Outside the Dragon Soul Base.
Ye Chen and the members of the Dragon Soul Base stood next to a rice field that was specially cultivated. The field was approximately two acres. According to Li Ying, the Dragon Soul Base had specially cultivated it. It was mainly self-sufficient.
Apart from the rice field, there were orchards, vegetable fields, and even livestock. Apart from carrying out missions, they would do farm work and train. It was the rule that the Dragon King had set.
At that moment, the rice field before them was filled with water. A man and a cow were busy in the field. Within half an hour, they had plowed more than half of the rice field that was close to two acres.
Who else could it be other than the Dragon King and Yellow Ox?
Ye Chen watched that, feeling rather stunned. Subsequently, he turned his head and said to Li Ying next to him, "I didn't know that the Dragon King has such a hobby."
The dignified Dragon Soul King was like an ordinary farmer plowing the fields. No one would believe it if word of this got out.
Li Ying smiled awkwardly and dared not say anything.
In reality, not only did Ye Chen think so, but they thought so too. Putting aside the Dragon King's identity, the man in the field was really like an ordinary old farmer.
Half an hour had passed, and the two acres of paddy field had been plowed. The Dragon King led Yellow Ox ashore and sat barefooted under a big tree. He took out a tobacco pipe and started smoking. His face was full of satisfaction and contentment.
Li Ying got the rest to disperse. She went to the canteen to remind them to cook. She even cut some grass for Yellow Ox. At that moment, only the two of them and a cow were left.
"Do you want a puff?"
The Dragon King squatted on the ground and passed the pipe to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen shook his head lightly.
He did not mind. After taking a deep puff, he lifted his eyes to take a good look at the field before him. He said, "It's great.
Do you think I'm weird? "
He mumbled to himself. Before Ye Chen could speak, he looked at Bi Tian and Qiushui. "Don't you think that plowing the field is the greatest and most fulfilling thing in this world?
"Humans, the meaning of life is to live, and to live a better life. Fields and land are the gifts of God to humans."
He smoked his pipe. "Therefore, in my opinion, farming and farming have summed up the tens of thousands of years of human civilization in China. People live because of the land, and when they die, they return to the land and turn into soil to nourish the next generation!"
"However, there are some people who were born on the land. After becoming a fish that leaped over the dragon gate and gained the ability to climb the heavens, they changed. They despised the land and life. They felt that they didn't need the land anymore. They felt that they could control nature and the world."
"Dragon King, what are you trying to say?" Ye Chen asked.
The Dragon King slowly raised his head and looked at him. The wrinkles on his face were like withered tree bark. "Don't call me Dragon King. My name is Niu Qingshan, but they all call me Niu Batian. I don't like this title because I was born in the late Qing Dynasty. I was the son of a farmer. My parents were tenant farmers in the northwestern region."
"My future should have been to inherit the fate of being poor, ignorant, and lowly. I should have continued herding cattle for the landlord, ploughing the land, planting crops, marrying a similarly poor woman to carry on the family line, and let my son continue like this …"
"But everything changed."
Perhaps he was smoking too fast, but he coughed a few times and said, "The Qing Dynasty was over. A man called Sun Wen overthrew the Qing Dynasty with the slogan of overthrowing feudalism and saving the country. He gave the fruit to Yuan Datou as soon as he was done."
"In the end, the society that he once saved became even more chaotic!"
"The war between the warlords began. I still remember that I was only 16 that year. Our lives were even worse. My family used their connections to introduce me to an auto repair shop in the city as an apprentice."
"The boss was very strict and always scolded me. However, I knew that he was actually very kind. Every time I went to eat after I finished my work, there would be no rice left in the pot. The boss would call me over and scold me with a stern face. He would then give me a bowl of rice with two slices of braised pork on it."
Ye Chen did not say a word and listened quietly.
"I had only worked in the auto repair shop for a month when the boss was shot to death by a group of people!"
Niu Qingshan puffed a smoke ring. "The reason was that the boss's daughter tried to seduce them, and they killed the others. I was feeding the little red horse that the boss bought for his daughter in the backyard. After hearing the gunshots, the horse went crazy and collapsed the ground. I fell into the boss's cellar, and that was how I survived.
"I hid in the cellar for three days and three nights. I ate moldy sweet potatoes when I was hungry, and I drank underground water when I was thirsty. I only snuck out after I was sure that everything was fine. They were all dead. The boss was dead, the boss's daughter was dead, and the apprentices who bullied me were dead too!
"I'll never forget the boss's eyes that were wide open after he died. I'll never forget the scene of the others lying in a pool of blood. I ran out of the city like a madman. I didn't want to be rich anymore. I didn't want to earn money to get married. I just wanted to go home.
"In the end, I fell sick as soon as I left the city. I was very sick. I thought I was going to die at that time. When I woke up, I realized that I was lying in an old Taoist priest's embrace. Meanwhile, there were three kids who were a few years younger than me standing before the old Taoist priest. They were looking at me with numb, lifeless eyes."
There was reminiscence and tears in Niu Qingshan's eyes as he spoke to this point. "The old Taoist priest was my master later on. The other three kids were my junior brothers. I'll never forget that when I woke up, the first thing master asked was, 'Are you hungry, kid?'
"At that time, I nodded and said I wanted to eat meat. The master laughed and took out money to buy a few barbecued pork buns for us. The master's appearance reduced the fear in my heart a lot. His smile and his kind countenance made me see the shadow of the repair shop owner again."
"That night, master took us to a warlord's house as guests. The warlord was called Commander Ma. He was ferocious. He called my master Master Qin and set up a very sumptuous banquet. My junior brothers and I didn't dare to look at him, let alone eat."
Niu Qingshan flicked the pipe on his shoe and continued after taking a puff, "At the banquet, I saw the person who killed the repair shop owner. It was Commander Ma's adjutant. I also saw the repair shop owner's daughter, Sister Hong. I called out to her on the spot, but Sister Hong kept saying that she didn't know me. I panicked and told her about the repair shop. I even said that the adjutant was the murderer. Sister Hong cried and said that her name wasn't Sister Hong and that she didn't know me.
"Master gave me a drumstick to stop me from talking. After dinner, Master led us out of the Commander's Mansion. However, on the way, we encountered more than 30 people pointing guns at us. They were Commander Ma's men. It turned out that they wanted to kill us to silence us."
"Master asked me for the second time, kid, are you scared?
I said I'm scared, I'm very scared! "
"Master smiled gently. 'Kid, don't be scared. You won't be scared after I kill them all.' Master attacked immediately after saying that. He scooped up a handful of sand from the ground. He killed over 30 people on the spot with just the sand!"
Ye Chen squinted slightly when he heard that.
With such ability, he was at least a Martial Dao master!
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(PS: There's a second chapter. The Dragon King's past is related to the subsequent plot. Please be patient!)
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