On the ninth day of the fourth month of descent from the mountain, October 7, the sky was overcast for a long time.

A few days ago, I took Lin Luoluo around every day to take a look, and walked through the streets and alleys of the entire Jianye City.

In previous years, the total population of Jianye City was more than three times that of Qingcheng, but now it seems that it is far less prosperous than Qingcheng.

The vast majority of shops have closed down, and the few remaining are still struggling and miserable, except for a few pharmacies in the city, which line up in long lines every day, working overtime to save lives and help the wounded.

After getting acquainted with the city, I took the forest and fell out of the city to see the villages outside the city, the "Yangtze River", a big river that burst its embankment in the north of the city, a good field that was washed away by a flood and had no harvest, a world of wailing and suffering, and a world as cold as paper.

On the banks of the riverbanks, which had been washed away by the flood that summer, there were many men who were building the embankments shirtless, and where the heads were moving, and where the soldiers were holding whips to supervise the work.

I didn't take Lin Luoluo over, I just watched from afar, many things, I had a rough guess in my heart, but I still didn't want to let Lin Luoluo come into contact too early.

"Master, Luoluo wants to study medicine when he grows up." Lin Luoluo said to me suddenly.

"Why do you suddenly have such an idea?" I was a little surprised.

"Studying medicine can save people, they are all sick." Lin Luoluo was a little sad.

"Not only are they sick, but the world is also sick, and the Buddha can't save them." I looked at the hazy sky and was in a trance.

"No, the Buddha can't save them, Master, you can. Master, didn't you say that you are the Buddha of the world, even if you take off your clothes, you are still a Buddha, Master, didn't you save a lot of people along the way? "Lin Luoluo enlightened me like a little adult.

Take off your clothes and go!

Take off your clothes and go!

Take off your clothes and go!

I froze in place, closed my eyes, and felt like a thunderclap in my ears, these five words have been lingering in my mind for a long time, and instantly scared me into a cold sweat.

It took me a while to come to my senses, and I just felt my palms sweating.

"Luoluo, thank you." I said with a smile and Luoluo.

"Huh?" Lin Luoluo's small head had big doubts.

"Let's go back."

On the way back with Lin Luoluo, I felt rejuvenated, I knew the meaning of my coming to Jiangnan, Lin Luoluo was really my lucky star.

[Traveling all over the Jiangnan soil,]

[The wind rises and the leaves dance. 】

[A word is like thunder,]

[The Buddha awakens the suffering of all beings. 】

When I returned to Feng's house, I asked someone to find me a few sets of ordinary people's clothes. In Lin Luoluo's surprise, I changed out of my monk's robes, washed them, dried them, and put them in my bag.

[All living beings are suffering, when they take off their clothes! ] 】

From then on, I was the bald head of the market and the Buddha of the world.

I began to slowly figure out my thoughts one by one, what to do next, I can't be in a hurry, sharpen the knife and not chop wood; Nor can it be a woman's kindness, and it is difficult to become a great weapon.

......

Until today, Feng Xiaoer finally finished the preliminary work and came to me with a sad face.

"Master, how do you wear such clothes? What about monks' robes and robes? "When Feng Xiaoer saw me, he was shocked.

"Don't wear it, you get down to business." I don't want to explain anything more.

Feng Xiaoer shook his head, found a stool to sit down, took the quilt and poured himself a glass of water.

"Master, two pieces of news, both bad news. Both the food and the plague were much worse than expected. ”

"No good news?" I frowned, it was terrible.

"I'm sorry, master, there's really no good news at the moment, Jiangnan has become a mess, no wonder Feng Yunyue asked me to come, it turned out that I was asked to clean up the mess." Feng Xiaoer shook his head as he spoke.

"Amitabha~ I know that his favor has never been so helpful! Let's talk about it first. "I also looked helpless, and if I came, I was safe.

Feng Xiaoer opened his mouth and said: "Let's talk about grain first, at present, there are only three grain shops of our Feng family and two grain shops of the Zhu family left in Jianye City, a total of five are still in operation, and the rest have closed down." As for the granary of the City Lord's Mansion, it has not been opened yet. ”

I took over: "I've been walking around Jianye City in the past few days, and I've found out about these things. ”

Feng Xiaoer continued: "Moreover, the price of grain in Jianye City is very expensive, and the grain in Jianye City and even the entire Jiangnan jurisdiction is nearly seventy percent more expensive.

In Qingcheng, one stone of grain, three taels of silver; Here in Jianye City, one stone of grain costs five taels of silver. It's nearly seventy percent more expensive, and it's all taxes. Moreover, the entrance of the grain shop is guarded by the soldiers of the city lord, and it is strictly forbidden for us to sell it for less than five taels and one stone. ”

I pressed my temple: "This... It's outrageous. ”

Feng Xiaoer drank saliva and continued: "According to Feng Yangyue's requirements at the beginning, we don't make money, as long as the cost is recovered. When the price was set in Qingcheng, it was three taels and one stone, but I didn't expect that the plague in Jianye City and Jiangnan was in trouble, and the price was actually set at the lowest five taels and one stone. ”

"Why are taxes so bad?" I asked.

Taxation has become a key issue.

Feng Xiaoer's face was angry: "It is said that it was privately decided by the city lord 'Zhou Shiqi', and anyone who does not comply and resists will either go out of business, or be arrested and locked up in the dungeon on trumped-up charges." ”

I shook my head, this thing is already out of the ordinary.

I turned the subject and asked, "Tell me how the plague is doing?" ”

Feng Xiaoer said: "Master, the Feng family in Jianye City has not opened a pharmacy, because the head of the Zhu family is a famous miracle doctor, and the Zhu family is also a family of doctors, so our Feng family gave up this piece of business, and we can't compete in the first place." ”

A picture flashed through my mind, the head of the house? Miracle Doctor? It shouldn't be that coincidental.

Feng Xiaoer continued: "I went to Zhu's house to inquire about the situation, and at least more than forty percent of the population of Jianye City fled.

The old, weak, sick, and poor are estimated to be sick and die, and the rest of the people who are in good health or rich are still alive and well.

All the low-level livelihoods in Jianye City have been completely paralyzed, and it is equivalent to sitting on a mountain and eating nothing.

Maybe the common people can survive this winter, but there will be more than half a year before the grain harvest next year, and eighty percent will not be able to survive.

Rely on us alone, be cool. ”

"It's a real mess." Hearing this, my brow furrowed into a Sichuan character.

"By the way, master, someone has been arranged to investigate the matter of the protection fee and the strong man, and I believe it won't take long to have specific clues."

"You can send someone to the embankment to check on the matter of the strong man. Then, you can make arrangements to come and meet the head of the Zhu family together to see if you can seek cooperation and help. "Feng Xiaoer and I proposed.

"Good! I'll arrange it, and the master will wait for my message. Feng Xiaoer left after speaking.

......

At this time, I suddenly remembered a book I had read in the temple before, which contained a sentence that I liked very much:

'The morning rooster announces the dawn, and the crows make noise, all making noise in the red dust.

Do you think black and white red dust is not red dust? The living are not dead? ’

Alas...

Even though Jiangnan is now a mess and a thousand entanglements, since I am here, then do my best to figure it out slowly, and don't let yourself leave regrets.

I hope that when I return to the mountain, I can have the confidence to say to you:

In this world, I have been here, I have worked hard, I have loved deeply, and I don't care about the ending.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.