I became an old man in my leisure time

Xiaoman and Xiaoping'er were lucky to have the systematic initiation of the Sunflower Sutra.

With this "textbook" without any mistakes, many words, and covering a wide range of topics, they are much better at martial arts than Chunxiaqiudong, who started from scratch.

And Qiudong progressed much faster than Chunxia, ​​which is the benefit of knowing how to read and write.

But at the end, Xiaoman's weaving "skill book", Chunxia's cooking and textile "skill books", and Meilanzhuju's embroidery and sewing "skill books" were listed side by side, and everyone took what they needed.

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Anyway, the skill book only has 20% of the effect of the author, so Chunxiaqiudong is not worried about being surpassed by others in terms of specialties.

For a while, the girls who had just adapted to the rhythm became busy again.

Only Gu Ke was still doing his own thing slowly.

The skill book he wrote at that level was of little use to others, so it was better to use the system to empower others with martial arts and skills.

However, the girls already had a lot of martial arts to practice, and his soul source was tight, so he did not sign a friendship contract with them collectively for the time being.

After signing the friendship contract, he would use the Tianfu Tongbao to purchase the trading rights of martial arts and skills and empower them.

Bai Suqing and the two children were hired workers, and they had a chance to empower them for free, which they had used on the Sunflower Sutra.

In August, Gu Ke, who had abundant Tongbao, settled the first half of the year's wages for the three girls.

They paid out of their own pockets to empower the four system martial arts of Hei, Tui, Tian, ​​and Shui, and the two skills of Gong Nong.

Now there is an additional Wendian, and the characteristics of being well-informed and strong in memory are very useful for the two children who are studying.

The three girls bought the Wendian skill that day, and Xiaoman was ecstatic.

This guy is similar to Gu Ke in elementary school. As the saying goes - he has a thorn on his butt and can't sit still.

With this knowledge and memory, the most time-consuming part of reading and learning characters can be saved by at least 80%, and there is no need to remember those characters for a long time every day.

Speaking of wages, this is Gu Ke's "sad thing".

The lowest monthly salary of the three of them is one Tianfu Tongbao, and the total annual salary is 36 Tianfu Tongbao.

This year, his source of Tianfu Tongbao is only two stalls per month, about three to six, and an average of about four per month.

After his boss paid wages, the remaining Tianfu Tongbao is about the same as Xiaoman's "income".

Moreover, if the friend contract wants to be indoctrinated with martial arts and skills, Gu Ke has to pay for it, and the decision is in his hands.

After the employees receive wages, they can let the system indoctrinate without his consent.

This is the benefit that the system gives to employees.

Of course, if you get the benefit, you have to be of one mind with him, so he doesn't lose out.

...

For the last stall in October, the direction is still chosen to be east, but the location is Zhoushan Village, Jiangbei East Road, Dawu Courtyard.

Gu Ke was delighted when he saw it.

Dawu Zhongting spans tens of thousands of miles of territory, with two huge water veins as the border, the Tianhe River in the north and the Yangtze River in the south.

The northernmost part of the Tianhe bend is the Beimo Kingdom, and the Yangtze River in the south belongs to the Donghai Kingdom thousands of miles south.

Jiangbei East Road is on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The climate is similar to that of the northern part of the Donghai Kingdom. The water network is everywhere, the climate is warm and humid, and the winter is not as dry and cold as the west and north where I went before.

Therefore, the food grown here is mainly rice, and there are both wet rice and dry rice.

As long as the luck is not too bad, this time 80% can be exchanged for rice seeds, and the last kind of grain missing in the fairy field will be gathered.

Gu Ke was a Bashu person in his previous life, and his daily staple food was rice.

He also likes pasta, but he always misses the taste of rice after eating it for a long time.

Thinking of fried rice, rice with toppings, baked rice, stewed rice, cold noodles, rice noodles, rice cakes, etc., his saliva is about to flow down.

There was a flash of lightning in his mind, but the system had already finished projecting.

Without him saying anything, the three girls went to open the door panel with ease, and he hung up the lantern again.

This time, Bai Suqing did not rush upstairs, but stood outside the door with the two children.

However, the two children looked around, but she looked south and took a deep breath.

In the night wind, the common fishy smell of water in the water town in the south of Dawu, mixed with the fragrance of plants and flowers, rushed into her nose.

Bai Suqing narrowed her eyes slightly, thinking of the days when she was in the sect, and she couldn't help but show a nostalgic look on her face.

After a while, she pulled herself out of the faint sadness.

The sect has been destroyed, but most of those who destroyed her sect have not ended well, either died or disappeared.

Now she wants to take revenge, it is difficult to find the enemy, so what if she doesn't let it go.

