Qingyang City.

A mansion in the southern district.

A monk came to visit another monk.

"Zhong Yan has been nesting in the city for more than a year, and he is finally out of the city!"

"Oh? Going to Fang City? ”

"Probably not, I went to the north, but I was also a cowardly and afraid of death! brought a group of warrior retinues, all of them are strong, and they are not weak when they look at the force! ”

"Haha~ Who is not afraid of death!"

"Harm, I'm afraid it's not easy to pay attention to him."

"What's the hurry, find the right opportunity to hit the right shot, it's best on his way to and from Fang City, for so long, he must have accumulated a large number of talismans to sell in Fang City."

"Eh, you say, how about tying up his concubine or heir?"

"Huh~ There's a fart! This guy has a group of wives and concubines, and they are all bought from the Marriage Pavilion, who cares about their life or death, and then buys them, the same goes for the heirs, what does it matter to the monk to die one or two. ”

"Also, it is estimated that Yu Qingyao will value it more and use it to give birth to the heirs of the soul roots."

"But her realm is higher, and it's not easy to deal with if she doesn't go out of the city."

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Outside Qingyang City, on the road to the north.

Zhong Yan was dressed in a green shirt and rode forward.

On the left is Yan Sandao in a black power suit, and on the right is Li Liu in a white power suit, both of whom wear hats to cover their faces.

The breeze blows the ribbon and floats, black and white!

There were also eighteen warrior retinues before and after.

Ten are from the Li Mansion, five are congenital, and five are acquired in the late stage.

The other eight are young but sturdy, and they are the disciples of the Zhongfu Martial Arts, and they have all entered the acquired realm.

Fully armed, armed with swords and crossbows.

Even if someone attacks, it will be difficult to succeed without a certain strength and numbers.

On both sides of the road, at the foot of the mountain, and in the fields, you can still see ragged homeless people everywhere, sitting, lying, or walking slowly, mostly old and sick women.

If it weren't for the horses running, they would have rushed up to surround and force them, which is a habit.

Fuyang Town is a small town under the jurisdiction of Qingyang City, more than 130 miles to the north, located at the foot of the mountain.

The group stepped on the afterglow of the setting sun and rushed to the town.

The tenants in charge of the fields here in Zhongfu have been waiting at the entrance of the town for a long time.

As soon as he saw Yan Sandao who lifted his hat, an old man about fifty years old led him to kneel down excitedly with a group of people.

"Little Li Chungen knocks on Lord Zhong, Mrs. Zhong and all the adults!"

The landlords were their food and clothing parents, especially after the Zhong Mansion took the fields here from the Xue Mansion, they reduced the rents of many tenant farmers below a lot and gave various preferential policies.

It was the envy of the tenant farmers of other landlords' families.

Yan Sandao turned over and dismounted, "Let's all get up, everyone is gathered?" ”

"It's all right, it's all right! On the other side of the barn! ”

"Nothing happened, did it?"

"Steaming, rising!"

Li Chungen shook his head again and again, bared his teeth and smiled: "Madam, don't worry, it's okay!" Thanks to Mrs. who gave enough money to buy bedding and firewood, or it would have been cold last year, and I would have frozen to death a lot! ”

Yan Sandao bowed his head and waved his hand to signal to Li Liu next to him, "This is Mrs. Ying, and the accounts of the Zhong Mansion and the Li Mansion are all checked and managed by her." ”

"Yes, yes!" The old man bowed and nodded repeatedly, pointing to the two young men.

"You two will take your wife there, and all the fields and rents, and this year's sowing will be reported clearly, so that you can take care of them! Don't snub Madame! ”

Yes, Uncle Gen! Madame, please come here! ”

"Then the concubine went first." Li Liu bowed to Zhong Yan and led the two warriors towards Zhenxiaoli.

The old man looked at Zhong Yan and said with a smile: "Master Zhong, it's getting dark, and the little one has prepared some food and drinks, but eat something first, rest for one night, and then work tomorrow morning?" ”

"No, lead the way."

