Urban Alchemist

Chu Shunlai acted very quickly. First, he visited the other four families one by one, paid a part of the interests of Zhongzhou City, and successfully persuaded the four families to deal with Yang Tian together.

The five surnames in Zhongzhou, Shan, Kong, Chu, Qi, and Zhang, the last three are nothing. The family is basically a business family, and occasionally there are children in the family who are also in the officialdom. It is not a martial arts family. There are almost no masters in the family. There are first-class masters like Xie Chang who only work for the Chu family for money, and most of the time it is a one-shot deal.

However, the Shan and Kong families are not simple. The Shan family is a scholarly family. For generations, some people have been officials in the capital of the Dayan Kingdom. From the Dayan Kingdom to the present, the Shan family has produced seven prime ministers. When you arrive in Zhongzhou City, you must be the first to visit the old lady of the Shan family.As for the Kong family, it is a martial arts family. Thirty years ago, the Kong family produced an innate master, which transformed the Kong family from an unknown ordinary family into a leader with the surname Kong, and became the number one in Zhongzhou City. two.

However, the Kong family is far from being able to compare with the Shan family. Even if the Kong family has ten innate masters, they still have to rank second in Zhongzhou City. Who will let the Shan family have someone in the court!

Regarding the matter mentioned by Chu Shunlai's visit, the Shan family was noncommittal. If Yang Tian really had such a miraculous elixir, even if the Shan family just sent a servant to follow him, the Shan family would still be able to get a big share. Therefore, although the Shan family agreed Chu Shun was sent to deal with Yang Tian, ​​but he only sent a Yuan Fang to follow him.

But the Kong family was really moved, and directly sent two first-class masters.There is a difference between the same first-class masters. The strength of the two first-class masters of the Kong family far exceeds that of Xie Chang.The other Qi and Zhang families also sent out the only first-class master in the family.

According to Yang Tian's analysis, the third-rate masters here are between the early stage of Qi refining and the middle stage of Qi refining, while the second-rate masters are between the stage of Qi refining and the early stage of foundation establishment. The first-rate masters have reached the middle stage of foundation establishment.A congenital master, if estimated correctly, has already reached the alchemy stage.

Xie Chang is a first-class expert with mid-stage foundation-building strength, but in Yang Tian's view, he only has the mid-stage foundation-building cultivation, but he can't exert his due strength. This has nothing to do with experience, it's purely because the skills are too low-level for the sake.

Not only Xie Chang, but the cultivation techniques in this world are not at all comparable to those in the Western Heaven Region where he lives, and even compared with Huaxia, they are far behind.

Xuehua Town is said to be a town, but in fact, there are only thirty or so families.The most appropriate word to describe Xuehua Town is 'dilapidated'. It seems that it has just gone through a looting. There are many houses, but most of them have collapsed. The streets are also very wide, but there are only two Children are playing.As for adults, none were seen.

Theoretically speaking, Xuehua Town is located in a traffic artery, where businessmen come and go, it is very suitable as a temporary foothold, and it should be very prosperous.Everything in front of me also proves that this place used to prosper, but it has become history.

The two little boys who were playing were frightened when they saw the carriage of Yang Tian and others and the five riders behind it, and ran to hide behind an earthen house.

Seeing this situation, Yang Tian lost the mood to stay here.I'm a little curious, why this place has become like this, there must be some major change.

"Ma'am, we're passing by here for an excuse to drink water, can it be convenient?" Yang Tian got out of the car with Rumeng and his daughters, knocked on the door of a house, and a woman in her 50s came out to welcome her.

Hearing that Yang Tian was passing by, the vigilance and fear in the woman's eyes disappeared, but she still said to Yang Tian indifferently: "Come in, but I only have clear water here, so you can deal with it."

Luoxi, on the other hand, saw Yang Tian's thoughts, maybe Yang Tian rescued her from Yi Cui Ju, but he didn't covet her beauty, which made her think that Yang Tian is a person who is brave and willing to help when the road is injustice .So, she opened her mouth to ask for Yang Tian: "Ma'am, I can ask a little more, why are there so few people here? I remember that when I passed by here three years ago, it was still very lively. What happened?" ?"

Luoxi spoke elegantly, advanced and retreated well, and looked like a lady from a great family. Her appearance also made the face of the aunt opposite her soften.

"Girl, you are someone else. Come in quickly and drink some water to moisten your throat, then continue on your way. Knowing more will not do you any good."

As soon as Yang Tian heard this, he knew there must be a story, but the lines of this aunt in coarse clothes seemed familiar!He can almost guess the general content of the story, especially when the aunt opened the door for him with a vigilant look, he can conclude that the snowflake town has become like this is caused by human beings.

Since there was Luoxi's inquiry, he simply stood aside and did not speak, and let Luoxi and the third daughter Rumeng chat with this aunt, while he just listened.

Gradually, I also came up with a general idea. Xuehua Town is also called Hujia Town, and there are many people with the surname Hu in the village. Three years ago, the town was considered wealthy, even if it was not much worse than the nearby cities, because The Hu family has beauties. Ten years ago, a woman from the Hu family was selected into the palace and became a concubine. She was very favored by the emperor of Dayan Kingdom.

