When Tao Tu came back, his heart was beating fast.
Although he pretended to be calm on his face, his rapid heartbeat of at least 120 beats per minute betrayed him, telling Wu Jie that he was actually very nervous and excited.
When Wu Jie asked him to borrow the token to take a look, he was stunned for a moment and seemed a little at a loss.
That was not an expression of unwillingness, but an expression of distress that I didn't know how to explain.
After hesitating for a while, Tao Tu smiled bitterly and said, "That... token... is no longer with me."
Wu Jie frowned when he heard this, and his voice became slightly colder: "Liu Ming actually robbed you of your things?"
He originally thought Liu Ming was a pretty good person, but unexpectedly, in front of Xian Yuan, this seemingly kind-hearted young man would actually do evil things!
"No! It's not like that..." Tao Tu hurriedly explained, but as if he remembered something, he hesitated with a grimace and was speechless.
Wu Jie looked at his face carefully. He could only see a look of distress and embarrassment on his face, but he could not see any trace of depression or sadness. Instead, he was vaguely happy.
Thinking of his own situation, he suddenly realized that Tao Tu must have met an immortal when he went out. He had a token left by his ancestors with him, so he naturally got the fate of immortality.
"That's it!" He laughed loudly and dragged the clay towards the restaurant. "This is a good thing worth celebrating! Let's go! Let's have a drink!"
Tao Tu was surprised at first, then understood what he meant, further guessed what he meant, and whispered in surprise: "You too -"
"Don't talk about this, drink, drink!"
The restaurant was quite lively. The immortal seekers who had returned from going out were tired for several days and needed to relax. Most of them had some money, and they would not lag behind others in terms of eating, drinking and having fun.
Wu Jie thought maliciously, wondering if these people could also move forward bravely in terms of enduring hardships and standing hard work?
He and Tao Tu went to an inconspicuous corner on the second floor, ordered some ordinary food and drinks, and chatted while drinking.
Both of them deliberately avoided the topic of seeking immortality, and only talked about some things in life, such as local customs and customs, such as some interesting and trivial things that God knows these days... It was quite comfortable to talk while eating and drinking.
The days in winter are very short, and it gets dark before you know it. However, the restaurant is open as usual at night. The workers have lit the pine trees on the pilasters in the house and sent oil lamps to every table.
These oil lamps are covered with tissue paper, which can block the wind without blocking the light too much. Together with the burning pine trees, they can provide sufficient lighting so that diners can enjoy entertainment at night.
Of course, this requires additional payment.
Wu Jie and Tao Tu were both rich people, so they didn't care about the lighting fee. They were very happy today and made up their minds to get drunk.
But at this moment, beatings and noises came from downstairs.
The two of them were stunned and ran to the window to take a look. They saw four or five big men surrounding Scholar Yi, punching and kicking him until he was curled up in the corner like a shrimp, screaming in pain.
"Strange! Although Shusheng Yi is a bit arrogant, he has never offended anyone. Why did a group of people suddenly come to beat him?" Tao Tu asked doubtfully, "Did he offend someone?"
He had no friendship with Scholar Yi, so he had no intention of stopping him. Wu Jie saw that those big men looked fierce, but in fact they were merciful in their attacks. They probably would not really hurt Scholar Yi, so he did not take action.
After a while, those big men stopped and said viciously to Scholar Yi, who could no longer stand up: "Yi, I'm going to teach you a lesson today! As long as you dare to stay here in Yanling County for one day, you will be rewarded in the future.
You will suffer the consequences!"
After saying that, these people left straight away, leaving Scholar Yi, who was beaten with a bruised nose and face, to stand up with difficulty holding on to the wall. He gathered the firewood that he had cut hard one by one, carried it on his back and staggered away.
go.
Wu Jie remained silent, his brows furrowed.
"Wu Daxia, do you want to take care of it?" Tao Tu saw his thoughts and asked in a low voice, "Let me go and inquire first. I have met a lot of people these days, and maybe I can get some news."
After saying that, he walked towards Liu Ming's table and started chatting with Liu Ming and his party. After talking for a while, he went to other tables and asked questions one by one, and finally came back shaking his head.
"I can't believe it! It turns out that Scholar Yi is actually an official!"
"oh?"
"This scholar Yi's single name has the word 'Ti', which means TI in filial piety, and the word is long Gong. He was born in a scholarly family, and because he was the second in the family, he was also known as Yi Erlang. He was quite knowledgeable. He entered school at the age of eight and became a 10-year-old boy.
He was admitted as a scholar at the age of two, as a Gongsheng student at the age of fifteen, as a Juren at the age of eighteen, and as a Jinshi at the age of twenty-two. He is known as a gifted scholar."
"Huh? Then why is he doing this?"
"This Yi Erlang has an upright temperament and is not suitable for officialdom. Because he is proficient in arithmetic, the imperial court of the Dayue Kingdom appointed him to be the chief of transportation in Yanling County, responsible for the transportation of materials and the distribution of finance and taxation. It is said that this position is very rich, but he himself is as clean as water.
He said that he also blocked many people's way of making money, and soon he was charged with a crime and lost his official position... What happened after that is unclear, no one knows why he came to seek immortality."
"What about these people who beat him?"
