My pig Bajie is super fierce
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Taking a deep breath, Li Ye uttered a word: "Yes!"
all of a sudden.
A piece of mysterious sacrificial text was uploaded to Li Ye's heart from the Devil Dao Fruit.
Exactly the same as in the game.
Raising demons requires the sacrifice of demon rituals, as well as some special sacrifices.
"One bowl of Sanshen water, two taels of cock crowing blood, and three sticks of tall sandalwood. If you sacrifice at midnight, you can complete the devil ritual, enchant Zhiqiang, and become the devil Zhu Bajie."
Li Ye pondered.
Glancing at Zhiqiang who was still comatose, Li Ye added two buckets of pig food, locked the door of the pigsty, got up and hurriedly prepared sacrificial supplies.
Pass the pig yard.
It's too early.
Huang An and several old swineherds are training new recruits.
The experience of raising pigs is only a few words, and more is to instill the idea of "loyalty to the Su family".
"Life is the slave of the Su family, death is the soul of the Su family, life and death do not betray."
"I'm a brick in the Su family, and I can be moved wherever it is needed."
"I am a nail in the Su family, where I need a nail."
Huang An raised his fist and shouted.
In the yard, a group of pigherders responded loudly, creating a lively atmosphere.
Satisfied, Li Ye nodded slightly.
As the head pigherd of No. [-] Jiazi Yard of the Su Family Pig Yard, Li Ye has always had both thoughts and business.
Never slack off.
Be on high alert for spies and enemy spies at all times.
Because although the Su family is strong, it is not without enemies.
Li Ye, Huang An, and the swineherds under him are just mortals with ordinary blood, without the blood of demon slayers.
In this dangerous world where life is like grass and grass, body is like duckweed.
All she can rely on is the big tree of the Su family.
Just as he hated going to work in the company in his previous life, but hoped that the company would not go bankrupt, Li Ye naturally hoped that the Su family would become stronger and stronger.
Don't be wiped out by the enemy.
"Dangdang"
The loud bell rang, and it was time for lunch.
The newly hired pigherders cheered and rushed to the cafeteria. Huang An and several old pigherders also walked briskly and had smiles on their faces.
Although everyone sold themselves as slaves and became swineherds, it was an iron rice bowl that many people would not envy.
Worked as a slave in the Su family, with food and shelter, and monthly money.
This is even more rare in Taiping Town after the catastrophe.
Li Ye did not go to the canteen. After changing into a coarse linen shirt, he quietly left the Su Mansion through the back door.
It was June.
The weather is not very hot.
The sun is fading away, and the blood moon is approaching. Looking up, the sun appears small and far away in the blue sky, and the light is not so dazzling.
Li Ye raised his head and stared at the sun for a long time before his eyes felt slightly sore.
The sun's rays were weak again.
"Maybe one day, the sun will disappear completely. By then, long-term darkness will cover the entire land. Is there still a way for this world to survive?"
Li Ye didn't know.
The most important thing now is to enchant Zhiqiang.
Raise it into the devil pig Bajie.
Zhu Bajie also has a name called Zhu Gangguan.
That's not a good thing.
On the contrary, he is a very fierce and fierce guy.
After figuring out the direction, Li Ye went to East Street to buy things needed for the devil's sacrifice.
Under the governance of the Qumo Su family, Taiping Town has been expanded several times, with continuous buildings and buildings, and a permanent population of more than [-]. Today, after the catastrophe, it looks like an ancient city.
On the streets extending in all directions, the market is bustling and full of people.
It looks like a prosperous and peaceful time.
however.
Most of the people coming and going are disheveled and thin.
There are obviously more homeless people and beggars in the street corners and alleys, in groups.
Some old people in ragged clothes were lying in a bridge hole full of garbage. They had been dead for an unknown period of time. Flies and maggots were squirming, and the smell of corpses was pungent.
Several government officials were carrying the corpse and cursing.
There was a long queue at the entrance of the grain store, but the owner hung up a sign saying "Sold out today" and there was a lot of pushing and cursing.
The foyer of the tea house restaurant was wide open, and it was obviously meal time, but there were very few diners. On the menu hanging at the door, a plate of cucumbers cost one tael of silver, and a bowl of rice was three taels of silver.
