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"That year there was too little food, my father gave all the food to me and my mother, and he was afraid that we would die in front of us, so he walked out of Taicheng alone and waited for death outside the city, but he was afraid of dying in the darkness. The corpse would frighten the occasional passerby, so he buried himself in the snow, and was not found until the day passed and the snow melted."
The middle-aged man told this, as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with him. He always had a simple and honest smile on his face, while sorting out the food bags, he told it slowly.
Ji Xia quietly listened to the middle-aged man's words, her face was calm, but her eyes were like boulders thrown into the pool, and many ripples appeared.
He asked, "Uncle clan, how much food do you think you can eat every day?"
Hearing Ji Xia's words, the middle-aged man waved his hands again and again: "I think your clothes are so beautiful, you should be the son of a high official, right? We don't want to eat enough, two meals of porridge a day is enough, Anyway, the human race is the same everywhere, life is hard!"
Ji Xia shook her head, her eyes were firm, and she asked, "Uncle clan, how much food can you eat for an adult who hasn't practiced?"
Seeing Ji Xia's serious expression, the middle-aged man stopped what he was doing, and after thinking for a while, he hesitated: "To tell you the truth, I have never eaten enough in my life, as an adult man, I have a big appetite. If you are full, you should eat a full pound of grain every day, right? I’m not sure, maybe eight taels is enough.”
After he finished speaking, he grinned again, as if to laugh at himself for being an idiot.
Ji Xia took a deep breath and said, "Uncle clan, do you believe there will be a day when you will be full?"
The middle-aged man was tired of being asked, he waved his hand, turned around and walked to the place where the grain was packed, and the voice came: "Life is still long, there will always be one or two times when I'm full, it's useless for me to eat, too much. Cang everyone needs to have enough to eat."
Ji Xia watched the middle-aged man get busy again from a distance, stood there and pondered for a long time, and then slowly walked out of the granary.
The ministers behind him may have seen that Ji Xia was in a low mood, but he was hanging far away and did not dare to approach.
Outside the granary, the sun was shining brightly. Ji Xia looked at the busy and happy people of Taicang, and cursed in her heart: "There is not much food here that belongs to you. What are you foolishly happy about?"
He glared fiercely at the three suns above his head, and then looked at his lovely people again: "I don't believe that there are plug-ins that can't make you full! Let's make you laugh enough!"
Chapter 36 Vase of Ten Thousand Foods
Jixia's bedroom.
Eight people are gathered around the table looking at a small bottle above.
Seven of the eight people were the seven who watched the jade slips that day. Meng Gui was retreating and cultivating, attacking the realm of the Nine Heavens, and the other one was Dr. Nong Gu Shu.
"Lord, are you really sure that such a small bottle can pour out a lot of rice?" Gu Shu narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the small bottle in front of him, and there was an undisguised excitement in his tone.
"The lord of the country is walking with strong winds, and what the strong winds bestow naturally cannot be inferred from common sense." Lu Yu stroked her beard with a strong smile on her face.
He was worried about Tai Cang's food problem yesterday and couldn't sleep at night. Unexpectedly, today, the king gave him a huge surprise. If it is true as Ji Xia said, this bottle can dump a lot of rice and solve Tai Cang's problems. If it is urgent, then he will wake up laughing even if he is dreaming.
Po Xian, who was on the side, didn't look at the side with much joy. Instead, Ji Xia, who was a little nervous, asked, "The lord, does this baby have any restrictions?"
Ji Xia nodded, picked up the treasure bottle, and said: "If it is really possible to pour out countless grains without any restrictions, what else can I ask you to do, just hang it in the granary directly. This treasure bottle is called the Treasure Bottle of Ten Thousand Grains. In theory, countless rice can be poured out, but before the rice is poured out, it needs to devour enough spiritual crystals."
"I asked you to come here, just to ask you, as an important official of Tai Cang, do you have a collection of spiritual crystals in private? Almost all of the spiritual crystals in the treasury were taken to beg the dove dog, and there are not many left. already."
Lu Yu, Zhao Qu, and Gu Shu shook their heads in unison, and Zhao Qu said: "Our cultivation base is too weak. Before breaking through the earth barrier, we cannot absorb the spiritual energy from the spiritual crystal, so there is no collection."
The two ministers, Ze and Qing, also shook their heads and said, "The spirit crystal in our hands was given to the treasury last time as a gift to seek peace with the dove dog."
Ji Qianqing nodded her head and said, "The former king gave me many spiritual crystals before, but I used a lot of them, and now there are only eight left."
Po Xian is more straightforward: "I still have thirty."
Hearing the words of the two, Ji Xia's face finally showed a hint of joy, and said: "Then let's try this treasure bottle to see how much food can be poured out."
Everyone looked at the Myriad Grain Treasure Vase, and saw that it had a dark background, and many brown lines were engraved on the black bottle. Looking closely, the lines depicted an acre of land.
Ji Xia took out a small wooden box from the cabinet next to the bed.
He solemnly opened the wooden box, and a blue light shot out the moment he opened the wooden box, adding some color to the originally monotonous bedroom.
