Chapter 22: Ram City

Ram City, the city of a thousand years.

It is rumored that thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Ram clan were instructed by the masters to migrate to this place, and invited real people to find the dragon and fix the vein, and finally built the ancestral temple on the spiritual vein of this place, which set the luck of a clan, which has the foundation of the prosperity of the Ram clan.

Because of the blessing of the ancestral temple, the Ram clan has gone all the way, although there are tribulations, but can always turn evil into auspiciousness, and there are pillars from generation to generation, several generations must have great talents, the Ram clan in the unremitting efforts of thirteen generations, and finally became a thousand-year-old family that dominates one side.

Ram City is built by the mountains and rivers, the feng shui is excellent, the back is against the Daqing Mountain, the side is surrounded by the big river, and the jade belt is wrapped around the waist. The name of the jade-belt-like river is very common, it is called Qingshui River, and the water is as clean and clear as her name. The Qingshui River flows out of the Qinghe Valley at the western foot of Daqing Mountain, and flows south around the Ram City for half a circle.

The Qingshui River is less than ten zhang wide and less than 100 meters deep, but it is the mother river recognized by the people of Ram City, because she raised the entire Ram City.

Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Ram clan ate the water of the Qingshui River, and thousands of years later, the people of the Ram City still eat the water of the Qingshui River.

Ram City is not a male city, at best it is only a big city, the city stands according to the situation, builds with the trend, opens three gates, one door to the Qingshui River, called 'Qingshui Gate', the main gate is 'Ram Gate', the east gate is 'Yong'an Gate', the main gate of the three gates is the highest, the second son of the East Gate, the Qingshui Gate again, although the size is different, but the shape is very similar, the most obvious is that there is a statue of a god on both sides of each city gate.

The statue of the god is made of the best stone, and then please be able to carve it carefully, each one has a certain size, standing in front of the three-zhang city wall does not show the slightest shortage, but makes people look hard to see.

Each of these statues is erected by the Ram clan, and only the Ram clan has the right to erect it, which is something that many people can't envy.

These six statues represent that there are six ancestors of the Ram clan enjoying the incense of the people of Ram City here.

Of course, these statues are not just good-looking, they are all alive, when the statues are opened, the ancestral spirits in the ancestral temple of the Ram clan will be combined with the gods, and from then on, they will become the most primitive gods, door gods.

The door gods, guarding the people of a city, keeping one side safe, although they are humble and weak, but they are the most beloved gods of the people, because they are there day and night, supporting the most basic protective barrier of Ram City, whenever night falls, a large number of evil spirits will be blocked out of the barrier.

The six statues of the gods in the Ram City are connected to the six small gods in the temple of the Ram Clan's mansion, so the protection of the Ram City is controlled by the Ram Clan, and the guardian circle of the Ram Mansion is the core of the enchantment.

Under normal circumstances, although there are also weak evil spirits smuggled into the city, those high-ranking evil spirits are generally unable to escape the eyes of the door gods because the evil qi on their bodies is too heavy, and it is difficult for them to enter the city.

Ram City is a small and medium-sized city with a population of nearly 100,000 people, although it is not big, but there is also a radius of thousands of miles, composed of the inner city and the outer city, the residents of the outer city account for seventy percent of the total population of the Ram City, mainly engaged in the cultivation of the spirit valley, raising spirit beasts and poultry, also known as the spirit farmer, they are the foundation of the ram city, and the source of life in the inner city depends on the outer city to provide.

Although they are very important to the Ram City, they have no power or power, and the real upper-class people live in the inner city, settling around the 'Spring and Autumn Kendo Academy', and of course, those with more status will buy family businesses around the Ram Mansion in Canterlot.

Anyone who can gain a foothold in Central City is a true noble family in Ram City, at least a hundred years old, and a family that has not gone through a hundred years of ups and downs, even if they have money, is not eligible for this privilege.

With the central city as the central axis to extend to the south, it is the most prosperous area of the Ram City, known as the 'Ram Market', the Ram Market is lined with storefronts on both sides, and there are large and small stalls extending, and the flow of people is like weaving.

In the ram set, all the items needed for daily life, can be bought here, the merchants here also have grades, the location of ordinary merchants is more partial, large merchants occupy important places, and the ram set all occupy the best position belongs to the three special industries: dart shop, talisman shop, medicine hall, as for other restaurants, gambling houses, green buildings and the like, are not into the stream.

Dart line, as the name suggests, is to walk the dart, but the dart master here is not trivial, all of them are spiritual disciples or above, and most of the backgrounds are extraordinary, behind each dart line is a family, take the Ram clan as an example, they established the 'Spring and Autumn Dart Line' is to take the Ram's children as the main members.

After many ram children complete the practice of the kendo academy, they will choose to join the family dart line, follow their father's uncle and uncle to the north and south, while practicing, while accumulating wealth, the road of cultivation is inseparable from various resources, and resources are money to put it bluntly, and the way to make money in sword cultivation is mainly to darts, of course, it is okay to be a robber and a killer.

Outside the dart line is the charm shop, the charm shop, here is not up to the tall, is a public daily necessities store, here mainly sells the primary town evil charm, this kind of charm every household is inseparable from the daily life, sleep on the door of the sticker, put the charm on the dining table, go out with the charm.

All spirit children, evil charms can not leave the body, so people with children, people with old people, people without cultivation, basically the use of talismans has become a part of life, so the talisman shop mainly sells talismans, as for some magic weapons, high-level talismans, but sell relatively little.

Compared with the approachability of the talisman shop, the medicine hall, that is, there is no money when you are sick, don't come in, every elixir here is not something that ordinary Lingnong families can afford, what to do if ordinary people are sick, one kind of prayer to God, this is the cheapest, maybe God will bless, the second kind goes to the talisman shop to Taotao, maybe you can meet the sick talisman with good luck.

The third is to wait for death.

There is no fourth, the medicine hall is not for ordinary people, and the elixir in it is not for people to eat, but only for spiritual cultivation, so compared to the overcrowded talisman shops, the medicine halls are too deserted.

Of course, there are exceptions, in the southernmost part of the Ram Market, there is a talisman shop called 'Baoantang', and there is a medical hall called 'Baohetang' opposite the talisman shop, but the business here is surprisingly better than the Baoantang opposite.

And the waiting patients actually lined up for a long time, twisting and turning into a great spectacle, and then look at these people in line, there are old and young, both men and women, and most of them are dressed plainly, most of them are sackcloth, and many of them are still patched.

At a glance, I knew that there was not much money in my hand, and there was no money to seek medical treatment, and there was no sadness on my face, which was strange.

All young and old lined up happily, and from time to time someone said a joke that made everyone laugh.

At this time, a carriage came from the north, pulling the carriage was a reddish-brown high-headed spirit horse, the spirit horse was fat and strong, the fur was bright, the carriage came, the waiting crowd immediately became silent, one by one cautiously looked at the carriage, this must be a nobleman, not to mention the people inside, even the horse pulling the cart is more expensive than their lives.