After that, Ye Ming chatted with the two about other things. Both of them were a little afraid of Ye Ming's 100,000 reasons and said goodbye.
Monk Zhisu even lost his treasured alms bowl this time and had to go back to Shaojue Temple.
Taoist Chongzhun needs to return the alchemy furnace placed in the back hall of the ancestral hall. In addition, he must stay at the Lu family in Yanhua Prefecture for a period of time to teach the Zhengxuanmen Taoism to Yuanwai Lu's youngest son.
Originally, he was not required to teach the introductory Taoist methods of Zhengxuanmen, but because the secret method was robbed, it also had a certain impact on the reputation of Zhengxuanmen. The Taoist priest was trying to make up for his mistake.
Moreover, Yuanwai Lu, the youngest son, is indeed very talented.
At the age of fifteen, his spiritual platform is clear and bright, and his spiritual wisdom is far better than ordinary people. He is a good seedling for practicing Taoism.
Hearing this, Ye Ming had to sigh that this member Lu was also very powerful. When he was fifty or sixty years old, he could still give birth to Miss Wen and her brother.
It's just that they have the same father, but their destinies are very different.
Just because Miss Wen was born as a girl and didn't even have the surname Lu, she was pushed to a remote place in the countryside.
But Young Master Lu is favored by immortal fate and has the support of Yuan Lu, which is far beyond the reach of others.
After bidding farewell to the two of them, Ye Ming's days became leisurely.
These days are spent practicing and studying. The only thing I can worry about is that I am almost finished reading the novel.
Just when Ye Ming was thinking about how to get some novels back, bad news came from Fucheng.
The news came from the gangster Zhang Tiesan and others in the village. Although they could not be said to have changed their minds since being taught a lesson by Ye Ming, they were indeed doing some serious business.
On weekdays, I go to the mountains to collect some wild animals and firewood, and take them to the city to sell. Life is better than before.
This time they went to the city and found that every household had begun to stockpile grain. The price of grain in the city had more than doubled and was still rising.
When I inquired about it, I was told that there was a severe drought in Gyeongju next door, which had not rained for half a year, and countless refugees began to spread to the surrounding areas.
Also appearing were rebellions, bandits, etc.
The key point is that Gyeongju is still a major grain-producing state. There has always been a saying in Xu State that "the world is starving to death and Gyeongju is full." No one will think that Gyeongju will be short of food.
But the fact is that Gyeongju is short of food, and there is still a major famine.
Pingju is close to Gyeongju, and there is a famine in Gyeongju. There is no need to think about where the victims will go.
As soon as this news came out, how could the people of Pingzhou still sit still?
For a time, both officials and citizens began to stockpile grain in large quantities, which also caused the price of food in Pingzhou to rise on a large scale.
When they first heard the news, the villagers didn't believe it, thinking that Zhang Tiesan and others were making up rumors because they refused to change their bad habits.
But the next day someone came back from Fucheng and brought back the same news, so the villagers couldn't help but not believe it.
Everyone was shocked and began to think of ways to save food.
It's just that in the past two years, although the village has attracted a lot of tourists because of the "Ye Ming General" temple, it has generated some extra income, but it has only been enough to maintain food and clothing. In terms of food, there is not much food left.
Ye Ming, who is from the village, naturally also learned the news, but it didn't matter.
Anyway, I don’t have to eat, and I won’t be hungry.
Ye Ming despised some of the fruits that were offered in the ancestral hall on weekdays and never enjoyed them.
But not long after, Ye Ming received news from Fuchenghuang Temple.
If the village dies, the village’s good fortune and righteousness will also die with it.
For the sake of Fu Zhengshen's position and the people's life and death, Fu Zhengshen is temporarily allowed to intervene in mortal affairs to a limited extent and protect himself.
It is said that limited interference is allowed, but the rules are still strict, such as a series of trivial rules such as never being allowed to take action against mortals.
At most, it can only give people something to dream about.
Ye Ming was speechless after reading the news.
It is not afraid that the village will disappear. Anyway, it is not real land and will not disappear with it.
But if the village disappears, then his status as a god will naturally disappear, and his incense and will will be gone.
