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People are vicious. It is not uncommon for them to take rewards from the House of Commons on the one hand and collect tuition fees from apprentices on the other.
Mr. Hao didn't do that, which made Chen Mu admire him.
Mr. Hao is a real man!
……
In the evening, on the other side of a low hill five miles away from Chen Mu’s stone courtyard.
In a stone courtyard similar to Chen Mu's house.
Old Hao sat in front of a bright oil lamp, puffing on his cigarette.
Opposite him sat a fat man with small eyes. He looked at Mr. Hao with a smile and said, "The new guy, do you want to sell your treasures?"
The honest man Hao Lao smoked leisurely: "Although he didn't say anything, but from his expression, I can tell that he is right."
"I explained to him the difficulties of growing yellow sprout rice."
"It makes clear the possible consequences of being in debt."
"Calculate the cost and time required to practice the Secret Method of Unity for him."
"What do you think he is thinking?" Mr. Hao said calmly.
The fat man with small eyes suddenly smiled happily: "He will be unwilling, he will be anxious, he will think about making a lot of money and start practicing immediately!"
"Mr. Hao is very smart!"
Old Hao smoked with a smile on his face: "After a while, I will casually mention that some of his companions have already obtained the secret method of unity and started practicing."
"you say……"
"He will definitely sell the treasures he carries with him in exchange for white jade spirit money!" The fat man with small eyes couldn't help but said excitedly.
"That's right!" Old Hao smiled and exhaled a puff of smoke.
"I will go and get some information about those outsiders tomorrow. If we want to provoke him, we have to do it for real." The fat man with small eyes said shrewdly: "Don't worry, Mr. Hao, I will definitely be able to deliver the information to you tomorrow afternoon."
"No hurry." Old Hao said slowly, "I have to wait for ten days or half a month before going there."
The fat man with small eyes looked at Mr. Hao in confusion.
"Don't you know how difficult it is to grow yellow sprout rice?" Old Hao glanced at the fat man.
"Of course I know." The fat man with small eyes smiled bitterly: "If it wasn't difficult, I wouldn't be doing this small business of buying and selling to make money."
"So we have to wait a few days. Let him grow one himself and experience the trouble."
"If he works hard for half a month and still can't cultivate three mu of land..." Old Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Then I will talk to him about the news you got."
"He will definitely have to sell the treasure for money!"
The fat man with small eyes suddenly realized: "Mr. Hao is really thoughtful!"
I immediately started to worry: "What if he learns it?"
Old Hao rolled his eyes and said, "I really didn't hide anything during these seven days. I explained the tricks clearly, but most of the time, I was the one doing the work."
“I talk more than I do.”
"He listens a lot but practices very little."
"I felt like I had gotten the hang of it, and I really started to do it, haha..." Mr. Hao smiled meaningfully.
The fat man with small eyes immediately gave a thumbs up: "Great!"
Mr. Hao looked very pleased with himself. "Do you think I have lived in vain at my age?"
The fat man with small eyes smiled happily: "Don't worry, Mr. Hao, after the matter is completed, the 10% commission will be handed over with both hands."
Mr. Hao immediately nodded with satisfaction.
After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but advise: "The price you offer can't be too outrageous. There is still a long time to come, and you have to think long-term before doing business."
"After that, I might be able to make some extra money by purchasing various elixirs and magical instruments."
The fat man smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, Mr. Hao, I'll remember it."
"The leeks can't be eradicated yet."
"Besides, we have no intention of cheating him. At most, we are just lowering the price."
"Compared to us, what Dong Cheng and his gang did was not just bargaining, that was outright robbery!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 184 Seventh Level
At noon half a month later, Mr. Hao took his pipe, put his hands behind his back, took a step more than ten meters, and slowly climbed over the hill.
"After half a month of hard work, you must have suffered enough."
"The one acre of land I helped plant is probably sprouting by now."
"At least half of the ones he planted will die!"
