Chapter 11: Stone Village
Walking into the stone village, Fei Cai looked around curiously, there seems to be no difference between this and the small villages in ancient China, most of the villages are simple thatched houses, it looks like they are not as exquisite as the small wooden houses built by Yin, and some of the shops on the street are slightly better, but the roofs are covered with tiles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Looking further away, there seems to be a three-hall courtyard at the end of the village, but it seems out of place with the whole village.
"Yin, there are so many immortal cultivators, why are the people still living so hard?" Fei Cai asked strangely, these monks turned their hands into clouds and covered their hands into rain, and it should be a gesture to help the people repair a house or something, even if it is a fee.
From the chat with Xiao Feng, Fei Cai learned that the founding time of Tianyuan World was about the same as the time when Hongjun Ancestor created his own world, even if the development direction is different, the development speed here is too slow.
"What does the number of monks have to do with the good or bad life of the people?" When Fei Cai asked, Yin was also stunned.
"Huh? What do monks usually do? ”
"Cultivation, the monks are mainly responsible for protecting the family and defending the country, and the people are responsible for providing for them, and the Tianyuan Continent has been like this for thousands of years."
"Uh... Then can you tell me about the history of this Tian Yuan Continent. ”
Yin scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I don't know much about this, I mainly go to the forest to cut wood and make machinery on weekdays." ”
"I know, I know, I have a book at home that my master brought back." Xiao Tong raised his hand as if offering a treasure on the side.
Fei Cai smiled and touched his head: "Okay, then Xiaotong will tell me." ”
"Ahem." Xiao Tong pretended to cough, and pretended to be a little adult with his hands behind his back and said, "According to legend, 5,000 years ago, the Tian Yuan Continent was still in the chaotic era of tribal conquest, one year from the Arctic cold land not only blew a biting cold wind, but also brought a group of ghosts and monsters of alien races, they are tall, cruel, love to feed on people, the entire Tian Yuan Continent is shrouded in the shadow of alien races, people are distressed and helpless, so they pray to the heavens, finally, people's sincerity touched the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Heaven sent down great magical powers, Let the best of the human race practice the heavenly immortal method to fight against the alien race. ”
"Later, under the leadership of a great hero, the monks of the human race gathered together and drove the alien race back to the Arctic hell, and at the same time, they also mobilized their supernatural powers to erect an ice wall in the north of the continent that reached the sky, named the Great Wall." Fei Cai was quite speechless when he heard this, this main god, did you later entrust a dream to a fat man named George Martin, so he wrote a song of ice and fire...
Xiaotong continued: "At the suggestion of this great hero, the people put an end to the strife and formed a nation: Shang. People are reclaiming wasteland and recuperating. In this way, 2000 years passed, Shang was passed down from generation to generation under the rule of the bloodline of this great hero, at this time another catastrophe fell on the Tianyuan Continent, and I don't know what happened in the millions of mountains in the southwest barbaric land, countless demon beasts poured into the territory of Shang like a tide, countless people were devoured by demon beasts, villages and towns were breached, and people were displaced. And because the Shang Jun at that time did not know how to resist, he only knew how to move the capital blindly to avoid, which finally caused public anger. ”
"The next monk of the Yuxu Palace in Buzhou Mountain felt sorry for the suffering of the people, was enlightened by the heavens, gave up his practice, and angrily went down the mountain to lead the other monks to fight against the monster frenzy, and after ten years, the demon beast was finally driven back to the 100,000 mountains, which is known as the ten-year catastrophe." Fei Cai was speechless again, not Zhoushan, Yuxu Palace... The relationship between this old man and Hongjun Ancestor is really not ordinary, and the ideas for naming them are so similar.
"After the catastrophe, due to the inaction of the disdainful Shang Jun, the people overthrew the Shang and supported the Yuxu Palace, a monk surnamed Ji, to re-establish Zhou on the Tianyuan Continent. Zhou Tianzi felt that the Tianyuan Continent was too large and not easy to rule, so he divided the five friends who followed him to fight against the demon beasts and became the kings of the five vassal states of Qin, Yan, Qi, Chu, and Shu, and Zhou Tianzi sat in the center to support all parties, and this system has continued until now. Since the monks have become the main force in every great disaster, most of the royal families, ministers, and generals of various countries are held by monks, as Brother Yin said, they are mainly responsible for protecting the stability of the country, and ordinary people live and work peacefully and happily under their protection, and then pay taxes to support the monks. ”
"Is this peace and happiness?" Fei Cai asked, pointing ahead. The three of them walked to the center of the village while talking, and as soon as Xiaotong finished speaking, Fei Cai happened to see several men in front of him wearing uniform coarse cloth clothes frantically kicking a wooden door, and at the same time seemed to be shouting something loudly.
Xiao Tong looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and vaguely felt in his heart that this was not peace and happiness, "I don't know, Uncle Immortal, it's the first time I've gone far away." ”
"Let's go over and take a look, and, Xiaotong, don't you think Uncle Immortal Master is very awkward, it's better to shorten it a little, it doesn't have to be called so long."
"Okay, uncle, let's go."
... Xiaotong, I mean it's good if you call it an immortal master, Fei Cai is very helpless, and Xiao Feng, who has been eavesdropping on the side for a long time, covered his mouth and snickered.
Getting closer and closer to there, the three of them gradually heard the words shouted by the person at the door, "Old Hantou, you owe Liu Yuanwai 50 taels of silver for half a year, today is the deadline, written clearly in black and white, if you can't pay the money, let your daughter go to Liu Yuanwai's house to be a maid for two years to pay off the debt, I see that the face of the neighborhood in the street has not been forced, if you miss Lao Tzu's errand, don't blame me for being polite." ”
The three of them looked fixedly, and the man who kicked the door was not very tall, on the contrary, he looked a little thin, but the three men standing behind him looked very strong, and one of them said impatiently: "Brother Zhang, let's let the third brother come, this has been making trouble for half an hour, the second son is still waiting for us to return to life, if the time is missed, we will also suffer." ”
Hearing this, the emaciated man also showed a ruthless expression, gritted his teeth and said: "Old Hantou, you are shameless, right, okay, don't ask for this door of your house!" ”
Squeak, just when the emaciated man was about to greet the third brother in the back, the wooden door opened, and a hunchbacked old man with a yellow face and thin muscles and a wrinkled face appeared in the door tremblingly, he bowed deeply to the four men outside the door, and said in a hoarse voice: "Manager Zhang, the little old man has made a mess for you, half a year ago I borrowed 5 taels of silver from Liu Yuanwai to see the disease, and said that it would be good to repay 10 taels with interest in half a year, and I have already paid it off." ”
Phew, a mouthful of thick phlegm spit at the old man's feet, and the emaciated man stared at him and said, "10 taels of silver is only the interest of the principal, what about the interest of half a year?" This monthly roll, it has rolled to 40 taels, a total of 50 taels, you are still 40 taels, either pay back, or use your girl to pay off the debt, choose quickly! ”