Overnight, heavy snow quietly covered most of the Northland.
Lu Sheng walked out of the secret room, and the outside was completely white. The cold wind blows in the early morning, bringing the snow powder off the pine trees in the yard.
He let out a long breath of hot air, and heard the faint cry of a child in the distance, and the roar of a big domestic dog, a rooster.
A few central guards from the Red Whale Gang stood guard at the door, their bodies were covered with a thin layer of snow powder, and they remained motionless.
"Thank you for your hard work." Lu Sheng was in a good mood, and looked at the guards admiringly.
"It's not hard to do your duty for the guild leader!!" Several people immediately replied with excited expressions, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Lu Sheng looked at the fanatical reverence in the eyes of several people, and he probably understood the prestige he had in the Red Whale Gang.
Now senior brother Hong Mingzi has completely faded out of everyone's sight, and he and his friends go back and forth between the pharmacy's pill room and home every day, concentrating on researching what they don't know.
Chen Ying, the vice gang leader, was injured before and is still recuperating. The senior members of the gang only have some newly promoted foreign affairs envoys and internal affairs envoys.
"It seems that people's hearts are useful...." Now that the cathode and the anode are balanced, Lu Sheng obviously feels that his mentality is becoming more and more unhurried, and he seems to be in control of the overall situation.
The Yinhe Net in the cathodic state still has the ability to cross Qi. This kind of strange ability similar to Dao Heart Seed Demon has no effect for the time being. Once he finds benefits from Song Zhenguo, he can try his best to select dead soldiers from the gang and train them on a large scale.
"Where is Jade Lotus Seed now?" Lu Sheng asked again. "And Shang Qinglong, call them over too."
"Your subordinates will go to inform you immediately." A gang member bowed and retreated, turned around and rushed away.
Lu Sheng walked out of the courtyard and strolled along the side of the boat to the small garden on the upper floor.
When they reached the entrance of the small garden, Yu Lianzi also hurried over. When he saw Lu Sheng, he was also a little dazed.
Others are not familiar with Lu Sheng enough, so they can't see any major changes, but he is different. He has been in charge of various trivial matters of Lu Sheng, and with his strong memory, he will never forget some details of the leader's appearance.
So the first time he saw Lu Sheng, he hesitated.
"Master... you are...?"
Lu Sheng smiled: "I have gained a little in martial arts, so don't worry about it. Also, this is not a wig." He stretched out his hand and pulled the hair on his head and smiled.
Yu Lianzi nodded cautiously, and looked curiously at Lu Sheng's long hair. Since the leader said it was true, let's take it for real.
"I don't know why the leader called his subordinates down?"
"Two things, I asked you to find the location of those precious medicines. Give me the confirmed map." Lu Sheng raised a finger and said.
"This is no problem." Yu Lianzi nodded.
"Second thing, how many orphans did I ask you to collect?" Lu Sheng said seriously.
"Well... There are already a hundred or so. The world is difficult and there are many orphans. As long as they are given food, it is easy to gather a large number of them. We also selected one among them carefully. There are more than a hundred people. After all, there is not enough food, and raising too many people is also a burden for the gang." Yu Lianzi said in a low voice.
"Has the famine started?" Lu Sheng's heart trembled.
"Well... the city along the mountain is alright, but for the rest of the nearby cities, food prices in many places have skyrocketed, because no one dared to cultivate the rice fields before, and now many people sell their children and daughters just to eat less.. . " Yu Lianzi was quite helpless. "Many elders in our gang have set up porridge shops, which is useless and will only attract more hungry people.
If the gang leader wants to carefully train dead men, he may have to think twice before doing so. Given the current situation in the gang, the food, oil, rice, noodles, and various meat and vegetables consumed in cultivating dead men are absolutely indispensable. "
"I see..." Lu Sheng also had a headache. As the leader of the largest gang in the Northland, he had to consider the problem of famine. After all, so many people in the Red Whale Gang have to eat.
"What about the main fishery?" Lu Sheng asked after thinking about it.
"The fishery industry is about to enter the fishing ban period. It's freezing, and fishing boats can't go out in many places." Yu Lianzi replied. "During this period of time, the fishermen are also crazy, and they can't find much in the river."
Lu Sheng thought for a moment, and then asked: "Over there at the pharmacy, we can sort out some fast-growing herbs, and choose medicines with large tubers like yams, which can resist famine one or two."
"Sect leader, you don't know that this kind of thing has long been eaten up by the hungry people, and now it's just yellow mud and stones that no one eats." Yu Lianzi replied in a low voice.
"Forget it, you bring what I want. Also, do something for me. I'm going out for a while." Lu Sheng frowned helplessly.
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Central Plains, Rongxin Pass.
As the only pass to the north, Rongxin Pass has a tall wall and a large population, with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers stationed here.
The sentry towers and fortresses are distributed around, forming a larger network, blocking the passage to the Northland.
Ye Lingmo was sitting in the caravan, like the most ordinary Yuanwailang, looking up at the tall blue-gray city wall in the crowd.
