Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty Seven Zhang Village
Our eldest son-in-law Rock was following his girlfriend Zhang Ling, looking for medicinal materials everywhere outside the village.
"Don't take the gossip from the villagers seriously." Zhang Ling's face turned a little red.
"Don't worry, I'm not so stingy, and I raised this identity." Locke said.
Following Zhang Ling to Zhang Village, Locke had to make up his identity. After thinking about it, the most reliable one was the boyfriend Zhang Ling had in Uehara City, which was more feasible.
So as soon as he entered the village, Locke felt that the people in Zhang Village were so enthusiastic.
He did not give these indigenous people a hint of mental power, Locke thought in confusion.
It was found in the afternoon since noon, and the two of them had few gains. Zhang Ling held a few wild yams in her hand and prepared to take them back to stew soup for Locke.
"Hey, wait!" A glimmer flashed in Locke's eyes.
He flew over and found a white rhizome plant on the shaded side of a hillside not far away, under the ground of an old tree root.
"Old ginseng!" Zhang Ling exclaimed.
"Why, do you know this?" Locke raised the thing in his hand.
"Well, when the Taoist boy came to our village a few years ago, he held something similar to this one in his hand. He said that he collected it from the next village." Zhang Ling's face was flushed, and she was excited.
"Very precious?" Locke frowned. In his opinion, this thing was of no use except nourishing a little blood and energy.
"Well! Well! The boy said that we dug it and sold it to him, and he paid 20,000 yuan to collect it." Zhang Ling said with a bright look.
"Hmph, 20,000" Locke shook the ginseng in his hand. He knew the money value of this plane. This material that replenishes qi and blood is not considered a magical material in the wizard world, but it is more precious than ordinary medicinal materials.
After converting the currency value, the value of this old ginseng is at least more than 100,000 yuan. The Taoist boy obviously bullies the villagers' ignorance and does not understand the market.
However, if he could take out 20,000 yuan to collect it, Locke still had to admit that the child's conscience was not eaten by the dog.
Based on his understanding of the villagers nearby, the old ginseng is sold for 200 yuan, and the villagers will sell it to him without saying a word.
After putting the ginseng into the space ring, Locke and Zhang Ling returned to Zhangcun first.
The Zhang family didn’t have such a good meal today.
The old hen that had been raised for two years was stewed, and a newborn lamb in the sheep pen slaughtered. The second sister of the Zhang family went to the village grain store to buy a few kilograms of white flour. She drank the millet wine that Zhang had been hiding for three years in the cellar. The whole family was full of joy.
Their family is so extravagant and wasteful, which is inseparable from the 20,000 yuan that Rock gave to his cheap father-in-law before the meal.
Old Man Zhang has never seen so much money in his life. Their family is so miserable. The eldest daughter goes out to work, the second daughter helps farm in the village, the third child and fourth child are still in school, and the fifth child is even a little kid wearing open-crotch pants. The family’s savings do not exceed three digits every year.
With money, Old Man Zhang straightened his waist and spoke quickly. His years of rheumatism seemed to be completely cured, but Locke sorted out his slight use of fighting spirit.
Locke at least asked Zhang Ling to take care of her for several months of eating, drinking, and urinating. She had a short mouth and a small reward. She still needed to be done with a small reward. Locke had the bottom line of being a human being.
"Old Zhang, I have a bottle of Fenjiu that my nephew gave me last year. Today is your happy day, so I will bring it to you to make it." At the dinner table, the village chief came to the door with a bottle of wine.
The visitor is a guest, the honest Zhang family is not good
He drove the person out, not to mention that this person was the village chief.
Through communication with Zhang Ling, Locke knew what this old guy was doing. He didn't want to disappoint the Zhang family. Locke called the tanned village chief outside the door.
"How much does it cost to build roads in your village?" Locke said straight to the point.
He discovered that what formed class suppression among the indigenous creatures in this plane was not power, but money.
If you have money, you are the master!
"Do you think this is 20,000?" The village chief looked up and glanced at Locke secretly.
Locke had no expression on his face.
"Ten thousand, ten thousand is enough!" The village chief spoke immediately.
Locke still didn't speak.
The village chief gritted his teeth, "Five thousand! The road construction uses all the young young people in the village. The money is mainly to buy cement, stone and sand in the town. Our village's labor force can manage food!"
The village chief gave Locke a certain number this time.
After hearing Locke, he nodded with satisfaction. He was not a good house, and he had helped Zhang Village more. He was not helping the Zhang family, but harming the Zhang family.
After decades of life experience, Locke is well aware of the ugliness of human nature, which is common in any plane.
If he showed too much enthusiasm, wouldn’t he become a synonym for being stupid and having a lot of money? If the people from Zhangcun asked him for money in the future?
These five thousand are the only help Locke gives to the people of Zhang Village.
After touching his pocket, Locke pretended to withdraw money from it, but in fact he took out five thousand yuan directly from the space ring.
"Take it, you must be nicer to the Zhang family in the future." Locke said in a deep voice.
"Don't worry, don't worry, our village has a surname of Zhang, and everyone in and outside the village is my family. Don't worry, son-in-law." The village chief said with a smile.
