Chapter 37: Thousands of Miles of Red Land
"Thank you, aunt. I will return the spirit stone as soon as possible."

Ye Yang put away the two cloth bags, feeling their heavy weight, and a sense of satisfaction welled up in his heart.

"You should also sign this contract. The loan must be repaid within three years, with 2% interest."

Ye Yang frowned again. The interest rate of 2% was not low. It meant that he would have to pay back 1,200 spirit stones in three years.

Generally speaking, the interest rate of usury on the black market is only three or four percent.

"Why, you are not thinking of lending it to you for free, are you, my dear nephew? You have never been the head of a household, so you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, cooking oil and smoke are. The Yu Mansion may look like a large and wealthy family, but in fact, I dare not count the daily expenses for people and horses."

Ye Yang took a look at the huge Yu Mansion, smiled and said: "My aunt is right, I will sign it now."

Ye Li had already prepared paper, pen, ink and other things. Ye Yang pressed a red fingerprint on it, making two copies. After Ye Li took one, she left.

From beginning to end, there was no mention of Yu Hu or inviting Ye Yang to dinner.

Ye Yang no longer had the heart to hang around in Yu Mansion, so he took 1,200 spirit stones and prepared to return to Feitian Gate.

There was a conversation behind him.

"Mother, I heard that a distant cousin is here?"

"Yes."

How come there is another one? In just a few months, there are more than a dozen foreign cousins ​​coming here."

"This is different, it's a kiss."

"Then why don't you let me go and see him?"

"The Yu family is now a big family, and your father is going to be promoted. There are too many people who want to claim kinship with you. It's better not to recognize anyone randomly, or there might be more trouble in the future."

"Ok."

"Silly boy, hurry up and eat. Today the kitchen cooked snow clam stewed with flying dragon. I specially invited the spiritual chef from the North Country to make it. If you go too late, it will be gone..."

The tail sound gradually fades away.

When Ye Yang raised his head and looked straight ahead, he suddenly realized that he had been out of Yu Mansion for a while.

The spirit stone in his hand still felt heavy.

“Money is the courage of a hero and the spirit of a champion. A poor man in a busy city can’t catch his relatives and friends even with ten steel hooks; a rich man in a remote mountain can’t disperse his ungrateful guests and friends even with swords, guns and clubs.”

This was quite a good point. Ye Yang laughed at himself. In fact, he had been an orphan and had been looked down upon a lot along the way, so he had a very thick skin.

When he first asked his aunt Ye Li to borrow spirit stones, he had already anticipated what would happen today.

But faced with the huge sum of thousands of spirit stones, the only person he could think of who could lend him money was Ye Li.

Bai Zizhen didn't want to waste favors. After all, favors were valuable and could be of greater use in the future.

Besides, Bai Zizheng has already given him a lot of help in terms of cultivation resources over the years, so he really shouldn't bother him anymore.

Even though he is very popular in the sect, that is because there is no conflict of interest among everyone. Once there is a conflict of interest, many things will become difficult to say.

Even if he could borrow it, the price he would pay would be much greater than these two sarcastic remarks.

He knows very well that the reason why most people fail is because they are too thin-skinned and too arrogant.

As the saying goes, if you are thick-skinned, you will never get enough. This is the reason.

Therefore, he has always been proud of his thick skin.

……

After leaving Yu Mansion, Ye Yang did not delay and immediately rode back to Feitian Gate.

Because he had a huge amount of money with him, he did not stop for too long along the way and soon arrived at the "Sunset Danxia", the headquarters of Feixianmen.

He found a stream, tied the horse to a tree, ate some dry food with the stream water, and rested for a while.

At this moment, a big knife came out from behind him and hit him directly on the shoulder.

"Who!" Ye Yang exclaimed. The Seven-Ring Knife was already in his hand. He flicked it with his backhand and used a soft move to cut off the steel knife directly, followed by another horizontal slash.

He immediately cut off a bloody arm, which fell into the stream, dyeing a large area of ​​the water red.

"It's not very strong."

Ye Yang turned around and found three people standing behind him. The three people were stunned with horror at Ye Yang's ferocious and smooth moves.

"Who are you?"

The three people in front of him had messy hair, which was tangled because they hadn't washed it for a long time. They wore a black Hercules armor diagonally on their bodies, which was extremely ill-fitting and no one knew where it was taken from.

Looking at the outfits of the three people, Ye Yang already had some guesses in his mind.

The man whose arm was chopped off showed a hint of nervousness in his eyes and said, "We are swordsmen."

A swordsman is a warrior who uses a sword as his weapon. "Ke" is a respectful title, but it actually refers to fierce and bandit-like people, big robbers and thieves.

"Why are there bandits near Feitian Gate?"

Ye Yang was surprised. He thought about it carefully and found that he often encountered bandits and evil cultivators when he went down the mountain.

As for the homeless refugees, there were even more of them. It could be said that there were starving people everywhere, and children were sold. From time to time, one could see corpses being eaten by wild dogs in the wilderness.

A severe natural disaster struck Jiuyangzhou and several surrounding prefectures and states, leaving thousands of miles of barren land with no harvest. The people had no place to live and had to flee everywhere.

Some of the remnants of the vassal states that were originally eliminated by the Dayun Dynasty also fled their old sites and arrived at Yalongling because they refused to be educated.

Fortunately, the situation in the sect’s hinterland is much better than that in the outside world.

But now it seems that the refugees have also moved towards the hinterland.

"Master, we are good citizens. We attacked you because we were forced into a corner. We didn't expect to run into a great Bodhisattva like you."

"Get out of here!"

"Yes, thank you, sir. Best wishes to you. We will leave now."

The leader covered his arm and turned around. At this moment, he opened his mouth and spat out a poisoned date-pit nail, and hit Ye Yang directly.

The other two also came to hunt Ye Yang.

"I've been on guard against you."

Ye Yang brandished the seven-ring knife, and with a clang, the jujube-core nail was knocked into the stream.

Ye Yang no longer had any mercy in his heart. These people attacked him from behind and now he had chopped off one of their hands. It could be said that they were mortal enemies and there was no reconciliation.

Although the possibility of revenge is very small given the strength and background of these people, Ye Yang does not want to take the risk, and does not want to give others any possibility of threatening him.

Ye Yang originally wanted to kill these people on the spot to prevent any future trouble.

However, considering my identity as a refugee, I can never let go of my humanity.

At this moment, the other party attacked him again, and there was no mercy in his heart.

Three sharp knife lights flashed, and the three men were beheaded.

Ye Yang searched the other person's pockets and only found a few scattered spirit stones.

He shook his head and didn't take it seriously. If these people really had spirit stones, they wouldn't have become bandits.

Ye Yang rode on the horse and looked at the bag of spirit stones on the horse's back, wondering if this thing had aroused the envy of others.

Just in case, Ye Yang slapped his horse's butt hard, quickened his speed, and headed towards Feitian Gate.

……

After returning to the sect, Ye Yang returned the horse and did not go into the house. Instead, he walked around the old house outside.

He carefully calculated the spirit stone in his hand.

(End of this chapter)