Around noon, the old woman took Ye Lingyue to the mayor's mansion.
Along the way, Ye Lingyue looked at the six roads and checked the situation in Zhou Chuzhen.
Zhouchu is a small town in the south of Daxia, with lakes and mountains, and the scenery is very beautiful.
Although Ye Lingyue stayed in Xiadu for a while, she had never been to this area.
She saw that there were many heavens and earths along the way, and all of them were connected with ditches. The crops in the fields were very lush, and the air was filled with a fairly strong aura.
Although this spiritual energy is far inferior to that of the God Realm, or Ye Lingyue's Hongmengtian, but in the human world, it is rare to have sufficient spiritual energy.
Ye Lingyue took a closer look, only to find that what was planted in the field was not ordinary rice and wheat commonly used in the human world, but a kind of spiritual millet.
This is the season, around the end of autumn, the millet has grown, and the slender and plump corn grains are shining golden in the sun, looking very attractive.
"Zhou Chu planted spiritual plants?"
Seeing Ye Lingyue, she couldn't help being more curious.
When she was in Daxia, she remembered that there was no habit of planting spiritual plants in Daxia.
The first time she came into contact with Lingzhi was in Guyuehai. The servants and outer disciples of Guyuehai would plant some elixir for refining pills.
"Lingsu has only been popularized in the last two or three years. It is said that Zhouchu area is suitable for planting lingsu. Hey..."
Seeing the pleasingly growing Lingsu, Granny Ye not only did not look happy, but also had a sad face, and sighed deeply.
When Zhouchu Town was approved to be suitable for planting Lingsu, the townspeople were happy and proud of it, and every household rushed to plant it.
But later, the townspeople discovered that planting lingsu not only would not bring much benefit, but would actually be a disaster.
"Grandma Ye, why did you say that?"
Ye Lingyue said in surprise.
Only then did Granny Ye speak eloquently, telling Ye Lingyue the twists and turns.
Zhou Chu was originally a well-known land of fish and rice in Da Xia area, because this area has fertile soil and water, numerous water veins, and well-developed crops and fisheries.
It was also for this reason that Emperor Xia awarded this place to the Ye family back then.
After the people of the Ye family came here, they further governed on the basis of the land of fish and rice, and Zhou Chu became richer as a result.
But since a few years ago, the mainland sect headed by Gu Yuehai began to participate in the political affairs of various countries.
The so-called ascetics in common people's mouth began to search for places suitable for planting spiritual plants. After Zhou Chu was selected, he was forced to only plant spiritual plants.
After Lingzhi is planted in a large area, no other crops are allowed to be planted.
After a long time, the townspeople in Zhou Chu didn't even have enough food for food and clothing, so they had to go to other places to buy food.
But in this way, food prices will go up.
What's worse, this year, for some reason, locust plagues continued everywhere. Zhou Chu's nearest city, Mincheng, was plagued by locusts, and there was no harvest.
Even the common people of Zhou Chu also suffered from famine.
"Not only that, after the planting of Lingzhi, the fish and shrimps in Zhouchu waters became less and less, the food was not enough, the fish and shrimps disappeared, and the life of the people in the town became more and more difficult."
When Grandma Ye mentioned these things, the wrinkles on her forehead deepened a lot.
After hearing this, Ye Lingyue couldn't help but understand.
Lingzhi is also planted in her primordial world, so she knows the growth law of Lingzhi very well.
When a spiritual plant grows, it will absorb the spiritual energy between the heaven and the earth, so that it will grow well.
If it is a blessed place like Ye Lingyue's Hongmengtian, Lingzhi can naturally grow forever.
But Zhou Chuzhen is just a little more aura than Daxia. Once the spiritual plants are planted, the aura in this area will be absorbed by force.
There is not enough aura in the air, so naturally they have to absorb the aura in the soil and water. The fish and shrimp in the water are also spiritual. They realize that there is not enough aura in the water. If they die, if they escape, the number will be greatly reduced. .
In a situation like Zhou Chu's, the continuous planting of Lingsu should not exceed five years at most, otherwise Zhou Chu would completely change from a land of fish and rice to a poor village.
Of course, only a spiritual master like Ye Lingyue can keenly capture the changes in the air and water in this kind of thing, and the townspeople in Zhou Chu don't even know how powerful it is.
Ye Lingyue pondered for a moment, then asked again.
"That being said, Lingsu is expensive. It stands to reason that with this income alone, the townspeople should also get a generous reward from the various sects."
Since the planting of spiritual plants was promoted by Gu Yuehai, it should be done in accordance with Gu Yuehai's style of doing things.
At the beginning, Lonely Moon Sea always paid high rewards for purchases.
Or, after Qin Xiaochuan became the head teacher, he changed the rules.
Ye Lingyue didn't know that although Qin Xiaochuan was a strange monster, he was quite upright. Even though he had infiltrated the human world back then, when he went out to purchase, he always followed the rules of Master Wuya.
But since Ye Lingguang's "death", Qin Xiaochuan didn't care about the affairs of the sect, and handed over the affairs of the sect to his disciples, so Qin Xiaochuan didn't know about these small things that happened in the human world.
"It would be great if it could be like that. Gu Yuehai is a super power that even Emperor Xia doesn't care about. How could he care about the life and death of ordinary people like us. They just let the townspeople plant spiritual plants. , come to collect Lingsu every year, and don’t give any money. The land of the townspeople has been seized, and they have no other income, so they can only live poorer and poorer.”
When Grandma Ye said this, she had a look of hatred on her face.
That's why, at noon, Grandma Ye could only drink a bowl of porridge, and she gave the porridge to Ye Lingyue, so she had nothing to eat.
It is not uncommon in Zhouchu Town for people like Granny Ye to be starving and only have two meals a day.
Granny Ye's situation is even considered good, and thanks to Granny Ye's son working in the mayor's mansion, if it was changed to another family, he wouldn't even be able to afford porridge.
"It's unreasonable. They force the people to plant, but don't give them any rewards. This kind of behavior is no different from robbers. Lone Moon Sea is so overbearing, is there no one to argue with them?"
After hearing this, Ye Lingyue became furious.
"Little girl, keep quiet, how many times have I told you, don't yell in the public, I blame the old woman for talking too much."
Grandma Ye was so frightened that she covered her mouth and looked around vigilantly.
If people from other sects heard these words, they would lose their heads. You must know that Gu Yuehai is now the leader of the sect in the human world.
Lone Moon Sea is no longer the Lone Moon Sea it was back then.
When Ye Lingyue joined Guyuehai, Guyuehai was still a hermit sect, and only a handful of powerful people and the royal family knew of its existence.
But now, Lonely Moon Sea is already known to all ages, but its existence is not the number one sect in the mainland, but an evil force that steals and plunders.