Chapter 4: Three Thousand Blue Grass

During the meal, the eight-sided steward Chen was full of witty words, with a lotus tongue, and from time to time he patted the other two's sycophants without a trace, and even Lu Bolin, who was not smiling, smiled from time to time, making Wen Ming sigh that Chen Jiahe was a talent, and even after four years of training as a buddy in the "dream", he was far from being able to compare with him.

This dinner made the three of them familiar and close to each other, and the Chen family, as the steward of the Wen family, was naturally full of desire to be more familiar with and intimate with the eldest and young master of the Wen family.

Although Lu Bolin doesn't have to flatter the young master of the Wen family, it always doesn't hurt to get along with Wen Ming better, the Wen family treats him well, and he is very satisfied with the current easy and comfortable job, so he also releases his kindness to Wen Ming.

Chen Jiahe is a capable person, and Wen Ming sometimes has to trouble him here, so he doesn't mind showing his appreciation;

As for Lu Bolin's own safety here, although he usually won't have an accident, but when there is a real accident, he will have to rely on him to save his life, and Wen Ming will naturally not be stupid enough to do evil with him.

After the meal, Wen Ming left Chen Jiahe behind, telling him that he liked to watch patches of Biguang grass fluoresce at night, so he wanted to plant Biguang grass in the yard, and asked the steward to summon the tenants of the Wen family to ask if they were willing to collect Biguang grass, and he would buy it at a price of 2 copper coins each.

This is what he used to cover up the collection of Biguang Grass, if the Biling Pill is ineffective, it will be fine, and if it is effective, it is not too careful.

Chen Jiahe is naturally full of words, and he does not forget to praise the elegance of Wenming.

I can't practice in the afternoon, but Wen Ming won't waste time, since I want to be a warrior, I have to take the exam for a warrior college, I didn't study much before, and now I need to make up for it.

There is a bucket-sized red maple tree in the left and right corners of the yard, and the tree is not very large but has many branches, so it is very cool under the tree.

There is a set of stone tables and stone stools under the tree on the right, Wen Ming asked Huan'er to get some tea and snacks, and then asked Xiaoshi to move a chaise longue over, and then took a copy of "The Basics of Barbarians" and lay on the chair to read the book carefully.

Most warriors will take some time to learn the barbarian language, which will be used when they go to the battlefield of the trial.

And the warrior academy that Wen Ming wants to take the exam must be proficient in barbarian, and even Wen Ming thinks that if the Biling Pill can really be refined, and there are a large number of Biling Pills, maybe he can hope for the next three university palaces?

However, this thought only turned around in Wen Ming's mind and disappeared, which would make people laugh to death.

Wen Ming, who had never studied very well, was now difficult to get used to seriously studying for a while, let alone an uninteresting book like "The Basics of Barbarianism", and he became upset after a while.

However, he still calmed down and forced himself to study seriously, at this time, it was only a year and a half before the entrance examination, and it was much more difficult to get into the warrior academy than other ordinary colleges, and it was impossible to get into the exam without cherishing every minute of time.

Gradually, I was really immersed in the world of learning, and I lost track of time.

It wasn't until he came back to his senses after reading the first article, rubbed his eyes a little sour, and found that there was more people around him, and it was Chen Jiahe, who was in charge.

Wen Ming smiled embarrassedly: "Steward Chen has been waiting for a long time, I don't know if those tenants are willing?"

"Just arrived, just arrived, Young Master Ming studied so seriously, and in the future, he will definitely be able to take the first-class academy and shine in the city. ”

Chen Jiahe, who had been standing for more than a dozen points, had a smile on his slightly chubby face:

"Young Master Ming has such an elegant taste, those tenants should naturally support them unconditionally, not to mention that there are money rewards, how can there be those who are unwilling, they are all gearing up to dig out a few hundred plants at night to make a good profit, and they are anxious to go around under the sun. ”

Wen Ming had already expected this, compared to the price of dozens or even one or two hundred copper coins at the beginning of each plant in the "dream", his purchase price could be regarded as extremely cheap, but for the tenants, this was simply a matter of falling money in the sky, how could he not be willing.

The more the blue light grass grows in the depths of the Sunset Mountain Range, the closer it is to the middle of the mountain range, the more it grows, and the Red Maple City is located in the middle of the mountain range, so there are more blue light grass around the city, especially in the north of the city, because of its proximity to the mountain range, at night there are blue light spots everywhere.

