Chapter 389 Brother Tao's One-Day Trip to Holy Soul Village
Two days passed quietly.
During this period, Tang San, together with Xiao Lan, looked after the "hybrid" rice in Zhou Qing's fields; Xiao Wu was responsible for the publicity and establishment of the Ministry of Culture; Romantina led the young and strong people from various villages to conduct corresponding training outside the Workers and Peasants Council venue.
And what about Zhou Qing?
Outside the half-demolished Spirit Hall office, elementary education was being provided to children from various villages.
"Zhou Qing!"
When he was called, Zhou Qing immediately looked up and saw Su Yuntao not far away. He immediately stopped teaching, walked over to him, and said with a smile: "Brother Tao, you are here."
"I didn't expect that your village actually demolished the Spirit Hall office." Su Yuntao looked at the Spirit Hall office with half of the roof gone, and the corner of his mouth twitched. "Although under normal circumstances, the offices in small villages are unattended and managed by the village heads themselves, but this is too..."
"Brother Tao, don't mind. We plan to rebuild it and build an enlightenment school to teach the children in the village to read and write in advance." Zhou Qing explained with a smile, and asked Aunt Wang and other village women who were not far away to help look after these children. He prepared to take Su Yuntao to the Workers and Peasants' Council.
"Don't worry, go ahead. We will take good care of these little kids." Aunt Wang agreed while she was bare-breasted and feeding her newborn baby.
Taking Su Yuntao to the stream, they walked along the spacious black soil path, and passed by the Lingyun turtle that opened its mouth wide and waited to be fed. Zhou Qing threw a peach into its mouth.
"This is the Lingyun Turtle!"
Su Yuntao was so shocked that his martial spirit possessed him. Two spirit rings, one white and one yellow, appeared. "Looking at the size of this turtle, it must be nearly three hundred years old. Also, why are there plants growing on its back? Don't only thousand-year-old spirit turtles have plants?"
"Don't be nervous, Brother Tao. It won't hurt anyone. It was a pet raised by the Soul Saint of the Holy Soul Village back then." Zhou Qing briefly explained the origin of the Lingyun Turtle.
"So that's how it is." Su Yuntao then put away his martial spirit and spirit rings, "But, you still have to be careful, the spirit beasts are quite wild."
"Speaking of which, Brother Tao, is the legend about the Lingyun turtle eating people true?"
"I've also heard this rumor from Matthew Nuo. The Lingyun turtle that stole the corn didn't actually bite the child to death. It just scared the child and made him cry. Later, it fled into the stream. The one that was caught later had its shell intact, so we thought the villagers were exaggerating... But now it seems, this is the one? The city lord and hall lord caught the wrong turtle." Su Yuntao was filled with emotion. He never thought that the rumors about the Lingyun turtle were actually true, and there were two of them.
It's a pity that the Lingyun turtle that didn't steal the corn became the scapegoat for this one.
The Lingyun turtle, whose shell was smashed by the villagers, actually found plants in advance and planted them in order to survive.
Today, this turtle can actually live in harmony with the villagers in Holy Soul Village and surrounding villages.
How strange!
Then, Su Yuntao took out a dry biscuit from his arms and threw it lightly. The spinning dry biscuit fell into the mouth of Lingyun Turtle, which had already chewed the peach that Zhou Qing threw to it.
Bah.
The Lingyun Turtle closed its mouth, tore off a piece of the biscuit, chewed it twice, and swallowed it, and then swallowed the rest of the biscuit.
Unlike other soul beasts, the Lingyun Turtle is an omnivore that eats both meat and vegetables. Especially after the golden tree behind it grows stronger and stronger, the Lingyun Turtle prefers to eat vegetarian food rather than meat.
However, if you throw meat to it, it will eat it and not waste any of it.
Afterwards, Su Yuntao followed Zhou Qing to the workers and peasants' meeting place.
Looking at the natural mountain wall——watching the people coming and going——
Su Yuntao felt as if he were in another world. He couldn't imagine that in just one year since he last came, the thirty or so villages near Nottingham City were connected together.
It’s incredible!
Follow Zhou Qing into the cave in the mountain wall.
The entrance of the cave was dark, but there seemed to be light. It was very narrow at first, but only just wide enough for one person to pass through. After walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly became clear.
The interior is open, with houses built along the walls around it. In the center is a clear lake, which seems to be connected to an underground river and has waves from time to time.
When we entered that circle of buildings, we found that they were all connected inside. We could hear the cries of various vegetable and meat vendors, and even some selling chickens, ducklings, and puppies.
For a moment, Su Yuntao actually felt as if he was buying vegetables at the Nottingham market. The only difference was that there were far fewer vegetable vendors, butchers, and customers here than in the city.
"What do you think, Brother Tao, our countryside is a unique place, right?" Zhou Qing asked with a smile.
"Indeed, I have never seen such a prosperous countryside." Su Yuntao himself came from a small village in the countryside, but he had never seen such an orderly place.
A year ago, even in Holy Soul Village, only the conditions of the farmland were better than those in other villages, but now it seems that there is a trend of developing into a town.
Zhou Qing!
He really is capable of great things!
Afterwards, Zhou Qing took Su Yuntao to the venue of the Workers and Peasants' Council. Since the original house had been renovated and the space was not very large, children of school age from more than 30 villages were already queuing outside, and their parents also lined up in turn, following their children.
Looking at the long line of children arranged from low to high according to their heights, Su Yuntao was amazed.
Before, when he went to villages with larger populations to help with awakening martial spirits, although those children also lined up under his orders, they were in disorder with some rushing to be the first in line, while others wanted to be the last one in line. How could there be a situation like this where they lined up in such an orderly manner from low to high?
When the parents along the way saw Su Yuntao, they all bowed to him. After all, it was Su Yuntao who went to their village to help awaken their martial spirits in previous years, so his appearance was naturally remembered by the villagers.
Unfortunately, Su Yuntao didn't know any of the villagers in these villages, but he nodded slightly to them one by one.
This time, Su Yuntao had to help awaken children. Counting on an average of five children from each village, there were a total of 155 of them... His soul power alone was naturally not enough, so Zhou Qing also helped with the awakening. After Su Yuntao's soul power was exhausted, he began to issue martial soul certificates to the children with innate soul power.
Among these 155 children, there are seven who possess innate soul power.
This is good news for Su Yuntao.
You know, ever since he took on the task of awakening the martial spirits of children of appropriate age in the villages around Notting City, only one or two children with innate spirit power would appear every two or three years.
The best time was last year, when Zhou Qing and Tang San, two people with innate full soul power, appeared in the Holy Soul Village.
But is this a burst of luck?
There were actually seven children with innate soul power! And four of them were from the Holy Soul Village!
(End of this chapter)
