Chen Mu sold all the heads, not only the heads, but also Shao Tingda's captive, and the head on Shi Qi's body After asking him what he meant, one captive of eight heads, all of them were verbally traded to Zhang Yongshou.

For the first time in his life, although Chen Mu didn't know much about it, Zhang Yongshou was familiar with it, so he simply explained Chen Mu to Shao Tingda and Shi Qi, and then smiled and set a price to go to Guangzhou Mansion to see the official mansion reward price and give them money, and then hand over the head to him at that time.

Since promotion and fortune cannot be both, Chen Mu must choose to fill his stomach first. Nowadays, he doesn't have a clear and comprehensive understanding of this era, and the higher the official position, the easier it is to make mistakes, so he is not in a hurry to be promoted, but he can't do it without money at the moment. He wanted to make cave nitrate, and the first task was to get a few large iron pots for boiling nitrate, plus all the utensils that could not be brought down without two taels of silver.

With his current economic situation, where can he get two taels of silver, even if he goes back and sells all the three stones of brown rice, he won't be able to make up one tael. This is the uncomfortable place for the junior officers of the guard, obviously from the small flag of the seventh grade, the monthly salary of seven stones, but after the deduction is completed, there are only three stones left, like a person who does not enter the product, but there is no place to pick it out.

Chen Mu moved his fingers and calculated, he watched his Ding pawn plant for more than half a year in the guard, and then went to the Qingyuan city wall to patrol the city for a few months, and at the end of the year, he could buy eight or nine taels of silver in exchange for brown rice.

The more he calculated, the more depressed he became, and finally Chen Mu slapped his thigh and scolded secretly: "Fuck, it's not enough for Wang Po to pull a slim child for Ximen Qingpan Jinlian!" ”

Wang Po also earned ten taels of silver for Ximen Qingpan Jinlian to pull fiber!

Xiaoqi is still like this, let alone military households?

It's no wonder that Shao Tingda asked Chen Mu if he would kill him when he had the opportunity to kill Liang and take the risk...... If they don't kill the good and the thieves, they will be killed by heaven.

But then again, the bold subjugate the dragon and subdue the tiger, and the timid feed the cat and the rabbit. Chen Mu is not too sentimental and hypocritical, not to mention that he has not reached the level of helping the world at the same time, he can't be alone, where can he control others, he can make a windfall if he makes this first-class transaction left and right.

Before arriving at Guangzhou Mansion, no one can be sure that the reward of the Heiling Mountain bandits is a few taels of silver, but both Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou estimate that Chen Mu's head can be worth at least ten taels, and he will be worth a year!

Ten taels of silver, in addition to returning to Qingyuan to buy iron pots and other utensils, most of the surplus Chen Mu pondered to buy another bird gun. Maybe it's okay not to buy it, he looked at the bad gun like a burning stick on his hand and felt that it was a pity, he would definitely be reluctant to lose it, he wanted to wait until he returned to the guard to try his luck and see if there was any warmaker who could repair it.

Although, there is little hope.

may save too much money, as far as Bai Yuanjie said, it is not as good as the Ming Bird Gun, even if it is directly asked to make a pole by the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, the cost alone will not be less than four taels of silver.

But soon Chen Mu didn't have to worry about this matter anymore, and on the second day when he and Zhang Yongshou agreed on the first level of the deal, Zhang Yongshou asked his soldiers to send Chen Mu a Ming Bird Gun that was not worn.

Zhang Yongshou smiled and scolded his soldiers while explaining to Chen Mu that in the night battle, he used this gun to kill another flag in a panic, so he didn't let the kid use it, and when he returned to Qingyuanwei this time, he sent that person to farm.

This gun has fired a total of more than a dozen shots, brand new.

Although he killed a fellow Ming soldier, Chen Mu would not feel unlucky, what kind of jokes! Chen Xiaoqi has five lives in his hands, and he has just finished a big deal with eight heads, will he still be afraid of this bad luck?

