Chapter 766: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Zhou Sen, who was in the crowd, was shocked, he felt that this girl seemed to be very familiar with him, but he didn't have the slightest impression of this girl.

Could it be that the bandit Zhou Sen has ever been to this planet?

"You know him?" Zhu was stunned.

"Ah...... I don't know him, I don't know, how can I know him......"

Shen Huimin's face froze, and she shook her head again and again, but her expression betrayed her, and everyone could see that she knew Zhou Sen.

Seeing that there was a look of curiosity all around, Zhu Shi suddenly turned pale, and did not speak, dragging Shen Huimin out of the East Compound in a hurry.

A group of workers surrounded Zhou Sen and gossiped without mentioning it, saying that Zhu grabbed Shen Huimin and returned to the West Courtyard.

"Say, how do you know him?" Zhu looked at Shen Huimin with a stern expression.

"Mom......" Shen Huimin paused to look at her mother, and her mother's attitude puzzled her.

"Okay, your wings are stiff now, do you say yes?!" Zhu Shi looked furious, and actually took down a quaint black carved wooden stick from the wall.

"I said, I said it was." Shen Huimin's face changed suddenly, this wooden stick is the wooden stick used by the Shen family to enforce family law, and it is not a joke.

"Say it quickly." Zhu urged.

"He's the idiot I knew years ago." Shen Huimin looked aggrieved.

"Which fool?"

"It's the hunter."

"The hunter who hunted the Moling snow leopard three years ago?" Zhu's face was shocked.

"That's him." Shen Huimin pouted.

"It's strange, the first time I saw him, he looked very wooden, but today he spoke clearly, eloquently, and his thinking was extremely quick, it stands to reason that such a smart person would not know ......" Zhu Shi looked puzzled.

"Mom, I heard my father say that our area does not produce demon beast energy stones at all, and the Moling snow leopard is a superpowered person who lives in seclusion in Moling, raising a few spirit beasts, and over the years, it has bred a variant, which is the current Moling snow leopard, not to mention that fool, it is some superpowers, and they don't know that the seemingly unremarkable Moling snow leopard actually has energy stones in its body."

"Yes, but that young man is not simple, he was able to hunt the Moling snow leopard alone, and when he entered our Shen family, he pretended to be pitiful, and actually hid it from your father and me, you should be careful in the future, don't approach him."

"I think he's very good, silly, he's cute, hehe......"

"Silly?" Zhu snorted coldly, "People are much smarter than you, and they say that people look stupid, remember it, don't get close to him in the future." ”

"Oh."

"Remember me, you stupid brains!" Seeing Shen Huimin's absent-minded look, Zhu slapped Shen Huimin on the head, and raised the black wooden stick with the other hand, making a gesture to beat.

"You always like to hit me in the head, and if you're not stupid, you'll be beaten stupid." Shen Huimin stroked her head and protested.

"If you don't beat you, you won't have a long memory, in the future, don't wander around Moling all day long, those superpowers have been dead for hundreds of years, if there is really any treasure left, it will be found a long time ago, besides, with your skills, it is difficult to win an ordinary person, in case you meet a superpower, you will be miserable."

"I have a flying sword." Shen Huimin took out the black short sword and waved it twice in the air, looking triumphant.

"Flying sword! Although your flying sword is powerful, it can only scare ordinary people, with your little aura, you can't fly with a sword if you change your sword, and when you meet powerful characters, you are not beaten all over the ground looking for teeth. Zhu scoffed.

"You're looking for teeth all over the place." Shen Huimin grabbed Zhu's neck and said coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, I still have something, your father, he hides in the secret room all day to cultivate, and now it's a mess outside, and he doesn't care about it, I'm a woman, and I show up all day long, hey......." Zhu looked worried.

"Daddy must be in retreat if he gets the best energy stone, and it is estimated that when he goes out, he will definitely increase his cultivation, and when the time comes, our family, chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven, and they will all go to heaven as immortals."

