With Fan Laodao coming forward, after a simple test, it was easy to get a white jade identity tag with "Danyangfang" engraved on it, and the words "Rose Cultivator, Chen Mou" engraved on the back. Chen Mou cherished the white jade tag in his arms. .
He is also a person with status in this world.
Although he heard that the Loose Cultivator Card was of little use, at least in Fangshi, he didn't have to worry about being sold out openly.
The stone in my heart fell to the ground, and the air smelled sweet, which was the smell of freedom.
Walking out of the lobby on the first floor of the Foreign Affairs Office, Fan Laodao absentmindedly raised his hand to say goodbye and headed towards the Hongyi Hall.
The huge sum of 1,500 spiritual stones forced him to sell the mountainside yard to raise money.
The poison in the body cannot be delayed for long, and there is no time for him to think of a solution.
It's not that he is kind-hearted and doesn't ask for anything in return for doing good deeds. Even if he sells Brother Mou, it will be a drop in the bucket and will not help, not to mention that he won't be able to sell it for a while.
There was a sense of distress in his heart and an uneasiness about the future. He no longer wanted to worry about long-term plans to catch big fish. In the face of a life-threatening crisis, it felt very meaningless.
I once considered giving up this body and taking possession of it.
There are many scruples. After all, using the Qi Refining Realm to seize the soul is extremely risky and cannot be tolerated by the righteous way. At least this is the rule. He can no longer live in the sun in the future.
Furthermore, Brother Mou's soul is very powerful. After he advanced to the Qi Refining Realm, it was inconvenient for him to check whether he could successfully seize the body or not. Of course, there are other methods to assist, but they are very time-consuming.
That's it, that's it, just do it as a good deed.
Chen Mou watched the old man's back disappearing into the crowd. He didn't know where to go for a while. He rummaged through his pockets and found only seven copper coins, not even lunch money.
In this alien world where he has no friends, he won't starve to death on the streets, right?
Chen Mou wandered around the street for a long time, then walked into the first floor of the "Foreign Affairs Workshop" again, inquired and found a room on the left, and said to the receptionist monk: "I want to rent a courtyard."
He showed his recently obtained ID card.
I have heard Fan Laodao say before that in order to retain the casual cultivators and prevent them from staying in the world, every market can rent courtyards and spiritual fields on credit even if the casual cultivators are penniless. You can even borrow five spiritual stones as starting capital, and settle the account at two cents interest upon maturity in one year, so you can be honest with others.
Chen Mou rented a low-class courtyard and borrowed five spiritual stones. He bit off his right index finger and put a bloody fingerprint on the lower left corner of the document where Chen Mou's name was written.
If the one-year term is up and the rent arrears and spiritual stones are not paid, you will go to the empty building to have sex for nothing.
Then Fangshi will follow the bloody fingerprints at the bottom of the document and hand them over to the sect monks who specialize in arresting people. They will use secret techniques to chase people to the ends of the earth and catch the bad betrayers who evade rent and loans. "The canonical punishment in the Ming Dynasty has the effect of killing chickens and frightening monkeys.
Walking out of the foreign affairs office, Chen Mou, carrying a heavy rent and loan, shook his head and smiled to himself.
It can be regarded as temporarily relieving him of the dilemma of having no fixed place to live and not having enough to eat.
When he came to Fangshi Grocery Store, Chen Mou spent two Wude coins to buy a complete set of pots, bowls, chopsticks and pans, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, rice, noodles, cured meat, dried vegetables and other daily necessities, and recovered three taels of gold ingots and some broken silver. p>
When purchasing ordinary items in the market, you need to exchange spiritual stones for martial virtue money, and secular gold and silver can also be circulated.
Compared with those at the foot of the mountain, the prices in Fangshi are so high that they can shock the jaws of ordinary people.
A large area of farmland has been opened up in the north of Fang City and is managed by Danyang Sect. It is dedicated to ordinary people planting ordinary rice, wheat, vegetables, fruit trees, opening ponds to raise fish, and raising pigs, sheep, cattle, donkeys and other livestock to supply the needs of many monks in Fang City.
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Chen Mou carried several large bags on his back and walked down the mountain for several miles to the south. He found a hilltop close to the Lingtian area and found the shady building in the north at the foot of the hill with the bronze plaque "Danyangfang Bing335" hanging on it.
The inferior courtyard.
Use a bronze key two fingers wide and three inches long to insert into the keyhole of the courtyard door to unlock the most basic closing formation of the courtyard.
