Chapter 51 The dispute over the fake Dao map! (Please follow up and read!)
After not coming to Fangshi for a few days, when Yang Fang came out again, he obviously saw that Fangshi was much depressed.
Originally, there were many people setting up street stalls here, but after so many days, even the street stalls have decreased a lot.
There are more unfamiliar faces on the streets.
Some people gathered together in groups of three or five, scanning the streets with cold eyes.
Others are alone, carrying weapons on their backs, with indifferent eyes, as if they are thousands of miles away.
Yang Fang took a quick glance, secretly awe-inspiring, lowered his head, and hurried towards Mipu.
“Has the price of rice risen so high?”
He looked surprised.
As soon as I asked, the price of rice increased again, nearly four times.
"Yes, the current market situation is more severe than ever before. In the past, in winter, the trade routes were at most difficult to travel, but now it is more than difficult. The trade routes have long been blocked by bandits, and several grain transport brigades from the chamber of commerce have They were looted, and if this continues, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy food.”
The shopkeeper explained.
Although there is an exaggerated charm in it, Yang Fang still realizes the difficulty of the current form.
He bought two hundred kilograms of rice in one go, spending nearly eighty taels of silver, which made his heart bleed.
Eight taels of silver could be used to buy a bottle of Qi-nourishing Pill, but there would still be 2 taels left!
However, the price of rice has risen so ridiculously, the price of Qi Nourishing Pill is probably even more expensive.
He pulled the cart and rushed directly to a shop in front.
The result was just as he imagined. As soon as he asked, he learned the price of the Qi Nourishing Pill.
Twelve taels of silver a bottle!
It has increased by 2 liang from the previous 8 liang.
“The materials for refining the Qi-nourishing Pill are simply unavailable now. Someone deliberately blocked the road outside the settlement. Even the Wanfu Chamber of Commerce is having a hard time getting the materials. It only costs ten taels of silver now. It will definitely become more expensive in the future!”
The drug store owner said.
Yang Fang had a toothache.
The first thing he suspected was that a businessman was hoarding it!
There is even the possibility that shops may join forces with each other and charge random prices.
But with the situation in front of him, what can he say?
“Give me four bottles!”
Yang Fang directly took out forty taels of silver and placed it on the counter.
The shopkeeper immediately took out four bottles of Qi Nourishing Pills and handed them to Yang Fang.
Yang Fang put away the Qi Nourishing Pill and immediately pulled the cart towards the butcher shop.
Not surprisingly, the price of meat is also rising.
Before the price increase, it was 70 cents per catty, but now it has already risen to 500 cents per catty.
Yang Fang directly spent ten taels of silver to buy twenty kilograms of pork.
At this point, his money has bottomed out again.
“If this continues, many people are destined to starve to death this winter.”
Yang Fang secretly said.
No, many people may die before winter comes.
After all, who knows whether those outsiders will kill people and perform blood sacrifices?
Living in this black iron settlement now is like living on a barrel of explosives that may be detonated at any time.
If he could leave, he would definitely choose to leave.
However, the environment outside is extremely dangerous, with wild beasts and evil spirits everywhere. You have to walk thousands of miles before you encounter the next settlement. It is not something that one person can successfully pass through.
The whole day passes quickly.
Until the sun goes down.
It took a group of laborers to finally dig out the hole Yang Fang needed.
There is a huge living room inside, covering an area of more than ten meters.
In addition, there are three rooms, a storage room, an escape passage and an air outlet.
Yang Fang moved all the rice and meat into the hole.
He threw some wooden boards down and made a simple wooden bed, and lived underground that night.
“You won’t get into trouble anymore, right?”
Yang Fang murmured.
Suddenly, he remembered something, climbed out of the ground again, and walked towards another room.
A thick stack of animal skins was quickly dug out from under the bed in this room.
Each animal skin is engraved with some strange silver characters.
It was surprisingly the fake road map he copied last night.
Yang Fang thought quickly in his mind, gritted his teeth, took out the mask from under the bed, put it on his face, picked up the long sword, and quietly climbed over the wall and left.
His body was extremely fast and he ran all the way towards Dongfang.
Seeing that there was no one in the middle of the night, he immediately took out a fake road map and threw it in a remote alley.
