Mortal Immortal Gourd

In the 128th year of Longxing in the Great Zhou Dynasty, more than 30 counties in the southwest suffered from severe drought, followed by locust plagues. The people were in dire straits, and refugees and bandits were everywhere.

The wise and wise Emperor Longxing, who had great achievements in civil and military affairs, was virtuous and had a long life. The Supreme Emperor Longxing issued an edict:

The people of Qingzhou were exempted from three taxes, and the Ministry of Revenue was ordered to prepare 1 million shi of disaster relief grain to help the victims.

The governor of Qingzhou was ordered to comfort the victims, settle the repatriated refugees, and eliminate all banditry in the territory.

The emperor's edict was issued and disseminated to the government offices of various states and counties. For a time, the people of the world praised the emperor's virtue.

The ministers from all over the country presented memorials to praise the wise and wise Emperor Longxing, who had great achievements in civil and military affairs, was virtuous and had a long life. The emperor's benevolent policies were as brilliant as his own, and illuminated the people of the world.

The emperor also reported that he was willing to go to Qingzhou to inspect the disaster and comfort the victims.

As soon as the emperor's edict came out, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and local governments took active action and did not dare to delay for a moment.

With the emperor's edict, more than 3 million shi of disaster relief grain were collected from the people in various places. A few people who did not know how to be loyal to the emperor and were unruly were directly confiscated.

Then they rushed to Qingzhou to deliver 500,000 shi of grain for disaster relief.

Officials at all levels in Qingzhou were moved to tears and submitted a report overnight to thank the emperor for his great grace.

Anchang County, where the dog was located, belonged to Sanyang County under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, and was one of the counties that suffered the most serious disasters.

He had never heard of disaster relief.

Some time ago, there was a shortage of food, and the food in the official warehouse was sold out, and there was no food to buy on the black market.

The dog now feeds hundreds of people, and consumes one or two stones of grain every day. Suddenly, the food supply is almost cut off.

The bark and grass roots dug out from the wasteland are crushed, mixed with some locust powder, and a small amount of grain, which can barely feed everyone.

Recently, locusts are rampant, and the scale of the swarm is getting bigger and bigger. The dog simply asked everyone to stop the wasteland reclamation.

Each person prepared a bamboo broom and killed locusts around Shexi Village for food.

On average, each person also killed about one liter of locusts every day, which was enough for them to eat.

However, there are more and more mutant locusts in the swarm. This kind of swarm has strong combat power and even eats people.

Two of his subordinates were bitten to death by locusts.

Another point is that eating locust meat for a long time will make people's eyes red and irritable, and people will fight every day.

괗狗떚 tried to add some of the locusts stored in the gourd to the food of his subordinates.

These villagers could not feel any spiritual energy, and they felt that the food tasted better.

After a period of time, the physical fitness of his subordinates improved a lot, and the irritability was also alleviated.

The physical fitness of his subordinates improved, the combat effectiveness increased, the casualties decreased, and it was more efficient to help him open up wasteland and farm in the future.

After a period of time, 괗狗떚 would often mix some spiritual food into the food of his subordinates.

On the day of the day, on Shemo Mountain, another aerial battle between the geese and the insect swarm ended.

괗狗떚 sat on a big rock and ate a bunch of roasted locusts.

The inch-long mutant locusts, the females have eggs, the males have roe, they are plump and delicious, and taste great.

You just need to remove the wings, twist the head and pull it gently, and then pull out the intestines, then roast them in the fire, or fry them in oil, and the fragrance will immediately fill your nose.

Sheshan seems to be targeted by the locust swarm, perhaps because they are jealous of his mountain of old ginseng, and the anti-insect swarms come every three days.

Every time they are beaten to a pulp by the geese, only a few strong ones escape.

But the locusts that escaped are stubborn, and they will come back with a group of locusts soon.

Because Sheshan attracted most of the locusts' attention, the locust plagues around Shexi Village were unexpectedly reduced.

However, the daily battles on Shemo Mountain attracted many villagers to watch.

Everyone knows that chickens, ducks and geese eat locusts. Most people only raise one or two at home, and if they are well-off, they raise three, and sometimes they make money by laying eggs.

