Chapter 82: The Mysterious Profiteer
I embarked on a long road of pursuit, doing what he had done in the four seas of Kyushu, and chasing every bit of him.
There are five hills and eight rivers in the Heavenly Realm Kyushu, which do not belong to the jurisdiction of Kyushu but directly belong to the Heavenly Palace. Each of the five hills and eight zes has its own emperor. Because the origin of the Yuqing Realm is not very close, although the master treated them equally when he was alive, those emperors have always been estranged from the master, and they are not convinced by the respect on the surface, and they do not allow the immortals of the territory to worship the master.
However, this year, the immortals of Wuqiu and Baze uncharacteristically enshrined the master's divine position to the highest position of the temple, calling for the deceased Chongming God to return with a wish.
Because this year, the fairy world suffered a rare calamity, and after the great drought, there was a disaster of spiritual locusts, and the immortal grain grains were not harvested.
Because of the cultivation of the method of Bigu, the rank above the immortal can not eat or drink, reduce consumption and maintain the true body and true qi. However, the ordinary immortals below the upper immortal rank are not good, and if they do not eat immortal food to replenish and consume for 7749 days, they will run out of immortal yuan and die.
Because it was a calamity caused by the collective karma, even the spring breeze in charge of seasonal farming did not change. He could only use the power of God to lead part of this catastrophe to himself, and tried his best to share the burden and resist, and he was exhausted and extremely emaciated day by day.
The Heavenly Palace swore an oath to prevent the starving people from being secured, and ordered that the hungry people in the states should be forbidden to flee from the famine, and that the hungry people should be locked in various places. In private, he was both soft and hard, ostensibly being a peacemaker, persuading Kyushu to donate money to help Wuqiu Baze, and secretly instigating the emperors of Wuqiu Baze to put pressure on Kyushu to ask for relief of immortal food. In doing so, it is nothing more than an attempt to weaken the power of Kyushu and the power of the Jade Qingjing Realm through natural disasters.
Such a narrow trick, Chunfeng and me, as well as the emperor brothers in Kyushu, naturally understand. But when the crisis is in danger, take into account the overall situation, although the Heavenly Palace's actions are unjust, Yuqingjing cannot be unkind to the immortals, after all, it is not the Tiande Heavenly Palace royal family that suffers.
The spring breeze was busy casting spells to resist this catastrophe, and I took his place to bring some immortal fruits and immortal grains from Baihua Island to escape the blockade of the Heavenly Palace, and rushed to various places to check the disaster. Yuqingjing is putting grain in the lower courtyards all over Kyushu, and although the people of Kyushu are also suffering from drought, they will not starve to death on the streets because of a certain reserve of immortal food.
I disguised myself as a mother-in-law and came to Kyushu, where the drought was at its worst, and the northern part of the country was in Chengtushu. The immortals were gathering outside the lower courtyard of the Yuqing Realm, burning incense and kneeling to pray for rain. Some of the immortals are praying, while others are telling the public about the drought.
"Do you know, if it weren't for the fact that the gods of the clouds used to warn us emperors not to think that the prosperous era would be eternal and greedy, we had to hoard grain in the year of great abundance, and we would have to plant different immortal grains in case of emergency, we would have to starve to death like the immortals in Wuqiu. ”
"The gods are wise! Wuqiu is separated from us, and the gods deserve it if they don't warn them!"
