Infrastructure Throne

Shen Qingze looked through the farmer's suit three times indifferently, and finally found a line of small words in the corner: After wearing the full set, the efficiency of farm work can be increased by 100%.

The attached set effect barely cured the depression of 20 charm points.

Putting on the farmer's attire, Shen Qingze put the iron rake on the cattle, and started to work in the field against the autumn tiger.

There are not many food crops in the Dawn Continent, and most of them do not survive the winter. Players who are interested in farming must purchase high-quality seeds in the system store.

The first-level system store provides seeds of common crops, and a small bag of ten copper coins.The field hadn't been irrigated yet, so Shen Qingze specially chose several cold-resistant, drought-resistant and high-yield crops, potatoes, sweet potatoes and winter wheat.

Get through the first winter of what you want and what you lack, and wait for the spring of the next year to start irrigation and composting, and intensive cultivation to increase the yield per mu.

After the system's one-click exchange, all the farmland has been upgraded to fertile black soil, but Shen Qingze has to do the physical work such as loosening the soil, plowing the ground, and sowing seeds himself.

With a total of [-] mu of land, even a family of skilled farmers would have to work hard for many days, let alone Shen Qingze, a novice who went to the field for the first time.

Even with the guidance of the system, after working in the field for half a day, Shen Qingze obviously felt back pain. After a whole day, his arms were so sore that he could barely lift it. It is entirely conceivable that those farmers with their backs turned to the sky in the loess, day after day , year after year of hard work.

"Mechanization is long and far away, and I will search for labor force up and down..."

As the sun sets on the western mountain, red clouds burn from the sky to the mountains and plains.The old yellow ox plowing the field is lowing, and its slender tail sweeps the field mosquitoes back and forth. From time to time, passing villagers stand far away on the edge of the field, pointing and laughing at the young people who are not skilled in farming.

"Brother Shen, you can't live in winter by planting wheat now! You will be white if you plant it!"

"Didn't Daddy Li tell you that there will be a flood of beasts before winter? The more you plant now, the more monsters and beast slaves will be fed by then!"

"Brother Shen's skin is thin and tender, it doesn't look like it's made for rough work!"

"When he hits the south wall, he will understand our kind reminder!"

Shen Qingze didn't care about this joke, and was only thinking about how to solve the labor problem.It is impossible to rely on him alone. Judging by the attitude of other villagers, even if he gave the seeds to everyone, they may not believe that these crops can survive the winter.

The price of food in the city is still rising. Obviously, the last orc attack caused a lot of losses.

Once they came to plunder again, Shen Qingze doubted whether the food imported into Yuanliu City would be enough for half of the people to survive this winter, no matter how many gold coins in hand, it would not be as reassuring as storing food in the warehouse.

Shen Qingze, who was carrying the hoe and frowning in thought, finally came to his senses under the calling of Father Li.

The little old man stood in the shade and waved to him, and the big white dog squatted aside obediently and wagged its tail.

"Don't you need to take care of the shop?" Shen Qingze took the bamboo tube to drink, and Ah Bai took out a clean cloth from the basket to wipe his sweat.

Father Li put down the walking stick in his hand, opened the double-layer lunch box made of bamboo and wood in the basket, the lower layer was specially filled with hot water, and the food was still warm: "No need, I thought you didn't eat all day. Here, don't worry about it. So much land can’t be done in one day.”

Shen Qingze was holding the bamboo lunch box, the rice grains were plump and fragrant, there were eggs and vegetables, and even a little braised bacon wrapped in oil.

He took two bites, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Father Li still eating rice bran with pickles.

Shen Qingze frowned: "Last time the steel gun made a fortune, didn't I buy a lot of rice noodles and meat, why do I still eat this, it's not nutritious and indigestible."