The villagers can't gather so many in a short time, and the geese on Shemo Mountain are several times larger, and they also carry dogs to fly.

"How come the geese of Mr. Zhang's family are so big?"

"It must be because of the fairy air on Shexiao Mountain!"

"Didn't you see that Mr. Zhang passed the exam to become a martial arts scholar after living on the mountain for only a few days?"

"I have known for a long time that Shexiao Mountain is a Feng Shui treasure land."

"Now even the Anchang River has dried up, but the springs at the foot of Shexiao Mountain are still flowing."

"I heard from my great grandfather that a thousand-year-old snake monster was suppressed at the foot of this mountain."

"Speaking of Huang Laocai, you made a loss!"

"Yes, you sold a treasure mountain at a low price."

When the villagers discussed whether Shexiao Mountain was a treasure land, they inevitably teased Huang Laocai.

On the contrary, he is no longer the richest man in the village, so he can tease and joke with him at will.

However, no one saw the slightest regret or remorse on Huang Laocai's face.

"Even if it is a treasure mountain, you have to enjoy it with all your heart."

"The Huang family has nearly a hundred pieces of silver in Sheji Mountain, but it is just a rocky mountain where even trees can't survive.

The old stubborn donkey and his family went to Sheji Mountain to open up wasteland, and finally worked themselves to death. His wife remarried and his daughter was sold as a slave."

"I heard from the older generation that there are big snakes on Sheji Mountain, and seeing them will kill you."

Huang Laocai's words made many villagers give up their little thoughts.

But these are some ordinary villagers who go with the flow.

Those who are firm in their hearts will never be affected by rumors. Once they have decided on a path, they will go on unswervingly.

Even if there are many obstacles on the road ahead, even if the muscles and bones are broken, even if my father dies, I will keep moving forward!

At this moment, at the uncle's house, Zhang Liang and Zhang Xin were hiding in a room and arguing fiercely.

"You have to try again!"

"You're crazy!"

Zhang 놋xin punched the table and glared at Zhang 놋liang.

"You fell half to death and killed your father."

"You still want us to accompany you to go crazy?"

"Bang!"

Zhang Liang also slapped the table with his palm, and the wooden table was smashed into pieces.

"Remember, our father was killed by a dog."

"If it's not 놖, which 놋꿷天놅 is good in our family?"

"If we want to take a step further, our whole family will follow suit and become prosperous. We will shine brightly and build a thousand-year family. It’s just around the corner!"

Zhang 놋liang stared at Zhang 놋xin and said word by word.

Although he was admitted as a Wu Scholar, he also tasted the benefits.

But compared with those old aristocratic families, he is just a martial arts scholar who is not worthy of carrying someone's shoes.

What he lacks most now is resources and wealth. If he takes one or two Peiyuan Guben Pills every month, it will not be difficult to pass the martial arts examination.

"An absolute treasure on Snake Mountain."

"He is just a pig feeding pigs and collecting firewood, how can he be sitting on a treasure mountain?"

When Zhang 놋liang said this, Zhang 놋xin's eyes also glowed green.

In addition to greed, more is jealousy!

No matter how rich or powerful he is, not many people will be jealous of a stranger.

But the poor brothers who used to be ridden like horses by him every day, now suddenly sat up with them, and even surpassed him.

This is very uncomfortable.

Every time he sees the figure of 괗dog 떚놅, he gets angry. Why should he?

If one day in the future, Gou Da is admitted to the martial arts examination, he will show off his power and glory in front of them.

Just thinking about this kind of scene makes me want to kill myself.

No matter whether you get the treasure on Snake Mountain or not, at least it will definitely not be as cheap as the dog.

At this moment, the two brothers reached a consensus and decided to fight again.

"This time we must make a decision before taking action, and act steadily..."

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Naturally, the dog didn't know that someone was plotting against him.

Huang Fugui and Qiu Yue took their men out to catch locusts every day, so they were self-sufficient and didn't need to worry about him.

He recently lived on the mountain and concentrated on cultivation, without caring about worldly affairs. He had not been down the mountain for many days.

I water and plant the land every day, feed the geese, read and practice, and live a comfortable life.

