No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

On the first day of June, as usual, everyone went to work in the fields with hoes in the morning light.

The villagers all knew that Shiliang had encountered bandits before, and they also knew that the county government had notified Shiliang and nearby villages to be careful of bandits. When the village leader said that the cult had united with the bandits to form a big gang, the villagers couldn't help but feel sad. , this world is too difficult! But while worrying, we also know that the most important thing is to protect our families and food.

Nowadays, when the men in the village go to the fields, in addition to carrying hoes, they also carry large knives in their waists. If the gong in the village rings, they can quickly change their identities and kill the enemy with their knives. Women should be alert and walk in groups on the field roads.

Li Erlang and others did the same. They moved part of the grain in the granary to several cellars at home in advance, leaving only a small part of the grain in the granary. Moreover, they also prepared dry food in advance. If they heard the signal, the young and old in the family would Immediately hide in the cellar of the study.

Ji Qingyue also volunteered to build a cellar cover for them and help them cover up, completely forgetting that the paintings where he lived had to be put away as well.

The villagers were working in the fields while waiting, but there was no news of the bandits. Even so, no one dared to relax.

Li Erlang looked at the garlic in the field. A month has passed since the seeds were sown. Now the garlic seedlings are one inch long. Soon they will be watered thoroughly again to allow the garlic seedlings to absorb enough water.

Just as he was thinking about something, suddenly, maybe it was his imagination, but the sky seemed darker than before.

Isn’t the sky clear now? Where there will be clouds blocking the sun.

Just as he was about to raise his head, he heard the clang of gongs coming from the village in the distance. It was very rapid. Not long after, gongs were also played in Xia Licun on the other side, and at the same time, someone was whining. Shouting something.

Are the bandits really coming?

Li Erlang quickly drew out the big knife from his back, dropped his hoe and rushed to the roadside.

His first thought was to go home and settle down with his family.

But before he ran far, Li Erlang suddenly woke up. He had noticed that the sky was getting darker and darker, but it was not an illusion!

The light on the earth is really slowly fading.

Immediately, he turned to look up at the sky while running. The dazzling sunlight made him unable to open his eyes, but it was only in the moment when the sun swept across that he saw clearly the reason why the sky became dark!

It turned out to be the Tengu Eclipse!

This is the first time he has seen a vision with his own eyes in so many years!

While panicking, Li Erlang quickly turned around and continued running home.

While running through other fields on the roadside, the people who were working in the fields now knelt on the ground and worshiped devoutly toward the sun.

There were still people on the road kowtowing to the increasingly dim sun and muttering something.

The sound of gongs echoed everywhere, and people kneeled down everywhere.

As soon as Li Erlang ran into the house, he saw Grandma Li and Grandma Li kneeling in the yard, kowtowing to the sky.

"Erlang, it's a solar eclipse, come here and kneel down quickly!"

After seeing that his family members were all fine, Li Erlang breathed a sigh of relief, and then subconsciously looked at the door of the study. He saw Ji Qingyue standing in the study and looking out. There was no panic on his face, but he looked at him leisurely, as if I'm looking to see if he will go to pray for the sun.

He breathed a sigh of relief again, stepped forward and pulled Grandma and Grandma: "Don't kneel down, this is not a vision, nor is it a Tengu eating the sun."

Aniang Li said angrily: "Nonsense! I'm not afraid of gods... uh... blaming...!" What she said was a little false. The biggest "god" in their family was standing at the door of the study.

Grandma Li had her own beliefs. When she saw that Li Erlang couldn't be persuaded, she took Grandma Li to find another place to kneel down again and muttered something.

At this time, Ji Qingyue walked out and came to Li Erlang, folding his arms in front of his chest.

Even if there is a solar eclipse, they still cannot look directly at the sun, so they can only deduce the stage of the solar eclipse from the degree of darkness on the ground.

Li Silang hugged Ji Qingyue's thigh with lingering fear: "Brother Ji, what's going on? Are we going to die?"

Ji Qingyue picked up Li Silang and slowly comforted him with his face close to his. "Your second brother is right. The Tengu eclipse is not a strange phenomenon, but a very normal astronomical phenomenon. The black ball that gradually blocks the sun is our common moon."

"What?" Li Silang gradually forgot his fear and looked in disbelief.

Li Silang was not the only one who was shocked. Li Jinniang and Xu Qing, who were standing in the yard, also had expressions of disbelief.

"Do you still remember the story of 'two children arguing about the sun' that I told you? Can I give you the answer now?"

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The earth lost its light little by little, and everything became dimmer and bleaker. When it turned completely dark and people were shrouded in darkness, only Ji Qingyue's calm voice was left in the yard, slowly flowing. This kind of calmness can soothe people's hearts: "Tengu Eclipses of the sun, purple dimming, Yinghuo Shouxin, star meteors, etc. are all normal astronomical phenomena. Please listen to me explain slowly..."