Prices have soared and food is in short supply.
In Taiping Town, chaos emerged.
Li Ye watched with cold eyes, the world was in chaos and he was unable to change anything.
"Liu Ji Fragrant Paper Shop"
When Li Ye came, he was surprised to find that the place was full of people and business was booming.
Boss Liu, who is wearing a green mandarin jacket, is selling paper figures and horses to several customers.
Seeing that another order was made, Boss Liu said his condolences, and sent the customer away with a sad face, but when he turned around, he was already smiling with joy, clattering with his abacus in his mouth, thinking about today After earning a lot of silver taels, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone sitting on the chair in the corner, and couldn't help but smile.
"Master Li?."
"Yo Yo Yo, a distinguished guest is coming, look at my eyes, I really deserve a fight, a fight!"
Boss Liu nodded and bowed to greet him, lightly slapping his face with his palm, looking like he was apologizing, but looking at Li Ye with bright eyes like a fat sheep.
A few months ago, Li Ye bought Lao Wang's funeral paper goods at his place, including a lot of paper people, paper horses, and wives.
There was even a specially made paper pig.
He actually made a lot of money.
Seeing Li Ye come to the door again now, I couldn't help but secretly guess whether someone had died in Li Ye's family again.
Li Ye was one of the shepherds of the Su family's pig farm. He had money, bought a big house, and married many beauties. Could it be that the beauties in the family died?
Li Ye coughed lightly and took out a list.
"Five of each."
Boss Liu glanced at it, wondering what Li Ye wanted, and said with a look of embarrassment: "I'm missing everything now, these"
"money is not a problem!"
Boss Liu immediately said with joy: "Wait a moment, Mr. Li, the store has basically everything you want. It's just that the rooster's blood can't be picked up until tomorrow."
Seeing Li Ye frowning, he hastily explained that crowing blood is special, and it needs to be killed at the moment when the rooster crows at Yinshi to obtain the real crowing blood.
"There may be chicken blood sold outside, but they are all fooling people, and some are hen blood." Boss Liu said with a sincere look.
Li Ye nodded and said, "Okay, I'll pick up the cock crowing blood tomorrow, and prepare the other things first, and I'll take them away today."
While the two were talking, several groups of customers came to the door, buying paper money for incense and candles, or urging customized paper goods. When the guests left, Li Ye asked curiously:
"Are there many deaths recently?"
Boss Liu looked out of the store for a while, then leaned closer and said in a low voice: "There are not only many, it's a piece of death."
"Do you know Sanli Lane? Everyone there died last night. They died in a strange way. They all had maggots on their bodies. It seemed like they had been dead for ten days and a half months, but they were still alive yesterday afternoon."
"There is also Zhao Xiucai's family. All eight members of the family are gone. The body was sewn into a big windmill and hung on the gate, scaring everyone to death. By the way, Zhao Xiucai still owes me ten taels of silver. He doesn't deserve to die. !"
"Widow He's house, that bitch rejected me many times, even let the dog bite me, something happened last night too, it's a pity that she has a good figure."
Boss Liu was talking endlessly, snapping his fingers, and estimated that there were at least a hundred people who had misfortunes last night, but all of them died in a miserable and strange way, which made people frightened.
Li Ye was terrified when he heard that.
He has been busy with matters in the pig yard these past few days and has not gone out. He did not expect so many things to happen outside.
Boss Liu said: "The people in the yamen said it was enemies taking revenge and fighting in the rivers and lakes, but everyone said it was things from outside the city that came in."
Speaking of this, Boss Liu's face was also frightened, and he turned to ask Li Ye about the situation of the Su family.
Taiping Town is the territory of the Su family. Li Ye works in the Su family and may know some inside stories that outsiders don't know.
However, Li Ye shook his head, expressing that he didn't know anything.
Even if he knew, he wouldn't talk nonsense.
Boss Liu is nicknamed Liu Dazui, and he can't hide his words.
After paying the money, Li Ye hurried to Taoli Lane with the demon sacrificial items prepared by Boss Liu.
