The last chapter of Volume II

In the distance southwest of Langziya, there are mountains in the distance, and on the ridge on the edge of the winding line, eight angry horses gallop southward.

Eight young men on horseback, five of them, carrying wooden swords, were heroic in the golden sunset. From Naren Zhenpu all the way to here, they have run for forty or fifty miles, and along the way they saw some scattered mountains everywhere, digging roads in the mountains, and building a lot of construction. Everywhere there was a lively scene of dusty and dusty, those coolies from the countryside, driving cattle and horses to carry bricks and stones, carrying stones on their shoulders, and many craftsmen were carefully building the walled buildings on the top of the mountain.

I don't know where the remnants of the convicts migrated from those powerful mountain immortal families. At such a remote construction site, these convict coolies, even resigned to their fate, can be regarded as a luxury. If a mountain is built and can not die of exhaustion and disease, most of them will be handed over to the soldiers of the Northern Wilderness City. Even if these people are illiterate and have ordinary skills, at least their physique is strong enough to be outstanding.

He is a rare engineer in various construction sites, and he is very easy to recognize, even if he looks at it from a distance, he can recognize the guy who is dressed ordinarily but has an extraordinary bearing. Because almost everyone is sweating like rain, even if they are wielding a long whip in their hands, the overseers who whip the servants are no exception, except for those craftsmen, who have a good time, just point and point, let those who exert their strength and hands, build all kinds of utensils, arrange various organs, and assist in the construction of the mountain protection array.

For the local tycoons and the immortals on the mountain, this kind of scene is a prosperous scene of the next hundred years and thousands of years, but for the local herdsmen and those convicts, it is a tragic event of time.

This is no longer the territory of the Langziya Helian clan, and many local residents who have lost their pastures and do not want to move to other lands have most likely become servants of these hilltop construction sites. It's just that their treatment is much better than that of those convict migrants who work as cattle and horses. The latter is here, not even counting those who work hard, but under the whip that makes people's skin open at every turn, they will die sooner or later.

The local herdsmen who turned into servants only had to dedicate their pasture land and then work hard here. In addition to having three meals a day, most of them can earn seventy or eighty copper coins every day, which can be taken back to barely support their families.

The eight angry horses, occasionally stopping on the side of the mountain, looked out at the construction site opposite. Helian Shu would tell Chen Kucheng and them some inside stories from time to time. These construction sites are the gardens of the future of spirit birds and beasts. Those locals who have lost their pastures, even after the construction site is completed, can stay and do some chores as long as they wish. But in this case, it is necessary to voluntarily give up the civil status and sell oneself to the families of the gardeners, with the men as slaves and the women as maids. Since then, children and grandchildren have been lowly for generations.

Chen Kucheng's face was gloomy, "Isn't that an end that you will never be able to turn over?"

Helian Shu said: "The ancestors of our herdsmen have never seen such rules in Ximoan, which only talks about strength and weakness, regardless of dignity or inferiority. But it is said that in the Taoist world, this is also considered a common thing. It's just that we have always lived in a corner and are not restricted by this rule. But since the immortal family on the mountain has fallen in love with the mountains in our area, I am afraid that there will be no more freedom for our herdsmen in the future. ”

Chen Tianshi quipped: "If you become a slave, if you are a beautiful woman and happen to be photographed by the head of the family, won't you turn over." The master of the Venerable Family, he can't marry a lowly wife. ”

Helian Shu said coldly: "Although the ugliness of the family is not publicized, we will not be outsiders in the future." There are several women in our Langziya, including Helian and other surnames, who have been favored by the Taoist on duty at Renzhenpu. Later, those Taoists found the parents of those women and wanted to take the women as maidservants. Everyone was quite happy at the time, thinking that their own woman had taken the line of the fairy family on the mountain. ”

Chen Tianshi said with a puzzled face: "Isn't it?"

Helian Shu shook his head, "As soon as those parents signed the contract, as soon as the woman entered the high wall, she was changed to a maid and became a bed warmer for those Taoists, or the so-called double cultivation furnace ding. To put it bluntly, it's just a plaything. It is said that some people who can't stand the hardships begin to lose their complexion and lose their shape in less than three years, and after that, they are just a miscellaneous laborer in the garden. It is said that there are also some people who can't learn the secret art of cultivating and cooperating with the Taoist maiden to pick yin, and the latter is angry, stripped naked and thrown into the beast pen, which has become the mouth of those fierce beasts. ”

The group of teenagers were all in a heavy mood, got on the horse without a word, and continued to gallop south. According to Helian Shu's itinerary, since you want to see the whole picture, you have to have at least a hundred miles back and forth. Anyway, they are all herdsmen in the wilderness, and if they can't return to the village tonight, they can set up a tent on the spot and spend the night.

The construction site of the cross-continent post road was crowded with people, and the non-stop flow of people who were as busy as ants moving spread to the east and west, with no end in sight.

At the foot of the boundary mountain, there was originally a garden for captive spirit animals in Renzhen Garden. It is said that the construction of this garden in Tongwoling was funded by the wealthy lords in the Xiqiao Mountain area in the east. Later, the replacement of the old and new sect masters of Xiqiao Mountain had already spread wildly in the two states. Even if this matter does not spread, the mountain people in the two states actually know about it. The construction of the cross-continental post road is the most obvious signal.

If the old suzerain is in power, no matter how many mountain sects and secular tyrants in the two states come forward and request the construction of the Liangzhou Post Road, it will be impossible to pass through Luoma City.

However, Luoma City, can it still turn north and bypass Ganlanzhou, where Hongmeng Mountain sits? Not to mention that the distance is several times farther, who would dare to do the business of that rare living thing at the foot of Hongmeng Mountain?

Why don't you just go south and dig a tunnel at the bottom of the mountain for hundreds of miles from the bottom of the mountain of no return to the south?