"Moling's superpowers who can keep spirit beasts as pets are dead, you should be so easy to become a god in the sky. Besides, what's so good about being a fairy, being old and not dying as a thief. Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you, let's go, you're so idle that you are at home embroidering and practicing calligraphy or something, don't go wild. ”

"Mmmm, I'll embroider later, you can go." Shen Huimin looked well-behaved and innocent.

Zhu scratched Shen Huimin's nose and hurriedly walked towards the shop in the west courtyard.

Zhu Zhu's efficiency was very high, Zhu was only delayed for a while at home, he had already done the work, and posted an announcement on the wall outside the shop.

When Zhu rushed to the street shop in the west courtyard, the crowds outside had already dispersed, and there were only dozens of people left in the queue to buy salt, most of whom were nearby residents who went home to get their household registration books and returned to queue up......

……

A vigorous salt rush in Nie Jiaqiao quickly became calm after the strong intervention of the Shen family.

This turmoil came and went quickly, like a tornado sweeping through and disappearing.

On the first day, some people were queuing up to buy, and even picked up meat to be marinated in the Shen family's shop; The next day, there were fewer people queuing up to buy salt, and many people believed that the Shen family could guarantee the supply of salt in Nie Jiaqiao.

On the third day, the Shen family began to organize some tenants and residents to visit the Shen family's warehouse, and when people saw the mountains of salt in the Shen family's warehouse, the rumors broke down, and the rush to buy salt has become a joke, and some people who did not rush to buy salt will laugh at those who queue up to grab salt.

On the fourth day, there was no one queuing up at the Shen family's shop, only some people in remote areas buying sporadically.

On the fifth day, Zhao's family and some retail shops also opened up for sale.

Things developed exactly according to what Zhou Sen said, and on the sixth day, the salt rush farce was completely over, and even some people in remote mountainous areas knew the news.

In this five-day salt turmoil, the Shen family not only sold a large amount of salt inventory, increased the return of funds, but also won a good reputation in Niejiaqiao.

As a result of this good reputation, the sales of other goods of the Shen family increased greatly, and some tenants were willing to sell the surplus grain to the Shen family.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the people are idle, while the Shen Jiadong compound is getting busier and busier.

Although Jia is deaf, he knows the ins and outs of things, and now his attitude towards Zhou Sen is much better, and he will dance to Zhou Sen's "babbling" hand when he has nothing to do, give a thumbs up, and look excited.

In fact, not only Jia Deaf's attitude towards Zhou Sen has changed, but the people in the entire East Compound have great respect for Zhou Sen, and Zhu Guanzi loves Zhou Sen very much, and often comes over to ask for warmth.

Zhou Sen is now more and more idle, because Jia Deaf basically rushes to do everything, Zhou Sen spends most of his time helping in the kitchen, and practices splitting flies when he is free.

Because of the stability of life, the nutrition to keep up, and a lot of physical work every day, Zhou Sen's body is getting stronger and stronger, chopping flies is becoming more and more skillful, and the technique is gradually smoother, and the iron axe with more than ten catties has become much easier in his hands.

Lu axe to cut flies, generally sitting or standing still, people are in a static state, and Zhou Sen in the practice, will put a few wooden piers on the ground, and then smear animal blood and internal organs on the wooden piers to attract flies, and then, Zhou Sen keeps moving between several wooden piers to chop flies.

Zhou Sen's practice method progressed very slowly, because it was infinitely more difficult for the human body to cut down small flies when it moved.

At the beginning, Zhou Sen was worried that his practice would arouse the curiosity of others and become the focus, but what made Zhou Sen strange was that everyone didn't seem to show the slightest curiosity about his practice of chopping flies, and it wasn't until Sister-in-law Peng chatted with Zhou Sen that he understood the reason.

"Xiao Zhou, if you cut it down like this, there will be no flies for you in our East Compound." Sister-in-law Peng, who was washing rice by the well, quipped.

"Hehe, it's okay to be idle." Zhou Sen smiled.

