Why do we say that ordinary heroic spirits are arbitrary for eternity?

Chapter 57 The great sage and mentor returns to Nanyang

Forced by life, no one left. Everyone followed the rope and slowly descended to the sinkhole.

The rope is divided into two parts, one is held in the hand, and the other is tied to the body. There is someone pulling on it, so even if the hand slips, there will be no accidents.

An hour later, everyone successfully landed under the sinkhole, and other supplies were slowly delivered.

Firewood, grain, shovels, poles, willow baskets, bedding, pots and pans, etc.

Everyone will have to live here for a long time to come.

Huang Zhong looked around. This was a natural pit with walls made of layers of rocks, layer upon layer.

There are some huge rocks in the corner that collapsed at some point.

Further away, it was pitch black, but you could hear the sound of water flowing through it. It must be an underground river.

Huang Zhong looked up and saw thin light leaking from above.

His eyesight was so good that he could even see the person collecting the rope at the entrance of the cave.

Although the area under the pothole is not small, it makes people feel extremely depressed and inexplicably suffocated.

Once the Taiping Road people left, they could only boil salt water down there and couldn't run away even if they wanted to.

The thick layer of soil not far away is nitrate soil.

In the past few days, all the boilers have undergone professional training, including him.

As a believer of Taiping Dao, he naturally became the captain of this pothole.

Huang Zhong glanced at the uneasy crowd and spoke calmly.

"Thank you for your hard work. Let's take a rest first. We'll light a fire later, get something to eat, and eat and drink before we start working again."

"Okay." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It was the first time they came to this strange environment, and everyone was quite nervous.

As the captain, Huang Zhong was tall and strong, yet so calm and steady, which made everyone feel at ease.

After a while, after eating, everyone immediately started working.

To boil saltpeter, you first need to dig a pit, which needs to be very big.

After the hole is dug, tools must be used to tamp down the walls and bottom of the hole.

Everyone was divided into several teams and dug seven or eight large holes, grunting from exhaustion.

A series of preparation work can be said to be extremely complicated, but it is indispensable.

As the team leader, Huang Zhong walked aside, picked up a piece of soil, put it in his mouth and tasted it, smashing it to taste.

"The taste is spicy, okay, brothers, the saltpeter here is the best!"

There are four flavors of saltpeter, sweet, sour, bitter and spicy. The spicy one is the best, followed by bitterness, then sweet and sour.

The quality of the saltpeter in this pothole is good enough, which means that as long as they work hard, they can receive extra rewards!
  Everyone was instantly motivated!

...

The legend of Bo Ni Lao begins from this moment.

A few years later, some people who like cave exploration finally conquered a dangerous situation after untold hardships. They were feeling very proud and were wondering if they were the first to reach this place. Suddenly they saw large and small caves not far away. There was a saltpeter pit, and he started to curse loudly at that time.

“Why is there a salt-making man here too!”

Thousands of years later, whether it is a cave or a deep pit, there will be saltpeter pits, ranging from a few to hundreds.

An extremely mysterious organization, Bo Ni Lao, spread like this.

Its origin can be traced back to a legendary person in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Taiping Taoist Lu Yu!

It was he who developed the best ratio of gunpowder, who created a new era, and who made the job of making saltpeter in the cave a hot profession.

Of course, that's for later.

At this moment, as the source of the legend, Lu Yu finally got the villa promised by the governor and the [-] acres of land.

The location here is not bad. It is said to be a villa, but it is actually a mansion next to a small hill.

Obviously, this is the kind of mansion built to escape the summer heat.

After Lu Yu took over, he found out after careful questioning that this was actually the villa owned by the Tan family in Jiyang County!
  This puzzled him so much that his CPU almost burned out.

After thinking about it over and over, I figured out the reason.

The governor Chu Gong could not take action for no reason. He must have received benefits from the Tan family, so he planned to follow the trend and use this as an excuse to give Lu Yu a good beating. But soon, Chu Gong was frightened by Lu Yu's thunder, and he was afraid to pursue the matter any further.

Not only that, in order to make friends with Lu Yu, he also gave this place backhand to Lu Yu!
  Of course, with Chu Gong's character of eating meat without spitting out bones, if he were to give it away directly, it would be like the duck that had reached its beak and flew away again, but it was really uncomfortable.

So the governor Chu Gong thought of another way.

He informed the major families and asked them to express their opinions.

After all, Lu Yu, the Medicine God of Taiping Dao, has done such a great good deed. How could he not show it to him?

We must show off the pattern of a wealthy family!
  When Chu Gong said this, all the major families thought about it and felt it was very reasonable, so they all contributed money.

Trading money for reputation is not a bad deal.

Chu Gong was not at a loss. He naturally filled his own pockets and ate up all the benefits before gifting this villa and [-] acres of land to Lu Yu in the name of the county governor and various aristocratic families!
  In this way...only the Tan family's injured world has been achieved!
  ……

Lu Yu looked at the beautiful scenery around him and felt very good.

Since he was able to practice with the little rich woman, his practice speed has become much faster.

After repeating it several times, the spiritual power in the body is dense and dense, and has reached a critical point, and is about to enter the second level of Qi training.

Also.

The Tan family matter has been settled.

Bandits plunder!

As for where these bandits went, it has nothing to do with the county guard.

The Tan family also completely fell apart, and even implicated the Fu family who was related to it.

Lu Yu had handled this matter perfectly and had no worries for the time being.

As for this villa and the [-] acres of land under the mountain, it was an unexpected gain.

And there is...

"Counting the time, Master should be here soon."

"I don't know what Master's expression would be like when he saw the gunpowder explode."

Lu Yu smiled, and many thoughts flashed through his mind.

Then he led the people out of the villa and went to the foot of the mountain to meet the tenants as a landlord.

The acres of land here are cultivated by tenants down the mountain, and they are also the source of livelihood for these people.

The share of the tenancy rent is [-]-[-].

There are five tenants and five Tan family.

This ratio is also the most common.

All landowners are very serious about tenancy.

With a rent of [-]%, a tenant can have enough to eat and even have a surplus of food if he is alone.

But if you have parents, wife and children, that won't work.

A family of three or five can barely survive with only that little food. As for having enough to eat, they don't even think about it.

In addition to rent, Big Dou collects rent and Xiao Dou lends money, which are also basic operations. Every time they come and go, they are all benefits.

Lu Yu would not continue to squeeze the tenants, but he would not give away the benefits too much and would directly divide the land as soon as it came up.

Once rewards and punishments are unclear, it will be difficult for him to continue to establish prestige in Taipingdao.

The only thing he could do was to slightly reduce the tenant rent ratio so that the tenants could get [-]% of the rent, and at the same time forgive their past debts to the Tan family.

If anyone from the Tan family comes to ask for a debt, just state your name directly.

Tell them to come to Taiping Road Lu Yu to ask for it!
  This sudden favor made all the tenants at a loss, and they were all wondering how successful the new owner was in selling it? What's the purpose?
  It wasn't until they heard Lu Yu's name that everyone realized that the person in front of them was actually the Medicine God of Taiping Dao!
  The saint who developed the magic medicine and cured the plague!

That man who is proficient in thunder magic and seems to be the reincarnation of the God of Thunder!
  The initial cautious suspicion was instantly replaced by gratitude.

The crowd cheered for a moment, and everyone enthusiastically took their own food to give to Lu Yu.

Most of them are local goods, mountain goods, which are not valuable, but they are the best gifts they can give.

Lu Yu did not refuse and took a little of each item.

It was at this time that a piece of news came.

The great virtuous teacher Zhang Jiao has arrived in Nanyang!
  (End of this chapter)