If I add money to become a layman, I can cultivate immortality

Chapter 157 Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing treat the flood

"hateful!"

On the other side, Luo Banxian couldn't help but cursed angrily when he saw the little paper man on the table turned into crumbs.

If he had a hint of doubt before, now he is absolutely sure and certain that Zhang Sheng must have the support of an expert behind him.

Moreover, the other party is now fighting with him.

Luo Banxian always thought highly of himself, so naturally he was unwilling to give up, so he took out three more paper figures.

"go with!"

Luo Banxian raised his hand and tossed it, and the three paper figures disappeared into the night sky instantly.

Then, Luo Banxian took out three more paper figures, but this time the paper figures were a little different from before. Not only did they look ferocious, but they were also much taller.

Luo Banxian placed the paper figure on the table, lit incense and candles, and muttered something.

"rise!"

After a while, with a shout, three paper figures stood up.

On the other side, in the yard of Zhang Sheng's house, three more paper figures suddenly floated over.

The previous paper man still looked like a human, but this time the paper man was much taller and looked like a yaksha ghost.

"call……"

The three paper figures moved like the wind, bared their teeth and claws, and rushed towards Ding Xiu.

"Be careful sir!"

Zhang Sheng couldn't help but remind him loudly.

Ding Xiu calmly crossed his arms and kneaded them back and forth a few times like dough. A whirlwind rose from the ground and swept the three paper figures into it.

The three paper figures fell down in the whirlwind. They sprinted and collided desperately to get out of the wind mass. However, no matter how hard they struggled, it was in vain.

At this time, Luo Banxian was also in a hurry.

Because the three cards on the table also flew up, completely without his command, as if they were wrestling with each other.

It was only at this time that Luo Banxian finally began to realize the strength of his opponent.

His eyes turned blood red.

He would never allow himself to fail, not even once.

If he had stopped at this time, he might still have some hope in life. However, this old guy did something even crazier...

After a while, there was a sudden sound of howling ghosts and wolves in the yard.

At least hundreds of monsters and monsters swarmed into the yard.

This time, there are no longer simple paper figures, but also some puppets and even ghosts.

Even if Zhang Sheng was brave, he would break out in a cold sweat and turn pale at this moment.

Ding Xiu's face also darkened.

He took out a talisman, put his fingers together with his sword, and shouted: "Jiu!"

The talisman instantly turned into a small flying sword and flew away into the air.

"Aba Aba..."

On the other side, Luo Banxian had disheveled hair and a ferocious face, as if he was chanting a spell crazily.

He had exhausted all his strength and wanted to destroy his opponent.

Suddenly, his face was startled, and he subconsciously raised his eyes to glance at the window...

A golden light appeared in his eyes.

Fast as lightning.

not good!

Only then did Luo Banxian understand what kind of opponent he had encountered.

Although he can also cast spells from a distance to control paper people to hurt others, he cannot control a sword from a distance.

How could a charlatan like him afford to offend someone who could wield a sword from afar?

Even if he is not a swordsman, he is at least a Taoist master who is accomplished in cultivation.

Unfortunately, when Luo Banxian understood this, it was too late.

The golden light came so fast, not to mention he was casting a spell, even if he was on guard he had no ability to block it.

"what!"

As the golden light disappeared in a flash, Luo Banxian let out a miserable scream, then his eyes widened, and he fell to the ground with a "plop".

As soon as he died, all the paper figures, puppets, etc. in Zhang Sheng's yard lost control and fell to the ground one after another.

Ding Xiu raised his fingers and calculated, then glanced at Zhang Sheng who looked pale, and smiled: "Okay, it's okay. You can clean up here by yourself."

After saying that, he jumped into the air and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Only then did Zhang Sheng realize that he was afraid of meeting the legendary immortal.

a few days later.

The weather suddenly changed and heavy rains continued for several days, causing the rivers to swell. Even the water from the West Lake overflowed into the county town, destroying many houses and affecting more than half of the people.

The disaster outside the city was even more serious, with monstrous floods destroying countless fertile fields.

This is a natural disaster, and it logically has nothing to do with Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing.

However, the two girls couldn't bear to see the houses of the people in the city being flooded, and some people were even washed away by the floods.

So, Bai Suzhen went to Ding Xiu and said, "Ms. sir, the rain this season has been particularly heavy. Xiaoqing and I went out to take a look. The city and outside have been flooded into a vast ocean, so..."

"So, you and Xiaoqing want to control the water?"

"Yeah!" Bai Suzhen nodded.

Ding Xiu responded: "Go ahead, you two are good at controlling water. I may not be of much help."

