Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

Chapter 69 Shaoshan Town

Riding horn-scaled horses, the group stepped into the wilderness plains.

Looking around, the terrain is flat and vast. Although the weather is bitingly cold, the various wild flowers and grasses on this plain are still standing tenaciously, undulating in the cold wind.

"It's much safer outside."

Along the way, Su Jie and others did not encounter any danger, and there were no dangerous environments in the Ghost Ridge Palace.

This is also very easy to understand. Good territory is always occupied by the strong, and it is not rare to live in poor mountains and poor waters.

In the history of Blue Star China, the fertile and vast plains were always occupied by the Central Plains dynasties, while most ethnic minorities lived in barren mountains, forests, snowfields, and high-altitude areas.

Do they not want to live in the plains where the temperature is comfortable and the products are rich?

Of course not, not because they couldn't defeat the Central Plains Dynasty.

The same is true for Guiling Palace. Now that the righteous path is prosperous, Guiling Palace can only be forced to take root in the mountains that are full of dangers, dangerous environment, and scarce products.

In the past, during the heyday of magic, all major magic sects once occupied fertile plains, and few people liked the environment of deep mountains and old forests.

Even if they are cultivating immortals, except for some blessed places in spiritual mountains, people prefer to stay in the plains.

Walking on the plains, without the rugged mountain roads and cliffs, Su Jie and other Ghost Ridge Palace disciples could finally let go of the reins and start galloping on the grass, their speed suddenly increasing more than ten times.

In half a day, everyone crossed the grassy plain and could already see the crowds of people.

Smoke curled up, and a small village appeared in sight.

There are farmers tending the fields, women weaving flax and picking mulberries, children playing and playing, cocks crowing and dogs barking, and neighbors can hear each other.

Su Jie and others passed by the village on horned horses.

dong dong.

The big bell in the village was rung, but it was the working farmer who discovered the horse team of dozens of people. He immediately changed his face and ran back to the village to report the news, shouting about horse thieves.

It turned out that Su Jie and others were mistook them for intruders and horse thieves.

There were young men running out of the village carrying rakes and hoes, keeping a wary eye on the dozens of people and horses passing by.

Looking at the small village of more than 300 people in front of him, Pei Haibing moved his fingers slightly, his eyes bloodthirsty and greedy. In the end, he restrained the idea of ​​attacking the village.

Because they still have a mission, once they do something like this and make a big fuss, they will soon alert the local government and even lead to an encirclement and suppression by prominent and decent people. This is a serious act of committing suicide.

"Avoid densely populated areas and choose trails."

Perhaps noticing that his group was too conspicuous, Pei Haibing issued a new order.

Following the instructions on the map, the cavalry moved forward again, but this time Su Jie and others avoided the crowd gathering areas and took more remote roads.

Although you will still encounter villages and passers-by along the way, the frequency is greatly reduced.

Su Jie was riding on horseback, thinking about the book's introduction to the outside world.

The location where Su Jie and others are now is the boundary of Dali Dynasty, Qingzhou and Jiashao Prefecture.

Qingzhou was the largest production area of ​​the Dali Dynasty and had a large population.

Especially in the Tianyuan world with backward productivity, a large population is needed to maintain farmland operations.

Although the monks here have mastered all kinds of magical powers, they never despise themselves to engage in agricultural production.

Naturally, the common people at the lower levels had no access to conveniences, and all they could rely on were manpower and water buffaloes and water trucks.

"Ahead is Shaoshan Town. We don't have much supplies. We have to go inside to purchase supplies. The person whose name is called is responsible for going in and purchasing supplies."

Three days later, Pei Haibing ordered the team to stop for repairs and arrange tasks at the same time.

This is also true. Not every disciple can be equipped with a storage bag. Almost all outer disciples do not have such a thing. The supplies have to be carried by people and horses. The seven or seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars that have been consumed along the way really need to be replenished.

"Su Jie, Xu Tu, Chen Qin'an..."

Pei Haibing named seven or eight names, and by chance, Su Jie, Gu Weinian, and Chen Yun were among them.

"Senior Brother Pei, we're leaving now."

After cupping his hands, Su Jie said nothing and turned around to ride his horse to Shaoshan Town. The disciples whose names were called followed him one after another.

