On the day of the Lantern Festival, the teleportation array that Lu Yu had arranged in his body was finally completed. Although he was now in his own home, Lu Yu could also feel that the main teleportation array in the Green Valley was suddenly bright, echoing the secondary array in his body.

Lu Yu couldn't wait to see if this teleportation array was useful. He closed his eyes, awakened the secondary array in his body, and then his mind moved......

After a dizzying violent tumbling, Lu Yu's eyes turned dark, and then he opened his eyes and saw that the lawn in front of him was like felt, the green trees were verdant, and the stream was murmuring in the distance, and the surroundings were warm like spring, this is not the valley, where is it?

"The teleportation array is finally complete!" Lu Yu was overjoyed and couldn't help but run and jump in the valley.

"Xi'an must be very happy to know the news." Lu Yu looked around the valley and thought, "It's okay now, even if you don't move here, you can cultivate a few acres of paddy fields here, so you don't have to worry about food shortages." ”

Lu Yu decided to find a place to buy rice seeds tomorrow and start sowing seeds. It's just that the difficulty is that food is extremely tight now, and I don't know where else to buy rice seeds.

It was easier to get out of the valley, Lu Yu thought of the situation in his bedroom, and then he appeared in the bedroom. Lu Yu did not immediately tell the Yan family the news that the teleportation array had been arranged, but went to Lao Gao's house first and asked him where he could buy rice seeds.

Lao Gao didn't know where to buy rice seeds, so he asked Lu Yu: "It's just warmed up this day, and you're thinking about planting rice?" ”

"yes, hehe." Lu Yu thought to himself, since Lao Gao didn't know, he could only ask others. He thought of Lu Mingcai, Uncle Mingcai was well-informed, and he might know where to get rice seeds.

Lu Mingcai told Lu Yu that I am afraid that I will not be able to get the best rice seeds now, but as long as there is good rice, the rice seeds can be urged, and the seeds will be sown.

However, it is not easy to get good rice. Fortunately, within the scope of Jinhua County, there are many rural areas that grow rice, and even if there is a famine for many years, it is impossible to get a grain of rice.

Lu Yu plans to go out tomorrow.

At night, Lu Yu didn't tell the Yan family that he was going out, anyway, he often didn't return all day, so he didn't need to say anything. Early the next morning, Lu Yu took a cloth bag and went out with dozens of taels of silver.

There are rice cultivation in the villages around Menhe Village, so Lu Yu plans to go there first.

More than ten miles away, it didn't take long to run there. But before he entered the village, Lu Yu's heart was half cold, and the whole village was invisible, and there was a lifeless faction.

But Lu Yu still entered the village, and he went to the open space in front of the ancestral hall of Menhe Village again.

It's still morning, the sun has just risen, and there are people in the open space in front of the ancestral hall of Menhe Village, there is an old man and an old woman sitting on the stone, with a blank expression, and they seem to be in a daze.

Lu Yu walked over and asked, "Two old men, what about the people in your village?" ”

The old man didn't know if he didn't hear it, or he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he didn't even look up at Lu Yu. The old woman raised her head tremblingly, looked at Lu Yu with a few cloudy eyes, and then said slowly: "It's all gone, it's gone." ”

"All gone?" Lu Yu remembered that this summer, he also saw Wang Datou and that uncle Jian in this village by the mountain stream, and there were many people in Menhe Village at that time. Lu Yu asked again: "Where have all the people in the village gone?" ”

"Dead, robber." The old lady estimated that her ears were not very good, and when she talked to Lu Yu, her voice was very loud.

Lu Yu nodded, didn't say anything more, and left. I don't know how many people are left in Menhe Village, but there will definitely be no one who can sell rice seeds.

Menhe Village is adjacent to Dache Village, and Lu Yu didn't go in. Now that Menhe Village has withered to this point, presumably Dache Village, which is across the river, will not be much better.

The north wind was cold, and Lu Yu walked dozens of miles in one breath to a lake.

The lake in front of him was not very wide, with a radius of no more than ten miles. Lu Yu had never been here before, but he had heard of this place, and this lake was called Pyeongtaek Lake. Jinhua City County is vast, but mostly mountainous, this Pingze Lake is already one of the largest lakes in Jinhua County.

The ice on the lake has not yet melted, and there is a water village on the lake shore to the south, which is not small, at least more than a mile long and wide, and seems to be larger than Yangshan Village. The water village is built on the surface of the lake with countless thick logs, which is about a zhang higher than the lake. Lu Yu saw people walking around the village from a distance.

There are paddy fields for dozens of miles around Pyeongtaek Lake, and in the middle of winter, the fields are naturally shallow with thin ice, but in the spring, rice will definitely be planted here. So Lu Yu decided to go to the water village and ask.

There are guards at the entrance of the water village, it seems that this is not an ordinary water village,

When the guards saw Lu Yu, they naturally wanted to stop and ask questions. Lu Yu confessed honestly, saying that he came from Yangshan Village and wanted to buy some rice seeds to go back.

One of the guards said, "Yangshan Village? Isn't that leaning against the side of the mountain? Can you grow rice too? ”

"There is a reservoir in our village, and there are several acres of paddy fields on the edge of the reservoir, which can grow rice."