Wen Ming estimated that there would be two or three thousand trees on the land to the north, and in the eyes of the tenants, there must be eighteen thousand trees in this piece of land full of blue light at night, and if a few hundred plants were pulled out in one night, it would be a lot of extra income.

Because the blue grass is similar to ordinary wild grass, and it does not shine during the day, it is difficult to recognize the blue grass at a glance if you do not carefully distinguish it, and the sun is hot during the day, so most tenants plan to have a good rest in the afternoon, and at night the whole family goes into battle even if it is all night to dig up the blue light grass, only a few anxious and inflexible people are in a hurry to act as soon as they receive the notice.

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After dinner, Wen Ming heard that the outside of the yard was gradually becoming lively, and went around the courtyard to find that the tenants in the manor had already mobilized their families and began to go to the fields and roadsides.

Soon night fell, today is June 16, under the bright moonlight, the Wenjia Manor is as lively as a festival, and from time to time there are children's excited screams:

"I dug up one!", "I dug one", "I dug up another", and so on, and so on, but the parents of many children promised them a copper coin for every tree they dug up.

The attraction of a copper coin to children is obviously much greater than the attraction of a copper coin to adults, and the children who want a copper coin have to grind their parents for a long time are very excited, plus the children compete with each other to compete who digs more, and they are all full of energy like monkeys in the field, and they are thinking about how many green grass they want to dig up to buy toys or snacks that they have liked for a long time.

It didn't take long for the adults to dig and some people stopped digging but watched their children running around happily, and gradually more and more adults stopped and looked at the happiness of the children with smiles on their faces.

The children of poor families rarely had such a happy time in the past, and after a while, all the adults stopped digging, even if a small number of adults and children were not at home or wanted to dig for various reasons, as a child shouted to an adult: "Uncle, don't you want to rob us, okay?" and then embarrassed to really rob the children.

In fact, some adults don't dig another important reason is that after digging a few pieces of land, they found that looking at the blue light grass all over the ground is far less than they expected, a rough estimate of each family will earn a few dozen copper coins at most, for this money destroys the happiness of the children, and is too worthless to be looked down upon by others.

There are even a small number of tenants who have flexible brains thinking that after digging the Wen family's manor, they must go to other people's fields to dig, and when the time comes, others will definitely ask what they are doing digging Biguang grass, and they will answer that no one will believe it.

And let the children dig they will think that it is a child naughty to dig the glowing blue light grass to play, even if someone really knows from the child's mouth that a blue light grass and a copper coin can not put down the face of the same child more real.

It should be said that this tenant often has a little cunning that belongs to the peasant.

Wen Ming looked at the bright and cheerful smiling faces of the children in the moonlight, listened to their childish excited cheers, and looked at the satisfied smiles of the parents for the happiness of their children, and only felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction welling up in his heart:

It was he who gave them this happiness, and the price of this happiness was only a few thousand copper coins, and even these copper coins could bring him incalculable returns, even if he didn't refine the Biling Pill in the end, Wen Ming felt that this payment was too worthwhile, and he was willing to pay for it!

The children's happiness gradually spread from the Wen family manor to the entire northern land of Red Maple City, and occasionally the children of other family manor tenants or free farmers joined this happy group, and the children picked the blue grass in the distance little by little like picking stars.

After more than two hours, there was no more blue light in the north field, and the children looked at the field with regret for a while, and then excitedly gathered together in twos and threes to count how many green grass they had dug up, whether there were more than their companions.

Because it was still early, Steward Chen took two handymen with two large bags of copper coins to find the tenants, and the accounts planned to collect the Biguang grass at night, and he asked the accounts to register and collect the Biguang grass in the hands of the tenants under their respective groups.

There are 128 tenants in total, so there are 13 households.

In addition, the children of dozens of tenants or farmers on other estates also had their own harvests, and he gathered the parents who followed the children to explain the situation, and then asked two handymen to take copper coins to collect the blue grass in their hands.

The Biguang grass is very small and exquisite, only the palm is long, and there will be other weeds at night, so the collection work is very fast, but in half an hour, Steward Chen collected all the Biguang grass.

