The Fairy: From the Traveling Merchant

Chapter 102 Sweet Potato Rice (57)

Except for the Three Great Sacred Grounds, all the exercises above the "Dongxuan" are not safe, indicating that there may be something wrong with the source of these exercises.

And the Three Great Sacred Lands are only "safe" because of the existence of the Taoist Lord... What if the Taoist Lord is no longer there?

For example, the Taoist Monarch disappeared in the early days... and the ancient Buddhist Buddhas and Bodhisattvas mentioned by Feimeng...

I just don't know if the "Da Ri Xing Cha" can shield this kind of danger...

Forget it, as Feimeng said, it's too far to think about it now, I'm just a true qi monk who has opened up the twelve serious meridians, and it will take time to get through the eight extraordinary meridians.

Sighing slightly, Zhao Chen recalled the information Zheng Qingyan brought, and found that it would not be of much help to the mission three months later, and he still had to start the investigation through the three directions discussed with Qi Feimeng just now.

However, at least the general direction can be determined - a trap has been placed in Chijin Mountain.

"Anyway, let's go back first." Zhao Chen said, and was about to squat down and stick the prepared paper horse on his lap, but was stopped by Qi Feimeng.

Zhao Chen looked at her inexplicably, and then saw Fei Meng stretching out her slender fingers, pointing at "Sakura Fairy" Zheng Qingyan, and said with a smile:
"Don't bother... let's 'ride' her this time!"

Riding her this time... dare you really use me as a mount before?After Zhao Chen slandered, he also remembered what Qi Feimeng said in the introduction just now, Zheng Qingyan has a third-grade Taixi magical power "Dream of the God of Beauty", which can transform into "bubbles" and "shuttle" in the same water system.

And this supernatural power can "lead people".

On the other side, Zheng Qingyan still didn't speak, she just glanced at Qi Feimeng and Zhao Chen, then raised her hands and used "Dream of the God of Beauty".

In Zhao Chen's eyes, he and Miss Qi became illusory at the same time, and then were wrapped in countless bubbles.

Immediately afterwards, these foams melted into the water of Tianjian River little by little.

About three or four minutes later, as the bubbles collapsed, the figures of Zhao Chen, Qi Feimeng, and Zheng Qingyan appeared on a shallow beach near Yumen County.

"This experience is not good at all..." Zhao Chen shook his dizzy head and gave a "bad review".

In the few minutes just now, if he hadn't become a true qi cultivator with a long breath, he would have been almost suffocated in the bubbles.

Qi Feimeng also felt the same way, and she knew that this was Zheng Qingyan's intentional revenge for "riding" her, and she had evidence...

After all, she is herself, she is her, her thinking is completely transparent, how can she not understand each other's thoughts?

"Fortunately, there is only one avatar, if there are more, I'm afraid I will go crazy immediately... Hey, the realm is still not enough, and I can't always integrate from a higher level.

"Before you truly become supernatural powers, you can't add more incarnations."

While Qi Feimeng was thinking secretly, she asked Zheng Qingyan to go to the county guard's mansion and the Li family's residence to find out the news, while she and Zhao Chen went to Lushan to the west of the county town.

As it was almost dinner time, every family in the slums on Lushan was cooking over fire, but there was no scent in the air, because most of them cooked sweet potato rice.

After all, most people here can only afford sweet potatoes and rice with their meager salaries.

As he was walking, Zhao Chen suddenly heard a bell ringing, and then dozens of children ran out of a relatively intact, but still simple building, and they rushed home while fighting in small groups.

And Zhao Chen looked at the schoolbags they were carrying, and said in surprise, "There is still a school in this slum?"

"Of course... children who grow up eating sweet potatoes and rice can't practice martial arts. On the contrary, reading is their advantage and one of the future opportunities." Miss Qi knew that Zhao Chen used to be the young master of a wealthy merchant, and he didn't know the sufferings of the world. He casually explained, "Eating sweet potatoes and rice all year round will make people's souls gradually wither and dry up, and most of them will not live to be 40 years old...

"But a weakened soul also means low inspiration. Instead, they will not be affected by the 'Words of the Great Dao'. Many places will hire people who have eaten sweet potato rice for more than ten years to transcribe the classics containing the 'Words of the Great Dao'.

"But the premise is that you can read and write beautifully.

"And some institutions that study 'science' also need such people as assistants... These are very decent jobs, and the competition is very fierce."

After listening to this, Zhao Chen only felt that the world was full of absurdity and strangeness. He thought about it and said:

"The reason why the imperial court vigorously promoted sweet potato rice was not just because its price was low and it could feed more people?"

He knew the crop of "sweet potato rice" from the very beginning, and that's what he thought. Even though "sweet potato rice" has various shortcomings such as being unable to practice martial arts and having a short lifespan, only one low price is enough.

After all, in this era, there is no cheap food, and most people do not live to be 40 years old, let alone the conditions to practice martial arts.

Overall, it is good governance.

"Cheap? In fact, as long as True Monarch 'Shengxuan' thinks, any common crop can be cheap!" Qi Feimeng explained with a smile, "Because some True Monarchs 'Shengxuan' have been able to open their own caves... as long as they are in the cave The world is full of certain crops, and they are repeatedly ripened with force for decades, and the harvest is enough to feed the people of the world for thousands of years."

"This..." Zhao Chen was dumbfounded when he heard this, and felt that he underestimated the monks in this world. "In this case, what is the advantage of sweet potato rice?"

"It's very simple, the world has a large population, and the power of the imperial court is most radiated to the slightly prosperous towns and towns. People in villages and barren areas lack the protection of monks, and they are easily targeted by people from evil organizations to start blood sacrifices...

"Once the rescue is not timely, it will lead to tragedy.

"So, sweet potato rice is actually a way to draw fire from the bottom of the pot. It deprives the souls of a large number of people in impoverished areas, so that even blood sacrifices will have no effect...

"Since sweet potato rice has been widely promoted, members of the evil organization in Daxia have rarely touched the countryside.

"Secondly, people with strong souls are prone to attract strange things, and may become ghosts after death, which can easily lead to catastrophes in remote areas, but sweet potato rice reduces this possibility.

"In the end, people's desires may be bewitched and used by evil spirits, and people with weak soul power can't hear the evil spirit's voice at all, and can't see the evil spirit's body...

"Furthermore, people with low spirituality are mostly sincere and easy to satisfy. On the premise of not starving, they don't have so many desires.

"In short, it is precisely based on the above 'advantages' that after the sweet potato rice was researched, a certain real monarch in the Great Xia court decided to spend decades growing rice in the cave." Also very familiar, explained casually.

"I see..." Zhao Chen nodded and said nothing more.

After this little episode, the two stopped talking and laughing, and soon came to the space under the base of the "Goddess of Light",
At this time, Chai Qingzhu and "Xiong", who were imprisoned here, had been hungry for several days, and their eyes lit up when they saw the two of them coming.

(End of this chapter)