Volume 1: Zhao Shanhe Chapter 102 Mingxinxuan Comes
Although several days have passed, the entire county is still shrouded in gloom and gloom.
In just half a day, tens of thousands of innocent people died, and the number of minor and serious injuries was even greater. Even the more than a thousand officers and soldiers guarding the city, as well as the entire county government, suffered heavy casualties, and only a few people, no more than a dozen, survived.
In the past few days, even though Liu Hongsheng came forward to coordinate and get the various gangs in the city to cooperate and mobilize the surviving people to collect the bodies of the dead and distribute supplies in the city, the effect was still insignificant.
A county town that used to be full of vitality is now full of life and death. It no longer has the prosperity of recent years. Pedestrians walking on the street no longer speak.
During this period, many Shanze wild cultivators came to inquire and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. The method they used was naturally not to help the people in distress, but to target the wealthy businessmen in the city.
Fortunately, Xu Lin, the swordsman of the Mingjian Division, was in charge, and the San Sword Society, which was seriously injured but still retained some of its combat power, prevented the situation from worsening after killing several waves of wild cultivators in public.
Around noon on the seventh day, support from nearby counties, villages and towns arrived belatedly with some manpower.
Although there are only two or three hundred people in total, they still have official status, and many things can be done easily, and Qianyu City is finally able to operate temporarily.
It's just that because all the corpses of the dead have not been collected for many days, and because of the gathering of sorrow and resentment in the city, the entire sky has not seen bright sunshine for several days, and is covered by a layer of gray clouds.
"Why hasn't the county sent out manpower for so long?"
In Xuantian Temple, Ji Yuan, who had finished his retreat, was sitting in the small courtyard, looking at the people around him with a puzzled expression.
Zhao Yuansong laughed helplessly at this. He didn't know how to explain the reason for a while. Some things were far from being as simple as they appeared on the surface.
Seeing this, Ji Yuan immediately understood, and a wry smile appeared on his face.
It seems that someone in the county wants to do something through this matter, perhaps to gain some benefits from it, or perhaps to take the opportunity to unseat someone who dislikes it.
Otherwise, even though the county town and Qianyu City are thousands of miles apart, a group of people should arrive anyway. At the very least, they would have to summon the garrison hundreds of miles away and send soldiers here to maintain order.
"At this time, the county is still closed. Outsiders are not allowed to enter for the time being. Only the people in the city are allowed to go out and bury the bodies."
Zhao Yuansong sighed.
In fact, not only are outsiders not allowed to enter, but people in the city are not allowed to leave, for fear that the news of this place will be completely spread and attract more people with evil intentions.
In just a few days, more than a dozen first-level wild cultivators were killed in full view of the public. This was because of their desperate efforts, otherwise the situation would have been even worse.
"Now that all the corpses in the city are rotting, if we continue to leave them alone, I'm afraid a plague will soon sweep across the entire city, even covering hundreds of miles in radius."
Jiang He held his face with his hands. Although he couldn't see his expression clearly, he could still hear the worry in his voice.
When this matter was mentioned, Xu Qiqi said angrily: "Many doctors and doctors in the city have closed their doors and even most of the pharmacies have stopped selling medicinal materials. Apparently they want to wait until the plague becomes rampant or the situation becomes more serious.
Now, come and make some serious money!"
If her senior brother hadn't stopped her, she would have really wanted to knock on the door one by one, push these people whose consciences have been eaten by dogs, to the ground and beat them up.
If you want to make such a windfall, don't you worry that all the virtue accumulated by your ancestors will be used up, and you and your descendants will suffer bad luck from now on?
However, for this kind of thing, although they can criticize and reprimand, they can't change anything. Personal power seems to be somewhat powerless in the face of such a major disaster.
"If it doesn't work, we will use our own money to buy those medicinal materials and give them to those in need!"
Xu Qiqi stood up and said with a proud face.
However, Ji Yuan and Zhao Yuansong obviously disagreed with this, and the latter even glared fiercely at his whimsical junior sister.
Even Guo Tao, who was squatting aside and eating dried meat, couldn't help but shake his head a few times.
Not to mention that buying medicinal materials at this time will cost several times the usual amount of money. For this kind of behavior alone, it is not only thankless, but also (this chapter is not over yet!)
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It may even lead to worse consequences.
"Why don't you see Huixin?"
