The thirteenth episode is cold and the city is in turmoil
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The cold wind kills, and the snow dances all over the sky.
In the cold winter, on the mountain road southeast of Jingzhou, two groups of people are confronting each other. On one side was a large group of ragged and yellow-skinned homeless people, and on the other side were the Li family's father and son who had left home and gone to the city, and behind them were twenty animal-powered carts full of grain.
Originally, Li Zhaochang was preparing to take his son on the road after the Lantern Festival, but he didn't expect that some changes in the city this time made the Li family father and son travel early.
Originally, it was a good year for Jingzhou to have a good year this year, but I didn't expect something to happen when it was about to be harvested.
At present, the Shinto is declining, cutting off the upward path of the world's spirits and monsters, and instead becoming coveted by the immortals. The lucky ones were captured as mount pets, and the unlucky ones were unloaded with eight pieces of skin, scales, claws, meat, tendons, and blood pills into the materials in the furnace, and the spirit became the magic weapon Yuan Ling. Therefore, each find a place where there is no place to clamp their tails, and live one day at a time.
A few hundred miles away from the east of Li Mountain, there is a large lake called Yunmengze. Originally, this piece of Daze sheltered countless water tribe spirits, but it couldn't stand the immortal families in the surrounding areas, and now it can be regarded as a clear lake.
There is a small lake next to this river, but there is a white Jiao living in it. In the battle of the sky, it was still too young to catch up, and after the war, it could be regarded as cautious and dedicated to cultivation, and made up its mind not to show its head.
But even so, it was originally inescapable, and it could be regarded as unintentionally inserting willows into the shade and inadvertently saving a boy surnamed Dragon who had fallen into the water. The young man later became an immortal master, and his fief was next to this small lake in his hometown. Because he was grateful for the life-saving grace of this white jiao, he covered up the past for it.
The descendants of the Long family also obeyed the orders of their ancestors, and the relationship between the two was actually not bad. The family offered some blood food during the New Year's holidays, and the white Jiao spread rain for the family every now and then.
It was also destined to have this catastrophe, and when it went up to the sky to drive away a rain cloud, it happened that a female cultivator and her companions came to Yunmengze to play. And what's even more coincidental is that the female cultivator has a magic weapon that can detect demonic energy, even if the white Jiao does a good job of concealing it, there is nothing to hide before that magic weapon.
The female cultivator with the highest cultivation of these immortal family disciples was only just entering Qi refining, but her status was noble and she was the granddaughter of the head of the Nanli Sect. How can a famous disciple allow evil to behold?
is a jealous and hateful fairy girl, and she kills the killer without saying a word. This Bai Jiao has always been timid, and he can obviously kill everyone lightly, but he turned his head and fled directly to the depths of Yunmengze.
This female cultivator and her companion naturally fought to catch up, but the gap in cultivation was too big, and finally let the white Jiao escape.
How could the indispensable Nanli Pearl let go of this opportunity to eliminate evil and leave a scourge for the local people. So he began to summon nearby colleagues to come to help.
As soon as the people of the immortal family heard about this righteous act for the benefit of all people, they also had the opportunity to show their faces in front of the fairy, let alone be able to get in touch with the Nanli faction, one of the four god sects...... The self-respecting identity of the refining immortal will not be taken lightly, but the innate true person and the qi refining immortal are naturally obliged.
For a while, Yunmeng Zequn finished cultivating, and the treasure reflected the sun and disappeared into the sky. It's a pity that this Bai Jiao's natal supernatural power from home for hundreds of years has not been cultivated, and this hidden kung fu has never been put down, and even the magic weapon in Nanli Mingzhu's hand can only vaguely specify a direction. So the fish and turtles of Yunmengze were unlucky.
After a few days, nothing was achieved except for letting the immortals eat the lake fresh to their stomachs.
If so many people in the immortal sect gather, if there is no result, everyone's face will not look good, especially these immortal masters are trying their best to return the people to a bright and sunny day that clears the demonic atmosphere. Therefore, all the members of the dragon family who communicated with the demon were escorted to the lake, and the Ming canon was punished and beheaded.
