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If it really collapses, with the physical strength of all the people present, it is impossible for them to die from the fall, but it will definitely hurt.
Taking another good look at this ordinary pier, Chen Mu felt a flash of disappointment.
"Did you really give too little Baiyu money?"
Then he saw a figure suddenly jump out of the window of the wooden building on the hill, and his body was instantly wrapped in a ball of bright white light.
After sinking slightly, it first slowly and then quickly flew straight up into the sky.
When it flew over a low hill, it turned at a right angle and whooshed into the distant mountains.
Chen Mu: “…”
Hey!
……
The short and fat Taoist priest looked back and said with a smile, "That's the abbot of our Jilong Dao Lower Court, Song Wuji."
"Our Dean Song is a rare master of the Nengqiao realm." The fat Taoist priest looked proud.
"The most important thing is that the abbot's initial starting point is exactly the same as yours!" The fat Taoist priest was full of emotion.
"Superintendent Song also came here on a white shuttle."
"He worked diligently and practiced hard, step by step, combining the jade seeds, gathering the Yuan Fu, concentrating the mind, and eventually became the Elder Dean."
"If you can work hard and not cause trouble, maybe you can become the second Supervisor Song!" The fat Taoist encouraged sincerely.
The crowd, who had looked hesitant and disappointed just now, suddenly became excited.
It’s not that these people are easy to deceive, but that they are the best people in their respective countries.
I have a sense of self-confidence.
Even Chen Mu, a lazy otaku, couldn't help but get excited.
fly!
That's flying!
It’s not the floating of the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains, but the flying that really leaves the ground!
And the speed is so fast!
Even though he knew that the fat Taoist priest was just talking nonsense, Chen Mu still couldn't help but feel his emotions beating fast.
"A real man should be like this!" Chen Mu suddenly became excited.
……
three days later.
Xiayuan grain store on Jilong Road.
"The purchase limit for yellow sprout rice is ten catties, which is two thousand taels."
"Two hundred catties of silver pearl rice, equal to twenty-four ounces."
"Sir, the total amount is two thousand and twenty-four taels of silver. Take a look..." A waiter in his thirties, dressed in gray and shorts, looked at Chen Mu with a smile.
Chen Mu's mouth twitched. The passion he had three days ago was instantly worn away by the daily necessities of life.
Although the price is much lower than that in the White Shuttle, it is still extremely expensive.
He had 4,256 taels of silver left, and losing most of it in one go really hurt.
But this is only his food money for one month!
This does not include the cost of various meat dishes!
It’s not easy to live…
……
Carrying two sacks and holding a gray cloth bag, Chen Mu left the grain store silently.
Walk along the pier street towards the east.
Walk through Fangshi Street, through the residential area, leave the stone archway engraved with Tongtianfang, and turn around the hillside.
A vast basin plain with no visible end appeared before him.
Neatly laid fields are spread out on the ground.
Scattered houses can be vaguely seen among the fields.
"I'm going to have to hang out here for the next twenty years."
Although it is visibly difficult, I feel a little at ease.
Jilong Dao is not some evil sect, at least there is no danger to life for the time being.
Chen Mu tightened the sack on his shoulder, quickened his pace, and ran away with a cloud of dust and thumps.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 182 Earth Spiritual Energy
Chen Mu ran all the way and it took him half an hour to reach the foot of a low hill.
On the hillside, a square courtyard made entirely of stone comes into view.
That was the residence allocated to him in the lower courtyard of Jilong Road.
"I don't know if yellow sprout rice is easy to grow." Chen Mu thought quietly, opened the copper lock, and pushed the door open.
The courtyard faces north and south and is half the size of a basketball court.
There is a well on the east side near the entrance, and green moss grows on the edge of the stone well platform.
There was a depression at the mouth of the well caused by the pressure of the bottom of a bucket. When I touched it, it was smooth.
On the north side of the well is a small vegetable garden, which is now abandoned.
There is a wooden shed on the west side of the yard, and the stove is underneath it.
"It's not bad." Chen Mu shrugged: "At worst, I can slowly improve it later."
……
After putting rice, meat, oil and salt in place, Chen Mu moved a square table to the middle of the yard and began to prepare dinner.
When the sun was setting, he had prepared eight dishes, four vegetarian dishes and four meat dishes, and also cooked a pot of rice using silver pearl rice and yellow sprout rice.
Just as I put my things in place, I heard a noise at the door.
Chen Mu turned his head and saw an old man in his fifties with his hands behind his back, standing by the door.
His nostrils twitched and his eyes lit up: "Brother Chen, you have great skills."
"Mr. Hao, please come in." Chen Mu immediately stood up to greet him.
The old man was his neighbor and lived on the other side of the hill.
He was also the master arranged for him by the Jilongdao Lower House.
Well...the master who taught him how to farm.
……
Halfway through his meal, Mr. Hao put down his bowl.
While Chen Mu was eating, he took out his pipe from his waist, lit the tobacco and took a puff.
"Your craftsmanship is truly extraordinary." Mr. Hao admired sincerely.
"You're new here, so there are probably a lot of things you don't understand, right?" Mr. Hao laughed.
"Just for the sake of your meal, I'll ask." Old Hao leisurely exhaled a puff of white smoke with a fragrant smell.
Chen Mu's hands froze. It was his first time to consult information without paying, and he was actually a little uncomfortable with it!
This old man has done a lot of harm to people!
"Is yellow sprout rice easy to grow?" Chen Mu asked quickly.
"The House of Commons requires 300 kilograms of yellow sprout rice per acre of land. Such a large piece of land requires 300 kilograms. Do you think it is easy to grow?" Mr. Hao asked back?
Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.
"You have to prepare in advance." Mr. Hao said earnestly: "Be prepared to owe debts for a few years."
Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat at that moment.
"It's a bad start."
……
"The lower house will give you a total of ten acres of land. Next autumn, you have to hand over three thousand kilograms of yellow sprout rice."
"If it's not enough, you have to pay it back slowly, and there's interest."
"According to my father, it took him five years to pay off his debts." Mr. Hao sighed.
"Of course, you don't have to worry if you have white jade coins to pay off your debts. One white jade coin is worth one hundred kilograms." Old Hao raised his eyebrows again.
Chen Mu's face was full of worry: "But I don't have white jade money?"
"Then you'll have to exchange it for what you brought with you."
"We get two white jade coins every month. But you outsiders don't have white jade coins, you only have two thousand taels of silver for food."
"You can only hope to save some money by growing more yellow sprout rice."
"But once you get into this debt, you'll have to work for nothing for several years."
"If the union of spirit and soul is delayed, it will be difficult to deal with."
"You know, on the road of cultivation, if you take one step slowly, all the steps will be slow." Old Hao sighed and shook his head: "If you slow down, you will lose hope, lose your determination, and only be unwilling to give up."
"You want to buy the secret method of combining spirit and soul, right?"
"The cheapest Baiyang Zhenjie costs sixty white jade coins."
"My father saved up for six years!" said Mr. Hao with emotion.