I Became an Old Man in My Leisure Time

Chapter 210: Killing Evil Spirits and Demons Brings Blessings, All the Ashes Are Gone

In the fields, people who migrated from the Northern Desert can be seen working hard.

The green food and vegetables in the fields made their faces look much more relaxed.

Even if they left their hometown and started from scratch, they still did not give up hope for life.

The Su brothers and sisters were famous and always protected these Northern Desert citizens.

All forces, big and small, were trying to expand their strength, but it was difficult to achieve this by exploiting the little food in the hands of the people. Instead, it was easy to cause group backlash, which was not worth the loss.

Instead, more farmers with rich farming experience were left to provide them with conditions to grow exotic crops. Would it be difficult to get these exotic crops in the end?

Farmers can survive by eating exotic purple wheat, potatoes, black beans, etc., but they will not be satisfied with just living.

After eating, do you want better farming tools? Do you want to buy a convenient and easy-to-use iron pot? What if my wife and daughter want some jewelry and beads?

Food, clothing, housing, transportation, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, some are necessities for survival, and some are necessities for improving the quality of life.

For hundreds of years, the big and small forces in Dawu have either mastered production and manufacturing or monopolized trading channels, controlling most of the commercial activities.

Just like Taobao in the previous life, it can obtain huge profits from transactions even if it does not produce anything.

Although the big and small forces in Dawu have not achieved industry monopoly like Taobao, they have completed the monopoly from the territory - all cities, big and small, belong to their "territory", and ordinary people can hardly even step into the threshold of "merchants".

Take the original Xiongjia Village as an example. They knew that they would be cheated by the merchants in the town, but they could only sell mountain products to them.

Because going to the county town is just the "upper house" of the merchants in the town, it will only be more cheating.

After all, the "bottom of the box" of the merchants in the town is only a round of martial artists. If they cause trouble and cannot solve it, they have to ask the upper house for help.

The upper house will not help for nothing, and will definitely give a large sum of benefits.

In this way, the labor income of the people will eventually be delivered to the hands of the big and small forces, saving trouble and effort.

Gu Ke casually mentioned some of these when chatting with the young lady, but he never thought of overthrowing Dawu and rebuilding a new society.

Dawu's mortal enemy is the demon. Losing the war will not mean losing power and humiliating the country, but the physical destruction of the country and the race.

It is too difficult to carry out internal reforms under such a terrifying foreign enemy, and it is impossible without the attitude of a teacher.

The young lady remembered a sentence more clearly, that is - let the people eat well, and Dawu will naturally have no worries.

There was a joke in the previous life that the network trolls are all too full.

But if the people of the whole country are hungry, it will be the real hell on earth, and the consequences are much more terrible than having more trolls.

In Dawu, eating is directly linked to strength. If the people are not full, they will have no strength. If they have no strength, they can only be eaten by the demons, and the consequences will be more serious.

The young lady didn't think so deeply, but at this moment, she was relieved to see that the people who migrated from thousands of miles away could still eat.

She didn't know what would happen in the future.

At least at this moment, these people are living better because of the reduction of strange creatures, which is enough.

It was just the beginning of summer when she left home, and it was the end of autumn when she returned home.

The eldest lady strolled all the way and returned to Taiping Village in September.

A few months ago, she asked the business company stationed in Beimo, Taiping Village to send back a message to inform Mei, Lan, Zhu and Ju that everything was fine. She would relax along the way and would not be home until some time later.

Even so, as soon as she got home, she was "enthusiastically nagging" by Mei, Lan, Zhu and Ju, but the four girls had slightly different focuses.

Meishu was talking about how thin she was, and Zhuqi was regretful that they could not go into battle together to kill strange creatures.

Lanhua was more interested in the scenery and customs along the way, but Juqin wanted to hear about her experience of killing strange creatures in the Far North.

After not seeing each other for half a year, the eldest lady did not think the four girls talked too much.

The master and servants got together, and Li Xiuer came on time every afternoon. The tea party lasted for several days.

Until this day, Li Xiuer said that the village was ready to worship Shennong, and the gathering and chatting came to an end.

At dusk, the worship began.

Unlike the beginning. The orphans of Lijiagou could only complain to the crude statue made by Li Xiuer.

Today, the ceremony of worshiping Shennong in Taiping Village is both formal and localized.

The team carried three kinds of animals, pigs, sheep and fish, five kinds of grains and fruits, and dozens of large wooden boxes, and passed through the largest main street of Taiping Village.

During the period, the gong opened the way, and the big drum directed the team to move forward. They came to the Shennong Temple, presented the offerings, and the elders in the village recited the sacrificial texts and worshiped collectively.

