Chapter 147: Nangou Village
"Don't worry, we will go to this bandit village, everyone's life is not easy, how can all good things be asked for by this bandit for nothing!" Lu Ziqian patted his chest and assured this group of people.
Zhang Ledao took the opportunity to observe the expressions of these villagers, and from their faces, he could see their truest attitude towards this "orchid village".
After experiencing the farce just now, at least let Zhang Ledao know that when you go to a place where you are not familiar with life, it is better not to be so subjective, otherwise it is extremely easy to have a farce.
The expressions of these villagers are a little complicated, on the one hand, they are afraid, on the other hand, they are respectful, some of them show a little affection for Lu Ziqian's words, most of them lack of extreme distrust, of course, there are a small number of people who seem to feel that there are these bandits, and they can be relied on, and they have a faint hostility towards Lu Ziqian.
Everyone's expressions were in full view, and Zhang Ledao slowly thought about what to do in his heart. In fact, he and Lu Ziqian are not very nosy people, this time they just want to be in the limelight and feel the admiring eyes of thousands of people, but they are still being thrown eggs!
"Kill and kill now, since you don't say anything, then let's leave now, as for whether your village will be affected in the future, it's not our business!" Zhang Ledao glanced at everyone impatiently, turned around and was about to leave, and the village chief finally couldn't help but speak.
"Immortal and slow!"
The corners of Zhang Ledao's mouth pulled up a smile, thinking, this old thing still can't help it!
"What should you all be busy with, just leave the village chief to talk to me!" Zhang Ledao waved his sleeve robe and dispersed the crowd, leaving only Zhang Ledao, Lu Ziqian, and the village chief.
"Village chief, let's find a place to talk?"
"Okay, good, Shangxian, please!" The village chief was sincerely frightened, and took Zhang Ledao to his hut.
This village is very poor, but on the whole it is a little better than Huangshi Village, where Huang Zhengdao used to stay.
Huangshi Village is surrounded by Gobi rubble, scattered only dry grass, although not afraid of the attack of wild beasts, but with the hostile village for a long time there are crowds and fights, and when they meet each other, they will start fighting!
And this small village called Nangou Village, although the area is much smaller than Huangshi Village, but close to the forest, and after reclamation, there are also some fields, so the houses are like a strange traffic, chickens and dogs smell each other, and the products are not abundant, but it is enough to support the reproduction of the village.
The village chief's house looks like it was newly built, neat and beautiful, and it is one of those tall stilted buildings. This stilted building is built with more waste wood, and it also needs to spend more manpower and material resources, because in the mountainous area, poisonous insects and humidity are relatively large, so the stilted building can be said to be safe and comfortable compared with ordinary houses.
The three of them sat down, and the old village chief hurriedly took out finely made wooden cups from the house, and poured tea for Zhang Ledao and Lu Ziqian.
"Two immortals, please have tea!" the old village chief trembled and made a gesture of invitation to the two of them.
"The village chief doesn't have to be polite!" Zhang Ledao said, taking out a coin from the village ring and placing it on the table.
"This is the village chief's tea money!"
"Ahh
"How much tea does the immortal want, the old man will go and help you get it, but this gold coin is too valuable!" The old man hurriedly excused himself, but he had already let down some of his guard when he looked at Zhang Ledao's eyes.
"At least this group of immortals seems to be very reasonable, is it really like what they say, immortals are also good and bad?" the old village chief secretly guessed in his heart.
Zhang Ledao saw that things had taken a turn for the better, and he couldn't help but be secretly proud of his clever move just now.
"The village chief should not be polite, we and other immortal cultivators don't need this mundane thing! If the village chief needs it, take it! If it's not enough, I have to find my master and apprentice!" Zhang Ledao has a strong control over the village chief between his words, and after seeing the village chief's thoughts that he wants but doesn't dare, he not only gives the village chief a step down, but also lets him take it with confidence, and further deepens their understanding of each other and pulls them into their relationship.
The village chief swallowed, this gold coin is enough to go to other villages to exchange for enough food for his family to survive for a year!
"Shangxian, please ask, the old man knows everything and says everything!" The village chief didn't dare to pick it up immediately, and hurriedly respectfully asked Zhang Ledao to ask.
"I still want to know, have you heard that there are immortal cultivators around here? We passed by here, got lost here, front and back, left and right, there are dense forests in all directions, I am not familiar with the situation here, please advise!"
"Immortal cultivators? Maybe there will be such an immortal in the orchid village!" The village chief hesitated, his face flickering, cloudy and uncertain, and said in an uncertain tone.
"And this orchid village, what kind of organization is it? Zhang Ledao is very curious about this orchid village.
Generally, the bandits are outlaws who lick the blood on the knife edge, and they don't know which will come first, tomorrow or death, so what they often do is to rob houses, burn, kill and loot, and it can be said that they do all kinds of evil! This further leads to the nearby cities will regularly wash the surrounding bandits and robbers. The weak ones were slaughtered, and the powerful ones would become horse thief gangs roaming the entire Southern Regions, committing crimes everywhere against the wind, opening up a "good life" of "robbing houses and robbing slaves, and selling them to immortals for a lot of money!".
