Ch 443: Xiaohe Village
The current Divine Palace is still very cold. Besides the cold, some states and prefectures have experienced other natural disasters, enough to give the Dragon Court a headache.
The snowflakes falling from the sky dome are boundless. Many places have already experienced snow disasters. If the heating problem is not solved, an unknown number of commoners will freeze to death.
The snowflakes in the sky are getting bigger. They almost fall to the ground one second and turn into ice crystals the next.
The price of charcoal remains high. Not only can some impoverished commoners not afford it, but even some moderately wealthy commoners have to lower their living standards and tighten their belts when buying charcoal.
The resentment of the people is growing stronger. Honeycomb briquettes must be made available to the commoners soon.
Moreover, a great plague inevitably follows a great disaster. Li Hanzhou has already asked disciples from Medicine King Valley to go out and take up positions in the Divine Palace to suppress the great plague in advance.
“Subordinate will go immediately!”
After receiving the instructions, Pang Wang turned and left without delay, and then began to recruit craftsmen on a large scale.
He had them learn the technique of making honeycomb briquettes from the Master Craftsman, and at the same time began mass production.
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
On this day, Li Hanzhou, who was handling some affairs, suddenly sensed something and a surprised expression appeared on his face.
He discovered that his clone, far away in the Western Ting, whom he thought was dead, was slowly regaining some consciousness.
At this time, in a very simple thatched hut in a village of the Western Ting Demon Race.
A person lay motionless on a wooden bed.
At this moment, the person’s finger suddenly trembled, and the eyes that had been tightly closed slowly opened.
“Where is this?”
Li Hanzhou felt his head was very confused, as if he had been hit hard with a hammer, buzzing.
At the same time, he felt his body was weaker than ever before, accompanied by some slight stinging sensations.
This was a side effect of being seriously injured after the battle with Huang Tian and the Four Great Demon Saints.
Fortunately, he only had his True Qi exhausted, but his Dantian was not broken. As long as he recuperated well, he would be able to return to his peak in no time.
Li Hanzhou managed to prop himself up halfway, and then found that his original clothes had disappeared, replaced by a rather ordinary piece of coarse cloth clothing, and the place where he had been injured was wrapped in bandages.
After seeing this situation, Li Hanzhou realized that he must have been saved.
But who saved him?
His memory stopped at the moment he was about to faint and fell into a river.
After that, his mind was blank, and he remembered nothing.
Li Hanzhou looked up in some confusion, surveying his surroundings, finding it a very cramped room. On the other side of the wooden bed where he was lying, there was a stack of piled-up wood, and the ground was scattered with dust and wood chips.
This should be a woodshed.
“Mother, I’ll go see if that person is awake.”
“Okay, but take it slow, be careful not to fall. If Big Brother wakes up, come and tell Mother.”
“…”
At this moment, two voices came from outside the woodshed.
Da da da.
Footsteps sounded outside at the same time, and the next moment a small girl, less than a meter tall, entered the woodshed.
Although this little girl’s figure and size were undoubtedly that of a child, her head was furry, showing an orange-yellow color, her two large eyes were dark and bright, and she had a pair of antlers on her head.
This is a Deer Demon.
Seeing the little girl, Li Hanzhou couldn’t help but be surprised.
It was rare that he was saved by the Demon Race.
You know, the Demon Race and the Human Race have always been bitter enemies, wishing to completely annihilate each other’s races.
Seeing Li Hanzhou half-sitting up, the Little Deer Demon’s eyes lit up, and she said in a childish voice, “Brother, you’re awake!”
A look of surprise appeared on her face, and then she turned and stood at the door of the woodshed, shouting loudly, “Mother, Big Brother is awake!”
“Really? Let me see.”
A woman’s voice came from the other end, and then a female Deer Demon appeared, whose head was similar to the Little Deer Demon’s, but her figure was much taller.
“Oh my.”
“You’re finally awake!”
Seeing Li Hanzhou, the female Deer Demon was also delighted. Then she came to Li Hanzhou and said, “How are you feeling? Is anything uncomfortable?”
“When we found you, you were so badly injured that even my husband said that even if you could survive, you would probably never wake up. I didn’t expect you to wake up after only a few days. You’re so lucky…”
The female Deer Demon spoke excitedly and incessantly.
Listening to her words, Li Hanzhou also understood why he was here and where this place was.
It turned out that this was a small, remote village in the tribal lands of the Western Ting Demon Race.
When he fainted, he fell into the vortex of that river and was eventually carried to the big river near this small village.
Coincidentally, many demonic beasts were fishing on the river at that time and discovered him unconscious.
So they fished him out of the river. Upon seeing his extremely serious injuries, they took him to their village.
This was the home of the two Deer Demons, and the husband the female Deer Demon mentioned was a doctor.
It was the female Deer Demon’s husband who treated his injuries, so his body was wrapped in bandages, and he was lying in this woodshed.
After clarifying the cause and effect, Li Hanzhou felt somewhat surprised.
You know, the Breath Hiding Treasure Coin he used to hide the aura of the Human Race had turned to ashes in the previous battle with the Four Great Demon Saints.
That is to say, no matter how weak the demonic beast was, as long as it checked him, it could discover his Human Race identity.
Presumably, the demonic beasts of this village discovered his Human Race identity after discovering him on the river and pulling him out, yet they not only did not kill him directly but also saved him.
Moreover, he could feel that his body had not been tampered with at all, and the reason why his injuries were able to stabilize was entirely due to the treatment of the female Deer Demon’s husband.
The excited expression of the demonic beasts before him was not false; they were genuinely happy that he had awakened.
This gave Li Hanzhou some new insights, seeming to break some of his stereotypes about the Demon Race.
So Li Hanzhou expressed his thanks.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“It’s alright as long as you’re okay.”
The female Deer Demon said with a casual smile.
Then the female Deer Demon asked her daughter to call her husband from the village, and she herself ran outside and fetched a bowl of water and placed it in front of Li Hanzhou.
Li Hanzhou licked his dry lips, thanked her, and began to drink the water.
After he finished drinking the water, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the room, and then more than a dozen demonic beasts entered the woodshed one after another.
The leader was a male Deer Demon, presumably the female Deer Demon’s husband.
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