"Maybe they were the people he offended back then... He offended almost all the officials in Yanling County. Maybe these people were sent to deal with him."
"In this case, then these people should just beat him to death, or at least maim him... But I think they were very measured in their actions."
"...I don't know about that. Maybe it's to prevent the court from remembering him and it would be troublesome to trace him in the future. After all...there are not many Jinshi who are twenty-two years old in the entire Dai Viet Kingdom."
Wu Jie nodded slightly when he heard the words, but he felt a little disapproval in his heart.
The more capable Yi Ti is, the more those who hate him will not allow him to live. Tao Tu doesn't understand this truth, but he knows it.
If these people who came here were really Yi Ti's enemies, then Yi Ti would definitely not be dead or crippled at this moment. It was absolutely impossible for Yi Ti to stand up and walk far on his own legs after being beaten.
However, Wu Jie did not intend to stop him. In his opinion, those big men were not so much beating Yi Ti as trying to force him to leave Yanling County.
For Yi Erlang, who is both upright and aloof, leaving Yanling County, where his enemies are everywhere, is indeed the best choice at hand.
Wu Jie even dared to bet that if an enemy really came to harm Yi Ti, these big men would step forward to protect him!
... As the days passed, many of the immortal seekers who had found nothing had become discouraged and left, and most of the remaining people became irritable. The atmosphere in the town became increasingly bad, and fights started almost every day.
If Wu Jie, who couldn't bear it anymore, had not stepped forward decisively, dealt with several particularly vicious guys in a row, and patrolled every day to maintain law and order, the situation would have deteriorated beyond control.
But even with him patrolling the town, even if he kept preventing the more intense conflicts, the situation continued to get worse.
No matter how powerful your martial arts is, it can only stop hysterical people from wreaking havoc, but it cannot erase the disappointment in people's hearts.
Wu Jie walked slowly through the town, using his cold eyes to quickly separate the seekers who were fighting each other, and frowning.
If this continues, Qingniu Town will become a complete mess!
However... there is a big doubt in his heart that he has never been able to solve.
If the pursuit of immortality in Qingniu Town has always been like this, then why was the atmosphere in this town so peaceful and peaceful when they came?
In the past few months, he has witnessed more and more people seeking immortality, people's mentality getting worse and worse, and he has seen Qingniu Town gradually change from a remote and quiet town to noisy and chaotic.
He really couldn't figure out how to restore the tranquility of the town whose atmosphere had been destroyed to this extent.
He once asked Li Xiaoyao, the waiter in the shop, and Li Xiaoyao's answer was ridiculous: "There were not so many immortal seekers in the town before. One or two would come occasionally, and they would leave if they didn't find any immortality."
"You don't even believe this!" Du Ruo yelled, "There must be some shadow of nonsense! He wants to say that he is a monster, and he has swallowed up all the immortal seekers in the past, but it still sounds like a human saying!"
Wu Jie wanted to complain, "I don't think he is a foodie", but unfortunately now is not the right time to complain.
In fact, he is not the only one who has doubts about this. Tao Tu, Xie Minghuan, Liu Ming...it is even said that even Wei Teng, who has eyes on the top of his head, has asked about this.
There are no fools among seekers of immortality. Unless they are withdrawn like Yi Ti or dull as Gu Yuan, almost every seeker of immortality senses that something is wrong. So many of them are timid or cautious and leave quietly. Only the more courageous ones
Or perhaps the very stubborn ones stayed.
Tao Tu definitely did not belong to the daring group. Even though he had the immortal fate in hand, he was still disturbed by this weird and irritable atmosphere. He begged Li Xiaoyao to help him move the room next to Wu Jie, and asked Wu Jie more than once.
Help yourself when you are in danger.
Wu Jie was not nervous at all. As the saying goes, "A man with great skills is bold." With his ability, unless the Immortal took action to kill him, even if a master of innate martial arts came to kill him, he was confident that he could escape - maybe even
You can carry the clay and run with it.
What's more... there are at least five or six immortals in Qingniu Town. Even if the sky falls, these tall people will hold it up, so there is no need to worry!
Unknowingly, it's already March. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and there are more and more poisonous insects of all kinds. Someone will be bitten every one or two days, and some even die from treatment. Worse still
What's surprising is that these poisonous insects don't only appear in the wild, but also appear indoors - Taotu found a red centipede thicker than his thumb in his house, which scared him out of his mind.
Faced with the danger that was so close at hand, many of the remaining immortal cultivators backed down. By the beginning of April, there were less than twenty immortal seekers left in Qingniu Town.
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The only consolation is that thanks to these poisonous insects, the remaining immortal seekers finally stopped arguing with each other, and Wu Jie finally no longer had to patrol the town all day long and could do his own thing - maybe these remaining
Are all the lucky ones who have obtained the fate of immortality?
Wu Jie has not considered the problem of poisonous insects. On the one hand, his body that has been refined with medicine has extremely strong resistance to poisons. Ordinary poisonous insects cannot hurt him at all. Most of the poisonous insects that can hurt him have been captured by the immortals long ago; on the other hand,
It's because he has no time to take care of such trivial matters as poisonous insects because he is very busy.
In addition to patrolling, he is also experimenting with microscopes.
