Chapter 114 Stealing a House
Let's talk about the decline of the Ranshan sect. There really are no powerful figures since Zhao Puppet. But to say no, Zhao Qi created a god once before, and now Li Wuxiang wants to create it a second time. He is the most courageous thief in the thirty-six sects.
Rounding off the villages and towns that Zhao Qi had harmed when he was looking for Zhao Puppet, they were all along the Jinshui coast. Li Wuxiang followed the marks left by Pan Muyun and Helianji and chased them while preaching in those villages and towns.
It's a pity that things like life and death, once given enough time and a good environment, will always ferment into long and lingering mourning - Zhao Qi didn't lie about it in Jinshui before. In those villages and towns, he did conquer the local towns. Only with the consent of the Lord did he set up a battle to invite the gods and seize Yangshou. At that time, people in villages and towns felt that it was always acceptable to sacrifice the elderly and the weak to make life better. But when the person is really dead and life takes a breather, he will slowly remember the kindness his old parents did to him in the past, and the initial gratitude will turn into resentment.
This is how the bounty on Zeng Jianqiu related to Zhao Qi came about, which is in line with this world's tendency to disown people and tear down bridges when they cross a river.
Therefore, when Li Wuxiang told a few people that he could worship a "blood god" to ward off disasters and evil spirits, no one dared to believe it. So he stayed in the villages and towns for a while, chatted with people with his good skin, and quickly found one or two people who were poor, frail, and not very smart, and only painted those with the appearance of the blood god Zhao Qi. Hand the talisman to them.
Then he warned, don’t dare let others know about this!
So when he passed the last village and town that Zhao Qi passed, people actually started to pray to Zhao Qi.
On the eleventh day after leaving Deyang, he returned to Jinshui.
Only this time when they entered the town, Jin Shui was already empty of people. He led his horse along the street and looked around. He found that almost all the roof tiles, door panels, and window frames had been taken away, and nothing was left in the house. He knew that it was the people from Jinshui who had moved away, not the victims. What a disaster.
Looking at it this way, Chen Xin's movements are quite fast. It has only been a month and a half since he left Jinshui, and so many households have left without a single one left. He must have listened to Zeng Jianqiu's words - if evil spirits really come here once, they will attract many evil spirits if they stay here for a long time. Bad stuff.
Li Wuxiang continued walking in the direction of Lijiawan. At dusk the next day, he saw his destination.
The scenery here is more beautiful than Jinshui. Looking from a distance along the river, what I saw was a wide bay. The floods have receded, but the mud and sand washed up on both sides of the river bend are still there. From a distance, it looks like a golden beach.
The town of Lijiawan faces the water, surrounded by crescent-shaped green hills behind it, and farmland is scattered in patches between the town and the mountains behind. If you don't consider the problem of flooding, this place seems to be much better than Jinshui - the water alone can provide a lot of fishing.
When you get closer, you can see busy people in the fields and river beaches outside the town, seeming to be clearing the fields and rebuilding the pier. But at this time, the sun was gradually setting in the west, people began to walk towards the town, and smoke was rising from the roofs of every house.
Li Wuxiang stood on a gentle slope with green grass and looked at it for a moment, then breathed out slightly. Having seen Lingshan Mountain and Deyang City, he now felt that this scene was like a paradise. It would be great if it could always be so peaceful and peaceful.
He rode slowly along the road into the town, and finally someone saw him.
Some people frowned when they saw him and seemed a little afraid. They must be the people from Lijiawan who gathered around him later. But there was a young man in the crowd who was looking at a young man in his twenties and forties who was stunned. He stared at him for a moment and asked cautiously: "Are you... Master Li Xian?"
Li Wuxiang glanced at him - he was slightly impressed. After cooking Zhao Puppet that day, a group of people crowded at the door of the Chen family compound. This person stood close to Chen Xin. Because he had a bunch of gray hair on his forehead, he remembered it more clearly.
He nodded: "Well, what is your name?"
"Chen Jian! Chen Jian! Immortal Master, my name is Chen Jian!" A smile appeared on Chen Jian's face, and he immediately turned to shout to the people around him, "This is the Immortal Master Li who we are talking about who can eliminate evil spirits. You still remember my name! ”
Then he quickly squeezed through the crowd and helped him lead the horse: "Master Immortal, are you going to the town master's house? Oh, the Xue family is right next to the town master's house. I will take you there. Master Immortal, won't you leave this time?"
Li Wuxiang let him hold the horse: "I'll come back for a meal."
"Okay, okay, great, let's have a meal, we all miss you!" Chen Jian shouted to clear the way for him. On the way, some townspeople who were originally from Jinshui immediately became surprised and started making noises after seeing him. They rushed to tell each other, shouting "Great" just like Chen Jian before.
So Li Wuxiang realized that something might be wrong. Because the expressions on these people's faces all look like "turning worry into joy."