"Yes, when people are idle, they don't have a place to work, so they want to find something to do, you don't know, my old Peng and Chef Nalei, when they are free, they toss and study the killing of pigs and sheep, and say that they want to surpass the 'Ding Jieniu' are killed into neurotics, once, a pig was broken down into tens of thousands of pieces, the bones are bones, the meat is meat, and the meat is also piece by piece, not connected to each other......"

"Tens of thousands!" Zhou Sen looked stunned.

"Yes, there are hundreds of bones, and then they are divided little by little, one by one, they are all coarse, I have never seen them so careful." Sister-in-law Peng showed a trace of anger on her face, obviously dissatisfied with the usual grinning Chef Luo.

"They don't seem to kill pigs like that?"

"That's definitely not going to happen, you can't miss the owner's business, but, after they tossed so much for a few years, killing pigs and slaughtering sheep is amazing, once my old Peng and Chef Lei competed, just five minutes, and the two live pigs were cleaned up, and after Mrs. knew, she also rewarded the two."

"Five minutes...... Such a powerful ......" Zhou Sen had an incredible expression on his face. He stayed in the East Compound every day, and almost every other day he had to kill pigs and sheep, and sometimes, he had to kill several heads a day, so he naturally knew that it would take at least half an hour to kill a pig.

"Hehe, what is this, in the East Compound, there is half a year of idleness, everyone has nothing to do, they will find some fun, just like an axe, nothing to chop flies; My old Peng, bored, tossed pigs and sheep; When the iron pillar is fine, he and a group of porters carry the grain, six or seven hundred pounds of grain, carry it to the warehouse, and then throw it up one by one. ”

"Six or seven hundred catties ......" Zhou Sen couldn't help but look shocked, although he had the courage to be invincible, he was a superpower, and these people in the courtyard were ordinary people.

"Haha, our porters here rely on strength to eat, who doesn't have a lot of strength, carrying three or five hundred pounds, it's commonplace, you go to the granary and take a look, huh...... You have to eat before you see it. ”

"Why?"

"They are usually not in a hurry, only when they have a lot of work or are about to eat, they will hurriedly do all the work, just like my old Peng, there are many people who eat, he is like suddenly taking medicine, the thief is fast, and now he is about to eat, I don't believe you go to the No. 9 granary to see."

"Uh-huh."

Zhou Sen ran to the busy No. 9 granary.

Recently, the busiest part of the Shen family's east compound is the granary, because there will be many tenants pulling grain to pay rent every day, in addition to collecting rent, some farmers with fields and some large families will also sell excess grain to the Shen family.

At the place of the No. 9 granary, there are still many ordinary people pulling carts waiting in line.

Although there are still two months before the Chinese New Year, it is extremely cold, and in this cold weather, those porters are naked, revealing dark and shiny, steel-like muscles, and are carrying the purchased grain into the granary.

The grain stacked in the granary is piled up, and the height is more than ten meters. Dozens of porters were like ants moving, carrying bags of grain on top of the makeshift ladder and stacking them neatly, and there were no four or five hundred catties on their backs as Sister-in-law Peng said, at best, two hundred catties.

Just as Zhou Sen was watching, I don't know who shouted, "It's time to eat!" The porters who were not slow and looked slow suddenly changed, and an amazing scene appeared in front of Zhou Sen's eyes.

The atmosphere became hot, and a group of shirtless men with rock-like muscles began to shout majestic trumpets.

The porters began to divide the work, and someone put sacks full of grain on one person one by one, one, two, three, four...... The sack pressed down on the porter like a hill, like a mountain on the porter, and then, with his muscles strained as the hunched porter roared all the way up the sloping ladder, which trembled as if it were going to collapse under that heavy step......

Efficiency has become terrifying.

When it comes to a place where it can't be moved, a short man covered in black will twist the sack bag with both hands and shout "One, two, three!" As soon as the body turned, he threw directly on the grain pile a few meters high, and as long as the human hand on it was gently smooth, the sacks were neatly stacked, clean and neat, and the movements were extremely smooth, without dragging mud and water.

Zhou Sen was dumbfounded.