Turning her head, she saw Gu Ke staring at her quietly, with a calm expression, as if he had been waiting for her to come back to her senses.

She smiled: "What's wrong?"

Gu Ke shook his head: "Nothing, if you want to go back, you will have a chance sooner or later."

She knew that he was talking about setting up stalls randomly, and one day he would be in the border of Donghai Kingdom, so she couldn't help laughing: "No, if you want to go back, you should go back to the valley."

Gu Ke also laughed: "It only takes half an hour, you can see it when you open your eyes."

While they were talking, the two children had already walked around the area illuminated by lanterns.

This is a hillside, and looking down, you can see a small dark village at the bottom of the ravine two or three miles away.

Xiaoman ran back: "There are so many plants here, many of which I have never seen."

Gu Ke patted her head: "This is close to the Yangtze River, the southernmost part of Dawu Zhongting, and further south is Donghai Kingdom, there must be a lot of good things."

Xiaoman hummed: "I hope I will have better luck this time, not like last time..."

Speaking of this, she remembered the tragic scene of corpses strewn all over the ground in Lijiagou, and stopped talking.

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

No one wanted to see such a tragic thing.

After a long while, Gu Ke's expression changed, and he asked everyone to return to the small building.

He had sensed that more than a hundred feet away, two figures were walking on the mountain road, but they were two half-grown boys.

One was fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other was twelve or thirteen years old. They were quite strong and were talking in a low voice while walking: "Brother, let's sneak up here. What if we are seen by the people from Master Liu's family?"

"You fool, you let those people from Master Liu's family squat on the mountain in the middle of the night?"

"But, what if?"

"What can we do? The lake bandits in Gaoliu Lake have survived a winter and have been robbing everywhere these days. We dare not go there to fish. If we don't go up the mountain to get some wild vegetables and fruits, we may not be able to get through this spring famine."

"Brother, can we rely on wild vegetables and fruits alone?"

"What can we do if we can't? Are we waiting to starve to death? We will take whatever we can get. Then we can save a little. Maybe those lake bandits will have robbed enough and we can go fishing."

"Brother, how about we set some traps? If we catch a wild boar, we can secretly sell it in the city. Then you will have money to propose marriage to Chunmiao's family..."

"Don't even think about it. Get it secretly. Everyone knows that we can get some wild vegetables and fruits. If we really get a wild boar to sell, Mr. Liu will come to our house the next day and accuse us of stealing his pig. If we don’t beat you half to death, we will ask you to pay compensation. Who let these mountains belong to him? "

Wang Erdan, the jumpy younger brother, was discouraged when he heard this: "This is not possible, that is not possible, is God really not going to give us a way to live?"

Wang Tiedan, the calmer brother, sighed and patted his younger brother: "At least there is no disaster this year. Maybe the crops we planted can have a good harvest and it won’t be so difficult to survive."

Erdan shuddered when he thought of his parents talking about the previous floods and hot summers when the crops were completely lost: "Brother, I want to practice martial arts."

Tiedan smiled bitterly: "What nonsense, is that something we can think about? How much food is needed to practice martial arts? The martial arts school accepts disciples, and you have to pay five taels of silver to enter the door. The family can't even take out five cents."

Erdan looked depressed.

Although the brothers have talked about these topics many times, he still felt a sense of despair.

No matter what he wanted to do, there was no hope of success.

Suddenly Erdan looked up at a small path on the side, and vaguely felt that something was waiting for him there, and it was very important to him.

"Brother, go this way." He pulled his brother without saying anything.

Tiedan was stunned, but did not object.

The reason for going into the mountains was that the wild vegetables and fruits near the village had been picked up long ago.

If you want to pick them at the foot of the mountain, once others see it, it may be reported to Mr. Liu, and he will definitely come to trouble the family again.

Therefore, if you want to get wild vegetables and fruits, you can only go deeper into the mountains.

As long as you are not seen by others, the traces of picking will disappear after a few days, and it will be unnoticed.

The road Erdan chose was a little bit off and not easy to walk, but it might also be possible to pick more things, so he no longer objected.

Who knew that Erdan walked faster and faster, and he did not stop to check some places where there were wild vegetables and fruits.

Tiedan couldn't help but pull him: "What are you doing? You're walking so far. It will take too long to go back later."

Erdan pulled his brother forward: "Brother, I feel there is something good ahead."

Tiedan was stunned, and then his face changed drastically. He suddenly pulled him and stopped: "What good thing? It's the middle of the night, is it a monster?"

Erdan immediately retorted: "How is it possible! Monsters don't feel like this."

Tiedan shook his head repeatedly and pulled him to go back: "Can't take risks, come on, follow me back to the village."

