The last 2000 yuan

When it was getting dark, the village head of Hongshu came out of the front yard of Tie's house with red and swollen eyes and a grateful expression on his face.

The village head did not go home immediately, but lit a torch to call some important villagers to talk about things in his yard until midnight.

Many villagers heard the quarrels coming from the village chief's yard.

The village chief is not afraid that people will hear their arguments, they wish more people could hear them.

In fact, that night, the villagers who were disturbed by the noise and couldn't sleep well and felt uneasy gathered at the gate of the village chief's courtyard one after another.

Early the next morning, the village head looked for Niannian again with two dark circles under his eyes.

Seeing him like that all the year round, he said that today he will see the seriously injured and dying first, and the detailed conditions can be discussed tomorrow, so that the village chief can go back and have a good rest.

The village head said with a wry smile that this matter is too big and important, and he will not be able to sleep well if it is not settled immediately.

After listening to the new treatment price proposed by the village chief all the year round, he was noncommittal.

The village chief looked at him very anxiously.

Get up all year round: "Go and see the dying patients first, doesn't it mean that some people can't wait anymore?"

"Thank you! Thank you!" The village chief jumped up. Although he didn't know whether Perennial's behavior meant that he had promised them the price of treatment, but at least Perennial agreed to take action now.

On the third day, Perennial invited the village head and important people in the village to have another meal, and changed the content of the second treatment price proposed by the village head.

The village chief's hands trembled and he almost dropped the wooden bowl.

"Woohoo!" The oldest village elder cried out first.

The old man cried so much that he seemed to want to kneel down for Nian Nian.

I was stopped by raising my hand all the year round, "Don't cry, don't kneel, I just don't like fishing at the bottom of the river, and I prefer a win-win businessman."

As a result, this sentence made the eyes of the village head and other villagers red.

Compared with being grateful, the young and strong people in the village have the heart to follow.A few people went to talk to Tie Buping after the meal. They didn't dare to talk to Niannian directly, so they wanted to use Tie Buping to insinuate, and mainly asked whether the master magician still wanted to accept his subordinates and what requirements he had.

Tie Buping doesn't know whether he wants to earn money all the year round, and what is the standard for earning people.He can only say that he doesn't know.

The young man in the village thought that Tie Buping didn't want his cronies to be robbed, or that he just wanted to give Tie's villagers to the Master Magician, and secretly criticized him a little.

But because the Master Magician said that he was willing to help Hongshu Village, it was all for the sake of injustice.This makes the feelings of the young and strong in the village towards Tie Buping very complicated.

Tie Buping didn't know that the people of Hongshu Village loved and hated him at all. Seeing that his brother was doing well, he got perennial permission to go hunting with Xuanhuang and the others. However, during the hunting, Tie Buping paid special attention to whether there was any black air around him. He just absorbed it all.

I have always been worried about whether he will be full, and I have to check his body when I come back at night.

But Tie Buping's body was like a bottomless pit. He almost absorbed all the black air around Hongshu Village, but he didn't feel like he was full last time, as if his appetite had increased several times.

All the year round, I can only feel that the energy in Tibuping's body is evenly distributed.

Tie Buping liked the feeling of perennial magic power flowing into his body, and when he took his hand away from perennial, he subconsciously grabbed that hand and put it on his stomach.

Perennial: "..."

Tie Buping is an honest and good boy: "Do it again, it's very comfortable."

Perennial: You clown, are you seducing your father?

Tie Buping fell asleep.

I didn't wake him up all the year round, so I let him sleep in the carriage, and he lay down and entered the teaching and experience classroom to continue learning magic and refining medicine.

Two days later, Perennial promised that the village head of Hongshu would come back before the autumn trading market, and took Tie Buping and Xuanhuang to Adventure City.

Five days later, Tie Sandi had completely recovered, and several seriously ill people in the village were out of danger.