Helian Shu said: "I heard that once this post road is opened, the mountain pasture at the foot of the boundary mountain, which stretches for hundreds of miles, will become the so-called spiritual garden for captive spirit birds and beasts in Tongwo Ridge. Even your Guchen Village, which is closest to the Snow Mountain, is no exception. Near the hill on the edge of the post road, the price has now begun to be clearly marked. Wealthy merchants or mountain sects on the Central Plains, as long as they can afford the price, can buy a few mountains here and build their own gardens. ”

"It's just that they won't buy it from the herdsmen, only the mountains under the Copper Wok Ridge can be sold through the City Lord's Mansion of Tired Stone City. We, the migrants from the western moraine, do not have a household registration in this state, so the only way to survive is to continue to migrate to other places. Of course, the premise is that there is a place for us to settle in another country. ”

Seven teenagers, just silently listening. What is in other places, everyone is actually too lazy to think, and now everyone is looking forward to when the ten swords of Teacher Ren will be cast.

Luoma City, Baizhuyuan. Although it is not far from the city, it is a very quiet mountain village, and a young man in a green shirt with a black sword box on his back and a hat on his head came. It is said that this place is neither close to the post road, nor is it rich in products, so it is rarely visited by outsiders in the past, and if there is, it is mostly familiar faces visiting relatives and friends. Once a stranger appears, it will attract the attention of the villagers, and even run to tell each other and be secretly on guard.

There are no relatives or friends to explore, and if you come to such a remote place, you are either a homeless person or a thief.

But now it's different from the past, Ren Pingsheng entered the village without notifying Fang Liang Dao Courtyard located here in advance, let alone asking Fang Mao to help in advance, and greeted the villagers, so he entered the village directly with one person and one sword.

Strangely, the characters who come and go in the village, in addition to the locals who seem to be honest and simple, are more well-dressed foreign merchants, foreign monks with fairy winds, and wealthy families in Luoma City who operate local accents.

These people are accustomed to the appearance of strange faces here. And there are always some who look shrewd and capable, and have a steady demeanor

's man, and the woman who is dressed up in a fancy way, all of them are eloquent, and their eyes are very poisonous, and when they saw Ren Pingsheng appear here, they already knew that they were a new guest. These people talk to you with such familiarity that you suspect that this is a foreign land where you have met your long-lost brothers and sisters.

In the words and laughter that greeted the send-off, these long-lost brothers and sisters already knew that you were the landlord of the wealthy side who came here to buy land and land, or the worldly chaebol of the rich side who came here to plan to build a few houses and shops.

Of course, there will also be some mountain immortals from other places, who will come here directly to meet those few mountains with good feng shui, which are worthy of their own sects. But the business of the immortal family on the mountain is not something that these local traders can get involved in. As soon as I saw the fairy fairy girl wearing a Taoist robe and a magic robe, these guys who have always eaten all sides of the road will consciously avoid it, let alone say hello, even if they really accidentally take a photo, they have to pretend not to see each other.

Those high-ranking immortal figures, you are comfortable serving him, give a thank you, a smile, even if it is the yin virtue saved by your eighteen-generation ancestors, you will be accounted for all at once. In case the other party frowns slightly, or simply treats ordinary people such as you as ill-intentioned criminals, then don't talk about your life, I am afraid that the children and grandchildren from now on will have endless sins. The improvisations of those immortal characters with a flick of their fingers are the bumpy lives of your children and grandchildren for countless generations.

So if you really run into it, you have to run an errand and do a favor to these fairy masters, who dares to be careless and tremble? As for whether there is a reward for hard work and carriage expenses in the end, it doesn't matter, just ask for this hard work, and don't make the other party feel the slightest bit unhappy.

Except for the occasional fairy master, a plainly dressed foreign boy like Xiang Ren Pingsheng could not be lucky enough to meet his long-lost relatives in such a place. Looking at the age of the industry, he is not a person who can afford to buy an industry.

Originally, Fang Mao also mentioned that Baizhuyuan, where Fangliang Academy is located, is just a poor and remote place outside Luoma City, and he once thought that after just two or three months, it suddenly became a hot land with expensive land and merchants from all walks of life.

From the accumulation of words from many passers-by, Ren Pingsheng quickly understood the reason for the matter. It turns out that since the construction of Bailing Villa in the west of the city and the excavation of the cross-continent post road, the wealthy businessmen from all over the whole secluded plain, and even many foreigners from the northern Liaoyuan and the southern Yueling, have come to gather in this small Luoma City, each showing their magic powers, and buying a real estate. The land for the shops in the city has long been speculated to sky-high prices.

At the west and east ends of the city, the place where the new post road runs through has already been sold several times by the industrial dealers who hold hot money, and the price has risen all the way, and there is still no market. Foreign merchants have empty financial resources, but lack a local connection, the industry in this area, don't even think about it.

Therefore, since these people came with great ambition and refused to return empty-handed, they retreated to the second best place and went to the relatively unpopular suburbs in the north and south of the city to buy property. The swarming merchants cleaned up in a round, but it was only ten days and a half months, and the aborigines who had been facing the loess for generations, and who were willing to sell the one-acre and three-point thin fields at home, were now rich people with thousands of dollars, and their families moved to Lingshan City or Yange City, which was only a few dozen miles away.

Such a prosperous scene made Ren Pingsheng a little in a trance. All this, in his sixteen years of immature life, was too unfamiliar, but it seemed very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

As for the purchase of the mountain in Baizhuyuan, I am afraid that it will not only cost more money, but also consume a lot of thought.

As for spending money, I am Ren Pingsheng at the moment, and it is not that I can't afford to spend it, and the big deal is just to cash in with Slender Horse Mountain.

End of Volume II