It's clearly daytime now, but it's like night, and it's almost impossible to see.

In the darkness, Li Erlang stared at Ji Qingyue who was holding his younger brother. The surroundings were clearly dark, but he felt that Ji Qingyue was shining, and the dazzling light made him unable to open his eyes!

"Only couples in this world can never be apart for the rest of their lives..." Aniang's words suddenly rang and echoed in my mind...

Couple...?

"Let me tell you a fairy tale about the moon..." Ji Qingyue's deep voice and gentle articulation made the story fascinating and everyone was transfixed.

"You see, this phenomenon is a total solar eclipse, which means that the sun is completely blocked by the moon..."

They took advantage of this moment to follow what Ji Qingyue said and looked at the sky. The sun had been completely blocked by the "black" ball, leaving only a faint halo in the outer circle.

The long five minutes finally passed. Slowly, bits and pieces of light leaked out from behind the black ball and shone on the earth.

People regain their light.

People on the roadside and in the fields outside the yard suddenly cheered: "Tengu has returned the sun!!"

By the time the sun fully emerged, it was already half an hour later.

Ji Qingyue stood in the yard holding Li Silang for more than an hour and told stories for more than an hour. He finally comforted the family. Even Li Aniang, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but prick up her ears and listen. She fell into In the scientific stories told by Ji Qingyue.

Li Silang got down from Ji Qingyue's arms and hugged his legs a little shyly: "I was just scared just now, but after Brother Ji told me so much, I'm not scared anymore."

"Well, there's nothing to be afraid of."

For ordinary people, the solar eclipse is just a sign that the disaster has not succeeded in coming, and it will be over after it passes. But some people are still uneasy, fearing that the solar eclipse is a prophecy and that great disasters will follow.

Before they could calm down from the solar eclipse and the stories told by Ji Qingyue, government-issued memoranda against banditry were posted in various parts of Dali at the same time, pointing directly at the largest evil cult in the southeast - the Dongri Sect. Let the local governments strangle the local bandits who are linked to the cult.

The contents of the petition against bandits seemed to spread to Shandan and then to various villages in an instant.

After Ji Qingyue heard the content of the appeal, he couldn't help but sigh. The public relations work in ancient times was really excellent. The article was written with passion and brainwashing. It was nothing more than God covering the sun to indicate that the Dongri religion was the leader of a demagogic cult, and the officials wanted bandits. In compliance with destiny, as soon as Balabala came down, everyone's blood was boiling, and they wanted to kill the local bandits.

In compliance with the orders issued by the officials, the biggest trouble Shandan County has to solve is the "Shenqiu Cult" in the Lancang Mountains, which is united with the bandits.

This religion has been widely spread among people because many people in the county saw it with their own eyes in the spring. The man controlled the copper ball from a distance and made it fly back and forth in the air, coming and going freely.

This matter was known by some bandits, and they secretly recruited the owner of the magic ball - the juggler to go up the mountain to become the bandit leader.

The relationship between Ji Qingyue and Li Erlang seemed to have returned to its previous state unknowingly after the solar eclipse, but Ji Qingyue seemed to feel that something was different, but he couldn't say there was any difference.

When Li Erlang mentioned the bronze ball from the "Shenqiu Cult", he was unsure about it. The first thing he did was to ask Ji Qingyue for his opinion.

Ji Qing had seen this kind of trick more and more, and as a staunch materialist inheritor, he was sure that this was a performance similar to street magic. "The copper ball will definitely not fly by itself. There is probably some mechanism or helpers secretly controlling it. You know, the most outrageous street performance I have ever seen was a group of spectators watching the performance. Only one person was a passerby, and the others were all A performer’s helper.”

"Have you ever seen any street jugglers in Yue Lang?"

He thought about it, and realized that domestic and foreign street performance masters had well-informed assistants and shills for their various local escape performances, division techniques such as decapitation, waist and leg decapitation, invisibility and teleportation prophecies, etc.

"It's so magical?"

Ji Qingyue waved his hand: "Those are all lies. If you insist on saying that there is, I'm afraid I am the most magical one." After all, he has become like this, and even if he wants to explain it scientifically, he doesn't know how to make it up. Therefore, his identity must be kept secret from outsiders. It would be bad if he accidentally destroys other people's materialistic beliefs.

Li Erlang smiled: "They are indeed not as magical as Yue Lang."

Since the government's memorandum was posted to various places, a fanatical campaign against banditry broke out, especially against the Dongri Sect in the southeast. After the government suppressed the forces in the south of the Yangtze River, they directly sent a general to order troops to exterminate them. If you believe in the Dongri religion, you must "comply with the destiny", otherwise God will blame you.

