Chapter 125 Qin and Li Meet for the First Time
As the saying goes, if you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools.
After upgrading to the cave, in just over a year since Gu Ke woke up, the Wuxiang Sutra has skyrocketed to level 300+, and his physical fitness is close to 5000.
The speed of his strength growth is beyond everyone's imagination, including himself.
With many characteristics and subtle perception of the mind, he can easily predict the opponent's movements.
As a martial master, Xiaoman can hardly escape his Five Fingers Mountain when fighting, and he can kill one with one grab.
If he encounters an ordinary martial master, it is possible to kill one with three or five punches, not to mention one with one punch.
Therefore, the Wuxiang Sutra is his most powerful martial arts, and the Black Evil Palm and the like only allow him to master the skills of exerting force and hit people more accurately and fiercely.
Moreover, the power of the Wuxiang Sutra is far more than this, and fighting is just a by-product.
His current mind radius is more than 30 miles, while the widest north-south width of the Yulong Valley cave is only more than 30 miles, and the east-west width is 50 miles.
As long as he is in Yulong Peak, his mind can cover the entire valley, and even overflow part of it outside the cave.
As the owner of the cave, his mind can freely pass through the invisible barrier, but the spiritual thoughts of other people and strange monsters cannot.
The more vague large-scale perception has expanded to more than 2,000 miles away.
This is not a surprise to Gu Ke.
If it were an ordinary person in the previous life, with a better telescope, he could also see the scenery of dozens of miles around.
There are also a few people who are interested in using telescopes to repeatedly watch those scenery every day.
Forget about voyeurism. You should know that Yulong Valley is located on the western plateau of Xihuang Country, and there is no one within thousands of miles.
There is no one here, especially beautiful women.
If you really want to see, there are three beauties in the valley that can be seen with the naked eye, so there is no need to bother to perceive from the outside world.
No matter how magnificent and charming the natural scenery outside is, it will be the same after seeing it too much.
After the novelty wore off, he only explored a distance outside every now and then, and recorded the vague perception in the text book as a backup map.
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When Gu Ke and his companions were spending their days leisurely, tens of thousands of miles away in the Dawu Courtyard, at the old site of Lijiagou on Jingxi South Road.
Miss Qin stared at the village with thousands of people for a moment, and raised her left hand to look at it.
Her sleeves slipped open a little, revealing a bracelet made of dozens of purple copper coins with gold patterns on her wrist. One of the coins with many gold patterns was shining with a faint golden light.
"That Li Xiuer should be nearby." She lowered her sleeves: "Let's go and see the Taiping Village leader who is said to have excellent talent and character."
As she spoke, two summer horses pulled the purple bamboo cart wrapped in green cloth and approached the village entrance.
The guard at the door wanted to stop them, but Juqin, who was pulling the cart, made a handshake gesture with both hands and whispered: "God bless you, and the world will be peaceful."
The guard saw the people who were covered with gauze hats and wrapped tightly, and he felt a sense of awe and intimacy in his heart.
He could not help but bow slightly, and made the same gesture: "Purple wheat is abundant, and the family has a surplus. What are you doing here in Taiping Village?"
Juqin: "My master has been entrusted by someone to discuss important matters with Li Xiuer."
Hearing this person calling the name of the head of the village directly, the guard was startled and wanted to shout, but Miss Qin in the car looked over.
He suddenly sank, as if he was bound by invisible shackles and could not speak.
Soon, Miss Qin lowered her eyes, and the invisible restraint disappeared.
The guard did not dare to open his mouth to scold again, and hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted: "Please wait for a moment, wait for me to pass on... OK?"
The last question was added subconsciously after he finished speaking.
Juqin nodded: "That's fine, but please find a quiet place with us to rest for a while."
The guard nodded repeatedly, waved to another companion next to him, and asked him to take Miss Qin and the others to a pavilion near the entrance of the village to rest, which would also facilitate their surveillance.
Then the guard hurried away.
In a moment, a man nearly six feet tall, holding a long stick, wearing a blue linen shirt and straw sandals, strode over, followed by four people dressed similarly, looking aggressive.
But as the five people got closer to the pavilion at the entrance of the village, their steps became smaller and their movements became gentler.
When they were several feet away from the pavilion, they also felt a sense of awe and respect like the guard, and the vigilance and anger they had just felt disappeared, and they stopped unconsciously.
Miss Qin put down the purple bamboo teacup in her hand and nodded slightly to the big man: "You, come in and answer the question."
The big man walked faster than his brain and walked to the pavilion: "I am Xia Tieniu, the second leader of Taiping Village. May I ask what do you want to see my leader?"