With this stack of money, the good days in their village will come sooner.
Locke nodded, did not continue to talk nonsense with the village chief, and went back to the house to continue eating.
"Where is the village chief, won't he come and take a sip?" Old Man Zhang opened the Fenjiu sent by the village chief and gave Locke a glass of it.
"He has something to do, let's go first." Locke replied casually.
"This wine is good!" Locke praised.
"Yes, yes, this Fenjiu is the treasure of the village chief's family. I have only heard of it before, but I don't know what it tastes like." Old Man Zhang smiled silly.
The table of food was finished quickly. In front of Old Man Zhang's family, Locke was so weird that he didn't act too badly. He only ate two cents and then stopped moving his chopsticks.
Chopsticks are the latest dietary utensils that Locke learned in this plane.
Old Man Zhang’s family was reluctant to throw away the unfinished food. There was no refrigerator at his house. Old Man Zhang and Zhang Ling’s mother discussed and planned to put the leftover rice in the cold room on the shade and bring it out tomorrow morning for the children to stew a pot of chowder.
Locke must not be able to eat leftover rice chowder with the Zhang children. Old Man Zhang's wife Liu had already thought about it and made a stewed egg for his son-in-law tomorrow morning.
At night, the sky was filled with stars outside the house, and Rock sat in the yard and felt the peace for this moment.
After Zhang Ling helped her mother clean up the dishes, she walked to the yard and sat next to Rock, saying, "Are you not full? Do you want to find a place where there is no one? I'll make some for you?"
Zhang Ling knew that there was a complete set of cooking utensils in the Rock Space Ring, as well as some spare food and water, and she helped buy these things in the supermarket in Uehara.
"Forget it, I'm not very hungry." Locke shook his head and said.
"Your place is indeed very good as the city
It's very different." Locke said.
"Of course it's different. Our village is not as prosperous as Uehara City." Zhang Ling said. Every time she returns from Uehara City to the village, she always feels like she is from a civilized society to a primitive tribe.
The only electrical appliance in the village is the gray-white TV with the always-splash screen in the village chief's house, and there is not even a street light in the village, so Zhang Ling rarely walks at night in the village.
Locke then shook his head. Zhang Ling didn't understand what he meant. What he actually wanted to say was that the energy elements in this remote mountain village were a little more than those in the city, and most importantly, there were much less impurities.
He is now a little convinced that there is the Taoist technique mentioned by Zhang Ling in this world, but with the energy concentration here, the energy users who practice Taoist techniques will definitely not exceed that of the low-level attendants.
Unless he, like Locke, has energy crystals.
How is this possible? The probability of energy crystals being produced at this element concentration is almost zero.
The low-level attendant was still what Lock said higher. In fact, if he threw Lock here and gave him the best skill, Lock believed that with this low elemental concentration, he would have to work hard to become an entry-level attendant.
He got up and patted his pants. Locke said to Zhang Ling, "Go back to the house to sleep, and now wait for that Taoist boy to come."
Zhang Ling nodded and agreed.
They told the Zhang family that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, but they still slept in separate rooms. The people in this small mountain village were extremely conservative about the relationship between the opposite sex.
If you don’t get married, you will have different houses. This is an iron rule that has been passed down in the village for hundreds of years.
So Locke slept with the three and five kids of the Zhang family at night.
Erwa and Siwa are both girls like Zhang Ling, and they squeezed to sleep with their mother Liu.
Old Man Zhang slept in the living room today. In the past, he slept with his two sons.
Locke originally wanted to sleep in the living room, but Old Man Zhang refused to agree. Even his wife Liu came out to persuade Locke to sleep on the kang. Locke could only accept the kindness of the family.
Lying on the earthen kang of Zhang family, Locke stroked the space ring. He was glad that he had the good habit of storing energy crystals. There were hundreds of high-end energy crystals and more than a dozen top-grade energy crystals, which were the foundation for his life in this plane.
In the corner of the space ring, there are several negative energy fusion beads broken into fragments. Locke tried to use it to contact women such as Angelina from the Western Islands. It may be that the distance between the two planes is too far, or it may be that the magic pattern array on the negative energy fusion bead was completely scrapped and there was no movement.
"I hope everything is safe." Locke sighed with a soft sigh with a closed eyes.
He did not fall asleep, but silently circulated the strong wind fighting spirit. Restoring level one was not his purpose. If he wanted to cross endless time and space to return to the wizard world, he felt that he had to at least have the strength of a level two-level knight to have a slight possibility.
This summer is a wonderful summer for the people of Zhangcun.
Several heavy rains have moistened the dry land in the village, adding a little greenness and a little vitality to Zhang Village.
Outside the entrance of the village, the village chief personally took charge and directed and called on all the workers under the age of fifty to come out to build roads.
"The yellow-white steamed bun is enough, and each person is 50 cents a day!" The village chief's slogan was passed down to every household in Zhangcun.
Everyone was excited. Not only did the people in Zhang Village go out, but even the strong young young people in the neighboring village also crossed the difficult mountain roads, hoping to earn extra money from Zhang Village.
Chapter completed!