CHAPTER XXXI
The black man sighed, the master was more suspicious and jealous than before after he was crippled, and now he was even more of a soldier.
Lin Xiaoyue wanted to rescue Yuzhijiang, but the three people who stayed in the secret room were not unable to defeat them, but they were afraid that they would alarm the two thousand guards of the Wuwang Mansion during the battle. Lin Xiaoyue was not afraid of the 2,000 guards, but afraid that there would be too many casualties during the battle and too many killings. Lin Xiaoyue thought of a plan. An hour later, when it was dark, he ordered the jade barnacle to set fire to the Witch King's mansion, and then asked Chongming to tie three straw men, and the straw men put on black clothes and tied hemp rope, and the hemp rope was painted black, and then the hemp rope was wrapped around the roof and tree trunk. At the other end of each hemp rope is a horse tied. Chongming stabbed the buttocks of the three horses with a knife, and the horses galloped in pain.
Suddenly, the Wuwang Mansion was on fire, and everyone was struggling to extinguish the fire. The crowd saw the black-clad Assassin flying on the roof, and they were busy catching the Assassin.
Ling Chuan was ordered by the Witch King to stay in the Witch King's Mansion, and when he saw that the Witch King's Mansion was on fire, and there were assassins, he knew that the enemy was coming. While directing everyone to extinguish the fire, while chasing the assassins, he didn't care about the secret room.
Lin Xiaoyue easily subdued the two people who stayed in the secret room, and used the eye of heaven to dodge the five traps in the secret room.
After the three of them entered the secret room, they saw Yu Zhijiang who was being imprisoned, and Jade Barnacle cried and threw herself into Yu Zhijiang's arms. Lin Xiaoyue saw that Yu Zhijiang was dressed gorgeously and cleanly, and the food was exquisite, and she expected that Yu Zhijiang had a good time these days, and although the Witch King imprisoned Yu Zhijiang, he did not treat him badly
Yu Zhijiang also cried excitedly when she saw her baby daughter, feeling sorry for her suffering a lot outside.
Lin Xiaoyue interrupted the scene of their father-daughter reunion, urging the two to leave quickly, and when Ling Chuan found out that there was an explosion, he would definitely return.
Lin Xiaoyue and Chongming escaped from the secret room with their father and daughter. Yu Zhijiang remembered that his henchmen were still in the Witch King Dungeon.
Lin Xiaoyue thought that her plan also needed Yu Zhijiang's men, so she went to the dungeon to rescue Yu Zhijiang's men, a total of twenty-six people.
A group of people disguised themselves as members of the Witch King's Mansion and sneaked out of the Witch King's Mansion, and then set off towards Tianbao City on the coast.
After Ling Chuan found out that the assassin was a straw man, he knew that he had been tricked, so he returned to the secret room and saw that Yu Zhijiang had fled.
His subordinates asked Ling Chuan if he had sent someone to capture Yuzhijiang.
Ling Chuan said: No need.
However, Tang Xia would come over and ask Ling Chuan for being unfavorable.
Ling Chuan ignored him and continued to command everyone to extinguish the fire. Tang Xia saw that he was despised, and the hatred in his heart deepened.
Lin Xiaoyue, Jade Barnacle, Yu Zhijiang, Chongming and other people rode horses for seven days and arrived at Tianbao City.
The jade barnacle said, "Master, you can tell me now why you brought us to Tianbao City."
Lin Xiaoyue took the group to see the dock and twelve large ships that had been bought long ago, as well as a large amount of grain and grass.
Lin Xiaoyue said: Uncle Yu, your ideal is to have a place where there is no war, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment, right?
Yu Zhijiang said: Yes, is there such a place?
Lin Xiaoyue said: Uncle Yu, my plan is to build a place away from the war. I had flown around the sea and found an island the size of three cities, which could accommodate more than 100,000 people. I have bought a large amount of food, enough to feed 50,000 people for two years. The war will cause a large number of homeless and starving people in the Yu Kingdom and the Wu Clan. We will send these people over, and you will lead it, Uncle Yu. You also don't have to worry about the islands being attacked, the sea is vast, and it is difficult to find it if there is no navigation route.
Yu Zhijiang readily agreed to this plan, and his ideal was to build a country free of war.
Yu Zhijiang led his subordinates to sort out and count the boats, grain and grass, and then discussed with Lin Xiaoyue about rescuing the displaced people, and it is estimated that 50,000 displaced people can be rescued.
In the end, it was decided to rescue the displaced people in the border area of the Wu tribe first. The Wu tribe has a total of 180,000 people, of which 10,000 are rescued first, and the remaining 40,000 are gradually rescued.
Lin Xiaoyue flew to Suzhou City to pick up the cabbage to Tianbao City, entrusted to Yu Zhijiang's subordinates to take care of, she estimated that she would have to treat the homeless people everywhere for more than a year, and decided to send the cabbage to the island to be taken care of by Yu Zhijiang.
So Lin Xiaoyue, Chongming, Jade Barnacle, Yu Zhijiang and several of his subordinates rushed to the Wu Clan border area with grain and grass.
