Douluo Dalu: Seven Kills

Chapter 591: The Test of the God of Greed - Broken Jade (Part ) (Two in One)

In the next few days, an indescribable pulling force was like an invisible silk thread, constantly entangled with Brother Chen Wu.

And the source is the wooden box in the corner.

To be precise, it is the jade that can bring him wealth.

But out of fear, he was hesitant to spend the money he had already earned.

until…

At noon on the third day, a thunderous piece of news completely shattered Brother Chen Wu's already shaky psychological defenses.

Finally, Brother Chen Wu exchanged the broken gold for money and hired a doctor, because he knew that his mother's illness was getting worse.

After inviting a doctor back, the doctor examined Chen Wuge's mother, but shook his head and walked out of Chen Wuge's room. He sighed heavily to Chen Wuge who was anxiously waiting outside the door.

"I'm afraid your mother will have a hard time this month. If you want to cure her illness, that 'life-extending ginseng' is your last hope... Alas, it's just the price..." The doctor didn't say anything else, but shook his head helplessly, picked up the medicine box, and left without looking back.

Brother Chen Wu was struck by lightning and stood stiffly at the door.

At this moment, the blood in my body ran cold.

Isn't that what the doctor meant?
It’s just that “life-extending ginseng”…

He didn't know how much money it would cost, but it was definitely an astronomical figure. The remaining gold was probably far from enough.

In the room, there came the mother's heart-wrenching cough.

Each sound was like a blunt knife cutting into Brother Chen Wu's heart and lungs.

He turned abruptly and rushed into the house.

At this moment, my mother was lying on the cold bed, her thin body wrapped in worn cotton quilt. Every cough affected her whole body, and a sickly flush appeared on her gray face. At this moment, her eyes were dull and her breath was as weak as a candle in the wind.

"mother…"

Seeing his mother awake, Brother Chen Wu rushed to the bedside, his voice choked in his throat, and he trembled as he held his mother's withered hand. The hand was cold, with only a thin layer of skin covering the bones, and the pulse was so weak that it was almost impossible to feel it.

The mother seemed to feel her son's warmth. She struggled to open her cloudy eyes a little, and uttered an extremely weak, almost inaudible voice: "...Ting'er..."

"Mother! Mother, hold on! I'll go get the medicine right away! I'll go right away!" Brother Chen Wu cried, and great panic and despair seized him. He raised his head suddenly, his eyes as if being drawn by a red-hot iron, and then stared at the dusty old wooden box in the corner. Finally, he stood up suddenly.

At this moment, the string called "reason" broke.

He almost rushed over, his fingers trembling, and it took him several tries to touch the rusty lock. The touch of the cold iron made him hesitate, but his mother behind him coughed violently again, the sound seemed to tear her lungs apart. And this was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Brother Chen Wu instantly became determined!

Anyway, it’s okay to exchange it for the broken gold this time.

What about next time? Nothing will happen, right?

"Click!"

The rusty iron lock opened with a sound.

Brother Chen Wu lifted the heavy lid of the box. In the dark corner, the flawless jade stone lay quietly at the bottom of the box.

He grasped the jade in one grasp!

"Om-"

The jade seemed to come alive and trembled slightly.

Seeing this, Brother Chen Wu took out the tools he usually used to carve stones.

He clenched the jade tightly in his left hand, his knuckles turning white due to the force; with his right hand, he held the heavy carving knife tightly, and the sharp tip of the knife fell firmly on the rough surface of the jade!
"laugh--"

An extremely subtle yet extremely clear friction sound was heard, like sharp nails scraping against cold glass.

As the blade cut into the jade, a dark golden light fell. It landed on the ground and instantly turned into gold.

Seeing this, Brother Chen Wu moved even faster.

"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!"

One knife! Two knives! Three swords!

The gold fell and filled the wooden box.

Seeing this, Brother Chen Wu quickly put away the jade and then closed the wooden box. He glanced at his mother who was lying on the bed.

"Mom, wait for me!"

Then he turned around and ran out of the house.

……

"Oh my goodness! When will this day end?"

"Alas, my second brother has starved to death."

"In the Great Wilderness right now, apart from Master Chen Wu, who else has food?"