"So expensive?"

Chen Mu cross-legged and listened to Bai Yuanjie talk to him about the cost of bird guns and secretly smacked his tongue, then saw Bai Yuanjie chuckled, and said like a few treasures: "Forty catties of iron are refined to eight catties, and then there are wood money, charcoal money, copper money, and labor money, which is more than four taels." Besides, if you really give you a two-tael bird, do you dare to use it? ”

Bai Yuanjie's words are really to the point, the arquebus is not like a starter gun with fixed ammunition, after pulling the trigger, the dragon head with the fire rope inserted hits the bed to ignite the gunpowder, and it takes nearly half a second to ignite the sub-charge in the gun tube and even fire the lead pellet...... For Chen Mu, the whole process was like the gunpowder on the bed 'snorting' and smoking, and that half a second was the most terrifying, for fear that he would be unlucky, and the next moment the bird would explode and fall apart with a bang.

Erliang's bird gun is like holding an exploding iron pipe in his hand, who dares to use it!

Seeing that Chen Mu smiled, Bai Yuanjie didn't say more, he saw Chen Mu wrap the discarded wolf gun and put it in the carriage to replace it with this bright bird gun, and he knew that their deal was negotiated. He knew that Zhang Yongshou wanted to get his hands on these military exploits, but he didn't find Bai Yuanjie, who shot three thieves in the battle, but Chen Mu. Zhang Yongshou is a smart person, and he knows that even if he finds Bai Yuanjie, Bai Yuanjie will not give away the first-level merit for some money.

From the point of view, Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou are the same kind of people, their ancestors have all been such a three-grade commander of Qingyuanwei, and their families have a deep background in Qingyuan and even Guangzhou Mansion, and they can be promoted if they have meritorious service. Even if the difference is said, it is just that Bai Yuanjiezu got the world's shade and Zhang Yongshou did not, so Zhang Yongshou needs merit to make his official position move upward.

Chen Mu is different, his ancestors have been Xiaoqi for generations, the lowest-ranking officer in the guard, and his livelihood is still a problem, everyone knows that he will definitely sell his head.

Bai Yuanjie knew about this, but he didn't come forward to tell Chen Mu because he was Chen Mu's direct superior, if he said it, it would seem that this matter was unquestionable.

"You're doing the right thing, you can get the same amount of money as the government if you sell the head to Yongshou, but you may not get a new gun, right?" Bai Yuanjie laughed as she spoke, her towering cheekbones looked very resolute, she glanced into the distance, sighed for some reason, and said with a slightly deep gaze: "This is the way of the world, your merits can be promoted to the general flag by one head, but if you really wait for the Guangzhou Mansion to give you a position, I don't know how many more years you have to wait, and you will have to live a good life with money first." ”

Chen Mu didn't know why Bai Yuanjie suddenly became sentimental...... The first level sold at least ten taels of silver, and also fell the pole bird, and he was happy to die, where would there be any dissatisfaction. But I didn't know what kind of expression was appropriate at the moment, so I just nodded and smiled a little awkwardly.

"Bai killed your bannerman, he wanted to lead the horse and escape, so he had to do it as a last resort." Bai Yuanjie got up and patted the soil on his body, half of his face fell into the shadows when the bonfire flickered, and he couldn't see his joy and anger, he turned his head to look at Chen Mu and smiled friendlyly, and said softly, "Don't blame Bai." ”

After saying that, Bai Yuanjie turned around and left, but Chen Mu suddenly remembered that on the night when he and Zhang Yongshou made a deal, when he got up to pee at night, he found that a flag under Zhang Yongshou was dragged into the woods by several people, and then never appeared again.

Chen Mu, who was sitting on the ground with a bird gun in his arms, felt a chill coming from his spine for no reason, tightened his mandarin duck battle jacket, leaned over to the fire, and sat closer.