Chapter 383: It's hard to take root in a foreign land
There is no such thing as a free meal, and there is no ferryman who does not want money. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Lanhuatan set up a boat ferry on the big river to make money, and it can't be done without a boat. Just like Zhou Fengquan said, if you don't let Lan Huatan slaughter it once, the next road will be troublesome.
No one likes trouble, especially heretics like Zhou Fengquan. If Lan Huatan really smokes cold behind his back and recruits the minions of the Shenwei Branch Hall in Renzi District, the heretics will face a catastrophe.
For the sake of a small fortune and offending the local landlords, a cultivator who has made a wise decision will never do such a stupid thing.
Zhou Fengquan took the initiative to negotiate with the boatman of Lanhuatan, the river crossing fee is not much, ten top-grade spirit stones per person. For practitioners, it's not a big number. It's enough for ordinary people to eat for ten years.
Zhou Fengquan and these people don't seem to be very rich, and there are only more than 300 spirit stones, so they actually want everyone to make up together. Yun Yi also took five pieces.
As the boat swayed and carried everyone across the river, Yun Yi couldn't help but feel a little melancholy as he looked at the turbulent current. These heretics are all poor haha, I'm afraid that the future life will not be easy, it is really possible to be like the current boat, with the torrent, wandering away.
Six small boats carried more than thirty people to the opposite shore. The boatman was very particular, and one of them issued a yellowed bamboo slice with a Tan character written on it.
Zhou Fengquan seemed to be very familiar with Renzi District, and he explained to everyone, "These bamboo pieces are called street signs, as long as you hold them, you can get unimpeded in the boundary of Lanhuatan." ”
Yun Yi calculated that ten top-grade spirit stones could travel a hundred and ten miles, and this transaction seemed to be quite cost-effective.
On the other side of the river was a shoal, with reeds and withered grass as high as a man. Not far away are the rolling hills.
Zhou Fengquan led the way in front and guided the path. He seemed to be very familiar with this place, and explained to everyone as he walked, "Lanhuatan is the largest gang in the surrounding area for 100 miles, and it makes a living by fishing. The river in front is the Yonglan River, which flows from Renchou District to Kulan City in Renzi District, with a length of more than 8,000 miles. ”
"The place we walked in is located in the northeastern suburbs of Renzi District, the geographical location is relatively remote, mainly mountainous, and there are relatively few households. There aren't many gangs, the strife isn't too big, and it's not much valued by the Divine Temple, so it's easier to put down roots here. ”
His remarks can be regarded as making the prospects clear. The pagans who followed were all beaming with joy, as if they had seen a beautiful and leisurely home.
Yun Yi pouted, he had seen too many mountain bandits. What Zhou Fengquan depicts is precisely the prototype of a mountain bandit's nest. There are few locals, and it is very difficult to develop the cottage. This will inevitably compete with the local aborigines for territory, and then the bloody storm will be indispensable.
Of these 30 or so people, it is difficult to say how many survived in the end, and the possibility of the entire army being wiped out is extremely high.
Yun Yi analyzed it in a muffled voice, and quietly made a plan, and when he stabilized, he quickly ran away, and never looked for death with these people.
Perhaps because of the street signs, although he encountered more than a dozen groups of mountain bandits on the way forward, he was not reprimanded. After it was completely dark, the crowd stopped in a bamboo forest.
Zhou Fengquan left alone after assigning a simple task.
When everyone had cooked and prepared to pay tribute to the viscera, he was overjoyed, like a half-grown child, and came back with a branch.
He beckoned everyone to eat first, and when everyone was eating, he said: "I went to the front in advance to investigate, and thirty miles ahead, there is a wind and rain town, and there is also a mountain forest with an excellent location. I inquired, there are no gangs in the mountains and forests, and we have put down roots there. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions were stunned. This decision is too hasty, isn't it? In such a short period of time, you can see what it is? It is a place to take root, but it is the base camp for future development and growth. Without a unique geographical advantage, there is equal to nothing.
