Seeing that Miki Zhenren walked out of a hundred miles away safely, Ye Hao turned around and walked away against the wind, only stopping twice in the middle, and returned to Yandang's house three thousand miles away in less than an hour.

It feels so good to be home, especially at home.

It wasn't until this moment that Lan'er came out, and her holy face was full of horror: "It's too dangerous! That demonic 'Red Sun Divine Skill' is so powerful! Let me see if you're burning." As he spoke, he circled around Ye Haotian and shouted in a trembling voice: "Oops, there is a big hole in the child's back!"

Ye Haotian hurriedly took off his clothes to inspect it, and sure enough, a hole the size of a foot was burned in the back of the brocade robe! He was surprised in his heart: "Fortunately, a few spirit runes were added in advance, otherwise it would be troublesome! It is difficult to say whether he can escape from his surname!" In his mouth, he pretended to smile lightly: "It's not good! This county order flew naked for three thousand miles, and now he suffered a big loss, and his white and flawless jade body was actually looked at by demons and monsters!"

Lan'er pursed her lips and smiled, "Usually the body is tightly wrapped, but it is so generous to others." ”

Ye Haotian stared at her fiercely, and said fiercely, "What do you want to see?" Before he finished speaking, his body took two steps forward.

Lan'er was so frightened that she turned around and fled, smiling and running into her room, even closing the door.

After a while, Ye Hao put away his relaxed and happy mood and began to ponder how to further improve his skills: "'Refining the Divine Returning to the Void', 'Refining the Void and Merging the Dao', what does this 'Void' look like? How can I stop in the void without limitation? I can only keep it for an hour at most now, and if it grows longer, I will be disturbed by the Yin God." This is a confrontation between the yang god and the yin god, what is the yang god and the yin god? The yang god is refined from the Yuan Qi, that is, the Yuan God, and the Yin God is the essence composed of blood, Jin, and liquid. Only when the two achieve a harmonious unity can they fully enter the realm of immortals. Many people can't pass this level, so they simply abandon the Yin God through military liberation, so that the Yang God can completely get rid of interference, and then they will become 'Autopsy Immortals', that is, 'Scattered Immortals'. Although the autopsy immortal is also an immortal, after all, he has lost his body and the opportunity to reconcile yin and yang, and it will be extremely difficult to improve his skills in the future. ”

"My Yang God has benefited from the subsidy of the elixir, so it has improved very quickly, but the Yin God has not kept up with it, so it is necessary to cultivate the Yin God. ”

He pondered all night and felt that "spring breeze and rain**" was the best exercise to reconcile yin and yang. As long as you can refine a furnace of "Yin God Pill", and add spring breeze and rain after taking it, you can greatly replenish the Yin God and quickly improve your skills.

After dawn, he walked out of the wooden house, and saw Lan'er bending down to serve the sweet potatoes by the lake, only two months of hard work, the sweet potatoes have already climbed a large piece, and they really need to be trimmed and repaired. Otherwise, in this place where the four seasons are as warm as spring, I am afraid that I will have to climb everywhere.

Lan'er glanced up at him and said with a smile: "Childe is going to the county, the official uniform has been prepared!"

Ye Haotian shook his head: "I'm not going to go today, I'm going to collect some medicinal materials nearby and prepare for alchemy." As soon as I said that I couldn't make a big progress, I felt uneasy. ”

Subsequently, he collected some excellent sand ginseng, wheat winter, dendrobium, jade bamboo, yellow essence, fritillary, wolfberry, lily and other dozens of precious medicinal materials in Yandang Peaks. In addition to these, there are two main medicines for refining the "Yin God Pill", which are turtle plate and turtle shell. The turtle plate is already there, and the abdominal armor of the 10,000-year-old turtle found in the royal house is still there, which is a rare divine product.

In the end, there is one thing missing, that is, the back armor of the old turtle that has lived for more than 300 years.

That thing is not easy to find! Although it can be bought in the drugstore, it is just an ordinary product, and it has no effect on the alchemy of the immortal family!

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On the sixteenth day of the first month, Ye Haotian came to the county government and asked about various affairs in turn.

Wang Ji reported: "The goods brought back from the last Nanyang trade have been sold, and a total of 380,000 taels of silver have been earned in one trip, and after deducting various expenses, a net profit of 200,000 taels has been made. The silver has been put into storage. ”

Ye Haotian nodded: "Okay, after the weather is warm, trade will continue." ”

Then he asked Han Feng to call him, telling him that the head of the sect had left the Qingdi Palace, and told him not to go back in the near future. Han Feng bowed down and agreed.