Miss Qin stretched out her bare hands from her sleeves, holding a heavy purple copper coin with gold patterns half the size of a palm between her fingers: "I am entrusted by someone to hand this thing over to Li Xiuer."
Xia Tieniu's eyes and spirit were almost involuntarily focused on this purple copper coin with gold patterns.
Without thinking, he knew that the kind of intimacy and awe just now was directed at this thing, as if it itself had a slight connection with himself.
Miss Qin did not let him look at it for more, and put the copper coin back into her sleeve: "Okay, lead the way."
Xia Tieniu woke up and turned his head to look at the four people behind him.
One of the men, whose facial features were somewhat similar to his but who was half a head shorter, whispered: "Brother, this thing seems to have something to do with...Grandpa Shennong."
Hearing this, Xia Tieniu finally understood why he always felt that this copper coin was inexplicably familiar.
Thinking about what Miss Qin said, he was moved and quickly extended his hand to lead the way: "Please, please come this way."
Two quarters of an hour later, Miss Qin and her friends, who had been sitting in the meeting hall of Taiping Town for a while, finally saw a slender girl step into the hall. It was Li Xiuer, the chief of Taiping Village.
Li Xiuer was over 20 years old, with a small face, thin eyebrows and eyes, a small and upturned nose, and thin and small lips.
This delicate appearance of a beautiful girl from a small family could not be said to be very beautiful, but it gave people a very comfortable feeling.
Her height was only an inch short of five feet, and she felt a little empty and light when she wore the green linen clothes.
The narrow sleeves were rolled up to the middle of the forearms, revealing the porcelain white palms and half of the forearms.
The linen pants on the lower body were also rolled up twice to above the ankles, and there were light water stains and some dirt on the straw sandals and feet.
Miss Qin only took a glance and felt that this look was very familiar: Well, it was similar to when Gu Ke and others came back from working in the fields.
Li Xiuer's blood and qi fluctuations were calm and restrained, not attracting attention, but it could not be hidden from the martial honorable Miss Qin.
After more than ten years, Li Xiuer has now reached the second round of sixth turn strength, and is close to perfection, so she can control her blood and energy to this extent.
Even with Miss Qin's eyes, she had to say in her heart, "Excellent talent, focused cultivation."
When Li Xiuer came in, she met Miss Qin's eyes almost immediately, and immediately felt her whole body hot, and an invisible but blazing breath swept over her, "looking" at her.
She couldn't help but frown, and her body was in the starting position of the Push Mountain Palm, alert: "What do you mean?"
This behavior of scanning other people's bodies with blood and energy is extremely impolite, similar to the modern society where strangers come up and open their collars and look inside.
If the other party doesn't fight back immediately, he will probably lose.
Miss Qin didn't care, she was just curious about the little girl that Gu Ke emphasized.
Besides, he also said that Li Xiuer was his junior, so Miss Qin was naturally her elder.
As women, it is normal for elders to check on the progress of the younger generation in martial arts, and it is not considered rude.
With a wave of his hand, Li Xiuer, who was on guard, had no power to resist, and was pulled in front of him.
Taking out the heavy purple copper coin with gold patterns, Miss Qin said: "Someone asked me to bring this to you. Take it and you will know everything."
But Li Xiuer could no longer hear her words.
Her eyes were fixed on the purple copper coin, and she subconsciously stretched out her hands.
As soon as Miss Qin's hand fell, her fingers loosened, and the copper coin fell into Li Xiuer's palm.
An extremely familiar voice echoed in her mind: "Ten years of martial arts training, ten years of hard work, never slack off, never change your original intention, great kindness!"
At the same time, the effect of this copper coin was infused into her consciousness.
After Li Xiuer saw it clearly, she couldn't help but tremble all over, and couldn't speak.
This copper coin is naturally the cause and effect coin condensed by the orphan of Lijiagou, but it is not an ordinary cause and effect coin, but a ten-dollar coin fused into one.
After using it, you can designate a system skill or martial arts initiation for 100 people.
When it is in Gu Ke's hand, he will decide which initiation to choose.
After the ten coins are materialized and handed over to Li Xiu'er, she can decide which initiation to give, when to give it, and even the form of initiation.
Otherwise, he can always know what they need from the prayers of Li Xiu'er and others, so why bother so much.
Therefore, this is actually a "show prop" for Li Xiu'er, who makes her look the most pleasing to the eye.
After more than ten years of development, the number of people in Taiping Village has increased, but people's hearts have become more complicated.
Even in a small society with a village of one or two thousand people, many problems are still mixed with social, economic, and political factors.
There are so many practical problems that it is a headache, and there is no place to start.