Finding a random place will not only fail to play a defensive role, but will provide convenience for external forces to sneak attack. In the importance of small lives, everyone put down their jobs.
Song Lingfang was the first to speak, "Senior Brother Zhou, if it's a foothold, let's be casual." If it is a place of roots, it is best to be cautious. What we are doing is not a trivial matter, and we will have to recruit people in the future. It's too small to live in. ”
Senior Brother Liu, a scholar, also interjected, "Senior brother, it's best to take root in a place that is easy to defend and attack. When we first arrive here, we will inevitably have some entanglements with other sects, and the location is very important. ”
Others are also gossipy persuasion.
Zhou Fengquan pondered and said, "After eating, let's rush over at night, take a look first, and then make a plan?"
He was relieved. The faces of the crowd softened slightly.
Yun Yi completely regarded it as a play, and his mouth never stopped. The food is still delicious, it is still ready-made, and he is lazy to pay attention to the outside affairs, so let it go.
Everyone's minds had long since stopped eating, so they hurriedly took two bites and set off on the road. Yun Yichu slipped to the end, nibbling on wild fruits as he walked, sweet and sour, very refreshing. The burst of clicking sounds made Hongyue and the others look sideways, and subconsciously classified him as a 'foodie'.
Fengyu Town is not big, and looking at the number of houses, there are only 100 households at most, and it would be good to have 5 or 600 people.
The town is surrounded by mountains, which look like a barrier between heaven and earth at night.
Zhou Fengquan pointed to the mountain peak on the south side of the town and said: "This mountain is called Liunian Peak, and there is an official road in the mountain, which is the place to go to Kulan City. Villagers said that the mountain of Liunian Peak is very steep, and there were also mountain bandit dens in the past. It's just that the wealth is not prosperous, so I have to break up. ”
Everyone was amazed. can break up the mountain bandits in a hurry, how bad is this wealth?
"Let's go up the hill first. Scholar Brother Liu proposed.
"Go to the east side of the mountain. Zhou Fengquan said.
Liunian Peak is two mountains, and the low place in the middle of the mountain is the official road.
When everyone climbed the eastern peak, they sighed in disappointment. The mountain is so gentle that it looks like a small slope, and there is no danger to defend at all. When you reach the top of the mountain, there is a cliff-like cliff on the mountain, and below the cliff is the official road.
There is a row of wooden houses on the top of the hill, which have long been dilapidated. The thatch on the roof had fallen down, revealing the skylight.
After a cursory look at the terrain, everyone gathered together and didn't say a word. Everyone understands that Liunian Peak is not suitable for stationing at all, and it cannot meet the conditions for recuperation and reproduction.
The mountain is also too gentle, and it is impossible to arrange fortifications at all, as if the scope of the mountain is also a little smaller, and it does not have the advantage of hiding troops. If you want to make some foreign money, the cliff is not suitable for ambushes. In any respect, this place is not the first place to be stationed.
"Let's rest here for a while, and when we're rested, we'll find a place to stay. Everyone's reaction has made Zhou Fengquan understand everyone's attitude, not here. He also stopped talking about rooting.
No one has any objection to a short rest here, after all these years of evading the clearance, both physically and mentally exhausted, I really need a place to rest.
The wooden house was limited and dilapidated, and the crowd let a few women live there. The other men were lying on the hillside.
Yun Yi pillowed his arms, watching the stars in the sky, and his thoughts couldn't help but fly. In the Dehei Empire, he had seen countless celestial inferences. According to the German blacks, the stars in the sky can be divided into several categories.
There are stars that shine, and there are those that don't, which are not visible to the naked eye, and there may be cultivators in that kind of place. The strength is unpredictable, it can be strong, or it can be strange.
