Huangmu Village
Huangmu Village is the name given to the village by the refugees. The inspiration comes from a kind of tree with yellowish bark on the mountain. This kind of tree is very hard and is an excellent material for making furniture and building houses.
One day, Lin Jiang was shirtless and carrying a wild boar weighing two or three hundred kilograms in the village. The wives in the village drooled, coveting the wild boar in Lin Jiang's hand and his body with eight abdominal muscles.
"Third Aunt, what do you want to do?"
There are timid and brave ones. After walking a few steps, a sturdy lady blocked Lin Jiang's way. Lin Jiang looked at her and was trembling with fear.
"Lin Kai, when will you marry my daughter?"
"Third Aunt, your daughter doesn't like me, why should I marry her?"
"No, that won't work. You have seen my daughter naked, you have to marry her."
"Third Aunt, you can't make up stories. Your daughter went up the mountain to chop firewood, and the firewood scratched her clothes, so she exposed an arm. Do you think she was naked?"
"If you saw her arm, it's not seen anymore, right?"
"Okay, okay, you're just craving for meat. Come to my house later and I'll cut a pig's trotter for you,
okay?" "Haha, Lin Kai, that's what you said."
"I said that, but Third Aunt, next time you want to blackmail me, just say so directly. Don't use your daughter to scare people,"
Lin Jiang said helplessly. After that, he looked at the little girl weighing nearly 200 pounds behind Third Aunt. Lin Jiang was really scared.
"I'm serious. Look at my daughter's body. She will definitely give birth to a son in the future. How many people want to marry her? I'm not happy yet."
"I'll go first."
Lin Jiang heard this and immediately quickened his pace and fled back home. Third Aunt really dared to drag him into the house. Wouldn't the innocence of that life be gone?
"Lin Kai, you are so lucky. You never come back empty-handed when you go into the mountains."
"That's a must."
When he walked to the front door of the house, he met Xiao Yuan and greeted him. He never came back empty-handed when fishing, even when he went into the mountains to hunt. Who let him have the sand sculpture plug-in?
"How do you divide the pork today?"
"I'll keep half and divide the rest. Give Third Aunt a pig's trotter. I promised. Uncle Xiao will help peel the skin and use the skin to exchange for things."
Lin Jiang said. It was already the third year since the establishment of Huangmu Village. Two and a half years ago, Lin Jiang abolished his cultivation and was now a mortal. However, even as a mortal, his physical fitness was not comparable to that of ordinary people. If he hadn't been hiding his shortcomings, even Xiao Yuan, a martial arts master, was not as good as him.
Huangmu Village was a refugee village, so they needed to help each other. Therefore, the neighbors were very harmonious. Basically, they would share everything they had. They were very close to each other. Lin Jiang also liked this atmosphere.
When Xiao Yuan heard this, he immediately went back to get his knives and came to help. Xiao Yuan was a good butcher. He could take the skin of the prey intact. This skin was good for making clothes after tanning or selling it for money.
"Xiao Lin, you really don't consider the daughter of your third aunt. With that body, she can definitely give birth to a son."
While working, Xiao Yuan chatted with Lin Jiang, so that he could relieve his fatigue.
"Don't consider it. I'm afraid she'll turn over at night and crush me to death."
"You kid, you really like to joke. What about Xiufang? Although she's a widow, she's hardworking and capable."
"Uncle Xiao, Xiufang likes you, don't push it to me."
"My family already has four wives. We can't afford to support more. You're the only capable man in the village who's not married. This won't do."
Xiao Yuan said. Villages like theirs don't need to pay taxes because there's no government at all. So after coming here for a year, they solved the problem of food and clothing.
This mountain is really kind. Food can be grown in the fields, and there are wild fruits, medicinal herbs, and game on the mountains. They're not lazy, and they've completely settled down in a year. After food and clothing,
you have to consider the problem of reproduction. There are more boys and girls in the village. As long as you can support them, you can marry as many as you want. Basically, all the men have wives, but Lin Jiang is an exception.
"Uncle Xiao, didn't I tell you that I still have a wife in my hometown? I was so scared that I ran away, and I don't know whether they are dead or not. If they are not dead, we can't let them down."
Lin Jiang brought out this excuse again. The main reason was that he really looked down on these village women. They ate a lot after solving the problem of food and clothing. After all, only a strong body can work. Lin Jiang used to be a frequent visitor to Yingchun Tower and Baihua Tower. Those were all women who practiced Taoism and were used to eating delicacies from land and sea. How could they eat coarse grains?
"You are good at everything except looking forward. People, as long as they are alive, they must look forward."
"My father also taught me that people should not go back on their words. How can we give up on a marriage that has been agreed upon?"
"What if your wife dies, or gets married?"
"Then we'll talk about it then. Anyway, with my ability, I won't have to worry about finding a wife, right?" "Okay
, you are right anyway. Now that the skin has been removed, I will get the tendons off and make a few bows and arrows. Although there are no ferocious beasts in this place, we have to be on guard against them."
Xiao Yuan had already removed the skin while speaking. Next, he had to get the fascia. The village also needed to add a few bows and arrows. This place was a rare Feng Shui treasure land. For three years, not only monsters, but even ferocious beasts had not visited, but he still had to be on guard.