After explaining all this, Ye Haotian went to inspect the towns in the county. Some towns are far away from the county seat, and the farthest is 70 miles away. He stepped on horseback and walked unhurriedly, passing by Furong Lake on the way. Furong Lake is very large, the lake surface is 10,000 acres, the water is shining, and the mountains are empty. There is a small island in the lake, and there is a small temple on the island. In the early spring of the southern country, the willow buds have just emerged, the weather is getting warmer, the lake is not frozen, and at this time there are already people holding up small boats to fish in the lake.

Ye Haotian came to the lake and found that it was an old man who was fishing, so he took a few steps closer and asked, "Old man, is it that there is no food at home in the spring?"

The old man looked at him, rowed the boat close to the shore, and replied, "What's the matter! Since the arrival of the new county order, it is no problem for the family to have enough to eat." After a winter at home, I came out to breathe. ”

Ye Haotian looked at the vast lake and asked, "With such a big lake, I don't know if there are old turtles?"

The old man replied without hesitation, "There are too many! You can see it when you come to the back of the sting, and you can see it by walking around the lake." The small ones are like finger covers, and the big ones are like basins. ”

Ye Haotian asked again: "Have you ever seen a bigger one?"

The old man thought for a while and said: "I saw it thirty years ago, it was about the size of a grinding plate, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to catch it. ”

Ye Haotian pointed to the island in the lake and said, "Old man, can you send me to the island to have a look, I see that the temple is in a good location." ”

The old man looked at it and said, "That temple is decades old, I don't know what's going on, it's hard to get through." There used to be a monk who hadn't seen him for many years. He beckoned him to get on board.

Ye Haotian left the horse by the lake and got into the boat gently.

About half an hour later, the boat came to the edge of the island.

Ye Haotian handed the old man a piece of broken silver and asked him to go and get busy first, and then come to pick him up later. The old man put it off for a while, took the money, and went happily.

As soon as he stepped on the island, Ye Haotian felt that the psychic jade on his chest became hot. Standing on the island and looking at it, I just felt that the scene in front of me was a little strange. Just after the beginning of spring, the grass here is already green, which is very different from the world outside the lake!

He walked around the island and found that the island shape was almost octagonal, and there were small and small stones in each direction, arranged in the shape of innate gossip, and the small temple was just in the center of the gossip array.

I don't know if it's because it's in the middle of the lake, or because of the influence of the formation, the temperature on the island is obviously higher than outside, so the green grass is already ankle high.

He calculated the direction and walked all the way to the small temple. The temple was empty, only a Buddha statue smiling at the spring flowers and autumn moon. In front of the Buddha statue, there is a giant turtle carrying a large stone tablet!

He had seen a lot of stone turtle steles, but it was the first time he had seen them with huge live turtles like this, and he didn't feel very strange.

When I looked closer, I saw a poem engraved on the stone tablet with no beginning and no end:

"Where is the Divine Monarch, Taiyi An?

There is a wood in the east of the sky, and the candle dragon is placed below.

I will cut the dragon's feet, chew the dragon's flesh,

so that they will not be able to turn back, and they will not be able to lie down at night. ”

At the end of the poem, it is signed "Zhu Xuankuang".

Ye Haotian thought about it and didn't know who Zhu Xuankuang was. What really aroused his strong interest was the giant turtle pressed under the stele! He stepped forward and removed the stele and placed it horizontally on the ground, revealing the giant turtle's back armor. Probably because it has carried stones for decades, there are obviously two protruding pieces on the back of the giant turtle, just like a protruding muscle on the shoulder of a person who often carries the burden.

Ye Haotian looked carefully, the sword was cut flat, and two pieces of turtle armor were cut off, and when he looked again, there was still no meat in the broken place. The giant turtle seemed to be very useful, and nodded frequently at him. He whispered, "Go!" The turtle crawled away step by step, and the speed was surprisingly fast.

He turned around and wanted to re-erect the stele, but suddenly found that the bottom of the stele revealed a piece of iron that was three minutes thick and two inches long! It was that piece of iron that made Tongling Baoyu so hot that it was hot! He was curious, stretched out two fingers to clamp the iron piece, and slowly pulled out two points of divine power, only to find that it was originally an iron ruler, about two feet long, two inches wide, and three points thick, with a big dragon head engraved on it, and the three words "Zhu Xuankuang" in the center.

He put away the iron ruler and saw that there was nothing strange around him, so he turned and went out of the small temple, and beckoned the old man to row a boat to take him back.

When she returned to Yandang, Lan'er was standing by the lake and waiting.