Ji Yuan suddenly realized that he had not seen the monk who was missing a muscle since he left seclusion until now.
Although he was very angry when he saw the other party now, but with the current situation in the city, when he couldn't see him, he was filled with worry.
"In the past few days, he has been walking in the city, using Buddhism to save the unjust souls who died in vain, and using his own cultivation to purify the place where resentment gathers. Only late at night will he return to the Taoist temple to meditate and adjust his breath."
Zhao Yuansong sighed and once advised Hui Xin not to be like this, just do your best.
But the other party just shook his head and continued to do these things silently. He even relied on his own medical skills to treat injured people as much as possible.
However, in the absence of medicinal materials, this kind of treatment has little effect and can only temporarily stabilize some injuries.
Hearing this, Ji Yuan immediately understood that Huixin was taking all the sins caused by his master, Master Wu Hai, on himself, hoping that in this way, he could accumulate some evil virtue for him.
"Get ready. If there is no more movement from the county town, Liu Hongsheng may have to pay a visit soon."
He thought for a while and did not comment on Huixin's actions. Instead, he solemnly spoke to several people.
In a few days, only a few thousand corpses were collected in the city, and there were more than 30,000 corpses that could not be taken care of. In addition, most of the people in the city were injured and lacked medicine and food. Some people had already started to cause trouble in the streets.
If this continues, I am afraid that within a day or two, there will be large-scale vandalism incidents, and countless people, under various negative emotions, will begin to rob stores of supplies.
In fact, from the first day, there have been gangsters who do bad things instead of doing good things, and have sporadically robbed some remote shops.
In addition, no matter how they attack, there will definitely be more and more Shanzeye cultivators coming to inquire. Xu Lin, a second-level martial artist, and two or three first-level warriors alone cannot stop those with bad intentions.
Unruly people.
Therefore, Liu Hongsheng, who is currently in charge of all affairs in the county, will definitely pay a visit and invite them to help stabilize the situation before the court comes.
After all, the three sects in the family now exist in name only. The entire Zhao family was massacred, and only a few guards and Zhao Yuebai survived.
The Zhenshan Sect and the Yuanshan Escort Bureau only have one or twenty disciples left, and almost all of them are seriously injured. Even taking care of themselves is a problem.
As for the Three Swordsman Association, although the loss of members was not too great and it still retains a relatively complete scale, the death of two guild leaders and all the hall leaders also left an extreme shortage of experts among them.
Now based on this calculation, the only place in the city that still has enough experts and combat power is this small Xuantian Temple.
Therefore, once the situation becomes more serious, the chief catcher will definitely come here to seek help. Otherwise, let alone gain some credit, once the court calls for accountability, he cannot afford to take the blame.
In the next three days, the situation in the city was indeed as Ji Yuan expected. Despite the suppression by hundreds of soldiers and police officers, as well as the actions of the Three Swordsmen Association and various gangs, the state of chaos remained.
Spread uncontrollably to the entire process.
The more than 100,000 surviving people could no longer withstand the panic in their hearts, and under the instigation of thoughtful people, they began to appear on the streets in groups.
At first, they just smashed up shops and frantically snatched food and supplies. Later, in just two days, they turned into forcibly breaking into the mansions of wealthy businessmen.
Most of these people were not here to rob gold, silver and other items, but simply to vent their despair and resentment. Only a few leading people filled bags with belongings in the chaos.
This kind of chaos came and went quickly. Under the suppression of the Three Swordsmen Association and a group of large and small gangs who no longer showed any kindness and morality, and beat anyone they saw, it only took less than a day to calm down most of it.
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As soon as it dawned on the twelfth day, Ji Yuan walked out of the room and sat quietly in the yard. If everything goes as expected, someone should come to visit him today.
But he never expected that the person who came to visit him so early in the morning was not Liu Hongsheng, the chief catcher, but Liu Ruyan, the shopkeeper of Mingxinxuan, and a lady accompanying him. (This chapter is not finished yet!
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This lady sat gracefully in front of Ji Yuan. She claimed to be from the Mingxinxuan Association in the county, but she did not explain her identity in detail.
But from the temperament of the other party's gestures and the respectful attitude of Liu Ruyan on the side, he could more or less guess something.
"I heard that the Taoist leader led a group of people to quell the chaos in the city, so I would like to express my sincere gratitude to express my admiration for you."
The noble lady called herself Qian. After saying this, Liu Ruyan, who was beside her, held a wooden box and placed it on the small wooden table that had just been moved out.