To be honest, Ye Ming still enjoys the convenience brought by the incense power. If it suddenly disappears, he will still be a little uncomfortable.
Facing the coming "disaster", the villagers have no choice but to save as much food as possible.
There is only so much food in the village, and there is not much money. Even if you want to buy it, you can't afford it.
Therefore, we can only organize people to go into the mountains to hunt, dig wild vegetables, pick fruits, and find wild ginseng.
It's just that the surrounding areas of Laoyin Mountain are all owned by Lu Yuan's family. The villagers don't dare to offend Yuan Lu. They either go to grab resources from other villages dozens of miles away, or they can only go deep into Laoyin Mountain to collect.
The current village chief Zhang Chenger gathered the villagers and decided to go deep into Laoyin Mountain.
After Ye Ming found out, he felt it was inappropriate and it would be better to have more talents.
The more people there are, the stronger the Yang Qi will be, which is more conducive to fighting against the Yin Qi of Laoyin Mountain.
Although most of the ghosts and ghosts in Laoyin Mountain have been eliminated by Taoist Chongzhun, there is no guarantee that some fish will not slip through the net, so be careful.
In addition, I don’t know if the wild cat witch is still in Laoyin Mountain.
After Ye Ming thought about it, he first found Pang Wuzhong and asked him to prepare to lead the people of the three villages. He also dreamed of the village chiefs of the three villages, hinting that they would listen to Pang Wuzhong.
Since Pang Wuzhong was still a wanted criminal by the court, Ye Ming shaved off all his beard and slightly changed the shape of his face, making his appearance completely different from before.
Then he changed his name to Pang Yuan.
Pang Wuzhong, who changed his name to Pang Yuan, became the temporary leader of the three villages under Ye Ming's secret operation, and led a group of people into Laoyin Mountain.
After they entered the mountain, Ye Ming also left the village and visited Laoyin Mountain again.
Laoyin Mountain has always been eerie, even though it is already the end of June, almost July, and it is the hot summer, Laoyin Mountain is still very cool, and even at night, it can make people feel cold.
There are few people in the deep mountains, and there are no roads. Pang Yuan chose two people who were relatively familiar with Laoyin Mountain to lead the way.
A total of more than 200 young people from the three villages were moving in the mountains in such a mighty manner.
It is true that there is strength in numbers. After everyone circles an area, they spread out to form an encirclement and encircle the target area.
Whether they are tigers, leopards, jackals, bears, wild boars, roe deer or rabbits, they are basically destined to die.
Especially Pang Yuan. Although his injuries have not fully recovered, his abilities are much better than those of ordinary villagers.
Just the ability to draw a bow and shoot an arrow is beyond comparison with ordinary people.
In half a day, one tiger, two bears, and seven hares were shot by him.
Everyone's arrows are quenched with poison. Even if a tiger or bear is shot in the body, it will only lead to death.
After a day's hard work, the team gained a lot and hunted hundreds of various wild animals.
Everyone was overjoyed and admired Pang Yuan endlessly.
It's just that the good luck on the first day was no longer there on the second day.
After yesterday's massive hunting, all the animals in the forest were frightened. Even wild beasts such as tigers and bears took the initiative to hide deep in the forest, not to compete with others.
The crowd couldn't catch enough prey, so they could only continue to go deeper and look for traces of the beasts.
Many people in the crowd are experts in digging wild ginseng and yams.
Generally speaking, the more uninhabited the land, the greater the possibility of digging these things.
But for some reason, Laoyin Mountain doesn’t seem to follow this rule.
When you are on the periphery, you can still find something, but the deeper you go, the less you can see these things.
There are more and more poisonous insects, snakes and rats.
Several people were bitten.
Normally, this situation would definitely be dangerous, but strangely, the person who was bitten recovered soon and was not poisoned.
In some dangerous places, some people slipped and fell, but they landed lightly. Not to mention falling to death, they were not even injured.
Everyone screamed for miracles. Seeing this, Pang Yuan directly led everyone to shout "General Ye Ming bless you".
Hearing Pang Yuan shout like this, others also understood and shouted together.
