The weather in the mountains is changing a lot. The sun was shining brightly just now. In a blink of an eye, the sky gradually became gloomy, as if it was about to rain...

After climbing over a small hill, a peach forest appeared in front of Zhong Lin and the other three. Even Zhong Lin, a layman, could see that this peach forest was much better than the peach forest he asked Boss Lu before!

First of all, the peach trees in this peach forest grow much thicker than the peach trees I saw along the way! In addition, on one side, this peach forest is surrounded by a small hill, and on the other side is a small pond formed by the low terrain after the stream flows, which is exactly what Boss Lu said before. Not only that, Zhong Lin felt a little strange when he saw this peach forest at first, but he couldn't say what was strange about it.

"This peach forest is the peach forest of my friend I mentioned before, which is one of the peach forests to be auctioned today." Lu Shouyi pointed to the peach forest in front of him and said.

At this moment, an old man walked out of the small wooden house next to the peach forest. The old man saw the three of them coming over and greeted him directly.

"Shouyi, are you here?" The old man's voice was a little hoarse.

"Here, here, old brother, not only is I here, but I also brought two friends." Lu Shouyi said and introduced to both parties.

The old man's name is Chen Wan, and he has been in trouble with Taoshu all his life.

"Old brother, why are you willing to sell this peach tree? This is the hard work of several generations of your family!" Lu Shouyi asked in confusion.

"Shouyi, I won't hide it from you. How could I be willing to sell it? But you don't know that those islanders come to my house every few days and use all the tricks. I have to sell this peach tree to them. I'm forced to do it! Oh, you see, I've been angry these days and my voice has been hoarse! But later I also came up with a solution, which is to auction the higher price, don't you want it? It's not that I don't sell it to you, whoever pays more money will sell it to whom. Even if they buy it in the end, they have to make them more blood!" Chen Wan said, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. I have to say that he was indeed as smart as Lu Shouyi said.

"Old brother, I thought about it for a long time yesterday. Why don't I come here early today just to participate in the auction of your peach forest!" Lu Shouyi said firmly.

"Okay! Shouyi, you can take a photo. The extra money is counted as me. I would rather pay an additional auction fee than let this peach forest fall into the hands of the islanders!" Chen Wan said, grabbed Lu Shouyi's hand and clenched it tightly.

At this moment, a dazzling lightning flashed through the air, followed by a thunderclap as if it was exploding in the ears of several people...

"Boom..."

The ears of the people present were buzzing, and the windows of the wooden house were also shaking, "bang, bang".

Several people turned around and looked, and they all burst into cold sweat! Just by the pond forty or fifty meters away from several people, a big peach tree had just been struck by lightning. The trunk of the big peach tree was slashed in half, and the branches were crackling and flames were scattered. Because the crown was large, the fire was really big, and it was a tendency to ignite the surrounding peach trees. If the surrounding peach trees were also ignited, it was likely to trigger a wildfire...

"Hurry, call someone to put out the fire!" Lu Shouyi was the first to take out the phone.

Zhong Lin walked straight to the burning peach tree at the moment as if he was being pulled by a mysterious force...

"Yami, Yami, it's simply delicious!"

"Who? Are you talking about Ling'er?" Zhong Lin asked. However, he soon realized that it could not be Ling'er, because this time he heard the voice of a little boy.

"Is that voice? That's your little Ding Ling talking. This guy has lost his luck. After following you, he absorbed the red gold fire, and now he absorbed the sky thunder fire! No, now he has recovered and has become a spirit!" Ling'er rolled her eyes and said.

"Master, Master, Sister Ling'er is right, I am Ding Ling..." The little boy's voice sounded again.

"Hey, hey, who is your sister? I'm much older than you!" Ling'er started to "rely on her seniority" again.

"Sister Ling'er, I saw you come first, so I called you sister. Didn't you say that before? I'm much older than you..."

"Have I said it? Did I say it? I only know that you are a little brat now..." Ling'er said and made a face.

"Hey, have you two argued enough? Do you use me as air?" Zhong Lin couldn't help it. He thought that if this continues, he will be insane one day. And who knows whether there will be Linger 2, 3, 4, or Ding Linger 2, 3, 4, in the future!

"Master, I won't quarrel at you anymore, I'll go to bed." Ding Ling looked very obedient, and there was no sound after he finished speaking.

"Master, you're thinking too much. It's already a great fortune for you to have two of us. Do you think your skin is really loved by everyone and flowers bloom?! By the way, don't underestimate this little tripod spirit, he is a big treasure, tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk..." Ling'er kept smacking her tongue.

When Lu Shouyi and Chen Wan called and called everyone to the scene, the fire had already been extinguished. Naturally, everyone would not have thought it was Zhong Lin's credit, but just thought it was a false alarm.

Zhong Lin suddenly felt that the black and black in front of him was burning, and a trace of spiritual power was still surging on the smoke-filled branches...

"Master, are you very surprised why there is spiritual power of heaven and earth on this thunder-striking peach wood?" Ling'er said mysteriously as if she was a mysterious person.

"Yes, since you know what I'm thinking, tell me quickly, don't keep it!" Looking at Ling'er's arrogant look and talking nonstop, Zhong Lin had long been used to it...

