The silver moonlight shines on the earth.
A bright black carriage drove slowly through the night.
Chen Mu was sitting in the carriage, holding a small cloth bag.
From time to time, he took out the silver inside to check whether it was genuine or not, with a cheerful look on his face, as if he had never seen the world.
Diagonally across from him, Jie Jia still had his eyes narrowed and sat expressionless.
But the eyes under his eyelids moved from time to time, always glancing at the cloth bag in Chen Mu's hand without leaving any trace.
"Stop sneaking around." Chen Mu glared at the old man with a look of disgust on his face: "You are a killer all the time. Why are you so useless? Calm down!"
Jie Jia said calmly and unmoved: "Twenty percent."
Chen Mu suddenly held a breath in his chest.
They sold a total of seven training techniques.
A total of seven hundred and thirty taels of silver were obtained.
Two achievements are one hundred and forty-six taels.
Just a little calculation like this made Chen Mu's heart throb with pain.
"Here, here, here..." Chen Mu angrily counted out the silver and threw it to Jie Jia.
It's impossible not to give it. If it weren't for this old man, he wouldn't have the means to sell so many copies of the training technique.
Put away the money bag and take out a book.
This is a medical book he just bought from the black market, and he is going to use it to improve his pharmaceutical proficiency.
He values this technology that he accidentally developed.
The old man Jie Jia is getting better and better at adulterating medicine.
If he didn't quickly improve his pharmaceutical proficiency, he might be tricked to death by this old man.
…
Five days later, Ping'an Square, the west side of Chen's house.
For the sake of safety, including his original yard, he rented three houses in a row.
At this moment, he was digging a hole in the room of the second mansion.
The place where the bed was originally placed was cleared.
There was a round hole one meter in diameter on the ground.
The round hole is about four meters deep and connects to an underground space five meters long and wide.
Some sulfur lime is sprinkled on the ground to repel insects and moisture.
Prices in Qingshan County have skyrocketed, and he is planning to stock up on medicinal materials and food.
In the past few days, he has been busy digging a cellar just to store these supplies.
In the next few days, he went out many times and changed several shops.
In small quantities and many times, we gradually accumulated a large amount of daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt.
He also specially asked Zheng Tu to collect a batch of air-dried bacon for him that was easy to preserve.
The hoarding of supplies will only be completed when Jie Jia delivers the medicinal materials he ordered.
He has been staying at home since then.
He practiced locust stone and kestrel training skills all day long.
Interspersed with studying the newly purchased medical books, I brushed up on my proficiency in pharmaceutical techniques.
Life is boring but not boring.
Seeing his proficiency gradually increasing, Chen Mu is full of energy every day.
He doesn't stay at home completely either.
Every five days, he has to go out to meet living people. Practicing is all about practicing kung fu, but he can't keep himself in isolation.
Another one is to collect information.
…
Bafanglou, Anlefang, Dongshi.
This is the largest teahouse in Dongshi, Qingshan County.
Gathering a large number of storytellers.
Bringing all kinds of news from all directions outside Qingshan County.
As usual, Chen Mu found a corner and spent ten copper coins to buy a pot of tea and a plate of melon seeds. Then he sat there and listened to the scholars telling stories and the people in the lobby chatting and gossiping.
"Have you heard? The Shao Village thirty miles north of the city is gone." A short, fat guest not far away from Chen Mu whispered to his companions.
"What's going on?" Another person at the table asked curiously.
"The government said it was looted by bandits. I just came back from there a few days ago, and there were corpses everywhere. It was so miserable." The pudgy guest could not help but shudder as he spoke.
"Slaughter the village? Where did the thieves come from, so rampant?!"
"It's said that the rebel army in the north was broken up. This group of people has no restraint and is more vicious than ordinary bandits." The short and fat guest said bitterly: "Ansheng can't survive, no matter what kind of rebellion, they should be arrested and chopped head!"
