Leaving the restaurant, Jiang Ming did not go back to the Land Temple directly.

Originally, he planned to go directly to the area around the Chengdong Martial Arts Hall to see if there was a small courtyard to buy one, but because of Xu Donglai's solicitation, he directly gave up this plan.

In my previous life, there was a saying that 'it is not easy to live in Chang'an', and this sentence is the same in this world, and it is not only not easy to live in Kyoto, but even in this small county town.

I learned from Xu Donglai's subordinates that if you want to rent a small courtyard in the slums under the city wall outside the city, you need two or three hundred copper dollars a month, and you want to buy at least ten taels to start, and the civilian workshop under the city wall inside the city is rented for one tael of silver a month, and you want to buy at least thirty taels to start.

The kind of place in the martial arts hall belongs to the prime location in the city, and if you want to rent a small courtyard, it will be at least five taels of silver a month, and if you want to buy it, it will start at least two hundred taels of silver, which is really not worth it.

Although this amount of money is just a trivial matter for him to have tens of thousands of taels of silver on his body now, but when he heard Xu Dong say that martial arts cultivation is a bottomless pit, even eating is different from ordinary people, and buying a small courtyard with a hundred taels of silver is better than buying two essence qi pills, at least it can make people step into the realm of refining essence.

Hearing them say this, he dismissed the decision to buy a house, except that he did not plan to stay here for long, and second, that the town guard had an empty house.

According to Xu Dong, the town guard mansion is a yamen, more majestic and spacious than the county government, in addition to the front office, the backyard is a large mansion with three entrances and three exits, of which there are six independent small courtyards, which are now empty, so they might as well move there to live.

When Jiang Ming heard this, he immediately agreed.

So he planned to go directly to the west of the city to see Wang Daniu and tell him about it.

The request he made to Xu Donglai was to pull Wang Da Niu into the town guard mansion, although Wang Da Niu now has no strength and cultivation, but he can first send him to the martial arts hall to learn some basic knowledge of cultivation, and when he officially becomes a refining martial artist and steps into the martial arts gate, the town guard mansion also has a special practice for him to practice.

The special exercise of the town guard lineage is said to be the exercise created by the first town guard and a great master of the town guard mansion, and the level is not low, and most of the people who join the town guard line are practicing this exercise.

But the only thing is that the exercises are divided into many parts according to the realm, except for the exercises of the first three realms that can be exchanged for free, the subsequent exercises need to be exchanged by merit.

Jiang Ming has no opinion on this, if you want to become a master, you have to pay, there is no free lunch in the world.

What's more, the exercises created by a great grandmaster can at least reach that level, but they are not stronger than the big road goods in the martial arts hall?

It's just too strong!

This is simply a huge opportunity for him and Wang Daniu, and he naturally won't want it.

I inquired about the place where the villagers of Xiaowang Village were placed in the west of the city, and found that the villagers of Xiaowang Village were busy.

Although the yamen gave the place and materials, although they were also from the yamen, they still had to help themselves in building the house.

As soon as he appeared, many villagers avoided him, their eyes were very indifferent, and Jiang Ming didn't pay attention to it, he had heard discussions about him in the mouths of these villagers before, calling him a disaster star or something.

Although he grew up eating hundreds of meals, except for some good-hearted villagers, in fact, many people did not treat him very well later, and the reason was because he was naughty when he was a child, which caused a lot of trouble to the village.

And ordinary people avoided powerful cultivators, and the strength he showed before also made these people afraid.

But in the end, not everyone avoided him, and an old man took the initiative to greet Jiang Ming when he saw him.

"Little... Ming, are you here? The yamen has set aside land for us to build a house, and you and the big cow are divided together, right there! ”

The old man pointed to the side of the guide, and Jiang Ming said with a faint smile on his face when he heard this: "Fourth master, I know, have you seen Brother Da Niu?" ”

This fourth old man is a person with some prestige among the older generation in the village, the surname Wang in the village is considered to be from the same family, and the older ones are all clan elders, and there are more than 20 old people in their generation, and they usually sit with the village chief to make up their minds about some things.

The village chief died in the mouth of the demon beast, some clan elders also died under the butcher's knife of the platoon gang, and among the remaining older generations, there are only two or three people left, and this fourth master is the village chief who is now the survivor of Xiaowang Village because he is the oldest.