"There's still a little left in the tank, wouldn't it be a waste if you don't eat it?" Father Li smiled and chewed the pickles, "Since you're here, the family has been much better. Now that my father and I have a shop and a field, our future life will be over. The better. At that time, rice bran pickles, if you want to eat it, you won’t be able to eat it.”

Shen Qingze seemed to be poked into a soft spot in his heart, picked up the lunch box again, took two bites, and couldn't help asking: "Other villagers are persuading me not to waste time, won't you persuade me?"

Father Li stroked the large and empty black field in front of him with his skinny fingers, and smiled kindly: "I know you have an idea in your heart, but those guys don't know it. Now that you have made up your mind, go do it. If you are too busy Come on, just say, my old bones can still loosen my muscles and bones."

Shen Qingze shook his head with a smile, and listened to Li's father continue to happily think about the future of the farmhouse: "When I get old, this land and the iron shop at home will be reserved for you to marry a wife. It's best to build another pond. Fish pond..."

"Ahem..." Shen Qingze choked violently, and interrupted him dumbfounded, "You're thinking too far."

Old man Li smiled, didn't speak, just patted his shoulder with his callused palm.

Shen Qingze touched his slightly sore nose, thinking, if he told the old man that he was not at all keen on marrying women, would his legs be broken?

"Ah, that's right. I went back to the furnace to remelt the steel and iron that you said were useless last time, and made some iron farming tools and machetes. Take it to the city and sell it when you have time. Then give You add a few more clothes yourself, if you always dress like this, you won't be able to attract girls!"

Father Li spoke earnestly, the corners of Shen Qingze's mouth couldn't help but twitch, isn't it just a reduction of 20 charm points?Is it so obvious?

"I know, I know."

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Shen Qingze worked in the newly plowed fields for several days, barely planted all the seeds, and the next day he pulled a small cart full of iron into the city non-stop.

Although it is hard work, at least he can earn some experience points. From blacksmithing to farming, Lin Lin finally managed to upgrade to Lv10, and the five-dimensional basic attributes have been improved to varying degrees.

Shen Qingze glanced at the experience bar that suddenly became twice as long, and couldn't help but greeted the numerical planning again.

In the morning of autumn, the morning breeze is wrapped in wisps of coolness, lingering around the townspeople who are going to the market.

The market is in the east of the city, and it is also a special trading area in the game, where players can set up stalls to sell equipment and items.

Shen Qingze set up a small stall, filled it with polished ironware one by one, and took a wooden sign from the cart, with a few large characters written in charcoal on it:

"Jump price! Big sale! Ironware with an original price of 13 silver coins is now only sold for 3 silver coins! 3 silver coins can't be bought at a loss, and you can't be fooled! No matter whether you are hoeing, chopping wood, sawing wood, or murdering and stealing goods, you are a must-have little expert at home. !"

One wooden sign couldn't fit, Shen Qingze thought for a while, and erected another one:

"Today is a one-day special offer! If you spend more than 10 silver coins, you will get a [-]% discount immediately! If you miss a day, wait another year!"

After a short while after the billboard was hung, passing customers were attracted by the "huge discount" and stepped forward to check it in twos and threes.

One person squeezed in and picked and picked at the stalls: "Li's blacksmith shop? It doesn't seem to be an iron shop in the city. Are your irons easy to use?"

Shen Qingze had already prepared for this, and took out a thin cast iron plate that had been made in advance, fixed it on the open space in front of the stall, and said lightly: "Customers can choose any iron utensil, just throw it on this iron plate, if it is If the iron is broken, I will give it to you."

"Really?" The crowd exclaimed in surprise, and in an instant, more townspeople came to stop and watch, almost completely surrounding the young man's stall.

"Let me try it!" The guest who questioned it first picked up an iron axe, held the handle with both hands, and hit the iron plate with force!

With a "bang", the pig iron sheet snapped!

The guest stared at the boss: "What a good iron!"

He insisted on changing several axes, until the rest of the iron ax was chopped into pieces, and finally nodded with satisfaction: "I want this iron axe. Your shop is good. I don't seem to have heard of it. Where is it?"

