In the illusion of the corpse, the flow of time is naturally very different from that in the human world.

Zhang Tinglai was lucky.

If he hadn't met Niu Yuanping, even if he was in the illusion realm and didn't die, when he came out again, many years might have passed......

In Wanling, Niu Yuanping killed the corpse ghost, avoiding the second person who came to Bu Zhangting's footsteps.

In Taize City, Zhang Tinglai came to assist the yamen in arresting the liar, but he avoided the second person and became Fu Chuansuo.

In short, there will always be a knife that is used to kill the demons in the mountains and the thieves in the world.

……

At this time.

Niu Yuanping continued to hurry.

Unknowingly, he had been traveling in the territory of the Great Yan Kingdom for more than half a year.

In the past six months, a lot of goods have been received.

There are not a hundred to kill demons and ghosts, but also eighty.

It's just that after the superbrain system is upgraded to version 2.0, it seems that when it is upgraded again, the energy required becomes more.

Absorbing so much demonic bioelectric energy, the system has only been upgraded to version 2.1 again.

Also, version 2.1 of the Superbrain system does not unlock new skills.

You'll have to wait until you upgrade to version 2.5 to unlock a weapon called the "Silence Laser".

But at this rate of upgrading, I'm afraid it's still early......

No way.

I can only continue to work hard and kill more demons and ghosts.

Today.

Niu Yuanping came to a small village called Yunzhou City, Xiangmu Village.

Although this is a village under the jurisdiction of Yunzhou City, due to its remoteness and distance from the city government, many people in the village do not know that the city to which they belong is under the jurisdiction.

People only know that this place is called Xiangmu Village.

Niu Yuanping came to this village and rested for the time being.

As usual, find a place where people gather for small talk, sit down and have a cup of tea.

You can hear something new.

So, I came to the small teahouse at the head of the village.

Put a silver ingot and scald a pot of tea.

I chatted with the people in the small teahouse.

"I'm a well-traveled person who likes to listen to stories, is there anything new in your village? If you are happy, I invite you to drink wine and eat tea. ”

Niu Yuanping sat among the villagers, took a sip of tea, and asked casually.

A middle-aged man who smoked a cigarette pouch breathed out the smoke in his mouth and smiled, "Like to listen to novelties? Then you've got the right person! ”

He took another puff on his cigarette pouch.

opened the conversation.

"In our village, something new has happened!"

At this time, another person hurriedly interrupted, "Do you want to say it...... Ma family's business, right? ”

The cigarette pouch man nodded, "That's right, it's his business!"

At this moment, Niu Yuanping was suddenly interested.

"What happened to this man?" He poured the man a cup of tea and handed it over, "Come and hear it."

The man took a sip of tea and began to speak.

The person next to him, too, from time to time, makes a little addition.

Originally.

In Xiangmu Village, there is a farmer named Ma Quan, who is quite famous in the local village.

Speaking of the origin of Ma Quan's fame, it is related to his character.

Ma Quan is honest and kind-hearted.

It is precisely because of his kindness that Ma Quan is known to many people.

However, kindness is kindness, but Ma Quan is not welcomed.

Because sometimes, his kindness seems to be a little extreme.

In other words, it's too much kindness.

Ma Quan has never killed or eaten meat since he was a child, he swept the floor for fear of hurting the lives of ants, and cherished the moth gauze lamp.

Many people say that he is a monk.

But Ma Quan is an authentic farmer.

Spring ploughing, summer planting, autumn harvest, and winter storage in a year are a lot.

But farming is not an easy task, especially when it comes to insect infestation.

Farmers also have a variety of methods to control pests. Plant-based ones include chia grass, mangweed, etc., animal ones include mirage, fishy water, etc., and mineral ones include salt, sulfur, lime, arsenic-frost, etc. Methods used include mixing into seed collections, planting with seeds, soaking in water or boiling juice for spraying, lighting smoke, applying insect holes, etc.

When pests are rampant, there will be a grand occasion of "national insect hunting".

However, because Ma Quan doesn't like to kill, he never removes insects in his fields.

As a result, Ma Quan's fields are plagued by pests, and there is not much grain grown every year.

Sometimes, many people ask Ma Quan, what's the point of you farming like this without getting rid of insects?

Ma Quan would smile stupidly when someone asked such a question, and replied, "The five grains are the food of a hundred insects, and it is really selfish to choose to occupy them in the fields because we also need them as a food for the stomach." Now that we have a foregone conclusion that we will take food from the mouths of the worms, we should not exterminate them again. I'll take a piece of the pie so that I can pay off the karmic debt of all sentient beings. ”

……

Ma Quan's words are often full of Zen wit, coupled with his strange behavior and overflowing kindness, which makes Ma Quan famous in the local area. However, the other farmers did not choose to be close to Ma Quan, or even stay away from him, because of his kindness.

After all, it's always strange that a farmer doesn't do what a farmer should do.

Some people even think that Ma is a fool.

……

Ma Quan not only farms mavericks, but also chooses not to exterminate insects and share food equally with sentient beings.

The same is true in their homes.

Since Ma Quan does not kill, and even the lives of ants are not harmed, when there are rats in the house, Ma Quan also chooses to let it go.

The house is infested with rats.

The small amount of food that was harvested from the fields ended up being cheaper than the rats.

……

Originally, Ma Quan married a daughter-in-law.

But because of these strange behaviors, his daughter-in-law finally couldn't stand it anymore and chose to leave him.

In the long run, the horse is accompanied by mice.

The rats in his family know that they will not be harmed in the whole family, so they are not afraid of people. Sometimes, when the horses are eating, the rats will eat at the same table with them.

Over time, those rats seemed to be human.

When Ma's family is too poor to open the pot, the rats will choose to take out the food they have accumulated in their nests and put it in the pot so that Ma Quan can cook it.

Therefore, although Ma Quan does not grow much grain every year, people have never seen him short of food to eat, and he has never borrowed grain.

……

And so, two or three years passed.

The village was hit by a locust plague, and the villagers' fields were largely wiped out.

In addition, the winter of this year also came very early.

The sky is drifting with goose feather snow, and the village is frozen!

People say that the village is no longer alive.

Farmers have chosen to flee to other places to avoid disasters, and many have frozen to death and starved to death on the way to escape.

However, the horses did not flee.

People feel that if Ma Quan continues to stay in this village where there is no way to live, he will definitely die.

But in fact, this is not the case.

When the people had fled, there was a room in this uninhabited village with heavy snow that was always lit up and smoked.

The following spring.

Some farmers who had fled to other places returned to the village one after another.

When they saw Ma Quan farming in his own fields, people couldn't believe it.

asked Ma Quan why he could survive alone in the days when the heavy snow closed the village?

Ma Quan still smiled stupidly and said, "Cause and effect." I share the soup and food equally with all sentient beings on weekdays, and when disaster comes, sentient beings will definitely not abandon me. ”

It turned out that when the heavy snow closed the village, Ma Quan, who had no food at home, relied on the help of rats to survive.

Since the horses did not kill the rats, the rats of his family even hoarded a granary under his house.

And because Ma Quan has a relationship with the rat, the rat clan can open a granary to help him in the disaster year.

As a result, he has a reputation in Xiangmu Village.