Chapter 387 It's painful
The officials notified by Ji Ruyan have arrived to take up their posts.
The first thing to do was to distribute the land to the people.
In the vast medicinal herb field, Jin Diandian and her son stood straight at the edge of the field, watching the officials measuring the land.
"Mother, if we had known this land would end up belonging to someone else, why did we worry so much in the first place? Why don't we just set it on fire? We can't let those peasants benefit from it!"
Jin Diandian's gaze was deep and devoid of any light.
"You can't burn it. If you ruin the land, the earth god will be angry and punish you."
"Mother, what are you saying? What kind of god are you talking about?"
"It's true."
Jin Diandian recalled her childhood.
She was a pampered young lady when she was a child, with her family owning more than 200 acres of land.
If that incident hadn't happened, she wouldn't have become an orphan and been brought to the Holy Healer Sect by her master.
His father had his eye on someone else's ten acres of land, and just before the autumn harvest, he secretly burned it down in the middle of the night.
That year, the family couldn't pay their taxes, so they planned to sell two acres of land.
When he was selling his land, a Taoist priest came by and said that his ten acres of land were surrounded by a black aura, which contained a heavy resentment.
Where does the resentment come from? After thinking about it, it must be because of a problem with Tian Zhongyang's ancestral graves.
That family's ancestors were driven to their deaths by their son.
So they dug up the grave and moved the coffin.
The Taoist priest also said that the resentment would not dissipate for three years, and during these three years, nothing could be harvested from this land.
That family's land smelled bad, so it wouldn't fetch a good price.
So he decided not to sell it, thinking he would plant a good crop next year and let people see that the Taoist priest was wrong and that his land was good land.
But the taxes were too high, and he couldn't borrow that much.
So we went to her house.
Father readily lent the man ten taels of silver and even drank wine with him.
The following year, when the man came to repay the money, for some reason, my father said that the contract stated that he was to repay one hundred taels.
All she remembered was that the family was going to hang themselves on his door.
Anyway, she didn't die in the end, and those ten acres of land eventually became her family's property, costing only ten taels of silver.
At night, under the oil lamp, Dad counted the earth's grains, unable to stop smiling.
He said that land is the most precious thing in the world. With land, you can grow wheat, beans, and rice, and you will never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of your life.
His father acquired a lot more land and became a well-known wealthy man in the surrounding area.
But that year a locust plague struck, and her family's hundreds of acres of land yielded nothing.
Fortunately, there was still grain stored up, and Dad remarked that as long as they had land, they wouldn't starve.
Those who starved to death were all poor people who had no land.
In the third year, just before the autumn harvest, a major flood occurred, and once again, the harvest was lost.
Her family had no food reserves left.
Many people starved to death.
The refugees poured into their house, led by the family that had wanted to hang themselves there.
Everything in the house was stolen, and my mother was pushed down, fell, and died from a head injury.
Everyone else was fleeing the famine, but my father couldn't bear to leave the land, so he refused to go.
He knelt on the ground and burned paper money, saying that he was wrong and should not have burned the ground, and begged the earth god for forgiveness.
Young Jin Diandian was lying on the ground eating dirt, watching his father kowtow madly.
Before she fainted, all she could hear were those sounds:
"Bad luck begins with burning the ground."
"The land should not have been burned."
"The land is a gold mine."
"We must not offend the Earth God."
"Earth, earth, earth..."
Earth... Earth... Earth...
Land became the only thing Jin Diandian longed for.
After being brought to the Holy Medicine Sect by her master, her favorite thing to do was farming.
You can grow anything, as long as you have land.
"But I won't have any land left in the future."
Jin Diandian stared intently at the fields of medicinal herbs, her eyes glazed over as if she were possessed.
"Mom, I saw Qingyao!" Jin Duoduo exclaimed excitedly.
Then he said something and ran away.
Jin Diandian was so engrossed in her own world that she didn't hear anything.
...
A horse-drawn carriage was parked in the field.
On the bus, two young girls leaned forward, gazing at the endless fields and exclaiming in amazement.
Of course, only one of them made the sound.
The other one was biting her lip, her face flushed, as if she was feeling unwell from the heat.
Even the wind couldn't dispel that piercing heat.
"The Holy Physician Sect is indeed wealthy. I wish our Ming'an County had this much land!"
"Hey, Qingyao, your face is even redder than before. Would you like some more mung bean soup?"
"No, I don't want to drink, I want to..."
"Oh, you miss Mo Lang, hehehehehe..."
Qiaoxiu let out a strange laugh.
He thought the same thing as Qingqing: he kissed her in the middle of the night and wouldn't let go.
He was absent-minded every day, and he didn't go to the embroidery room with his second sister-in-law or play with her. He stayed in the room all day.
She was afraid that if she stayed any longer she would fall ill with lovesickness, so she said she would come to the Holy Physician Sect to find Sister Qingqing!
To my surprise, Qingyao agreed immediately.
It seems she really misses Mo Lang terribly!
Qingyao really didn't want to talk to Qiaoxiu anymore; she felt that she might really be sick.
Can you please stop talking about Mo Lang? She finally managed to get him out of her mind, and now she's bringing him up again!
"I think you should prick me again, I feel really hot."
"No, you can only get it done once a day." Qiaoxiu touched Qingyao's forehead again.
"It's definitely hotter than yesterday. What's going on? I gave you some medicine to reduce your internal heat." Qiaoxiu found it strange.
"Did you get sick from traveling? Besides the heat, is there anything else that's bothering you?"
I feel uncomfortable everywhere!
But Qingyao dared not say it aloud.
That's so embarrassing.
She always wanted to take off her clothes, and she also wanted people to touch her.
She felt unwell all over and wanted to soak in cold water.
At this moment, the accompanying guards came over to report: "They said that the young lady and several county magistrates went south, which is about thirty miles away from here."
Thirty li!
Qingyao was about to cry.
She couldn't hold back any longer.
Her eyes were red.
His hands felt restless, always wanting to touch himself.
Looking at the guards under the carriage, he gradually began to resemble Mo Lang.
Qiaoxiu turned around and was startled by her.
Qingyao's eyes were so big and watery, she looked like a bewitching fairy, and her heart pounded when she looked at her.
"Qiaoxiu, I'm so tired. I want to find a place to rest. I want to sleep."
"Alright, alright, I'll take you to rest first, and I'll send someone to inform Sister Qingqing."
Qiaoxiu quickly sent two guards to inform Lu Qingqing and the others that they had arrived, and especially emphasized that Mo Lang must come back.
"Just say... um, Qingyao cried because she missed him so much!"
After giving her instructions, Qiaoxiu took Qingyao to the grand mansion of the Holy Physician Sect, found her a room at random, and let her rest.
Before leaving, she took her pulse again and found that apart from her heart beating a little fast, there was nothing wrong.
Qingyao hugged the blanket and closed her eyes.
As soon as Qiaoxiu went out, she started to writhe and cry in distress.
Her hands gripped her body, both above and below, but this did nothing to alleviate the indescribable feeling.
What's wrong with her? Does she really want to take off her clothes in this unfamiliar place?
How could she become so shameless?
Why does she always want Mo Lang to hug her?
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