God had already warned them. The emperors of the five hills are governed by the heavenly palace and do not obey the gods. All year round, he only planted those strange flowers and plants that made money, and made a lot of money to honor the Heavenly Palace. The gold and silver treasures in the nobles' homes have become mountains, and boxes of silk and silk have become mountains, thinking that they can buy fairy food from us at any time if they have money, but there is not much in the granary. Unexpectedly, there is a famine everywhere in the heavenly realm, and the immortal food harvest is gone, and those gold, silver, jewelry, and flowers have nowhere to be spent, and they have become waste. It's good that I'm an immortal, I can use my cultivation to keep my true body and the original god, even if I don't eat immortal food, I won't starve to death, and my wife and children can't cut their flesh and take blood for them if they haven't cultivated. It is said that now the immortals on the other side of the five hills are kowtowing in front of the god's throne and are about to break their heads. Looking forward to the hope of life from God's manifestation. ”
The immortals on the side sighed, "Alas, they didn't accept or listen to the gods when they were there, and now that the gods are gone, what's the use of them hoping for hope." ”
"That is, if you can run out, try to exchange the money baby with us. But we still have to eat our own surplus food, who will exchange it with them, and we won't change any amount of money. Those who couldn't run out starved to death on the streets wearing silk and satin. ”
"I don't understand this reason, and I have to worry about God. ”
"The truth is simple. Immortals are not all the same, they are all sentient beings, and they are just greedy people, and they are dizzy when they see money in good years. ”
"Doesn't the Heavenly Palace care? After all, aren't these all the things that the Heavenly Palace should take care of?"
"What's the matter? Open the granary? The Heavenly Palace is not willing to give it up, it has to be left to those princes, nobles and heavenly soldiers in the Heavenly Palace to eat, it would be good if we didn't compete for food. said that it was treated equally, and Tiangong Ming secretly instigated the order to let the Emperor of Wuqiu find our Emperor to ask for food, and force us Kyushu to give them the immortal food that he lived. ”
"Shame on you. Since the gods are gone, the Heavenly Palace has suppressed us more and more in Kyushu to support the five hills and eight rivers. ”
"There's no way, these emperors are princelings now, our gods are gone, they bully people. ”
"Now it's a disaster of common karma, and it's useless for the Heavenly Palace to face the five hills and eight rivers. At the critical moment, it's not about losing the car to protect the handsome. It's not like the poor immortals have to starve to death. ”
I looked around about the situation, and it was indeed as these immortals said, Kyushu could still hold on. rushed to Wuqiu Baze.
The waters of Yazawa, which were originally abundant in aquatic plants, almost turned into cracked mud blocks, and even the wild grass turned a withered yellow color. There are corpses of creatures who have not yet become immortals, and many of those little immortals who have not cultivated enough have exhausted the immortal yuan.
The situation in Wuqiu is even worse. As the immortals of Kyushu said, many little immortal spirits with low cultivation wore silk silk and exhausted the immortal yuan and died in the wilderness, and were disemboweled and eaten by some fierce beasts, which was miserable. The worst situation among the five hills was Lingqiu, and the immortal fruits and immortal grains brought from Baihua Island were snatched up by the immortal spirits, and they were a drop in the bucket. The immortals who were saved with tears of rebirth starved to death on the side of the road in less than half a day and let the beasts eat them. In my real form, I was chased by a group of hungry people shouting "meat to eat".
And the calamity is not only these, the immortal merchant who has the grain in his hand took the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price, and sold three hundred gold leaves in a bucket of immortal grain in Lingqiu. Except for the emperor and nobles, no immortal could afford such an expensive immortal grain.
I have made a difficulty, even if my tears can bring the dead back to life, nourish all things and promote growth, but such a catastrophe, even if I am already a god, with my meager strength, even crying and drying, I can't save myself. The people who were rescued from vain died, without rain and fairy food, they still had to starve to death.
In front of the Lingqiu Emperor's mansion, a large number of immortals were receiving the thin porridge rescued by Kyushu. The victims complained. Here I heard something.
In the past two days, Lingqiu has come to a different kind of immortal merchant, his immortal grain is only sold for thirty gold leaves and one bucket, and each person is only allowed to buy it once, with a maximum of two loads. The emperor and the nobles were well-informed, so they took advantage of their power and status to exchange boxes of gold leaves and gold and silver treasures for the immortal food brought by this immortal merchant.
The nobles and their families prepared fairy food, and the poor fairies could only eat the relief porridge sent by Kyushu. The immortal merchant only sold the emperor and nobles, and immediately went to other Qiu Ze after selling, while the ordinary immortals poured all their wealth into the family and wanted to buy a bucket and a half of immortal grain, but he ruthlessly refused.
