Chapter 159 Returning Home

"My boss is back!"

"My boss is back!"

At the foot of Shekou Mountain, a group of people who were working saw the giant geese flying in the sky in the distance and shouted excitedly to the sky.

As soon as Er Gouzi landed on the ground riding the big goose, a group of children surrounded him, chattering.

"Boss, we miss you!"

"My boss..."

Ergouzi touched the storage bag. Fortunately, he was prepared. He took out a large handful of pastries and candies from the storage bag and distributed them to the children.

Those who were given candies ran away happily.

These children were all bought at a very young age and had no parents. They all regarded Ergouzi as their parents and brothers.

Every time Er Gouzi comes back from a long trip, he always brings them some snacks to comfort the children.

After all the children dispersed, Qiuyue and Sun Wangcai walked up to Er Gouzi.

"My boss, you are finally back."

"Did anything happen at home while I was away?"

Ergouzi has never been away from home for so long at a time, and he actually feels quite homesick outside.

"There is indeed something going on during the period when the boss is away."

"It's nothing but a good thing."

Qiuyue said with a smile.

"What good thing?"

Er Gouzi never thought that something good would happen to him one day.

"During the period when the owner was away, many small landowners came to the door, wanting to sell their land to the owner at a low price, and then become tenants for the owner."

"Why?"

Ergouzi was stunned when he heard this. When he was poor, he always dreamed of becoming a small landowner.

Planting your own land is better than being a tenant.

"Because starting from this year, the three-year tax exemption period given by the government has expired."

“Small landowners have to pay taxes to the government every year, which costs at least 20 to 30%.

The land rent here is only 20% for the best farmland, and only 10% for the poor land. "

After Qiuyue calculated it, it seemed that this was really the case.

Being a tenant to Ergouzi is better than being a small landowner.

However, most people will not give up their land for this 10% price difference. After all, land is the wealth that is passed on to future generations.

“Also, there is a war with the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom on the border, and now we have to collect military rations.

The officials responsible for urging food were arresting people in every village and town every day.

I heard that in addition to paying an extra sum of money and grain, many strong men were also required to do corvee service.

Most of this kind of corvee work is a dead end. "

The Zhou Dynasty mainly relied on these small landowners to pay taxes and perform corvee services.

The tenants did not even own a piece of land and paid almost no taxes.

If the government were to crack down on them more harshly, the tenants might even run away, and become even more troublesome as refugees or bandits.

Only the landowners, who had homes, mouths, and land, could not escape.

As for people like Er Gouzi, everyone is from the government, so how could they attack him?

Therefore, during Ergouzi's absence, many small landowners came to his door, wanting to deal with the land at a low price and become his tenants.

"Because the boss is not here, we don't dare to make random decisions."

"Okay, if someone comes to the door again, you just have to deal with it."

Acquiring land and taking in a few tenants are just trivial matters. Ergouzi doesn't want to worry about it, so he can just leave it to Qiuyue.

After Ergouzi gave the order, he rode the goose and flew up to Shekou Mountain.

On the mountain, Yushan was hiding on a big rock and sleeping soundly, with crystal clear saliva flowing out for a long time.

Seeing Yushan sleeping in broad daylight, Ergouzi looked at the land out of habit.

It is true that there is not much grass growing in the field, but for such a long time, the elixir in the field has not grown much.

It must be because there is not much watering, the grass does not grow, and the elixir does not grow.

Remember to leave a lot of water behind before leaving. At this time, the Yun Pool is almost bottoming out.

Er Gouzi was planning to scare Yu Shan, but the geese on the mountain had already discovered their master's return.

"Quack...quack..."

A group of geese stretched their necks and spread their wings to welcome their master back.

"Stupid goose! It's a shame, it's disturbing my sleep..."

Hearing the cries of the geese, Yu Shan closed his eyes and cursed impatiently for a while. He opened his eyes slightly, only to find Er Gouzi.

The guy was so frightened that he quickly climbed up from the stone, picked up the hoe beside him and rushed to the field to pretend to work.

"Master, you are finally back. I miss you so much."

Er Gouzi glanced at Yushan. This time, this guy didn't escape for several months.

The clothes on his body were clean, and it looked like he had never been beaten. It looked like he had gained some weight.

But he took another look at the geese, and quickly figured out that the more than 30 geese now were all spiritual beasts.

Yushan didn't have the ability to escape even if he wanted to.

"Yu Shan, don't be in a hurry, plant all these elixirs."