This was the third day of posting the proclamation, and the sound of gongs sounded again in the village, but the sound was not urgent, and it seemed to be just conveying some ordinary message. Anyway, Ji Qingyue didn't know how they could distinguish the meaning conveyed in the gongs.

When Ji Qingyue heard the sound of the gong, he immediately followed Li Erlang to the door of the study. He saw Li Adi and Li Changji walking out of their respective bedrooms, carrying a big knife behind them and carrying dry food in front of them. They were ready to go and were saying goodbye to their families.

Li Erlang went up to greet him. Li's father told his second son the same as when he went to the barracks last year: "Erlang, your eldest brother and I will go to suppress the bandits. You can guard your home."

Li Erlang nodded solemnly: "Dad, brother, don't worry!"

Because Lancang Mountain is too wide and too narrow, and a county government can only have 500 soldiers stationed at most, but these 500 people cannot be used at one time, so this is the reason why the county magistrate failed to suppress bandits many times. There are too few people. The place is too big.

But this time is different. I heard that the state government will send troops to assist various places in suppressing bandits. By then, with the soldiers from Shandan, the number of soldiers suppressing bandits should reach 500. However, this number of people is not suitable for the wide and narrow Liao. As far as Cangshan Mountain is concerned, it is still insignificant, and it is not enough to block one mountain pass, so the people from the state capital discussed with the county magistrate, and asked the men from nearby villages to gather and block the necessary mountain passes, and all the soldiers were arranged to go to the mountain to suppress the bandits.

This news was only notified to each village leader this morning, so the village leader hurriedly struck the gong and used the sound of the gong to notify the patrol team to gather.

I heard that just when Muramasa was making announcements, the generals and soldiers to suppress the bandits were already on their way.

Not long after Father Li and the others left, there was movement near Xiali Village. Countless footsteps overlapped from far to near until they passed the courtyard gate of Li Erlang's house.

Those were all uniformed soldiers, holding weapons and wearing leather armor. They were uniform and followed the leading general on horseback at a fast pace.

There was more than one person riding the horse. In addition to the man who looked like a general at first glance, there was also a young man who looked like a noble prince. He was wearing light armor, carrying a broadsword on his back, and holding a spear. He sat upright on the horse and looked away.

Ji Qingyue hid behind Li Erlang, and the two of them stood behind the door and watched the soldiers trotting past.

Li Silang stood at their feet, pointing at the soldiers with a look of admiration: "Are Dad and the others as powerful as they are in the barracks?"

Li Erlang naturally admired soldiers. He rubbed his brother's head and said affirmatively: "Of course! Your second brother will also be so powerful in the future!"

Hearing what he said, Ji Qingyue recalled the second year of Guangde. If Li Erlang knew that he could wrap his body in horse leather and die on the battlefield, would he still be so enthusiastic about going to the battlefield?

The answer is obvious. They have been at the border for a long time, and war is a common thing for them. Little Li Silang may not know many principles of life, but he already knows that as long as he goes to the battlefield, people will die. Li Silang was well aware of the risks on the battlefield, how could Li Erlang not know, but he still wanted to kill the enemy on the battlefield, not only for fame and fame, but also for his family.

No one in the family backed down.

If Li Sanlang was also at home, he would definitely recognize that the noble son who was immediately wearing light armor was none other than Fang Ying'an, the governor of Ganzhou mentioned in the meeting!

Different from the expensive round-neck robe he wore then, this time he was wearing special silver light armor, with cold eyes, staring directly at Lancang Mountain in the distance!

Divine Ball Cult...? I must ask you to live but not to die!

The lieutenant who led the charge tightened the reins, and the horse slowed down, suddenly becoming even with the shadow of the house one body away. The deputy general looked at the noble young master with deep meaning and said in a slightly joking tone: "Master Fang, do you really want to go up the mountain with us?"

Mr. Fang's figure is that of a scholar at first glance. Even though he has some strength, he has definitely not experienced the hardships of fighting. They are going up the mountain. Can Mr. Fang with his body endure the hardships they have?

Fang Ying'an's attitude was cold: "That's natural. Is Vice General Cao worried that I will hold him back? You'd better stop prying into my affairs and just do your job of leading the troops."

Fang Ying'an and Deputy General Cao have no superior-subordinate relationship, nor do they have noble titles. Naturally, Deputy General Cao does not need to be too polite to Fang Ying'an.

Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Vice General Cao just said: "Since Mr. Fang doesn't want to talk, then I kindly ask Mr. Fang to go up the mountain. Don't act rashly. You have to follow my arrangements for everything!"

"It's natural."

After receiving the assurance, Vice General Cao slapped the horse on the buttocks and accelerated the march.