The tenants took their children home with the joy of their labor, and Steward Chen asked the heads of the households to go home and bring hoes, vegetable baskets, and green grass to the Wenming courtyard together.

In the courtyard, Wen Ming happily looked at the blue light grass in the vegetable baskets, and the piles of blue light grass put together made the originally faint fluorescence stronger.

Chen Jiahe reported: "Young Master Ming, a total of 3,328 Biguang grasses were collected at night, and 6,656 copper coins were spent. ”

Wen Ming nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, you have worked hard, and you will pay 100 copper coins as a reward." ”

Before coming to the manor, Wen Ming had more than 10,000 pocket money on him, Su Qingmei was afraid that his son would suffer here, and gave him 20,000, Uncle Wen Yuan left him 20,000 after sending him over, and Wen Ming asked Chen Jiahe to give him 10,000 when he collected it, so now there are more than 40,000 copper coins.

Of course, it was impossible for him to run around with more than 30,000 copper coins, and what he carried with him was a copper ticket issued by Ziyun Bank, the only bank in the world.

Ordinary people in this world, including merchants, are not allowed to use gold and silver as currency for trading by default, and Ziyun Bank does not conduct any gold and silver business for them, because gold and silver can be refined into precious gold essence and mythril that can make powerful weapons and equipment in the hands of skilled craftsmen.

Only warrior-related professions such as warriors, pill pharmacists, and casters are eligible to trade gold and silver, although it is still okay for ordinary people to own, wear, and trade gold and silver jewelry as a commodity with gold shops.

Chen Jiahe happily thanked Wen Ming for the reward, 100 copper coins is nothing to him, the important thing is that if he is rewarded, it is Young Master Ming's recognition of him. Then he introduced Wen Ming and the accounts to each other, and the accounts were very excited to meet Wen Ming, and Wen Ming also smiled and nodded in response.

After meeting with the head of the household, Wen Ming asked them to pick out the Biguang grass that is not conducive to planting, such as too few roots, broken, and damaged main branches.

There are many people and great strength, there are only more than 3,000 green grass plants in total, and it is extremely simple to pick out the good and bad grasses, and more than a dozen people can pick them in less than ten minutes.

Of the more than 3,300 plants, half of them are less than 1,500 plants, about 1,500 plants are largely intact, and the remaining 1,800 plants are mutilated.

Chen Jiahe had told the tenants in advance to be careful about digging, Wen Ming really wanted Steward Chen to tell them to dig casually, it would be better to dig badly, but since he said that he was going to transplant it to the yard, he naturally couldn't say that.

At this time, Wen Ming, who saw so many mutilated grasses, was secretly happy in his heart, it was all the grass dug by children, and it would be good if there were twelve out of ten bad grass dug by adults.

Chen Jiahe originally saw that there was so much grass missing, and he was worried in his heart, afraid that Wen Ming would blame him and the tenants, but when he saw Wen Ming, he was not a little unhappy, and secretly praised Young Master Ming for being kind-hearted and generous to his subordinates, but Wen Ming was inadvertently wrong.

After dividing the grass inscription, let the households work more to plant the intact blue light grass into the yard, and the text Ming selected a 2*3 meter piece of land in the west courtyard corner to let the households plant the 1,500 or so blue light grass there.

Some households said that such a kind of dense grass is afraid that the blue light grass will not live long, Wen Ming replied that it is dense to put together a piece of light to look good, and the grass will be dug again, and the left and right are just some grass, since Wen Ming said so, the accounts will do it indifferently.

These households were all good hands in the field, and at that moment they picked out two of the best hoes and turned over the ground a few times, and then thirteen people squatted down together to plant the blue light grass in it.

The households can plant a Biguang grass every 10 seconds, about 1,500 plants, but more than 110 plants per person, and all the Biguang grass has been planted in less than half an hour.

I saw a small piece of land of 6 square meters of blue light, which actually brought people a dreamlike beauty, and everyone was amazed, and sighed that Young Master Wen had vision and ideas.

Wen Ming is also very satisfied, the more beautiful this Biguang grass is, the less people will think about whether it is of other use to collect Biguang grass by themselves.

At this time, it was not early, Wen Ming rewarded each of the households with 50 copper coins, and asked Steward Chen to send them all out, and then asked Xiaoshi to put away the 1,800 broken blue light grass, and he went to sleep with anticipation and nervousness.