After throwing it away in this alley, I immediately ran to another alley to throw it away.
In this way, all the four major cities were thrown away by him without exception.
After doing all this, he immediately returned to his residence, turned over, and successfully returned to Wanchunpu, took off his mask, and got into the cave.
Yang Fang said to himself.
But it’s also good to have that group of outsiders at war with each other.
This way, it will also save the attention of some people who come to the medicine shop, and the probability of being discovered is even lower. After all, they are all competing for the Dao map. Who has the time to pay attention to them, the natives?
Yang Fang took out a Qi-nourishing Pill, swallowed it, and immediately started practicing in the cave.
Unknowingly, a few hours passed.
ah!
Suddenly, bursts of miserable screams rang out from outside, allowing Yang Fang, who was ten meters underground, to hear them clearly.
He was startled, stopped practicing, and immediately pricked up his ears to listen outside.
After that scream sounded, other screams soon came.
This was accompanied by bursts of clashing sounds of weapons and bursts of vague shouts.
“Dao Tu has appeared, stop him quickly!”
“Leave the Tao map and spare your life!”
“The Dao map was taken away by [Quick Knife] Zhang Lan”
“Zhang Lan, don’t run away, you think I can’t recognize you if you cover your face!”
The shouts came and went.
It seems that it is not far from his shop.
Yang Fang was frightened.
He threw away all those fake road maps in the four major cities.
Beifang was discovered so quickly.
But the shouting soon began to fade away.
Obviously the people we were fighting were moving away quickly.
Yang Fang listened carefully for a while again to make sure that he couldn't hear any sound, then he relaxed and started to continue practicing.
Just like that, one night passed quickly.
The feeling of living underground is not comfortable, and there is an unspeakable stuffiness.
But Yang Fang thought about it and still didn't come out of the cave.
If you agree to huddle underground for a few months, you must stick to it. How can you give up halfway?
What should you do if you are stared at again when you go out?
“By the way, did I lock the door of the drug store last night?”
Yang Fang suddenly remembered something and was shocked.
He gritted his teeth, quickly climbed out of the cave again, and rushed towards the front hall.
Sure enough, the front hall door was unlocked.
But fortunately the drug store was not stolen.
He was about to lock the door immediately, but suddenly his heart moved. He opened the door and looked outside quietly.
I saw three or four corpses suddenly appearing on the street outside the door. The ground was dripping with blood and filled with fishy stench.
The clothes on the corpse had long been stripped off, and all the belongings on the body had disappeared.
“There was indeed a fight here last night”
He muttered to himself, locked the medicine shop, and hurried back to the cave again.
Next, five consecutive days passed.
For five days, except for going to the toilet, Yang Fang never took a step out. His strength was rapidly improving.
The entire settlement fell into chaos.
People from all the major forces fought back and forth, leaving corpses everywhere. People died every day.
In fact, on the first day, someone discovered that these Dao pictures were fake.
But the more this happens, the more crazy it becomes.
Because the false appears, it means that the true must be nearby.
This kind of fake thing was obviously thrown out by someone to deliberately confuse the situation. Therefore, the battle between the major forces not only did not stop, but intensified. Not only were they fighting each other during the day, but murders occurred frequently at night.
At this moment, each of them doubts that the other person has a true Taoist figure.
Even the disciples of the three major martial arts sects, Sword Pagoda, Baiyue Tower, and Black Mountain Temple, were not spared, and several were secretly killed.
Especially the female disciples of the Sword Tower, who died horribly, naked, and their bodies were hung on the flagpole, causing countless sensations.
The people in the sword tower were even more angry and their faces were livid, and they wanted to cut the murderer into pieces.
At this moment, another piece of news reached the Wanfu Chamber of Commerce.
“Something happened, someone is fighting over at Dongfang, and the real Dao map has appeared.”
A martial artist from the Wanfu Chamber of Commerce shouted in panic.
Phew!
A burly male sword tower disciple with a heavy sword on his back flashed his body, grabbed the martial artist's neck, lifted his body directly on the spot, squeezed his neck tightly, and said coldly, "You How do you know it’s true?”
“Spare your lives, them. They all say it’s true, but I’m not sure.”
The martial artist was frightened and begged for mercy.
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