Xu Kuang said to the two of them laughed and cried:

"Let's have a meal."

The crowd began to come forward to get the meal, and not long after, everyone found a seat and began to feast on it.

At this moment, a man with a pale face and skinny face fell to the ground, hugging his head and crying.

"Why are you crying!".

Xu Kuang's voice exploded in this man's ear like thunder.

The man choked and said:

"Young master, I believe you, I thank you. I just feel a pity. It's a pity that my youngest son didn't last until this day. If he arrived, he wouldn't have to die..."

Xu Kuang was stunned in place all of a sudden. He looked around and found that tears were flowing in many people's eyes. He suddenly became at a loss. His hand was placed on the man's shoulder, not knowing what to say.

After a while, Xu Kuang patted the man on the shoulder and said to him:

"Eat...".

Xu Kuang found a place to sit quietly and watched the group of people have dinner.

The group of people ate until evening, and the two pots of mutton soup were added over and over again, and only the sheep bones were left, so the group of people stopped.

"All finished eating?" Xu Kuang looked at the sky and said, "It's getting late today. If you have anything to do, I'll talk about it tomorrow morning. Don't care about the meal. You can eat at home by yourself. Come here before 8 o'clock."

Xu Kuang left after saying that, leaving behind everyone confused.

Ryan found Xu Kuang and began to report the procurement situation to Xu Kuang.

"For this purchase, the cheapest grain harvest is the most popular, rainy wheat. I bought about 50,000 kilograms, and spent 97 gold coins in total, and the axe, chisel, hammer, and other things you requested. I spent about ten gold coins, about 1,000 kilograms of grain seeds, and 3 gold coins. I spent another 10 gold coins, and I rented and bought more than 20 mules before I got these things back. By the way, there are also lambs from various beasts, which are still behind. I guess I will be back tomorrow."

"Then if you calculate this, you will have no money?"

“…”.

Xu Kuang scratched his head and felt a headache. He had 50,000 kilograms of grain. If it were divided equally, each person in Mushroom Ridge would only be less than 40 kilograms, and he would eat it all in one month with a large appetite...

"Cuihua, is there any way to make money?"

Mission: Make money

Task content: Get 200 gold coins before the first day of next month to completely solve the food problem.

Mission difficulty:c

Mission Reward: Career Experience x1000”.

Xu Kuang looked at the mission reward and fell into deep thought. He was not the one who could not turn his mind. When he looked at the reward, he understood one thing, that is, if he wanted to make money now, he had to use his priesthood identity.

Xu Kuang slapped his head and said that he hadn't signed in yet.

Xu Kuang said to Ryan:

"Grandpa Ryan, I still need to consider this matter. You go back first. I will give you a reply within seven days."

Ryan thought about it, but said what he kept in his heart:

"Young Master, don't think I'm talking too much. I know you are kind-hearted, but you can't save so many people. Two years ago, last year, this year, I suffered a severe drought for three consecutive years, and the grain prices in Baihua County are rising day by day. Have you ever thought about how they should survive in spring even if winter passes and even if the weather stops drought anymore?"

Xu Kuang frowned slightly. He actually agreed with Ryan's statement, but he also understood that now is not the time to worry about these things. If you don't think about the countermeasures carefully, there will be no one in Mushroom Ridge next year.

Xu Kuang's words were a little more solemn:

"Grandpa Ryan, what you said is indeed all problems. But we have to solve problems, not escape. I still say the same thing: population is our last wealth. If all the people in our territory starve to death, then we cannot even bury ourselves. We can only expose the corpse and the wilderness like them. Do you understand?"

Ryan opened his mouth, and he found that Xu Kuang was right, so he had to hold it in:

"I understand, Master."

"Grandpa Ryan, I don't mean to blame you, you..."

Ryan smiled with relief. He looked at Xu Kuang with only kindness in his eyes:

"I won't think too much. If you can really get started, I can just close my eyes."

Ryan bowed to Xu Kuang and turned around and left.

Xu Kuang was in a heavy mood. He had never been hungry for two lives, nor had he experienced dealing with this. However, he understood one thing: these two hundred households and thousands of people are the key to his starting business next year, or in other words, from a humanitarian perspective and from his conscience, he would not allow these people to starve to death.

