Sword Roaring to the Heavens: Seeking Taoism from Yihua Palace

Chapter 111 Bet
"Jingjing, Uncle Jiang has a question that I'm curious about. Weren't you very well-behaved when you were young, why are you so aggressive now?"

Jiang Yuyan didn't expect him to be so direct.

Zhang Jing was directly embarrassed, and she didn't know how she became like this.

"Haha... I'm just talking casually, don't take it to heart."

"Thank you, Uncle Jiang."

"no need thank me?"

"Thank you for letting our family reunite. My father said, if it wasn't for you, I might never wake up for the rest of my life."

"Ah."

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The next day, a group of them went on the road together, being with young people, and the mentality became younger.

Jiang Chen still sat on the same horse as Jiang Yuyan.

And Xiao Yu'er stopped bickering with Tie Xinlan, and instead quarreled with Zhang Jing, Tie Xinlan felt a little uncomfortable.

Talking and laughing along the way, I can't walk much in a day.

Jiang Yulang is actually quite pitiful for being ignored.

Jiang Yuyan didn't have any feelings for this half-brother, so the two basically didn't talk much.

This group of them is probably the ceiling of appearance in [Peerless Twins].

After a few days, everyone got to know each other well, and felt that Xiao Yu'er was quite attractive to women, Jiang Chen could feel that Zhang Jing, Tie Xinlan and Su Ying all had a crush on him.

The root cause, apart from her good looks, is that Xiao Yu'er is more daring to speak out.

In ancient times, women would be easily tempted as long as they flirted with ordinary-looking men, but if Jiang Yulang had a wretched temperament, even discerning girls would look down on them.

They came to a paddy field and found that there were many locusts attached to the crops in the field. They looked at the people with a sad look, and there was no harvest this year.

The area of ​​this locust plague is not small.

Seeing the helplessness of the local people, they really want to help but don't know how to help them.

But Jiang Chen thought that locusts could be eaten by people, but he just read an article saying that locusts can be eaten, but leeches cannot be eaten during locust plagues, is it true?

In terms of ecotype, locusts are generally divided into two types, one is the gregarious migratory locust, and the other is the scattered locust migratory locust.Normally, what we bully are just scattered locusts.

Foodies can indeed eat locusts, but that is when the locusts are small and not "too much".

If there is a large-scale and serious locust plague, in fact, it is unreliable to rely on humans to eat locusts to solve the disaster.

Because people cannot go against their own biological instinct, and the biological instinct of human beings is "to bully the weak and fear the hard".When the overwhelming locust swarms arrive, the first thing people want to do is always to run away and hide, that's for sure.

Chickens are natural enemies of locusts, right?When there are too many locusts, you throw a chicken into the swarm, and its first reaction is not to eat it, it will run away quickly.

Of course, locusts can be eaten, but that is only when people still feel free to face locust swarms.

When the half-foot-long locusts rushed over the sky and covered the sky, if anyone didn't have an instinctive reaction, no psychological pressure, and could still think about eating, then he would be too awesome.

The locust plague was a natural disaster that the ancients often faced. Swarms of locusts covered the sky and the sun, and no grass really grew anywhere they went.

Generally speaking, the emergence of locust plagues is inseparable from drought, because locusts like water and don’t like drought. Once they encounter drought, they will migrate in groups, looking for low-lying places with water, and they need supplies on the way.” Food and grass", so, there is a saying that "the drought is extreme and the locusts".

The emergence of the locust plague was originally related to the drought. The drought caused a poor harvest. When the locust plague came, tens of thousands of people had to go hungry.In ancient times, locust plagues were more frequent than floods. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, locust plagues occurred every 2.8 years on average.

And Jiang Chen thought of a fun game, that is to hold a game, and then let the local people participate.

The content of the game is to compete who catches the most locusts, and when the time comes to win the first place on the scale, it will be clear who has the most.

But this time, in order to attract local people to participate, he personally took out 5000 taels.

No.1可以拿到2000两，No.2可以拿到1000两，No.3可以拿到800两，No.4500两……

When Jiang Chen shared his thoughts with everyone, they all agreed and found it quite amusing.

Let Xiao Yuer, Hua Wuque and Jiang Yulang handle this matter.

Soon several nearby villages knew that a fool was going to hold a locust catching competition, and the time was set within twelve hours.

As a result, the villagers went crazy, as long as they could walk and think independently, they all participated in catching locusts. In every field, countless people rushed to catch the locusts.