When he was on the exile island, when Yunyi could fly, he wanted to fly up to take a look, but he encountered a spatial barrier and couldn't penetrate it. Until now, he was curious about the stars in the sky. When he came to the Red Leaf World, Tang Rui once talked about the blue light star, and wanted to make Yunyi have the strength, go and take a look.
It was really difficult for Yun Yi to guess when he would have the strength to break through the spatial barrier. Not to mention, soar through the sky and find a specific planet among thousands of stars.
Strength is fundamental.
He looked at the heretics all over the land with emotion. Is it necessary to continue to follow these people, it is not known when they will settle down. It's a waste of time to follow them aimlessly right now.
Do you want to tell them and go their separate ways? They may have a sunny way, but painting bread to satisfy hunger is just a thought after all. Is it worth gambling on a stable practice time for the sake of illusory hope?
After weighing all night, when the sky was a little bright, Yun Yi still hadn't made a decision, but he saw Zhou Fengquan get up quietly and hurriedly ran down the mountain.
Huh, what is he going to do, this guy can't harbor evil intentions, right?
Yun Yi hurriedly got up and secretly embellished it. With the cover of the forest, Yun Yi didn't have to worry about being discovered by Zhou Fengquan.
Zhou Fengquan went down the mountain and did not run away quickly, but calmed his breath and walked slowly towards the market in the town. Villagers who got up early had already set up stalls selling vegetables and meat.
He wandered in front of the stall, talking to the stall owner, but never bought a single green.
Yun Yi watched from a distance, pinched his chin, and his heart fluctuated a little. This guy still seems to have a heart, he is asking for information, and I don't know what he asked.
Knowing Zhou Fengquan's intentions, Yun Yi didn't follow anymore and quietly rushed back to Liunian Peak. Looking at the whole mountain during the day, the feeling is different from that at night. The middle of the mountain is extremely high and gently descends. This is also a place that has been criticized by the infidels, and the mountains are too gentle.
But at the foot of the mountain there are two other mountains, which slowly rise from the base of the mountain. The three summits form a huge three-legged bracket, and if you think of the blue sky, it looks like a giant tripod.
Looking at this terrain from afar, Yunyi calculated, what kind of formation can be used to hide the foot of the mountain? As long as the foot of the mountain is hidden, it is impossible to climb the mountain. If you hide heavy troops on the three mountains, you will be able to look at each other with horns and support each other.
It's definitely a gem. It's just too much work to disguise it.
Feeling disappointed, Yun Yi returned to Liunian Peak. Several of the women had already prepared their meals, and they didn't seem to mind being cultivators doing these chores.
While everyone was eating, Zhou Fengquan came back. He took a few mouthfuls of rice first, and then told everyone about his harvest, "I have inquired with the villagers, and there is an excellent place in the surrounding hundreds of miles, called Ripple Three Mountains." ”
"This mountain covers an extremely wide area, more than 80 miles, at the top of the Golden Snake Mountain Range. It is like a mass of water, divided into the outer mountain, the middle wave peak and the poison fang mountain. ”
"And such a good place?" the crowd looked at him in amazement. If a cultivator has a little strength, he will inevitably find a treasure place for cultivation. What Zhou Fengquan said is completely a wonderful place that is interlocking, can both defend and attack. No one occupies it, I can't say it.
Zhou Fengquan explained curtly: "This ripple three mountains do have a master, but it has not yet been determined. It is said that there are six sects that have been fighting for decades in order to possess them, and they have not yet been able to distinguish between winners and losers. ”
The eyes of the people lit up. Well, there have already been six snatches, and it must be a good place. If they can grab it, so can we.
Whoever grabs it goes to whom.
After the meal, Zhou Fengquan rushed over with more than a dozen people, saying that he wanted to find out the specific situation first. If there is an opportunity, then agree on a robbery plan.
After watching them go away, Yun Yi walked around the Flowing Year Peak with his hands behind his back. You don't like this place, and when you're gone, this mountain will be mine. I'll figure out the overall terrain before I make a plan. (To be continued.) )