Chapter 57 Initial Placement
"Here we are!"
"Little Bean Sprout, Red Plum, this dilapidated little village ahead is our destination."
Just after noon, Li Dingguo and his party, who had traveled all the way on foot, arrived at the small village they had visited yesterday.
He held the warhorse with one hand and pointed forward with the other, and spoke to Xiao Douya and Hongmei beside him.
"Don't worry about anything."
Seeing the somewhat nervous Xiao Douya and the others, Li Dingguo consoled them, "This small village was long ago destroyed by ghosts and monsters. Now no one lives in it. It is completely abandoned."
"Yesterday morning, the king brought our youth camp soldiers here and killed all the ghosts and monsters here. There will be no danger for the time being."
"Today, Cao Yongxiang and I will conduct a thorough search of this small village to eliminate all safety hazards."
He looked at the little girls who were looking at him, and continued, "If you want to quickly get started with martial arts training, you not only need to have the skills, but also the various resources required for training. You also need a stable environment to learn the basic knowledge about martial arts training."
"In order to have a good training environment without being disturbed by outsiders, I will let Cao Yongxiang take you out of the city and escort you to this remote village, so that you can practice hard and become a warrior as soon as possible."
"I will deliver all the food and cultivation resources you need on time from now on. I won't let you go hungry."
"If one of you has outstanding talents and can break through through training to become a warrior, then congratulations, you have already made a preliminary change in your miserable fate."
"There is a threshold for practicing martial arts. If you want to get started, it depends on your own qualifications and talents."
"With the cultivation method and sufficient cultivation resources, those who are still unable to generate Qi and blood power after half a month do not need to continue to cultivate."
"This is because your physique and talent do not meet the entry requirements of martial arts, which limits you from becoming a martial artist."
"But I can tell you responsibly that even if some of you cannot become warriors, you can still be responsible for the logistics of this team and make contributions to your small group. You don't have to worry about being abandoned by everyone in the future."
"In a team surviving in troubled times, combat personnel are important, but logistics work is equally important."
Li Dingguo patiently explained to these orphan girls who had miserable life experiences and were helpless.
To prevent some people from having wild thoughts and seriously disrupting the order here.
After briefly explaining the ultimate purpose of this trip to everyone, Li Dingguo led everyone along the path at the village entrance and walked into the dead silent little village at a moderate pace.
They came to this small village yesterday after the battle. In order to find some tools and ropes to tie up the branches of the big locust tree monster, Li Dingguo and his men took the opportunity to take a general look at the small village.
This small village was similar to other large and small villages in the Ming Dynasty. Although most people in the village were poor, there was also a wealthy landlord among them.
Li Dingguo and Cao Yongxiang entered the mansion of the local tyrant landlord yesterday and found that all kinds of daily necessities were basically available inside. Even various stored grains filled several warehouses of moderate size.
Obviously, when the evil spirit attacked, it killed all the people in this small village in a very short period of time, and not even a single pig, cattle, sheep, cat, dog, chicken or duck was left!
This is the scary thing about those ghosts: all living creatures of flesh and blood are on their menu!
After those evil spirits were eliminated by Li Dingguo and his men, only mummies were left in every household in the village, which was really chilling to look at!
"Stay here for now and don't run around. Cao Yongxiang and I will go in and check and clean up this local tycoon's mansion."
"Then we will all work together to give this nice big house a thorough cleaning."
"Xiao Douya, Hongmei, you will be living here for at least two months from now on. You two must take good care of everyone's daily hygiene. This is very important."
"Otherwise, if diseases or plagues arise, the consequences will be disastrous."
After arriving at the destination, the group stood in front of the main entrance of a large mansion built mainly of blue bricks, and Li Dingguo gave instructions to everyone.
"Yes! Boss!"...
After everyone agreed, Li Dingguo and Cao Yongxiang walked into the unlocked main gate of the mansion in front of them.
"Cao Yongxiang, go find some rags and wrap our hands with them so that it will be easier for us to do what we are doing next."
"The two of us will first collect the mummies that were killed by evil spirits and take them to a remote place outside the house. Then we will find a suitable place to dig a big pit and bury them first."
If you want to stay here temporarily, you must first clear out the mummies left behind by evil spirits in this nice mansion.
Then a general cleaning will be carried out, sweeping the entire house.
Otherwise, living here will always make people feel disgusted and uncomfortable.
As for why they didn't let Xiao Douya and the others come to help? It was because they were too weak to lift even a mummy, so they couldn't help much. It wasn't that they were afraid.
Things like the annihilation of an entire village were commonplace in their wandering and begging lives.
Although they had not seen this kind of mummies before, they had seen many people who died in various ways.
Their little hearts have long been numb, and they will not be frightened by the mummies here.
"Oh."
Cao Yongxiang left in a hurry, and soon came back with a piece of cloth from a side room.
He tore the cloth into four pieces in a few seconds and handed two pieces to Li Dingguo. The two of them then wrapped their hands with the pieces of cloth.
The two men then separated and dragged the dried-up corpses, which had lost all their blood, from the rooms one by one to the outside of the gate of the mansion, and placed them in a remote wasteland nearby.
Li Dingguo, who was extremely strong, used the spiritual spear in his hand as a tool to dig a big pit. Together with Cao Yongxiang, he buried all the mummies in the pit and finally filled it up.
After the two of them finished dealing with the mummies, they returned to the mansion left by the local tycoon and saw Xiao Douya and Hongmei directing more than 20 little girls to clean up this huge building which covered an area of more than ten acres.
"Xiangzi, let's go and help too. Let's try to clean this place up before evening."
Li Dingguo said something to Cao Yongxiang, and then went with him to find some suitable tools and started working.
Both of them are warriors. Not only are they very strong, they also have great endurance.
This kind of rough work was not unfamiliar to the two of them, so they acted very efficiently.
By noon, Hongmei had already prepared lunch with two little girls who were good at cooking.
This small village was destroyed by evil spirits so suddenly that all kinds of daily necessities are still there.
It hasn’t been long since this small village was completely destroyed, probably less than a month, and most things are still usable.
It will be very convenient for Xiao Douya and the others to live here temporarily in the future.
After everyone had lunch and took a break, they took the time to continue working.
By dusk, most of the landlord's mansion had been completely renovated.
There are still some areas that have not been cleaned, so we can clean them up tomorrow.
……
"Xiao Douya, Hongmei, I have to hurry back today. Otherwise, I won't be able to explain to the king."
"Xiangzi, you stay here to protect everyone. Don't go back to the county town until someone among Xiao Douya and the others breaks through and becomes a warrior."
Li Dingguo explained to the people who gathered around him, "If anyone asks about your whereabouts, Xiangzi, I will find an excuse to fool them."
"The king has finished training our young soldiers personally. He will not come to check on us often in the future, nor will he check on the number of people in the short term."
"But I have to go back to the city. After all, I am the focus of attention in this youth camp. I want to avoid arousing their suspicion."
"Oh, and..."
He looked at Cao Yongxiang and said, "Xiangzi, while you are here to protect Xiao Douya and the others, teach them how to read and write, and teach everyone the basic knowledge about martial arts training as soon as possible."
"If nothing unexpected happens, I will find time to hunt a monster tomorrow. With the nourishment of monster meat, Xiao Douya and the others can practice the Tiger Roar Fist."
He then gave a few words of advice to Cao Yongxiang, Xiao Douya and Hongmei, and walked out of the yard leading the big black horse beside him.
"drive……"
As everyone watched, Li Dingguo rode his spirit beast warhorse farther and farther away, and soon left the small village and disappeared at the end of the dirt road in the distance...
(End of this chapter)