He tilted his head on his horse: "Did something happen in the town?"
"Master Immortal, it's all a trivial matter when you come back!" Chen Jian said with joy, "You'll know when you get to the town master's house, he hasn't left yet! Damn, you have been here several times in the past few days! Now Master Immortal, you are back Then someone will make the decision for us!”
After hearing this, Li Wuxiang stopped asking. If they say it's a small thing, it should be a big deal.
After walking for a while and passing a small square paved with bluestones, Li Wuxiang saw a large house - it was more grandiose than the original Chen Xin's house and seemed to have three entrances. Next to this big house were two other buildings with two courtyards, separated only by a narrow corridor. He guessed that this should be Xue Baoping's residence.
But Chen Jian did not lead his horse to the big house, but to the second-entry building on the east side: "Master Immortal, we are here, it is in front!"
Li Wuxiang looked towards the door of the house - he saw about a dozen town soldiers standing outside the door, and some people from the town gathered together. They looked like they were wealthy households in the town, with worried faces, looking towards the closed door. Looking inside the gate. Naturally, he couldn't see anything, so he talked to the soldiers, as if he was asking about what was going on in the yard. The town soldiers also looked a little aggrieved, shaking their heads and sighing, looking sad.
Li Wuxiang raised his face towards the big house with three entrances: "Where is that house?"
Chen Jian just stared at the door of Chen's house: "That's Master Xue's house. We're practicing martial arts with Master Xue over there - Master Xian, I'll help you down!"
Li Wuxiang jumped off his horse, threw the reins to him, and strode towards the door. A sharp-eyed town soldier saw him and was stunned for a moment. He immediately separated the crowd with a short stick in his hand and shouted: "The Immortal Master! The Immortal Master is back!"
Li Wuxiang nodded to him, opened the door and walked in before the group of people at the door started making noise again.
The courtyard of this house is much smaller, but very delicate. Although it is not as beautiful as Feiyun Temple, it is clean and refreshing, the ground is flat, and it is comfortable to look at.
But the scene in the courtyard made him uncomfortable - Chen Xin and several others were standing in the courtyard, and Xue Baoping was also there, all facing the main hall. All eight doors in the main hall are open, and there is a square table where the Chen family used to eat, with wine and food lined up on it. A man with a bun and a brocade robe, who looked to be about forty years old, was sitting at the table holding a small wine cup, with two young men standing behind him, like his servants...
No, it should be a disciple. This man seems to be a spiritual practitioner.
What's going on. I haven't been back for a month and a half, and my home was robbed?
Hearing the clang of the door, everyone standing in the yard turned to look.
When Chen Xin saw him, his eyes lit up: "Master Immortal!"
Xue Baoping also saw him, but was stunned in place, as if he was wondering if he had seen it wrong.
Li Wuxiang smiled and nodded to Chen Xin. He walked towards Xue Baoping and found that she was holding a sword in her hand, which was held upside down behind her arm. He raised his eyebrows: "It seems that you have practiced swordsmanship well these days. Is that the set of swords that Lao Zeng taught you?"
Xue Baoping's mouth was still slightly open. When he came in front of him, he leaned slightly and paused again. He just grabbed his hand and shook it: "You...why are you back?"
"I have to go do some work and have a meal when I come back. I have to leave in the evening." He turned to look at Chen Xin, "What's wrong? Are you going to use a sword?"
His question made Chen Xinlue a little frightened, and he quickly said: "No, no, Master Immortal, yes...yes..."
"You asked me to dance with the sword." Xue Baoping said, "The mayor didn't ask me to dance."
"Sword dance." Li Wuxiang frowned, glanced at Chen Xin, and then looked at the man in the hall, "Who told you to dance the sword."
The man glanced sideways, then returned his gaze to the wine cup in his hand: "Are you the immortal master they said? So loud, have you become an immortal?" Li Wuxiang ignored him and went to see Chen Xin: "What's the matter? ”
"It's about Lijiawan." Chen Xin sighed, "We came to Lijiawan. As soon as we settled down these days, people came from Qingjiang City. This...Qiu Gongfeng came a few times to send a message to the city lord. , saying that either the tax paid to the city should be raised by another 30% every year, or... that Lijiawan is an ownerless land and should belong to Qingjiang City."
Qiu Zongfang in the hall frowned and put his wine cup on the table: "I'm asking you something."
Li Wuxiang nodded towards Chen Xin: "Then what should we do?"
Chen Xin glanced at the worshiper and whispered: "It stands to reason that, in fact, in some places, for example, two towns are fighting to the death, and one party occupies the other's land, so as long as the taxes paid are still the same as before, I don’t care——”
This is indeed the way of this world.
"What should we say this time..." Chen Xin looked at Li Wuxiang's face, "Xiuxiu, Master Xian, you also know what happened before. When she got older, she and the Li family in Lijiawan Li Jiye, this..."
