Chapter 40 Moon Lake Village
Song Qingming returned to Lingyuan Mountain with a trepidation. Seeing that he looked worried, Song Changxin thought that he had encountered something on the way back, so he asked a few questions out of concern.
Song Qingming realized that he was indeed too worried. Even if the Liu family suspected him, he could just return the things to them. Now he had a stable source of spiritual stones. As long as he was willing to spend time making talismans, he would definitely not lack cultivation resources in the future.
Thinking of this, Song Qingming finally calmed down and laughed with Song Changxin. Since he had an accident two years ago, Uncle Jiu had been more concerned about him. Every time he was going on a long trip, Song Changxin would give him some advice, which Song Qingming was very moved by.
Then, in order to adjust himself, Song Qingming started making talismans day and night again. He was so busy that he finally stopped thinking about the Liu family.
But what he didn't expect was that a few days after returning to Lingyuan Mountain, his thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong, who came to Lingyuan Mountain to deliver supplies as usual, brought an astonishing news.
Two days ago, for unknown reasons, the Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain was expelled from the Xiaoyao Sect overnight. Except for a few Liu family cultivators who were away, more than 30 Liu family cultivators were all sent to the mines by the Xiaoyao Sect to serve. The clan leader Liu Tianlong committed suicide on the spot. Since then, there has been no Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain in Qinghe County.
After hearing the news that Liu Tianlong had died, Song Qingming did not come back to his senses for a long time. He really did not expect that he had just let go of this matter, and he did not expect that the Liu family, which had made him worried a few days ago, disappeared overnight.
After hearing this news, Song Qingming, who should have been very happy, did not smile at all. Instead, he looked heavy. The sect was high above, and it was not easy for a small family like the Song family to survive. If they were not careful for a moment, they might end up like the Liu family overnight.
Song Qingming thought that the Liu family was wiped out by Xiaoyao Sect, which was probably related to the water spirit fruit in Liu Tianlong's storage bag. Now that this spirit fruit was in his possession, it might also bring such a catastrophe to the Song family.
After getting Liu Tianlong's storage bag, he thought about this problem more than once. The water spirit fruit looked like a spiritual object that had just been picked not long ago. Could it be that the trip to Fuyun Mountain organized by the Liu family was really for the water spirit fruit? Now the sudden destruction of the Liu family was very likely related to this thing.
Except for a small number of people who had to move to Qinghefang, the 50,000 mortals under the jurisdiction of Jingyuan Mountain were all divided up by nearby families, most of which were accepted by the Huang family. Even the Song family was allocated more than 2,000 people. The fourth elder who managed the family affairs racked his brains to arrange for these 2,000 people, and had to send the monks in his family to send 200 of them to Lingyuan Mountain for resettlement.
When Song Changxiong came this time, he also informed Song Changxin and Song Qingming in advance that they should quickly arrange people to build new mortal residences in the next few days so that they can be ready to receive the two hundred mortals of the Liu family at any time.
Song Changxin seemed to have been accustomed to the ups and downs of the families in the cultivation world. After hearing this news, he just nodded and had a headache about how to arrange these mortals.
Lingyuan Mountain is located in a remote area, and there are not many cultivated fields. The original food supply has to be supplemented by Funiushan every year. Now there are two hundred more people, and the existing food is definitely not enough.
After discussing with Song Changxin and Song Qingming, they plan to cultivate some new fields in Lingyuan Mountain. Otherwise, it is definitely not a long-term solution to rely on Funiushan to help supply food in the future. Now that Mujiao Town has added two thousand people, Funiushan must be very tight.
If we can solve this problem on our own in Lingyuan Mountain, it will be much easier in the future, and we don’t have to look forward to Funiushan to send food every time.
After several days of investigation, the two planned to arrange the new mortal residential area on the west side of Crescent Lake. This was where Song Qingming lived. There were four or five small buildings next to it, but no one had lived there.
Song Qingming arranged for the mortals in the mine to build a small house at the location of the black iron mine on the west side, so that they could live directly next to the mine, which also made it convenient for him to visit the mine frequently in the future.
Under the leadership of more than a dozen martial artists, the villagers of Lingyuan Mountain began to cut down trees on the mountain and build new houses. Song Changxin also specially arranged for the miners to stop working for a few days to help build houses.
Soon, under the leadership of Song Qingming, the villagers of Lingyuan Mountain spent half a month to finally build more than 20 new houses. Together with the few empty houses, they could barely accommodate 200 people.
After the new house was built, in order to facilitate management, Song Changxin moved some of the original mortal miners in Lingyuan Mountain to the newly built houses on the west side of Yueya Lake. After the mortals of the Liu family arrived, they were dispersed and arranged to blend into the natives of Lingyuan Mountain.
This is also a common method used by major immortal cultivation families to accept mortals from other families. On the one hand, it can allow them to integrate into the new environment faster, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent them from gathering together and causing trouble.
Only a few days after Song Qingming and his team built the house, Song Changxiong and his fourth brother Song Qingrui escorted the two hundred mortals to Lingyuan Mountain. Under the arrangement of the original village chief of Lingyuan Mountain, these mortals were soon assigned to their own houses. After a statistics, there are now more than 500 mortals in Lingyuan Mountain.
There is no shortage of miners in the black iron vein now. After thinking for a while, Song Qingming decided to temporarily divide the 500 mortals into two parts. The mortals living on the original east side of Crescent Lake will continue to mine in the mine, and the mortals living on the west side will be arranged to cultivate some fields next to the village.
Because Lingyuan Mountain is located in the deep mountains, there are not many places for fertile land to be cultivated. Song Qingming can only take these people to use magic tools to dig mountains and rocks, divert water and build canals, and reclaim dozens of acres of land to grow food.
He also went to Mujiao Town on purpose, got a batch of fish fry and put them into Crescent Lake, and arranged several families to take care of the breeding. It took nearly two months to solve this thorny food problem.
Fortunately, he has a broken map that can quickly restore his magic power. During this period of time, except for the time to make talismans, he did not delay his cultivation. However, his uncle Song Changxin did not know this, and was afraid that he was too hard during this period and delayed his practice, so he specially sent him some spiritual rice so that he could make up for some progress in his practice.
Song Qingming couldn't refuse, lest Song Changxin would worry about him all the time.
Three months passed in a hurry, and the mortals of the Liu family finally settled down. Fortunately, these people were relatively easy to manage, because the master family was in trouble. Compared with those who had to migrate to Qinghefang hundreds of miles away, they were very lucky to come to the Song family.
Mortals are not like cultivators who are immune to all diseases. A large number of mortals migrate over long distances, and some people with weak constitutions can easily fall on the road. Moreover, the high-ranking cultivators of the Xiaoyao Sect don't care too much about the lives of these mortals. As long as there is no large-scale death, they will not help at all.
In order to take care of them, the fourth elder assigned many of the Liu family mortals who were not of the Liu family's original surname to Lingyuan Mountain this time. After they were dispersed, they were quickly integrated into the mortals of the Song family.
For the convenience of management, Lingyuan Mountain, which was originally a village, was also divided into two by Song Qingming. The east side of Crescent Lake was still called Lingyuan Village, and the west half was given a new name, "Yuehu Village". Song Qingyu's father was arranged to be the village chief of Yuehu Village.
After the establishment of Yuehu Village, Song Qingming selected some talented mortals from the newly arrived Liu family mortals to enrich the Lingyuan Mountain's protective formation martial artists and mine guards.
Song Qingming asked these people to increase their training intensity every day, and planned to take them to the mountains to hunt some wild beasts after a while, which could also help replenish the food rations in the mountains.