Chapter 248 Grassroots
In Qingzhou City in the early morning, the government officials were posting notices at the city gate
It's not too early already. At the third and fourth watch, there will be dung trucks leaving the city and vendors bringing vegetables, melons, pulp and eggs into the city to prepare for business. By this time, the city gate is already busy with traffic.
On the notice board, the ranking of arrest warrants has changed. There is one more thief riding a flaming horse. It is Chen Shi who rides a horse to kill the county magistrate, ranking second on the Qingzhou arrest list.
Li Tianqing still tops the list and has the most rewards.
A young government official had just put up Chen Shi's portrait when the old government official next to him poked his waist and pursed his lips to the side.
The young yamen officer looked over and saw the first and second names on the wanted list, walking towards them.
He hurriedly looked at the notice board and then looked at the people coming. They were indeed the first and second place.
The two young men were both twelve or thirteen years old.
The number one criminal was wearing a white Juren Taoist robe with a black hem, a red ribbon around his waist, and a platinum crown on his head.
The second-ranked criminal is wearing a light green robe with a purple hem, a black silk belt around his waist, and a golden crown on his head.
They were both handsome and handsome, and judging from their appearance, they did not look like the vicious Red Horse thieves at all.
The two of them walked into the city. One was very curious and wanted to see the notice board. The other was more cautious and stretched out his hand to hold him and walked aside.
The young yamen officer hurriedly drew his sword and was about to step forward to capture him, but the old yamen officer slapped him and knocked him to the ground, shouting: "
You don’t want your life? You don’t want your life, but I want my life
The young yamen officer threw the embroidered spring knife aside, covered his face, and said in confusion: "These two criminals must have a lot of silver reward!
Mr. Lu, the envoy of the Salt Division, is a great expert in the realm of gods. If you kill him with one knife, are you looking for death?
The young government official said: "Let's call more people!
The old government officer said angrily: "There are not enough people to kill! Besides, they robbed the money and distributed it to the villages. Many villages received a lot of money.
Nowadays, the reputation of the Red Horse Thief is very good, and the country people are grateful to them. If you really kill the Red Horse Thief, you will never live, you will definitely be beaten to death!
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing walked through the streets and alleys and came to the door of a house.
This family is not big, with three main rooms and one kitchen. It is an ordinary house. It can accommodate a family of four at most, so it seems a bit crowded for five people.
But Chen Shi and Li Tianqing heard the breathing in the yard and found that there were seven people living in this family.
The two of them waited outside the house for a while, and then someone opened the door. It was the man in black who had been performing rituals outside the Temple of Wealth at midnight these past few days.
This man changed into coarse linen clothes and wore a pair of straw sandals.
Although the clothes are old, they are washed very clean.
The man was young, about thirty years old. As soon as he went out, he saw Chen Shi and Li Tianqing standing across the street. His expression changed drastically and he wanted to run away.
At this time, a woman's voice came from behind him, saying: "Will the master come back at noon?
The man froze, not daring to run away, and bravely said: "I won't be back at noon.
Madam, the private school is over in the afternoon. You can go pick up the child.
I...I'm afraid I don't have time.
When he saw Chen Shi and Li Tianqing, he knew that his identity had been exposed. They were so powerful that he was definitely no match. He was afraid that escaping would harm his family, so he did not dare to escape.
A woman came out, gave him a lotus leaf bag, and whispered: "I have prepared some food for you, including eggs and a piece of meat.
I see you've been exhausted these past few days, so don't let yourself be shortchanged.
The man said yes, pushed her back to the room, and said: "I understand, please come back quickly."
Go and take care of my parents for me.
The old man's cough came from the room
The woman went back to her room, probably to take care of the old man.
The man's eyes twitched violently twice, and he walked towards Chen Shi and Li Tianqing bravely.
He was much taller than the two of them, but at this moment he was terribly scared and his body was shaking uncontrollably.
Chen Shi said calmly: "Tell me the truth, what is your name?
The man's body trembled and he said: "The sound of the Luan flute.
If you let my family go, I will tell you everything!
Chen Shi looked at Li Tianqing, who said: "I am not a murderous person.
Chen Shi smiled and said: "I am also a well-known good person in Xinduo.
Brother Luan, let’s talk as we walk.
Luan flute said in a trembling voice: "Where to go?
Although these two people said that they were not murderous people, he knew that their portraits were still on the killing list, ranking at the top, and they had killed several high-ranking officials in Qingzhou!
Li Tianqing smiled and said: "Wherever you go, we will go.
Luan Di said: "I work for Mr. Wan, and I have to go to the medicine field.
I am a herbalist from Wanfu.
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing were surprised.
Luan Disheng is definitely a master. Both of them have seen his skills of transporting five ghosts, flying skills, and controlling evil elements!
His strength can be said to be a top master in the Nascent Soul Realm. If Chen Shi and Li Tianqing were to give it a try, no one would dare to say that they would win in a one-on-one battle.
Who would have thought that such a master would work as a herb farmer for a wealthy family!
Chen Shi smiled and said: "Then let's go to the medicine field.
