Looking at the distant backs of Han Qixian and the others, Zhong Yuanyu slowly put away the faint smile on his face, and said seriously to the fellow monks around him: "See, there are such arrogant, unreasonable and unruly people in this world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This seat has known Han Qixian for many years, and it is the first time to see him helpless. Come to think of it, he, the master of the door, is not very happy. But then again, you brothers and sisters are still more optimistic about their disciples from now on. Especially the Linggen disciples, any of them are the hope of my Guiyuan Sect in the future. This spring competition is also an oversight of this seat. Yinglei was born as beautiful as a flower, coupled with excellent qualifications. Daoists pursue this kind of thing with each other, and even Taiyi Palace is difficult to interfere with. Although Lin Miaosheng provoked first, we still have to take warning. In this way, after you go back, you must strictly restrain your disciples. Today, this seat has established a new rule: if the spiritual root disciple cannot successfully build the foundation, he must not go down the mountain under any excuse. ”

Zhong Yuanyu is also for the safety of Lin Yinglei and others. After all, it is only at the foundation building stage that a monk can be regarded as having the power to protect himself. Although there are endless Jindan Grandmasters and Yuanying Patriarchs in the cultivation world, there are a few of them in each sect, but wearing the black iron ring designed by Yang Tianhong, even in the face of a strong enemy, Lin Yinglei and the others have a chance to escape. If you change to a Qi cultivator...... I'm afraid, it's really a dead end.

The Lord of the Luotu Palace, Guo Cong, looked at the direction where Han Qixian and the others had gone, and a faint worry was released in his eyes: "I'm afraid things are not that simple. Han is a bright and upright person, and he deserves to be a masterpiece among the monks. However, he has just taken over the Panxing Gate for a short time, and everyone under the door is probably not convinced by him. Yao Weiping and Zhang Dongqian are examples. From this point of view, even if Han Zhangmen suppresses the matter this time, Yao Weiping and Zhang Dongqian will definitely have trouble behind the scenes. This kind of person. I've seen a lot. Once you fancy something, you have to get it even if you fight for your life. Especially that Lin Miaosheng, he is simply a hungry ghost in color. I'm worried that even if Yinglei's apprentice gets rid of the entanglement this time, I'm afraid that he will still be firmly targeted by Lin Miaosheng in the future. ”

Xiong Jie, the master of the Flame Palace, had a loud voice, and he was as good as his name. It was as if the mountain bear was roaring: "The sect master shouldn't give Panxingmen any elixir." Those bastards are simply getting cheap and thinking more. I, Guiyuan Sect, am not easy to bully, and I actually pay attention to my disciples. If it were according to my old bear's temper, I should have gone up and chopped those two guys into meat sauce on the spot. ”

This was obviously too much, and all the monks of the Guiyuan Sect secretly shook their heads. Xiong Jie is rude, and his way of solving problems is also rough and simple. However, there is some truth in Xiong Jie's words: the best way to deal with people who are messing around is to kill them and never suffer in the future.

Liu Xuebing, the master of the Lingshui Palace, sighed: "Anyway, Hall Master Guo, your reputation as a disciple. This time it really spread the word. According to my estimate, Yinglei will have a sad life in the future. Even if there is no Lin Miaosheng of Panxing Sect, I am afraid that there will be Zhang Miaosheng, Hu Miaosheng, Wang Miaosheng and others from other sects who continue to come to my Yuan Sect to ask for a Taoist couple. This is where the real trouble lies. ”

Liu Xuebing's words were not false intimidation. Linggen disciples are gifted and intelligent, and the importance of double cultivation is that one of them has a strong and thorough ability to comprehend the Dao Law, so that he can guide the other party to get twice the result with half the effort in the cultivation process. What's more, Lin Yinglei has a beautiful face, which is extremely rare among monks. OK. Lin Yinglei's current cultivation is only in the Qi cultivation stage. Therefore. The monks who pursued him were also limited to two groups: Qi cultivation and foundation building. If Lin Yinglei's cultivation is higher, build a foundation, or even Jindan...... At that time, not to mention the Qi cultivation cultivators and foundation building cultivators, even the Yuanying Patriarch who cultivated behind closed doors and would not show up at all in ordinary times. I'm afraid that I will also come to Guiyuan Sect to sit down, on the surface, it is to ask for a cup of tea to drink, but in fact, it is also under the guise of wanting to get Lin Yinglei and the idea of double cultivation together.