Erdan was very determined and suddenly broke away from his pull: "Brother, I think that thing is very important to me."

After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "Even if it is a monster, I want to take a look."

Tiedan was anxious: "You will die if you take a look. Will the monster let you go?"

"It's better to die than to starve like this." Erdan said firmly: "Brother, you go back first. Even if I really die, life at home will be better."

After that, he dodged and ran past Tiedan and ran towards the mountain.

Tiedan was anxious and angry, but he was afraid of attracting the attention of the monster, so he could only lower his voice and curse: "Come back, Erdan, you bastard!"

Erdan did not stop, running all the way and quickly moving away.

Tiedan gritted his teeth, stomped his feet and followed, and did not forget to curse vaguely: "Erdan, you wait for me, when you go back, I will let my father beat your ass into eight pieces."

Erdan felt more and more strongly at this moment, so he had no time to pay attention to what his elder brother was cursing behind him.

Running wildly along the rugged mountain road, he finally reached the top of the hillside, where a two-story building came into view.

Without thinking too much, he knew that what attracted him was here.

He strode forward and stepped into the threshold of the building, and saw a white-bearded old man smiling and saying, "The guests are here, so choose a product."

Erdan was stunned, and suddenly a large piece of information appeared in his mind, which was the transaction contract and the list of goods.

His consciousness passed through grain seeds and agronomy, and he didn't care at all, and fell on a few martial arts. He was immediately ecstatic: This is what I want.

Black Evil Palm, Pushing Mountain Palm, Heavenly Net Hand, Floating on Water, the four martial arts have their own strengths, and Erdan wants them all.

But the transaction contract clearly stated that he could only choose one, which made him hesitate.

There were footsteps outside, and it was the eldest brother Tiedan who rushed in with the courage to comfort the roadside stall.

When he saw Shen Nong, who looked like an old man with a white beard, and then looked at the three girls dressed as village girls, he couldn't help but be stunned: These people don't look like monsters at all.

Gu Ke just nodded slightly to Wei Wei: "Guest, please wait a moment until your little brother has selected the goods."

With a wave of his hand, the transaction contract also flooded into Tiedan's consciousness.

Tiedan just "looked" at it for a few times before exclaiming: "Grain, seeds of exotic grains?"

Immediately he woke up, turned his head suddenly, and grabbed Erdan: "We want seeds, we must get them."

Erdan was shaken so much by his elder brother that he could no longer argue about whether he could choose all martial arts. He said solemnly to Gu Ke, "I want to change the water to float."

Tiedan was stunned for a moment and then became furious: "No, we don't even have food. What's the use of floating on this water?"

Erdan was very calm: "I want to change the water to float."

Gu Ke didn't speak, but gently pushed the trading book onto the counter in front of him.

Erdan raised his hand to press his fingerprints. Tiedan grabbed his hand, his eyes were red, and he said angrily: "Erdan, are you crazy?"

Erdan looked at his elder brother and sighed: "Brother, I'm not crazy."

"Then you..." Tiedan wanted to curse again.

Erdan: "Brother, have you forgotten what dad said about how my second uncle died?"

Tiedan slapped his hand.

Erdan's voice sounded, slightly chilling: "When my second uncle was about the same age as me, he was picking some wild vegetables by the lake. A passing lake bandit hacked him to death with a knife. We have only seen his grave. I don’t even know what he looks like.”

Tiedan's hands trembled.

Erdan took out his hand and slowly pressed it against the transaction book: "I don't want to be like my second uncle, who was killed with a knife before he grew up."

"I don't want to be like those uncles and uncles in the village who only had some food, chickens and ducks, but were robbed by Mr. Liu's servants. They had to rely on wild vegetables and fishing to survive."

"No matter how much food we have at home, it doesn't matter. Sooner or later, it will all be taken away by Mr. Liu's family or robbed by lake bandits."

"So, I have to learn martial arts so that I won't be killed at will or robbed of food."

Tiedan was speechless, because Erdan was talking about what was happening around him.

In the past, people in the village could only talk and go on with their lives, and nothing would change.

But now, they have a chance, and Erdan has made up his mind.

Watching Erdan's finger fall on the transaction book, a faint golden light flashed on the fingerprint and disappeared immediately.

Gu Ke waved his hand and traded the introductory part of water rafting to the two of them: "Go and bring enough goods, and you can get more water rafting training methods."

In the midst of surprise, the brothers were coaxed out of the door in a daze.

After walking some distance, the two of them recovered from the water in their minds.

Looking at each other, they nodded in unison: "Go back quickly and let your parents learn this martial arts."

"This matter must be discussed with Dad immediately."

After saying something to each other, the two of them were startled, and then started laughing.