The sound of Luan's flute led the two of them towards the outside of the city, their tears rolling down uncontrollably.
Chen Shi was surprised and said: "
Weren't you very powerful when you controlled evil elements to attack us? Why are you crying now?
Luan Di's voice choked with sobs: "I took you there because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to survive. I thought about how sad it was that my wife, children and the elderly had no one to take care of me, so I cried."
Li Tianqing said: "Listening to your conversation, you should be a scholar.
Have you ever taken the merit examination?
"After passing the examination, he was a scholar from Tan County in Qingzhou. Later he passed the examination in Qingzhou and ranked eleventh.
Luan Di Sheng wiped away her tears and said, "After saving two years of money, I planned to go to Xijing to take the exam, maybe I can get a Jinshi.
When I passed through Gongzhou, I was defrauded of all my money by Gongzhou people and sold to a farm, where I almost died.
I finally escaped and begged for food all the way to Xijing. I failed the exam and failed, so I came back.
When he talked about the sad part, tears fell again
Chen Shi felt the same and said: "This is the case in Gongzhou.
I... I have a friend who was defrauded of all his money and sold to a farm.
Li Tianqing glanced at him and said, "Is she the sister of the Hu family?
Chen Shi said: "No, you don't know this friend! ...Don't interrupt, Luan Flute, just keep talking!"
Luan Di said: "
I gave up the idea of ​​going to Beijing to take the exam and returned to Qingzhou. My wife was waiting for me to come back and she didn't mind me being poor.
Although I won the exam, I have been idle at home, relying on my wife to weave and sell cloth.
Mr. Wan saw that I was pitiful, so he asked me to help him grow medicine.
Li Tianqing asked: "Who is Master Wan?
"You don't know Qingzhou Wanjia?
Luan Di was surprised, and then he realized, "That's right, you are from other places, so of course you don't know about Qingzhou Wanjia.
The porridge shed over there belongs to Mr. Wan's family.
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing looked around and saw a porridge shed set up on the right side of the door of a large house. The porridge was cooked and the steamed buns were just out of the pot. They were covered with a cloth and were still hot.
steaming.
There were already long queues of hungry people waiting in the porridge shacks. The queue had no end in sight.
People who look like servants are helping to organize the team to avoid chaos.
Wanfu is the most philanthropic family in Qingzhou, and the head of the family, Wan Shide, is the most philanthropic person in Qingzhou.
Luan Di said, "The Wan family often releases grain and opens a porridge shed to give porridge to the poor. Master Wan's name is Wan Shide, and he is a living Buddha of the Wan family in Qingzhou.
Every day thousands of families give out rice and porridge, and thousands of people line up to wait here.
The Wan family is also an aristocratic family in Qingzhou. Their ancestors were once governors of Qingzhou. Later, the Wan family got rich by doing business.
The three of them passed by the porridge shed and were about to leave the city, but they saw an endless line of people queuing up to receive porridge and steamed buns, all the way to the outside of the city.
After Wan's family had money, they purchased fertile land during the disaster years. His family's business was so big that it could survive the disaster years.
But other families do not have such a strong financial background, and they will have to sell off their property if they cannot survive in a disaster year.
Gradually, Wanjia's fields increased.
Luan Di said, "I was listening to people chatting in the teahouse. They said that there was a famine for a year, and there was a beggar woman who had some beauty and was noticed by Master Wan.
The woman refused to give her body to Mr. Wan and offended Mr. Wan.
The woman was in urgent need of urination and wanted to solve the problem on the spot, but was driven away by the servants of the Wan family, saying that she could not defecate on the Wan family's land.
The beggar woman also has some backbone, saying that even if she suffocates to death, she will not spread it to your thousands of fields.
They came to the outside of the city. Outside the city, there were vast tracts of fertile land. Looking around, there was no end in sight.
The begging woman walked straight in one direction, covering hundreds of miles from morning to night. She couldn't hold it in any longer and was about to find a place to relieve herself. Others told her that this was still Wanjia's farmland.
Luan Di said, "She was very desperate and asked how long it would take to get out of Wanjia's fields.
Others told her that if she didn't eat or drink for ten days, she would be able to leave Wanjia's fields.
Chen Shi lost his voice and said: "The entire fields in Qingzhou belong to Wanjia?
Luan Di shook his head and said, "Not entirely.
Some land in the mountains does not belong to the Wan family, and most of the servants are tenant farmers of the Wan family.
Chen Shi asked: "What happened to the woman?
Luan Di said: "I don't know.
The people in the tea shed stopped talking after they reached this point. The woman might have been suffocated to death by urinating, or she might have obeyed Mr. Wan.
This kind of country story usually has no ending.
However, this story must be true because Wanjia has too many fields.
Li Tianqing thoughtfully said: "The Wan family is considered a noble family in Qingzhou, and many of the officials in other provinces are from the Thirteenth Family. However, in Qingzhou where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, it is difficult for the influence of the Thirteenth Family to insert itself.
Luan Di said: "In Qingzhou, even if he is the governor, he will not be able to secure his position without Mr. Wan's nod.
