Chapter 3773 Eight Years Later
Yu Linglong's words made Ye Xiaochuan quite speechless.
What does he think he is?
A babysitter to coax children?
Forget it, as long as it can be finished early, and we can drink and eat early, let Yu Linglong do whatever she wants.
The three thousand great ways of the universe have their own strengths.
Now everyone says that the sword has the best attack power, but in fact the spear has a good attack power.
The first savior in the history of the Three Realms, Mu Ziqi, the god of wood, has a long spear that can break through the air.
It's a pity that the spear-breaking way of entering the Tao, which has been passed down for countless years and is sought after by the world, has gradually been lost in the human world, but has become popular in the heavens.
There are not many cultivators who use spears in the human world, but it is more common in the heavens.
Dugu Changfeng chose the Overlord Spear among so many top artifacts. This may be God's will.
The heavy responsibility of revitalizing the spear way in the human world fell on his shoulders.
But he is still young and does not understand the heavy responsibility he will bear in the future.
A small episode could not change Ye Xiaochuan's joy of opening a mountain and accepting disciples.
Even Yang Juaner, who rarely drinks, was drunk tonight.
The moon outside slowly set, the sun rose, and then set.
Time flies.
About three years have passed.
Now it has been eight years since the human alliance.
It has been nine years since the battle of Yingzui Cliff.
At the foot of Longbei Mountain, a handsome and extraordinary young man rode a Dayuan horse and came and went like the wind.
There were seven or eight young men of similar age around, who had no war horses and could only run on their feet.
The young man riding a horse and holding a gun was like a majestic major general, leading his companions to drive more than 200 goats towards the pasture.
Longmen Inn has been very lively in recent years. The people who come to eat and drink are no longer the occasional cavalry scouts passing by, but merchants from the Middle Earth and the Western Regions.
Nine years have passed since the catastrophe. In these nine years, the human world has been on alert and prepared for a decisive battle with the enemies in heaven.
However, after waiting for nine years, the gate of catastrophe still did not appear, and the remaining forces of the six heavenly people hiding in Wushan also huddled in Wushan.
Many people are saying that the catastrophe has passed, the human world has won, and there will be no second wave of attacks in heaven.
A few years ago, Zhebie and Zhao Zian discussed the trade between the East and the West and made good progress.
At first, the Western Regions used cotton, fierce fire oil, spices, cattle and sheep to exchange with the Central Earth for the food that the Western Regions lacked.
As the human world has been very peaceful in recent years, trade is no longer limited to the military, and private trade has also begun to recover gradually.
Longmen Ancient City used to be an important transit station on the Silk Road, but because of the catastrophe nine years ago, the city was deserted.
Three years ago, dozens of desperate people from the Central Earth appeared in Longmen Ancient City.
It is said that the bandits who failed in the rebellion in the Central Plains were wanted by the imperial court in the Central Plains and had to hide outside the pass.
The ancient city of Longmen is located at the junction of the Central Plains and the Western Regions. The tentacles of both sides are intertwined, making it a lawless area without laws.
No matter how big a crime you commit outside, as long as you come here, no one will care.
At first, dozens of people came here, and gradually, more and more people came to the ancient city of Longmen. In just a few years, thousands of people have gathered, which has exceeded the population of the ancient city before the catastrophe.
These people come from all over the world, including the Hu people from the Western Regions, the Tatars on the grasslands, the desperate people in the Central Plains, the swordsmen from Guanxi, the smuggling brokers, the spies of the imperial court, and so on.
It is very normal for these desperate people with their heads on their belts to fight and kill in the city, and corpses are transported out of the city every day.
However, the Longmen Inn at the foot of Longbei Mountain in the south of Tucheng has always been very quiet and peaceful.
It's not that those desperate men don't want to cause trouble, but those who do, are all dead.
There are four iron rules in Longmen Inn.
No fighting.
No credit.
No flirting with the proprietress.
Must leave before three o'clock.
Over the years, many desperate men have drunk and eaten meat here, and those who drank too much would make trouble, eat a free meal, or flirt with the beautiful proprietress.
Without exception, all those who violated the first three iron rules had their heads chopped off.
There are twelve tall wooden pillars outside Longmen Inn, and each of them is hung with densely packed heads.
Some heads have become skeletons, and some heads have obviously just been cut off and have not completely rotted, and vultures are still pecking at the rotten meat on them.
As for having to leave before three o'clock, it is because you are not allowed to stay overnight here.
You can eat and drink here, but there is no accommodation service.
Many people are puzzled.
Since it is an inn, why not let guests stay overnight?
Later I learned that the cost of staying overnight is too high.
One night, a thousand taels of gold are needed.
If these desperate criminals had a thousand taels of gold, would they still go to the outer frontier to eat sand?
In the afternoon, Ye Xiaochuan was busy in the kitchen.
Qin Guichen came in with a large wine jar and said, "Zongci, there is not much wine in the wine cellar."
Ye Xiaochuan said, "Add water."
Qin Guichen said, "How much?"
Ye Xiaochuan said, "One bowl of wine, seven bowls of water."
Qin Guichen smiled bitterly and said, "Will it still taste like wine?"
Ye Xiaochuan said, "In this era, it's good to be able to drink a sip of wine mixed with water. What are you picky about?
After adding water, change the price from three taels per jar to five taels per jar."
Qin Guichen shook her head and murmured, "What a profiteer."
She came to the lobby, where the seven or eight tables were already full.
The guests shouted, "Boss lady, please serve the wine!"
Qin Guichen said, "The wine is in short supply. From today on, a pitcher of wine will cost five taels of silver."
The crowd was quiet at first, and then they started to make noise.
Ye Xiaochuan came in with a pot of mutton, and the noisy guests immediately quieted down with a glance.
Four hundred and thirty-nine heads in three years were chopped off by this kid. No one wanted their heads to be hung on the wooden pillars outside.
At the same time, a quarry somewhere in the eastern part of Qilin Mountain.
The catastrophe did not come, but the war preparations did not stop for a day. In the past nine years, a large amount of stone has been mined to strengthen the fortifications everywhere.
Zhan Ying was naked, swung a sledgehammer, and mined the stone vigorously.
For nine years, he has worked in four quarries.
The hard work of these nine years made Zhan Ying darker and his expression more resolute.
In recent years, many people have complained that the catastrophe has passed and there is no need to mine stones anymore. They all want to go home. Every day, civilians who escaped privately are caught and beheaded.
Zhan Ying does not have such an optimistic spirit, because he knows very well that the catastrophe has not passed.
The longer the peace lasts, the more cruel the future war will be.
He feels that the catastrophe will surely come back to the world within one or two years.
When it was almost time to get off work, a team of cavalrymen of more than 100 people drove into the quarry.
He shouted loudly: "Marshal Zhao Zian is recruiting cavalrymen aged 18 to 35, and over five feet tall..."