Chapter 130 – Yang County’s Oddities
Chapter 130: Yang County oddities
Fearing that his answer would be unsatisfactory to the Immortal Master, Li Zheng hastened to add.
“But the immortal master please rest assured, I will be rebuilt tomorrow, will be able to call this new press division, built more than ever tall and majestic. If you do not mind, you can stay in my humble abode for the time being.”
No wonder I didn’t find the press division, it turns out that there is no such thing in Yang County.
Xu Chuniang shook her head, “No need, I’ll take care of the matter of the press inspection division myself.”
After saying this, she directly turned around and left.
Li Zheng panicked and got up to catch up, shouting as he ran, “Immortal master don’t hurry to go ah, immortal master ……”
Nai He nearly two hundred pounds of tonnage, did not run two steps of the road will be panting, tired and sweaty, and where to catch up it.
Xu Chunniang left the county office, thinking hard about where the press division should be built.
The original intention of the Free Sect’s foreign disciples to come to the mundane world, one is to defend the order of the righteousness of the road, purging the evil demons and foreigners, and the other is to let them taste the mortal world, feel the hardship of all living beings, so as to firm up the heart of the road.
However, as the aura of this realm is getting thinner and thinner, and the cultivators are having a hard time cultivating, a lot of things are gradually moving away from the original intention.
Thousands of years ago, those disciples who chose to go on outer missions were all the best in the outer sect.
Their hearts were first-rate, and they took the task of cutting down devils and defending the Dao as their own, so there were many who could build their foundations without the need for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
However, with the continuous depletion of the spirit stone veins, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth began to decay, slowly turning into the current situation.
The five major clans in the selection of disciples, but also more and more emphasis on their natural spiritual roots, because the cultivation of a cultivator, the better the spiritual root qualifications, the less resources consumed.
Three Foundation Establishment Pills were able to give a double spirit root disciple a half probability of establishing a foundation.
However, if they were replaced with a triple spirit root disciple, the probability would be less than 30%.
If a disciple with four or even five spiritual roots was replaced, the probability of building the foundation would drop even further.
In this situation of increasing lack of resources, the clan naturally places more emphasis on the spiritual root talent of their disciples.
Xu Chuniang came back to her senses, retrieved her somewhat distant thoughts, and decided to set up her investigation division on a hilltop several miles west of Yang County.
In this location, she would not be too close to the county town, thus interfering with her cultivation, and would also be able to rush over in time to deal with any evil cultivators or demons that appeared in the county town.
After finding a good location, Xu Chuniang went directly from the county town and found some people to go over and build houses.
Li Zheng heard the news and rushed over, looking at the place where construction had already begun to pound his feet and chest.
“Immortal master both need, why not find this official it, this official will certainly this press division, built beautifully.”
Xu Chuniang glanced at Li Zheng, “As the parent official of Yang County, you are quite idle.”
The fat meat on Li Zheng’s body gently trembled, he finally felt the sensation that this Immortal Master did not seem to have a good feeling towards him.
He barely managed to squeeze out a smile on his face, “Where. As a county magistrate, I am diligent in my administration and am very busy. However, the establishment of the Press Prosecutor’s Office is related to Immortal Master, so it’s just a big matter.”
Seeing that Xu Chuniang did not take any notice, Li Zheng made a fool of himself, fearing that staying any longer would cause the Immortal Master to be even more disliked, he slipped away.
Xu Chuniang gave enough money, hired more people, but ten days of work, the new Department of Public Prosecution was finally completed.
Unsurprisingly, this is where she will be staying for the next ten years.
When Xu Chuniang moved into the press office, she didn’t rush to cultivate, but first spent some time visiting the entire Yang County.
It was only during this visit that she really saw the poverty of Yang County.
The people living in the county are already struggling to make ends meet, but the villages under the county’s jurisdiction are even more impoverished.
There is no other reason, Yang County perennial drought and heat, crops are difficult to produce, can not feed so many people. Xu Chuniang slightly frowned, toured a circle down, Yang County, although there are no demons and evil cultivators, the people’s lives, is still in deep water.
Looking at the wheat fields that were about to dry up in front of her, she casually cast a Spiritual Rain Technique.
Sweet rain as thin as a hair coalesced in the air, then drifted and fell onto the field. It only lasted for a short while before no new Spirit Rain appeared.
The amount of rain was actually less than half of the usual amount.
Xu Chuniang was puzzled, when she cast the spell just now, she sensed that the surrounding spiritual qi was extremely thin, only one-tenth of the extent of the outer gate of the Easy Sect.
Among them, the water aura was even thinner to a rare degree.
Comparatively speaking, only the fire aura was slightly more abundant. It was roughly twice as much as the gold, wood, and earth auras.
I wonder if all of this is related to the abnormal weather in Yang County.
Under certain circumstances, the quantity of the five auras did vary, and it was unknown what had happened in Yang County to cause the water aura to almost disappear at the moment.
And this situation at the moment seemed to have lasted for a very long time.
After returning, Xu Chuniang went straight to the ceremonial room in the back hall of the county office and found the county records to look through.
But after looking through several county records, she was unable to find an answer. It seemed that for nearly a hundred years, Yang County had always looked like this.
Li Zheng received a report from his subordinates and hurriedly came and opened his mouth with a smile.
“If Immortal Master wants to find something, you may as well ask my humble servant. The next official is a scholar’s birth, I dare not say that I have the talent of warping heaven and earth, but for the history of this county, it is also considered to know a little bit.”
Xu Chuniang sniffed and glanced at him with some surprise, unable to see that this wide-bodied and fat magistrate was actually a scholarly person.
Li Zheng smiled with some embarrassment, “When I was young and cold, I suffered from hunger from time to time, so I accidentally ate more.”
Xu Chuniang slightly pondered, but also did not refuse, “Let me ask you, do you know the drought in Yang County, the heat and little rain, since when?”
Li Zheng thought back, “Probably several hundred years ago? It’s been at least two hundred years. I remember reading a miscellaneous book when I was young, and it said that Yang County was originally an extremely wealthy place, but I don’t know what happened behind it, and it became what it is today.”
Xu Chuniang hung her eyes in silence, if it was really hundreds of years old, then no wonder she couldn’t find the reason for it by rummaging through these county records.
She looked up at Li Zheng, “Then do you know what caused Yang County to change?”
“This is something I do not know.”
Li Zheng added with some embarrassment, “But if you search all over the county records, you may be able to find out something from it.”
Xu Chuniang swept over the five or six county records on the table, her brows furrowing slightly.
“But I’ve already read all of these county records, and there’s not even half a sentence that mentions any of this.”
Li Zheng waved his hand, “My humble servant is not talking about these, these are all county records from recent years, so naturally there would be no relevant records. I’m talking about those county records from earlier.”
Xu Chuniang moved slightly inwardly, “Are all those county records still around?”
Li Zheng nodded, “Naturally, they are there, but they have been dusted off because of their age. If Immortal Master wants to see them, I will have them moved over here.”
With an order from Li Zheng, dozens of county records were found.
These county records were well preserved, but due to their age, the pages of this batch of books were yellowed and filled with dust and ash.
There were even quite a few that had different degrees of damage such as insect infestation, missing pages, and fewer pages.
I don’t know if there is anything she wants inside.
(End of chapter)