Xu Kuang said to the two of them with tears and laughter:

"Let's have dinner."

The crowd began to come forward to receive their meal, and it wasn't long before everyone had found a place and began to feast.

At this moment, a yellow-faced and thin-skinned man in the crowd knelt on the ground, hugging his head and crying.

"What to cry about!".

Xu Kuang's voice exploded in this man's ears like thunder.

The man choked up and said:

"Young master, I believe in you, I thank you, I just feel a pity, it's a pity that my youngest son didn't last until this day, if he got to this day, he wouldn't have to die woo woo ......."

Xu Kuang was stunned for a moment, he looked around, and found that many people also had tears in their eyes, he was at a loss, his hand was on the man's shoulder, and he didn't know what to say.

After a while, Xu Kuang patted the man on the shoulder and said to him:

"Eat it......".

Xu Kuang found a place to sit quietly and watched the group of people eat.

The group ate until the evening, when the two pots of mutton soup were added with water over and over again, until only the bones of the mutton remained, and the group stopped.

"You're done eating, aren't you?" Xu Kuang looked at the sky and said, "It's not early today, if there is anything to talk about tomorrow, tomorrow morning you don't have to eat, you eat at home by yourself, and gather here before 8 o'clock." ”。

After Xu Kuang finished speaking, he left, leaving everyone confused.

Ryan found Xu Kuang and began to report to Xu Kuang about the purchase.

"In this purchase, the grain is the cheapest rain wheat, I bought almost 50,000 catties, a total of 97 gold coins, and the axe, chisel, hammer and planer you asked for, it cost almost ten gold coins, almost 1,000 catties of grain seeds, it cost 3 gold coins, I spent another 10 gold coins, and even rented and bought more than 20 mules to get these things back, by the way, there are all kinds of beast lambs, still in the future, it is estimated that I will be able to come back tomorrow."

"Then if you don't think so, you won't have any money."

“……”。

Xu Kuang scratched his head, only felt a headache, 50,000 catties of grain, if it is divided equally, Mushroom Ridge can only be divided into less than 40 catties per person, and the large amount of food will be eaten up in a month......

"Cuihua, is there a way to make money?".

Mission: Make money

Task content: Get 200 gold coins by the first day of next month to completely solve the food problem.

Difficulty: C+

Reward: Class XP ×1000".

Xu Kuang looked at the task reward and fell into deep thought, he is not a person who can't turn his brain, he understands one thing when he looks at this reward, that is, if he wants to make money now, he must use his priesthood.

Xu Kuang patted his head, he hadn't signed in today.

Xu Kuang said to Ryan:

"Grandpa Ryan, I still need to consider this matter, you go back first, and I will give you an answer within seven days."

Ryan thought about it, but still put out the words that he was holding in his heart:

"Young master, don't think I'm talking too much, I know you're kind-hearted, but you can't save so many people, the year before last, last year, and this year suffered from a major drought for three consecutive years, and the food prices in the entire Baihua County are rising day by day, have you ever thought that even if the winter passes, even if the sky is no longer in a big drought, how should they survive in the spring?"

Xu Kuang frowned slightly, he actually agreed with Lane's statement, but he also understood that now was not the time to dwell on these, if he didn't think about the countermeasures well, there would be no one in Mushroom Ridge next year.

Xu Kuang's words were a little more solemn:

"Grandpa Ryan, what you're saying is a problem. But if there is a problem, we have to solve it, not run away, I still say that the population is our last wealth, if the people in our territory are starving to death, then we can't even bury ourselves, we can only be like them, exposing the corpses in the wilderness, do you understand? ”。

Ryan opened his mouth, and he found that Xu Kuang was right, so he had to hold back a sentence:

"I see, young master.".

"Grandpa Lane, I don't mean to blame you, you ......".

Ryan smiled with satisfaction, he looked at Xu Kuang, and there was only love in his eyes:

"I wouldn't think much about it, if you could really be a family, I would be able to close my eyes."

Ryan saluted Xu Kuang and turned to leave.

Xu Kuang was in a heavy mood, he had never starved in two lifetimes, and he had no experience in dealing with this, but he understood one thing, these two hundred households and thousands of people were the key to his start next year, or from the perspective of humanitarianism and his conscience, he would not allow these people to starve to death.

"Cuihua, what is the priest of this world like?".