And Jiang Chen asked them to set up a podium, and then waited for them to catch the locusts and come back.

Human potential is really limitless. After [-] hours of arresting, only a few locusts can be seen occasionally flying in the fields.

The villagers came to the podium carrying sacks to receive the award.

Hua Wuque and several people are responsible for weighing the locusts. The process is very fast, and they are basically based on the family, and some are smart and use the family as the unit.

Finally, the results of the competition came out, and the winning representatives came to the stage to accept the awards.

Everyone who won the award is happy, and those who have not won the award can get a tael of silver as long as they participate.

This is really a happy event.

A plague of locusts is under Jiang Chen's idea, as long as he is willing to spend money, there is nothing that cannot be done.

The harvested locusts are first buried in the soil to suffocate, and then dug out to feed chickens or serve as fertilizer for the ground.

And Jiang Chen encouraged everyone to prepare for the drought.

In fact, the common people are not stupid, of course they know that Jiang Chen and the others use this method to help everyone.

They continued their journey the next day, and everyone felt happy, the happiness after helping others.

The weather is fine, the sun is shining, and the scenery is beautiful. Life is just a game, so why care too much about gains and losses.

But many people do not realize this truth until the moment of death.

There was an eagle circling low in the sky ahead.

"Which one of you can catch the horse and the eagle, from now on, my little fish will recognize him as the boss."

"Little fish, are you mistaken? The speed of the eagle is so fast, and the height of the flight is not low. If you don't use arrows and hidden weapons, you can't catch it at all."

"Yeah, you stinky little fish just like to fart for nothing."

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Just when everyone thought it was impossible, Jiang Chen said:

"If I can catch that eagle, Xiao Yu'er, can you marry Zhang Jing?"

"Uncle Jiang, why do you always want me to be with this stinky bastard?"

"Jingjing, Xiao Yu'er is very good. Apart from being mischievous, he has no major shortcomings. If you don't like it, then I will arrange him to be with Su Ying."

"I don't want it."

"Uncle Jiang, I know your martial arts are unfathomable, but it is probably impossible for you to catch that eagle with your bare hands. If you can catch it, I will marry whoever you ask me to marry."

"This is what you said."

"a man of his words!"

Looking at the eagle hovering in the sky, Jiang Chen kicked his feet hard, flew up into the air, and landed lightly on the horse's head, and then performed the peerless lightness kung fu "Treading the Void in the Sky".

Over the years, he has also gained a lot of insights in lightness kung fu and body techniques. Now he is performing "volleying and stepping on the void" like a goshawk soaring into the sky, graceful like a frightened bird, graceful like a swimming dragon, and his body is like a breeze blowing, his body is light!
Looking at Jiang Chen as if he was walking on the wind, his body approached at a certain speed in a flash, and what was even more surprising was that the aura on his body was hidden, as if his body melted into the air.

The circling eagle didn't notice it.

Although his martial arts have reached unimaginable levels, he is still unable to fly in the air for a long time.

But in the eyes of outsiders, he is as magical as a fairy.

Just when the eagle slowed down, he grabbed the eagle's leg and landed on the ground, holding an eagle in his hand.

Letting the eagle go, Jiang Chen walked towards them.

"Uncle Jiang, I have convinced you, and I lost."

"Xiao Yu'er is willing to bet and admit defeat, so does that mean you can marry whoever I tell you to marry?"

"This……"

"Why do you want to go back on your word? Once a gentleman says something, it's hard to chase after a horse. This is not what a man does."

"I don't want to go back on my word. Tell me who you want me to marry."

"How about this, I will give you three choices, the first is Tie Xinlan, the second is Su Ying, and the third is Zhang Jing."

Xiao Yu'er's eyes lit up.

"Uncle Jiang, I will marry whoever you ask me to marry, but they may not be willing to marry me, so that is not my regret."

"Of course."

"Smelly little fish, don't choose me. I don't like you at all for your despicable, shameless and indecent appearance."

"you……"

"You don't want to choose me either, we are not very familiar." Su Ying said.

"Neither do I."

Jiang Yulang looked at Jiang Xiaoyu's joke.

"Uncle Jiang, you've seen it too. They don't like me at all. I can't blame me for that."

"Xiao Yu'er, Uncle Jiang can't even help you get out of the order. It seems that your charm is really not very good."

"I……"

Jiang Chen mounted his horse again and continued on his way.

Originally, he wanted to take this opportunity to let Xiao Yuer marry Tie Xinlan or Zhang Jing.

Now it seems that the time may not come.