The jujube and persimmon trees on the mountain have now grown into big trees and are in their full fruiting period.

It needs to be watered frequently, and it will mature and have a good harvest every few months.

There were so many fruits that I couldn't eat them all. I dried them in the sun and stored them. There were already a lot of red dates and persimmons in the gourd.

In addition, he picked up a lot of locust corpses every day, and he dried them and put them in gourds for storage.

Although there is no shortage of food and drink now, as a person who grew up hungry and eating pig food, he is reluctant to waste even a grain of food.

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Today, after he finished practicing, as soon as he stood up, a group of geese gathered in front of him and squawked.

Ergouzi smiled slightly, took out a bottle of Peiyuan Gubenwan from the gourd, and raised the bottle.

"Get in line!"

“Those who don’t line up don’t get pills.”

Following his command, the geese actually lined up in a long queue, stretching their necks to wait.

One of the geese jumped into the queue in a hurry and was pecked hard by the other geese, so he had to go to the back and queue up.

Seeing the geese lined up, Ergouzi poured out a Peiyuan Guben pill, stuffed it into the mouth of the first goose, and stroked his head.

The goose swallowed the pill, held its head high, and walked aside.

Ergouzi then fed the second goose...

Perhaps due to the mutation caused by eating many spiritual creatures, these geese are getting stronger and smarter as they are raised.

Now he has some knowledge of human language and can understand simple instructions.

He had carefully observed using the Qi Watching Technique, and found that there was a force similar to a warrior's true energy flowing within these geese.

Is this the evil spirit mentioned in the book?

I don’t know if these geese will cultivate into monsters, but at this stage it is better to feed them well and try to improve their strength as much as possible.

Now the locust swarms are getting stronger and stronger. There are many locusts that are five or six inches long. It is really difficult to deal with the geese without certain strength.

Ergouzi had just finished feeding the geese when a sudden noise came from the mountain.

"Dangdangdang..."

"Zhang Ergou!"

"Zhang Xiucai!"

"Master Zhang..."

He looked over to the edge of the cliff and saw a group of villagers gathered at the foot of the mountain, looking up.

Among the villagers, there was also a man in a red official robe.

Ergouzi knew him. He was the head catcher of the third class of the county government. He was on the second level of Qi training and was very powerful.

"It turns out that Wang Baotou is here, disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Ergouzi said hello from the mountain and slowly climbed up along a long vine.

"This official is looking for you."

"There seems to be something wrong."

"We'll bring it here."

When a group of villagers saw Er Gouzi coming, they hurriedly approached him to please him and explained the reason, as if they were all taking credit for it.

In fact, they don't know anything, they just join in the fun and want to show their faces in front of the characters.

"Zhang Xiucai lives at the top of the mountain every day. It's so enjoyable!"

Wang Captou squinted and looked at the cliff behind Er Gouzi.

"The king caught the head and won the prize, and his family is poor, so he can only live in the miserable place on the top of the mountain, eating the wind and drinking the dew."

"We have a distinguished guest, but we don't have much to offer. Please come in and have a cup of tea to quench your thirst."

Ergouzi said, opened the door of the blue brick house and asked Mr. Wang to sit inside.

As for asking the right person to go up the mountain, that is absolutely impossible.

Wang Captou sat on the bench and looked around. There was only a wooden table and a bench in the living room.

There was only a set of crude teapots and bowls on the table.

Apart from that, there is nothing in the house, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as impoverished.

Ergouzi said that he had already taken out a stack of tea bowls and put them on the table, picked up the teapot and started pouring tea into it.

The most basic etiquette of hospitality in the Zhou Dynasty was to serve tea to guests.

Even if the family is poor, a bowl of water should be given to them.

When Er Gouzi poured tea, he did not treat Wang Captou differently because of his noble status and the humble status of the villagers.

I have also been looked down upon because of my humble status, and I deeply understand what it feels like.

Therefore, Ergouzi started with Wang Captou and served everyone a bowl of tea.

When Wang Captou saw Er Gouzi's set of crude teapots and bowls, he had no appetite at all.

Using this kind of earthenware and drinking this kind of bad tea will only dirty your mouth.