"Mujia Village on the outskirts of the city." Shen Qingze's voice was not too loud, and the crowd in the inner circle could just hear it.

"I remember the blacksmith shop of Li's family in Mujia Village on the outskirts of the city."

The man repeated the name of the store loudly, took out his wallet to pay the bill, but heard Shen Qingze say: "You are the first customer to visit today, you can enjoy a half price discount."

There was another envious discussion among the crowd, and immediately a second person couldn't help asking: "Is there a discount for the second one?"

Shen Qingze immediately added: "[-]% off for the second person, [-]% off for the third person."

"Me! My second!"

"Obviously I came first, you go in line!"

"I'll buy three, get a discount!"

The bustling scene in front of the small stall attracted most of the tourists from the not-so-popular market, which contrasted with the lack of other stalls.

In the lively crowd, a very discordant cynicism suddenly came out:

"Isn't it just finding a babysitter? It's a trick that's not popular, it can be fooled, it's either stupid or blind!"

"I think this is the blacksmith shop of the Li family. The craftsmanship is just ordinary. It's all about acting to trick fools into being fooled! What's the discount? To put it bluntly, isn't it just cheating people to pay more?"

Shen Qingze raised his head, looked over the crowd, and saw a guy holding an ax with raised eyebrows at a glance, he was the guy from the iron shop opposite.

Colleagues are enemies.

Shen Qingze didn't speak, just squinted his eyes and silently looked at the other party to find fault.

"Why don't you talk? Did I hit the mark?" The iron shop clerk sneered, holding an ax to push away the crowd, his eyes wandered around the stall, and finally fell on the young man's face contemptuously.

"I've been in this business for more than ten years, and everyone can see the iron they produce. I've never seen such a cheap one. It looks shoddy! Everyone, don't be fooled by this kid!"

High-quality ironware is expensive and not popular. Most of the ironware in the market is made of pig iron. Before Shen Qingze set up a stall with a small trolley, the ironware shop in the entire east market was just opposite this one, and the price was higher than him. double.

The few people who were about to pay just now hesitated immediately, and glanced back and forth between the first customer and Shen Qingze: "Could it be really a childcare?"

The man proudly pointed the tip of the ax at the young man's nose:

"Look at this kid, he's white and clean, he doesn't even have calluses on his hands, he doesn't look like he can forge iron? He doesn't even grow hair, so he learns how to do business like others? Once he is exposed, he will be cowardly? I think you should go home Go cry to your adults!"

Shen Qingze was too lazy to argue with him, and gradually became impatient when he heard the other party say so much nonsense.

He casually picked up an ax of the same size, held it in his hand, and said calmly, "What you hear is not what you hear, what you see is what you see. How about the quality of my irons? Can you tell me by comparing them?"

It has been a long time since there was such a new thing in the market. The crowd of onlookers backed away a few steps, afraid of being affected and reluctant to leave. The noisy and earnest sound attracted more passers-by to stop.

"Hey, Boss Jin! Look! Isn't that the guy who threatened us with a machete and took away the old guy's IOU!"

In the crowd, three strong men got together and looked at Shen Qingze and his small stall with unfriendly eyes. Among the crowded crowd, only the three of them were empty around them, and no one wanted to get close to these hooligans.

"I heard that this iron shop has something to do with the iron ore factory in the city. Otherwise, how could it have monopolized the market in the east of the city for so many years? The brat doesn't know how powerful the heavens are, and dares to block people's money at other people's doors!"

Tong Er excitedly clenched his fists.

"Boss Jin, do you want to take this opportunity to get back the place?"

Jin Da knocked the melon seeds that came from nowhere, and said in a neutral way: "I really hope he can win."

"Why?" Bronze Two and Silver Three asked in unison.

