Chapter VIII Desertification Control II
The clean-up work lasted for three days, and the sand mountain was successfully slimmed, and the city wall and some of the houses near the city wall were finally cleared.
Cheng Ming and the others were overjoyed, and hurriedly moved out of the tent and found the best house in the east of the city as a temporary residence.
As the sand was cleared, Cheng Ming's sense of other sand bead splits became stronger and stronger.
The gourd is reusable, and it has a radius of only ten meters, so in order to keep it efficient, the big four people have to constantly throw the gourd onto the sand mountain.
One person is responsible for a city wall, and the work is not easy.
At the end of the day, everyone has to sweat two pounds of sweat. Fortunately, Cheng Ming has a good meal here, and in the past few days, steamed bread and noodles have appeared in turns, and they are full of food, and the four of them are about to regard Cheng Ming as a real immortal.
Being able to eat enough every day in these years is the greatest happiness.
Don't look at them, there are five or six of them, and they haven't actually eaten a few full meals.
After a few days, several people's minds have become much more stable, and they have a little bit of the intention of following Cheng Ming.
Cheng Ming didn't care what they thought at all, every day he was walking around the sand mountain, where the sense was stronger, he would personally suck the sand wildly, and take the sand bead below into his hand.
Wucheng is really the origin zone, and in a few days, it has received more than a dozen, which makes Cheng Ming frown secretly.
With the characteristics of the Pearl of Sand, it is easy to make a split, and if the source is not cut off, even if the Wucheng is cleaned up, it will be a symptom rather than a cure.
But now I have no clue, and I can't rush it, so I can only take one step at a time.
At present, I can only work step by step, and first clean up the sand near Wucheng.
On this morning, Cheng Ming was busy working, and his bald head shouted from afar: "Dao Chief! Dao Chief, someone is looking for you! ”
Although Cheng Ming did not introduce himself, the four of them unanimously regarded him as a master in the world, and they were all called Cheng Daochang.
Cheng Ming refused twice at first, and then they went.
Anyway, the president has done it, the gentleman has been, and the county master has also been called, so it's not a big deal to be a Taoist priest once.
Cheng Ming turned his head to look and saw the bald man leading two people to hurry over.
These two people are dressed in green clothes and hats, they are not very old but have spirits, and they don't look like bitter children in the fields.
Cheng Ming was sealing the sand with all his might at this time, the wide sleeved robe was agitated, and the swirls of sand were sucked into the palm of his hand, and the visual effect was quite shocking.
The two were obviously stunned for a moment, and then respectfully hugged their fists and said: "Cheng Daochang is polite, we are the family members of the Xue family in the east of the city, and our master wants to ask you to talk about it!" ”
It's coming!
Cheng Ming stopped sucking the sand, and the sand flowing in front of him slammed into the ground as if he had lost his life.
With a flip of his palm, the seal card disappeared, Cheng Ming turned around and walked down, and said, "Where is your master?" ”
"It's at the gate of the city, please move!" The two said respectfully.
Cheng Ming nodded, "Lead the way!" ”
In the past few days, they have moved a lot, and many people have come one after another. Most of them are lucky and refuse to go far, and there are really a lot of people, more than 200 people in total. There are men, women and children, most of them are poor families, and they are not of much use to Cheng Ming.
I've been waiting for these days, and finally waiting for one that looks a little energetic. If you want to find the main body, I'm afraid you have to use the power of the squire.
At the gate of the city, a scarlet sedan chair was parked there, always followed by five family members, the sedan curtain was rolled up, and a middle-aged fat man was sitting inside.
The eyebrows, hair and beard are very exquisitely trimmed, and the clothes on his body are all decent, and he looks like a decent person.
Seeing Cheng Ming coming from afar, the middle-aged fat man walked out slowly, with a smile on his face, and stepped forward: "Cheng Daochang, the name is like thunder, Xue Rong has seen the Taoist in the east of the contemptible city!" ”
Cheng Ming returned the salute and said lightly: "I don't know what happened when Xue Yuanwai called the old man over?" ”
"This ......"
Cheng Ming's directness made him slightly stunned, reacted casually, hesitated, and said, "So that the Dao Chief knows, my Xue family is in the east of the city, can you please clean up that side first?" ”
"Yes!" Cheng Ming nodded lightly.
Xue Rong was overjoyed, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "It's not that Xue is long, it's really urgent." There is a batch of goods pressed under the sand pile, seeing that the delivery deadline has arrived, and it is impossible to hand it over, my Xue family is afraid that it will be bankrupt! ”
"Don't rush to thank me!" Cheng Ming waved his hand and said, "I have one condition!" ”
"You say you say it!" Xue Rong said busily.
"Since you are a wealthy local businessman, you must have some connections with the government. I don't care what method you use, find me someone who can call the shots. This sand fell from the sky, and the entire Wucheng was submerged in less than a month, and there were probably demons to do it. We are waiting to clean up the sand, but it is just a symptom but not a cure, and the sand plague can come back at any time, and the cooperation of the government is needed to cure it radically! Cheng Ming glanced at a few family members, his heart moved, and he said: "In addition, sand control requires manpower, you try to find as many people as possible, and the speed of cleaning up will be faster!" ”
"Yes, yes!" Xue Rong hurriedly agreed, then groaned for a while, and said: "The county master disappeared more than a month ago, I don't know where I went, I'm afraid I won't be able to find it in a short time." But there's a master book near the left.,I don't know if it's okay? ”
"Just take care of things!" Cheng Ming said: "If you are in a hurry, let these family members come with me!" ”
"Okay!" Xue Rong nodded, and then shouted, "Did you hear it?" Listen to the Taoist chief for a while! ”
"Yes, sir!" The family agreed in unison.
Cheng Ming nodded, made a gesture to follow me, and turned to leave.
led six family members to the east of the city, each stuffed two gourds, and after a simple demonstration, let them understand how to operate, and then took them to start the fixed-point operation.
With them joining, the speed was indeed a lot faster, and by the time the sun set, a few more splits were collected.
The next day, Xue Rongyou brought more than 30 people over, which doubled the speed of the cleanup.
"This is Master Liu!"
Xue Rong, an old man in his forties, introduced.
Cheng Ming gave up.
Master Liu politely returned the salute with a smile on his face, "Thank you Dao Chang for your help, otherwise Wucheng will be wasted!" ”
Cheng Ming waved his hand, and after a few simple greetings, he went straight to the point, "The main book is much more well-informed in the public gate, do you know where there is a sand disaster in addition to the Wucheng area?" ”
"This ......" Master Liu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Wucheng has been alarmed by the sand plague in the surrounding counties, and even the generation in Henan has people fleeing to the past, if there is a sand disaster, I am afraid that it will be the first time to make trouble." At this time, the wind and waves were calm, and there was no mention in the correspondence, so I guess there was none! ”
Cheng Ming nodded and said, "That's good!" If so, the source of the sand plague is still in Wucheng. Now keep an eye out. There is a magic technique that turns people into sand at the source, so if you find out about it, let me know as soon as possible! ”
The two of them were startled at the same time and hurriedly agreed.