Chapter 69: The Power of Faith
Fang Xu smiled and looked at Qiu Chuji and Lao Wu and the others who were constantly licking their lips in front of him and said, and Lao Wu and the others seemed to have not enjoyed themselves.
"That's a little too sweet, isn't it!? Is sugarcane really so sweet and fragrant?! Lao Wu looked at Fang Xu with some disbelief and asked, while Qiu Chuji also looked at Fang Xu curiously, as if waiting for Fang Xu's answer.
"Don't underestimate this little jar of cane sugar, but where a lot of sugar cane crystals, do you think?" Fang Xu said angrily.
But fortunately, this sugar cane was found on the mountain behind the Quanzhen Taoist Temple, and it was also a strange phenomenon that Fang Xu discovered when he came to this village.
That is, sugarcane is grown in many places on this mountain, but not many people pick it, which still makes Fang Xu feel a little curious.
When Fang Xu asked Qiu Chuji, he understood one thing, that is, the taste of the sugarcane grown here was not very good, which led to the villagers not having the intention of harvesting.
It's even going to be placed over there, waiting for the sugar cane to rot on its own.
But in Fang Xu's view, this is also an opportunity, or a business opportunity.
No matter what the taste of sugarcane is, as long as it is ripe sugarcane, then it can be boiled out of sucrose, and the taste of sucrose is still very familiar to Fang Xu.
Originally, Fang Xu didn't plan to use sucrose, but if it was honey, Fang Xu didn't know if it existed in this era, if it was natural, then it was also the kind that could be encountered but not sought.
If you have the materials you need everywhere, why should you go far?!
After boiling the sucrose, Fang Xu asked Lao Wu and the others to smear the sucrose on the ground, and the rest was to write the four big characters of the Quanzhen Taoist Temple on the original dilapidated walls of the Quanzhen Taoist Temple.
How can the birds in the mountains and forests resist the temptation of such sweet cane sugar?! Looking at the appearance of Lao Wu, Qiu Chuji and others in front of him at the moment, isn't it enough to explain the problem?!
As for the ones on the walls, they are all prepared for ants, and after seeing that the ants on the wall are climbing the four big characters of the Quanzhen Taoist Temple.
This is just a visual impact, and it has already shocked those villagers, is there anyone who can't observe it carefully!?
"And what about the ants that made way for the villagers?!" Lao Wu looked at Fang Xu with some curiosity and asked, after all, the previous ones could be explained clearly.
But in Lao Wu's opinion, when those villagers entered the main hall before, why did the ants and other insects climbing on the ground give those villagers a way to go?!
If there is no mystery in it, Lao Wu may really not believe it.
Even in Lao Wu's own opinion, he thinks that Fang Xu really understands what Taoism?!
"These are very simple truths, the so-called mutual reciprocity." The corners of Fang Xu's mouth rose slightly, in fact, in Fang Xu's opinion, the most important thing for him was actually in this step.
If there is no deterrence from this step, it may be that the previous master and the raw birds attracted by the cane sugar outside are not enough to convince these villagers.
As the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is believing, everything is like this, what you hear and what you see with your own eyes, it is completely two different feelings.
What Fang Xu used was the principle of mutual reciprocity, of course, he also used biology to a certain extent, but it was a little troublesome to explain now.
To put it simply, Fang Xu also sprinkled cane sugar in the main hall, and the cane sugar was able to attract a large number of ants and other reptile insects, as if he was guarding the Quanzhen Taoist Temple.
And at the entrance of the Quanzhen Taoist Temple, the small trap designed by Fang Xu was waiting for the villagers on the mountain here.
After all, in Fang Xu's opinion, after the statue of the alien beast was found in the middle of the field, it was the master's play, and the master must have taken the villagers up the mountain to see what was going on.
This is also something that can't be helped, after all, in the hearts of these villagers, they have actually regarded the Quanzhen Taoist Temple as a dependence in their hearts.
That is to say, whenever they encountered something that they could not solve, these villagers instinctively thought of the Quanzhen Taoist Temple, and Fang Xu also took advantage of the psychology of these villagers.
On the mountain road to the Quanzhen Taoist Temple, there was only one way, and Fang Xu had prepared some medicinal herbs on this road that were specially designed to restrain and eliminate insects and ants, of course, it was also slightly improved by Fang Xu's own eyes.
In Fang Xu's opinion, Fang Xu just wanted to let the soles of the villagers who passed by here smell a little.
After all, if the soles of your shoes are contaminated with drugs, then you may directly destroy your future plans, or even make your plans stillborn.
In the eyes of these insects and ants, the sucrose is indeed their treasure, but they must save their own lives to continue to eat these sweet sucrose.
If the soles of the shoes are stained with herbs, then after stepping on the yard, the herbs on the soles of the shoes will stick to the sucrose on the ground, and if so, the insects and ants will choose to avoid the place.
This is where there will be a void in the earth, and it may be impossible to achieve the effect of sincerity and spirituality.
But if it's a smell, then it's different, and it's the result of Fang Xu's own modulation.
When you were just about to step on it, those insects and ants were keenly aware of the smell of the herbs, and naturally they chose to open it, but when the soles of the shoes left, the smell of sucrose masked the smell of the herbs.
This also caused these insects and ants to choose to surround them again, which also created the atmosphere that Fang Xu wanted to see.
At the beginning, Fang Xu himself was still a little worried, after all, his plan was just a plan, no matter how he said it, it was empty talk, the key was to look at the actual results.
And the result was satisfactory to Fang Xu, after hearing Fang Xu's explanation, Qiu Chuji, Lao Wu and the others all looked at Fang Xu in disbelief.
Even in Lao Wu's own opinion, he didn't expect the whole plan to be so simple.
Just relying on these things can make these villagers obediently believe in Fang Xu's tricks?! Isn't that a little too simplistic?!
"Sometimes, it's better not to underestimate the power of faith." Fang Xu looked at Lao Wu with a smile and said, after all, Lao Wu had already said everything he wanted to say on his face.