Ye Haotian took out the iron ruler and said with a smile: "Look what this is?"

Lan'er exclaimed after just one look: "Ah!

Ye Haotian asked puzzledly, "What is a good thing?"

Lan'er's complexion changed greatly, her jade hand rubbed the iron ruler, and she said excitedly: "The ruler of the prison is out, and the four seas are salty! This is a treasure ruler!"

Ye Haotian's curiosity was aroused, and he couldn't help but pull Lan'er: "Good sister, tell me quickly, what kind of treasure ruler is it?"

Lan'er glanced up at him and said softly: "When this dynasty was first established, there was a prince named Zhu Ying, whose name was Xuankuang. ”

Hearing her say this, Ye Haotian remembered that Zhu Yingnai was a figure many years ago and had made great achievements for the Ming Dynasty.

At the moment, he didn't interject, and listened to Lan'er continue: "Back then, Zhu Ying led hundreds of thousands of troops to fight in the south and the north, and the lookouts were invincible, and most of the rivers and mountains of this dynasty can be said to have been defeated by him. Later, Taizu wanted to make him the crown prince, but he insisted on refusing, saying that he had killed too many people and would rather become a monk. At that time, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces were struggling to stay, and Taizu gave him the 'Prison Heaven Ruler', hoping that he would be able to take charge of national affairs after he became a monk, and he repeatedly agreed. In the next 80 years, he saved several catastrophes for the imperial court, and each time afterwards, the imperial court promoted the authority of the 'prison ruler', and later simply wrote it into the royal legal calendar: 'When you see the ruler, you must worship, and you must obey the ruler, supervise the national government, and don't dare to disrespect.' In the past, the 'Prison Ruler' appeared every few years, but it has disappeared in the last 30 years. But to this day, there is still that sentence in the royal legal calendar, all the royal relatives, princes and important ministers, everyone knows and no one knows. ”

Ye Haotian smiled "hehe" and said: "No wonder I don't know, it turns out that the official is too young!"

Lan'er smiled: "When the son entered the office, he was still short, and after he became a first-class member, he naturally knew." Then he asked him how he got the prison ruler.

Ye Haotian recounted the situation in detail, and recited the words on the stele to her, and then said: "'Taiyi' should be the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, that is, the sun; 'Tiandong has Ruomu', which seems to be related to the three islands of Penglai; 'Cutting the dragon's feet and chewing the dragon's meat' I don't know how to explain it, and it seems that the resentment is very deep!' 'Make it impossible to return to the court and not lie down at night', that is to make the other party sleep. I don't know who Zhu Ying has a grudge with, this time she must have gone to seek revenge. Perhaps he felt that it was dangerous to go, so he left the prison ruler here. ”

Hearing him say this, Lan'er couldn't help but worry about Zhu Ying: "I really hope that his old man has a safe journey." After a while, she touched the ruler again and said happily: "Now it's okay, Gongzi can mobilize troops and horses to encircle and suppress the demons, don't be afraid of many of them." ”

Ye Haotian shook his head and said: "The prison ruler can't be used lightly, the reason is that the demon's skill is too high, and it is not something that ordinary soldiers can resist, if there is a conflict, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties." Rather than suffering from the misery of their lives, I would rather start from the Dao Law and strive to eliminate them with my own hands. ”

Lan'er Hazel lowered her head lightly: "Even so, the Heaven Ruler is still valuable, at least it can make the soldiers and horses of the imperial court not help to abuse." ”

Ye Haotian nodded in agreement.

That night, he packed up the Dan furnace and began to alchemy, putting together the collected 10,000-year-old turtle plates, thousand-year-old turtle shells and dozens of elixirs, and slowly refining them with the Samadhi True Fire. He knew that the control of the heat of refining the great tonic was very important, too strong would destroy the medicinal surname, and too weak would not be able to extract it, so he had to exercise slowly with a simmer.

After three hundred and eighteen days of sleeplessness, Dan was finally refined. There are more than 100 pills of Cheng Dan, the color is crystal clear, the fragrance is fragrant, and at a glance, he knows that it is a superb "Yin God Pill", so he feels very satisfied.

It's mid-February, and the sweet potatoes by the lake are still growing wildly. It's been almost four months, and he decided to dig and dig, starting with the old roots.

Lan Erjiao smiled and preemptively started digging up the dirt.

The two of them were surprised to find that the first sweet potato was actually very huge, weighing 30 or 40 catties! Moreover, they dug up dozens of large and small sweet potatoes along the vine, and together they bore more than 150 catties.