When it comes to calling wind and rain, Ding Xiu's current level of cultivation is no problem. However, each person has his or her own strengths when practicing together. What he is good at is strength.

If it's just a small flood, it's no problem.

Now, the flood has affected a hundred miles radius, which is indeed something he cannot solve.

"Thank you, Mr. Xiang!"

Bai Suzhen smiled sweetly, kissed Ding Xiu on the face, and then called Xiaoqing to fly out of the city and arrived at a mountaintop outside the city.

"Oh, the floods are like this..."

Looking at the vast white flood, Xiaoqing couldn't help but sigh.

Although she doesn't understand the ways of the world, she still understands some basic principles.

That's home.

The reason why the flood did not flood into the yard where she and Bai Suzhen lived was because the two women cast a spell.

Otherwise, the water might reach the top of my thighs.

"Well, let's control the water quickly."

Bai Suzhen responded, then raised her hand to knead the magic formula and began to use magic to control the water.

Xiaoqing also followed suit, raising his hand to cast a spell, guiding the flood to flow towards the uninhabited mountains and fields.

After a while, a figure flew over from the sky. Seeing the two women standing on the top of the mountain to control the water, Heshi couldn't help but recite a Buddhist chant: "Good, good!"

Xiaoqing turned around and looked surprised: "Huh? A monk from the bamboo forest?"

Bai Suzhen smiled and said: "It seems that we have a good relationship with him. It seems that he also comes to control the water."

In fact, Fa Hai was not here to control the water at all. He sensed someone casting a spell outside the city, so he flew over to take a look and found that it was the snake demon he had encountered in the bamboo forest.I felt deeply for a while.

"Amitabha, natural disasters are inevitable for all mortals, but I, the Buddha, are compassionate, so please let me resolve this disaster for you."

After saying that, he sat cross-legged, raised his hands to knead the formula, and recited the mantra: "The dew of the sweet spring washes away evil and filth, and the light sprinkling of poplar branches disperses the sorrow."

I am reciting the mantra now, cleansing and opening up! "

At this time, a huge crack seemed to appear on the ground, and the floodwater surged over and kept flowing towards the huge crack.

The floods that filled the wilderness receded at a speed visible to the naked eye, the rain in the sky slowly stopped, and a rainbow appeared on the horizon.

Xiao Qing looked envious and said: "Sister, his magic power is so strong, how many years of practice will it take for me to practice like this?"

Bai Suzhen smiled and said: "I'm afraid you can't do it. He has already cultivated to the state where Buddha and I are one."

"Humph, what's the big deal..." Xiaoqing said sourly.

After the floods receded, the people couldn't help but thank God and cheer up to rebuild their homes.

But what the people never expected was that misfortunes never come singly. Just after the floods receded, a plague came quietly and spread very quickly. Many people had vomiting and diarrhea, and felt weak all over. Along with the symptoms of fever, the symptoms were a little... Like wind chill, but also a bit like dysentery.

Some elderly and weak people did not make it through. In just two days, it was reported that more than a dozen people had died of the disease in the county alone.

As a result, the drug stores in the city suddenly became more lively than ever before, and people rushed to grab medicine.

The scene suddenly became extremely chaotic.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze..."

"Obviously I came first..."

In the drug store, there was also a dispute.

"What? One tael of silver for a pair of medicines? Why don't you go and grab it?"

The clerk at the drugstore plausibly said: "The flood has flooded the warehouse this time. If you have medicine, it will be good to arrest them. If you don't have money, go away. If you don't arrest them, there will be people who will arrest them..."

It's not that people are reluctant to buy a pair of medicine for one tael of silver. The problem is that most people simply can't afford one tael of silver.

To a rich family, one tael of silver is nothing, and the worst thing is missing a banquet.

But for ordinary people, one tael of silver is not a small amount. In addition, due to the recent disaster, many people's houses have been destroyed, and even eating is a problem. How can there be much spare money?
Not just this one, most of the medical clinics and drug stores in the city took the opportunity to increase their prices, as if they had negotiated.

Of course, there are also some pharmacies that adhere to medical ethics and still pay normal prices for medicines.

However, there were too many people coming to buy medicine, and the stock in the drug store was quickly exhausted.

When the drug store owner went to purchase the goods, he found that the price of medicinal materials had skyrocketed...

As a result, they have no choice but to close their doors temporarily.

Every industry has its unknown side.

Ordinary people may not know that the medicinal materials in Qiantang County have long been monopolized.

Wu's Trading Company monopolized Qiantang's medicinal materials.

Wu's Trading Company initially made its fortune in shipping, that is, transporting goods from north to south for some companies.

