Chapter 90 Selling One's Body for a Penny

After Er Gouzi returned to the mountain, he took a look and found that everything was normal.

The medicinal herbs were growing vigorously, and a lot of persimmons and dates were harvested, which was just right for the people down the mountain.

Since he took Yushan, every time he went out and came back, the mountain was well taken care of.

Fortunately, he did not kill Yushan on impulse that day.

At first, when Yushan broke into the top of Shekou Mountain, he planned to kill him on the spot to avoid revealing his secrets.

Later, he found that this man was actually quite cowardly, especially cowardly.

After being beaten, he was obedient and confessed everything.

Er Gouzi thought that he would stay as a coolie for a while to see if he was useful. If he was not useful, it would not be too late to kill him.

Later, Yushan had several experiences of escaping, but he was successfully controlled by Daye and beaten several times.

Now Yushan is becoming more and more sensible, and he should not be killed in the future.

"Yushan, the clothes I picked for you are a little big. If you roll up your sleeves, you should be able to wear them."

Er Gouzi stripped clothes from many corpses this time and picked a relatively new one to throw to Yushan.

"Thank you, Boss!"

Yushan quickly took the clothes and was so moved that he almost cried.

"Boss is so good to me."

"I don't know how to repay Boss's kindness."

"It's okay. Just treat this place as your home and farm peacefully."

Er Gouzi comforted Yushan a few more words before walking into the stone house.

There are indeed many good things he got from this trip.

A magic flying sword, which he had only seen the county magistrate use before, and he envied him very much at that time.

Now he picked up a magic flying sword without spending a penny.

When he matures in the future, taking a person's head within three or five feet will be as easy as taking something out of a bag.

He also got the alchemy furnace he had always dreamed of.

He stretched out his hand and a five-foot-high copper tripod appeared in the stone room, stained with blood.

Although the style was much larger than the normal alchemy furnace, and it felt a bit evil, it was still an alchemy furnace.

It was better to have it than not, otherwise he would be really worried about where to get the alchemy furnace.

Now that he had the alchemy furnace, he only needed the spiritual medicine and spiritual charcoal to start making the elixir.

In addition to these two things, he also got a spiritual medicine.

Thinking of this, a green grass appeared in his hand.

This spiritual medicine is called Seven-Leaf Bone Grass, which is a spiritual medicine that can heal wounds. It needs to grow for 70 years and grow 7 leaves to be fully mature.

The one in front of him only has three leaves, which can only be regarded as a seedling. Obviously, the medicinal effect is far from enough.

Fortunately, this spiritual medicine still maintains vitality and can be replanted.

He immediately walked out of the stone room, cleared a small piece of land next to the ginseng field, and planted the Seven-Leaf Bone Grass.

Then pour the water in the gourd, and it should be fine.

I will add some herbs later, and maybe I can try to refine a healing pill.

It is inevitable that cultivators will get injured sometimes, and it is really unsafe without some healing medicine.

For example, this time, Sima Yi was seriously injured and almost died.

After planting the spiritual medicine, he returned to the stone chamber.

This time, he also got two wooden boxes in the cult cave.

One was stolen by himself.

The other was found by the pockmarked face in the secret room, but he died before he could open it.

Er Gouzi picked it up.

First, open the small wooden box that he stole by himself.

When the lid was opened, he found that the box was full of yellow talisman paper.

Wow!

So many!

He counted with his consciousness and found that there were more than 200 pieces.

But most of them were ordinary talismans such as golden light shield, great power technique, stone armor technique, etc.

When he was at the third level of Qi training, he had fought with Daoxuan Sect monks and broke through with brute force, which was not very helpful to him at this stage.

However, he also found a few talismans of better quality in it.

For example, he had bought the invisibility talisman and the breath-retaining talisman at a high price. There were also more than ten of them in this wooden box.

That's good. He might not be interested in other talismans, but he liked these two talismans very much. He used them twice and accumulated a lot of experience and insights.

In addition, there are some talismans such as fireball talismans and water arrow talismans, which are also very good for fighting.