Ye Haotian found a few slightly smaller sweet potatoes to grill on the fire, and soon a sweet fragrance came out, and the soft juice flowed down. He tasted it, and felt that it was full of sweetness, and he couldn't help but praise it.

Lan'er took one with her slender jade hand, slowly peeled off the soft skin on the outside, brought it to her lips and bit it down, and nodded endlessly.

Ye Haotian ate three in one go, and then said with a sigh of relief: "I want the people of Yueqing to plant a large number of them." According to this point of view, the yield of sweet potatoes is very high, and one acre of land can produce several thousand catties, so that the people will no longer starve, and the population will increase in large numbers; and the taste is also good, compared with the five grains, there is a different flavor. After a pause, he smiled again: "The introduction of sweet potatoes, vigorously promoting, and benefiting the people can also be regarded as one of my political achievements!"

Lan'er said: "It's a pity that Gongzi didn't ask the old monk of the Guoqing Temple, otherwise wouldn't it be better if he could turn merit into merit?"

Ye Haotian paused: "This ...... Turning merit into success? I'm afraid it's not that easy. I don't dare to ask for extravagance, it's better to cultivate slowly. ”

For the next few months, he took one pill of Yin Shen Pill every few days and then meditated and practiced.

Lan'er has also been practicing, and her skills are about to enter the real life stage.

The two of them practiced for five days and had one day off. When he was resting, Ye Haotian had to deal with the affairs of the county first, and then traveled around with Lan'er.

Time flies, and it's early summer in the blink of an eye. Ye Haotian found that there were more people in the county who fled the famine and begged for food, with ragged clothes, yellow faces and thin muscles, and they looked so pitiful. When I asked, I said that I was from Henan, and this year the Yellow River burst, and all the fields of my home were submerged.

After learning about the situation, he announced the establishment of a special place to accommodate refugees, and as long as they came to Yueqing, each person would be given 100 catties of food. Those who were willing to stay were given a piece of land by the sea, and those who were willing to go back were given three taels of silver each. In addition, he thought of the large wealth he had, and it was time to find a way out.

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Gu Ruotong, the governor of Henan, was already going crazy, seeing that the whole province was in mourning and the people were leaving their hometowns, he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks. On this day, he convened a meeting of the eight prefects and called on them to mobilize the squires and landlords in various localities to open warehouses and release grain, and officials should also actively donate.

The prefect of Huaiqing was the first to stand up and said: "My lord, I am at a loss, our province has been the hardest hit, and no less than one-third of the population has died of hunger and epidemics! The grain of the big households has long been divided, and those who are unwilling to share it have been robbed even more, where is there still food? Even the bark of the tree has been eaten!"

The prefect of Kaifeng said: "My lord, we have mobilized the gentry to donate seven or eight times! The treasury silver has also been used, but it is useless!"

The prefect of Nanyang proposed: "This year's grain harvest in Huguang is okay, can you ask the imperial court to second?"

Governor Gu Ruotong waved his hand when he heard this, and said angrily: "I have already applied, but the emperor has not been in the court for a long time, and the household department cannot make the decision, so he only pointed out a way for us, that is, let us raise silver taels and buy them in Huguang." ”

Luther prefect said: "That's not nonsense?

The prefect of Runing stood up and said, "If you go to buy it, our government alone will cost 1.3 million taels of silver, where will we raise such a large amount?"

Gu Ruotong made a rough calculation and said, "The entire disaster relief needs 10 million taels of silver, this is ......"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, with sad faces, I really can't think of a way.

When he was so worried, an old man suddenly came in at the door, richly dressed and impressing. The crowd was still wondering, "Who is this person, and why did he run in without being announced?"

But I saw that the man took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve, put them in front of Gu Ruotong, and said in a very majestic voice: "This is fifteen million taels of silver, which can only be used for disaster relief.

When the people saw the silver, they first exclaimed, and then closed their mouths when they saw the porcelain cup shattered.

Gu Ruotong picked up the silver ticket and trembled with his hands, this is a million lives! His black gauze hat can be regarded as preserved! Thinking of this, he stepped forward and saluted. The eight prefects in the back simply knelt down.

With a move, the man stopped everyone, and said at the same time: "You are members of the imperial court, the parents of the people, I dare not accept this great gift, as long as the people can tide over the difficulties." With that, he turned around and left.

Gu Ruotong hurriedly followed a few steps and asked, "Please leave your name, this mansion can also be made clear to the imperial court, and the people will know who is a good person." ”

The man turned around and didn't speak, just took out an iron ruler from his sleeve, showed it in front of Gu Ruotong, and then walked away.