Lin Miaosheng is disgusting though. But the sentence he said in front of Taiyi Palace is very reasonable: My fair lady, good gentleman.

Looking at the same door one by one, Chen Zhengjian, the deputy hall master of the Purple Furnace Palace, couldn't help but laugh "haha": "I really don't know what you guys are thinking with sad faces. It's not a hassle to do such a simple thing, so why waste energy?"

"Simple?"

Liu Xuebing, the master of the Lingshui Palace, was surprised by Chen Zhengjian's statement, and opened his mouth to say, "Senior Brother Chen, this matter is not as easy to solve as you think. Otherwise, let's make a bet: Yao Weiping and Zhang Dongqian of the Star Gate will definitely publicize the fact that Yinglei's disciples have spiritual roots among the various sects when they go back today. Even people who didn't see Yinglei at the Spring Tournament would come to my Guiyuan Sect to ask for a Taoist couple. At that time, I am afraid that this Waishan Welcome Hall will be full of people coming and going every day, and all kinds of trivial matters will be annoying. ”

Chen Zhengjian's wide sleeves flicked into the air, and he said nonchalantly: "What's this? Just tell them directly, isn't it okay for Yinglei's apprentice to marry a wife?"

Next to him, Lu Yunguang, the master of the Aoki Palace, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Marry?" Then tell me, who did Yinglei's apprentice marry?"

Chen Zhengjian glanced at him, and seemed to feel very strange about this question: "Who else could it be?" Of course, it's my apprentice Yang Tianhong. Yinglei's apprentice was originally brought up the mountain by him. There are twelve beautiful women who are as beautiful as flowers are devoted to him alone, and this kind of thing, even if I see it, I feel itchy and scratched. ”

After listening to Chen Zhengjian's answer, all the Guiyuan Sect monks present couldn't help but look at each other.

Xing Bing, the master of the Houtu Palace, frowned and looked at Chen Zhengjian, raising his voice: "Old Chen, do you really not understand or do you not understand? How can this kind of thing have anything to do with Yang Tianhong? His existence is of great significance to this sect. Although Yang Tianhong is not on Guiyuanzong Mountain, it is also a kind of protection in disguise. At present, all the affairs of this sect are being carried out in secret, and there is absolutely no room for difference, let alone let anyone with a heart find out that these things are related to Yang Tianhong. On the surface, it's just a marriage of Yinglei's apprentice. But in fact, everyone knows the difference between a monk's double practice and a secular marriage. Just throw Yang Tianhong out without any scruples, aren't you afraid that those guys who come to the door to marry will be vicious, but they will target Yang Tianhong? You have to understand that as long as the man dies, it will not be a problem for this woman to remarry. Is it possible to use secular rituals to bind her?"

Xing Bing's words were not intimidating.

Something like that. It has happened a lot before, and it abounds. Even in the storyteller's story, you can hear that because of her beauty, she was favored by the wicked, and then plotted against her husband and killed him. A case of dominating a beautiful woman. Wu Dalang in "Water Margin" was originally happy to sell baked cakes, but his wife Jin Lian was favored by the bully Ximenqing. Well, Wang Po also has elements of fueling the troubles and aiding the abuse. As a result, everyone knows that Wu Dalang died very badly, and Ximenqing put Pan Jinlian to bed. If it weren't for Wu Song's appearance, maybe the two of them would have become husband and wife. A few years later, Pan Jinlian had a big belly, and characters such as Ximen Erqing and Ximen Sanqing popped up. Then he used his brains against other women.

A similar situation happened to foreign devils in the other world. In the Bible, the wise and martial King David took a fancy to the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and also sent Uriah to the front to die, and then carried someone else's wife in the inner courtyard of the palace. This kind of despicable and shameless act, even God could not stand it, and directly punished David's son and killed it.

The most direct way to get something, apart from stealing and snatching. It is to kill the owner who owns it. It's the same with a beautiful woman, as long as she kills her husband, who is concerned about her. The next thing is much easier.