The orphans of Lijiagou were in the temple, the middle class was on the stone dam outside the temple, and the ordinary people were on the outer periphery, with clear levels.

After the sacrifice, the three kinds of animals and five kinds of grains and fruits could be taken down and shared by everyone.

This is what Gu Ke meant.

Shennong was a farmer, and cattle were the best animal power for farming, so cattle could not be used for the three kinds of animals.

Similarly, farmers hate to waste food.

So offerings to Shennong are just like smelling the scent, and everyone's heart is enough.

Anyway, since Li Xiuer claimed that the offerings were touched by the fairy spirit, and those who eat them can enjoy the blessing of the fairy mountain, no one in Taiping Village has jumped out to oppose eating the offerings.

Instead, who eats the offerings first and which kind of offerings they eat represents their status in Taiping Village, and no one is willing to give up.

Everyone bowed devoutly, muttering the name of Shennong.

After a while, an old voice echoed over Taiping Village: "Kill the evil and punish the monsters, the heaven and earth will feel it, and the righteous path will be blessed by the fairy mountain."

A golden thread came out from the void and fell on the heads of everyone in Taiping Village.

Everyone in the temple was not missed. About 40 people on the stone dam outside the temple were favored by the golden thread, and only 12/100 of the people outside the temple were favored.

At the same time, a ball of golden light enveloped the dozens of large boxes and disappeared into the void.

After a few breaths of silence, the noise started from the people outside. Many people on the stone dam began to whisper, but no one in the temple said a word.

They are the most sincere and benefit the most, but they also respect Shennong the most.

"Thank you Shennong for your mercy." Li Xiuer spoke at the right time, and her voice could be heard within a hundred feet.

Everyone bowed down together.

"Thank you Xianshan for your blessing."

Everyone bowed down again.

"Farewell to Shen Nong."

Everyone bowed down for the third time.

"The ceremony is over." Everyone carried the three animals, grains, melons and fruits, exited the Shennong Temple, and then exited the stone dam.

This is the territory of the Shennong Temple. No one is allowed to play or play at will except for sacrifices, and no on-site tea parties are allowed.

People in the outer streets, houses, and restaurants no longer have such taboos. Crowds of people gathered around the blessed person and asked crazy questions.

When Shen Nong's words of blessing reached the ears of the people, they naturally "understood" - in fact, it was Gu Ke's spiritual message conveying that this blessing was a reward for killing monsters, and only given to Outstanding performers in work and battle.

In the words of the previous life, it is probably equivalent to the "outstanding employee award" and has little to do with the degree of sincerity.

Therefore, the people wanted to find out how much blessings the person who received the blessings had received during this period, and what kind of blessings he received.

Although every blessing is great luck, people always yearn for what they don’t have.

People with Black Evil Palms think of Pushing Mountain Palms and Tianluo Hands to have greater strength and work faster.

People with Pushing Mountain Palm and Tianluo Hand think that iron body support can save their lives.

If you have someone with an iron body to rely on, you can also have a water float that can run fast and is useful for chasing people and escaping.

Agricultural and industrial skills also have many fans.

People who can grow more and better exotic crops are now talents that the entire Dawu needs, and there can never be too many.

The original base of craftsmen was too small and completely unable to meet the massive material needs that the war broke out.

Wen Dian and Battle Book are the most mysterious, and many people don't even know that these two skills exist.

Having them is enough to become a high-level talent that is scarce in all major forces.

However, these two skills are almost only spread among Gu Ke's "direct lineage", who are the most sincere people to Shennong and Tiangong.

Even in Taiping Village, if ordinary people can possess two unique martial arts, they are considered lucky.

The three gates can be called green smoke rising from ancestral graves.

Four doors and above? Almost none of them are ordinary people, most of them are responsible for some important affairs in Taiping Village.

Because these people are the most sincere, it is almost impossible to be bribed or betray Taiping Village.

Situations like massive corruption almost never happen to these people because they can't be hidden from Gu Ke.

He did not use his identity as Shennong to punish the other party, but he just stopped blessing the other party.

After all, if you are protecting corrupt people, how low can the standard of Fairy Mountain be?

Only the common people are the most stable and reliable foundation of Fairy Mountain. Even if some people go astray along the way and leave the giant ship of Fairy Mountain, more people will get on board.

The blessing from the fairy mountain has long been a well-known secret. Gu Ke and his "direct lineage" are strong enough, and the confidentiality contract has been cancelled.

Hearing the blessed people talk about their martial arts and skills, as well as the accompanying characteristics, the eyes of the people around them turned red.

The majority of the people who have not received the blessing are the majority. Most of them have only joined Taiping Village in the past two years and are dubious about Shennong.