Jiang Chen doesn't like forcing others to make things difficult, and getting married is what you want, so how can he mess up the mandarin ducks.

There are little friends Xiao Yuer and Zhang Jing along the way, and the journey is not boring.

After driving for half a day, they took a rest at a river.

The river coils and twists among the mountains, turning a thousand times under the shining of the sun.The scales are shining.

They came to the river to wash their faces with water in their hands.

"Little fish, you are going to die, you put your stinky feet into the water, the whole river is polluted by you."

"Shouldn't you be so exaggerated, you're looking at me everywhere, aren't you?"

"Yeah, how are you doing?"

"I think so!"

Xiao Yuer suddenly splashed water on Zhang Jing, making his clothes wet.

"Smelly little fish, stop for me. If I have to kill you, then you will become a dead fish."

"Come and catch me."

Seeing Xiao Yu'er and Zhang Jing playing around, Jiang Chen felt more and more that they were a match made in heaven.

This guy Jiang Yulang has nothing to say to Su Ying. I have to say that this guy is really thick-skinned. If he can put away his wretched temperament, many girls will probably be coaxed by him.

This guy is as good at pretending to be a grandson as Jiang Biehe.

Hua Wuque and Tie Xinlan were also sitting together talking.

And Jiang Chen and Jiang Yuyan sat together.

This pair feels like it was arranged by God.

"They are a good match." Jiang Yuyan said with a smile.

"Then you feel that we are not suitable for each other."

"We! It's not a good match, I'm not good enough for you."

"Don't have this kind of thinking. Good or bad birth doesn't mean who is noble and who is humble. I am also an orphan in this world. I have suffered a lot of humiliation. People and people have noble personalities."

"Sometimes I'm afraid of losing you, so I always worry about gains and losses."

"There is no one in this world who can't live without someone. Without someone, this world still exists. I won't leave you, because there is no one of my qualities that is always messed up and abandoned."

"Jiang Lang..."

In fact, Jiang Chen never liked Jiang Yuyan from the beginning to the end, if that kind of thing hadn't happened, maybe their intersection would not be too much.

So this fate is impermanent, even if his martial arts are already unpredictable, he still cannot control his own destiny.

The little fish is holding a branch and is inserting the fish.

"Little Yu'er, I'll help you." Hua Wuque shouted.

"Hey, Jiang Yulang, why don't you come and catch fish together? Didn't you see that the girls are bothering you?"

Jiang Yulang looked at Jiang Xiaoyu angrily, he had no choice but to catch fish together as everyone was watching.

When the fish is caught, the girls are responsible for killing and grilling the fish.

Boys just sit and wait to eat, which means that men and women can work together without getting tired.

After the fish was grilled, Jiang Yuyan came over with the fish, as if a child had passed a test and was eager to be praised by his parents.

"You eat too, don't patronize me."

"As long as I see you happy, I will be happy too."

"Silly girl."

In the relationship between men and women, whoever loves the other more, then he will pay more in this relationship.

Once upon a time, in a short period of time, we thought we were deeply in love with someone.

Later, we learned that it was not love, it was just lying to ourselves.The person you thought you couldn't lose, turns out not to be lost.

When you dry up your tears, there is another person to make you laugh.You are heartbroken, and then you find that people who don't love you are not worth your heartache at all.Looking back today, isn't it a comedy?When the love is exhausted, there will be another new realm, and all the sorrows are just history.Feel the same.

Seeing Jiang Yuyan being cautious in this relationship, worrying about gains and losses, he knew that he had to give her more promises and practical actions.

"Yuyan, I know you are afraid of losing me, I, Jiang Chen, swear to the heavens that unless you do something crazy, I will never leave you forever."

"Jiang Lang!"

Jiang Yuyan leaned against him with a moved face. She touched him with a delicate mind and could sense her emotions and worries.

He is a reliable man.

Mother, have you seen this, this is the man I like and love deeply, you can rest assured, I am very happy now.

It will be dark in another hour, and it is estimated that there will be no inn to settle down, so Jiang Chen suggested to stay here for the night.

The wind is relatively strong at night along the river, and the temperature is also low.

Jiang Yuyan's martial arts is relatively low, so her cold resistance is relatively poor.

She could only sleep as close to the fire as possible.

Hua Wuque was talking about the fun things he had with Jiang Chen when he was young.

They didn't expect Jiang Chen to invent so many fun things.

Xiao Yu'er talked about how several masters trained him in the Valley of the Wicked. It was a miserable childhood.

(End of this chapter)