Chen Shi thought of the salt envoy who died under Li Tianqing's sword the night before yesterday. His name was Lu Song. From his last name, he knew that he was not from the Thirteenth Family.
The same is true for the Zhao family in Xinxiang.
Chen Shi said, "At the beginning, most of the new people were under the influence of the Zhao family. From the governor to the county magistrate, most of them were members of the Zhao family and other small aristocratic families.
Li Tianqing shook his head and said: "The Zhao family can establish a foothold in Xinduo because my Li family connives to let the Zhao family search for the true king's tomb and find out whether it is true or not.
The other twelve aristocratic families also had the same idea.
Later, the Zhao family fell, and the Thirteenth Aristocratic Family regained power in Xinxiang, and there was no such thing as a small aristocratic family.
Chen Shi asked: "Behind the Zhao family in Xinxiang is the Thirteenth Family, but what about the Wan family in Qingzhou? Can a Wan family with no background monopolize Qingzhou?"
Li Tianqing was stunned.
The origin of the Wanjia mentioned by Lai Di Sheng just now includes the rise of the Wanjia, as well as the wealth and power of the Wanjia, but it only lacks the background of the Wanjia.
Is it credible that Wanjia, who has no background, has the power to dominate the sky with one hand in Qingzhou?
Wanjia’s fields stretch as far as the eye can see, growing various crops and medicinal fields.
Medicinal materials are relatively precious, and many monks guard them near the medicinal fields.
Chen Shi looked at these monks and saw that each of them was quite strong, and many of them were talented people who had mastered the golden elixir.
They are also herbalists working for Wanjia.
However, masters like Luan Disheng are still very rare among the herb farmers. Luan Disheng has a high status among the herb farmers.
When those drug farmers saw him, they would say hello.
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Luan Di Sheng, why do you want to harm us?
Li Tianqing couldn't help but said, "What does growing your medicinal materials have to do with us?
Luan Di hesitated for a moment and said: "The medicinal materials I grow are different from other medicinal materials. What I grow is elixir of longevity.
You killed my fertilizer, and I couldn't pay the debt, so I had no choice but to attack you.
"Pharmaceutical fertilizer?
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing looked at each other. What would be the fertilizer of the elixir?
The sound of Luan's flute led them to their medicinal field, but they saw that it was close to the mountains and the spiritual springs irrigating the medicinal materials, and it was divided into different spiritual gardens.
The structure of the spiritual garden is also different. Some elixirs like shade, so they use rocks and trees.
To provide shade, some elixirs like the sun, and there are bright mirrors in the sky to refract the sunlight, and monks activate the shrines to shine with divine light.
Some elixirs like dryness, so some monks use fire and wind spells to dry the soil.
Some elixirs like the bitter cold, so some monks use ice and snow spells to create bitter cold spiritual gardens.
There is also an incense burner here to offer these elixirs. The incense is constantly burning to cultivate the spirit of the elixirs.
Most of the elixirs grown in the spiritual garden are elixirs that have become spirits. From time to time, the elixirs will transform into palm-high boys and run to the incense burner to absorb the scent of the incense.
Such a large spiritual garden made Chen Shi and Li Tianqing's eyes wide open.
Chen Shi said: "
The medicinal fertilizers you call are the evil spirits you feed, right?
Luan Di nodded and said dejectedly: "When I took over the job of a medicine farmer, I knew it was wrong, but I had to support my family.
Mr. Wan gave me money to give me the exercises and spells to practice, so that my child can go to a private school. I
Only then can dad cure the disease and stay alive.
Chen Shi said: "So, your Southern talismans were passed down to you by Master Wan? Master Wan is a Southern talisman master?"
Southern talisman? Southern talisman?"
Luan was slightly startled by the sound of the flute.
Chen Shi said: "
The method you use to create evil spirits and the means to control evil spirits is the southern faction Fu Zuan.
The sound of Luan's flute interrupted him, he shook his head and said: "We did not create evil spirits.
Mr. Wan only taught me the method of controlling evil spirits. The evil spirits in Qingzhou are all wild.
Chen Shi was shocked: "Can you control wild evil spirits?
Luan Di said: "Of course they are wild. Are there still man-made evil spirits in the world?
He was extremely shocked.
Chen Shi was also shocked.
Both of them have their own inherent understanding. Chen Shi believes that the inborn evil is indispensable.
It can be controlled, but Luan Di Sheng believes that evil spirits are innate and it is impossible for monks to create evil spirits.
At this moment, their inherent cognition was broken!
Chen Shi took the lead to calm down and asked: "Can the spell taught to you by Mr. Wan control the evil spirits? What happens after you control the evil spirits?
"grazing.
Luan Di said, "Qingzhou is the pasture.
We, the drug farmers, need to restrain these evil elements so that they cannot escape from Qingzhou at night.
Also, during the day, when these evil spirits have no energy, we collect medicinal fertilizers from them to top-dress these elixirs.
Qingzhou, pasture!
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing's eyes widened and they felt like the world was spinning.
Evil spirits are sheep being grazed!
So who is the grass eaten by the sheep?
Chapter completed!