Seeing this, Ye Ming in the dark felt very proud.
I know how to thank myself, it’s not bad, my efforts are not in vain.
No, I am a big devil, a devil, I don’t need the thanks of a group of mortals.
If it weren't for the power of incense and wishing to be useful to me, I wouldn't care about the life and death of these people!
It was a bit far to go deep into Laoyin Mountain today, and there was no time to rush back, so everyone had to rest on the spot.
Everyone gathered firewood with great enthusiasm, and more than two hundred people quickly leveled a mountainous area and opened up a temporary camp.
Although I didn’t catch as much prey during the day as yesterday, I still had no problem taking part of it for dinner.
Such a large group of people lit a fire and barbecued meat in the mountains, attracting the attention of many wild beasts in the mountains.
When everyone saw this, they were all overjoyed. They picked up their bows, arrows, knives and axes, chased and killed a group of wild beasts, and got some "storage grain".
The wild beasts in the mountains no longer dared to approach where everyone was, and everyone was a little disappointed.
This is the advantage of having more people. If we had encountered so many wild beasts when there were only a few people, we would probably be frightened to death. We would be lucky to be able to save our lives. How can we not kill the wild beasts like now so that they dare not approach.
Although wild beasts dare not approach, it does not mean that other things do not dare to approach.
In the darkness, a figure that looked like a woman was slowly approaching everyone. However, after feeling the strong yang energy of a group of people gathered together, the female figure was a little afraid to approach.
"Jie Jie Jie, are you targeting these people? How about you count me as one of them?"
An old man's eerie voice suddenly sounded behind the woman's figure.
The female figure was startled, and she quickly turned around and found that the other person turned out to be a demon.
"magic?"
This surprised succubus is the wildcat witch who hid in Laoyin Mountain before.
The demon girl was very surprised when she saw Ye Ming, who looked like an old man. She didn't expect that there were demons in this mountain. She had been here for so many days, but she didn't even notice it.
Ye Ming actually discovered that the wildcat witch was wandering outside in the evening, but he never took action against her.
If he took the initiative to show up at this time, he would naturally take him down in one fell swoop.
"I have a bad fate and I have no ill intentions towards you..."
Faced with the surprise and alertness of the wild cat witch, Ye Ming said that he also took a fancy to that group of people and wanted to absorb all their yang energy and blood essence. However, when this group of people gathered together, their yang energy was too strong, and he needed someone to absorb them. They can only be lured out alone and separated from the group.
As he spoke, he glanced at the graceful figure of the wild cat witch.
Seeing this, how could the wildcat witch not understand what Ye Ming meant.
She wasn't surprised. As a pretty succubus, she was pretty good at seducing men with her beauty.
It's just that she is a little afraid to cooperate with a devil who is very difficult to offend among evil spirits.
Ye Ming said that in order to achieve a trusting relationship between the two parties, every time she seduces someone, she can first absorb half of the yang energy and blood essence, and keep the rest for herself.
And he promised that he could use his great magical power to prevent everyone from getting out of the forest and be defeated one by one.
Seeing that Ye Ming had said this, Wild Cat Demon Girl didn't think that the other party could use such tricks, so she agreed.
Seeing that the demon girl agreed, Ye Ming immediately said that he could first find someone who was not very strong in yang energy to practice his skills.
The Wild Cat Demon Girl had no objection. Instead, she felt that Ye Ming was very prudent in doing things and was not as impatient as other demons.
Ye Ming pointed to a young man who had broken his leg in the afternoon, indicating that he could go around through the woods over there, approach him, and seduce him.
The wildcat witch did not doubt that he was there, so she followed Ye Ming's instructions and took a detour.
Just when she walked to a large bluestone, three white lights suddenly appeared around her, surrounding her in the middle.
The Wildcat Demon Girl was frightened and wanted to escape, but it was too late and she was already trapped in the Three Talents Formation.
"Taoist formation!"
The succubus was surprised,
"Senior Evil Destiny, please help me, there is a Taoist formation here."
"Oh, this, I arranged it."
The old man transformed into Ye Ming smiled "Jie Jie Jie" and stroked his beard, looking relaxed.
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