Chapter 168 Steward

"Hey, the newly promoted Juren is back!"

Er Gouzi said jokingly when he saw Huang Laocai and his son carrying a pig.

"Qiuyue, if you don't hurry up and help me, how can you let the master lift the pig?"

When Qiuyue heard Er Gouzi's greeting, she quickly walked over, picked up the big black pig, and held it in her arms very easily.

"Mr. Zhang, please stop teasing us. We failed to live up to your high expectations and gave up the exam."

Huang Laocai said with a wry smile.

"Abandon the exam?"

Ergouzi was stunned. He really didn't expect that Huang Laocai would be willing to give up the opportunity he finally got.

"Alas! That's it..."

Huang Laocai told Er Gouzi everything about the county town.

Er Gouzi slapped his forehead, he almost lost Huang Mancang's life.

He rarely interacts with people in the officialdom, so naturally no one discloses this information to him.

Fortunately, Huang Laocai is an experienced man and knows how to choose and make decisions at critical moments.

"It's okay to give up. I'll recommend you to take the exam when everything gets better."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang!"

Huang Laocai pulled Huang Mancang to kneel down, but Er Gouzi used his magical power to hold him up, making him unable to kneel down.

The father and son were originally worried about giving up the exam, but finally felt a lot more relaxed.

"Mr. Zhang, we are here today not only to express our gratitude to you.

I also want to sell my family's fields to you, just to be my master's tenant. "

"I hope Mr. Zhang can make it happen!"

Er Gouzi looked at the old Huang Laocai in front of him.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Well, it's been decided!"

In recent times, there have been many small landowners who sold their land to Ergouzi and gave him tenants.

Unexpectedly, Huang Laocai would take this step.

"Then don't be a tenant, be a housekeeper for me."

Er Gouzi has been accustomed to hearing various legends about Huang Laocai since he was a child, and he is the idol of the entire Shexi Village tenants.

In the beginning, Er Gouzi had no one to teach him since he was a child. He could only feed pigs and chop firewood, and he could only imitate Huang Laocai's behavior and actions.

Although he now has Qiu Yue as his housekeeper, he is still illiterate after all, and he cannot handle things when things get too many.

Er Gouzi felt that Huang Laocai was particularly suitable to be his housekeeper.

"Thank you for the compliment, sir!"

Huang Laocai quickly bowed and thanked him, and at the same time inadvertently moved his body to the side, making Huang Mancang look more conspicuous.

"Huang Mancang, you know how to read and write, and you have read the books of sages, so you will temporarily serve as a captain in the team, specializing in teaching those rough guys how to read and write."

"When you want to take the martial arts examination in the future, I will recommend it to you."

Although these people under Ergouzi can write some crooked characters now, they are still far behind people like Huang Mancang who have been reading and literate since childhood.

They are not very literate. If they pick up a book of cultivation techniques on the ground, with their current knowledge, they will not be able to understand it even if they pick it up.

Previously, Huang Fugui was asked to teach everyone how to read, but Huang Fugui had many things to do every day and was also responsible for blacksmithing.

Now it is best to add someone who has read books.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang!"

Er Gouzi briefly arranged the affairs for the two of them, and they would hand over the subsequent details themselves.

As for the fields owned by Huang Laocai's family, their combined value is not as valuable as a Pei Yuan Pill.

Ergouzi gave him a pill directly.

As for the pills and the like that should be rewarded for their work here, that is a matter for later, and will be given to them later.

Since Huang Laocai joined Shekou Mountain, he has handled many things in an orderly manner.

Qiuyue also has a lot of leisure time. Now she is responsible for some logistics, and sometimes helps Ergouzi cook a few dishes.

Her cooking skills were taught by Hime Cang, and she was even more delicious than Yu Shan.

The last time Er Gouzi saw Yu Shan wiping his nose and taking pills, he didn't get used to Yu Shan's cooking.

Moreover, Yushan is so busy every day. He has to dig a lot of soil, weed a lot, and water a lot of land. It takes too much time for him to cook.

Let him concentrate on farming every day.

In the next period of time, the government was indeed recruiting grain and civilian husbands everywhere.

Ordinary families, in addition to normal taxes, have to hand over almost 30% of their food as military rations.

The government then refined all the collected grain into marching pills and sent them to the front line.

Every time a cultivator fights, he consumes a lot of energy or mana, which needs to be replenished in time.

Taking elixirs or spiritual stones to replenish mana has the best effect.

But elixirs and spiritual stones are so expensive and consume a lot of money on the battlefield. They are definitely not worth it. The Zhou Dynasty cannot afford them.

Xingjun pills have become the best substitute, with high quality, low price, large output and renewable.

Except for the slow refining process, they are all advantages.

Although Marching Pills are made from ordinary grains, eating one pill is equivalent to one bucket of rice.

Someone once compared it. If you take 1,000 marching pills, the energy you will get after refining is roughly equivalent to a spiritual stone.

I heard that due to the fierce fighting on the front line, a large number of marching pills are consumed every day.

As a result, food prices, which had just slowed down, began to rise again, and food prices became more expensive day by day.

This time the price of food increased, Ergouzi was not panic at all.

He has stocked a large amount of food in his warehouse, as well as a large number of marching pills.

He also organized manpower and worked hard to cultivate. Now the fertile land around Shekou Mountain belongs to him.

However, this rise in grain prices has caused great suffering to ordinary people who have no surplus grain at home.