Jin Da rolled his eyes: "Stupid or not? If that's the case, wouldn't the backer behind the iron shop have a reason to hack him! By the way, he can find out where he came from. If he has a big background, we will admit it and call him father. If he has no background, we will make him call us father!"

Bronze two silver three thumbs up: "Boss is brilliant!"

On the other side, hearing Shen Qingze's request for a competition, the blacksmith sneered: "The paper-like low-quality iron plates you used for acting? I'll chop as many as you want."

"No." Shen Qingze said slowly, "What I mean is, we chop each other with axes, and then check the gap to see which one is higher and which one is lower, wouldn't it be clear?"

The guy was stunned, and frowned: "My ax is a newly cast one, 10 silver coins each, can you afford it if it breaks?"

Shen Qingze slowly rolled his sleeves up to his elbows, and said lightly: "It seems that you don't have confidence in the quality of your own ironware."

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd, and the guy's face darkened instantly: "Bijibi, I'm afraid of you? If I go down with the axe, you won't be able to hold the handle with both hands!"

Shen Qingze stood still on the open space in front of the stall with the ax in hand, and hooked towards the other side with one hand.

This contemptuous attitude instantly aroused the anger of the guy: "You brat who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, court death!"

The man sighed in his hands, raised the iron ax with both hands, and slashed at the young man's face!

Shen Qingze held the ax horizontally in front of her body with one hand, and handed it out flatly——

There was a "bang"!The two axes made the sound of gold and iron striking each other, and the force from the handles made the man's mouth go numb, and he almost fell out of his hands!

The guy was shocked and took two steps back, full of shock and anger. When he looked intently, the expression on his face turned from surprise to joy. He pointed at the iron ax in the young man's hand and laughed:

"Ha! Everyone, look, I said this kid's ax is shoddy! When it is cut by my ax, it will cut a gap!"

As expected, there was a gap on the original intact edge of the iron ax in Shen Qingze's hand, it wasn't big, but it was visible to the naked eye.

He stroked the notch of the ax blade lightly, and shook his head regretfully. After all, it was only low-carbon steel, and the quality was not good enough.

The guy raised his mouth proudly: "How is it? Take it. Everyone has seen that it is cheap but not good. In the future, it will be..."

Before he finished speaking, he found that the people around him were pointing at him, their eyes were not right, and he looked down——

My own ax split a big gap from the chopping place!Fine cracks covered most of the ax body, and when he shook it, a small piece unexpectedly shattered and fell to the ground with a thud!

It's good this time, the opponent is only a small gap, and a corner of my own is directly chopped off!

The guy blushed so much that he was about to bleed: "This...this...impossible!"

The onlookers laughed loudly, the guy was furious, and he remembered to question Shen Qingze before he came, when an unpleasant question suddenly came from behind:

"What's going on? It's noisy."

Two men, one tall and one short, came out of the iron shop on the opposite side. The short man had his hands behind his back, bright clothes, and a short beard. Behind him was a strong man in a leather jacket, with muscles all over his body. He stood there like an iron tower. Stand out from the crowd.

The man ran over with an ax in his hand, nodded and bowed in front of the short-bearded man:

"Boss Mo, this brat was bragging at the door of our shop and stealing our business. I was just about to teach him a lesson. He said he would have a competition and hack each other's axes, but in the end he gave our ax to..."

Seeing the boss's gloomy face, the clerk swallowed the words "broken" in his stomach.

Boss Mo walked to Shen Qingze's booth with his hands behind his back, picked up a machete, and squinted his eyes to examine it carefully.

The blade is polished extremely smooth, bright in color, with thick ridges and thin blades, and at the same time has both toughness and hardness. It is completely different from ordinary iron knives on the market. Veteran hands can tell at a glance that it is a rare good knife with a handle.

The more Boss Mo looked at it, the more he cherished it. When he looked up at Shen Qingze, he showed a warm smile: "Little brother, the master in your shop made these ironware, right?"

Shen Qingze nodded: "Yes."