In just over 30 minutes, the winding team was cleaned up, and a group of porters shouted again, picked up sweat towels, wiped them on their bodies casually, put on bloated cotton clothes, and rushed towards the dining hall in a noisy as if fleeing from the famine, and the birds and beasts scattered. Before Zhou Sen could react, only the warehouse keeper was left to lock the door in the lively granary.

"Xiao Zhou, it's time to eat, why are you still in a daze?" The warehouse keeper urged Zhou Sen, looking anxious.

"Uh-huh......"

Zhou Sen left the No. 9 granary a little depressed, and the scene just now was extremely shocking. He always thought that the East Compound was a group of bitter haha, but he didn't expect that there was a hidden dragon and crouching tiger here, but the talent and potential of these people were not tapped and became a means of entertainment and livelihood.

Since Zhou Senlu learned the skill of cutting flies from the axe, it is no longer what it used to be, and his observation is extremely keen, and he can get inspiration from ordinary things and improve himself......

As soon as he inquired, Zhou Sen knew that the short, dark middle-aged man was the iron pillar in Sister-in-law Peng's mouth, and he was the long-term worker of the Shen family. In fact, most of those porters are short-term workers, who go home to farm when they are busy, and go to the Shen family to help when they are slack, earning a little extra money to subsidize the family.

In the Shen family, the status of long-term and short-term workers is extremely different.

Usually, short-term work is settled on a daily basis, and when there is work, you will be notified, and when you don't have work, you will stay at home, and your income is not guaranteed.

Long-term work is different, no matter how much work is done, the salary is calculated on a monthly basis. The most important thing is that most of the long-term workers in the Shen family are for a lifetime, and when they are old, the Shen family will also pay a certain amount of living expenses on a monthly basis, although it is not much, but it is very enviable.

Next, Zhou Sen would occasionally go to the granary to help, especially when he was busy, and carefully observed the movements of those porters while helping.

Through careful observation, Zhou Sen found that, like Lu Axe, in addition to their own brute force, those porters also have practice makes perfect in terms of handling, and the use of brute force has reached the point of perfection, and after brute force becomes skillful, the power that bursts out is extremely terrifying, and ordinary people are completely different creatures.

The porters were very fond of Zhou Sen's help.

In the Shen Jiadong compound, most of the easy work is helped, that is, some tenants who pay rent, and occasionally help, but no one wants to help with this work, after all, this work is too tiring and dirty, without a little strength, it really can't help, sometimes it flashes the waist, but it helps.

Just when Zhou Sen was absorbing practical knowledge like the sea, Shen Wan also went out.

Shen Wan, who had been in retreat for more than a month, had lost a lot of weight, and his face was not good, not as refreshed as Zhu and Shen Huimin imagined after the breakthrough, but with a blank face, sitting in the hall, holding a book in his hand, but his eyes were not reading, he was hooked, and he was a little distracted.

"Dad, why can't the dragonfly fly fly far away from the paper I folded?" Shen Huimin was holding a pink paper dragonfly in his hand, and the paper dragonfly flew up in his hand, which was extremely beautiful, but unfortunately, it flew out of his palm less than a few meters and fell to the ground.

“…… Ah, I don't know. Shen Wan was absent-minded and glanced at the paper dragonfly that had fallen to the ground.

"Daddy!" Shen Huimin looked angry and disagreed.

"Oooh...... Come to think of it, it's because your cultivation superpower is not enough, and the paper dragonfly is a mortal thing, so naturally it can't fly. Shen Wan, who was unable to give up, woke up suddenly.

"Dad, is there a way to make it fly far, far away?" Shen Huimin jumped out of the chair and onto Shen Wan's knees.

"Huimin, don't bother your father, a daughter's family, don't do your job, all day long all those strange tricks and tricks, see how you marry in the future." Zhu, who was doing needlework, scolded.

"Mom, I'm a cultivator, you don't understand, hehe, Dad understands, Dad, tell Huimin, is there any way?" Shen Huimin said coquettishly.

"It's very simple, you just need to strengthen your cultivation, or, buy more talismans with superpowers, you can fly, just like your high-grade flying sword, even if it is a weak superpower, you can fly with the sword."

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