To cast a spell by yourself, you need to prepare for a few breaths before you can cast the spell, and it also consumes a lot of true Qi in your body.

But using talismans is different. As long as you have a trace of true Qi, you can activate the talisman in an instant.

Ordinary people without true Qi can barely activate it with their own blood and essence.

Er Gouzi put the box of talismans back into the gourd and took out another wooden box.

This was found by the pockmarked face in the secret room.

Before the pockmarked face could open his mouth, he was beaten to death by the helmsman, and died miserably!

Fortunately, Er Gouzi helped him to avenge himself, killed the helmsman, and then took away his wooden box.

When the wooden box was opened, there was only a stone inside, light white, a bit like the shape of a pebble, round, and cold to the touch.

"What is this?"

He took the pebble and looked left and right, up and down, but he couldn't tell what it was and what effect it had?

He couldn't tell, so he put it aside for the time being and asked Ji Cang later. He knew a little about everything.

During this period, he had developed a habit of asking Ji Cang about everything.

In addition to these things, he also stole a jar of Peiyuan Guben Pills, which had about 2,000 pills.

These are made with 50-year-old ginseng as the main medicine. After being enhanced by the gourd, they still have a little effect on him.

After counting these items, there are still a lot of things stripped from the corpse.

Most of these things are sundries, and there are some money pills and the like.

A total of 3,000 taels of silver, more than 1,000 Peiyuan Guben pills, and more than 20 Xuepo pills were cleaned out.

There are also hundreds of blood-stained clothes.

The clothes can be given to Qiuyue. They are women who are good at dealing with these things. After washing and re-altering, they can make many more clothes.

After Er Gouzi cleaned up the spoils of this time, he picked some red peppers and gave them to Ji Cang, and gave the clothes to Qiuyue by the way.

"Brother Ji, can you help me see what this is?"

Er Gouzi took out the pebble and gave it to Ji Cang to check.

Ji Cang took it in his hand, just glanced at it casually, and threw it back to Er Gouzi.

"This is a Qingxin Stone."

"It can clear the mind and eliminate restlessness, keep people calm, and prevent going astray during cultivation."

After Ji Cang said this, Er Gouzi probably understood that when the pockmarked face found this stone, he was giving it to the helmsman.

If he could have given it to the helmsman earlier, he probably wouldn't have been so manic, and finally beat him to death, but it was a step too late.

This thing is of no use to Er Gouzi, but it should be of some help to Sima Yi.

After giving the Qingxin Stone to Sima Yi, he went back to the mountain and slept soundly.

These days in the cave of the cult, he never slept.

This sleep was so good that he didn't wake up until the sun was high in the sky the next day.

Yushan had prepared breakfast for him a long time ago, and he ate a few bowls of spiritual rice and a fried fish, and ate half full.

At this time, he found that many people gathered at the bottom of the mountain again. Could it be that the newcomers were making trouble?

Immediately, he flew down the mountain on a big goose.

He found that it was indeed Sun Wangcai, who was guarding the bottom of the mountain with a group of people. He was about to scold them, but the group of people had already knelt down.

"Boss, we want to sell ourselves!"

"Sell ourselves?"

Er Gouzi was a little confused, he thought he had heard wrongly.

"Yes, we want to sell ourselves to the boss."

He had been here for more than a day, and he had already found out that Qiuyue and the others were all bought by Er Gouzi.

"No, I don't want to buy and sell people now."

Er Gouzi refused without any hesitation. Why did he buy so many people?

"Boss, we are very cheap, just one copper coin, and we are willing to sell ourselves as slaves."

"If you don't want to pay, it doesn't matter if you don't give a copper coin."

"We have written the contract of sale ourselves."

"As long as the boss can accept us, we can be slaves, servants, and cows and horses."

As they said, these people held up a piece of cloth with both hands and showed it to Er Gouzi.

On each piece of cloth, a contract of sale was written in blood. Many of the words were crooked, but the contents were similar.

"I voluntarily sell myself as a slave for one penny and never regret it."

