I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 297 The White Fairy Hedgehog Comes
Chen Liuxian was determined to achieve enlightenment, but he refused to worship Xu Jia. It can only be said that the evil of three lives still had its lingering power.

But he was unlucky and was captured by bandits not long after he left.

He had no choice but to say that he was an apprentice in a medical clinic or drug store and knew how to treat illnesses, so he saved his life.

The next wave of bandits were absorbed by a larger group of bandits, and he was also dug out.

Bandits can also get sick. There are many evil spirits in the mountains. It is so cold today that they will inevitably have headaches and fevers, and they can easily die of the disease. If they have symptoms of infection, they will be thrown into the ice and snow, and they will be dead if asked.

His skills were not bad, but he was often helpless. Whenever he saw bandits dying of illness, he fell into a strange situation. He hoped that the bandits would die sooner, which would be considered as ridding the people of harm, but seeing a life passing away in front of him, he could not help but be moved.

What's more, after being in contact with them for a period of time, he found that among these bandits, whether they were bandits or not, only a few were extremely vicious. Most of them were like him, who were forcibly dragged to the mountains. They also missed their old mothers and were afraid of killing people, but more of them described their miserable experiences over and over again until others got used to it and became numb. They were also living people.

Sometimes in the middle of the night he fantasized about the imperial court sending troops to suppress the bandits, but when he thought about it, if the bandits were really suppressed, he would become a bandit too, and would definitely become a target of military merit by the soldiers, and his ears would be cut off as a reward.

He also fantasized about escaping down the mountain, but he didn't have the courage to do so.

Until this day, he followed the bandits down the mountain, robbing villages and stealing food. Although it was impossible to survive in the mountains in winter, they could barely survive in the mountains. The bandits also ate wild vegetables and tree barks, but they ate wild vegetables and tree barks before they became bandits, and they still ate wild vegetables and tree barks after they became bandits. Isn't that a waste of food?

But when they went down the mountain to rob that day, there was a sudden gust of black wind, and then everyone felt as if a thousand needles were pricking their bodies, making them unable to move.

Chen Liuxian heard a voice: "Grandma, why should we care about what they do? Let's go to Poyang Water Palace as soon as possible."

"We have always been practicing medicine to save lives and accumulate merits, but there are many disasters. If we accumulate more good karma and good deeds, we will not be afraid of disasters in the future."

Chen Liuxian clearly saw a white-haired old lady, leading a group of young men and women, walking past him.

The old lady walked straight up to the bandit leader and said, "Killing is a sin, saving is a merit. Killing one person and saving a hundred is a greater merit than a sin. I don't want to commit the sin of killing, but if I leave, I'm afraid that dozens of lives will be lost in your hands. Their wronged souls may come to me and ask why I didn't kill you."

"Well, let me put a needle in your heart. From now on, whenever you have the intention to kill someone, the needle will pierce you. If you really kill someone, the needle will pierce you."

The bandit leader said coldly, "What kind of witch are you? You kill people to save people, but am I not killing people to save people? We brothers can't survive and have to beg for food. If you don't let us beg for food, won't the thousands of old, weak, women and children on the mountain starve to death?"

"You'll die anyway. No matter what you do, I'm not the only bandit here, and the world is not in chaos because of me."

The old woman was worried: "You do have some truth in what you say. If I kill you, more than a thousand mouths will depend on you for food. It will be my sin to starve them to death. But if I don't kill you, these people will die in your hands immediately. It's really a dilemma."

"That's easy. I can just bring the villagers up the mountain. We can eat and wear together."

The woman shook her head and said, "If I force hundreds of good people to go up the mountain and become bandits, and they kill people in the future, won't it be my fault? No, no!"

The bandit leader cursed, "You damned old woman, this won't work, that won't work, you'll all die anyway. If you follow me, you still have hope of survival. At least next time you won't be afraid of being robbed a second or third time. What's wrong with that?"