"My lord, you have to go through here and pass through another city gate on the opposite side before you can go to Yubei Road." Old Suntou, who had been to the Northland several times, whispered beside Ye Lingmo.
"In your opinion, how far is it?" Ye Lingmo asked in a low voice. While queuing up to enter the city, he was also carefully observing the surrounding situation.
"Master, you can reach Yanshan City in about five days. After all, Yanshan is a big city close to our Central Plains. However, I heard that there is a famine there recently. I am afraid that the defense of this checkpoint will be stricter. Our caravan is not It must be better." The old grandson didn't know the identity of his master, but he kept worrying about himself.
"It doesn't matter... I have the paperwork from the top of my head. It's just us, it's not a big problem to pass the pass." Looking at Rongxin Pass, Ye Lingmo also remembered the scene when he escaped from the Northland in embarrassment.
At that time, as the head of the Juanren Mansion, his subordinates died in battle one after another, and he was reduced to the point of being besieged and suppressed.
When he thought of the past, his eyes were deep and his heart was burning with anger.
"There are still five days to go. I don't know how to go back this time, how has it become over there...?"
The old grandson smiled and said: "Master returns home in fine clothes. He must be full of wealth and honor when he goes back, so that those guys who looked down on others with dog eyes can see that you are living a very good life now, very good! Isn't this how life is interesting?" He could see through.
Ye Lingmo's eyes narrowed into slits with a smile.
"It's true, let those who have provoked me before know that I, Ye Lingmo, are back."
"Master, do you still have enemies in the North?" Old Sun asked cautiously.
"It's okay, it's okay, there are only a few old friends who don't have eyes." Ye Lingmo smiled. His smile is very similar to Xiao Hongye's, both of them are very gentle, with the taste of hiding a knife in his smile.
"That's good, that's good..." Old Sun felt that the old man seemed a little weird, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
It stands to reason that returning home with rich clothes and rich gold should not be high-spirited and happy when going back
Why does my own master Ye have a strange look on his face.
Ye Lingmo naturally wouldn't talk too much to ordinary people, but stayed in the caravan for a while, and then went back to rest in his carriage.
There was also a red-bearded man with many braids sitting in the car. The big man had a rough face, and he was still gnawing on a pig's trotter in his hand.
"Brother, how are you? Did the old man send you here with ulterior motives!?"
The old man he was talking about was King Wuyou, when the Juanren Mansion was destroyed, only the two of them escaped and fled all the way to the Central Plains to breathe. Although they were taken in by the Worriless Mansion, the treatment of the two of them was not good. Made a lot of great achievements, but still... .
This person is also Ye Lingmo's right-hand man, the red-haired ghost Zhou He. His cultivation base is at least the peak of Qiwen, and he served as the deputy head of the original Juanren Mansion. He is the only person in Juanren Mansion who still follows Ye Lingmo.
"There is no other meaning. The Wuyou Mansion is also in a state of desperation and chaos right now. Wuyou King's death is approaching, and he is getting more and more impatient. He no longer cares whether we really do things for him." Ye Lingmo said flatly.
"Then we really want to honestly investigate the disappearance of the officiant for him?" the red-haired ghost Zhou He said dissatisfied. "Brother, you are on the same level as him, why can he command you at will? You really think you are his subordinate, and you can be dispatched at will without giving benefits?"
"Speak carefully." Ye Lingmo squinted his eyes. "Worriless King is not an ordinary level."
"Could it be possible that he can break through the limit and enter a new level? This has reached the apex, okay?" the red-haired ghost said indifferently.
"How can there be such a breakthrough... But even if he is in this state, I'm still not sure." Ye Lingmo's face remained unchanged. "You just need to know that some things can be said less, and now he is almost driven crazy."
The big man snorted disdainfully.
"When I break through the Black Snake, when the time comes, you and my brothers will join hands and we will definitely make him look good!"
Ye Lingmo smiled: "Let's not mention these things, this time we are going to the Northland, we will get online with Hongfang first, get to know the details, and then decide how to proceed.
We don't know if there is any remnant of the influence of the original Red Dragon Tribulation. If the situation is good, you can go and gather back our original subordinates.
Now that our identities are different, those aristocratic families can't do anything to me anymore.
As long as the matter of the officiant is resolved, taking advantage of this opportunity to obtain resources is also a good time for us to rebuild the mountain. "
"Cooperate with Red Square, right? Got it, big brother!" The red-haired ghost Zhou He ruthlessly tore off a large piece of meat from the pig's trotter.
"Shangyang's family, Zhen's family... tsk tsk... Especially that girl from Shangyang Jiuli is also along the mountain. I really want to eat her in one go. Let's see how the Shangyang family reacts." Ye Ling Mo smiled.
With his strength, stepping into the current Northland, the aristocratic family evacuated, the area was empty, basically unstoppable.
Isn't this the best opportunity to rebuild Juanren Mansion
As long as this errand can be done beautifully, so that King Wuyou has nothing to say, it is only natural to apply for the suppression of the Northland, stick to a corner, and get resources.