In the landlord's compound, Brother Chen Wu, no, it should be called Master Chen Wu or Chen Junting, was sitting in the main hall, groping for jade.

At this moment, a wolf is looming on the jade.

It turned out that since he used the gold to buy the "life-extending ginseng" to treat his mother's illness, his mother only lived for one more year.

A year later, she passed away.

So in the following days, Chen Junting did not stay in the village, but left there forever. Because the people in the village knew his background, he had to leave there.

Along the way, he gradually transformed from a poor man to a master in the eyes of the poor with the jade in his hands.

After his mother passed away, he changed his mind from wanting to have enough food to wanting to have surplus food, then to wanting fine clothes, and then to wanting to become a local landlord...

Anyway, no matter what, his greed kept growing.

I originally thought that being contented is enough.

But who knows...

So two years after his mother's death, he came to this village where a severe drought had occurred, resulting in a decline in population and barren land. In the end, with his money, he bought a large amount of land and became the richest landlord in the area, recruiting a large number of slaves and tenants.

This is how the current situation came about.

Now, five years have passed.

But this year was another year of famine, and even he, a big landlord, was affected.

"Baby, what a good baby."

Master Chen Wu fumbled with the jade with a deep look in his eyes. Then he slowly stood up and finally made a decision.

The disaster this year was indeed severe, but it was a good opportunity for him to try out whether this piece of jade could really make crops grow directly in the ground.

then…

On the second day, the dead silent village was awakened by an inexplicable throbbing. From the depths of the dry well at the west end of the village, which had been abandoned for who knows how many years and was overgrown with weeds and had most of its walls collapsed, a dull "gurgling" sound suddenly came out without any warning, like the rumbling of a giant underground beast.

Immediately afterwards, a stream of turbid yellow mud water suddenly gushed out from the bottom of the well, carrying with it the smell of earth that had been deposited for hundreds of years. It broke through the remaining well wall, flooded over the well platform, and flowed into the water diversion channel that had long dried up and cracked.

Almost at the same time, small mounds of earth suddenly appeared on the hard gravel ground in the rocky wasteland that was so barren that even weeds were too lazy to grow.

The tender green rice seedlings, full of vitality, broke through the stone layers at a speed that completely violated the laws of nature and soared upwards madly!

Leafing, jointing, heading...

In just a few hours, the bare rocky beach turned into a mature rice field swaying in the wind and rolling with golden waves! The heavy, full rice ears that were almost about to fall sparkled with an attractive golden light under the rising sun.

"A miracle! It's a miracle!" An old man who got up early to collect firewood saw it, and fell to his knees beside the dry well with a plop. Turbid tears streamed down his face, and he scooped up the turbid muddy water with both hands, and was so excited that he spoke incoherently.

"Rice! Wasteland...rice is growing in the wasteland! Golden rice!" Another villager ran towards the rice field, threw himself on the edge of the field, grabbed a handful of plump rice ears, crying and laughing.

The news spread like wildfire, instantly igniting the lifeless village. Everyone rushed out and surrounded the place where the miracle happened, with shock, ecstasy, awe...all these emotions were on the faces of every villager.

Then, I don’t know who was the first to shout out.

"It's Master Chen Wu! The new Master Chen Wu! It must be him! Only in his land can miracles appear! He is a living god!"

People, especially ignorant ones, are blindly obedient.

"Living God! Living God Chen Wuye!"

All I could hear was the shouts quickly gathering into a frenzied torrent.

The villagers dropped their work and flocked to the landlord's compound of Master Chen Wuye as if on pilgrimage. They knelt outside the muddy gate, kowtowed, prayed, cried, and praised the tightly closed wooden door that seemed to separate the world of gods and humans.

The faces that had been numbed by long-term hunger and hard work were, for a moment, ignited by extreme awe, fanatical hope, and even faint greed, and were distorted like the hideous guardian statues enshrined in the temple.

In the courtyard, Master Chen Wu was listening to the shouting.

However, he just fumbled with the jade in his hand.

At this moment, the outline of the jade is clearly visible - it is the shape of a crouching wolf, with rough lines and a sense of wild power. The wolf's head is crouching, and the position of one eye has been outlined by the carving knife to form a deep eye socket, waiting for the final finishing touch. The other eye is still covered by a thin, stubborn layer of jade skin, like a tightly closed eyelid.