"Cuihua, what is the priest in this world like?"

Cuihua's mechanical current female voice rang:

"As there are 5 minutes to go tomorrow, you have not signed in today."

Xu Kuang sighed, found the sign-in button, clicked it, and then asked:

"Can you tell me now?"

"Successfully signed in, you will get the item "Five Years Priests Three Years Alchemy."

Xu Kuang:...

Xu Kuang understood that Cuihua was just like those who told fortune tellers in her previous life. She could not tell him the answer directly, but could only tell him the answer through other hints and guidance.

Xu Kuang took the five-year priest's three-year alchemy into his hands, and the book became automatically turned into a stream of light and flew into his mind.

Xu Kuang seemed to have integrated this book in an instant, and he was extremely familiar with every word on every page!

Xu Kuang raised his head in shock, but found that there was only a mottled stone wall in front of him.

Xu Kuang no longer worried about making money, because he had pointed out several ways in the five years of priests and three years of alchemy.

After five minutes, Xu Kuang immediately checked in for the third day.

"Successfully signed in, you will get the item 'Gilded Self-Calling Bell Drawing'."

Xu Kuang was happy, but then he frowned. He didn't believe it was a coincidence. He didn't believe that he was sleepy and came to the pillow. He already knew in his heart that there must be an invisible hand behind him that was controlling everything, but he only dared to bury everything in the deepest part of his heart and act as if nothing had happened.

No matter who is behind it, he is not something he can afford to mess with now.

No words all night.

The next day, Xu Kuang found Ryan and asked for ten gold coins.

Ryan didn't ask about the purpose, he believed that his young master must have his own use.

"Young Master, everyone is here."

Xu Kuang quickly put the gold coins into the storage space, and then came to everyone.

"Is there anyone who can hunt?"

A few dozen people raised their hands, including Ryan.

"Okay, Grandpa Ryan, you took this group of people to hunt everywhere in Mushroom Ridge, and it doesn't matter if you go far. Anyway, our Mushroom Ridge is as big as four hundred miles (20x20). Without a goal, you can calculate as much as you can."

But Ryan said:

"It's not enough to use so many people, only twenty people are enough."

Xu Kuang nodded. He didn't understand these things very well, so he was going to hand over all these things to Ryan.

"Okay, there are only twenty people."

Then Xu Kuang said to York:

"Pick two hundred strong men and go to cut down trees. We cut down less trees in our territory and ran to other people's territory to cut more. When my father died, they became shameless and robbed me of a lot of territory. Now, cut down a little tree and take the interest."

York nodded and went to cut down the tree.

Then Xu Kuang found a group of people to move the stones. He drew two S-shaped lines from the highest point of Mushroom Ridge to the lowest point of Mushroom Ridge, so that everyone could put the stones on both sides of the line.

A man couldn't help asking:

"Lord, I have no other intentions. I just asked, "What do you want to do when you cut down trees and move stones?"

"It's very simple. At the beginning of next year, a river will flow down from the top of the ridge. We need to build a river channel so that the river can follow our ideas."

When everyone heard this, they widened their eyes. They looked at me and I looked at you, and they all seemed to have seen a ghost. They were a little too much and they actually laughed out loud.

"What are you laughing at? Have you forgotten who fed the glutton in your belly? You can do whatever the young master asked you to do!"

When everyone heard this, they hurried to move the stones.

"Young Master, what am I doing?" Jenny looked at Xu Kuang with anticipation.

Xu Kuang smiled and said to Jenny:

"You really have your work to do. You and others dig up the wild vegetables and mushrooms that have not yet dried up nearby, pack them up, and we are ready to spend the winter."

"Yes!" Jenny left excitedly.

Xu Kuang returned to his residence and began to study how to make a gilded self-tone bell.

He first found an iron pot and tried to use his magic power to deform the iron pot.

The iron pot made a creaking sound under Xu Kuang's magic power, and then it fell to the ground with a clang.

Xu Kuang covered his head and his face was full of pain.

Xu Kuang understood that he was losing his strength, as the priest said in the Alchemy of the Five Years.
To be continued...