Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Boulder Garden
Holy Cult of the Cross, Crescent City.
"Come on, come on, these stones will help move to the east side of the Red Well generation."
"There's free tea to drink!"
"Recently, there has been a shortage of firewood, and the saint said that the firewood cut in the nearby mountains and forests can be exchanged for food, seeds and various supplies at the church."
"Meditation talisman, do you still have any of them?"
"All children under the age of 12 can enter the school for free, and the Holy Church subsidizes lunch."
With the arrival of the first refugees, the population of Crescent City has been greatly replenished, and even the originally empty Crescent Valley is now popular enough.
At the same time, it also brought about the problem of lack of materials, and the refugees had nothing, so the materials that were reclaimed in the early stage had to be paid for by the Holy Church. Fortunately, Feng Yu had negotiated several big deals with several caravans in the south before, and according to Zhao Fu's intentions, he once again assisted the Holy Sect with a large number of supplies.
And Xu Lingling's meaning is obvious, although the Holy Sect is doing good work, but Crescent City is not a shelter, and there is no need for lazy people here.
All the materials needed to be exchanged for work, whether it was masonry for building houses, seeds and plows for cultivating fields, they could all be obtained by working for the Holy Church.
This is a decision reached unanimously by Xu Lingling and Zhao Fu after discussion, although they are taking in refugees, refugees cannot just be refugees, refugees must also be labor.
Every believer of the Holy Religion has a mission to give to the poor, but beggars are not welcome in this Crescent City.
The reason is simple, now that Crescent City is expanding, there is a shortage of labor everywhere, as long as you are willing to work, you will definitely be able to feed yourself. What's more, the conditions offered by the Holy Sect are still very rich, as long as you work for eight hours a day, you can exchange it for two days of food and a certain amount of masonry. Even if you don't have enough strength to help carry sand and gravel, you can still pick some simple jobs, and the treatment is not bad.
As for the materials exchanged for firewood, it is equivalent to additional "overtime expenses".
Someone has already calculated that if you want to build your own house in Crescent City, you only need to work for Crescent City for a month!
Crescent City is very large, but now Crescent City is the entire Holy Religion, and the Holy Religion is established in the entire Gobi. In other words, the entire Gobi can be a crescent city.
The Gobi is so big that it can always accommodate these refugees, but there are not many good places. Except for the Feng Shui treasure land that was first developed here, there is not much useful open space left for these refugees. And Xu Lingling, in order to encourage immigration, now admits that as long as a house is built on that land, that land belongs to the owner.
Xu Lingling's policy fanned a fire, land is the root of the Han people, and the Han people's desire for land is like a fish that can't do without water. And these refugees have been here for some time, and they all know now that finding a suitable piece of land in the Gobi is not easy, it is really too rare.
In order to seize the best land, the refugees have saved up enough energy to work, and if it weren't for Xu Lingling's stipulation that the daily construction period can only be eight hours, I am afraid that these people would be able to work for days without sleep. Even so, there is an endless stream of refugees who go back and forth to the mountains and forests to cut firewood after the construction period is over. It is to be able to build a house earlier than others and circle the land that you like.
For a time, the entire Crescent City was in full swing, and with the help of the refugees, new buildings were erected every day. Spreading from the Crescent Valley, this Crescent City is becoming more and more like a real city. The pace of change is a new sight every day.
Crescent City Center, Boulder Gardens.
This is a public building equivalent to a park, located in the Crescent Valley, and it is also the earliest foothold of Xu Lingling and others, and now it has already been built as the center of Crescent City. Therefore, the place is not affected by the constant construction outside the valley, and it is still quiet and peaceful, and the flowers of all colors bloom together like a garden of true gods.
But this garden is not endless, and these flowers can bloom at the same time in different seasons and never die. The most amazing thing about it is the huge rock standing in the center of the garden.
Some people say that it came from outside the sky, and some people say that it is a thing that came down from the gods, and whatever it is, they all think that it is a sacred stone. Because in front of this huge stone, people can see what they want to see the most.
Like the poppy, it is the most beautiful phantom.
"Sister Qiu, you're here today." Xu Lingling took food and successfully found Shi Yiqiu in the Boulder Garden.
Since Shi Yiqiu was entrusted to Xu Lingling's care by Zhao Fu, she also moved to Crescent City with her, and I don't know how Xu Lingling persuaded her. But apparently Shi Yiqiu's complexion is much better now than before, and all of this is thanks to this boulder garden.
"Well, this is the only place where I can feel at ease...... Thank you. Shi Yiqiu took the bread and milk handed by Xu Lingling.
These days of getting along, Shi Yiqiu and Xu Lingling have become acquainted, so Shi Yiqiu's words slowly began to increase, unlike when she first returned to Lanting, she was lifeless and didn't want to say anything, and she held it in her heart in one breath.
And the reason for such a change is because of the boulder in front of the two of them at this moment. As long as there are no evil thoughts in the heart, you can see what you want to see most through this boulder...... Even Lin Haoyan.
It was precisely because of this that Shi Yiqiu had never left since she came to this boulder garden, and even when she slept, she had to sleep with this boulder, so Xu Lingling had to specially transfer a team of Templars to guard her.
"If you can't look at this missing stone for a long time, it will lose your life." Xu Lingling reminded her.
This boulder is called the Missing Stone, and it is also an incomplete stone made by Xu Lingling through divine power, which is an incomplete manifestation of God. It will satisfy the thoughts in the depths of people's hearts and restore them, so Shi Yiqiu can see Lin Haoyan. But it is precisely because of this that this kind of thing can cause a huge burden on that person's mind.
"I know......" Shi Yiqiu smiled bitterly, "I don't read." ”
Shi Yiqiu also knew that when she saw this boulder for the first time, she fainted, and she met Lin Haoyan again in her sleep.
Shi Yiqiu also knew, but what could she do, now she just stayed next to this boulder, because only in this way could she feel Lin Haoyan's breath again.
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