Outside the yard at this time, "Please bless me, living god! Give my little grandson a full meal!" An old woman was kneeling in the front, crying loudly, her forehead bruised purple by the impact of the mud.

This is a family that has lost its land and strength.

Besides, it was a year of disaster now, and apart from the land of Mr. Chen Wu, where else could they get food from in other parts of the village?

"Master Chen Wu! Please bless my family to double the harvest this year! I will set up an immortality tablet for you!" A strong middle-aged man waved his fist.

However, there was a greedy light in his eyes.

But this greed is also directed at food.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! I was here first! May the living gods bless my family first!" A sharp female voice rang out, and the person in front was pushed away violently. In a moment, it attracted a burst of curses and shoving.

"Why should you go first? Get out of here! This is my place!"

The other man pushed back without showing any weakness.

There is no distinction between men and women here at the moment. After all, if people continue to live like this, there will be "a great famine and people will eat each other."

Suddenly, the crowd became agitated. It started as a verbal dispute, but soon turned into pushing and shoving, and insulting.

For food and so-called "blessings", the friendship between neighbors was torn to pieces in an instant. Fists were swung, people were knocked to the ground, and mud and water were splashed everywhere. Crying, cursing, and fighting mixed together, turning this "pious" place of worship into a battlefield of desire and violence.

In the courtyard, Master Chen Wu, who was immersed in the jade, was shocked! The fierce quarrels, fighting and crying coming from outside made him frown, and then he slowly stood up and walked away.

Stepping into the courtyard, I saw the awed butler.

"What's going on outside?"

The tone was calm, but frightening.

After all, Master Chen Wu had been traveling around in the past, and naturally there had been a lot of trouble during the famine years, so how could it be possible that he had never killed anyone?

And quite a few people were killed!

It is also because of this that his eyes are cold and frightening.

The butler did not dare to be negligent and immediately explained the whole story.

After he finished speaking, he picked up a stick and said, "Master, why don't we beat these people away so that they don't bother you."

Chen Junting glanced at the butler, "And then?"

The housekeeper was stunned at first, then immediately said, "Then? Then buy their land. Let them come to your house as slaves and tenants. If they want to live, they still have to rely on you, master."

"Really."

This is normal considering his behavior in recent years.

But for some reason, he always felt something was wrong.

This feeling of something being wrong comes from within, like a gut feeling.

So he pondered for a moment, but during this moment of silence, the quarrel outside became more and more intense. Master Chen Wu waved at the housekeeper irritably, then turned and walked into the house.

After a while, the noise outside died down.

But this caused an indescribable sense of violence and irritability to surge up from the depths of his heart without any warning.

He was looking at the shelf beside him, or to be more precise, he was staring at the long sword on the shelf.

He rushed forward and drew his sword!
"Shh-"

"Somebody come!"

"master."

The housekeeper hurried to the room, but when he saw the long sword in Master Chen Wu's hand, he was immediately frightened.

He looked at it with lingering fear, and then asked.

"Master, what do you want?"

"Nothing happened."

Master Chen Wu swung his sword with the demeanor of a master.

"I'm going to go for a walk, that's all!"

Going for a walk?

What madness is this?

You know, it's a famine year now, and there will be chaos.

It's too dangerous to go out now!

However, Chen Junting insisted on doing so. He felt that he would not be able to get over the hurdle in his heart unless he went out for a walk.

He didn't know why.

Probably intuition.

At the same time, in the Forest of Life in the Divine Realm.

It seemed like many years had passed in Chen Junting's mind, but to the God of Destruction and others, it was definitely just a blink of an eye.

After all, many things are "unimportant" and don't need to be looked into in detail.

However, they also knew that Chen Junting had become greedy step by step under the "help" and influence of the jade. From the small satisfaction at the beginning to the great satisfaction now, his greed was even worse.

Unexpectedly, an accident happened today.

The God of Lust spoke up, "It was the influence of those villagers."

"Do not."

The God of Greed denied it outright, "It was him."

"Don't forget, this is his state of mind. Except for the part where I intervened, everything was guided by his own state of mind. The voices of those villagers were just the boy's own mind reminding himself."

(End of this chapter)