"Good, good!"

The old man waved his hand and ordered someone to take the prepared food to the grain field, and he and a few strong men opened the way and led the team first.

After walking out of the road for a while, after some hesitation, he glanced at Zhong Yan again, looked at Yan Sandao, and said with some embarrassment and caution:

"Dare to ask Madame, what will happen to those displaced people in the future? There are too many people, and when the spring is too busy and there is no work to do, it is not a way to go down, and the small ones can't be managed. ”

Yan Sandao said: "When the people are selected, they will be given five taels of silver per person to find a way out, if you want, you can choose a few powerful people to stay and help do farm work." ”

The old man was taken aback, there were so many five taels, and he nodded again and again, "Okay, okay, Lord Zhong and Mrs. Zhong are both living Bodhisattvas!" ”

Follow the dirt path and make your way down.

The spring breeze is green, and the sunset is infinite.

The countryside scenery is unique.

Zhong Yan looked around at the farmland, many farmers were still working in the fields, and there were still houses in the sky in the distance.

"Li Chungen, right, how many households are there in this Fuyang Town?"

Hearing the question, the old man immediately ran to Zhong Yanma's side to follow, and said with a smile: "Back to Master Zhong, there are one hundred and sixty-two households in the town, excluding those who go out to do business all year round, there are 1,225 ......."

"There are twenty-seven villages below, more than 100 households, less than forty or fifty households, and there are more than 13,000 people in the entire Fuyang Town......

"Our town mainly depends on farmland to make a living, mainly producing cotton, and other wheat, corn, and vegetables are also planted and shipped to Qingyang City...... In recent years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the harvest is still passable......"

Even a few hunters with a certain amount of force in the town, a few landlords, and the landlord's family roughly said how many thugs guarded the courtyard one by one.

Zhong Yan glanced at him, being able to be the leader has its own sleek way, and being able to be so detailed is obviously well prepared.

What made Zhong Yan sigh was that this Fuyang Town, with such a wide range of land, only had more than 10,000 people.

A lot of the foothills are wasteland.

The population of the Xianwu Continent is trillions, but the relative area is even more vast.

This is true in almost all populated areas.

It's not that they don't want to cultivate, but they don't have the ability.

The people at the bottom are oppressed and exploited, and it is already a great happiness to be able to ensure that they will not starve to death.

Most of them rely on the old wealth of landlords to make a living.

Half an hour later.

It's getting dark.

Zhong Yan Lema stopped, looked into the distance, and raised his hand to point to a place after a moment.

"Have you seen the two mountains, dig and level me in the middle valley to the bottom of the mountain, build a stockade, and after a while, I will pick people, and let the rest of the people do it if they want to do it, and they will eat and drink every day, three hundred copper coins."

Liu Chungen was stunned, his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly responded: "Yes, yes, just follow Master Zhong's orders!" ”

"I'll have someone tell you the specific requirements when I get back."

"Good! Good! ”

All the way to a nearby village grain field, there are dense people squatting or standing on the flat ground, and there is a row of tents set up not far away.

The strong guy next to Li Chungen got the signal, ran forward and shouted, "All line up!" Ten in a row! ”

"Your good fortune has arrived, if you can be chosen by adults, you will be rich and prosperous, and you will not be able to enjoy it!"

"Hurry up! Don't grind! Come forward one by one, don't be crowded, don't talk noisily......"

Several martial arts disciples of the Zhong Mansion dispersed to maintain order.

The martial artists of the Li Mansion began to pinch the bones of the homeless people from the other side to check the qualifications of the martial arts root bones.

Zhong Yan walked to the simple platform and sat down, "Come forward." ”

A thin, dark-faced teenager stepped forward and sat down on the bench.

Zhong Yan pressed his hand on his head, turned his vitality, and after a moment, said, "Next." ”

To detect whether there is a spiritual root, you can find it out directly with your vitality, and you can take two or three breaths, but it is very fast.