I thought to myself that there is really no traitor, although the price of this immortal merchant is ten times cheaper than the profiteer next to him, but even if thirty gold leaves and a bucket of grain are put into normal times, it is unimaginably expensive, and in good years, these immortal grains are sold for one gold leaf and ten quintals. This profiteer hoarded immortal grain in his harvest years, and now he has exchanged so much money at once, he must have taken away the blood of the Wuqiu Emperor and the nobles. Although it is good to let those insatiable nobles let their blood eat a big lesson. But although they were ruined, they were spared from disaster and were able to live for a while. What about those ordinary immortals?
There is no way, I can only use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, go to the nearest Beihai, and use the cloud condensation heart method to condense the rain and snow, although the distant water does not quench the thirst of the near, there is only this way.
I took the form of a white finch and flew to the nearest North Sea, and from a distance I saw thick clouds gathering over the North Sea. These clouds do not gather naturally, but are created by spelling. It turned out that Senior Brother Kunpeng and Senior Brother Shi Jun had already rushed to the sky over the North Sea and used the Cloud Condensing Heart Method to spread the clouds.
Seeing Senior Brother Ning Yun, a heart seemed to fly back to the Immortal Chasing Cliff. If Master is here, he will definitely be able to condense this water and give Kyushu the most beautiful rain and snow. The pain in his heart was incomparable, so he hid in the dark to help, and turned the tears of rebirth into the clouds. Senior Brother Kunpeng condensed the clouds, turned into a real Dapeng bird, soared up, and waved his arms to bring the clouds in the direction of Kyushu.
I returned to Lingqiu first, I didn't think that the situation in Lingqiu had eased a lot in just one day, and some immortals were already cleaning up the starvation that had been eaten by wild beasts. It turned out that the emperor and nobles bought immortal grain from the hands of the mysterious profiteer, and the immortal merchant next to him saw that the immortal merchant had made a fortune and also lowered the immortal grain to thirty gold leaf one bucket, but the immortal merchant actually returned and brought the immortal grain to one gold leaf and two buckets, gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, gorgeous clothes can be changed, or each person is only allowed to buy once, at most one load, and those who have bought it must not buy it again. The nobles who had bought the immortal food this time could only watch with their eyes blank.
The mysterious profiteer lowered the price, and the immortals who had not bought the immortal grain before snatched up his immortal grain, and he once again earned enough gold and silver. The immortals exchanged the gold and silver treasures for life-saving immortal food, and the disaster was alleviated. Everyone said that this profiteer was a good businessman.
I thought to myself that because of the superiority of the Heavenly Palace, most of the immortals in Wuqiu and Baze were arrogant, and it was rare to be slaughtered and so grateful to Dade. Although this mysterious profiteer took away the money of Wuqiu Baze, he was able to have so many immortal food reserves, and he took it out at a critical moment to save the lives of so many immortals, which can be regarded as long-term insight and immeasurable merit. After all, at this time, money is like dung, and immortal food is life. With these life-saving foods, my tears can also come in handy.
While lamenting the cunning of this merchant, I don't feel a little admiration and curiosity for him.
Half a day later, the clouds condensed by the senior brothers in the four seas were rushed to the sky above the heavenly realm by Senior Brother Kunpeng with thousands of miles of wings.
The thick clouds obscured the sky. Seeing this, the immortals of Kyushu and Wuqiu Baze wept with joy and ran to tell each other. All bow down and kowtow.
"The gods in the clouds have appeared!
"There is hope!"
Listening to the immortals shouting like this, my tears overflowed in my heart, every move and style of the senior brothers, their movements and postures, there was the shadow of the master everywhere. They are the disciples of their father, not only the inheritance of immortal magic and immortal arts, but also the transmission of light and hope.
Looking forward to a grand rain and snow falling from the sky, but the scorching sun above the clouds, although the senior brothers condensed the clouds from the four seas, but due to the limited mana, they could not resist this catastrophe, and the clouds could not turn into rain and snow at all. The senior brothers could only struggle to maintain the form of the clouds, and gradually their physical strength was exhausted, and they were about to give up their efforts, and everyone was anxious!