I am a hero in online games

Chapter 100 Self-Employment ([-])

He Ergou made up his mind and rushed all the way to the end of the village. The strong man and his followers were still standing there, waiting for him to come back.

Seeing He Ergou come back, the strong man asked from a distance, "How is it? Have you found a way to make money?"

He Ergou smiled and said: "That's natural, I just want to earn some money, and I still need your help."

"Oh?" The strong man rubbed his chin, narrowed his eyes and looked at He Ergou, and said slowly, "Aren't you trying to lie to us?"

He Ergou waved his hand and said: "Of course not, you just trust me once, when the time comes, the money I earn will be returned to you with interest!"

The strong man thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Then I will trust you once, if you don't pay the 50 taels of silver, I will take you back!"

He Ergou smiled, pointed to the forest outside the village and said, "No problem, just look after it. Now help me cut down some trees!"

"Trees?" The burly man set up an awning and looked towards the woods beside him, "What do you want a tree for? There is a woodcutter in the village, do you still want to sell firewood?"

He Ergou had a flash of inspiration and said, "Yes, there is also a woodcutter!"

Afterwards, He Ergou patted the strong man's shoulder and said, "Brother, follow me to the woodcutters in the village to buy some chopped firewood, and the others will bother you to cut down a few trees for my younger brother. "

A strong man is a person who does not return to the inn. He is not short of money in the first place. He is just a businessman who pays attention to a lottery. If he loses money, he will break the rules.

At this time, seeing that He Ergou was so confident in earning 50 taels of silver in a short period of time, he was also very curious in his heart, so he responded, "You guys, hurry up and cut down trees, and your wages will be doubled this time!"

When the waiters heard that their wages had been doubled, they were naturally overjoyed. One by one, they took their axes and went happily.

The strong man stepped forward, walked in front of He Ergou, and said loudly: "Follow me, and I will take you to find the woodcutter in this village."

"Okay!" He Ergou didn't expect this strong man to be so easy to talk, so he followed him closely and walked towards the village.

When he reached a small courtyard, the strong man stopped, turned his head to He Ergou and said, "There is a woodcutter living here, follow me in."

After that, he took a big step and walked in. As soon as he entered the house, He Ergou saw the firewood piled on the ground.

The firewood was tied into groups of [-] pieces and stacked in an orderly manner in the middle of the yard.

He Ergou looked at the logs carefully, and could see that the woodcutter was quite good at chopping firewood. The firewood placed in a bundle was almost all the same size, in a very neat semi-cylindrical shape.

He Ergou was overjoyed, the woodcutter had already come out of the house, and said with a warm smile, "You two are here to buy firewood?"

The strong man nodded, turned around and asked, "How much do you need?"

He Ergou pondered for a moment and said, "Two bundles of each of the five types of firewood of different sizes."

The woodcutter was puzzled, he was the one who put firewood in the yard on weekdays, and would buy it for anyone who needed it.One bundle is enough for one day's use, but if it gets wet the next day, it will not be easy to burn.

Therefore, every time he sells firewood, he sells it in bundles. He can sell all the firewood every day, and he will go up the mountain to cut firewood early the next morning.

But the two people suddenly said that they wanted to buy ten bundles of firewood in different sizes. The woodcutter couldn't help but wondered: "Aren't you from this village? What's the use of buying so much firewood at once?"

He Ergou was a little embarrassed, and thought: "It seems that this person regards us as suspicious."

The strong man was also unambiguous and answered simply: "We are the clerks of the restaurant in Chang'an City. Today, a man who went up to the mountain to cut firewood was honored. We have no firewood to burn, so we came here to buy some. Not to mention ten bundles, Even if I bought all your firewood, it still wouldn’t be enough for us to burn.”

He Ergou stared at the strong man with wide eyes, and said in his heart: "This man can lie very well!"

Hearing the words, the woodcutter felt that he was ignorant and ignorant, and was afraid of losing face, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, then I will give you a shoulder pole, so that you can carry the firewood. It is also convenient."

He Ergou cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for that!"

The strong man didn't ask the price, he just took the pole from the woodcutter, tied ten bundles of firewood respectively, left two taels of silver for the woodcutter, picked up the pole and left.

The woodcutter thought that the guest had miscalculated, and hurriedly shouted: "Guest officer, guest officer, I don't need so much!"

The strong man said: "It's okay, save it until I come to buy firewood next time."

So, He Ergou and the strong man traveled all the way back to the end of the village.

Although the strong man picked up a whole ten bundles of firewood along the way, his pace did not slow down at all, he was still full of breath and walking like flying, which really had some internal strength.

After the two came back, several juniors had already cut two or three bundles of firewood back and forth.

He Ergou looked at the firewood they cut again, it can be said that it was uneven and of different sizes, and it was not the same as the standard half cylinder cut by the woodcutter.

He Ergou had expected this a long time ago, so he was not surprised at this time. He just nodded and said: "Okay, now learn to make these firewood into large boards. It must be flat and not rough!"

The strong man didn't know what He Ergou was going to do, but he was curious, so he ordered to do it.

So, for more than a hour in the future, He Ergou and these young men were burying their heads in whittling the wooden board: first, several young men cut it into wooden boards, and then He Ergou did the final polishing.

After the completion of the work, the more than ten bundles of firewood have all turned into flat and smooth wooden boards.

He Ergou looked at the wooden boards piled up in a pile, nodded and said, "That's fine."

He Ergou and a group of others had been concentrating on cutting wooden boards with their heads down. Unknowingly, many villagers who came to watch the excitement had gathered around them.

He Ergou thought: "Now that everyone has gathered here, it is a good opportunity for publicity. We must seize the time now."

So, He Ergou began to instruct a few waiters to combine these planks with semi-cylindrical stakes.

After hearing He Ergou's words, the crowd first made a wooden frame with four boards, and set up two wooden pillars on it. Speeds also vary.

That's it, a machine that doesn't know what it does.

The villagers were amazed to see that this group of people made such a large thing with a pile of wooden planks and cylinders in a short period of time.You guess what this thing is for.

He Ergou said loudly: "Fellow folks, besides farming, each of your families must also spin cotton to make a living. Before spinning cotton, the cotton seeds must be removed. Now, every household is It is a waste of time to remove the seeds by peeling them by hand, and this thing I made today will allow you to do it faster and better when removing seeds and cleaning cotton!"

As soon as they heard what He Ergou said, all the surrounding villagers started arguing.

An old man with a wrinkled face said: "What are you, and no one is imprisoned here, how can you remove the seeds and clean the cotton?"

"Yes, yes, it's a lie!"

Facing the doubts from the villagers, He Ergou smiled slightly and said, "I don't need someone to hide this thing in it. If you don't believe me, you can bring me a handful of cotton wool, and I will demonstrate it to everyone!"

The villagers were still chattering and arguing, and finally, a younger woman couldn't hold her breath, and hurried home to get some seed cotton for He Ergou.

The brawny man didn't quite believe He Ergou's claim that he could use this log to remove seeds and clean cotton. Seeing some villagers go back to pick up things, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.He asked in a low voice, "Can you really use this thing to remove seeds?"

He Ergou smiled confidently, and said leisurely: "Just look at it."

(End of this chapter)