If there is a spiritual root, you can measure the specific spiritual root attributes through a special spiritual root detection bead.

"Next."

"Next."

In the blink of an eye.

Seven hundred people have been checked.

One doesn't.

Zhong Yan exhaled slightly, a little disappointed.

Yan Sandao, who was holding a torch, leaned over and whispered, "Husband, do you want to rest for a while?" ”

Zhong Yan shook his head slightly, and reached out to press the head of another young man who stepped forward.

Another stick of incense.

There were only five people left.

Zhong Yan smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that his luck is not good this time.

Before coming, he still had some hope.

Many of these displaced people are under the age of fifteen, from all over the Wei Kingdom, and if they have not been tested for spiritual roots, there is a certain probability that they will encounter one or two.

Although there are few people with spiritual roots, it is relatively speaking.

Those sects looked for young children from various market towns and villages to recruit as disciples, and most of the parents were mortals who were born by chance.

For example, in Qingyang City, every year it can select spiritual root disciples to the Huoyun Sect, sometimes five or six a year, and sometimes more than ten.

Zhong Yan raised his hand again and pressed it at will.

Just about to let go.

His gaze froze.

Urging the Yuan Qi to confirm, a smile appeared at the corner of Zhong Yan's mouth, there is a spiritual root, although the sense of Yuan Qi is relatively weak, "You stand behind." ”

Came one.

The contrast between the front and back became a surprise.

Yan Sandao, who was holding the torch, blinked, her eyes lit up, it's okay, it's okay, otherwise she gathered so many people privately, and bothered her husband to run for nothing, it would be a blockage.

She couldn't help but look around, this place is a good place, suitable for love, and her husband will definitely treat herself......

A picture appeared in his mind, and when he thought about it, Yan Sandao heard Zhong Yan shout again, "Not bad, not bad!" ”

Yan Sandao was surprised, and then rejoiced, "Husband, this kid too?" ”

Zhong Yan bowed his head, and the last five people appeared at once, which was worth the trip!

Moreover, the spiritual root in this body has a stronger ability to sense his vitality.

"What's your name? How old is it?

The half-grown boy looked at Zhong Yan timidly.

The last girl standing behind him hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, and also pulled the young man to kneel.

"Knock on the big man! This is my younger brother, called Dunzi, the big name Huang Dun, almost nine years old, the slave Huang E, fourteen years old, please take the eldest master, I can endure hardships, laundry and cooking can do any job! ”

Zhong stretched out his hand and pressed her head to investigate for a moment, but there was no spiritual root, and nodded at Yan Sandao.

Yan Sandao went up and pinched her for a while, shook his head and said, "The root bones are very ordinary, and it is difficult to train internal qi. ”

Zhong Yan looked at the girl and asked, "Who else is there at home?" ”

"Back to the eldest master, it's gone, the slave family of six fled all the way to Yanguo, the eldest brother was beaten to death by the wicked, the second sister died of illness, and my father and mother found food and gave me and Dunzi, and I starved to death......"

Yan Sandao said loudly: "It just so happens that the house is looking for a maid." ”

Zhong Yan got up, "Let's take it back with you." ”

"Yes, husband."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, lady......"

Zhong Yan looked to the other side, beckoned, pinched the bones to explore the martial arts qualifications slowly, and one or two hundred people had not finished the investigation, but more than ten seedlings had been selected.

A martial artist from the Li Mansion stepped forward, "Master Zhong, there are a few bones that are very good, but they are older, they are all over twenty years old." ”

Zhong Yan said lightly: "Don't." ”

Martial arts have to start from a young age, fifteen to twenty is the most suitable age for promotion, and if you waste this great opportunity, no matter how good your roots are, it is not suitable.

And it is easy to cultivate at a young age, and it can be used as a confidant in the future.

Then.

There was a shout in the distance.

"Uncle Gen!"

"Master Zhong!"

A figure rushed towards this direction and knelt down in front of him.

"Master Zhong! There's a bandit in town! Madame was caught by them! ”

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