Keqing, it’s just cultivating immortality, is it that difficult?

Tan Mingruo could feel a warm spring flowing through the little princess's hand, into his meridians, and then gradually spreading throughout his body.

After the warm current circulated through the body several times, the nausea feeling suddenly disappeared, and the whole body no longer felt nauseous. Instead, I felt refreshed and energetic.

What’s even more amazing is that my sore hands, feet and body have also recovered.

You have to know that I am not a warrior, but just an ordinary girl, so my physical fitness can be said to be very weak. To be able to run such a long distance, my whole body has been pushed to the limit.

My whole body is numb and the pain is unbearable.

However, the influx of air made her feel much better all of a sudden!

"So amazing... Princess, what just happened was..."

"It's my true energy..."

Keqing explained, holding her arm with one hand and gently placing the other hand on her wrist to feel it a few times.

"Well, you were just frightened. Your stomach and intestines haven't been replenished for a long time. In addition, you were exhausted from running around, so you had a huge reaction just now."

"My Lord, do you know medical skills?"

"I can only take your pulse."

Although Keqing said it simply, Tan Mingruo didn't think so. She looked at the little princess with indescribable complexity in her heart.

That's true qi! ! How can one have true qi at such a young age? She had heard from her brother that it takes a long time for people with powerful true qi to cultivate it.

Moreover, if one wants to achieve the kind of external release of true energy as described in the storybooks, even a genius would have to reach the age of thirty.

And at this age, the little princess can use her true qi to help soothe her body and can even take her pulse!

What a treasure little sister this is...ah no, little princess!

Is there anything she can't do!?

It is indeed a fairy boy!!

A princess who was born from a fairy, otherwise how could she feel so safe? !

Generally, children of this age who are a bit spoiled are still living a life of luxury at home, and they may not even know how to wear clothes.

At this time, the little princess can be a hero to save the beauty and beat up the villains.

Ah, if only the little princess was my sister.

Tan Mingruo was full of imagination. If the little princess wasn't of noble status, he would have wanted to hug her and rub her.

"goo"

At this moment, a cooing sound was heard in my ears.

"Cuckoo"

Then he called out again, as if he were playing music.

"Ok?"

Keqing subconsciously looked in the direction of the source, which was Tan Mingruo's belly.

"Are you hungry?"

Her face flushed, and she whispered in embarrassment:

"The food they delivered was just some thin, black vegetable paste. I only had one bowl a day, which was not enough to fill me up."

"Fortunately, I hid some cakes in my clothes, otherwise I would have starved to death like those people."

She started to explain, and Keqing understood.

"Well, that's natural. When you're full, you can't run any more. That's probably why they're slacking off."

If they are hungry and have no strength, they cannot escape even if they want to, so naturally there is no need to put much effort into guarding them.

Speaking of which, at least those ogres had some wild vegetable porridge to eat, and they could survive the hunger and fullness period.

In the current situation, even if someone escapes without being discovered, they will probably starve to death due to lack of food.

Keqing didn't know about other places around, but when she was rushing on the road and looking for water in the ruins, Keqing saw that everywhere was barren. There were not even a few wild grasses, and the fields had long been abandoned. The rice was dry and turned into powder at the slightest touch, and the ground was covered with cracks caused by lack of water.

And most of the villages along the way were empty.

She thought she might encounter refugees or something, and was thinking about how to deal with it, but it turned out that she was just overthinking.

It seemed that the drought had lasted for a long time, and people around had fled famine or starved to death. There was no one left. Just in case, he got a lot of food from his own chamber of commerce, and only then could he walk safely in this uninhabited place that was almost a desert.

Thinking of this, Keqing sighed. Natural disasters are inevitable. This place has become like this. I don’t know what the situation is in Tongzhou Prefecture now.

All he could do was to quickly get rid of this group of cannibals and then go to Tongzhou to resolve the drought.

"Cuckoo..."

The rhythmic gurgling sound was like beating a drum. The continuous sound made Tan Mingruo blush to the back of his neck. He was so ashamed and angry that he wanted to dig a coffin with his toes.

After all, as a lady from a wealthy family, this is really embarrassing.

"Do you want to eat? I have some dry food here."

Keqing took out a round bag of dry food that she had prepared not long ago. Why did she carry dry food with her? Of course, it was to prepare for a rainy day, just in case.

Although she came out to find water and she was confident in her own abilities, she didn't know when any unexpected events might occur.

You never know what might happen and you might end up unable to find your caravan, or be trapped in a place with no food to eat, so it is only right to be prepared.

It is imperative to exercise due caution.

"that……"

"Don't worry, I have food... I'm not short of food. I just carried this dry food with me just in case."

"That's good... Thank you, Princess... I'm really hungry."