The man next to him was furious: "How dare you! How dare you insult my grandmother!"

The old lady waved her hands and said, "It's his karma if he speaks badly. Why are you so angry? You've lost all your merits and virtues for nothing."

"How about this, I heard that Poyang is recruiting refugees to reclaim wasteland. They provide three meals a day, accommodation, and sleeping arrangements. You can sleep in a large dormitory and eat in a large canteen. Even though the work is tiring, you can still survive. You pack up, take your family and children with you, and come with us."

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It was the first month of the lunar calendar and there had been several snowfalls during these days. Mount Sanqing was covered in white. The snow also fell and melted at the foot of the mountain.

The ice on the river surface has been developed into an "ice business" by Jin Chan. He has built many large ice cellars and sent people to chisel ice into the cellars to store it until next summer.

When the ice broke, ships could pass through and deliver goods to Poyang.

After the successful steelmaking in the Salt and Iron Institute, improved steel farm tools began to be mass-produced in order to open up wasteland and cultivate crops in Poyang in the spring.

With Shunji Little Dragon King in charge, at least tens of thousands of acres of paddy fields can be opened up there. All that needs to be done is to build dams to store water in key locations and dig out the silt at the bottom of the lake during the dry season in winter.

This part of the work has been done by Hai Sanniang and Kui Qing. Hai Sanniang is best at digging up silt. Her wild boar descendants have also learned the magic, and they dig up the silt at the bottom of the lake, and then transport it to the reclaimed fields through the little monsters. The bull monsters led by Kui Qing will pull the heavy plow and plow the land deeply. With their brute force, they can plow even stones flat. Besides, these are superior plains formed after the shrinkage of Poyang Lake, and there are basically no stones.

Poyang Lake was originally connected to Yunmeng Lake, but now they are separated and become two large lakes, Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake.

Because of schistosomiasis, also known as water-borne disease, people did not dare to develop the reed marshes and plant paddy fields. Moreover, after all the hard work of reclaiming the land, the land might not belong to them in the end, so all the fields were wasted.

After all, after working day and night to cultivate a few acres of land, before planting any crops, some landlords might come forward and say that these reed fields were contracted by their families and were specifically used to make straw mats...

Now he is not afraid anymore, because this place is under the management of Xu Jia. If anyone dares not to keep his eyes open, in a few days, they will be bankrupted by Jin Chan's financial means and directly become middle-lower poor peasants from the landlord class.

As for schistosomiasis and water-borne diseases, Xu Jia passed down the "痋術" (a kind of magic that was originally used to harm people) but now it is also "corrected when used properly" and is just right for water-borne diseases. It also advocates drinking boiled water and eating cooked food so that people are not so easily infected.

The thousands of people brought by Old Lady Bai were quickly absorbed. There were rows of brick and tile bungalows on the edge of Poyang, with men and women living separately. The earthen kang was covered from head to toe with reeds and chicken feathers.

Two hundred people can live in one house, like a human breeding center.

The environment wasn't very good, but it wasn't freezing cold. The cold wind from the windows on both sides was soon diluted by the heater. The various smells mixed together made people want to vomit.

This group of people were forced to take a bath in the bathhouse.

A huge boiler provides heat for the kang, which is also the canteen kitchen. Coal is burned underneath. Therefore, this canteen has to provide food and drink for 200 people, so they have to start making breakfast in the early morning, which is very hard. After breakfast, they have to make lunch in the morning and dinner in the afternoon. Therefore, the fire is always burning and will not stop.

The excess heat from boiling water and cooking would flow along the flue into these strip-shaped houses, heating up the kangs so that people would not catch a cold even if they slept naked.

It’s just that you need to wear clothes when you go out to work in winter. There are few clothes here, so whoever goes out to work wears them, and it’s a shift system.