In particular, he was treated the same as those villagers in the mountains, which made him extremely unhappy.

However, he is also an adult and a seasoned official, so he would not fall out with someone in person over a bowl of tea.

Wang Captou took the tea bowl with one hand and placed it on the wooden table, but he was not in a hurry to drink it.

As for the villagers, they didn't dare to enter the house. They all gathered around the door and watched. They didn't expect that the scholar would give them tea.

At this moment, everyone smiled brightly, thanked everyone for their kindness, took the tea bowl with both hands and drank.

“Master Zhang’s tea is so delicious!”

"Ah! It tastes so good!"

"It's fragrant and sweet. It should be the best tea I've ever had in my life!"

Hearing the villagers praising the delicious tea, Wang Captou felt contempt in his heart.

These mountain villagers have never seen the world. They have never even tasted the taste of tea in their entire lives.

After having this thought in his mind, looking at the bowl of tea with clear soup and little water on the table, he didn't even want to touch it.

"Hey! After drinking Mr. Zhang's tea, my head doesn't seem to hurt that much."

"I also feel that after drinking Mr. Zhang's tea, I feel energetic."

"My waist is not sore and my legs are not hurting either."

"Excuse me, Mr. Zhang, what kind of tea is this that is so effective?"

The more he talked, the more exaggerated he became. Wang was ashamed to be in the company of these villagers, and he wanted to yell at them.

Then I thought about it, it wouldn't be too late for me to take a sip and then yell at it.

Immediately, he gently raised the edge of the bowl with three fingers of his thumb and took a sip of tea.

"Eh!"

Wang Captou did not expect that the tea would have a sweet and mellow taste in his mouth, which was not comparable to many famous teas he had drunk.

Moreover, in the tea, he actually sensed a weak spiritual energy.

Cultivators are very enthusiastic about all spiritual things, so they are extremely sensitive to the weak spiritual energy in tea.

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Wang Captou picked up the tea bowl with both hands and drank all the tea in one breath like a cow drinking water.

"It's really good tea!"

Seeing Wang Baotou finish the drink in one gulp, Ergouzi gave him another bowl, and Wang Baotou poured it into his stomach again like cow drink.

Ergouzi poured five bowls of tea one after another until there was no more water in the pot, and Wang Captou's belly was slightly bulging.

The villagers felt the magical effect of the tea and originally wanted to ask for another bowl.

Unexpectedly, Wang Captou drank it all in one breath like a donkey. How could anyone drink tea like this?

It seems that the officials from this county have not seen much of the world.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Yu takes the liberty to ask, what kind of tea is this?"

"People in our village don't have anything good to offer, just a few red dates soaked in mountain spring water."

Ergouzi said, opening the lid of the pot, and saw that there were still a dozen soaked red dates at the bottom of the pot.

"Do you still want these tea residues? If not, I'll go back and satisfy the baby at home."

After Wang Captou drank the tea, he directly asked for the red dates left in the pot.

Ergouzi naturally agreed happily, and immediately found a few larger leaves to tie up the red dates, and then tied up some grass.

"Hahaha...thank you!"

Wang Captou held up the little leaf and said thank you cheerfully.

This move was seen by many villagers, and they have long been scolded in their hearts.

Originally, they all wanted to ask for tea residues, but this Wang Captou was so shameless that he ignored their status and asked for tea residues from them.

In their dozens of lives, they have never seen such a shameless official.

"I wonder if the king comes here to give you any advice?"

Now that tea was served, Er Gouzi took the initiative to ask about the reason.

"It's like this, as you know, our Qingzhou counties have suffered from droughts, and now there is a locust plague, and the people are taking the opportunity to make trouble, and thieves are rising."

"You and I are both military scholars of the current dynasty. We are here to serve the court and share your worries!"

"The day before yesterday, the county magistrate issued an official document to recruit military scholars over 40 years old in the county to fight against the locust plague and quell the banditry."

Captain Wang said, taking out a document issued by the county government, which was stamped with a vermilion seal, so it was naturally not fake.

To put out an emergency is like putting out a fire, everyone will gather at the county government at noon tomorrow.