Cuihua's mechanical current female voice sounded:

"As of 5 minutes left tomorrow, you haven't checked in today.".

Xu Kuang sighed, found the sign-in button, clicked it, and then asked:

"Can you tell me now?"

"Sign in successfully and get the item 'Five Years Priest Three Years Alchemy'."

Xu Kuang: ......

Xu Kuang understood that Cuihua was just like those fortune tellers in his previous life, he couldn't tell him the answer directly, and could only tell him the answer through other hints and guidance.

Xu Kuang took this five-year priest three-year alchemy book in his hand, and the book turned into a streamer and flew into his mind.

Xu Kuang seemed to have integrated this book in an instant, and he was extremely familiar with every word on every page!

Xu Kuang raised his head in shock, only to find that there was only a mottled stone wall in front of him.

Regarding the matter of making money, Xu Kuang is no longer worried, because several paths have been pointed out in the five years of priest and three years of alchemy.

As soon as the five minutes passed, Xu Kuang immediately checked in for the third day.

"Sign in successfully and get the item 'Gilded Bell Drawing'".

Xu Kuangle was happy, but then he frowned, he didn't believe that it was a coincidence, he didn't believe that he was dozing and came to the pillow, he already knew in his heart that there must be an invisible hand behind him that was controlling everything, but he only dared to bury everything in the deepest part of his heart as if nothing had happened.

No matter who is behind it, it is not something he can afford to provoke now.

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, Xu Kuang found Ryan and asked for ten gold coins.

Ryan didn't ask what it was for, he believed that his young master must have his own use.

"Young Master, everyone is here.".

Xu Kuang hurriedly put the gold coins into the storage space, and then came to the front of everyone.

"Are there anyone who can hunt?".

A few dozen people raised their hands, including Ryan.

"Okay, Grandpa Lane, you have taken this group of people to hunt all over Mushroom Ridge, it doesn't matter if you go farther, anyway, our Mushroom Ridge is as big as a radius of four hundred miles (20×20), there is no goal, how much can be hit."

Ryan said:

"You don't need so many people, only twenty people are enough."

Xu Kuang nodded, he didn't know much about these things, so he was going to leave this kind of thing to Ryan.

"Okay, just twenty people."

Then Xu Kuang said to York:

"Pick two hundred sturdy men, go and cut down trees, cut down fewer trees in our territory, and go to other people's territories to cut more, this group of people, when my father just died, they were shameless, robbed me of how much territory, and now cut down a little tree from them, and they should collect interest."

York nodded, and went to cut down the tree.

Then Xu Kuang found a group of people to move the stones, and he drew two S-shaped lines from the highest part of the Mushroom Ridge to the lowest part of the Mushroom Ridge, and asked everyone to put the stones on both sides of the line.

A man couldn't help but ask:

"My lord, I don't mean anything else, I just ask, what do you want to do by cutting trees and moving stones?"

"It's very simple, there will be a river coming down from the top of the ridge early next year, and we are going to build a river and let the river go the way we want."

When everyone heard this, their eyes widened, they looked at me, I looked at you, they all seemed to have seen a ghost, a little excessive, and they laughed directly.

"What are you laughing at? Have you forgotten who feeds the worms in your stomach? Whatever the young master asks you to do, you will do! ”。

When the people heard this, they hurried to move the stones.

"Young master, what am I doing?" Jenny looked at Xu Kuang expectantly.

Xu Kuang smiled, and he said to Jenny:

"There's really your work to do, you take someone to dig up the wild vegetables and mushrooms that haven't withered nearby, clean them up, and we're ready for the winter."

"Yes!" Jenny left in a huff.

Xu Kuang, on the other hand, returned to his residence and began to study how to make a gilded chiming clock.

He first found an iron pot and tried to use his mana to deform it.

The iron pot creaked under the urging of Xu Kuang's mana, and then fell to the ground with a clatter.

And Xu Kuang covered his head, his face full of pain.

Xu Kuang understood that he was out of strength, five years of priesthood and three years of alchemy.

Suddenly, Xu Kuang found that his experience points had actually increased, and he saw that his panel read:

Host: [Xu Kuang]

Occupation: Alchemy Priest (Industrial Priest)

Rank: Trainee 1 star

Experience Points: 1000/363

Strength: 0.5

Intelligence: 6

Constitution: 0.5

Lucky: 5

Health: 53/41

Mana: 21/1

Gold: -6300

+21.3

Ability: Expand/Collapse

Equipment: Unfolded/Collapsed

He remembered very well that he had gained 350 experience when he had completed the mission before, and he had one experience, but now it had become 363!