There are also those who are lazy, sneaky, and like evil ways.

Those who receive blessings are either hard-working farmers and craftsmen, or brave warriors who bravely kill monsters.

Those who just talk without practicing will never receive blessings and can only stay at the bottom.

These pretenders huddled in the corner, feeling that people's joys were not connected to each other, and everything around them was so noisy.

In the Shennong Valley at this moment, Gu Ke appeared in front of the eldest lady and the others as a projection of the young version of Wenzong.

The projection condensed the golden light and was not much different from ordinary people.

He glanced at the girls, smiled and nodded to them one by one, but he couldn't say anything more.

The feeling in the dark warned him that trouble would come from his mouth.

So he glanced at the plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums. After the spring, summer, autumn and winter, he finally looked at the eldest lady and just said softly: "Thank you for the hard work this time."

It was a simple sentence, but the eldest lady seemed to understand its many meanings, and her cheeks were slightly hot.

But she suppressed this feeling and shook her head: "It's just a small matter, just go there once a year."

Gu Ke smiled: "No need to do this, don't forget, the advantage is mine."

The second half of this sentence was so familiar to the young lady that she couldn't help but laugh.

Gu Ke didn't take it seriously, and quickly warned: "The power of the strange things to enter the martial arts is only a little slow, you... you still put your own safety first."

After saying that, he raised his head and looked at the sky: "I can't stay long, see you later."

The eldest lady also faintly noticed a sense of uneasiness coming from the void in all directions, so she nodded: "You too..."

Gu Ke's figure disappeared into the air like a bubble.

"...Take care." She murmured these two words and remained silent for a long time.

Mei Lan, Zhu Ju and Chun Xia Qiu Dong made eye contact for a moment, and then left quickly, leaving only Mei Shu, the eldest sister, to accompany them.

Meishu first brewed a pot of tea, then called his young lady: "Miss, are you thirsty? How about drinking some tea before continuing?"

The young lady finally came to her senses and turned her head to look in surprise: "What?"

Meishu put his hand to his mouth and gestured: "If you drool too much, won't your mouth be dry?"

The young lady suddenly understood and glared: "You... No, who did you learn this from?"

Meishu pulled her to sit down, then smiled and said: "Who else could it be."

The young lady snorted and uttered a name with great certainty: "Juqin! This person is really unlucky after not being punished for a few days."

Meishu was not worried about whether his little sister's butt was unlucky, and instead comforted her: "Miss, don't be sad, he was also very concerned about your safety just now."

"He was concerned about our safety." The young lady corrected.

Mei Shu chuckled: "It sounds like the word 'we' was added reluctantly. Maybe they felt sorry for us little maids who have no one to pay attention to."

The eldest lady couldn't hold it anymore and stretched out her hand to grab her: "In the past six months, you have learned bad things from Juqin. I will punish you today."

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At the same time, there was a joyful atmosphere in Yulong Cave Mansion.

Although there were only Gu Ke and the three girls, it did not prevent everyone from watching enthusiastically.

The objects being watched were the dozens of large wooden boxes.

Xiao Man couldn't bear it any more and immediately opened one of them and turned it over.

A bunch of small purple bamboo tubes fell to the ground with a crackling sound, and a small bag bulged out.

The small bag was so small on the land of this valley, but it was extremely heavy in the eyes of Gu Ke and the three girls.

This was a large box with a length, width and height of more than three feet. One box could hold hundreds or thousands of small purple bamboo tubes, which meant hundreds or thousands of strange crystals and thousands or tens of thousands of soul sources.

There are now more than 20 such large boxes in front of them, with a total of 26,419 crystals.

You know, the Beimo defense line has been fighting with strange creatures for several years, and only tens of thousands of strange creatures have been killed and their strange crystals have been seized.

The total number of strange crystals traded for pills twice is only about 10,000 (the rest were sent to the courtyard for sealing).

The eldest lady went to the Far North Outer Region, and she got more than 16,000 crystals from hunting alone.

In other words, about two-thirds of this batch of strange crystals were "earned by the eldest lady's labor"

Fortunately, the eldest lady did not want to be an emperor and was not interested in money, otherwise Beimo would be blown up three feet. This very unreliable idea suddenly flashed through someone's mind.

Xiaoman was very excited and poured all the purple bamboo tubes in the boxes together in one breath, and the small bag finally turned into a big grave.

In a moment, this big grave of tens of thousands of strange crystals will become nutrients for the growth of the cave, and the ashes will be scattered for them.

Even though he had harvested a large amount of soul source several times, Gu Ke couldn't help but feel intoxicated. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he seemed to be as happy as if he was drunk.

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