This is very unfavorable for land reclamation and farming, but there is no other way. Chen Liuxian was also arranged here. He was so tortured that he no longer looked like a delicate skin and tender flesh. It was not easy to be a bandit. He was like a refugee.

First he was arranged to take a bath in a big bathhouse to remove the dirt on his body, and then he was taken to be registered as a citizen. He shouted that his surname was Chen, he was not a refugee, but an apprentice of Doctor Li of Bao'an Hall, but no one paid attention to him.

She did have some medical skills, so she was assigned to the "Health Care Room". There were witches who burned talismans and practiced witchcraft. She tested Chen Liuxian's medical skills and felt that they were not as good as her own witchcraft in curing diseases and expelling evil spirits. However, there were too many people here, and many of them were poisoned by water. She couldn't handle it all, so she said, "From today on, you will learn witchcraft from me."

Chen Liuxian then saw with his own eyes that the witch took a bamboo tube, lit the mugwort, chanted a spell, and then pulled it out of the belly button of a patient with a big belly. After a while, groups of wriggling little worms appeared in the bamboo tube, and the patient's big belly shrank.

"Is this a magic spell?" Chen Liuxian was curious: "You want to teach me this?"

The witch rolled her eyes at him and said, "What kind of magic is this? It's just the ability to release and collect poisonous insects, playing with insects. You have never seen a real immortal. A few days ago, a huge dragon flew up in the sky of Poyang. This dragon was a good dragon, the new Shunji Dragon King. Before that, an immortal chopped a dragon to death. That dragon was an evil dragon. No, it was not chopped to death, but suppressed in the Iron Pillar Temple over there. The immortal worshipped in the temple is the immortal who chopped the dragon."

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In the Poyang Water Palace, the old lady of the Bai family came with her clan to register. All the strange and bizarre spirits and monsters in the water palace, with strange shapes and levels of cultivation, were queuing up to register.

A huge plaque hung there: "Poyang Office of the Jiangnan West Provincial Government Office".

Shunji Little Dragon King is in charge of the work, and there are other monsters, such as Huang Pi Po, Chang Yuying, Chang Yu'e...

There are cat demons, dog demons, chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, and all kinds of livestock and poultry. The most important thing is that those who have lived with people for a long time and have not died can easily become demons. In addition, there are mice and sparrows. They spread one by one. How wide can their circle of friends be? It is basically a circle of poultry and livestock.

This is also the reason why Kui Qing on the shore can lead a group of bull monsters to work hard.

In addition to these, fox demons, weasel demons, snake demons, rat demons... relatives of Hu Jinhua and Huang Pi Po also came, and many of them brought their families with them.

Secondly, there are frog monsters, toad monsters, spider monsters, cockroach monsters...

Anyway, there are no pure wild monsters, they are basically all closely related to humans.

You can even see a cabbage monster, a Chinese chrysanthemum monster, and an amaranth monster... They are all in the same vegetable field, called the "Three Immortals of the Vegetable Garden". Fortunately, they are not eggplants, peppers, and potatoes, otherwise they would be the three fresh vegetables in the field.

It is said that it was turned into a spirit two hundred years ago after being watered by a dragon's urine.

These monsters have little fighting ability and professional skills, but their main feature is that they understand human nature and they all desire peace.

As for Xu Jia's idea of ​​recruiting talented people, there were not many.

Therefore, the arrival of the old lady of the Bai family and her descendants attracted enough attention, and the little dragon king Shunji personally received them.

"I am Bai Qinghua, and I am here to meet Lord Shunjilong."

Shunji Longjun saw that the Bai family was a hedgehog, so he asked, "Old lady, you don't have to be so polite. I wonder where you are from?"

"I came from the north. The north was filled with murderous intent, with mud dragons everywhere. In many places, earth dragons turned over. My cave collapsed due to the earthquake. In addition, the winter was abnormally cold, and many of my descendants froze to death. So I made up my mind to move south. On the way, I heard that the Dragon King of Poyang was recruiting talents, so I came to join him."