That's right! Alchemy was originally obtained by cultivation, how could it be possible to upgrade only by task experience!

Xu Kuang thought about this and immediately became excited!

Thinking of this, Xu Kuang immediately began to continue practicing, and by the end of the night, he had repeated it dozens of times, and his experience points had increased by 122 points!

Xu Kuang only felt that his head was getting heavier and heavier, and he actually fell asleep directly on the table.

When Xu Kuang woke up again, it was already noon the next day.

Xu Kuang stretched, he could feel that his physical strength was incomparably abundant, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

He looked at the parts on the table, and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart, and at the same time made a difference in the alchemy of this world.

He picked up a ball of curled metal, this is the clockwork of the chiming bell, it stands to reason that the iron used in the iron pot has too high carbon content, and the elasticity coefficient is not enough, but by carving a small magic circle on it through alchemy, it can actually make its toughness stronger.

Xu Kuang understood what this meant, which meant that other modern industrial equipment might also be strengthened through the alchemy array.

Xu Kuang can almost imagine what it was like, imagine that in the past, the high-precision cutter head that needed to be replaced when processing several workpieces was applied to increase the life by dozens of times because of the application of several anti-wear arrays.

That picture was too beautiful for Xu Kuang to imagine.

"Cuihua, check in.".

"Sign in successfully, get the item 'Elixir of Return'×10.".

Xu Kuang pinched up a Huiling Pill and looked at it carefully, and suddenly, lines of subtitles appeared in front of him.

"Hui Ling Pill, a primary mana recovery elixir, one can restore 50 mana, which can clear negative states such as fatigue and trance, and add a state of full concentration and energy.".

Xu Kuang's eyes lit up, now that he had this elixir, didn't it mean that he didn't have to train himself to the point of exhaustion like he did yesterday?

Xu Kuang laughed.

……

Three days later.

Xu Kuang carefully attached a magic circle to the gears to reduce wear, and then placed the gears on the table.

He took out the high-precision vernier caliper obtained by signing in, measured it carefully, and was relieved to find that the error was within the specified range.

In front of him, there were thousands of parts neatly arranged, these parts were all the parts needed for gilded chiming bells, some of which he could not make, he could only buy, such as rubies, he had to buy, which cost him almost all his gold coins, and now Xu Kuang was a veritable poor egg.

……

Xu Kuang carefully plated the last bit of gold liquid onto the gilded chiming bell and waited for it to cool.

Half an hour later, Xu Kuang carefully wound the chiming bell, and it didn't take long for a small bird to suddenly emerge from the chiming bell, and the little bird chirped crisply.

Xu Kuang called Ryan to the front, and he pointed to the gilded chiming bell and asked:

"How much do you think this thing can sell for?"

Ryan looked at the chiming bell, and after a moment, he gave the answer:

"I don't think this thing is missing eighty gold coins."

Xu Kuang nodded, he still believed in Ryan's judgment of prices, and he subconsciously said:

"Then I'll set eighty gold coins."

"No, young master, you should set two hundred gold coins."

Xu Kuang looked at Ryan in surprise and asked:

"Why?".

Ryan said to Xu Kuang:

"One is to give people room to bargain, and the other is that eighty gold coins is our lowest price, if we can sell at a higher price, why not?"

Xu Kuang looked at Ryan steadily, he now finally understood why people often say that there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure.

"And who do you think we should sell to?"

Ryan pondered for a moment and gave his own answer:

"Baron Wayne in Hulu Town is a good choice, the lord had a very personal relationship with Baron Wayne during his lifetime, even if the deal fails, he won't say much. Moreover, although Hulu Town is only a small town, there are tens of thousands of households, and the population is close to 100,000, and Baron Wayne's strength far exceeds that of other nearby lords, so it is definitely the best choice. ”。

Xu Kuang nodded, and he said to Ryan:

"Just do what you want, you arrange the things in the territory today, we will leave tomorrow, if it goes well, we will be able to solve the problem of next month's food."

Ryan nodded with a smile, he looked at Xu Kuang, full of relief.

……