Upon hearing this, Yun Zhourong and Ji Minxiu's hearts tightened.
No way, Liu Pingkang has seen Ji Minxiu's true face?
Seeing Yun Zhourong looking over, Ji Minxiu immediately shook his head. He had never revealed this to Liu Pingkang.
"Yes, there are quite a few portraits of the Snow Fairy that have survived to this day. I guess you've seen something similar elsewhere."
Fortunately, the village chief spoke up at that moment.
"Perhaps."
Liu Pingkang sensed something was wrong, but couldn't quite put his finger on it, so he stopped worrying about it. "So what should we do next?"
"The Snow Demon said that the offerings can be postponed for now, and the payment can be made after everyone has received their food."
After Yun Zhourong finished speaking, she said to the villagers, "But the Snow Demon also said that those who receive the food must follow the arrangements, and if anyone causes trouble, the food will be taken away again."
The villagers, who were about to rush forward for fear of falling behind and missing out on the grain, all stopped in their tracks upon hearing this.
After seeing the snow demon's statue, they were convinced of the snow demon's existence.
After all, no one but the Snow Demon could have stored so much grain in a warehouse overnight without attracting attention.
Therefore, the villagers are very wary of this, and no one dares to disobey them easily.
Afterwards, Yun Zhourong and the others first put Ji Minxiu's stone statue back to the innermost part of the warehouse to prevent it from being accidentally bumped.
Then, the villagers were made to line up and the grain was distributed from house to house.
From the beginning, Yun Zhourong and his team had made arrangements based on the number of people.
Regardless of the size of the family, each person receives one pound of grain per day.
In the Dasheng Kingdom, grain is usually obtained by the measure of dou or sheng. Although the villagers found it strange that it was being measured by jin, no one dared to say anything.
In the end, everyone was given thirty catties of grain, enough to last for a month.
The villagers first took their own grain home, and after eating and regaining their strength, they began to build a temple for Ji Minxiu's stone statue.
Originally, Yun Zhourong had envisioned something similar to a small earth temple.
Unexpectedly, the villagers all said that since they were idle anyway, all the able-bodied men simply mobilized and built a village temple of forty square meters using blue bricks.
The ceiling and windows were even decorated with carvings, making them very beautiful.
Because of the large number of people, the whole process only took about half a month, which is incredibly efficient.
After the village temple was completed, the villagers attached great importance to it and chose an auspicious day to move Ji Minxiu's stone statue inside.
After that, the whole village gathered together to offer incense and prayers to Ji Minxiu.
Fortunately, Yun Zhourong and Ji Minxiu were not from this village, so the village chief did not require them to make offerings as well.
Otherwise, if he had to support himself, Ji Minxiu would probably feel extremely awkward.
However, watching from the sidelines, Yun Zhourong couldn't help but tease, "Lord Snow Demon, how does it feel to see others offering you sacrifices?"
Ji Minxiu saw the cunning in her eyes and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a red light emanating from the safety buckle.
So he quickly placed the safety amulet in front of Yun Zhourong, saying with a hint of excitement, "Look, it's done!"
Yun Zhourong quickly went over and saw that red threads were appearing on the safety buckle at a visible speed, circle after circle, increasing rapidly.
Yun Zhourong exclaimed excitedly, "My goodness, the increase is so fast! So many circles, so much faith power! It will be so convenient for you to come over from now on!"
Ji Minxiu was also pleased, but he nodded calmly, "Hmm, let's see how much we can collect."
"However, is there a limit to the number of times you can come here on your own initiative?" Yun Zhourong asked after thinking for a moment.
"I'm not sure, but you should use it less often in the future, only summoning it when it's absolutely necessary. Otherwise, I'll come to you on my own when I'm ready," Ji Minxiu said.
"Okay." Yun Zhourong nodded in agreement; this was a good thing for her.
Afterwards, in order to verify the effect of the power of faith, Yunzhou Ronghe, the village chief, said that the villagers should go to burn incense every day.
By the next day, the amount of faith power collected had decreased significantly.
"What's going on?" Yun Zhourong asked, puzzled.
"Look at those villagers." Ji Minxiu raised his chin.
Yun Zhourong then began to observe carefully.
Then, it became apparent that many villagers were clearly distracted.
She immediately retorted, "Does this offering require genuine sincerity?"
Ji Minxiu nodded, "That should be it, so the villagers no longer need to come to offer incense in groups, following the principle of voluntariness."
"What if nobody wants to come?" Yun Zhourong said worriedly. "Wouldn't you soon be unable to travel through time on your own?"
Ji Minxiu patted her head and said, "Have you forgotten our plan?"
Yun Zhourong was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up. "I understand. You plan to have those who have benefited from the grain come and offer sacrifices along the way."
Ji Minxiu nodded, "They give their faith, and I provide food. I think it's fair."
"Fair, fair, perfectly fair!"
Yun Zhourong nodded excitedly, deep admiration in her eyes, "As expected, it has to be Lady Snow Demon, she's so clever!"
"You're not stupid, you just haven't encountered many situations yet. As you get more experience, you'll know how to handle them."
Ji Minxiu lowered his eyes and said seriously, "You are one of the few smart girls I have ever met. You understand things very quickly."
"Hehe, if you keep praising me, I'm going to lose my bearings." Yun Zhourong covered her face, unable to suppress the smile on her lips.
Even though Yun Zhourong looked like a dark-skinned clown girl at this moment, Ji Minxiu couldn't help but find her cute, and he couldn't explain why.
After figuring out the matter of the power of faith, the two stopped paying attention to it and let it take its natural course.
With food in hand, the villagers all settled down and obediently waited for the day the lockdown would be lifted.
Meanwhile, Yun Zhourong's daily routine had settled into a routine. Besides taking care of patients, she practiced acupuncture with Physician Feng.
Ji Minxiu now has the ability to travel freely, and he spends most of his time at his villa in China handling company affairs. He only goes to feed Yun Zhourong meals at mealtimes.
Ji Minxiu was used to eating with Yun Zhourong. Sometimes when she wasn't around, he felt he didn't have much of an appetite.
That day, Ji Minxiu had just finished instructing his assistant Lin to bring over the food when he suddenly heard him ask, "Boss, are you still in contact with that girl from before?"
"What's wrong?" Ji Minxiu asked calmly.
"That's right, your account became popular, didn't it? Many people want to collaborate with you to do live-streaming e-commerce, so they sent over a lot of snacks for trial."
Assistant Lin explained, "I also took quite a few of these and kept them at the company, thinking the young lady would like them. Some of them are quite nice. Would you like to send her some?"
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