Ergouzi bought a lot of elixirs on the black market in Qingzhou City this time, as well as five ironwood plants.

"So many!"

Yushan was a little desperate when he saw Ergouzi taking out a lot of elixirs, which meant that more wasteland would be reclaimed.

"Forget it, this time, for the sake of not running away, I will shovel out part of the original ginseng."

The ginseng on the mountain occupies dozens of acres of land. Now he can no longer use so much and can free up the land to grow elixirs.

"I am your most loyal servant, how could I run away? I have decided to follow my master for the rest of my life, and I cannot beat him away even if I fight him."

Yushan flattered him and went back to work.

Er Gouzi returned to the mountain, first reinstalled the jade floor, and put the snake back into the snake cave.

A big snake was seriously injured in Daoxuan's secret collection before, and it has not recovered yet.

I fed it a pill of Huanzhen Pill two days ago, but the effect was not obvious, so I could only let it recuperate slowly.

After Er Gouzi came back this time, he took care of some chores and hid on the top of the mountain to practice every day.

Now he has a practice method in his hand and there are spiritual medicines on the mountain. Even if he is given a high official, he doesn't want to be one.

Although Xu Feng's "Hongmeng Refining God" method is mainly based on spiritual consciousness, it is much stronger than the method given by Jiuxing before in terms of cultivating mana.

It used to take 5 days to refine a Xuanyuan Pill, but now it only takes two days to completely refine the pill.

Unfortunately, the Xuanyuan Pill he got in the secret room was almost finished, and he was reluctant to eat the remaining few pills for the time being.

After refining these pills, he used the "Nine-Layer Foundation Building" to refine them again. His Dantian Sea has been expanded to one foot and six inches, almost two feet wide.

With his current strong foundation, he can stand out among most foundation-building cultivators.

Although he has not yet broken through to the middle stage of foundation building, if he encounters a middle stage cultivator like the Nine-Star Taoist, he will be able to fight.

Er Gouzi did not get complacent about this. A mere two feet wide is still far from his goal.

Like Brother Ji, he can kill three foundation-building cultivators in a second with a light wave of his hand, which is his goal.

I heard from Chang Ling'er that Chang Ling'er in his previous life had a Dantian Sea that was several feet wide.

In the future, he must at least make it ten feet wide, so that he can hold his head up in front of Chang Ling'er.

However, the Xuanyuan Pill has been used up, and now he can only take some Juqi Pills.

This kind of pill taken by Qi-refining cultivators is only slightly better than nothing for him, and his cultivation speed has become very slow again.

This speed is not as good as holding a spiritual stone in his hand, absorbing the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone for cultivation, which is more efficient.

Moreover, his spiritual stone can be put into the gourd to replenish spiritual energy, which is almost inexhaustible.

In addition to the cultivation of mana, the biggest progress now is the spiritual consciousness.

The cultivation of the spiritual consciousness by Hongmeng Shen Lian can not only increase the strength of the spiritual consciousness, but also the purity of the spiritual consciousness and the ability to control the spiritual consciousness.

When he opened up the upper dantian sea of ​​consciousness at the fourth level of Qi training, his upper dantian sea of ​​consciousness was only one inch wide, and the spiritual consciousness could only cover about ten feet.

After building the foundation, his spiritual consciousness was greatly enhanced, but it could only cover more than ten feet.

During this period, he hid in the gourd to cultivate, and he had cultivated his spiritual consciousness to cover 20 feet, which exceeded the ordinary cultivators in the early stage of foundation building.

When fighting with cultivators of the same level, he can have a great advantage, which is equivalent to me being able to hit you from 20 feet away, but you can't hit me.

And the strong spiritual consciousness has another advantage.

For example, when he used his spiritual sense to spy on others, if the spiritual sense was weaker than his, he would not be able to detect it.

When Er Gouzi was practicing this technique, he even had some bold ideas in his mind.

If he hid in the gourd again in the future and used his spiritual sense to steal things, as long as his spiritual sense was strong enough, he could steal as he pleased.

Er Gouzi's mind was filled with beautiful pictures, and he giggled for a while.

Xu Feng's inheritance was really suitable for him, it was tailor-made for him.

But he quickly realized that he seemed to have sworn something, and if he stole anything again, he would chop off his hands.

When Er Gouzi thought of this, he lifted up the sleeping black dog on his shoulder.

If I steal something again, my hands will be like Xiao Hei's claws.

As he said that, he chopped Xiao Hei's claws with a knife, and Xiao Hei continued to sleep soundly, completely unaware.

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