"You are in love with me?"
"Hey, yes, yes."
After Chen Xin said this, he rubbed his hands. Li Wuxiang laughed: "That's good."
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He had known that Chen Xiu was different from Xue Baoping. She is an ordinary girl in this world. She has just begun to fall in love. Her feelings come and go quickly. She likes one person and then another person. Maybe she doesn’t even know what she likes.
Or maybe after knowing that she is a practitioner, she feels "unaffordable", or after experiencing what happened more than a month ago, she realizes that all she wants is a stable life in a corner. But the young master from Lijiawan is a good match, so it's a good place to end up.
Seeing him like this, Chen Xin immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "So after this happened, this place belongs to our two families. Besides, the people from the two towns have gathered together, and we have also divided the food..."< br>
"So we should pay according to the tax we paid before?"
"Yes, yes."
"What about the sword dance?"
Chen Xin's face suddenly became solemn: "Ah, well, this worshiper has been here three times and knew that Master Xue was teaching people in the town to practice martial arts. This time he bumped into me here again, so he insisted on... adding to the fun. .”
He lowered his voice: "Master Immortal, I'm stopping you. But my master told me not to talk about the swordsman before he left. I don't know if it will cause trouble for you. I don't know if it will cause you trouble. I really..."< br>
Qiu Zongfeng pushed on the table, stood up and walked to the door, his face as dark as water: "Where did this wild thing come from? Do you have a sect? I heard that you got rid of evil spirits in the town? You are also a man who wants to become an immortal or a god. Evil? You are so capable——"
Li Wuxiang glanced at him and asked Chen Xin: "Did he kill or injure anyone when he came to town three days ago?"
"Wild thing! I'm telling you-"
A bit of sword light suddenly emerged from Li Wuxiang's sleeves, buzzing and turning in front of him. The second half of Qiu's words immediately stopped in his mouth, he took a step back, and suddenly sat back on the round stool.
Chen Xin hurriedly said: "Ah, that's not true..."
"What about other things? There's nothing evil about it?"
"Not...not really."
"What a pity." Li Wuxiang sighed and turned to look at Qiu Zongfeng, "You want to see a sword dance? Is this sword dance beautiful?"
Qiu Gongfeng opened his eyes and stared at Xiaojian for a long time: "You... you... Your Excellency, you... Immortal Master, you..."
The sword light buzzed again and stopped, revealing the light red sword body. Li Wuxiang asked him to look carefully before taking the flying sword back: "Do you recognize this thing?"
"I recognize it, I recognize it..."
Li Wuxiang stared at him for a while, and when his face turned pale, he suddenly laughed: "Dancing sword. Lord of the town, this man has no bad behavior here. What about other times and other places? What about you in the past?" Never heard of it? ”
Just as Chen Xing was about to speak, the round stool squeaked, and Qiu Zongfeng fell to his knees with a pop. The two disciples behind him didn't seem to understand the situation, but they quickly followed him and knelt down: "Sword Immortal, Sword Immortal, there really is no such thing! I practice carefully and don’t do anything harmful to nature. I’m afraid of the consequences. I’ve been a worshiper in Qingjiang City for more than ten years. There’s no need for me to do those things!”
Chen Xin tugged on his sleeve from behind. Li Wuxiang then turned to look at Xue Baoping: "What do you think?"
Xue Baoping frowned: "I want to see him dance the sword."
Li Wuxiang laughed: "Okay, listen, she wants to see you dance the sword."
Qiu Gongfeng immediately jumped up from the ground and walked quickly to the yard. He didn't have a sword on him, so he looked around hurriedly, found a broom, and danced smoothly: "Sword Immortal, this is a set of swords, which can also be used for swordsmanship..."
Li Wuxiang turned to look at Xue Baoping - she stared at Qiu Chongfeng. After a while, her brows gradually relaxed and she curled her lips: "It doesn't look good, forget it."
"Yeah. That's very stupid. Qiu Zongfeng——"
"Here, there!"
"Go back and tell your city lord that I often walk around. Last time I was in Jinshui to eliminate evil spirits, I felt that the people in Jinshui were living quite well. If additional taxes were added, their lives might not be so good, and it would make me confused. Tongda, this is ruining my practice. If he asks you to come here again, I will go to him.”
Qiu Gongfeng immediately stopped, put the broom back far away, walked backwards, saluted repeatedly, and ran out the door.
When his two disciples also trotted out, Li Wuxiang heard cheers outside the courtyard. He closed his eyes slightly and felt a slight heat spreading throughout his body.
He opened his eyes and exhaled: "Town Master, it's time for a Taiyi Temple to be built in this town. I'll leave tomorrow and give you a picture."
Two chapters in one. Today I finished 9,000 words, and finally adjusted the update time back...
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