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Half an hour later. Su Jie saw Shaoshan Town marked on the map from a distance.

It was a small town, mostly surrounded by land reclaimed by the townspeople. The slightly thinly dressed townspeople were working in the fields.

"Yeah, the spiritual power is brilliant."

Su Jie stood on a small slope and saw spiritual energy fluctuations in the southeast of Shaoshan Town.

There is a weak spiritual land there, and the spiritual power of the ground veins penetrates into the surface, and some ordinary spiritual grains can be cultivated.

Su Jie's eyesight was pretty good, and he could clearly see the buildings near the Lingtian, with pavilions standing upright, cornices on the corners, and couplets hanging among them.

There are also some practitioners with spiritual power who are taking care of the spiritual fields.

Some people used rain praying techniques, and small groups of dark clouds gathered on the spiritual fields, and rainwater mixed with spiritual power fell on the fields.

Someone enslaves a kind of ground-boring worm, and can easily turn over acres of soil and plant spiritual plant seeds.

Someone is taking good care of the fields, and there is a layer of formation running on the spiritual fields to isolate insects and birds from eating.

The scope of this spiritual field is not large, at most more than 80 acres, and there are only a few cultivators who take care of it. Compared with ordinary fields that require a lot of labor, the difference is not too obvious.

"walk over."

Su Jie took the lead into Shaoshan Town.

The town is dominated by wooden buildings, and those who can live in bluestone brick houses are the wealthier families in the area.

From what Su Jie could see, most of the townspeople here were not living very well. It was hard to say that they could not survive. But judging from the color of food on their faces and their numbness, it was already winter and they were still wearing thin clothes. Most of the households had poor food and clothing. Poor, at most struggling on the edge of the subsistence line.

"It's time to pay the rent. The autumn harvest has been over for half a month. Anyone who hasn't paid the rent should be more conscious."

As soon as he entered the town, Su Jie saw a strange scene. A group of arrogant people were knocking on the door to announce the situation.

Su Jie did not ask more questions, but went to the grain store in the town, only to see a long queue here.

A large number of townspeople loaded sacks of grain and rice on carts and were delivering them to a few stewards in front of the grain store.

"Hey, the Chu family's rent has increased again this year."

"What can I do? I still have to pay rent here!"

“Hopefully they can put a few pounds less on the scale.”

"Expecting the Chu family to show kindness may not even happen in your dreams."

The townspeople discussed in low voices that the arrival of Su Jie's team, as outsiders, attracted a lot of attention.

"I didn't expect that I have to pay rent here."

Gu Weinian was quite emotional, thinking of the monthly routine he paid to Mr. Qiu every month.

"The lives of these townspeople are not necessarily that good. Everyone has enough food and clothing, which can only be seen on paper."

Chen Yun sneered, Guiling Palace has many books sent to the library from the outside world, and ordinary disciples can read books that do not involve spiritual practice.

Among those books, most of them were written by scholars from the Dali Dynasty. The books described Dali as a prosperous dynasty where the war was quiet and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

But through Shaoshan Town, small things can lead to big things, but the people have little food and clothing, and have to pay heavy land rents, which has nothing to do with living and working in peace and contentment.

"Hey, where are you from? Do you know that this is the territory of the Chu family? If you continue to talk nonsense, I will beat your ugly face to pieces."

A steward of the grain store happened to be passing by. Hearing Chen Yun's complaints, he immediately showed an evil look.

Chen Yun's face turned dark. After she was rescued by Su Jie, she had a few centipede-shaped scars on her face. Women love beauty, and they usually don't like to be told this.

"What nonsense, the Chu family is just a small town household."

Chen Yun restrained the urge to kill and just kicked the Chu family steward away.

This stirred up a hornet's nest, and instantly several Chu family stewards were shouting everywhere.

Some people wanted to come up and continue to cause trouble, but Chen Yun rushed at them on horseback, and they all fled in embarrassment.

"Go to the store to get some supplies and get ready to leave."

Su Jie did not stop Chen Yun's reckless move. He glanced at a bee flying on the street from the corner of his eye and said, "We shouldn't fight here. Act quickly."

(End of this chapter)