Tie Buping looked at Perennial who was sitting next to him as if enjoying the scenery on the roadside. Thinking of what the head of Hongshu Village said when he saw him off in the morning, he couldn't help asking: "Why do you help Hongshu Village? I don't believe it's because of me. .”

Perennial, who came out to breathe, turned his head, his eyes full of helplessness: This kid probably can't get rid of his unpleasant speech.

"Well, it's not because of you, but because Hongshu Village is valuable." Perennial said.

"Special product of Hongshu Village?"

"Correct."

"But... Isn't the price proposed by Village Chief Hong more beneficial to you?" This is what Tie Buping is most puzzled about.Since they are greedy for other people's special products all the year round, why don't they think of a way to control the land in their hands, instead they propose such cooperation conditions that are beneficial to Hongshu Village?

Laughing all the year round, out of a nurturing heart, he asked: "Why do you think I did this?"

Tie Buping also thought about this question just now, and quickly expressed his thoughts: "Do you want to get the gratitude of the people of Hongshu Village?"

"Well, that's right. What else?"

"And..." Tie Buping pondered, and after a while he seemed to be talking to himself: "If I were negotiating with you on behalf of Tiejia Village, I would not have given the price of the previous treatment. Because as long as I go hunting, the village will definitely Some people will be injured, and many villagers die of injuries every year. You only need to save a few casually, and you can stay in the transaction period. During the transaction period, if you save one person, you can get [-] square meters of land, and it won’t take long , all the land in the village will fall into your hands.”

"Then do you think Village Chief Hong and the others can't think of this? Then why do they still do this?"

"Because they are afraid of you." Tie Buping blurted out, but then he seemed to remember something, and said: "It is also possible that they want you to protect them, but they dare not say anything about your protection, and they are afraid that you will get the land and make the villagers It’s not good for them to become slaves. So they changed a method, at least allowing you to rescue the villagers for a few years or more, and temporarily keep the villagers and the land free.”

Perennial is very happy that Tie Buping can think so much. A person with little experience can think so much at once, which means that he must pay attention to observation and like to use his brain.

"Have you ever wondered why the people of Hongshu Village wanted my protection, even at the beginning they did not hesitate to offer the village to me for treatment?" Perennial induced.

Tie Buping remembered something his mother had mentioned to him, and subconsciously replied: "Because other powerful people are threatening them, Hongshu Village seems to be peaceful, but it is actually in danger."

Patting Tie Buping's shoulder appreciatively all the year round, "After I got the first version of the treatment price they proposed, I didn't think it was what they could propose. It was too specific, and it was extremely detrimental to Hongshu Village. And with Hongshu During the contact with the people in Shu Village, I found that they can’t count at all, so they absolutely can’t make a condition that during the transaction period, if I save one person, they will give me [-] square meters of land. Because they obviously didn’t think about their Red Tree Village. How big is it, how big is the population, and how many people I save in a year, I can get as much land. In addition to the condition that the first one who saves a person can extend the trading period for one year, Hongshu Village seems to be given to me. "

"So when I asked the village chief if he knew what the real cost of this treatment was, and I explained it to him in detail, he was obviously dumbfounded." Perennial smiled.

Tie Buping finally understood, his eyes widened slightly: "The price they proposed themselves, but they themselves don't know how big the consequences of the price will be?"

"Yes." Nian Nian nodded, "Later I asked him in detail, probably because I told the hidden consequences of the treatment price, the village chief became very trusting of me, and finally told me the truth."

It turned out that Hongshu Village had indeed encountered a great threat.

The threat came from a trader they met last year.

The trader gave them a slightly higher transaction price than other merchants, and would also give them some small things from the outside world as gifts.

At the beginning, Village Chief Hong was very grateful to this trader and felt that he was respected. He would rather risk offending the previous trader and sell all the special products of the village to this trader.

The merchants who traded with Hongshu Village before were really angry, but the later traders helped the people of Hongshu Village and helped them negotiate with the previous traders. In the end, I don’t know what terms they negotiated. In short, Hongshu Village is fine. You can continue to trade in the market.

