Looking at Lou Hong's natural appearance, Zhou Shang couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he also wanted to ask Lou Hong how the forces of the old man would react, and the representatives of the forces of the old man were by his side.

And from the other party's words, Zhou Shang also heard an important piece of information: "So the loss of martial arts in the Qi Realm is not only because of natural elimination, but also because of the ban of the sect forces?" ”

"That's right."

Lou Hong nodded, and said as a matter of course: "According to the consensus of the Xuanling cultivation world today, contacting martial arts before entering the product will do more harm than good to the martial artist, and for the sake of the cultivator's long-term future, it should naturally be banned!" ”

When he said this, Lou Hong didn't feel anything wrong at all, as if everything was for the good of the cultivator.

Obviously, the concept that the righteous path bans the sentimental martial arts is for the future of the martial artist has been indestructible in the hearts of the other party.

But is that really the case?

Zhou Shang was a little skeptical: "How long has the sect banned the Qi Feeling Martial Arts?" ”

"How long?"

Lou Hong was stunned when he heard the question, then shrugged his shoulders and said with an indifferent face: "Who remembers this, but there must have been hundreds of years." ”

"After hundreds of years, has this initiative achieved anything?"

Zhou Shang asked again: "I mean, for ordinary people, has it become easier or more difficult to practice martial arts now?" How much more has the number of products in the world become than hundreds of years ago? ”

"What's wrong with you?"

Lou Hong loves to think and study in martial arts, but he is a little weaker in other aspects, hearing this series of questions, his head is big, but he still subconsciously replied: "Now it is definitely easier to practice than before, you see that this Yongning is all over the Dao Hall, and the number of products must be more than before!" ”

The answers to some questions don't need to be thought about.

Because it's already preset in mind, it's like a trap, just trigger.

And if you want to refute this answer, the other party will not doubt themselves, but will try their best to defend it.

So Zhou Shang didn't argue, just looked up at the sky, and then asked Lou Hong: "Is the commander free now?" ”

"What?"

Lou Hong was puzzled.

Zhou Shang took Lou Hong to the post station in Yongning City.

This post station, called Wantong, was built at the hub of the Sifang Post Road, and it is said to be a station, but it can actually be regarded as a small city.

Because the barns of the Qiankun trading house and the major grain merchants were all built here.

Since the spread of the rice seed business, this is the most lively place in Yongning, there are cars and horses coming and going all the time on the post road, and trucks with three or five mules and horses abound, all of which are local or foreign, to buy and sell goods.

In this way, there are naturally all kinds of restaurants, restaurants, shops, street stalls and small markets.

Of course, it's more about the workers.

Today, Yongning City's revitalized rice cultivation land has exceeded one million mu, with three crops a year, and an average yield of 3,000 catties per mu, so that every time the grain is harvested, it is an extremely exaggerated number.

This kind of work is by no means the amount that can be done by any self-employed worker, so a considerable number of helpers are needed.

In the first two years, when the rice is harvested in each season, the salary of the helper can reach 100 or 200 yuan per day.

The three-crop rice farmers are busy for 45 days, and if they can hold on, this alone is a lot of income.

The people of Yongning are very wide for a while.

But alas, it didn't take long for a long time, and the huge grain production gave birth to special workshops.

First of all, the number of cultivated beasts has skyrocketed, a few years ago, the number of cultivated beasts in Yongning was about tens of thousands, and an average of twenty people was not enough.

But now, if anyone doesn't have one or two cultivators and pack beasts, they can't be considered to be able to live.

In addition to the explosion in the number of cultivated animals, tools are also an important factor affecting productivity.

The stalks that are like small trees that can only be cut down by ordinary helpers with a sharp scythe are as fragile as weeds for warriors who use special tools.

A martial artist with a great vein, using special tools, can harvest dozens or hundreds of acres of fields a day, and at the same time as harvesting wheat, he will also complete the threshing work.

Of course, this kind of tool is not exquisite, usually an acre of land is harvested, can only receive less than 2,08 catties, but in the end, whether it is the cost per mu, or efficiency, it is more cost-effective than finding a large number of helpers.

As a result, the spring that belonged to the farm helpers did not last for two years, and it quickly entered the cold winter.

The place where Zhou Shang brought Lou Hong to see the current employment situation at the bottom of Yongning.

The time is the middle of autumn, it is the golden time for grain in and out of the warehouse, in addition to the cars and horses next to the long dragon on the post road, it is the smell of food and sweat floating all over the street.

Tens of thousands of workers gather here simply because there are so many job opportunities here.

"One hundred steps outside the Pingshi warehouse to load the car, twenty bags for one penny, don't move a hundred bags of waste!"

"There are more than one hundred and fifty steps outside the warehouse to load, fifteen bags of one penny, the goods are urgent, only half a day!"