"Squeak", I pushed open the peeling wooden door, and what I saw was a small courtyard with green weeds. Opposite it was a green brick house with one main room and two side rooms plus a stove and toilet. Compared with the Sihe courtyard on Fan Laodao,
The pattern is too different.
Chen Mou would not dislike it, he finally had a small space to establish himself.
Put the things in the kitchen, uncover the stone well cover at the corner of the courtyard wall, get a bucket of cool well water, find a broom and a rag and clean up the house roughly.
Place the iron pot on the two stones set up in the yard, light the firewood, pour in the oil to heat up and simply start the pot.
He used to dabble in a wide range of things, pay attention to everything, and know a little bit about everything.
Put the iron pot back on the kitchen stove, boil water, wash and dice the marinated meat, soak and chop the dried vegetables, rinse the brown rice, and mix it into a pot of fragrant marinated pork and diced rice. After a full meal, you can go out leisurely.
, go to the market to buy bedding, towels, lamps, a box of large porcelain bowls for practicing and other necessities.
He lives alone in peace and quiet, and it is more spacious to practice body movements in the yard. He is very satisfied.
It took two days to clear the weeds with a hoe and make the entire yard look brand new inside and outside.
Near noon on the third day, he went to the market to buy cooked food, wine, meat, and a bag of preserved fruits and snacks. He carried it around to the mountainside and found the familiar courtyard where he had lived for two years.
It was Taoer who opened the door. Her cheeks that were originally a little baby-fat turned out to be dull and haggard, and her eye sockets were slightly red and swollen.
"Mr. Chen, you are here."
Tao'er saluted to welcome the guests, smiling a little forcedly.
Chen Mou heard the hoarseness in Tao'er's voice and had a bad feeling in his heart. He handed Tao'er the paper-wrapped preserved fruit along with a handful of wine and meat, and asked, "Is Mr. Fan at home?"
Fan Laodao's hearty greeting came from the main room: "Brother Mou, come and have a drink. Lao Mu has just arrived, and there are so many people."
Chen Mou suppressed the doubts in his heart, walked up the eaves steps along the green brick road, crossed the threshold, saluted Mr. Fan and the unshaven Mu who put down his wine cup, and said: "It's better to come early than to come by chance. Brother Fan owes me a favor." Just in time for a drink."
Fan Juran laughed loudly and asked Chen Mou to sit down.
Myolie, who was waiting, had already cleaned the dishes and poured a glass of wine.
Tao'er cut several plates of cooked braised vegetables, served them on a porcelain plate, and removed the two remaining vegetables.
The three of them were drinking and eating meat. Fan Laodao casually asked Chen Mou where the courtyard was settled, and said with a smile: "Brother Mou has moved into a new house. I have nothing to give to you. You can take the books in the room where you used to live. You are just in time." I like reading, haha."
Chen Mou hurriedly thanked him, but he was still thinking of borrowing a book to go back and copy.
This gift was very much in line with his wishes.
I also feel a little ashamed of the villainous heart I had in the past, but I don’t have any regrets.
There is a saying in Fangshi that "people's hearts are separated from each other by their belly, so it is indispensable to be on guard against others."
Mu Xing wiped the wine from his beard and asked: "Brother Mou, are you planning to farm or have other livelihoods?"
Chen Mou said truthfully: "I am considering it. I am short of water in three areas. It is quite difficult to learn and use the spiritual rain technique to water the seedlings. What's more, if I lease three acres of spiritual land, I have to deliver thirty spiritual rains to the city every year." The rent is a stone, and the yield per mu is about four stones of spiritual rice, and one has to be skilled in planting and spiritual rain techniques. One stone of spiritual rice is worth five spiritual stones, which is equivalent to half of the output being collected by the market.
After cultivating three acres of spiritual land, there were thirty spiritual stones left. After paying the lower-class cave a year’s rent of twenty-four spiritual stones, there was also a loan of five spiritual stones and two cents of interest. All the work was in vain.”
Mu Xing and Fan Laodao laughed.
Tianxiafang City is generally dark, and the calculation is just right, forcing the casual cultivators to plant more fields. If they plant ten or twenty acres, they will have enough money. They can buy maids, buy elixirs, etc., and slowly enjoy life.
Of course, with more fields, cultivation time will definitely be compressed, and the speed of cultivation will be slowed down.
It's scary to think about it carefully, but there seems to be a far-reaching conspiracy hidden in it.