"It's not me who recruits talents, it's Lingbao Xu Tianshi who recruits talents." said Shunji Little Dragon King.

Old Mrs. Bai actually knew about this matter, she just used it as a topic to get more information.

"The human race's celestial masters have always hated demons and ghosts. Why does this Lingbao celestial master... recruit talents from us demons?"

"Because he wanted to build a Taoist country, Tianshi Xu found a fertile land overseas that was suitable for building a Taoist country. However, his own foundation was shallow and he did not have any capable assistants, so he wanted to recruit talents. In addition, this Tianshi once made a great vow to treat all sentient beings as equals, so he did not discriminate. Look at the fox demon with a golden dot on his forehead. It was this Tianshi who personally enlightened him and established the Fox Fairy Hall. Now it is walking the path of a god and has a hundred disciples in the incense hall. They practice magic power and accumulate merits. In one year, they can achieve ten or a hundred times the amount of their previous practice."

"Recruiting talents, we are recruiting those kind monsters who are willing to set up incense halls, kind monsters, and virtuous monsters. The Heavenly Master is willing to pass on the talismanic techniques."

"Look, this is the Taiyin Yin folk talisman." Shunji Little Dragon King placed a little white rat demon on the table and said, "Pray to Taiyin!"

The little white rat demon prayed obediently, and soon a ray of moonlight came over, turning into a ball that wrapped him up until he slowly refined it. It was as if he had eaten too much, and turned into a rat ball, with Shunji Little Dragon King massaging his stomach to help him digest it.

Old Lady Bai was shocked: "It's daytime now! Moreover, he actually prayed for a large area at once. We were all guided and refined bit by bit."

"Yes, this is the Taiyin Minlu method. Taiyin Star is there regardless of day or night, and so is Taiyin Star Lord. If you obtain this Taoist Minlu, you will be a registered believer of Taiyin Star Lord, and he will naturally take care of you."

"In addition, there is the Xuande Hongyuan talisman, which can help this old lady survive the 500-year earthly immortal catastrophe!"

Old Lady Bai is indeed approaching a calamity. Hedgehogs face many calamities in their practice. One is the calamity of pulling out thorns. They will encounter naughty children who will pull out their thorns one by one to play with them. If the old thorns are not pulled out, new thorns will not grow. Only after going through this calamity will they have the ability to treat diseases with acupuncture.

The second is "insect disaster", there are special blood-sucking ticks, which can suck the body dry and die. After surviving this disaster, they can treat insect diseases.

The third is "wheel disaster", where you will be run over by wheels on the road. If you survive, you will survive and have the ability to heal injuries from then on.

The fourth is fire disaster, where there will be raging wildfires that will burn them to death. If they can survive, they will have the ability to heal burns and scalds.

The fifth is water disaster, where you will be thrown into the water and drown. If you are rescued, you will be treated for male and female diseases...

Every time they overcome a tribulation, they will gain a greater ability to cure diseases and save lives, until they have overcome nine tribulations. Then they can become immortals, join the Heavenly Hospital, and become Heavenly Doctors.

But in addition to this, there is the five hundred year catastrophe of earthly immortals and the thousand year catastrophe. Curing illnesses, saving lives, and saving animals are also "humane" and not "heavenly" means. The five hundred year catastrophe and the thousand year catastrophe are murderous intentions sent by heaven and will not be diverted by the good deeds of mankind.

Therefore, when Old Lady Bai heard that this talisman could help the earthly immortals overcome great calamities, she was extremely excited and very much looking forward to it, yet also mixed with doubt.

"This is what Master Xu wished for. It naturally didn't exist before." Shunji Little Dragon King said, "If the old lady is interested, you can open the Bai Family Medical Clinic to cure diseases and save lives. This is a great merit. If you pass it on to your disciples, Master Xu will not be stingy with this talisman."

(End of this chapter)