It was because of this concubine who later became a concubine that the Hu family's life gradually improved. The name of Xuehua Town was also because the concubine's name was Hu Xuehua, so Hu's town was renamed Xuehua Town. It is said that the emperor When the reward is given, the name is given by the way.

In other words, this Hu family has a really high probability of producing beautiful women. After that concubine, another well-known beautiful woman came out, and she is Hu Xuehua's niece, who is three points more beautiful than Hu Xuehua.Once, Hu Xuehua's elder brother took his daughter Hu Yanqing to the capital to visit his sister. In order to show his love for Hu Xuehua, the emperor personally received the father and daughter.

The emperor of Dayan Kingdom was originally a lustful person, and there were more than a hundred concubines in the harem.After seeing Hu Yanqing, he was immediately fascinated, and planned to bring Hu Yanqing into the palace.

Being favored by the emperor was originally a good thing. Although the emperor of Dayan Kingdom was fond of wine and sex, he was really good to the women in his palace. He rewarded them as much as he could.

However, there is a key problem, that is, Hu Xuehua and Hu Yanqing are aunts and nieces, and they are not compatible in seniority.After the emperor proposed this idea, Hu Xuehua's brother immediately objected.

The emperor was aloof, and if his courtiers objected to something, he still had reason and could tolerate it a little bit, but he never imagined that Hu Xuegang, a commoner, would dare to object to his own ideas.The entire Great Yan Kingdom is his, and the women of the Great Yan Kingdom naturally belong to him.Since he wants to take back his 'own stuff', there is no room for objection.In the end, Hu Xuegang committed suicide directly in front of the gate of the imperial city when his begging was fruitless, showing his heart.

Hu Xuegang's actions completely enraged the emperor, and directly ordered that all the men in the Hu family be killed. This happened three years ago.

Although the emperor ordered that only the men of the Hu family be killed, the person who executed them was not a good person. After he came, he slaughtered the whole village.The man was naturally killed with a single knife, while the woman was relatively miserable and was humiliated by the officers and soldiers.

After the officers and soldiers left, there were less than 2000 people left in Xuehua Town, which originally had a population of more than 200.Among these 200 people, almost half of the abused women hanged themselves.Including those who escaped from Xuehua Town, as a result, there are only 23 households left in Xuehua Town, with more than 40 people. On average, each family has less than two people!Half of the families, like Aunt Li in front of me, are lonely and helpless.

After understanding what happened, Yang Tian felt a little sympathetic to these people, and Luo Xi also felt the same way. Her father Luo Changhe was killed by the current emperor's imperial decree, which seemed to be related to the same disease.

Rumeng and the three women also looked at Yang Tian expectantly, which made Yang Tian a little passionate. Even if there were not many women present, Yang Tian would try his best to help those in need if he had the ability.When he met Yang Tian for the first time, he mistakenly thought that Yang Xin was going to commit suicide by jumping into the lake, so he stepped forward to stop him, and they fell into the lake together.And old man Chang back then, if he hadn't been enthusiastic, he wouldn't have met the sisters of the Chang family.

Help, he definitely wanted to help, but he didn't think about how to help.To avenge them?Yang Tian feels that although this idea is very meaningful and can make the other party appreciate it, it has no real effect.Instead of helping them avenge, it is better to give them some material help.

After a symbolic drink of water, the few people left Aunt Li's house. They wanted to find a rich family to stay overnight, but it seemed that they could only pitch tents in the wild.

"Master, how do you plan to help them?" Rumeng asked expectantly while setting up a tent at the entrance of the village.

Luo Xi on the side also pricked up her ears. She was quite critical of Yang Tian just now. How much would it cost Yang Tian to redeem herself from Yi Cui Ju? Probably, that is definitely an astronomical sum.

But now, seeing such a poor twenty-odd families, Yang Tian didn't even have the slightest intention of giving alms, which made her favor towards Yang Tian drop to the lowest point.In the past, she admired Yang Tian very much, especially the song "Will Enter the Wine" composed by Yang Tian, ​​but now, she couldn't find the pride contained in the poems in Yang Tian's body. Also a lot more indifferent.

However, after hearing Rumeng's question, she felt that she seemed to have misunderstood Yang Tian.Rumeng meant that Yang Tian would definitely help the people here, but he was not sure what method he would use.Otherwise, Rumeng would not ask Yang Tian how he planned to help them, but would ask Yang Tian if it was right to help them.

Sure enough, Yang Tian listened to Rumeng's words, and after thinking about it, he said: "I think this place is not suitable for them to live in. Aunt Li also said just now that there are more than 40 people in the whole town. Apart from women, they are old people and children. The reason why they can survive until now is that they live frugally, relying on some family property they left behind. And this town, because of what happened three years ago, no one has moved here anymore. This place is no longer suitable for them to survive. I plan to go to Songzhou in front first, and then buy some property for them, which is much better than giving them money directly."

"The most important thing is, we have no money!" Yang Tian added!