I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 537: Infant Shelter Tower

The Infantry Commander's Office had a routine morning patrol of the streets to clear out dead and abandoned babies. However, today, under the threat of Xia Qingdai's "divine punishment", they only started the patrol and dared not go any further, lingering on the streets.

No one knows who will be hit by the next landmine.

Xia Qingdai mobilized all the energy of faith in her dantian and shouted at the city: "Killing babies is against the will of heaven. After death, you will go to hell and suffer the pain of thousands of arrows piercing your heart!"

With the blessing of the power of faith, her voice rolled down from the clouds, carrying with it a sacred and terrifying force. Every word was like a thunderclap, exploding in the hearts of every citizen in the capital.

Those families who had struggled in their hearts for several days and finally decided to abandon their babies, after hearing the words from the gods in heaven at this moment, were so scared that they quickly took the babies thrown on the roadside back home with their swaddling clothes.

The government did not care about the abandoned babies of the common people. In order to maintain the appearance of the city, the government even sent vehicles every day to help collect and dispose of dead and abandoned babies so as not to cause trouble to the people of the capital.

But God takes care of things that the government does not care about.

After Xia Qingdai had frightened the black-hearted abandoned baby owner with her ghostly tricks, she found a secluded alley, put Owen down, and said, "Owen, just stand here and wait for me. I'll do something."

"Okay." Owen had guessed what Xia Qingdai would do next since he saw the abandoned baby. He was not surprised when she was suddenly put down.

Now that Owen was no longer in her hand, Xia Qingdai could leave the glass tank. She quickly got up and ran to the cloakroom to get a newly assembled brick and wood structure pagoda model.

She had originally bought and assembled this pagoda, intending to place it in the village as a lookout for Wen Renyi's team. But now she felt that it was more needed here, and she could buy another lookout for the village.

After bringing the pagoda, Xia Qingdai lay on the edge of the glass tank, scanning the city layout with her eyes, searching for an open space underneath that was suitable for placing the pagoda.

In the 18th century, the population density and building density in the capital were not as high as in later generations, so it was not difficult to find a piece of vacant land.

In a moment, Xia Qingdai found a suitable open space. She put on a pair of cloth work gloves and casually wiped the ground to level the foundation. Then she put the already assembled pagoda down, picked up the power tools and expansion screws, and began to build the steel foundation for the pagoda.

There are four expansion screws fixing the four corners, so ordinary wind and rain should not be able to knock down this pagoda.

Although this is just a model of a pagoda, it has all the necessary staircases and partitions. It is not one of those toys that only cost a few dozen dollars and looks good on the outside but is actually a replica made in proportion.

As Xia Qingdai spread the gravel with flying sand and rocks, she pulled out the trees on the roadside like weeds, and then used a terrifying artifact (electric drill) that was bigger than a house to drill holes in the ground.

This series of shocking operations frightened the common people within a one-kilometer radius who could see the noise.

After fixing the pagoda, Xia Qingdai once again mobilized the power of faith. She said to the people below: "This pagoda is called the Infant Shelter Pagoda. After burning incense and praying to report to the heaven, the infants you cannot afford to raise can be placed in the pagoda and raised by the people of my sect. Now I will give you milk powder, rice flour, flour, rice, dried meat and other things for the infants to chew."

After saying that, Xia Qingdai stood up again, went to the kitchen to get flour, rice, a bag of Inner Mongolian beef jerky, a bag of meat floss, and a bag of food-grade plastic-sealed thickened freezing-specific sealed bag, returned to the room, opened her mobile phone, and placed an order for a can of baby milk powder and baby rice cereal.

Then, she began to put things one by one on the space she had cleared in front of the pagoda, first a thick layer of oil paper, then flour and rice poured into a sealed bag, and then beef jerky and meat floss.

The divine objects that fell from the sky frightened the little people on the street into standing still. They looked up at the direction of the pagoda, not daring to move.

The people in the Infantry Commander's Office dared not say a word, for fear that if they made any mistake the gods would blame them for the sin of abandoning the baby.

They were just ordered to do hard labor. Not only did they have to clean up abandoned and dead babies along the streets, but they also had to take them to the public graves outside the city to bury them. It was not an easy job. Fortunately, they never buried abandoned babies alive. If they found a baby that was still alive, they would always let the Western missionaries who were surrounding the car take it away for baptism and raising.

From this perspective, not only are they free of sin, they have even done some hard work.

So at this moment, he knelt on the ground, clasped his hands together, and tried desperately to explain to God the legality and correctness of his actions. He couldn't just leave the abandoned baby on the roadside to be abused by stray cats and dogs.

The common people just give birth but don't raise them without caring about anything else. Since they eat the government's food, don't they have to clean up the mess?
Xia Qingdai didn't intend to make things difficult for these minions. After all, it wasn't their fault.

Now she was concentrating on pretending to be a deity and building a shelter for the babies in the capital. Then, she used her divine power to frighten all kinds of evil spirits and monsters, so that they would not dare to covet the food she gave.

After everything was done, Xia Qingdai looked down and felt like something was missing.

Just as her eyes were scanning the new map, she suddenly saw a wisp of green smoke coming out of a corner, and then a familiar figure came into view.

"Hey, isn't this Wen Renyi?" Xia Qingdai was very surprised to see Wen Renyi dressed as a Taoist priest holding a Buddhist whisk on the street.

The reason why Xia Qingdai spotted him among the crowd was because he had a stick of incense lit in his hand.

I have to say, this boy is quite smart. He actually guessed that it was her who did it.

This was indeed not difficult for Wen Renyi to guess, because the rice, noodles, dried meat, and even the pagoda that Xia Qingdai had put down were too similar to the sacred objects and buildings bestowed in the mountain village.

Wen Renyi didn't believe that all gods in this world were of the same style. He bet that this was his ancestor god.

What's more, the voice from the sky was very similar to the voice of the ancestor god he had heard during this period.

Xia Qingdai smiled happily at Wen Renyi, and with a roll of her eyes, she grabbed him from the street and placed him in front of the pagoda. She once again mobilized the power of faith and said, "Let you take care of this worldly matter for me for the time being."

After saying that, Xia Qingdai pulled out a ball of silver thread and put it down: "This will be your funding."

This thing is for experimental use and is not expensive. Xia Qingdai bought it mainly for use in Lilliput. Although it is inconspicuous in modern times, it is indeed pure silver and can still be circulated in the Qing Dynasty.

Things like gold and silver are hard currency in any dynasty.

Wen Renyi was suddenly pulled out and flew for a while, but he didn't seem to be panicked at all. He didn't feel uncomfortable standing in front of people.

Now he has a legitimate Taoist identity and has been chosen by the gods, so why should he be afraid of being too high-profile! He must act when it is time to act. Once he has a reputation, he will be able to get a lot of support when he rebels in the future.

After putting Wen Renyi down, Xia Qingdai instructed the people in the Infantry Command Office: "Now, do what you should do. Do you understand where to put the abandoned babies who are still alive?"

"I understand, I understand! I understand!" What could the people in the yamen, who have been crawling on the ground for a long time, not understand?

The gods could not bear to see the tragedies happening in the world, so they personally intervened in the cause and effect of the world. Of course, they had no choice but to cooperate.