When seeing the dry food, Tan Mingruo thought that the little princess had also encountered a food crisis and had fallen to eating dry food, so he was a little hesitant. But when he heard her explanation, he no longer had any hesitation and started to eat the dry food.

Well……

I thought it would be hard to chew, but surprisingly it wasn't that hard, and it had sweet and salty tastes. It tasted good, although a little dry.

“Is there a lot of sugar in this?”

Tan Mingruo was surprised and asked, adding sugar to dry food is such a luxury...

"Luxury? Hasn't the price of sugar been reduced?"

Ke Qing was confused.

Ever since he invented the new sugar-making technology, the cost of sugar-making has been reduced a hundred times. Sugar is no longer a luxury that only the nobles can use.

Dry food contains not only salt, but also a lot of sugar. After all, as food, it naturally requires a lot of energy replenishment. Adding sugar can also better dehydrate the dry food, making it easier to preserve and preventing it from getting moldy.

"Ah, that's true. Princess, you have changed the way you make sugar. Before, the price of sugar was 120 coins per ounce, but now it can be bought for 40 coins. But even so, sugar is still precious..."

Tan Mingruo sighed.

An ordinary laborer works very hard and earns only ten to thirty wen a day. This money is only enough to buy about half a pound of sugar. Isn't this a luxury?

"Thirty Wen?"

Keqing blinked.

"But in the capital, sugar is now three cents per ounce."

"Oh, it's so cheap?"

Tan Mingruo was surprised and said that the candy was too cheap.

"That may be because it's too far, so the candy in Tongzhou is more expensive after taking into account the travel expenses?"

She thought it might be a matter of distance.

"But now the court has increased the sugar price and stipulated that the minimum price of sugar cannot be lower than one tael and three wen, and the maximum price cannot be higher than one tael and eight wen."

"Although it is limited by differences in various regions, it definitely cannot be reduced to 40 wen per liang. You have to know that what I am changing is the cost of sugar production. Not to mention that the raw material elm juice is abundant in the south. Logically speaking, sugar in the south should be cheaper."

Keqing doesn't think that the price of sugar will rise because of the distance. Someone must be profiting from it. If the price of sugar is so high, what about paper and salt? Are they also so high?

Keqing asked and got the answer that was indeed true. It was many times higher than usual. If it was so much higher, the government must have played a role in it.

It's not necessarily innocent.

Keqing kept this matter in mind and waited to resolve it later.

Ahhhh.

Chew chew chew.

Tan Mingruo ate with big mouthfuls. Seeing that she was very hungry, Keqing handed her the water bag and took out a piece of dry food.

She drank and ate at the same time.

But after a while, after eating the dry food, I felt much more energetic.

"I am full?"

"Well, I'm full..."

Thinking of the big mouthfuls of food and drink before

"Then you stay here, someone will pick you up later, I'll go to that village..."

"Princess, I'm going too..."

Seeing the little princess looking back at her, Tan Mingruo thought for a moment.

"I won't cause you any trouble... Let me lead the way, and we'll be able to arrive faster and rescue those poor people."

After hearing her say this, Keqing felt that it seemed to make sense.

So he nodded, suddenly moved closer and bent down.

Tan Mingruo: Hmm?

He hugged his waist fiercely and carried him up on his shoulders.

"Ah-"

"Princess, what are you going to do!"

Tan Mingruo screamed when he was suddenly lifted off the ground onto her shoulders.

"Let me take you, you're walking too slowly."

I originally wanted to hold up my collar, but then I looked at my short legs and height, and then at Tan Mingruo, who was a head taller than me.

Keqing:......

So she gave up the idea.

"But, but you can just hold my daughter in your arms! There's no need to carry her!"

So shameful!!

"But... it's more convenient to carry it..."

Keqing said so, this way it doesn't block the vision at all and can run faster.

No. 544 Executioner (5000)

The red afterglow gradually faded away as the night fell, but the unpleasantly high temperature remained as hot as ever, and the night covered the earth like a curtain.

The sky was filled with dark clouds and was extremely gloomy. Even the moon in the starry sky seemed a little dirty and chaotic.

At this time in a village, countless bonfires were burning, and someone was shouting loudly, extremely excited.

They were excited and celebrating their harvest. Just a few days ago, they had obtained countless food and countless corpses. The extra food made them extremely excited, but the extra corpses would gradually rot as time passed.

So they are consuming the rotting corpses in large quantities under the pretext of celebration.

At this time, smoke was rising from several bonfires, and a large pot was placed on a temporary stove.

Below is a burning flame and above is a steaming soup pot.

There was no water in the iron pot, but thick blood, with chopped-up limbs densely packed in it, and it smelled sticky and fishy.

However, to this group of cannibalistic thugs, this is a delicacy, the aroma is so fragrant that it makes people's mouths water.

"But it's a little stale, let's add some seasoning!"

"Yeah, I'm a little tired of eating like this every day."