Ji Yuan's expression changed. Although he had not opened the wooden box, he smelled a few wisps of red incense, which should have a healing effect.
And from the elixir fragrance, he judged more than a dozen kinds of precious medicinal materials. If purchased individually, each one would probably cost hundreds of taels of snowflake silver. Even this wooden box is worth at least thirty or forty dollars.
Two lines of silver.
"Mrs. Qian is here not just to give gifts, right?"
He looked at the noble lady with a calm face, neither saying he accepted the gift nor rejecting it on the spot.
Seeing this, Mrs. Qian smiled slightly, took out a delicate cloth bag from her sleeve, and Liu Ruyan placed it next to the wooden box.
"I came here this time because I heard that the Taoist Master is good at alchemy and is second to none within hundreds of miles around."
Her eyes flickered slightly, and then she said softly: "I came here in the hope that I could ask the Taoist priest to help me refine the elixir."
Ji Yuan did not reply immediately. He frowned slightly, but he recognized this exquisite cloth bag at a glance. It was the mountain and river bag that was rumored to be worth as much as a magic weapon.
And judging from the spiritual light flowing on it, I am afraid that this mountain bag is of high quality and should at least have a space the size of a courtyard.
If it is as he guessed, the value of just one mountain and river bag is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, enough to purchase three or four magical artifacts.
"Today, nine out of ten people in the city were injured in the disaster more than ten days ago. These days, due to lack of medical treatment and lack of medicine, they are already suffering unspeakably."
Seeing that he didn't speak, Mrs. Qian didn't care. After pondering for a moment, she continued: "But tens of thousands of corpses have not been dealt with in time. At this moment, a plague has broken out. By then, the number of people with injuries will exceed 90%."
Will die from this."
This statement is not the slightest exaggeration. Nowadays, almost everyone in Qianyu City is injured, and these wounds have even festered and turned pus. Once the plague breaks out, no one will be spared.
By then, even if these people escaped the fate of being sacrificed by blood, they still could not escape the plague.
Ji Yuan naturally knew this, but he didn't know why the lady in front of him suddenly mentioned this matter.
"I would like to ask the Taoist Master to work harder and refine some healing elixirs as much as possible. Then Ming Xinxuan's guys will cooperate with the soldiers in the city to distribute them to the suffering people in the city."
Mrs. Qian said softly: "This mountain and river bag is the Taoist priest's reward for making alchemy this time."
To be rewarded with an extremely high-grade mountain and river bag can no longer be described as rich and powerful, it is simply inhumane!
The key is that what the other party is asking for is not even worth an ordinary mountain and river bag.
Because of this, Ji Yuan's eyes suddenly showed doubts, and he didn't quite understand what Mrs. Qian was thinking.
If you say that the other person has too much money and really has no place to spend it, I'm afraid not many people believe that you can have too much of anything in this world, but you can never have too much money.
Furthermore, Ming Xinxuan pursues business ethics and cannot engage in loss-making business, nor does he need to strive for a good reputation.
Prestige is something that probably only the imperial court, rich gentry, and some local sects need.
"Pindao wants to know what Mrs. Qian's intentions are when she does this?"
After a moment of silence, he finally asked.
Hearing this, Mrs. Qian sighed quietly, as if she had expected this question, so she elaborated on her prepared remarks.
It turns out that although she is a businessman, her practice is a branch of Buddhism. It is easy to practice diligently on a daily basis. Only when she is ready to break through the realm, she must accumulate enough merit.
Now Mrs. Qian has been trapped in the second realm for more than ten years, and the merit she has accumulated is only just over half. If she wants to succeed (this chapter is not finished yet!)
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If you break through, it will take at least the same amount of time.
But now, for her, it was a once-in-a-century opportunity. Saving hundreds of thousands of people in a city, plus some other matters, might save her more than ten years of hardship.
"If that's the case, Mrs. Qian can bring alchemists from the county. With Ming Xinxuan's financial resources and influence, it won't be a problem to bring in four or five."
Ji Yuan asked curiously, not understanding why the other party came to him alone and rewarded him with an astonishingly valuable mountain and river bag.
This price is enough to hire more alchemists.
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Qian's face suddenly straightened up, and her eyes looked at him with deep meaning.
Chapter 102 Someone from Mingxinxuan is here This chapter has been completed!