Out of gratitude, the people of Hongshu Village signed an exclusive supply contract with the subsequent dealer.That is to say, any future production in Hongshu Village, if traded, must be traded to the trader they signed.

If the contract is violated, the people of Hongshu Village will pay a huge amount of compensation.

And in the trading market this spring, the trader who had been good to them suddenly began to pick on the trading items they brought out, and the prices they gave were lower than in previous years. The salt and wheat flour they took out were necessary for Hongshu Village. The quality of supplies is not as good as last year.

Feeling cheated, the people of Hongshu Village protested, but the businessman used the contract as an excuse, saying that they could only trade with them.Unless their family doesn't want it, the people of Hongshu Village can go to other merchants.

The people in Hongshu Village were so angry that they decided to find other businessmen secretly.

However, both the previous traders and other traders expressed that they would no longer accept goods from Hongshu Village, and said that this was a sincere agreement between the merchants, and they could not offend their peers just because of Hongshu Village.

Hongshu Village can only cooperate with later traders, and the necessary supplies in exchange are less than in previous years.

Autumn is about to be the last large-scale trading market this year. The people of Hongshu Village plan to go to other markets farther away to find other merchants, but before that they need to collect more special products, which is why they take the risk to hunt more red The reason for the sand crocodile.

There is no mangrove rice in spring, and only people from Hongshu Village will produce it in the autumn trading market.

Just a few days ago, a businessman came outside the mangrove forest and shouted to the people of the mangrove village, saying that he wanted to talk to them about cooperation.

The trade that the businessman proposed with the people of Hongshu Village was medicines that could stop bleeding, heal wounds and cure fever, as well as salt.But the medicine he took out was very expensive, and the people in Hongshu Village couldn't afford it at all.

The businessman proposed a plan to let the people of Hongshu Village exchange land for medicine with him without any money. The businessman also proposed that he knew the businessman who signed a contract with Hongshu Village. If Hongshu Village agreed to exchange land for medicine with him, He will help Hongshu Village settle that unfair contract.

And the treatment price that the village head gave to the perennial was based on the conditions proposed by the businessman.

"Major Hong and the others are very tempted by the conditions proposed by the businessman. They don't know how big fifty square meters are. After seeing the businessman's gestures, they don't think it's too big. They also think the conditions proposed by the businessman are very good value. Only a small piece of land is enough In exchange for medicines for ten people. Moreover, the businessman also proposed that the land he got is only valid during the transaction period. If Hongshu Village does not intend to make any more transactions with him, then the people of Hongshu Village can terminate the transaction at any time and Take back the land leased to him." Nian Nian finished.

Tie Buping sneered: "Stop? Take it back? How is it possible! How can you expect the jackal to spit out the meat swallowed by the jackal?"

Perennial: "Then before Hongshu Village agreed to the conditions of that businessman, I appeared. After careful consideration, the people of Hongshu Village decided that instead of giving land to an ordinary businessman, it would be better to use it to make friends with me, a mage."

Tiebuping is clear: "The magician is really great. Those merchants can bully us vegetable people. If you come forward and say that Hongshu Village is your territory, and everyone in Hongshu Village is under your protection, the contract terms are not fair. As an excuse, I asked the businessman who signed the contract with Hongshu Village to give up that contract, as long as the forces behind the trader do not have magicians or fighters, they dare not give up."

Iron Buping paused: "But I still don't understand, since the people of Hongshu Village want your protection, why didn't you take the opportunity to take down Hongshu Village as a whole, and even offered such a cooperation condition that is very beneficial to Hongshu Village?" ?”

Perennial laughed: "That's not a condition of cooperation, it's just the treatment fee that Hongshu Village has to pay for my treatment of people in Hongshu Village."

The treatment price that I finally negotiated with the village chief all year round is very simple, and it is also very beneficial to Hongshu Village. The content is to pay in installments.