"They're all good stuff, I want them all." Boss Mo waved his hand boldly, asking the strong man behind him to pay.

When he turned his eyes to the trembling guy with the broken axe, his brows suddenly sank: "Old Ba, are your eyes used to vent your anger?"

"You don't even know such a fine ironware? What use do I need you for? Why don't you come over and apologize to this little brother!"

The clerk had a bitter face, unwilling to stand in front of Shen Qingze, and bent over to apologize: "It's my blindness that offended my little brother!"

Boss Mo's skill in changing his face was extraordinary, and his eyes looking at Shen Qingze became extremely kind again:

"Not only these, but all the ironware made in your shop in the future, as long as you send them to me, I will buy them all, and the price will satisfy you. You will no longer have to work hard to set up a street stall in the wind and rain, little brother ,what do you think?"

The surrounding onlookers didn't understand what happened, they only knew that as soon as the iron shop owner came out, he cleaned up the gangsters, and compensated Shen Qingze generously, and he seemed to appreciate his ironware very much.

The unsophisticated masses immediately praised and applauded the reasonable iron shop owner.

Looking at the smiling Boss Mo, Shen Qingze frowned instead of feeling the slightest joy.

Sure enough, Boss Mo held Shen Qingze's hand kindly, and said slowly in a voice that only the two of them could hear clearly:

"Little brother, as long as you are willing to tell me how your master makes these ironware, I will not only pay for your products, but also give you a hundred gold coins as a reward, how about it?"

Shen Qingze's face darkened, and his voice was low and slow: "I refuse."

Boss Mo was not angry, but just gave him a meaningful look, took a step back, sighed exaggeratedly, and raised his voice:

"Young man, it's not good to be too greedy. Didn't your master teach you the principle of being content? My offer is already very generous. If you want more, I'm going to lose money. I also have a bunch of guys in my shop." To make a living."

These few words spread to the ears of the onlookers, and everyone started talking about it. From time to time, words such as "I don't know how to flatter", "I don't know what to do" and "I don't know what is good or bad" are thrown at young people.

One story spreads to ten, ten to hundreds, and the story of embellishment and vinegar began to spread in the market in the east of the city.

The three brothers Jin Da, Tong Er, and Yin San looked at each other and couldn't help showing gloating smiles.

"Hey, let's see how this kid keeps the stall going!"

Attracted by the bustle here, there is also a man wrapped in a cloak. He is wearing a mask, and the hood covers his face. The skin around his eyes is smooth, and there is no trace of curse.

The man was leaning on the low wall of the back alley, hiding in the crowd, watching the play with great interest.

The female housewife next door was carrying a vegetable basket, and she was telling every passerby around her vividly and vividly how Shen Qingze violently knocked down the shopkeepers in order to monopolize the ironware trade in the market, and kicked the restaurant at the door, and the lion opened his mouth.

The man chuckled and played with the barrel of the gun, listening with gusto.

In the open space in the middle of the crowd, Boss Mo is teaching Shen Qingze the principles of life.

The young man was silent for a moment, and finally, under the moral condemnation of everyone, he opened his mouth without changing his expression:

"I can sell ironware to you, but I will never sell my body for money! Your Excellency, you are looking for the wrong person."

This earth-shattering sentence knocked out the death-like silence in the surrounding area!

The melon-eating crowd dropped the melons in their hands in shock, and then glared at the iron shop owner one after another. The "dominant youth" called by the housewives who bought vegetables suddenly turned into a delicate and handsome man who was molested by a wretched rich businessman.

The young officer, who was leisurely watching the excitement, paused as he stroked his gun, his eyes were subtle, and he glanced at the iron shop owner like lightning, his face looked like a rat's head.

Boss Mo was caught off guard and was stunned. Three innocent words popped up slowly on his forehead: "???"

The author has something to say: Boss Mo: I'm going to call the police! !

Shen: slip away