Meng Li sat next to the big pit he had dug and looked at the large pile of "iron pieces" in front of him that looked black and pitted, and he knew that these were oxidized silver on the surface.

Because the wooden box had been buried in the ground for many years, it had long since decayed, and Meng Li took out all the silver pieces and put them on the ground, and the silver pieces in the boxes were like a hill together.

"I wonder how much money can be exchanged for so much silver?"

Meng Li knew that silver and gold were hard currencies and precious metals, but he had no idea what their specific value was. Although his knowledge was richer than that of his peers around him, he still didn't understand how much Hua Yuan could be exchanged for this pile of silver like a small mountain in front of him.

"One, two, three......" Meng Li began to count the silver.

These silver ingots are about the same size, and when you weigh them in your hand, they are heavy, and they are estimated to be half a catty, and if they are converted into international units, Meng Li estimates that each one is about 200 grams.

"Thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two!"

Meng Li counted that this small pile was full of forty-two silver ingots. If only to follow one

Calculated at 200 grams, the mountain-like silver pile in front of him is 8.4 kilograms, sixteen or seventeen catties!

The silver buried here by the big landowner surnamed Meng back then should have been heavier than this, but it was too long, and there was a loss of oxidation.

Meng Li didn't know how much sixteen or seventeen catties of silver were worth, but he knew that no matter how much it was worth, the silver would now belong to him.

Meng Li buried the excavated soil again, and after leveling it, he found some broken stones and piled them on it, which looked the same as the rest of the cave on the surface, so that people could not tell that this corner had been excavated. After doing this, he went home again, found a worn-out snakeskin bag that had been used for fertilizer, went to the cave, and put all the silver in the snakeskin bag, and took it home.

After doing these things, Meng Li was already extremely tired, threw the snakeskin bag at will, and fell asleep on the bed.

When he woke up the next day, the sky was already bright, he looked at the snakeskin bag that was still in the center of the room at will, and couldn't help but smile indifferently, that Meng Dazhu and his son were busy, and they had already dug up all the silver, they were destined to be a bamboo basket to draw water, and they could be regarded as avenging the humiliation of the year.

got up and ate two sweet potatoes left over from last night, Meng Li threw the snakeskin bag under the bed and went out slowly.

His family is notoriously poor in the village, and everyone knows that his family is poor and doesn't even have a mouse, so there is no need to worry that someone will go to his house to steal silver, and no one will think that there are more than ten catties of silver hidden under their bed.

Originally, he told Liang Xin that he would rush back to school this afternoon, but now he still has a very important thing to complete.

When I went out, I walked on the green ridges, through the paddy fields full of rice, and came to the village chief's house.

There are many telephones in Mengjia Village, but those who do not have telephones want to make calls, usually from the small shop opened by the village chief.

Guarding the small shop was the village chief's daughter-in-law, Meng Li politely called Auntie, then took out a piece of Zou Baba Chinese coin from his pocket, and said, "Auntie, I'll make a call." ”

"Xiao Li, you call, my aunt doesn't want your money, do you know how to dial?" The middle-aged woman took pity on this poor child who had no father but was very sensible, and did not charge him for his phone bill.

"Auntie, I will." Meng Li smiled at the village chief's daughter-in-law, and then dialed the phone number of Teacher Li's house, who taught mathematics downstairs in Liang Xin's dormitory. This number was told by Liang Xin to Meng Li and Meng Die, Liang Xin was worried about the safety of the brothers and sisters when they went out, so she forced the brothers and sisters to write down this number and warned them to call if they encountered anything outside.

Seeing that Meng Li could make a phone call, the village chief's daughter-in-law walked away.

"Teacher Li, I'm Meng Li who lives in Teacher Liang Xin's house, can you please help me call Teacher Liang Xin to answer the phone?"

Meng Li told Liang Xin on the phone that he would not be able to rush back to school until tomorrow morning, and Liang Xin didn't ask for any reason, so he said "um" and told Meng Li not to be late for class tomorrow morning, and then hung up the phone.

Meng Li couldn't help but be happy when he heard the busy tone coming from the other end of the phone, he knew that this was Teacher Liang's angry expression. Mr. Liang has a gentle nature, even if he is angry, he is also warm, and he always gives people a feeling of spring breeze.

I originally said that I would go back to school this afternoon at the latest, and Mr. Liang doesn't like people who don't believe in their words.

"There's no way, if you don't finish that, you won't be able to get out of the village."

Meng Li muttered in his heart, and then put the face value of one yuan of Chinese currency next to the telephone, he didn't say a few words just now, one yuan of phone bill is enough, although people pity themselves and say that they don't want money, but they are not short of this dollar phone bill.

"Now that I have money, I don't know how much I can exchange for more than ten catties of silver...... But there should be a lot. ”

Out of the small shop of the village chief's house, Meng Li walked directly to a carpenter's house in the village.

The reason why he couldn't get back to school this afternoon was because he had to get a statue of a god for himself.

Although the Divine Dao is now in decline, the Heavenly Dao of this world has even moved all the gods of this world out of this world, but the Heavenly Dao still recognizes the status of the gods, otherwise it would not have given Meng Li the jade plate and the "Empress Earth Scroll". Since he enjoys the rights bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, he naturally has to perform the duties given by the Heavenly Dao, as the land god, Meng Li's duty is to protect Mengjia Village.

The responsibilities of the land god are extremely relaxed, and there will be no major events that affect the operation of the Heavenly Dao in a small Mengjia Village, and there is no need for Meng Li to stay here all the time, but if Meng Li wants to leave, he must make a statue of his own land god in the village, and replace his own deity in Mengjia Village, otherwise he will be considered by the Heavenly Dao as leaving his post without permission, and his own punishment will be lowered.

Heavenly Dao's punishment, Meng Li didn't want to try it again.

The carpenter in the village is one of the few people in Mengjia Village who is not surnamed Meng, his surname is Qian, I heard that he moved from the north, and carpenter is a family handicraft.

The carpenter is already very old, the village people are used to calling him Qian Old Man, Qian Old Man's wife died of illness before he gave birth to a son and a half daughter when he was young, and he has not continued the string, until he is now old, he is still alone, in the past, he helped people make furniture or something, earn a little money and drink a little wine, and lived a very comfortable life.

"Meng Li? How did you get here? Old man Qian was obviously a little surprised by the sudden child.

Mengjia Village is not big, but it is really small, there are seventy or eighty families in the village, even if they don't meet often, everyone knows each other.

Meng Li got straight to the point and directly said his intention.

"You're going to be a wooden man?" Old man Qian looked at the thin child in front of him differently.

"Yes, our school teacher asked me to help find someone to do it, well... The biology teacher wants to use it as a specimen... Qian Ye, can you do it? Meng Li panicked.

"There's nothing you can't do Uncle Qian!" Old man Qian said in a very high-profile manner.