At night, Lin Xiaoyue looked at the starry sky and sighed that the starry sky without pollution was so beautiful.
Lin Xiaoyue saw Yu Zhijiang walking towards her.
Yu Zhijiang hugged her fists and saluted Lin Xiaoyue, saying: Save Miss Lin more to save the little girl, take her as an apprentice, and pass on her magic.
Lin Xiaoyue said: No need to be polite, Uncle Yu, I have something to ask you, why did the Witch King chase and kill Xiaoju?
Yu Zhijiang looked puzzled and said: I have a very good relationship with the Witch King, my brother has no children, and he has always regarded the little pot as his own. When I rebelled against him, he treated me well, even though he imprisoned me. I don't understand why he chased the teapot.
Lin Xiaoyue said: What is different about the small pot.
Yu Zhijiang said: Xiaoju is the same as other children, no different, if you really want to study carefully, it is Xiaoju's mother.
Yu Zhijiang told Lin Xiaoyue about the past eighteen years ago.
Eighteen years ago, Yu Zhijiang met a woman with a dead baby in her arms and a dull gaze when she was giving porridge to help the people in the border area of the Wu tribe. Although the woman is coarsely clothed in linen, her face is beautiful. Yu Zhijiang fell in love with a woman at first sight. The woman's desperate and sluggish expression made Yu Zhijiang's heart ache sharply. Yu Zhijiang began to take good care of the woman, and the woman never spoke, and was as lifeless as a puppet every day. Yu Zhijiang wanted to take the dead baby in the woman's arms to be buried, and the woman desperately protected the cub. Yu Zhijiang told the woman that the deceased was buried in peace. The woman looked at the dead baby, shed tears, and cremated the dead baby. Yu Zhijiang found that it was a baby boy, and the pattern on the baby's belly pocket was sewn with gold thread. Guess that the origin of women and dead babies is extraordinary.
Although the woman didn't talk to Yu Zhijiang, Yu Zhijiang knew that the woman must have suffered a lot to be so depressed, so she didn't blame her, but took care of her more carefully. Yuzhijiang named the woman Narcissus, which is as soft as water and as beautiful as a fairy. Under the care of Yu Zhijiang, Narcissus regained some vitality a little, and he was not as indifferent to Yu Zhijiang as before.
One day, Yu Zhijiang plucked up the courage to propose to Narcissus, Narcissus nodded lightly in agreement, and Yu Zhijiang was ecstatic. When Yu Zhijiang recalled the past, he felt that the years of marrying Narcissus were the happiest times of his life.
After getting married, Yu Zhijiang found that Narcissus was covered with scars in addition to his face, and he didn't know which one killed a thousand knives to hurt Narcissus so much. Narcissus doesn't talk about the past, and Yuzhijiang never asks, for fear of touching her sadness.
At first, Narcissus was still depressed, and he was also faint about Yuzhijiang, until the Jade Barnacle was born, Narcissus had a smile, loved Jade Barnacle in every way, and often sighed sadly.
Because of the role of maternal love, Narcissus has regained hope in life, and he is also moved by Yuzhijiang's affectionate dedication, and he is also better for Yuzhijiang. The family has lived happily for a few years, but Narcissus's body has begun to deteriorate, and Yuzhijiang has searched for famous doctors and scattered all his family wealth to collect panacea, but he still has no way to recover.
Narcissus's illness is due to the previous abuse, which led to great physical damage, weak physique, and exhaustion of the five internal organs, but the reason is more than that, Narcissus seems to know the reason, but he doesn't say anything.
Before dying, Narcissus said that he did not regret marrying Yu Zhijiang, he was very happy in the past few years, took care of the small pot, and asked Yu Zhijiang to cremate himself after his death.
After listening to the past of Yuzhijiang, Lin Xiaoyue thought that the pursuit of jade barnacles might be due to her mother Narcissus.
When Lin Xiaoyue and his party arrived at the Wu Clan's border area, they saw starvation everywhere. Because of the war, the people here have been requisitioned for food and money by officers and soldiers many times or robbed by bandits, and there is no food to eat, and some people have even begun to change their children to eat.
Lin Xiaoyue took out food to supply the disaster, and people flocked to it, Lin Xiaoyue and Yu Zhijiang explained their intentions to everyone, wanting to take everyone to live away from the war.
It is in the nature of people to leave their homeland, but survival comes first. Lin Xiaoyue They have food, go with them, you don't have to starve to death.
This time, a total of more than 12,000 people were taken in, including 11,000 from the Wu clan and 1,000 from the Yu country. Some of them were reluctant to leave after living in the Wu border area all their lives, and Lin Xiaoyue left them some food.
On the way back to Tianbao City, Lin Xiaoyue and Yu Zhijiang led everyone to encounter several robbers, but they were repelled by Lin Xiaoyue, Chongming, and Yu Zhijiang. As soon as the country fights a war, it raises taxes and arrests strong men, and the people live in hardship, and when they can't survive, they fall into the grass. Therefore, when the country is in turmoil and war, the number of displaced people and robbers will increase.
After the group arrived at Tianbao City, they got on the big boat. Lin Xiaoyue took out a compass and informed the navigation route of Yuzhijiang, Chongming, and Jade Barnacle.