He wants to go home and have a look.
The house he bought is on Taoli Lane.
There are eighteen beauties in the house, barely considered a family.
Taoli Lane and Sanli Lane are only separated by one street. When Li Ye passed by, he found that Sanli Lane was under martial law.
Many officials in black flying fish uniforms were busy.
But Li Ye knew that they were not ordinary official posts.
But it is the Feiyu Guards who belong to the Demon Slayer Department.
Once loyal to the Wei Dynasty, now that the dynasty is corrupt and local governments are divided, the Demon Slayer Division has become a sharp weapon for the Demon Slayer Su family.
The flying fish guards are all tall and tall, with sharp eyes, and iron swords slung around their waists.
"My lord, I'm sure, most likely something from outside the city sneaked in."
"Report it to the Su family!"
"All bodies are incinerated."
Feiyuwei commented with a solemn look on his face.
They carried out one after another corpses from the houses in Sanlixiang, piled them on the pyre, and cremated them on the spot. The smoke billowed, and the pungent smell made people around them cough.
Feiyuwei remained motionless, holding the handle of the knife, watching the fire vigilantly, until the corpses were completely burnt to ashes, they were relieved, called it a day and left.
"Eh? Mr. Li!"
He Chao, the captain of Flying Fish Guard, passed by the crowd, saw Li Ye, stopped and smiled and said hello.
"Captain He!"
Li Ye walked over.
He Chao liked to eat pig whips, and Li Ye fell in love with him. When he was taking a concubine, he gave a hundred pig whips as a congratulatory gift, and the relationship between the two became close, and they kept in touch with each other on a daily basis.
"I heard that something happened, I'll go home and have a look!" Li Ye said, and asked about Sanlixiang again.
He Chaosheng was rough, dark-skinned, and as burly as a Northwest man. Hearing this, he hesitated and said: "This matter is confidential, you'd better not know it."
His eye sockets were darkened, his face was faintly blue, his condition was not very good, and he was in a trance when he spoke.
Li Ye nodded to express his understanding, changed the subject and told him to drink together another day, and told him to pay more attention to rest, don't marry a beautiful concubine and get exhausted.
He Chao laughed and said that he would marry another one in a few days.
The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and before He Chao left, Li Ye reached out and took out a pig whip from his arms, and quickly stuffed it into He Chao's sleeve.
Affected by the blood moon, black-haired pigs are not nearly the same as pigs on Earth. Castration not only removes eggs, but also removes whips.
Otherwise, it will regenerate, which is weird.
He Chao squeezed two handfuls and found that the whip was huge and of high quality. His eyes lit up and he glanced at Taoli Lane, which was only one street away from Sanli Lane.
That's where Li Ye's house is.
He whispered: "Don't go home at night, don't go out after dark."
After all, without waiting for Li Ye to ask carefully, he has already left in a hurry.
Li Ye looked at He Chao's back and smacked the hint of this sentence.
He looked at the dead and silent Sanli Alley again, it was empty and there was no one there.
The wind blew through the alley and the windows rattled.
The lanterns under the eaves swayed from side to side, and a white puppet was rolled around by the wind on the ground. I don’t know whose child’s toy it was.
The doll's face was stained with blood, and it looked hideous and terrifying. It looked at Li Ye with a half-smile, and let out a strange laugh:
"Little brother, come and play, blah blah"
Li Ye felt dazzled.
Rub your eyes and look again.
But he found that the streets were deserted. There were no puppets anywhere. There was only a wild dog that sprang out from Sanli Alley. However, he was excitedly blocked in the corner by a few skinny homeless people, skinned it, and soon turned into a Roast dog meat on the fire rack.
Then look back to the side.
The surrounding crowd had dispersed long ago, and only I was standing outside Sanli Lane.
Dead silence, cold.
Eerie, suffocating.
The invisible Yin Qi was surging, and the surrounding fields became dim, as if the sunlight had been swallowed up.
Li Ye shuddered suddenly and hurried away.
On the empty streets of Sanli Lane, there was no one there, but the laughter of "嘤嘤嘤" echoed vaguely, which was very strange and made the scalp tingle.