This is the case with the wife of the Odyssey in Homer's epic poem, and when everyone says that the Odyssey died in Troy, the poor queen can only face the bombardment of countless suitors. Lucky for the woman, Odyssey rushed home at the last minute. The rest is easy, and the enraged Odyssey hacks all the suitors to death. Think about it too. Lao Tzu was not at home, and a bunch of inexplicable people ran out to get my woman. This kind of thing can't be tolerated no matter what. Since you **** dare to do it, Lao Tzu will dare to kill.

Looking at all of you, Chen Zhengjian said with a smile: "You are thinking too much. This kind of thing, in fact, it is best to leave it to Yang Tianhong to solve. He's not as weak as you think. Let alone. He served in the secular court, and even though the monks were powerful, their status was still that of a commoner. If Yang Tianhong used his official body to suppress him, things would be much easier. That kid has always been clever and cunning, and even I am no match for him. I don't believe you guys are looking at it, and only he can solve the trouble of Yinglei's disciples. ”

......

Yan country, Xiangzhou.

Lin Yutong sat on a chair in the middle of the hall, full of confusion and sorrow.

The Lin family is a local wealthy family in Xiangzhou. There are hundreds of relatives from the upper and lower tribes, with high-rise mansions and large tracts of land. When the family is bigger, the more money is needed. The Lin family's caravan has made good profits over the years, whether it is the circulation of goods from the north and the south, or the long-distance trade to the west, the harvest is extremely rich.

Things have changed since last month. I don't know where the rumor came from, saying that Xiangzhou will have a big drought this year, and there will be no harvest. However, there are some signs for now. God seems to be following Xiangzhou this year, and after the New Year, it hasn't rained. Now, it's May, and it's going to be in ambush soon. In order to grab water, large-scale armed fights broke out between villages. Lin Yutong, as the patriarch of the Lin family, of course, has to consider the tens of thousands of acres of fertile land under the name of the Lin family. He paid for the repair of ditches and brought water from the great river to the east. However, the progress of the project is slow, and it will take at least more than a month to wait for the river to enter the fields.

The spread of rumors is getting bigger and bigger, and in addition to Xiangzhou, it has also spread to several neighboring states and counties. There is no difference in the content, it is still a major drought and natural disaster. Even the little dolls are singing nursery rhymes: "There is a great drought, people eat people".

It sounds really scary, but Lin Yutong knows that this may not be all rumors, and there are real elements in it. Yan and Chu are separated by a distance, and the drought that happened in Chu before also brought back news from the Lin family caravan. It was truly a hell of man-eaten, and even the bones of the dead were covered with tooth marks. The caravan sent by the Lin family to the south also suffered, encountering a large group of hungry people on the way, and all the goods were looted. Even dozens of Lin family martial artists who were in charge of the escort team were besieged and killed by the victims. Fortunately, the old butler who led the team was very experienced, and he rolled into the nearby quagmire early and pretended to be dead, so he escaped. He saw with his own eyes the corpse of the Lin family's martial artist being chopped into pieces by the hungry people and thrown into a cauldron to boil. The pot of broth was so fishy that people wanted to vomit when they smelled it, but the hungry victims ate it very sweetly. In front of thousands of disaster victims, dozens of burly and sturdy martial artists simply did not have enough to eat. The victims, whose eyes were green with hunger, pointed their butcher knives at their own people. First the old and infirm people were arrested, and then the women and children.

When the old housekeeper fled back to the Lin family, he only had one breath left.

Lin Yutong has always believed that the drought and famine are rumors. It is people with ulterior motives who are behind the scenes. In fact, this kind of thing is very common in previous history. Catastrophe means more opportunities. Who doesn't want to sit on that dragon chair?

The last words of the old housekeeper made Lin Yutong completely abandon ideas such as "rumors".

"Master, hurry up and make plans! I am afraid that this year's drought will not subside like this. Our Xiangzhou is quite good, there is a river nearby. Right now. The grain and rice in the disaster-stricken places of Chu State have reached an extremely high price. Although our side has not been affected too much for the time being, we must also make some preparations as early as possible. If not......"

At the last word, the old butler kicked his legs without finishing his words, and rolled his eyes.

Lin Yutong began to stock up on grain, but found that things were developing in a direction that exceeded his expectations.

More and more tenants fled Sangju.

