabbed a handful of soil with weeds from the ground and said slowly.
Over the next few days, under her guidance, she set up several plots of land close to the water source and taught them how to cut trees, weed, loosen the soil, accumulate fertilizer, and apply fertilizer.
In the end, there are many people with great strength, but after half a month's effort, this seemingly very flustered small basin has been sorted out into a few fertile fields with black oil.
In the meantime, there was also a heavy rain, and it happened that Su Qing distributed the spiritual rice, spiritual potatoes, and spiritual wheat seeds he carried with him to these hungry people.
It's late spring, and although the planting is a little late, it should be harvested.
In addition, she focused on teaching these people about the breeding skills of spiritual potatoes, because this thing is extremely vigorous and has a high yield. What's more, it is born in a place with a strong aura, and it can prolong life after eating.
When Su Qing left this new place that she had built single-handedly, everyone couldn't afford to kneel, and an indescribable sense of pride rose in her heart.
Looking at the neatly organized thatched huts and the fertile fields that have sprouted, Su Qing felt an unprecedented sense of accomplishment in his heart.
After Su Qing left, the old man who led the villagers out slowly got up from the ground and said to the people behind him in a serious voice: "Since the immortals have specially come to enlighten us to live here, in the future, our place will be called Shenxian Ditch!" ā
The only literate scholar stepped forward and made a solemn proposal: "Uncle Cai, since the gods have the great grace of settling down and surviving for us, why don't we choose a place to build a temple for them?" ā
Uncle Quan nodded again and again: "Xiucai, you're right, I also have this intention!" ā
After more than half a month of careful design, a small temple built of adobe appeared at the head of the village, but no matter how the statue of the gods carved by the masons in the village is, as long as it is placed in the temple, as long as someone kneels and worships, it will suddenly collapse. (To be continued.) )