On the big boat, jade barnacles and cabbage looked back and forth curiously, but after a few days, the two got tired of it. Yu Zhijiang either thinks about the life plan of the people on the island, or discusses the friendship of landing on the island with his subordinates.
Chongming was swimming and frolicking in the sea, looking very happy, Lin Xiaoyue thought that the sea was Chongming's home.
Half a month later, everyone arrived at the island, which was lush with flowers and trees, suitable for human survival. Yu Zhijiang and his subordinates arranged for everyone to land on the island, carry grain, build houses, and cultivate fields. Lin Xiaoyue's luck became a sword to reclaim the land, and Chongming transported water to irrigate the reclaimed land.
The jade barnacle was wandering around without being fine, and was caught by Lin Xiaoyue. Lin Xiaoyue taught the jade barnacle to condense qi into a sword to reclaim the land. The jade barnacle spirit energy has reached level 2.8, and the golden sword condensed is as small as a dagger, and it can reclaim one zhang of land at a time. Unlike Lin Xiaoyue, who could condense a ten-meter golden giant sword and reclaim a mile of land at a time.
Although the jade barnacle can only condense daggers, it is very powerful against people. The jade barnacle sneered at such a powerful move and used it to reclaim the land.
Lin Xiaoyue knew that the strength of the move was related to the energy of the primordial gods. The jade barnacle Yuan Shen energy is level 2.8, and it can't be forced.
After Yu Zhijiang saw Lin Xiaoyue's sword qi, he knew that Lin Xiaoyue's cultivation was no less than that of the Witch King, and it seemed that Xiaoju had worshiped a good master.
Yu Zhijiang asked Lin Xiaoyue: Miss Lin, this island can be named.
Lin Xiaoyue said: No.
The jade barnacle said: It's better to call it Fujizuki Island.
Yu Zhijiang shouted: Xiaoju, don't be disrespectful to your master, put your name in front of your master's name.
Yu Zhijiang saluted Lin Xiaoyue again, saying: It's all because Yu usually pampers her too much, please don't blame Miss Lin.
Lin Xiaoyue would not worry about the jade barnacle, and said: It's okay, just let the little pot maintain its nature.
Lin Xiaoyue said: This island is named Penglai.
The jade barnacle said: Why is it called Penglai.
Lin Xiaoyue said: Penglai is the legendary fairy island, and for the people, living and working in peace and contentment is a fairyland.
Yu Zhijiang said: Then this island is called Penglai.
At this time, a subordinate named Wu Guli in Yuzhijiang hurriedly ran over and said: Master, there is no salt, there is food without salt, and people can't last long.
Lin Xiaoyue didn't prepare salt, because by the sea, there was an inexhaustible supply of salt in the sea.
Yuzhijiang frowned deeply, and sent someone to buy salt for at least more than a month.
Lin Xiaoyue said suspiciously: Isn't there salt in the sea?
Wu Guli hurriedly said: Drink seawater, people will get sick.
Lin Xiaoyue said: Seawater can extract salt, and then filter it into refined salt, and people will not get sick if they eat it.
Yu Zhijiang, Jade Barnacle, and Wu Guli looked at Lin Xiaoyue in surprise.
The jade barnacle asked: Master, how to make refined salt from seawater.
It seems that the salt extraction technology in this world is not well developed. Lin Xiaoyue asked Chongming to fetch a bucket of seawater and set up a fire. The first step is to boil the salt. Jade Barnacle, Chongming and others watched curiously. When the seawater is boiled dry, the salt is diluted.
The jade barnacle grabbed the salt and said, "Master, pick out the sand and stones and eat them."
Lin Xiaoyue said: No, you have to filter and find a few pieces of cloth.
Lin Xiaoyue added water to the salt and heated it slightly to dilute the salt.
Prepare another bucket with three pieces of cloth on it, and pour salt water over the cloth to filter. Then the filtered brine will be boiled dry to precipitate refined salt.
The jade barnacle looked at the snow-white and clean salt, exclaimed excitedly, and said: It's really refined salt, master, you are so powerful.
In this world, the people's salt refining technology is backward, and when mining salt mines, the common people generally eat coarse salt, and only those who have rich refined salt can eat it.
Yu Zhijiang's eyes lit up when he saw the refined salt, and he thought that he could sell the refined salt to make money in the future and improve the island's economy.
After settling down everyone, Lin Xiaoyue and Yuzhijiang discussed that they could take in another 35,000 displaced people.
Lin Xiaoyue, Jade Barnacle, and Chongming went to take in the displaced people and sent them to Penglai Island, where they were picked up by Wuguli. Yu Zhijiang stayed on the island to manage the people. The cabbage is still small, so it is inconvenient to run around with Lin Xiaoyue, leaving it to Yuzhijiang to take care of.
Jade Barnacle was reluctant to part with her father at first. Although Yu Zhijiang is reluctant to give up the jade barnacle, but the parents love their children and have far-reaching plans, Lin Xiaoyue's strength is outstanding, and the jade barnacle follows Lin Xiaoyue's cultivation, and her strength can surpass herself in the future.