Chapter 6: Entering the Tao with Symbols
Feng Yangui followed Chen Jinhu to suffer a lot in this Jingua City, and knew that it was difficult to survive.
There are millions of people in the city of Jingua. Mortals who really have no cultivation account for seven or eight out of ten.
The center of Jingua City is the safe zone in the true sense, and it is also the most suitable place for cultivation with the most aura. Miscellaneous people are not allowed to enter at will.
On the outskirts of Jingua City are patches of spiritual fields with thin spiritual energy, all of which are high-grade official fields in the eyes of mortals. Tenant farmers cultivate for the government, and they have to pay 50% of the harvest for each acre.
Within a radius of 300 miles, there are medium-class and low-class official fields. Because these places are full of miasma, as soon as it is a rainy day, there are strange things infested, and it is not easy for mortals to survive, so the government only collects 30% of the tax per acre.
It is not easy to survive in the countryside, and it is not easy to survive in the city.
The shops in the city of Jinguacheng have to pay poll tax, land tax, water tax, aura tax, public security tax, etiquette fee, celebration fee, and fire consumption every year...... Miscellaneous taxes and fees add up, and an average person has to pay 5 silver dollars.
Selling talismans or something, in fact, you can't make a lot of money, you have to rely on something else.
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Feng Yangui taught Chen Qinghe with a lot of concern, stroke by stroke, drawing the simplest filthy talisman little by little.
Chen Qinghe has seen it many times, and she actually drew one at a time.
Looking at the filthy talisman drawn by Chen Qinghe, there were flashes of lightning from time to time, and Feng Yugui had to have doubts and store it carefully.
"Qinghe, you have a talent for drawing talismans. It's not easy to draw it in one go. It's your talisman, it's not quite the same as what others draw. Store it with me first, and then sell your paintings when our shop sells out all my paintings. ”
Chen Qinghe didn't speak.
I think I still have to listen to him when it comes to store management.
But soon, she had a crucial question in mind.
"Feng Yugui, you haven't told me yet, how much is our family talisman?"
Feng Yugui stretched out a fin, "One hundred copper coins." ”
Chen Qinghe was surprised. "Is it so cheap?"
How high the prices are in the city, she figured it out when she went out to buy meat and eggs the day before yesterday.
An egg is 1 Wen, and a pound of meat is 28 Wen.
Just recently, 1 silver dollar can be exchanged for 1,000 Wen, and a large amount of money can be exchanged for 100 silver dollars.
She now wants to go to the government to serve, and she is still two big bucks. That's 200 silver dollars.
200 silver dollars is 200,000 yuan.
To earn 200,000 a month, how many yellow talismans does she have to sell?!
Feeling that this path would not work, Chen Qinghe couldn't help but hit his mind on his exercises.
"Feng Yangui, can you show me the exercises you cultivate?"
"I promise you, I'm just watching, I don't cultivate."
Feng Yan was reluctant to her, but after thinking about it, he still agreed to her. "Qinghe, I'll tell you in advance, you just watch, don't practice blindly!"
"This is an exercise that our Spirit Bone Fish clan is born with. If you mortals cultivate casually, your body will explode if you don't do it. ”
After finishing speaking, he stretched out his fin and clicked on the door of her head, and soon, the specific content of the exercises appeared in Chen Qinghe's mind.
Chen Qinghe carefully looked at this water-based exercise several times, simulated it in his mind, and found that she was really not suitable for this. So, she had to settle down and began to practice drawing talismans over and over again.
Every blank rune paper in the house has to be bought with money.
Chen Qinghe is used to careful calculations and doesn't want to waste it.
Before each drawing, I simulated it in my mind more than 20 times.
In this way, her chances of drawing a charm successfully stabilize at a fairly good value.
After successfully drawing 20 Qing talismans in one go, Chen Qinghe asked Feng Yan for advice on how to draw other talismans.
Feng Yan returned to see that she was diligent and studious, and would rather skip meals than learn skills, so he immediately stopped her.
"Chen Qinghe, are you hungry?"