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Taking a deep breath, Li Ye uttered a word: "Yes!"
all of a sudden.
A piece of mysterious sacrificial text was uploaded to Li Ye's heart from the Devil Dao Fruit.
Exactly the same as in the game.
Raising demons requires the sacrifice of demon rituals, as well as some special sacrifices.
"One bowl of Sanshen water, two taels of cock crowing blood, and three sticks of tall sandalwood. If you sacrifice at midnight, you can complete the devil ritual, enchant Zhiqiang, and become the devil Zhu Bajie."
Li Ye pondered.
Glancing at Zhiqiang who was still comatose, Li Ye added two buckets of pig food, locked the door of the pigsty, got up and hurriedly prepared sacrificial supplies.
Pass the pig yard.
It's too early.
Huang An and several old swineherds are training new recruits.
The experience of raising pigs is only a few words, and more is to instill the idea of "loyalty to the Su family".
"Life is the slave of the Su family, death is the soul of the Su family, life and death do not betray."
"I'm a brick in the Su family, and I can be moved wherever it is needed."
"I am a nail in the Su family, where I need a nail."
Huang An raised his fist and shouted.
In the yard, a group of pigherders responded loudly, creating a lively atmosphere.
Satisfied, Li Ye nodded slightly.
As the head pigherd of No. [-] Jiazi Yard of the Su Family Pig Yard, Li Ye has always had both thoughts and business.
Never slack off.
Be on high alert for spies and enemy spies at all times.
Because although the Su family is strong, it is not without enemies.
Li Ye, Huang An, and the swineherds under him are just mortals with ordinary blood, without the blood of demon slayers.
In this dangerous world where life is like grass and grass, body is like duckweed.
All she can rely on is the big tree of the Su family.
Just as he hated going to work in the company in his previous life, but hoped that the company would not go bankrupt, Li Ye naturally hoped that the Su family would become stronger and stronger.
Don't be wiped out by the enemy.
"Dangdang"
The loud bell rang, and it was time for lunch.
The newly hired pigherders cheered and rushed to the cafeteria. Huang An and several old pigherders also walked briskly and had smiles on their faces.
Although everyone sold themselves as slaves and became swineherds, it was an iron rice bowl that many people would not envy.
Worked as a slave in the Su family, with food and shelter, and monthly money.
This is even more rare in Taiping Town after the catastrophe.
Li Ye did not go to the canteen. After changing into a coarse linen shirt, he quietly left the Su Mansion through the back door.
It was June.
The weather is not very hot.
The sun is fading away, and the blood moon is approaching. Looking up, the sun appears small and far away in the blue sky, and the light is not so dazzling.
Li Ye raised his head and stared at the sun for a long time before his eyes felt slightly sore.
The sun's rays were weak again.
"Maybe one day, the sun will disappear completely. By then, long-term darkness will cover the entire land. Is there still a way for this world to survive?"
Li Ye didn't know.
The most important thing now is to enchant Zhiqiang.
Raise it into the devil pig Bajie.
Zhu Bajie also has a name called Zhu Gangguan.
That's not a good thing.
On the contrary, he is a very fierce and fierce guy.
After figuring out the direction, Li Ye went to East Street to buy things needed for the devil's sacrifice.
Under the governance of the Qumo Su family, Taiping Town has been expanded several times, with continuous buildings and buildings, and a permanent population of more than [-]. Today, after the catastrophe, it looks like an ancient city.
On the streets extending in all directions, the market is bustling and full of people.
It looks like a prosperous and peaceful time.
however.
Most of the people coming and going are disheveled and thin.
There are obviously more homeless people and beggars in the street corners and alleys, in groups.
Some old people in ragged clothes were lying in a bridge hole full of garbage. They had been dead for an unknown period of time. Flies and maggots were squirming, and the smell of corpses was pungent.
Several government officials were carrying the corpse and cursing.
There was a long queue at the entrance of the grain store, but the owner hung up a sign saying "Sold out today" and there was a lot of pushing and cursing.
The foyer of the tea house restaurant was wide open, and it was obviously meal time, but there were very few diners. On the menu hanging at the door, a plate of cucumbers cost one tael of silver, and a bowl of rice was three taels of silver.
