Chapter 64 Spiritual Beast

After leaving the black market, Er Gouzi did not return directly to Daqing Township, but rushed back to Shekou Mountain overnight.

He missed home after being out for so many days.

Compared with the miserable conditions of the villages he saw along the way, Shexi Village was relatively good.

Green crops can still be seen in many places.

Ah Hu's family has been busy for half a year, and the sesame and millet planted in the fields are growing well, and they have begun to harvest.

"The boss is back!"

"The boss is back!"

Seeing Er Gouzi appear, a group of children at the foot of Shekou Mountain ran towards him happily.

These children do not understand the respect and inferiority of the secular world, nor do they understand the wickedness of the secular people, and their faces are still filled with bright smiles.

After being sold by their parents, in their hearts, Er Gouzi is their parent and a piece of sky covering them.

Er Gouzi looked at the group of children laughing and talking in front of him, and a sense of accomplishment rose in his heart.

He took out a handful of red dates from his bag and distributed them to the children in front of him.

"Thank you, Boss!"

"Wow! The dates are so sweet!"

A group of children ran away laughing, and Qiuyue came over and saluted Ergouzi respectfully.

"Hello, Boss!"

"Is everything okay these days I was away?"

"A thief came."

Ergouzi's face changed when he heard this, and he jumped up and rushed to the top of the mountain.

"Quack~Quack..."

A group of geese saw their master coming back, and they all gathered in front of him, spread their wings, stretched their necks, and sucked Ergouzi's clothes.

Ergouzi glanced at the top of the mountain and found that everything was normal. He was relieved and flew down from the top of the mountain again on the back of the goose.

Qiuyue was still waiting for him at the foot of the mountain.

"What happened specifically?"

"A few days ago, a few children picked up some dead mice and birds at the foot of the back mountain and wanted to bring them back to cook and eat."

"Huang Laocai happened to see it, and he said something was wrong..."

This is probably the whole story, and Huang Laocai felt something was wrong.

Then everyone found some scattered rice and other small animals that were poisoned to death in the back mountain.

After that, they added a group of night watchmen at night.

Especially near the back mountain, more than a hundred people hid.

Unfortunately, they still failed to catch anyone in the end.

"Okay, you have done a good job."

"When I am not here in the future, arrange more people to guard at night."

"Absolutely no one can go up the mountain."

"Remember to burn those poisonous rice and poisoned bodies, so that they will not be picked up and eaten by others."

Now there are hundreds of people stationed at the foot of the mountain for a long time. The cliffs of Shekou Mountain are extremely smooth, and there are iron thorns and geese on the top of the mountain.

Under this heavy protection, even if the masters like the county magistrate or the registrar come in person, it is difficult to break through the protection of Shekou Mountain.

Er Gouzi gave an order and flew up Shekou Mountain again.

A small part of the ginseng planted on the top of the mountain was eaten by the geese, but fortunately the loss was not particularly large.

Because the geese have meat dishes delivered to their door every day.

The dead locusts that could not be eaten were spread out in a thick layer on the ground.

Er Gouzi swept up all the dead locusts, mixed some of the locusts stored in the gourd into two large sacks.

He gave all the dead locusts to Qiuyue as their food.

Then he took out the broken heavy sword and threw it to Huang Fugui along with some newly bought Bailian Silver Essence on the black market, asking him to help connect it.

Seeing Huang Fugui grinning as he carried the half-broken sword, he stuffed him with a bottle of Peiyuan Guben Pills.

After Er Gouzi arranged his family affairs, he felt relieved and took the two geese to Daqing Township.

Zhao Xiucai and his three men had arrived a long time ago, and the remaining more than 600 villagers did not disperse. Instead, the number of people was more than before, and more than 1,000 people gathered.

They were all people from nearby. When they heard that they had food to eat, they came to seek refuge in large numbers.

Er Gouzi called all the villagers together and explained the discipline to them again. All escapees would be killed.

Seeing the refugees laughing and swaying, they probably didn't listen.

In the last battle, if the constables hadn't blocked the road and cut off several heads in a row, these people would have escaped without a single one.

They are all a mess, a group of rabble.

"Captain Zhang, what should we do next?"

"Rest for a day, and then set off in the direction of Heishan Town."

Er Gouzi had thought about it on the way here. He wanted to sweep from here to Sanchazi Town.

He couldn't take care of other places, but he had to at least clear the area around Sanchazi Town, which was closer to his home, so that he could take care of it in case of any problems.

If they killed their way through Heishan Town, they could return to Sanchazi Town.

There were more than a thousand of them, walking on the road sparsely and lazily, stretching for a mile or two. The head of the team couldn't see the tail of the team, and the tail of the team couldn't see the head of the team.

Some people disappeared halfway, and some joined in halfway.

This made Er Gouzi a little confused. He didn't know how many people he had and who they were.

Moreover, when passing through some villages and towns, some people took the opportunity to enter the village to rob, and fought with each other after grabbing items.

In short, it was a mess, with no discipline at all.