"Take the skins and exchange them for cloth. I need clothes, otherwise the women in the village will all look like beasts,"
said Lin Jiang. The village cannot produce many things by itself, so they have to trade them, using skins, dried bacon, medicinal herbs, etc. to exchange. Xiao Yuan goes out once a month.
"Third Aunt and the others are really not good enough. If it were me, I would have touched you in the middle of the night."
"Hehe,"
Lin Jiang rolled his eyes. Did they really think they had never touched you? He just dodged them. These women are so fierce.
"Okay, we're done. You decide how to divide the meat. Just give me the kidneys and the treasures."
Xiao Yuan finished the work quickly. He didn't ask for anything else, but just set his eyes on the two treasures. At his age, even a congenital master couldn't stand it.
"Leave a little for Fang Yuan, and divide the rest equally,"
said Lin Jiang. In the village, he wasn't too close to anyone. Xiao Yuan and Fang Yuan counted as one, so they just had to divide it equally.
In fact, there is no tax at all, and life in the village is very decent. With Xiao Yuan, Lin Jiang and Fang Yuan here, there are often prey, otherwise how could those women weigh more than 100 kilograms.
"Okay, I'll call people to distribute the meat. Come to my house to drink in the evening. Call Fang Yuan and we'll discuss inviting the immortals."
"Uncle Xiao, do you really want to invite immortals to take charge?"
"Yes, it's impossible that there are no wild beasts in this place every year. In fact, I can still deal with wild beasts, but I can't deal with monsters. I remember how we escaped from the village. I don't want to encounter that kind of thing again."
Xiao Yuan shook his head and said. He didn't know why there were no wild beasts and monsters here, but he knew that there must be some in the mountains. In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, he has made a decision.
Lin Jiang didn't say anything more. Now Xiao Yuan is still the boss in the village because he is the strongest, followed by him and Fang Yuan. Although Lin Jiang has wasted his cultivation and didn't show it deliberately, the body of the immortal cultivator tempered by spiritual energy is really not comparable to that of an ordinary strong man.
Now unless Lin Jiang shows more power and becomes the master of the whole village, he can only listen to Xiao Yuan. However, Lin Jiang has no idea about being the master. There is no benefit, but too much trouble.
That night, Lin Jiang and Fang Yuan went to Xiao Yuan's house. The meat was wild boar meat that Lin Jiang hunted today, and the wine was fruit wine made from wild fruits in the mountains. Xiao Yuan's wife is a good cook with excellent cooking skills.
"The nearest big town to our Huangmu Village is called Qingshan Town, which is about 360 miles away from us. There is a Zhao family in the town. They are the largest landlords and have several immortals in their family. I have already made an agreement with the people of the Zhao family that if any other immortals are willing to come to our village, we will invite him."
"What are the general requirements for immortals to take charge
of the village?" "Lin Kai, how did you invite immortals to your village in the past?"
"I don't know. I was still young at that time. My family never told me about the previous immortals in your village."
"The previous immortals in our village were invited at a high price. We had to give them 3,000 kilograms of grain, 800 kilograms of meat, and unlimited vegetables every year. We also had to send him a woman, and she had to be a virgin."
"And they have to farm for him, Uncle Xiao,"
Fang Yuan added on the side. This made Lin Jiang smack his lips. Inviting an immortal cultivator back is like inviting an ancestor back.
"Uncle Xiao, given the current situation in Huangmu Village, can we afford to support such an immortal?"
"I am worried about this, too. In the past, there were more than 300 people in our village, with hundreds of young and strong people. Now there are only more than 100 people, with less than 30 young and strong people. It will be difficult to support them like this."
"Then don't invite him. We are living well now,"
said Lin Jiang. He really didn't want to invite immortal cultivators. It's not that he was afraid that the secret would be exposed. What could a casual cultivator in the initial and middle stages of Qi training find out? He didn't want to give away his harvest for nothing. This was much more severe than the government's heavy taxes.
"We have to invite him. If a monster comes, we will all be wiped out. I have escaped once, and I don't want to escape again,"
said Xiao Yuan. Fang Yuan also agreed. They fled for more than two months three years ago. It was too hard, too hard, and they didn't want to experience it again.
"What if we can't afford to support them?"
"So we have to have more children, Lin Kai, you have to work harder."
"It's too late to give birth tomorrow."
"Let's wait and see. The immortal won't come so soon. Starting tomorrow, Lin Kai and Fang Yuan will go to the mountains to hunt and collect herbs. I will make more trips to exchange things. The good fields outside the valley must also be opened up. I plan to go to other villages and towns to recruit some homeless people. With more people, we can support them."
Xiao Yuan said. The valley has been developed, but there are still large tracts of good fields outside the valley that can be reclaimed. If he can recruit 70 or 80 strong men, the immortal will be able to support them.
Lin Jiang was helpless about this. It seemed that he could not stop Xiao Yuan and the others. Lin Jiang did not hesitate for too long. Just look for them. Anyway, the immortal cultivators in the Qi training stage are not a threat to him. He only needs to hide here for another seven or eight years, and then leave.