Chapter 248 - 160. Regional Black Marketing Model_3

During the meal, after a few small drinks, the three old men began to loosen up, the forthrightness typical of northern men coming to the fore. They started chatting with Gu Tao, rambling from one topic to another. It turned out that Dao Kaiyi had broken away from a minor sect of Shamanism, taking root in the vast lands of the Northeast's rural areas. Their main occupation was conducting harvest rituals, skilled at negotiating minor agreements with nature and mediating the conflicts between the ash from burnt wheat straws and humans; by and large, it was a sect that others looked down upon.