Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 7 Making a Lot of Money

[If there is a Huang Ba, he will attack the master of the evil plot. Killing him will bring evil spirits. ]

Chen Ku was solemn.

This reminder is...

The reminder of the change chart must be correct!
This Huang Ba is as harmful as the wild dog that wants to eat him!

Mother Chen was silent and said, "That Huang Ba, he just knew that our family is in such a bad situation and has no money, so he used the upcoming autumn harvest as an excuse..."

Autumn grain...Autumn grain tax...

This is another tax.

Chen Ku put aside that line of hint for the moment.

Killing people, that gangster has several subordinates, he is outnumbered and weak, he doesn't have the ability to kill him now.

There was a double silence.

 …

Taxation is a yoke on the heads of ordinary people, and Huang Ba took advantage of this to bully their family.

During the Daji Dynasty, farmers would be taxed twice a year, divided into summer taxes and autumn rice.

If they could not pay, they would be forced to perform labor service, such as building bridges and roads, and managing rivers and canals. Countless people died during labor service.

This is the ancient dynasty.

Therefore, when the autumn crops are harvested, it is also the time for landlords, bullies and tyrants to seize opportunities to annex and buy up other people's land and property at low prices.

At this time, Chen Ku looked at his mother's depressed expression and knew that his mother was probably about to compromise with this sad fate like most people.

And most of this is because of myself.

"Son, the autumn grain harvest is approaching. Even if we don't sell our children, we probably won't be able to keep this house." Chen's mother said helplessly.

When the sister-in-law heard that they and her son would not be sold, she felt a little safer. But when she thought about losing her house and even a place to shelter from the wind and rain in the future, she couldn't help but feel sad and her tears began to fall silently again.

Chen Ku frowned when he heard this and said, "Mom, don't worry. I will find a way to pay the autumn grain. I won't sell my house or my people. If I really rely on this method to pay the autumn grain and avoid corvée labor, how can I live like a fool!"

Although Chen's mother and sister-in-law were shocked, they didn't quite believe that Chen Ku had a solution.

The old mother asked, "The autumn harvest of Dingjia is taxed per person, including the seven-year-old Huzi. There are four people in our family, so we have to pay at least two strings of silver in taxes this year. Where can you get so much money?"

"Don't worry about this family. Anyway, there is still a man in the family now, and I will let everyone live a good life."

After saying that, he strode out of the door, reached the village entrance and pulled the cart back.

"I'll unload the firewood first. I'll go to the market this time and buy some antidiarrheal medicine for Hu Zi. Sister-in-law, please boil a few more pots of hot water... and feed Hu Zi the medicine." Chen Ku said as he unloaded the firewood: "Then prepare some dry food for me. I'll go back to the mountain tomorrow."

The old mother felt sorry for her son and said distressedly, "Take a day off and talk later..."

Chen Ku shook his head and said, "Time is so tight, I can't rest."

After that, he said to his sister-in-law: "Remember, if Huang Ba comes again, go find Brother Zhao first, and then wait for me to come back. Don't worry, I'll take care of everything..."

Chen Ku clenched the sickle in his hand.

A chill in my heart:
"Since this bully has set his sights on our family, he will definitely not give up so easily. However, with my current strength, I am outnumbered. If I really clash with him, not only will I not be able to kill him, but I will also not be able to gain any benefits. I must learn how to protect myself. Next, it is not enough to just make money, I also have to practice martial arts, and then I can deal with this kind of person!"

The next day, Chen Ku set out with some boiled water and five times the usual amount of dry food, wearing straw sandals, carrying a sickle and a backpack.

The closest mountain and forest farm to the village belong to a wealthy family in the county, Mr. Li's family. It was their mountain that we entered last time with Mr. Li and his grandson.

The forest farm was patrolled by Li's family rangers, leading hunting dogs.

As usual, I paid fifty cents for the toll and went in along the entrance to the mountain.

"I went into the mountains alone and had to leave at night. Otherwise, there would be no one to accompany me. The dangers in the mountains are too great..."

Especially after experiencing the incident of the white dog coming down the mountain to eat people not long ago, Chen Ku became more aware of how many terrible wild beasts were hiding in the mountains.

Tigers, leopards, and packs of jackals, any one of them could kill him if he encountered one.

With caution, trepidation, and unprecedented anticipation, after entering the mountain, Chen Ku started his "small dog transformation", transforming himself into a dog with a nose that could smell ten miles away.

【Thin Dog Transformation】

[Current level: Changing shape (slim dog nose)]

[Small dog nose: sniffing ten miles away]

Opening the dog's nose, we found that the forest was different from the village.

The smells in the mountains and forests are so complex and varied.

It is dozens of times larger than that in the village. The smell of different trees,
The smell of flowers and plants,
The smell of birds and beasts...

Chen Ku recalled the strange and varied smells of medicinal wood that he had smelled in the medicinal wood market.

Start climbing the mountain stream.

Wandering among the mountains and forests.

The nose was constantly moving.

Soon, the feedback of the herbal smell came one after another.

Bupleurum, Gastrodia, and Polyporus, which are usually hard to find...

Found them all!
Half an hour later!
In Chen Ku's backpack was already the daily harvest of an ordinary herbalist in the mountains.

It was already filled with various common herbs, including two chicken blood orchids.

He looked at the harvest in the basket excitedly: "I used the dog's sense of smell to drive the dog, and I have gained so much in just half an hour. Although I haven't found any precious medicine yet, all the herbs in the basket together are worth seven or eight hundred coins!"

This is equivalent to an income of seven or eight hundred yuan in just a few hours.

With this level of income, he would become the richest man in the village in just a few months.

You can earn more than two strings of cash in three or four days, so why worry about not being able to pay the autumn grain?

Gold Finger did not disappoint his expectations!

After a while, he even found a ginseng.

"This ginseng, judging from the leaves, is not as big as Master Li's, but it is at least 10 to 20 years old."

Chen Ku was extremely excited:

He carefully tied a red rope around the ginseng, and finally loosened the soil a little bit with a small wooden stick. It took him half an hour to lift the ginseng out intact using his hands.

"It's great! This ginseng can be sold for at least four or five taels of silver!"

I make 40-50 taels a day! It’s really a lucrative deal!

In the previous life, that would be a daily income of 5,000 yuan!

Considering past and present lives, this is also a windfall-level gain.

After digging out the ginseng.

However, just as he left the forest and was about to take the mountain road back home.

But suddenly.

The dog's keen nose smelled a scent of blood.

The smell of blood made Chen Ku change color.

Because the bloody smell is actually the smell of human blood.

Subconsciously, I wanted to escape back home as quickly as possible.

But suddenly, several "Awoo" and "Aow" howls similar to wolves' howls were heard coming from the forest two or three miles away.

"This is a wild wolf?"

Chen Ku immediately analyzed what happened:
"Did anyone encounter a wild wolf in the mountains? They were fighting fiercely."

After he analyzed this fact, he had some thoughts in his mind, but he had no intention of going up.

It's not that I don't want to save people, but...

It's too much of a threat to me.

The nose twitches.

"The scent of one man is equal to the scent of sixteen wolves..."

A long time passed.

His nose twitched. "The smell of blood has become stronger, while the smell of the wolf has become half as light. How could one person fight sixteen wolves and kill half of them?"

After a while.

"He was bitten to death? Are all the wolves almost dead too?"

Chen Ku was shocked.

So powerful?

(End of this chapter)