"Eighty steps outside the warehouse, twenty-five bags of one penny!"

On the warehouse, the foreman's shouting was as loud as thunder, but it made Lou Hong frown and said to Zhou Shang beside him:

"What kind of bastard are these foremen talking about, a bag of grain weighs 100 catties, moves 100 steps to load a truck, and only one child in a dozen or twenty bags, who will do this kind of work!"

Lou Hong's words were sarcastic, expecting that no one would apply for the work at all, but he didn't want the foreman to say that as soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of thousands of people on the street either put down their dishes and chopsticks, or swallowed food, rushed to the nearest platform, and then raised their hands to fight.

Lou Hong could see clearly that there were many monks who had already become angry when they ran to Taichung, but when they were called by name, they were as happy as if they had picked up a bargain, and after registering their names, they rushed into the warehouse, and after a while, they carried out the rice bags from the warehouse.

Three or five bags less, seven or eight bags more, and then ran to the car outside the warehouse a hundred steps to load.

Then he quickly ran back to the warehouse, and after a while, he came out with a bag of rice like ants moving.

The weather in late autumn can be called cool, but it is very hot in the post city, and the workers are just carrying back and forth, loading and unloading, running, and sweating a few times.

The big carts outside the warehouse were filled at an alarming speed, and one or two were sent out.

can seem to be such a hot work scene, but Lou Hong is getting more and more popular.

Because in his eyes, these people were no longer monks, but pack beasts, a group of pack beasts in human form.

"This is the granary of Liang, Nian, and Mi, right?"

Lou Hong trembled with anger, and his tone was full of murderous intent: "The foreman dares to oppress these monks, it must be at the behest of the head of the family, I will go and screw off the three of their heads!" ”

After finishing speaking, he was about to take a few foremen not far away to start the knife, but he was grabbed by the arm of Zhou Shang with a calm face: "Commander Lou is not curious, why are so many people willing to work under such harsh conditions?" ”

Seeing that Lou Hong was grabbed, Zhou Shang pointed to the workers gathered under the warehouse again, and said lightly: "Look at their appearance." ”

Lou Hong followed Zhou Shang's hope, it was the workers who were scrambling under the warehouse, at this time the recruitment had been completed, and the foremen were no longer named, and the remaining group of workers were walking back, full of loss, as if they were still disappointed that they had not won a job.

This scene made Lou Hong, who had always been proud of martial arts, even more angry, his eyes were almost spewing fire, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "I am willing to fall, and I am not worthy of practicing martial arts!" ”

"Is it self-depraved to work hard in exchange for payment?"

Zhou Shang asked rhetorically: "So Commander Lou thinks, how can he not be willing to fall?" Farming at home, robbing homes, blocking roads and stealing money, or doing business on the streets? ”

"I ......"

Lou Hong was speechless for a while, but he still insisted on his opinion: "Anyway, at this stage of feeling qi, they should focus more on cultivation and on channeling qi to open up the meridians, instead of spending time on such meaningless things!" ”

"Isn't it pointless..."

Zhou Shang repeated Lou Hong's assessment noncommittally, and then walked to a street stall not far away.

While the two were talking, the group of workers who were not supposed to work had already returned to their original positions.

What Zhou Shang went to was a square dining table on the side of the street.

There was a guest at the table, obviously a man with a sentimental realm, about thirty years old.

The man had just put down half of the food he had eaten and ran to work, but unfortunately he didn't respond, so he returned to the stall and ate the swollen sea bowl of thick noodles that had been a little soaked.

When Zhou Shang and Lou Hong sat down, the man glanced up, immediately stopped eating, and swallowed the noodles in his mouth.

Although they are dressed in regular clothes, Lou Hong and Zhou Shang's own bearings are very different from ordinary people, like powerful people.

The man's face was overjoyed, thinking that he had come to a big job, so he wiped his mouth indiscriminately and recommended himself: "The two masters want to employ workers?" ”

"It's not an employment, I'm looking for you to ask something."

Zhou Shang replied with a smile, who knew that as soon as the words fell, he saw that the smile on the man's face quickly collapsed, and he bowed his head in annoyance and prepared to continue eating noodles.

But I heard the sound of two large coins clasped on the table.

"Don't ask in vain, as long as you answer honestly, the money is yours."

Zhou Shangshang tapped his fingertips on the table, two big coins, and asked the man: "Seeing that you are also cultivated, why don't you go to the city to work, but to work as a coolie in the post city?" ”

"Why? Of course, it's because I earn a lot! ”

Hearing that he could earn two dollars by talking, the man immediately changed his face and replied flatteringly.

Lou Hong, who had been unhappy since he sat down, was even more unhappy when he heard this: "Twenty bags of rice and a hundred steps are only one penny, is this a lot?" Do you even count!? ”

"Look at what this master said, you said that it is still the year when you were picking up money all over the ground, and it would be nice to have this reward now!"