Gu Ruotong clearly saw that there was a dragon head on the iron ruler, and the three big characters "Zhu Xuankuang", and immediately knelt on the ground in fright, and kowtowed in fear, even more pious than seeing the emperor.

Several prefects asked strangely, "My lord, he has already gone away." Who's that man?"

Gu Ruotong stood up slowly, and only said one sentence for a while: "The prison is out, and the four seas are salty!"

Everyone was still confused, but the words "Prison Heaven Ruler" had been deeply imprinted in their minds.

Gu Ruotong carefully divided the silver ticket into eight parts, handed them to the prefects in turn, and instructed: "Calculate the expenditure in detail, and each payment must be clearly recorded, otherwise you should be careful!"

Everyone was in their hearts, and said secretly: "It seems that this money is extraordinary, but I am afraid that it cannot be embezzled again." ”

Within a few days, the news of the reappearance of the prison ruler spread all over the country, and all the princes and ministers were shocked, because every time the prison ruler appeared, there would be a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the heads of the ministers and thieves would fall to the ground. Who's going to be the turn this time? A lot of people are already restless. Everyone in the palace and outside the palace pursued the whereabouts of the prison ruler. Gu Ruotong was even recruited back to the capital because of this, and was forced to tell the story over and over again.

After two months, the turmoil gradually subsided, and everyone was thinking: "This time, the prison ruler probably only gave two pieces of silver and didn't kill anyone, and my head seems to have been saved." So what to do, and the appearance of singing and dancing again.

However, not everyone was like this, and several Heavenly Masters and True Monarchs did not dare to relax, and still sent a large number of people to investigate.

But where is the richly dressed old man?

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After giving away the silver ticket, Ye Haotian felt a lot more relaxed. He had earned so much silver, and he wanted to build up his own power and lay a good foundation for revenge. Now that the prison ruler is in hand, it can mobilize the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and the silver has lost its meaning, and it can be said that it is the best choice to use it on the people.

On the way back, we passed through Hangzhou. Visiting the West Lake again, he remembered the scene of his first encounter with Lan'er, and it was like a dream. Lan'er even grabbed his arm, and said in a sweet voice: "Childe, I'm really happy!"

Ye Haotian hugged her to his chest, kissed her lightly on the cheek, and said softly: "Me too, if it weren't for you, I don't know how lonely it would be on the road to cultivating immortals." ”

Lan'er let him hug him gently, raised her head, her heart was full of tenderness, her eyes looked at him intently, and she smiled and said: "Childe is really different, heroic and gentle." I like it. ”

Ye Haotian said with a smile: "A long time ago, where we were standing, there was a girl named Xi Shi. The world knows her beauty, but she always says that her sweetheart is more beautiful than Shih Tzu. You only see my side, maybe you don't see my shortcomings. ”

Lan'er ignored the original meaning of his words, and said with a blurred gaze: "Is Xi Shi really beautiful?"

Ye Haotian looked at her eyebrows like green feathers, skin like snow, eyes like Qiuhong, and lips like Zhu Dan, and couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, and said, "How can Xi Shi catch up with my Lan'er?"

Lan'er's heart was sweet, and the whole person was almost drunk.

Entering Hangzhou City, Ye Haotian was worried about Wang Laohan's family, so he took out the turtle mirror to inspect it. Soon the figure of an old man appeared in the turtle mirror, sitting in the yard basking in the sun. He changed his angle to see what kind of courtyard it was, and after looking at it for a long time, he finally found a sign that seemed to say "Wang Shiyuan" on the gate.

Seeing this, he couldn't help laughing, the Wang family couldn't forget the stones they had made all their lives, not only did their names have the word "stone", but even their residences became "Wang Shiyuan".

"Wang Shiyuan" is not difficult to find, it only took half an hour to find it. When he broke in without knocking, several people in the courtyard cheered, and then chattered non-stop. From their narratives, Ye Haotian learned that the Wang family had been lurking for a long time after arriving in Hangzhou, and had only recently come out for activities, and was preparing to take some money to invest, but he didn't know what to do.

Ye Haotian instructed them to open hotels and restaurants, and everyone agreed. Only Wang Xiaoshi said that it was boring, so it was better to go out and break through.

Ye Haotian knew that his kung fu was already good, and it was indeed a little sad to stay at home like this, so he suggested to him: "If you want to start martial arts this autumn, brother might as well go and try it, if you can win the martial arts champion, it will be great!"

Everyone looked at Wang Xiaoshi, and Wang Xiaoshi's eyes were already shining.

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