Prices have soared and food is in short supply.
In Taiping Town, chaos emerged.
Li Ye watched with cold eyes, the world was in chaos and he was unable to change anything.
"Liu Ji Fragrant Paper Shop"
When Li Ye came, he was surprised to find that the place was full of people and business was booming.
Boss Liu, who is wearing a green mandarin jacket, is selling paper figures and horses to several customers.
Seeing that another order was made, Boss Liu said his condolences, and sent the customer away with a sad face, but when he turned around, he was already smiling with joy, clattering with his abacus in his mouth, thinking about today After earning a lot of silver taels, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone sitting on the chair in the corner, and couldn't help but smile.
"Master Li?."
"Yo Yo Yo, a distinguished guest is coming, look at my eyes, I really deserve a fight, a fight!"
Boss Liu nodded and bowed to greet him, lightly slapping his face with his palm, looking like he was apologizing, but looking at Li Ye with bright eyes like a fat sheep.
A few months ago, Li Ye bought Lao Wang's funeral paper goods at his place, including a lot of paper people, paper horses, and wives.
There was even a specially made paper pig.
He actually made a lot of money.
Seeing Li Ye come to the door again now, I couldn't help but secretly guess whether someone had died in Li Ye's family again.
Li Ye was one of the shepherds of the Su family's pig farm. He had money, bought a big house, and married many beauties. Could it be that the beauties in the family died?
Li Ye coughed lightly and took out a list.
"Five of each."
Boss Liu glanced at it, wondering what Li Ye wanted, and said with a look of embarrassment: "I'm missing everything now, these"
"money is not a problem!"
Boss Liu immediately said with joy: "Wait a moment, Mr. Li, the store has basically everything you want. It's just that the rooster's blood can't be picked up until tomorrow."
Seeing Li Ye frowning, he hastily explained that crowing blood is special, and it needs to be killed at the moment when the rooster crows at Yinshi to obtain the real crowing blood.
"There may be chicken blood sold outside, but they are all fooling people, and some are hen blood." Boss Liu said with a sincere look.
Li Ye nodded and said, "Okay, I'll pick up the cock crowing blood tomorrow, and prepare the other things first, and I'll take them away today."
While the two were talking, several groups of customers came to the door, buying paper money for incense and candles, or urging customized paper goods. When the guests left, Li Ye asked curiously:
"Are there many deaths recently?"
Boss Liu looked out of the store for a while, then leaned closer and said in a low voice: "There are not only many, it's a piece of death."
"Do you know Sanli Lane? Everyone there died last night. They died in a strange way. They all had maggots on their bodies. It seemed like they had been dead for ten days and a half months, but they were still alive yesterday afternoon."
"There is also Zhao Xiucai's family. All eight members of the family are gone. The body was sewn into a big windmill and hung on the gate, scaring everyone to death. By the way, Zhao Xiucai still owes me ten taels of silver. He doesn't deserve to die. !"
"Widow He's house, that bitch rejected me many times, even let the dog bite me, something happened last night too, it's a pity that she has a good figure."
Boss Liu was talking endlessly, snapping his fingers, and estimated that there were at least a hundred people who had misfortunes last night, but all of them died in a miserable and strange way, which made people frightened.
Li Ye was terrified when he heard that.
He has been busy with matters in the pig yard these past few days and has not gone out. He did not expect so many things to happen outside.
Boss Liu said: "The people in the yamen said it was enemies taking revenge and fighting in the rivers and lakes, but everyone said it was things from outside the city that came in."
Speaking of this, Boss Liu's face was also frightened, and he turned to ask Li Ye about the situation of the Su family.
Taiping Town is the territory of the Su family. Li Ye works in the Su family and may know some inside stories that outsiders don't know.
However, Li Ye shook his head, expressing that he didn't know anything.
Even if he knew, he wouldn't talk nonsense.
Boss Liu is nicknamed Liu Dazui, and he can't hide his words.
After paying the money, Li Ye hurried to Taoli Lane with the demon sacrificial items prepared by Boss Liu.
He wants to go home and have a look.