"Big bull, that kid? I didn't see him here today! ”

The fourth master was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said, but Jiang Ming frowned when he heard this, but at this time, the fourth master took Jiang Ming's hand and walked to the side and whispered.

"Xiao Ming, I know that some people in the village have some criticism of you and Da Niu, and some people don't like you either, they are shallow, don't worry about them, after all, you grew up in the village.

In the face of great calamity, everyone has resentment, they don't know what righteousness and truth, it is human nature for the weak to seek good fortune and avoid evil, they speak ugly, you just don't hear it..."

The fourth old man said earnestly, Jiang Ming smiled faintly when he heard this: "I won't take it to heart, I also know what they think in their hearts, after all, to say something ugly, no one will adapt to a wolf suddenly appearing in the rat nest!" ”

This analogy was inappropriate, but in the eyes of the fourth master, it was reasonable, and he wanted to say something, but Jiang Ming didn't let him continue.

Instead, he said to him: "It takes a lot of money to build a new village, and it takes a lot of money to build a home, and I have already said hello to the Liu furniture shopkeeper who makes furniture in the city, and I will send a set of furniture to each family when the time comes, so that I can save a lot of money."

In addition, here is fifty taels of silver, you take it, the fourth master, some of it is used to deal with the yamen officials, while inviting those craftsmen to eat some good ones, the house will be built faster, and the rest will be distributed to everyone! ”

Jiang Ming took out a cloth bag and handed it to the fourth master and said.

The silver beans were exchanged at the money bank when he came, and he had a lot of money, but he would not give a lot of money to these people, and sometimes a favor was not a favor and even an enemy.

Fifty taels of silver is not much, but when Xiaowang Village is still there, it may not be able to have so much income in a few years, according to what he instructed, the remaining silver can at least be divided into one tael of silver per family.

After all, the surviving villagers add up to only a dozen households!

"You... Xiao Ming... This... Calling people... Where do you put this face...! ”

The fourth old man's face turned red and shook his head repeatedly, his face was ashamed, and his eyes were filled with mist.

"It's because I can't let the village suffer a disaster, and I can't repay the nurturing grace of Xiaowang Village, I can only do my best to do my meager strength, and if I have something to do to find me in the future, I will be there on an errand in the future!"

"This..."

Hearing that Jiang Ming had suddenly become an official master, the fourth master was shocked, trembling a little all over, and even showed joy.

"Good, good, good!"

The fourth old man said three good words in a row, which shows the excitement in his heart, although Jiang Ming is not surnamed Wang, but he also grew up in Xiaowang Village, and now there is an official in the village, why not be excited?

You must know that in this era, as long as there are people in the yamen, even if they are just a janitor in the landlord's house, it is considered related, let alone an official?

"By the way, tell the others, if you want to go to the academy or go to the martial arts hall to practice martial arts, you can go, and I will pay the money!"

Jiang Ming said again, and the old village chief was about to kneel down directly when he heard this, and Jiang Ming hurriedly supported the other party.

"I... I..."

The fourth master trembled and couldn't speak, and someone in the distance looked here, and when he saw the fourth master's movements, he didn't know what was going on for a while.

Someone even rushed over and shouted angrily at Jiang Ming: "Jiang Ming! What are you doing, do you want the fourth master to kneel for you? ”

"That's it, Jiang Ming, you white-eyed wolf, have you forgotten how you survived?"

"Don't forget who raised you in the first place..."

Immediately, many people rushed over and accused Jiang Ming without saying anything.

When the fourth master heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he turned around and shouted angrily: "You shut up for me!" Did You Know...! ”

"Fourth Master!"

The fourth master was about to say what Jiang Ming said just now, but was interrupted by Jiang Ming, he shook his head at the fourth master and said, "I'm worried about Brother Da Niu, I'll go to him first, remember what I said, come to me for something!" ”。

The fourth master took Jiang Ming's hand, knowing that Jiang Ming didn't want to explain, but he was even more angry in his heart, seeing Jiang Ming leaving, he turned his head and scolded the others loudly.

People's hearts are just like this, Jiang Ming feels that as long as what he does is worthy of his heart, why bother with them so much?