Many people who are so poor that they have no food to eat, for the sake of a few buckets of rice, take risks and join cults.

"Boss, I found another cult."

On this day, Er Gouzi was fighting with Xiao Hei for meat, and Sun Wangcai excitedly reported to Er Gouzi.

Since the last time, he has been secretly investigating for more than a year, and it was not until today that he found clues again.

"Oh? Where is it?"

"It is still more than ten miles away from us. So far, we have only found a few small fish and shrimps, and have not found the den."

"Okay, continue the investigation, don't alarm the snake, this time we must catch them all."

In the past few years, Er Gouzi has been obsessed with this hidden cult and vowed to eradicate it completely.

After Sun Wangcai reported, he left excitedly again.

Er Gouzi then looked down and saw that all the meat on the table was gone.

He asked Qiuyue to roast half a lamb, but before he could take a few bites, the black dog had eaten it all.

After the dog finished eating the meat, he licked his nose with relish.

Fortunately, Qiuyue brought over half a lamb that had just been roasted.

This time, Er Gouzi stood up, stepped on Xiao Hei on the ground, and took a large bowl to eat it.

The black dog was also a greedy man who didn't care about his life.

He slowly stretched his body and pulled his waist into a long rope.

The dog's head finally got close to the lamb and swallowed a large piece in one bite.

Er Gouzi was furious, grabbed Xiao Hei's body, and threw it far away.

This throw was dozens of feet away. As soon as Xiao Hei landed, his four short legs spread out, like a black little meat ball, and quickly rolled back to Er Gouzi.

But Er Gouzi was not a vegetarian. When the black dog came back, there were only some lamb bones left on the ground.

"You still want to snatch food from me!"

"Woof woof woof..."

The little black dog whined a few times in dissatisfaction and could only pick up bones from the ground to eat.

There was not a trace of meat left on these bones, which were cleaner than those gnawed by dogs.

In fact, Er Gouzi was already showing mercy, otherwise, with his teeth, he would not even spit out bones.

Since the last time he taught him some skills, this dog has been eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating every day, and has not done any work.

He is also picky about food, and will not eat anything without spiritual energy.

For this dog, Er Gouzi has no way.

It is particularly resistant to beating, and it is useless to hit it.

If you patiently talk to him for a few words and teach him some great principles of being a dog, he will fall asleep directly.

Even if you put him into the gourd, if the little black dog resists, Er Gouzi will not be able to put him in.

The only advantage is that the hair is soft and feels good, so you can knead it however you want.

After eating and drinking, Er Gouzi returned to the stone house on the top of the mountain to continue practicing.

He took out a pill bottle, poured out five Qi-gathering pills, and swallowed them into his mouth.

This kind of pill taken during the Qi-refining period has little effect on him, so he can only take more at a time.

At present, Xuanyuan Pill has the best effect, but he has not cultivated Xuanyuan grass, which takes 200 years.

The land in the gourd has been expanded to one acre wide by him, and a large area of ​​Xuanyuan grass has been planted. The oldest one is only a few decades old.

The first fire spirit grass that he planted alone has fully matured and has bred dozens of seedlings.

Fire spirit grass is one of the main ingredients for refining foundation-building pills.

You only need to collect five kinds of spiritual medicines, wood, fire, earth, gold, and water, to refine foundation-building pills.

He has the complete pill recipe passed down by Baihe Zhenren.

But first, he did not collect these five kinds of spiritual medicines, and second, even if he refined the foundation-building pill, he dared not give it to his subordinates.

Foundation-building cultivators who are not registered by the government will be treated as cults and can be killed by anyone.

So even though he has some conditions to refine the foundation-building pill now, he doesn't have much desire in his heart.

After Er Gouzi swallowed the Qi-Gathering Pill, he held another spirit stone in his hand and began to practice "Hongmeng Refining God".

Because he has not taken the right pills recently, his practice progress has slowed down a lot. So far, the width of his Dantian Sea is only two feet and one inch.

That is, it is only a little stronger than two or three straw bags in the foundation-building.

His spiritual consciousness practice has also improved a little, and now it can reach about 35 feet.

Whether it is the Dantian Sea or the strength of spiritual consciousness, every little bit of improvement will increase the difficulty.

It has been more than three months since Sun Wangcai came back to report last time.

"Boss, we finally found a cult den."

"Including some messengers and undercovers deployed in various villages and towns, there are at least thousands of people."

"Should we arrest them immediately?"

Er Gouzi pondered for a while and shook his head. This time he planned to find all the dens first.

"Don't arrest them for now."

"Keep an eye on their den, it must be connected to other dens."

"Okay!"

Sun Wangcai left excitedly, and then he took people to guard outside the den every day, and quietly followed anyone who came out.

This continued for another two months.

On this day, Sun Wangcai saw a team of county government officers and soldiers suddenly appear and surround the cult den.

These officers and soldiers were as fierce as wolves and tigers. After only a short battle, they quickly captured all the cult monks in the den, including some leaders.

Those cult members hiding in villages and towns who were related to this den were also captured by county government officers and soldiers on the same day.

Er Gouzi only nodded when he got the news. He didn't go to the county government to get involved with County Magistrate Ding. He didn't expect to make any contribution.

Anyway, it's enough for the cult members to be caught. It doesn't matter who catches them. It just ruined his own good deeds and almost cut off all the clues.

Fortunately, Sun Wangcai still has a few clues in his hand, which have not been found by the officers and soldiers of the county government.

We can continue to investigate.

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