The house he bought is on Taoli Lane.
There are eighteen beauties in the house, barely considered a family.
Taoli Lane and Sanli Lane are only separated by one street. When Li Ye passed by, he found that Sanli Lane was under martial law.
Many officials in black flying fish uniforms were busy.
But Li Ye knew that they were not ordinary official posts.
But it is the Feiyu Guards who belong to the Demon Slayer Department.
Once loyal to the Wei Dynasty, now that the dynasty is corrupt and local governments are divided, the Demon Slayer Division has become a sharp weapon for the Demon Slayer Su family.
The flying fish guards are all tall and tall, with sharp eyes, and iron swords slung around their waists.
"My lord, I'm sure, most likely something from outside the city sneaked in."
"Report it to the Su family!"
"All bodies are incinerated."
Feiyuwei commented with a solemn look on his face.
They carried out one after another corpses from the houses in Sanlixiang, piled them on the pyre, and cremated them on the spot. The smoke billowed, and the pungent smell made people around them cough.
Feiyuwei remained motionless, holding the handle of the knife, watching the fire vigilantly, until the corpses were completely burnt to ashes, they were relieved, called it a day and left.
"Eh? Mr. Li!"
He Chao, the captain of Flying Fish Guard, passed by the crowd, saw Li Ye, stopped and smiled and said hello.
"Captain He!"
Li Ye walked over.
He Chao liked to eat pig whips, and Li Ye fell in love with him. When he was taking a concubine, he gave a hundred pig whips as a congratulatory gift, and the relationship between the two became close, and they kept in touch with each other on a daily basis.
"I heard that something happened, I'll go home and have a look!" Li Ye said, and asked about Sanlixiang again.
He Chaosheng was rough, dark-skinned, and as burly as a Northwest man. Hearing this, he hesitated and said: "This matter is confidential, you'd better not know it."
His eye sockets were darkened, his face was faintly blue, his condition was not very good, and he was in a trance when he spoke.
Li Ye nodded to express his understanding, changed the subject and told him to drink together another day, and told him to pay more attention to rest, don't marry a beautiful concubine and get exhausted.
He Chao laughed and said that he would marry another one in a few days.
The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and before He Chao left, Li Ye reached out and took out a pig whip from his arms, and quickly stuffed it into He Chao's sleeve.
Affected by the blood moon, black-haired pigs are not nearly the same as pigs on Earth. Castration not only removes eggs, but also removes whips.
Otherwise, it will regenerate, which is weird.
He Chao squeezed two handfuls and found that the whip was huge and of high quality. His eyes lit up and he glanced at Taoli Lane, which was only one street away from Sanli Lane.
That's where Li Ye's house is.
He whispered: "Don't go home at night, don't go out after dark."
After all, without waiting for Li Ye to ask carefully, he has already left in a hurry.
Li Ye looked at He Chao's back and smacked the hint of this sentence.
He looked at the dead and silent Sanli Alley again, it was empty and there was no one there.
The wind blew through the alley and the windows rattled.
The lanterns under the eaves swayed from side to side, and a white puppet was rolled around by the wind on the ground. I don’t know whose child’s toy it was.
The doll's face was stained with blood, and it looked hideous and terrifying. It looked at Li Ye with a half-smile, and let out a strange laugh:
"Little brother, come and play, blah blah"
Li Ye felt dazzled.
Rub your eyes and look again.
But he found that the streets were deserted. There were no puppets anywhere. There was only a wild dog that sprang out from Sanli Alley. However, he was excitedly blocked in the corner by a few skinny homeless people, skinned it, and soon turned into a Roast dog meat on the fire rack.
Then look back to the side.
The surrounding crowd had dispersed long ago, and only I was standing outside Sanli Lane.
Dead silence, cold.
Eerie, suffocating.
The invisible Yin Qi was surging, and the surrounding fields became dim, as if the sunlight had been swallowed up.
Li Ye shuddered suddenly and hurried away.
On the empty streets of Sanli Lane, there was no one there, but the laughter of "嘤嘤嘤" echoed vaguely, which was very strange and made the scalp tingle.
If you like it, please save it and vote.
(End of this chapter)
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