"Oh." The guard said, "We have rice seeds in our stockade, so I don't know if the boss will sell them to you." The guard looked at Lu Yu and asked, "By the way, did you bring anything to change?" ”

"Bring something? There was nothing left to bring, so I brought money. ”

"What's the use of money?" The other guard waved his hand, thought for a moment, and then asked, "How much money did you bring?" ”

"Bring some." Lu Yu didn't want to entangle with these two people, so he asked with a smile, "Can you take me to meet your boss?" Speaking of this, Lu Yu suddenly thought: "There is a boss in this water village, it seems that this is a gang organization, not a village." ”

The guard said, "Take you to our boss?" So what's in it for me? ”

Lu Yu took out two silver ingots and handed them to the two guards: "Two big brothers help, if you can grow rice this year, if the two big brothers go to our village, I will invite you to dinner." ”

"Hehe, Yangshan Village is so far away, who will go." The two guards were very happy to see that Lu Yu was "sensible", and one of them said, "Then you wait, I'll help you ask." ”

When waiting for the report, another guard suddenly said, "There is a very capable young man in your village, whose name is Lu...... Yes, you know what? ”

"Is it called Lu Yu?" Lu Yu was very surprised and a little proud, he didn't expect that his fame would spread to Pingze Lake, which was dozens of miles away from Yangshan Village.

"Yes, it's Lu Yu, you guys from the same village, you must know each other."

Lu Yu smiled, didn't hide it anymore, and said, "That, I am Lu Yu." ”

"You are Lu Yu, Mr. Lu?" The guard looked stunned, and then said with relief: "No wonder you can walk dozens of miles from Yangshan Village to our Tianhai Gang alone, it turns out to be the famous Mr. Lu." ”

This time it was Lu Yu's turn to be stunned, and he asked, "This is the Tianhai Gang?" The Tianhai Gang sent people to Yangshan Village twice to ask Lu Yu for "help", and they also brought a lot of gifts that time ago, and some of the silver money Lu Yu brought today was sent by the Tianhai Gang.

"It's the Tianhai Gang." The guard smiled: "Our boss sent someone to invite Mr. Lu out of the mountain, I heard that you have not been willing to agree, I didn't expect Mr. Lu to come to the door in person today, if our boss knows, we will definitely be very happy." ”

Lu Yu smiled and thought, "If I knew that this was the Tianhai Gang Water Village, I would definitely not come over." But now that it's already here, it's inconvenient to leave with your hands, so it's better to wait. ”

After waiting for a while, the guard who went in to report before never came out, and the remaining guard said: "Mr. Lu, wait a little longer, our boss doesn't know that you are here, wait for me to report again, and I will come back immediately." ”

Lu Yu was about to say no, but the guards had already turned around and entered the stockade.

After the guards left, Lu Yu hesitated to leave, this was the Four Seas Gang, it was a den of robbers, and he really didn't want to deal with the robbers in his heart.

Just as he was hesitating, someone came out.

There were a total of six people who came out, and one of them was extremely burly and tall, with vigorous steps and heroic spirit. One of the six people, Lu Yu, had seen it before, that time, Lu Yu was fighting with the people of Sihe Village by the mountain stream, and the slender-eyed man who took the lead opposite.

The tall man was obviously the leader of the Tianhai Gang, or at least one of the leaders. A few feet away, the leader laughed loudly: "Hello Mr. Lu, we are very honored that you can come to the door in person." ”

Lu Yu felt a little uncomfortable, smiled reluctantly, and said, "You're welcome, I came here to buy some rice seeds to go back." ”

"Hahaha, that's easy to say." The man said: "In Xia Qin Zhongquan, he is the leader of the Tianhai Gang, and he has admired Mr. Lu's name for a long time." ”

Lu Yu could only smile, and quietly glanced at Qin Zhongquan a few times, the other party Kong Wuli didn't need to say anything, listening to his conversation, it seemed that he was also a person who had read a book. Lu Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "To be a bandit leader, it seems that you have to be able to be literate and martial, but you can't just rely on your fists." ”

Qin Zhongquan took Lu Yu's hand and said that he would set up a banquet to entertain him. Lu Yu insisted on refusing, saying that he only wanted to buy some rice seeds, and if there were no rice seeds here, then he wouldn't bother much, let alone eat and drink.

Qin Zhongquan was a little disappointed, but seeing that Lu Yu insisted on refusing, he couldn't force it too much. He asked his subordinates to bring half a bag of rice, but he refused to accept Lu Yu's money.

When Lu Yu was about to go back, Qin Zhongquan sent him a long way. Anyway, after obtaining rice seeds from here, Lu Yu was still very grateful in his heart.

Qin Zhongquan told Lu Yu: "Today, there are at least four or five organizations like them in Jinhua City and the surrounding areas, but the most powerful is the Jishan Association led by Lin Siyao. ”

"The Masam? Aren't they doing the business of taking money from others and eliminating disasters for others? ”

"Hehe, what kind of collection and forced demolition to eliminate disasters for others, it's not like us, specializing in trading without capital." Qin Zhongquan didn't hide it: "Our Tianhai Gang did build a home by robbing the family, but now that there are more people, we can't do this anymore." ”

Lu Yu was very curious: "What does the noble gang rely on to make a living now?" ”