Without waiting for her to answer, he swallowed several times and said.
"Whether you're hungry or not, I'm hungry anyway. I'm going to eat meat right now. ”
Chen Qinghe knew that as a demon beast, his nature of eating meat was difficult to change. didn't want to be bitten by him in a daze, so Chen Qinghe hurriedly packed up his things and went out.
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"Sell tofu, fresh tofu! Tofu only costs two pennies and a board~"
When he came to the street, Chen Qinghe only felt that the air in the city was cool at night, and there were a lot of people coming and going.
Its prosperity is comparable to that of the first-tier cities where she once stayed.
Chen Qinghe walked on the bluestone road, looking at the jade phoenix lanterns lit up by the major stores, and his heart was extremely shocked.
The first time I went out at night, I felt something different.
In the evening, several large butcher shops are still open.
Chen Qinghe didn't want to delay, so after buying five catties of meat, he carried it home.
As soon as he got home, Chen Qinghe hurriedly washed the meat and braised it.
Feng Yan originally wanted to eat raw, but after smelling the tempting smell in the pot, he looked at her quietly.
"Braised pork, I've eaten it. Your dad used to make it for me. ”
Chen Qinghe smiled slightly, "If you don't mind, I'll wash your hands and make soup for you three meals a day." ”
Anyway, she can't stand someone eating raw meat in front of her now. Every time it was dripping with blood, the corners of his mouth were full of flesh, and he looked terrible.
Chen Qinghe's skills are quite good.
One person and one fish for one meal are very satisfied.
Chen Qinghe was full of food and drink, so he hurriedly lit the lamp and asked him for advice.
As the saying goes, there is nothing difficult in the world, only those who are afraid of it.
Chen Qinghe, who spent a hundred hearts studying, quickly mastered the drawing methods of the four talismans: the Pure Talisman, the Meditation Talisman, the Evil Avoidance Talisman, and the Time Running Talisman.
As she draws, she has an idea, and begins to practice Wuji Gong while standing and drawing.
It's also a coincidence that she is drawing, and she has really entered the state of cultivation.
Feng Yangui can be regarded as a wide range of knowledge. He could see at once that she had entered the Tao with a talisman.
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Chen Qinghe is full of resilience, and he is never afraid of hardship or tiredness in order to survive.
In order to earn money, she can work until dawn.
Chen Qinghe painted talismans all night and practiced all night of exercises.
When she heard the sound of chickens and dogs barking the next day, she suddenly heard a crisp sound in her head, and then, her spiritual energy surged up and down, and she directly stepped into the first layer of qi training.
She broke through!
She's finally no longer the ordinary mortal who has nothing!
It turned out that she could really cultivate.
It's just a little bit of an opportunity.
Chen Qinghe was so happy that he immediately told Feng Yugui the good news.
Feng Yan stayed with her all night.
Seeing that she had really entered the Qi training period, he was also happy.
"Yes, yes, I didn't look away. You study hard and work hard, I am optimistic about you. Aha, I'm so tired from staying up all night! Qinghe, I'll go back to catch up on sleep first, and then you can wake me up to eat at noon! ”
After saying that, he yawned several times and went back to the black urn to catch up on sleep.
Seeing him leave, Chen Qinghe hurriedly took out a pen and paper and began to record his experience today.
After writing her diary, she quickly packed up her things, ate a bowl of black rice porridge, and opened the shop to prepare for business.
She's so poor now, if she doesn't earn the money quickly, what will she do next month?
Everyone in the city knows that if you go outside the city to serve in the conscription, you will die if you are not careful.
The city is protected by the government's treacherous jade seal, and those weird and vicious demons can't get in at all.
As for the outside of the city,...... Hundreds of years ago, due to the vision of heaven and earth, several rounds of black moons surged, and countless resentful spirits and ghosts gathered, and the environment in which mortals lived had already deteriorated.
The mortal immortal cultivators outside the city, as well as those monsters in the mountains and wilderness, will only go out during the day to hurry, and at night they will all hide in the safe zone set up by the government.