In modern society, knowledge is exploding and easy to obtain, and most people are not able to manage a group of more than a dozen people.
Not to mention that this is still an ancient world where weird things and demons are rampant and force is rampant.
Li Xiuer was just a child from an ordinary mountain village after all. No matter how talented she was, she didn't have the professional knowledge to solve these problems.
Therefore, Gu Ke asked Miss Qin to come over when she was free to give Li Xiuer some advice.
As personal maids, Mei, Lan, Zhu and Ju were supposed to assist Miss Qin in mastering the division of labor and cooperation among hundreds or thousands of people in Lieyang Sect.
Among the knowledge they learned, there was the content of sect management, which accounted for a large proportion.
Unfortunately, Miss Qin was deceived by Zhao Heng before she came of age to actually take power. The skills that Mei, Lan, Zhu and Ju learned have not been put to good use so far.
Of course, there should be a place for them in the future.
Gu Ke's "message" in the top ten coins told Li Xiuer that Miss Qin was a trustworthy person and that she could ask her for advice if she had any difficulties.
As a loyal fan of Shennong, Li Xiuer did not doubt this.
In addition to the top ten coins, Miss Qin's bracelet was also extraordinary.
It was made by Gu Ke with dozens of cause and effect coins condensed from different places, and was given to her and bound to her.
Its simplest function is to make people who believe in Shennong feel something.
In a sense, holding it means having some of Shennong's "authority".
Those who are truly grateful to him will not harm Miss Qin.
In the following days, Miss Qin and her nine companions did not cause any commotion and disappeared quietly.
Li Xiuer hid most of them and sent them to live in seclusion in a small valley dozens of miles away.
Mainly because Miss Qin and her companions were nominally sent to guard the ancestral tomb.
Once they were discovered to be outside, they would be in a lot of trouble.
Miss Qin and her companions were not afraid of this, but the small Taiping Village could undoubtedly not withstand the Dawu royal family.
Even though Taiping Village has become a well-known "wild village" in the southwest of Beijing in recent years, it is still the same.
The so-called wild village is a village in the wild that is difficult for the government to control.
In the past ten years, as the world became chaotic, wild villages have been established everywhere.
Like Taiping Village, they don't cause much trouble, and there are not many people. They just build villages to protect themselves.
The county government hundreds of miles away is too lazy to manage them, and they don't have the energy to manage them.
The gentry who originally owned the land in Lijiagou did send people to collect rent, but they were driven back.
Not giving up, the gentry sent servants and a few guards of the first and second ranks to collect the rent by force.
This time, Taiping Village was not polite. The servants and guards were all beaten half to death and thrown out.
Xia Tieniu even threatened that if there was a next time, the gentry's family could be replaced by a distant relative.
The gentry was in a dilemma and simply went to the county government.
The county magistrate accepted the benefits, and finally just said lightly - everything is the most important thing, don't go too far. However, it is not easy for farmers to survive now, so let's exempt Taiping Village from rent for ten years.
When the gentry heard this, they knew that the county government would not send people to destroy Taiping Village, but at most act as a middleman to reconcile the two parties and protect the gentry's home.
The ten-year period, the gentry can turn against each other at any time if they have the strength.
No strength? Then don't even think about collecting rent from Taiping Village for the rest of your life, let alone ten years later.
In fact, the county magistrate is not sympathetic to the farmers and magnanimous, but the weird monsters and demons are becoming more and more rampant, and disobedient refugee villages are also blooming everywhere.
It is not difficult to deal with a Taiping Village, but hundreds of wild villages and wild villages within a radius of hundreds of miles also do the same?
Don't joke, let alone say that the county government does not have this strength, even if it does, it will not make a big move.
The angry farmers would go into the wilderness and forests as soon as they harvested the grain, or simply raise a big flag and start fighting directly.
Most of those who have the courage to fight are fierce and unruly people in the village. There are many martial artists who are very strong in survival ability. If they can't win, they will go into the mountains and waters.
There are no surveillance and photos here. If they come out in another place after a few months, no one knows what these people have done before.
What's more serious is that this kind of situation is not unique to Jingxi South Road. Many remote places in Dawu Yiting and Siguo are like this.
The lower-level farmers, mountain people, and fishermen who can't stand the heavy taxes and corrupt officials have begun to use various methods to get rid of the oppression they have suffered.
In the past, they didn't resist because they had no ability and couldn't leave the land.
Nowadays, foreign grains have flooded in remote areas, and there are nooks and crannies in the mountains and waters.
Like the dozens of Lijiagou orphans led by Li Xiuer, they will be divided into several teams every year to spread seeds and martial arts everywhere, and they have never stopped for more than ten years.