"It seems that those trade routes in the north cannot be run away..."
Several people worried about the declining business.
Chen Mu was chewing melon seeds without any taste, but she was thinking about the defeated army.
This was not the first time he had heard of a broken army and rebellion.
He clearly felt that the scope of the bandits' rebellion was getting larger and larger, and they were getting closer to Qingshan County.
"There won't be any thieves bold enough to attack Qingshan County, right?" Chen Mu was startled by the sudden thought in his mind.
"No, no, no..." Chen Mu quickly shook the thought away.
But... Qingshan County is really going to be breached.
Where should I go from here?
Even if he reaches the Yijin realm, he can easily knock down more than ten people.
But what if you are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people?
Chen Mu was not in the mood to listen to people's stories and concentrated on eavesdropping on conversations in the lobby.
Five out of ten are talking about the troubled times outside.
Chen Mu couldn't help but feel heavy.
After only staying in the teahouse for an hour, he was ready to get up and go home.
Instead of listening to the news that upset him here, it would be better to go home and gain proficiency.
When I walked out of the door, I saw a familiar figure inadvertently.
It turned out to be Zuo Sheng, the eldest young master of the Zuo family.
The other party seemed to notice that someone was looking at him and immediately turned his head to look over.
When he saw Chen Mu, he was slightly startled, then smiled and nodded.
Chen Mu was stunned, subconsciously nodded in return, and then left quickly.
How could this young master know him?
In the Bafang Teahouse, Zuo Sheng looked at the ordinary scholar with interest.
"Interesting guy."
…
Inside the Chen family residence in Ping'an Square.
Chen Mu held an iron lotus seed and observed.
It is about the size of a peanut, oval in shape, and covered with pits and dents the size of sand. It is an extremely rough cast iron lotus seed.
This was specially polished by him, otherwise it would be even rougher.
In addition to these, there are nine spiral patterns on it. He carved them one by one, which wasted a lot of effort.
This is a special pattern that he realized with his proficiency.
Engraved on the iron lotus seed, it resembles the inner rifling of a gun barrel, allowing the iron lotus seed to rotate after being shot, increasing its power.
A flick of the wrist.
Woo woo woo...
boom!
The thick Caitun on the top of the wall ten meters away was immediately penetrated.
"This time, it's really comparable to pistol bullets."
Chen Mu was carrying a bag of iron lotus seeds and throwing them away.
After a while, the locust trees and vegetable piles on the wall turned into a hornet's nest.
In the past, in order to hide that he knew martial arts, he did not dare to practice it.
Now that Boss Zhen is away, the Miao Painting Workshop is half closed, Chen Mu's portrait business has been cut off, and Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan have stopped coming since a certain day.
Chen Mu was happy to be free.
I completely let go of practicing Qigong at home.
Woo!
boom!
The last Iron Lotus Seed was played.
The vegetable mound immediately exploded into pieces of wood.
At this time, a wave of heat suddenly surged from all over the body.
The muscles in the arms, chest, back, waist, abdomen, thighs, and all over the body suddenly began to ripple, and they swelled and swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Chen Mu quickly called out the gray wall.
Writing: 1445/10000/second level;
Picture: 1353/10000/second order;
Throw: 3/10000/Level 3;
Kestrel training technique: 2769/10000/second level;
Cooking skills: 3016/10000/level one;
Pharmacy: 1143/10000/level one;
His throwing ability has broken through the third level, and his physical fitness can also be improved?
This feeling is almost the same as when Kestrel was practicing the muscle-changing technique!
Before practicing the Locust Stone, his body had been subtly strengthening.
Now that he has broken through the third level, quantitative changes have led to qualitative changes, and all aspects of strength and speed have increased sharply again.
Lifting up his shirt, he couldn't help but laugh when he looked at his angular eight-pack abs.
This was the good figure he had dreamed of in his previous life, and now it came naturally, all at once!