If they could survive, few people would like to sell themselves as slaves. Who doesn't want to live with dignity?

But at the moment, for them, selling themselves for one penny may be the best choice.

Especially after experiencing all kinds of hardships, seeing Qiuyue and her friends' lives at the foot of Shekou Mountain.

Compared with the chaos in other places, being a slave to Ergouzi is happier than being a general under those rebel kings.

At this time, Ji Cang and Sima Yi were also standing by.

Looking at this large group of people, each holding a contract of sale written in blood, they were shocked beyond words.

Ji Cang's former pride and confidence disappeared, and his face even blushed to the root of his neck, looking up at the sky.

"This is a shame for the Great Zhou Dynasty, a shame for the royal family and all the civil and military officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"The royal ministers eat the people's blood and sweat every day, but let the people of the world fall to this."

When Ji Cang said this, a tear slid down from the corner of his eye.

Sima Yi looked at Ji Cang curiously, and a sense of confidant rose in his heart.

"The Great Zhou Dynasty has long been terminally ill. It needs a good doctor to take strong medicine and scrape the bone to treat the poison, so that there is a possibility of change."

"But good medicine tastes bitter, and the pain of scraping the bone to treat the poison, who can bear it, and where can such a good doctor be found!"

Ji Cang sighed. Everyone knows some truths, but how many people can do it.

"I want to be such a good doctor..."

The two chatted like this, and Er Gouzi had already received two thousand indentures written in blood.

In fact, even if it was free, he didn't really want it.

He only had those two barren mountains in total, plus 50 acres of land under Shekou Mountain.

Even if we cultivate all the barren land into fertile fields in the future, we still can't support so many people, there are too many people and too little land.

However, seeing those begging eyes and those indentures written in blood, he softened his heart again.

After all, he made bad friends and was influenced too much by Sima Yi. He always got excited and did some losing business.

After he accepted all the indentures, the two thousand people kowtowed to him again to thank him for his great kindness.

"I accepted the indentures, but I don't have so many copper coins, so I will give each of you a liter of grain as a debt repayment."

"Thank you for your kindness, boss!"

The two thousand people kowtowed again to thank him, this time they were full of joy.

One liter of grain, if you save it a little and mix it with some tree bark and grass roots, it can last for a long time.

In this day and age, not to mention one penny, 100 pennies can't buy one liter of grain.

Er Gouzi asked Qiuyue to distribute grain to everyone, one liter per person, and 20 shi was used this time.

There is not much grain in the warehouse, so many people have to eat a lot of grain every day.

It will be better until the spring when the weeds grow.

Er Gouzi returned to the mountain and moved down the dried persimmons and red dates in stock, which also had several shi, and could last for a while.

Then, he waved his heavy sword and reclaimed another five acres of land on the top of the mountain, all planted with ordinary rice.

Together with the two acres of ordinary rice planted originally, there are now a total of seven acres, and they can be harvested once every half a month.

Each acre can harvest about four shi per season, and in a month, these seven acres can harvest more than 50 shi of rice.

However, Yushan can't handle it alone, and Er Gouzi can only take time to help plant, harvest, and dry.

On average, there is more than one stone of rice per day, which is still very difficult for 3,000 people to eat, but at least no one will starve to death, and there is no need to eat corpses.

At the same time, outside Shekou Mountain, the wars between various forces became more frequent, and the forces that survived became stronger and stronger.

Er Gouzi destroyed a nest of the cult, which did not seem to affect the refining of the Blood Soul Pill.

A large number of immortal cultivators appeared in the rebel army, and many anti-kings have cultivated to the middle stage of Qi training by swallowing a large number of Blood Soul Pills.

But the population resources are getting less and less.

No food will consume population, and cultivation will also consume population.

Now many forces are fighting each other, no longer fighting for territory, no money, just population.

Even the eighteen anti-kings surrounded outside the county are now only twelve.

But the population has decreased, but the strength is stronger than before.

This long winter is like suffering in purgatory for all parts of Qingzhou.

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