Fortunately, locusts were not very smart. If they fought against a smart army, they only needed to organize more than a hundred people and defeat the team with one or two surprise attacks.

Er Gouzi has been copying some methods from military books these days and has tasted the sweetness.

Anyway, he had to go to the county black market in a few days to participate in the auction of the pill.

So he was not in a hurry to wipe out the locusts. He took two days to reorganize the team.

First, the personnel were divided into two categories, A and B.

Category A was the main combat personnel, more than 800 people.

Category B was the old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant people who wanted to make a living. The youngest was three or five years old, and the oldest was sixty or seventy years old, more than 300 people.

Category B had no strength to fight locusts, and could only do some miscellaneous work such as picking firewood, making fire and cooking.

Then the two types of people were organized into squads, squads, and hundred teams, with positions of squad leader, squad leader, and centurion respectively.

There were 11 centurions in total, who listened directly to Er Gouzi's orders and then managed them layer by layer.

In this way, the team looked neat and easy to manage. If there was anything, they only needed to find these 11 people.

All of this was done according to the methods described in the military books and strategies. As expected, he still needed to read more books, which were all experiences summed up by others in their lifetime.

He decided to borrow all the books in Zhengwu Hall and read them later.

However, there was another military rule that made him feel a little troubled.

That was whether soldiers could kill and rob villagers.

Regarding this rule, many military books never mentioned it.

Some military books indicated that soldiers could be allowed to rob as a reward, which could boost morale and replenish military supplies.

He also saw in the "History of the Great Zhou Dynasty" that many times, especially before and after the war, generals would allow soldiers to rob for a few days.

Sometimes when military supplies were insufficient, they would directly rob along the way.

Er Gouzi, who had been copying military books and had tasted the sweetness, struggled for a long time when faced with this choice.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and decided not to learn!

One more rule was added to the military rules: no looting in the village, no killing or arson, and those who disobeyed the order would be beheaded.

Er Gouzi had been bullied and beaten since he was a child, and he felt deeply about being bullied.

Through his efforts, he was finally not bullied much, but he did not want to inflict this pain on others.

I once heard my master say: Don't give others what you don't want.

He could not remember this scholar's literary words, but it was probably this meaning.

He had no right to manage those officials who oppressed civilians, but within the scope of his management, he would never allow soldiers to oppress and rob civilians.

This violated the military law, anyway, he was a farmer, not a general.

After the reorganization, only one day later, there were several people who entered the village to rob money, food, and virgin girls.

These people were used to being lax and did not take his rules to heart at all.

Er Gouzi saw that the refugees who were tied up were all honest farmers. When they did evil, they were no different from those officials.

Even though these people cried and begged for mercy.

He still let the constable behead them in front of more than a thousand people.

From then on, these refugees finally behaved well, trembling with fear and following the rules.

In just two or three days, the team changed a lot, and became more serious and orderly.

No wonder he saw in the military book that before the war, some soldiers should be killed to shock people and boost morale.

After the team was reorganized, the time was calculated, and the body of the locust king hidden in the gourd should be taken out to feed the geese.

The two geese saw the locust corpse in the owner's hand and had smelled the smell.

They wanted to eat it, but they wanted to maintain their dignity as geese and were unwilling to please and beg for mercy.

They stood beside Er Gouzi on the left and right, stretched their necks, and raised their proud heads.

But their eyes were always looking at the two pieces of the locust king's body, and their eyes never moved away.

"Hey! Come and eat!"

The two geese suffered from their lack of culture. When they heard the owner say this with a smile, they thought it was a good thing.

They stretched their necks elegantly and swallowed the locust king one by one.

Not long after swallowing the locusts, the two geese suddenly had a strong aura in their bodies, and became extremely violent, bumping around in their bodies.

"Gah~ Gah~"

The two geese flew into the sky, flying around like they were having a seizure, and their feathers fell down one by one.

After a long time, the two geese gradually calmed down, fell to the ground, and fell asleep.

Er Gouzi used his spiritual sense to observe that the two geese were very weak now, but a stronger aura had formed in their bodies.

This aura was somewhat similar to that of the locust king, but not so violent.

I remember seeing a book in Zhengwu Hall saying that everything in the world can be cultivated into immortals.

Human practitioners are called immortals, while animals and plants that practice are called monsters, and the aura in monsters is called monster aura.

It seems that the two geese just swallowed the locust king and successfully produced monster aura in their bodies.

It's like a human warrior being promoted to a qi-training cultivator.

However, everyone is used to calling wild beasts monsters, and domesticated beasts are called spirit beasts.

The two geese had just completed their advancement and were a little weak. They should be fine after a few days of rest.

One big insect king can help two geese advance. I will get more insect king corpses when I have the chance.

After another day of rest, the two geese recovered some strength.

Er Gouzi asked the constable to lead the team temporarily, and he sent the two geese back to Shekou Mountain to recuperate.

He took the reconnected broken sword and headed towards the county town.

The pill on the black market will be auctioned tonight. He has already prepared the money and is determined to get it.