"It's midday, and I've been working hard for half a day. The heat, the fatigue, the anxiety."
"At this moment, if I just say something provocative, he will definitely be unwilling to give in."
Old Hao was thinking in his heart, and he came to the edge of the field leisurely but as fast as the wind.
The first thing he saw was the acre of land he had helped to plant. Seedlings, as long as index fingers, looked like emerald green iron needles, breaking through the soil and pointing straight up to the sky.
"No comparison, no harm. Isn't that a sure thing?"
He had already seen the hard-working figure under the sun and immediately approached it.
"Brother Chen, your yellow sprout rice is not... huh?!"
Before he could finish his words, Mr. Hao was shocked beyond words by the scene in the fields before him.
In the yellow sprout rice field, where most of the rice should have died, yellow sprout rice seedlings, as tall as peanuts and as big as pine needles, were neatly arranged.
"Mr. Hao, what did you just say?" Chen Mu came to the edge of the field with a smile.
The corner of Hao Lao's mouth twitched: "I think your yellow sprout rice is really good!"
Chen Mu looked at the planting skills on the gray wall that were more than half of the first level, and said with sincere gratitude, "Thanks to Mr. Hao for your good teaching!"
Mr. Hao: “…” I really want to strangle myself from half a month ago.
Why the hell do you teach me so well!
A 10% commission, at least twenty white jade coins, is gone just like that!
……
After a long while, Mr. Hao adjusted his mindset again. Looking at the large tracts of yellow rice sprouting, he couldn't help but marvel: "How many acres of land have you planted?"
"In addition to the one acre you helped me plant, I planted another five acres." Chen Mu said happily.
Old Hao sighed: "In half a month, even if I work hard from dawn to dusk, I can only plant four mu of land. Your speed is so fast..."
I have to admit that these people who came from the Eight Wilderness Islands are all ruthless.
In the past, the bigwigs in the underworld and the leaders of a region would humble themselves if they were told to.
Then you can get down to earth and work hard on farming.
"You stayed up all night to grow them, right?" asked Mr. Hao.
Chen Mu scratched his head and said honestly, "You have good eyesight. You did stay up late."
……
At night, the crescent moon is crescent.
Five clouds of black smoke emerged from the yellow rice fields at the foot of the low mountain.
Chen Mu's mind moved, and the paper man's ghost started to work.
The ghost of the word "Spring" carried the yellow rice seeds and placed them precisely five fingers deep into the ground.
The ghost named Xia carried a sack on his back and buried a palm-sized piece of bone meal evenly below the seeds, one palm's depth.
The ghost of autumn carried a bucket and a fist-sized wooden spoon, and accurately poured a flat spoonful of well water around each seed.
The ghost of the word "winter" carries a shoulder pole and goes back and forth between the houses and the fields, transporting buckets of well water that is rich in earth spirits to the fields.
Chen Mu lay diagonally on the Chinese ghost, looking at the four paper ghosts with satisfaction.
"Although I didn't do the work, I was indeed staying up late."
Then he casually threw a fasting pill into his mouth like a candy bean.
Before long, the entire acre of land was planted.
"We can't plant any more. The speed is too fast and it will easily arouse Mr. Hao's suspicion."
Five balls of black smoke flew to Chen Mu and disappeared into the Five Ghosts Bag.
……
The next day, Chen Mu returned to the stone house carrying a bag of yellow rice.
"Is there anything wrong with the spiritual armor technique?" Chen Mu scratched his head and brought up the gray wall to check.
Writing: 4710/10000/Level ;
Picture: 5967/10000/Second Order;
Cooking skills: 9145/10000/Level ;
Medicine: 1167/10000/Level ;
Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Curse: 5251/10000/Level ;
Shapeshifting: 2347/10000/Level ;
Mirage Armor: 9757/10000/Level ;
Planting: 5416/10000/first level;
"Did you eat too much?"