Originally, he promised to help Hongshu Village sell special products all the year round, and pay [-]% of the selling price to the people of Hongshu Village after selling out.Now that Hongshu Village has to give at least a certain amount of special products to Chang Nian to sell every year, and [-]% of the price that Chang Nian originally promised will withhold [-]% as his reward for saving lives until the people of Hongshu Village Payment in full.

And to save a person, no matter the condition or injury, as long as he makes a move all year round, he must pay ten gold coins.

Ten gold coins is definitely not expensive to save a life, but for the people of Hongshu Village, ten gold coins per life is simply a sky-high price. They are destined to ask for it only when they are seriously injured or seriously ill.

In this way, he will not be disturbed all year round and used as a doctor.

In addition, he has also sold some essential medicines such as hemostatic and anti-inflammatory medicines and antipyretics to Hongshu Village all the year round, because they are not magic medicines, but medicines that ordinary herbalists can make, and he always refers to the prices of similar medicines he asked on the road , The asking price is not high, ranging from dozens of copper coins to dozens of silver coins.

The people of Hongshu Village counted the number of people who need to be treated all year round with their fingers, so pessimistic that they might have to pay back for hundreds of years.

He calculated an account for them all the year round, saying that as long as he can sell the three special products of Hongshu Village at a relatively ideal price, for example, Hongshu rice can be sold for one silver coin per catty, then according to the sales and installment agreement between them , as long as twenty baskets of red tree rice, the people of Hongshu Village can return one gold coin to the perennial year, and at the same time get a bonus of one gold coin.

This is just a consignment sale of raw materials. He has also slightly mentioned the efficacy of red tree rice and red vegetables all the year round, saying that after researching the market, he will consider making red tree village specialties into finished goods for sale, so that he can earn more.

After raising the price of sugar and the possibility of cooking brown sugar from red vegetables all the year round, all the people in Hongshu Village looked like they were in a dream.

All in all, the people of Hongshu Village no longer worry about not being able to pay their bills after they have settled their bills all year round.Anyway, it doesn't matter if they can't afford it, and it's much more cost-effective for them to get [-]% of the dividend than the previous transaction price.And in this way, the Lord Magician has a close relationship with their village, and they can also use the name of the Lord Magician to scare people when necessary in the future.

Moreover, when the village head Danghong raised his concerns about the transaction contract signed by the village, he promised all the year round that he would come back before the autumn trading period and go to the market with them.

Although nothing was guaranteed all the year round, the people of Hongshu Village thought that Mr. Magician's willingness to go to the trading market together represented his intention to protect Hongshu Village.

In this way, the people of Hongshu Village no longer have to worry, and they all sleep soundly at night.

"Do you have any other ideas about the contract signed between Hongshu Village and the trader?" Perennial asked the boy.

Tie Buping concentrated on driving the carriage, and replied casually: "Never sign a contract with anyone again in the future."

He knocked on his head all the year round, "The contract is a good thing, and its appearance is a great progress in social civilization. I want you to pay attention to the content of the contract, not to let you not use it from now on."

Iron Buping: "Oh."

"You have to start learning to read characters, and you have to learn from today." This is not the first time that Chang Nian has raised it.

It's not the first time that Tie Buping made excuses: "I'm very busy."

He laughs all the time, Tie Buping is very smart, but he doesn't like to read. He thought that if he asked the boy to let him learn to read and write, the boy would be very happy and looking forward to it, and he would throw himself into studying day and night endlessly.

But when Tie Buping found that he couldn't absorb magic power, let alone learn magic spells, he didn't want to learn to read.

And Tie Buping still couldn't understand: "Why does every country and every intelligent race have its own script and language? Why do magic spells learn her magic script? Since there is a common language and a common script, why do everyone Don’t you just learn this one? Or simply learn magic characters as a common language?”

Perennial: "On the day you become the only emperor of Star Hai'an, you can ask the world to unify writing, language pronunciation, measuring instruments, etc."

"All right. I'll make you the number one magician to protect the country." Tie Buping nodded solemnly, and suddenly raised his hand: "Look, Adventure City is here!"