It wasn't until the Lord of the Earth brought the vegetarian meal to the table that Pei Wende finally finished thinking about this "little cave sky".
He didn't dare to eat with the venerable Pei Wende. After the landlord brought the food to the table, he left the small courtyard very respectfully.
Only the curious weasels were still hiding and looking curiously at Pei Wende and the green snake around his neck.
"He now has more 'fear' than 'respect' for you..."
"It seems that your previous threats have worked. At least he doesn't dare to deal with you anymore."
Seeing this situation, a humane smile immediately appeared on Xiaoqing's face.
Out of snake instinct, Xiaoqing's senses for the weasel landlord were not very good, and he even had the urge to eat him.
"A fear of power and no morality is the survival instinct of most living things, and few people can violate it."
"As long as the landowner does not deceive us, then there is no need for us to hold on to each other's personal ethics."
Picking up the tofu cooked specially for him by Tu Gong with chopsticks, Pei Wende had to admit that although the other party was timid and fearful, his cooking skills were indeed top-notch.
Or to put it another way, Tu Tu Gong is obviously a guy who knows how to enjoy life, otherwise he would not be so good at adapting to the changing circumstances.
"He may not have lied to you, but he can hide some information that is detrimental to himself."
Although Xiaoqing is not human, she has been with Pei Wende for so long, and she still understands the basic operating rules of human society.
"For example, in those granaries in his backyard, I don't believe that he paid for all the food in them."
Ever since he fell in love with drinking, Xiaoqing has been extremely sensitive to the price of food in Datang.
Especially in a disaster-stricken place like Runzhou, it was obviously impossible for the landowner to hoard so much food through formal channels.
The bandits who previously blocked the official roads and robbed them, the profiteers who "hoarded goods" as they called them, were most likely one of the landlords.
"So this is the result of the mismatch between virtue and morality."
"But this is inevitable in the process of a society functioning on its own. There is not much we can do."
After taking a slight breath, Pei Wende couldn't help but put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands.
As a person who can't rub his eyes with sand, Pei Wende naturally can't stand the various actions of Tu Tu Gong.
But he knew better that this was the result of problems in the entire social order.
Today, he can use his own anger to forcefully replace a Tu Guild, but he cannot guarantee that the next Tu Guild will be more suitable than the current Weasel.
Considering the current situation in Runzhou City, the newly appointed Tudong is likely to be more hateful than the current Tudong.
In such an environment, there is actually a limit to what an individual can do.
"You don't look like the kind of person who 'won't do it just because it can't be done'!"
Xiaoqing glanced at Pei Wende in surprise, but he knew very well that he would not look back until he hit the wall, and he would not look back even if he hit the wall.
To put it nicely, this is called uprightness and hatred of evil.
To put it harshly, this means being reckless and stubborn, and not knowing how to protect yourself wisely.
The only good thing is that Pei Wende has enough strength to practice the "justice" in his heart.
"Since I promised not to investigate the other party's past, I will naturally not break my promise."
"But if someone pursues it afterwards, it has nothing to do with me."
When saying this, Pei Wende suddenly showed a rare sly smile.
"If he can adjust his mentality in time, he can naturally continue to be a landowner."
"But if he continues to neglect his duties, someone will come to trouble him."
This time it was Xiaoqing's turn to be speechless. She knew that Pei Wende could not let go of this incompetent, incompetent, and even involved in hoarding goods so easily.
[Since when did you become so cunning? 】
Xiaoqing complained to Pei Wende through telepathy, but all Xiaoqing saw was a faint smile on the other person's face.
[When the problem cannot be solved with violence, I actually don’t mind using some tricks. 】
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
While Pei Wende was eating, he was in another small room inside the shrine.
The Tudigong who had just retreated was watching everything happening in the small courtyard through a bronze mirror.
Of course, Tu Tu Gong also heard the conversation between Pei Wende and Xiao Qing, and he couldn't help but have a helpless smile on his face.
"Well, it's not that I like to be alone. It's actually the world that forces me to be alone."
As he murmured to himself, the Earth God couldn't help but think of the real dragon under the dragon-locked well.
"Even those beings who are no different from gods eventually died due to entanglements in their past lives. How dare you ignore the lessons learned from the past?"
As the earth god of Zheng'er Bajing in Runzhou, although the earth god has never seen the real dragon with his own eyes, he only knows all the experiences before and after the real dragon.
It is said that the real dragon active in the Northern and Southern Dynasties was a dragon girl who was born with a compassionate heart and supreme supernatural powers.
Under the protection of the dragon girl, the weather in Runzhou has been good every year and the people live in peace.
Until the wars at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, although the Dragon Girl had great magical powers, how could she escape the disputes in that chaotic world?
As a result, the dragon girl who was involved in the dispute could no longer maintain the wind and rain in Runzhou, which indirectly led to natural disasters and severe droughts in Runzhou for several consecutive years.
In that situation where thousands of creatures were not alive, the dragon girl was eventually cut off by the creatures she once protected, and was killed in Runzhou. Even her body was suppressed under the Dragon Lock Well.
From the moment he knew this story, Tu Tugong deeply understood one truth - rice is a good thing and rice is a hatred.
Especially in today's era, which is close to the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the best way to survive this chaotic era is to avoid karma and protect yourself wisely.
And this was the only part of the past that the Tu Tu Gong concealed from Pei Wende when he explained the cause of the incident.
"That's all! The little old man has been afraid of death for so many years, it's time to be brave."
Having said this, the Earth God moved his eyes away from Pei Wende and towards the weasels outside the yard.
Those weasels were the descendants of the Earthly Lord, and that was the real reason why he had never made up his mind to hide.
But today, Tu Tu Gong knows that he cannot escape.
Even for the sake of his descendants and nephews, he had to help Pei Wende solve this incident.
—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—
7017k