This Bai Jiao didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he came to the rescue in his form and had a big battle with the immortals waiting on the side.
is a fierce dragon, killed many people in the Xianmen, and finally rescued the grandson of the Long family.
The tradition of this immortal family is to beat the small and the old, and as a result, needless to say, it attracted the immortals in the refining period. Immortals are immortals in the end, so the strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle has been set. It's easy to say, it's to drain the lake in Yunmengze, so that the fierce beast has nothing to hide.
Naturally, it was a race against time to slay demons and demons, and there was no time to inform the mortals along the coast, so the monks started to do the law, so they ...... There is an ocean along the coast of Yunmengze, and the large and small villages are all Ze country.
The lives of mortals in the surrounding villages were cheap, and the death of thousands or hundreds of them was naturally harmless for the monks. Of course, they don't care about the lack of hope for the autumn harvest of the surrounding villagers, the water in the field is not drained for a while, and even next year's early rice cannot be sown, coupled with the destruction and displacement of their houses, and worse, there will be human epidemics after natural disasters......
To add insult to injury, this practice has changed the climate in southeastern Jingzhou. The warm winter, which has always been warm and pleasant, has snowed heavily this year, and the bitter cold has even froze the rivers that never freeze. Fortunately, there is a magic circle in Lishan Village to change the climate, otherwise even the Li people will suffer.
Of course, these little things have nothing to do with the masters. They didn't catch the murderous thing in the end, wouldn't they still be depressed and unhappy in their hearts? How could they still have the heart to take care of this mundane matter in the world? Even the local immortals sighed that they were unlucky, and they sighed that they didn't seize this opportunity to show their faces in front of the masters of the Nanli faction.
In desperation, these victims either went out to relatives or went to Tieshan City, the largest city nearby, to find food.
Originally, Jingnan was regarded as a land of fish and rice that exported grain, and although the local grain was a little more expensive during the New Year's Festival, the poor people outside Tieshan City would be able to afford it. Moreover, during the New Year's Festival, these people have returned to their hometowns for the New Year, and there is no food shortage in the city.
Now that the form is reversed, there are many more mouths around the city waiting to be fed.
Speaking of which, Boss Li also took advantage of this famine to make a small profit.
Coincidentally, there was a happy event held in the Tianqi Gate this year, and the important people of the Tie family went to the gate to congratulate, leaving only a few mediocre side branches to stay in the city. They only cared about spending the New Year in the city, and they did not know the miserable situation outside the city, let alone relief.
Seeing that they couldn't survive, these poor people threw aside their awe of the immortal family, and all flocked to the city lord's mansion to beg for food. How could the Tie family in Tieshan City, the dignified Falling Star Lake, be blackmailed by the untouchables, and it was also the mercy of the person in charge, the Tie family just dispatched the private soldiers in the clan to disperse the crowd.
At this time, some of the villains with ulterior motives made a noise, and it is said that the person who was the Taiping Dao demon known as "Knife Sharpening Lao Peng" was called. He and his congregation encouraged the poor to come to Dongcheng, where the reservoir area and grain stores were concentrated, and smashed down the shops and warehouses, and robbed all the grain they could find
Afterwards, these people also knew that they had caused a catastrophe, and as soon as they got something, they fled out of the city with food and avoided Sixiang.
The news reached the ears of Tie Wanshan, the patriarch of the Iron Family in the Heavenly Instrument Gate, and made him furious. Immediately send the outstanding children of the clan back to the city to track down the demon and save face.
The shop in the city of Li Chao Chang was also damaged, but fortunately it was the New Year's Festival, and there was not much damage to the house, except for breaking a few door panels.
The shopkeeper Du who watched the store immediately reported the situation to the proprietor with a messenger.
