It is the setting sun again, under the sunset, the small river in front of the village and a large area of farmland are unobstructed, it looks peaceful and natural, but only Chen Xu knows that living in this seemingly peaceful and peaceful place is destined to be poor and poor for the rest of his life, to the point that he can't afford to eat salt, and he may face death at any time.

If we want to develop well, we must leave this remote mountain village and go to the big city, to meet more people, to learn more things, to collect more information, in order to find a way to survive in the great turmoil of the change of dynasty more than ten years later.

But this road has to be taken step by step.

After all, it had only been two days since he woke up.

What he has to do now is to arrange this home, and then go out to take a good look, go to the town, go to the county seat, go to Nanyang County and even Xianyang Capital, and use two thousand years of cultural accumulation to find the way he should go, and live well in the troubled times.

In the next few days, instead of accompanying Chen Jiang and Xing'er to weed the farmland on the river beach, Chen Xu went to the river to fish in a basket at night, and went to the nearby mountainside to cut trees during the day.

He has already thought about it, just the kind of crops that can only be harvested by looking at God's eyes is meaningless to plant a hundred acres and a thousand acres, under all kinds of complicated taxes and miscellaneous taxes, he will never be able to eat and dress warmly, so he needs to earn money, he asked Uncle Ma, the price of grain in the market town is about forty yuan a stone (about 30 kilograms), and a bucket of salt is ten yuan (note: a bucket is about 2,000 milliliters of volume in later generations, and salt is slightly heavier than water, So a bucket is almost 2.6 kilograms), and although the Qin Dynasty was heavy on agriculture and suppressed business, salt and iron were not monopolized by the state like in later generations, and other businesses were not restricted, as long as they did not rebel and pay taxes on time, the government would not be too harsh, of course, the government did not encourage business, so the tax on business was very high, because in the eyes of people in this era, they thought that merchants did not produce anything, would not produce any value, and would not be beneficial to the country.

But only Chen Xu knows that if a country wants to be rich and strong, commercial development is the only way, farming will only get poorer and poorer, when the business is highly developed, farming can make money, and farmers will have the enthusiasm to farm.

However, if he said this opinion now, he would definitely be regarded as a traitor who deceived the people with fallacies and was arranged by Qin Shi Huang to be beaten to death, and he would have to be tortured with five punishments, and then the car would be split and abandoned to destroy the three clans.

So a young man with great ambitions was very sad.

Bronze axes, though sharpened, are far less hard than iron, so they cut trees very quickly.

Therefore, Chen Xu has to sit alone in the yard to sharpen his axe after dinner every night, and Niu Dashi occasionally brings his younger brother to visit the door, but Chen Xu thought that he would spoil his sister who had not grown up in a few years, and he was very disdainful and unwilling to talk to him, which made Niu Dashi very depressed, and he didn't know where he offended this eldest brother.

Three days passed, Chen Xu grinded out a few big blood blisters on his hands, and there were scars everywhere on his body, but with his unremitting efforts, he also cut down more than a dozen thigh-thick trees, as long as he cut down for two more days, it was almost enough to build a thatched house.

"Whoop~Whoa~"

Just after cutting down a tree, Chen Xu was panting and sitting on the ground holding a bamboo tube to drink water, when suddenly there seemed to be a beast cry coming from the mountain col on the side.

Chen Xu stood up with a little horror and listened attentively.

There was indeed an intermittent roar in the mountain wind, but it sounded terrible, similar to the screams of the Chinese New Year pigs in the countryside.

After listening to it for another two minutes in shock, it seemed that the screaming voice was getting weaker and weaker, and finally it was slowly inaudible, and Chen Xu also sat down with a sigh of relief.

A wild boar, perhaps!

But that's not right!

Chen Xu immediately stood up again.

He didn't hear the sound of wild beasts fighting, how could the wild boar scream, could it be that a wild boar fell from the mountain and died?

Do you want to check it out?

After Chen Xu had been fighting for a long time in his heart, he still gritted his teeth and carried an axe, carefully brushed aside the thorns and slowly went down the hillside to the side of the col.

The reason for this caution is that although this hillside is not far from the village, it is almost inaccessible at this time, and it is almost inaccessible, except for the trees, all of which are frantically growing thorn trees and vines, and poisonous snakes and beasts can appear at any time.

But under the stimulation of wild boar, Chen Xu still left the possible dangers behind.

After eating bland fish for several days, he felt like he would vomit if he continued to eat.

Although the wild boar is rough, the pork belly is grilled with a little salt until it is golden brown, and it must taste good when sprinkled with a little green onion.

At this time, the Qin Dynasty did not have edible vegetable oil, so they could only eat animal oil, and Chen Xu's family had not seen oil meat for several years.

In addition, if it is really a wild boar, then the meat and other things that cannot be eaten must be enough to exchange a lot of money for the market.

Because meat is an indispensable food in life in any era, a wild boar is worth more than a few stones of grain.

It took more than twenty minutes, and his ragged clothes were basically hung up like strips of cloth, Chen Xu finally climbed to the edge of the mountain col, and then looked around carefully with big eyes, all the verdant eyes were plants, except for trees and vines, flowers and plants of various colors and wild melons and fruits, but nothing else was found.

However, the tranquility of the col also made him a little creepy, because he didn't see a single bird jumping around.

After repeated searches, I finally saw some broken branches and vines at the location of an exposed rock face.

Chen Xu couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and then held the axe tightly and slowly touched it, not even daring to shake the thorns and weeds.

In this kind of deep mountain and old forest, let alone a wild boar, even a snake can kill you.

After more than ten minutes passed, Chen Xu finally touched the vicinity of the rock wall, and then gently brushed aside the thorns in front of him, and a cave appeared in his eyes.

The entrance of the cave is long and narrow, a natural irregular cave, almost one and a half meters high, surrounded by thorns and vines, but at this time these thorn vines at the entrance of the cave are crushed and lodging a large area, among which there are even small trees with the thickness of the bowl mouth are broken at waist level, and some messy blood stains can be seen in the branches and grass.