It is the spirit crystals that emit light. Each spirit crystal is about the size of a thumb and emits a faint blue light. Hundreds of them gather together, and the light becomes a bit dazzling.
Ji Xia felt a surging spirit energy from it. Each spirit crystal contained a large amount of spirit energy. After the cultivator broke through the earth barrier, he could obtain power from the spirit crystal. If there are a lot of spirit crystals, Cultivation will also do more with less.
It is a pity that spirit crystals are very precious. There are very few ordinary countries that can supply spirit crystals indefinitely. Therefore, between stronger cultivators and countries, spirit crystals have become hard currency, and many transactions are made with spirit crystals. Finish.
The Myriad Grain Treasure Vase on the side seemed to be able to sense the breath of the spirit crystals. When the wooden box filled with spirit crystals was opened, the lines on the treasure bottle also emitted a faint brown light, which merged with the light of the spirit crystals, which was extremely beautiful.
Ji Xia picked up the vase, and then picked up a spirit crystal, hesitatingly said: "I don't know how to feed the spirit crystal to this treasure bottle of ten thousand grains."
The Aquarius of Ten Thousand Grains seemed to be able to understand his words, the brown lines vibrated strangely, and then like slender worms, wriggling and falling off the aquarium.
They were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they all flew through the void and landed on the spiritual crystal in Ji Xia's hand, wrapping it tightly.
The piece of spiritual crystal was wrapped in lines and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, but after a few breaths, the spiritual essence beneath those lines had disappeared.
"It's amazing!" Dr. Nong Gu Shu was amazed: "The treasure bestowed by the wind is truly extraordinary, as if it had life."
"Dafeng is an ancient god in the boundless wilderness. His power is beyond our imagination. The things he bestows are naturally very strange." Lu Yu nodded and stroked his beard.
After the line swallowed the spirit crystal, it rushed to the treasure bottle of ten thousand grains at a very fast speed. All that is illusory.
"This treasure bottle is amazing. It can understand my words." Ji Xia held the treasure bottle and said to her heart: "I just don't know how much food can be produced by swallowing a spirit crystal."
"The Lingjing was swallowed, how do you dump the grain now?" Gu Shu's eyes lit up. As a Dr. Agriculture, he was again guilty of dereliction of duty this time, so he was extremely hopeful that the Treasure Bottle of Ten Thousand Grains would really be able to dump the grain. , so that more people can survive the solitude.
Ji Xia walked to the empty place in the palace where he handles government affairs, held the vase tightly, and thought to himself: "The vase of ten thousand grains, dump the grain!"
Suddenly, the treasure bottle of Myriad Grain was blazing brightly, breaking free from Ji Xia's hands and flying to the side of the chandelier in the king's bedroom, and the fluctuation of spiritual energy quickly overflowed.
I saw that the treasure bottle suddenly became bigger, and in the blink of an eye, it had become ten feet tall!
Ji Xia and the other ministers looked at the treasure bottle suspended in the void with strong anticipation in their eyes, because this was the only way to make Tai Cang die less.
Ironically, the lives and deaths of countless people in Tai Cang are now pinned on this huge bottle in the sky.
"A single spirit crystal should be able to dump [-] catties of grain, right? It's also because the surrounding countries have too few fields for cultivation. I heard that in a country with fertile land thousands of miles away, a single spirit crystal can buy [-] catties of grain. !" Gu Shu said.
"If you go to Dafu to buy it, it is estimated that you can buy more than [-] catties, but the Dafu is too far away, and it has to pass through many vicious countries. When it is transported to Taicang, not only the food will be gone, but even the sergeant who transports the food will have to die, and the gain is not worth the loss. "Lu Yu sighed.
"If ten thousand catties of grain can be poured out, that would be very impressive. With almost 140 spiritual crystals, nearly 140 million catties of grain can be poured out," Gu Shu said.
Ji Xia looked at his empty bedroom and said, "My bedroom is huge, and it should be able to accommodate [-] catties of grain."
The treasure bottle that had been suspended in the void for a long time finally moved. I saw a burst of white air flow out from the mouth of the bottle. The bottle was rotated, the mouth of the bottle was downward, and the bottom of the bottle was upward.
Immediately afterwards, in the anticipation and apprehension in the eyes of everyone, a note of rice was poured out of the huge bottle mouth!
"The king really didn't tease me!" Zhaoqu smiled and couldn't help but say what was in his heart.
"Master Zouzhu, do you think I was teasing you before?" Ji Xia stared at the food pouring out, and her tone was extremely pleasant.
"The lord, you are really my lucky star!" Dr. Nong Gu Shu burst into tears and knelt down to Ji Xia: "If it weren't for you, Tai Cang wouldn't even be able to survive the catastrophe of the pigeons and dogs a few days ago! Now It is my great fortune that the lord of the country has such treasures again!"
Ji Xia picked up Dr. Nong, but his eyes were still fixed on the treasure bottle, and he hesitated: "Don't be too happy, if a single spirit crystal can only produce a thousand catties of grain, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?"