In fact, Zhong Lin originally had some understanding of peach trees. Peach is the essence of the five woods, so it suppresses evil spirits. Li Shizhen once wrote in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that "peaches are spicy and evil spirits, so they can hate evil spirits." In addition, the legendary immortal man in the South Ji who dominated the lifeblood of the world always holds a huge fairy peach on his palm, so peaches also have theories of avoiding evil and relieving diseases and prolonging life.

There has been a saying among the people that peach wood can drive away disasters and evil spirits. Most people think that the pronunciation of the characters "peach" and "ei" are the same, so they take the meaning, believing that peach wood can escape disasters. In fact, it is far more than just a literal homophone...

Peach wood plays an extremely important role in my country's folk culture and beliefs. Peach wood is also known as "Dragon-Surrendering Wood" and "Ghost-Scaring Wood". It is the most widely used material for destroying evil and controlling ghosts. Legend has it that Kuafu chased the sun and threw out the sacred wood before he died and turned it into a peach forest. The earliest Spring Festival couplets in my country were made of peach wood boards, so they are also called peach talismans. For thousands of years, peach wood has been said to cure disasters and avoid evil, and is called sacred wood.

There is also legend that Houyi was killed by his disciple Feng Meng. Feng Meng's tool for Houyi was a peach wood stick. After Houyi died, he rose to a god, and his name was Zongbu. He held a tiger in his hand and commanded the inspection of all ghosts and became the king of ghosts. Any ghosts who do evil among ghosts will be eaten by tigers. Peach wood can kill the ghost king and avoid ghosts. Since then, the legend of peach wood warding evil has spread. People's peach wood swords, peach wood doors, peach talismans, peach wood hanging decorations are everywhere.

According to Ling'er, the above is not all legendary. The peach tree itself can indeed gather and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Therefore, some elves will attach to the peach tree. After they absorb enough spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they will practice to become immortals or monsters. However, everything has its own laws and rules for its development, and the immortal way is no exception. Whenever the elves are about to succeed, they will suffer the heavenly tribulation, that is, the heavenly thunder. In fact, the heavenly thunder is not the peach tree, but the elves attached to the peach tree. When the thunder strikes the elves, the elves will be destroyed, and the spiritual power that has been gathered in the body for decades or even hundreds or thousands of years is left in the thunder-striking peach wood. At this time, the peach wood is left with the spiritual power of heavenly thunder...

Zhong Lin now understood why he felt strange when he first saw these peach trees. Now when he looked carefully, he found that many peach trees here were attached to elves!

Let go of Ling'er to help Zhong Lin's "knowledge" about thunder-striking wood. At this moment, Chen Wan at the scene turned from surprise to joy. For him, it was a big pie that fell from the sky. Since he sold the thunder-striking wood to the islander last time, he was also very surprised. Why was the islander willing to buy the black wood for a large price? So he checked a lot of information and asked many people, and finally figured out one thing, that is, this thunder-striking wood not only inherited the effect of peach wood to drive away disasters and evil spirits, but also could be used as a magic tool. With this alone, its value is more than three times the value of the peach tree itself.

Sure enough, the "freshly released" lightning-striking peach wood attracted the attention of buyers...

"Boss Chen, can you sell me this peach tree that has been struck by lightning?" A rigid voice sounded without looking at it.

Seeing that Chen Wan was just looking at him and didn't say anything, the island man continued, "I'll give you 50,000 yuan!" As he said, the island man stretched out his right hand and waved his five fingers in the air.

The people next to him who had just been called to put out the fire were stuttering, 50,000 yuan! This price is enough to buy 5 such peach trees! Boss Chen is really a blessing in disguise!

"Let me think about it." Chen Wan's expression was very calm. It was obvious that the price paid by the islanders did not touch him at all.

"Boss Chen, sell it to me, I'll give you 60,000 yuan!" This time the person who spoke was a man wearing a gray sermon robe. He was originally hiding behind the crowd, but when he saw that the islanders wanted to buy lightning and struck peach wood, he squeezed in.

"Boss Chen, I'll pay 100,000!" The islanders saw that someone was going to earn with him, so they raised the price without saying a word.

Chen Wan was a little embarrassed. He looked at the gray-robed Taoist. To be honest, he was already very satisfied with the price offered by the islanders. But he didn't like the islanders from the bottom of his heart and didn't want to sell the thunder-striking peach wood to them. But he couldn't help but sell it to the higher price, which made him a little embarrassed.

The Taoist of Gray Robe frowned and gritted his teeth and said, "Then I, I will pay 100,000..."

"I'll pay 150,000!" Before the grey-robed Taoist finished his words, the island people raised the price to 150,000 yuan, showing a look of arrogance and determination.

This time, the gray-robed Taoist drooped his head, while the islanders became even more arrogant. They waved their hands and asked someone to carry the thunder and peach wood away.

"Wait, wait, I haven't said to sell it yet. Let's do it. I decided to wait a while for this thunder-striking peach wood to auction together with the peach wood. The higher the price!"

Chen Wan knew in his heart that it seemed that the islanders were bound to win today, so they could not let them take away the thunder-striking peach wood so easily! Naturally, he would not forget how the islanders harassed their families in order to make him sell Taoyuan these days. Although they could not stop them, at least they had to make them suffer more blood!
Chapter completed!