At first, there were only a few households. Later, it became a mass exodus of dozens or hundreds of tenants. The seedlings in the fields have turned into dead grass, and the rent stipulated by the Lin family is very expensive. It's a full seven out of ten. Even in the good years, the tenants are barely able to fill their stomachs. In such a major drought year, the cost of secondary sowing alone is enough to kill people. Not to mention that when it is time to harvest, a large amount of harvest will be handed over to the Lin family.

If Lin Yutong had been smarter, he would have gathered tenants at this time and taken the initiative to reduce the rent. It's just that he has stayed in the position of patriarch for too long, and he is used to the extravagant days of being hugged by others. In Lin Yutong's view. Being able to spend money to renovate the ditch is already the Lin family's response to the drought. It is also a kind of preferential treatment given to tenants. This rent must be paid and paid, and it must be paid if it is not paid. What's more, the old housekeeper desperately brought news from the Chu State, this year, or even next year, the price of this grain will definitely double. If you can take the opportunity to stock up on grain and rice. When the time comes, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

Nima, if the tenant runs away, who will farm for Lao Tzu?

The Lin family released their servants and searched for fugitive tenants everywhere in the four miles and eight townships. Some were taken back to kill chickens and monkeys. Lin Yutong bribed the government and shackled these people to the public. For those slaves who signed a deed of sale with the Lin family and escaped, Lin Yutong directly ordered them to cut off their hands and feet, and Ling Chi in public.

The bloody corpse did not have the desired effect in the slightest. The number of tenants fleeing is increasing day by day. In order to run faster, they even abandoned their house possessions and left in a hurry, taking only their clothes and soft clothes.

Several tenants who were arrested couldn't survive the lynching of the Lin family, and confided in the truth: someone contacted the tenants in private, gave them money, guided their route, and urged them to flee all the way to the south, to the Chu State. The amount of money given by these people is not very large, claiming that it is only a deposit. If they can escape to Chu and get to the designated place, the tenants can still get a large amount of money.

said that it was a large sum, but in fact, it was two taels of silver per person. In Lin Yutong's view, this money is certainly not worth mentioning. But in the eyes of the tenants, it is a huge amount of money. In the countryside, one penny, or a copper plate, can buy two steaming meat buns, or a bowl of pork noodles with generous portions. For the money system, all countries in the world are the same, they are all a thousand copper plates, which are worth one or two pieces of silver. Each person carries 2,000 copper plates in his arms, and he can indeed walk the world.

There are as many as 1,000 tenants under the name of the Lin family. According to the tenants' account confessions, those people gave money to the point that even the elderly and children were counted. If there are dozens of people in a family, the cost may be as much as hundreds of taels of silver.

Things were beyond Lin Yutong's imagination. He really didn't understand what the purpose of the person who could come up with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to do this was true, natural disasters and droughts were the truth, but they would not take everyone on the ground of the Lin family away under this guise. Doesn't the other party understand the reason that even without these tenants, the Lin family can still continue to recruit a group from the poor people?

The Lin family never recruited new tenants. Even if Lin Yutong later opened his mind and reduced the land rent to the ratio of ten to five, no one was willing to work for the Lin family. The other party came to take a look, and when they saw that the dry and cracked field was full of dead seedlings, they rolled up their sleeves and shook their heads and left. No one is a fool, and they all know that if they take over at such a time, they will have to throw a lot of money into this field to dig a ditch for water. Even the simplest method requires manual digging of wells in the field. It's not their own land, anyway, it's all rented seeds, and only idiots who eat too much will honestly take over the Lin family's fields and work hard for them.

In less than two months, all the tenants of the Lin family have run out.

No matter how much Lin Yutong roared and got angry, it was useless. The situation ahead of us is already very serious. This year's harvest is bound to be minimal. Even if the rent continues to be lowered, the only way to keep the land is to keep the land and hope for a harvest next year.

Ditch repair works have also encountered difficulties. Not all parts of the country are arid. The land in Xiangzhou is dry, but near the river, it rains heavily. The turbulent river water broke the river embankment, and the Lin family ditch was also stuck by the huge rocks washed down from the upstream, and the slightest river water could not fall in. Later, in order to prevent the dam from collapsing, the water control officials sent by the Yan court directly ordered all the ditches along the coast to be blocked. (To be continued.) )