Later, he discovered that the profits of medicinal materials were astonishing, so he began to use his own shipping advantages to start a medicinal business, and used some shameful means to suppress his peers and win over the government.

After several generations of operation, the Wu family not only monopolizes most of the medicinal materials business in Qiantang County, but also monopolizes at least half of the medicinal materials in several surrounding counties.

After several generations of business operation, the Wu family has accumulated huge wealth.

However, they are rich and unkind. Let alone this plague, although the Wu family's medicinal material warehouse in the city was flooded, less than one-tenth of the medicinal materials stored.

After all, the Wu family has been in business for generations, and the Wu family will naturally take precautions against natural disasters, so they have also built several warehouses on the outskirts of the city. This flood did not cause any damage to the warehouses on the outskirts of the city.

However, the Wu family used the excuse that the warehouse was flooded and there was not much inventory, so they significantly increased the wholesale price of medicinal materials. The price increase for some medicinal materials that were in short supply was as much as twenty or thirty times.

For these profiteers, this is undoubtedly a rare opportunity to make a fortune.

After all, no matter how much the price increases, people have to find ways to collect money to buy medicine in order to survive.

Little did they know, they made a mistake.

That day, Ding Xiu and Bai Suzhen walked around the streets and saw people in the city rushing to the entrances of drug stores and medical centers, waiting to get medicine, kowtow and beg.

Outside the city, many people continued to pour into the city.

After returning, Bai Suzhen couldn't help but said: "My lord, if this continues, I don't know how many people will die. I want to open a medicine stall to save these people."

She did this because she was kind-hearted, and secondly, it was actually very beneficial to her cultivation.

Whether it is a human cultivator or a demon cultivator, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue will have intangible benefits for future cultivation.

Therefore, Ding Xiu would naturally not object.

After some discussion, the couple decided to split up.

This time the flood affected a wider area, and the prices of medicinal materials for hundreds of miles around increased.

But this is not a problem for Ding Xiu. He can use his sword to fly to unaffected areas in neighboring provinces to purchase medicinal materials. Moreover, he has a storage ring and can bring back a lot of medicinal materials.

Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing flew to the mountains to collect herbs. With their methods, they were able to collect a lot overnight.

Moreover, Bai Suzhen is proficient in medical skills, instead of relying on her magic to save people. She has already prescribed the medicine, and she only needs to prepare the medicinal materials according to the prescription.

At noon the next day, a piece of news suddenly spread in the city:

"Everyone, go to Shuanghuafang, there are people there who will give out medicine for free..."

"real or fake?"

"Could it be a lie?"

Just when some people were doubtful, many people were already flocking to Shuanghua Lane.

As the saying goes, people who are in urgent need of treatment seek medical treatment. At this time, people just want to survive, as long as there is medicine, and it is free, so give it a try first.

Outside the courtyard gate, a straw shed has been set up, and there are many large and small bowls on the table, filled with soup and medicine.

On the other side, there are several large steamers with steamed buns inside.

This is also what Ding Xiu meant. Since all the good things have been done, he might as well do the good things to the end and provide steamed buns to some people who were affected by the disaster and had no food at home to tide over the crisis.

As for the money spent... don't worry about it, it's not your own money anyway.

Qin Song brought a dozen classmates over to help. Some helped boil medicine in the yard, some helped distribute steamed buns, and some helped maintain order.

"Don't crowd, don't crowd, line up in three rows, make sure you all have a share..."

"Yes, anyone who cuts in line will be kicked out."

"Everyone else is raising their prices like crazy, but here they are distributing medicines for free. What a living Buddha."

In order to prevent someone from taking away the medicine and then reselling it, the medicine distributed this time was fried and put in a bowl for drinking on the spot.

If there are really special circumstances, such as the patient being unable to move, the patient can be explained to the patient and the neighbors can only take him away after proving it.

In fact, although there were many people coming at this time, it was not too many. This was because many people had not heard the news, or were too late to come, or were doubtful.

However, on the second day, there was a huge crowd of people.

Because many people who drank the medicine the day before were significantly improved, and if they spread the word to ten, then they would spread the word... Naturally, more people would come.

What's more, you can also get two steamed buns to eat.

There were also many students and teachers from Qingfeng Academy who came to receive the medicine.

Those students were fine, but many gentlemen looked ashamed.

At the beginning, they often spoke ill of Ding Xiu secretly, mocking him as a pretty boy, a slave to makeup, short-sighted, and greedy for beauty and money.

Now they finally realize that it was they who were short-sighted.

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(End of this chapter)