The man had a full man who didn't know that he was hungry, and defended: "With our body, if we resist him 1,800 bags a day, that's the income of forty or fifty big money, isn't this much better than the workers in the city?" ”

Lou Hong was speechless: "Just for such a little profit, what about your own cultivation, regardless of it?" ”

"Practice?"

The man was puzzled at first, and then reacted: "Oh oh, you mean to practice, hey, anyway, that's how my life is, this is only the age of six serious things, and there is no hope of practicing the product, it's better to earn some money in a down-to-earth manner, support your family and children, isn't it better than daydreaming?" ”

While speaking, the foreman of the warehouse over there shouted again, and the man didn't even have time to take the money on the table, so he put down the bowl and ran to work again, but unfortunately, he didn't respond this time, and walked back with a scolding.

What kind of ear power did Zhou Shang and Lou Hong have, even in such a noisy environment, they could clearly hear the man's muttering.

"It's all to blame for this broken mouth, one hundred and thirty steps to say a hundred steps is about your, it's not out, it's not out, it's okay, it's hated, let you talk more, let you talk more!"

was obviously targeted, but the man scolded not others, but himself, if it weren't for the fact that there were many people, he would even want to scrape his ears.

As he sat back in his seat, the man sighed heavily.

Seeing the man's unpromising appearance, Lou Hong said angrily: "If you can have a little backbone, you won't be bullied!" ”

The man glanced at Lou Hong, didn't say anything, picked up the increasingly lumpy sea bowl in front of him, and snorted and took another bite.

Seeing the man's appearance of not entering the oil and salt, Lou Hong was even more angry, but Zhou Shang suddenly asked: "I heard that the Five Emperors Dojo has a fund to help the Qi Feeling Cultivators, and it can be used for all cultivation pills, if you can get through a few more canons, even if it is only to the extent that the twelve canons are connected, the treatment and income will be very different, why don't you try it?" ”

The man didn't answer, just put down the sea bowl and asked, "This master shouldn't have a family yet, right?" ”

"What does this have to do with whether or not you have a family?"

Lou Hong, who had already held his breath, said viciously.

"Of course it is! I went up to the mountain to practice, what should I do with the acres of land at home? What should I do if my mother-in-law and children eat? ”

The man asked rhetorically: "There is no man in the family to take care of it, can it be that the fields are deserted, the mother-in-law steals the man, and the children are bullied by outsiders?" ”

Faced with a series of questions, Lou Hong was speechless.

But the man seemed to be more and more energetic the more he spoke: "Besides, if you borrow money, you will definitely be able to practice, what if you can't practice?" ”

Saying this, the man stretched out a pair of hands covered with thick fist calluses, spread them on the table, and said lightly: "I have been martial arts since I was a child, and I practiced boxing with the boxers in the village at the age of four or five. The boxer in the village said that I have roots and qualifications, and I am stronger than him, and I can enter the product in ten years at most! ”

"My parents believed it, in order to provide me with food and clothing, and sold my two younger sisters, at that time I also believed that I could get ahead by practicing boxing! But it's been ten years, I've been practicing hard for ten years, my family has been dragged down by me, and my parents have starved to death, but I'm still just a feeling, just a person who has broken through the six serious rules, and I feel the situation!! ”

"How long will it take me to get through the Twelve? What about the eight veins of the Qi Sutra? What about Sun Luo? How many more years do I need to practice? Ten years, twenty years, or thirty years? ”

"Two masters, you are all masters, tell me, how long do you need to practice before you can Xiao Zhoutian!?"

The man's voice grew louder and louder, and at last he almost roared, attracting the guests at the tables next to him to look here.

There was not much excitement or schadenfreude in those eyes, but a calm gaze of empathy and unbearable remembrance.

For a sect disciple like Lou Hong, the Feeling Qi Realm is a transitional realm that can be roughly ignored, but for the vast majority of ordinary people, this realm is their complete cultivation life.

Faced with such a questioning full of life experience, Lou Hong only felt panicked, and the solid monument in his heart, called Taoism, was crumbling, but he still defended himself: "Cultivation is difficult in advance and easy later, you have already cleared the six canons, and later.... It's going to be soon... It's going to be a little bit faster. ”

"Heh, it's hard first, then easy."

The man sneered, picked up the rice bowl with both hands, and had a look on his face that had seen through: "The two masters should be the masters of which martial arts hall in the city, this kind of talk is better to deceive the kind of young people who love to dream, I want to earn two dollars now, I can occasionally drink a drink, eat meat every now and then, and let the mother-in-law and the baby live more comfortably." Practicing this kind of thing, the small ones are not worthy. ”