However, this orchid village is not afraid of the encirclement and suppression of the city, and also "adheres to the scientific concept of development and takes the road of green, coordinated and sustainable development", which makes Zhang Ledao very puzzled! After reasoning, Zhang Ledao only has two possibilities: first, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there is not even a sentry city in this vicinity! Second, the orchid village and the nearby city have PY transactions, so that they can develop with peace of mind and manage this area on their behalf. Of course, there is also a possibility that the strength of the stockade is higher than that of the surrounding cities! Not enough, this idea was completely extinguished by Zhang Ledao as soon as it appeared! The reason is very simple! The sentry city can't be defeated, and there are reinforcements from the deputy city, and there are also special forces from the main city! If this matter can't be solved, there is no need for the Ice and Snow Pavilion to rule this area!
For Zhang Ledao, these two possibilities can be described as a heaven and an underground! If there is a city background in the orchid village, he can reach the city through them, completely get rid of this annoying dense forest, further look for the nearby main city, and return to the dragon city; and if it is the first case, there is no main city near this at all, and the emperor is far away! Then Zhang Ledao has no choice!
"This orchid village is a newly rising force in recent years! At first, our dense forest with a radius of 100 miles was divided up by several gangs of bandits, and the life of the villagers at that time was miserable! Not to mention the fear every day, if you are not careful, you may not know that all the bandits have been killed. At that time, the men were all arrested and sent to be bandits, and the village was full of some old, weak, sick and disabled!" The old village chief fell into memory, and his expression changed in a very wonderful way, and he could see that this place was indeed chaotic before!
Later, this orchid village appeared out of nowhere, she first robbed the territory of the largest bandit village here at that time, and then joined them with fire, and within a year's effort, all the bandits within a radius of 100 miles were either absorbed or wiped out by you! Within the entire radius of 100 miles, only this one village remained. With this village, the villagers' lives are finally a little more stable! They don't raid houses, they will help us repel the invasion of wild beasts, and do some protection obligations to the village, and we only need to hand over a certain amount of resources on time every month to keep us safe.
The village chief's attitude towards this orchid village is also complicated, after all, the villagers were also afraid of the invasion of bandits in the past, but this orchid village seems to be not bad, and if you are afraid, you are afraid that you will fatten him, and in turn slaughter all the nearby villages.
"We are very powerful immortals! Then according to the meaning of the village chief, should we exterminate the orchid village?" Zhang Ledao didn't have to worry about these meaningless things, and when the road was uneven, he could draw a knife to help, or he could gather to watch the excitement! There was no need to be nosy, and in the end it might cause a commotion, so the question of doing the village was thrown to the old village chief.
"This ......," the old village chief hesitated for a moment, but still said
On the one hand, there may be immortals in the orchid village, and there is a certain risk for the two of them to go! On the other hand, I am also afraid that the orchid village will be lost, and this place will return to its former state, with wild beasts rampant, bandits running around, and chaos; and the orchid village will not disturb the villagers too much, and the tribute collected every time is within the acceptable range of us! On the contrary, it will drive away the beasts for us and protect the safety of the village!"
After speaking, the village chief glanced at Zhang Ledao and found that he was staring at him with a nonchalant smile.
The old village chief blushed and continued
"But the immortal chief killed the people of the orchid village, I'm afraid that this matter will implicate our village......!"
"So what? So you want us to go to the village to apologize?" Zhang Ledao's eyes suddenly sharpened, and his tone became cold.
"No... No... No...... Yes, let me explain! Otherwise, our village may be in great trouble!" the old village chief was so frightened that his words were incoherent and trembling.
"Haha! rest assured, we will solve this matter!" Zhang Ledao's expression on his face suddenly let go, where could he still see the fierce and vicious just now.
The immortals are so unpredictable and unpredictable! The old village chief muttered in a cold sweat on his back.
Although what the old village chief said was right, let Zhang Ledao put down his body and go to the thieves to apologize! Hmph! It's ridiculous! Not to mention that Zhang Ledao has a strong concept of other immortals in his heart, just talk about which of these thieves is not the one who should be killed, there is no need to apologize, and see if the situation is eradicated!
Zhang Ledao and Lu Ziqian asked the village chief about the direction of Orchid Village, and went straight up the mountain.
Nangou Village is located in a valley, and if you go up along Nangou Village, there will be a place called Luoying Rock, where is the base camp of Orchid Village.
The main purpose of Zhang Ledao and Lu Ziqian going to Orchid Village is to inquire about the nearby city and get out of this boundless mountain. When Zhang Ledao and Lu Ziqian first came in, they relied on being immortal cultivators, fast and full of physical strength, but they were rampage here, and as a result, they became like this, completely falling into the mountains, and looking around, there were only trees left except the mountains! In these mountains, it was very difficult to build a city! Or that the only suitable ones to build were fortresses and fortresses!
There are a lot of wild animals along the way, but I haven't seen any large carnivores, and I don't know what the beasts in this mountain forest include.
"Master, I'm hungry, why don't we catch a rabbit and roast it and eat it?" Lu Ziqian couldn't help but drool as he looked at the fat and big rabbits running around in the woods.
"Eat and eat, eat a fart! If you eat wild meat, you won't be afraid of getting the new crown!"