Speaking of which, things like messengers are also characteristic products of the Xianxia world. In this world, the messenger is not even produced by the Immortal Family, and ordinary people can make it if they master the principle. It is just a set of two sheets of paper made of special techniques and raw materials, as long as the words are written on one and burned, the other will automatically emerge the information written on the other sheet as long as it is written within a certain distance. It can be said to be a must-have for home travel. It's a pity that the price is a little expensive, and it's still a one-time consumable, so it hasn't reached the point where a personal mobile information terminal is available in a certain world.
It's just that the store has suffered some losses, but now that the price of food in the city is soaring, it is a good opportunity for Li Zhaochang to make money.
Originally, there was a Miao River in front of this Lishan Village that led directly to the Falling Star Lake, and it would only take two or three days to go by boat. But this year, it was rare to be frozen, and the boat could not be moved.
Li Zhaochang could only set up a cart for the large livestock used in his family's fields and mills, and then asked the clansmen to borrow a dozen heads and make twenty carts, ready to transport grain to Natieshan City to make another profit.
This road has always been calm, and Li Zhaochang himself is a "master". This Li family was originally extremely martial, but now in addition to the twenty men and tenant farmers who drove the car to the city, there are also more than a dozen clansmen who also work in the city to accompany them, and these people are not bad.
Therefore, Li Zhaochang had no fear, and said goodbye to his family directly without any preparations, and embarked on the journey with his son in advance.
But I didn't expect that just after walking out of the village for a day and night, I bumped into a large group of homeless people.
This Li Zhaochang also secretly complained in his heart, although the road between Tieshan City and his home was not very lively, and there were not many villages and towns he passed, but he never encountered any danger. Even if there is a rice thief to make trouble, in his mind, it is just a hungry people with chickens and dogs, and when he takes out his weapons, he will naturally retreat.
However, although there were also women, children, and children among the four or five hundred homeless people in front of them, the first 100 or so young people were holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, even farm tools such as pitchforks and hoes, and some even only held a wooden stick. Although the weapons are rudimentary, they have a kind of murderous atmosphere, and they don't seem to be so easy to deal with.
In the midst of the scuffle, these grain trucks will certainly not be able to save all of them, not to mention how to explain to their relatives once the clansmen are damaged? Is it difficult to say that they have sacrificed their lives and not their wealth?
But this good wealth is hard to give up, and the grain that Li Zhaochang transported is not blown by the wind. He has always been shrewd, and he also has a bit of luck in his heart, so he stalemate with the homeless.
Although Li Zisheng was protected behind, he climbed into the grain truck by himself to see the situation in the field clearly.
Wearing a cotton hat and cotton boots, he wore a newly made cotton coat with a fur collar, and he still felt the chill invade. The young man couldn't help but think that he really didn't know how these ragged homeless people came to be born in this cold wind and cold snow.
A few people walked out of the group of homeless people, and one of them clasped his fists and said loudly: "In front of you, is Boss Li of the Li family's shop?"
Li Zhaochang turned his head to look at the flag planted on his grain truck, and also walked up and replied: "It's down." Who's in charge?"
"My surname is Peng!" The man who spoke was not tall, but with thick bones, and at first glance he looked like a farmer with big hands and feet. But looking at his body and demeanor, he has his own bearing. Especially the messy beard and messy hair on his face, coupled with the thick eyebrows like a brush and the big eyes of copper bells, make him look quite vicious.
Boss Li gasped when he heard this: "Peng sharpens the knife!"
This Peng Modao is not a native of Jingnan, but a homeless person who came from nowhere. He claimed that his surname was Peng, and he also had the skill of sharpening knives, so everyone called him Sharpening Knife Old Peng, and he simply regarded "sharpening knives" as his own name.
The old man who sharpened the knife smiled: "It turns out that Boss Li has also heard of cheap names, so the matter is easy to discuss!
Li Zhaochang held back a sentence from between his teeth: "How are you doing?"
The murderer made a gesture first, and said apologetically: "Lao Peng, I will accompany you first, it is not our brother's brother who has a lot of collisions with Boss Li's shop in the city." But old Peng, I want to do business with Your Excellency today. ”
Li Zhaochang said coldly: "Okay, let my store be robbed first." It's just that what business are you going to do?"