mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 20 Rewards in hand
Even if Li Laosan said to help Shupizi for free, Zhao Chuanxin gave Erjiao Xiaoyang.

Everyone praised him for being honest and generous.Li Laosan grinned to the back of his ears, and he couldn't be happier.

In fact, Zhao Chuanxin is also very proficient in the way the forest elves handle things.

There are a lot of small oceans in the two corners.

Ten horns, that's one silver dollar.

The titles of silver dollar and Xiaoyang are also imported words, and foreign money is imitated all over the country.

There is also a mint in the local area, and silver dollars and small foreign coins are produced every year, which are very popular among businessmen and gentry from all walks of life, including common people.

Zhao Chuanxin doesn't like to ask for broken silver, that thing is too inconvenient.As for the copper coins, rubbing, that is, when giving change, he can't throw it away, it seems too prodigal.

After leaving the crowd, Zhao Chuanxin went home.

After washing up, I first stewed half of the leopard meat and steamed the rice.

As a result, the meat didn't know what the psychological effect was, the more it chewed, the more disgusting it became.Cut the rest into minced meat, and keep it for feeding dry rice slowly.

The remaining half piece of raw meat was blanched in sorghum wine with water and fried in thick oil and red sauce. He only ate a little bit, and the rest was shared with the snot-nosed children who were watching eagerly outside.

Then, assign tasks to the children waiting outside.

He mixed the yellow mud himself and continued to build the wall.

A few children stepped forward to move bricks, and took turns working as small workers, and they became more and more discerning.

While leveling the mud bricks, he said to the children: "After the house is built, I will ask Carpenter Li to go to the city to help bring back pastries. One piece for each person will be regarded as a reward for you."

"Oh... there are pastries to eat!"

Everyone was overjoyed.

One person mixed a mouthful of meat, and there were cakes to eat when the work was finished.

The house is not big, and Zhao Chuanxin has strong hands-on ability, so he built the rest of the wall before evening.

Next is the house.

He first tore down the original kang and stove, and the wall that separated the bedroom from the kitchen.After all the rubbish has been cleared out, the middle wall will be rebuilt first.

This wall is very important. In Zhao Chuanxin's plan, this wall not only plays a small role in isolating the bedroom and kitchen, but also serves as a warm wall.Next, he will build a fireplace.

The whole wall is a warm wall, and on both sides of the wall, there are bedroom windows and kitchen windows.In this way, the warm wall creates two heat convection currents in the house.

This trick was learned from a big brother in the past.

That buddy spent a lot of money to build a house in the countryside. Instead of using electricity for heating, he used a fireplace.The auxiliary heating effect of the fireplace is definitely more efficient than that of air conditioners and electric heaters, but it is not as solid as the kang.So, the buddy asked someone to design a design, and built a wall in the middle, not the whole partition, but half of it.

This has a sense of modern decoration design.Below is the fireplace, which is surrounded by glass, and you can see the raging fire inside, which is very impressive.The most important part is the half wall, which is empty inside, and the fire gas from the fireplace fills the hollow wall and then exits through the chimney at the top of the diagonal.The principle is not much different from the heated kang. It can be imagined that the heated kang is erected and placed horizontally in the center of the room.

As a result, after it was built, the heating effect was surprisingly good!

Zhao Chuanxin used a reduced version, but he believes that his hut is much smaller than that buddy's house, and the heating effect may be better.

After working till evening, I went to Liu Baogui's house for another meal.

After dinner, open the diary.

No one can see the words on the diary.

Therefore, Zhao Chuanxin discovered a miraculous thing: he can read the words in the diary without using candles at night.

[Have a good rest, I will continue on my way. 】

[The new lanterns given by the forest elves guide me to avoid all possible dangers on the road. 】

[I can feel that the environment has completely changed.It was a wonderful feeling, as if everything was in danger, and there were other people's eyeliner everywhere.I have the illusion of being watched. 】

[Until, a big tree walking in front of me with overwhelming momentum. 】

[In front of the tree man, I became short like an elf, and I needed to look up to it. 】

[The tree man shook his beard and spoke, his voice was thick and long like history: Stranger, you have come to the tree man's territory.Although you are so small, I can step on you with one foot, but I won't do that.What are you doing here?If you are a friend, I will prepare sweet and delicious sap for you.If it is an enemy, I will show you what a fatal blow for a peace lover is! 】

This is a neutral family?
Zhao Chuanxin was very skeptical, because the fresh and refined sense of pretentiousness in Shuren's words, how could it be so familiar?
Um?The coup de grace for peace lovers?learned!
"I looked up at the Treeman, neither humble nor overbearing, and said: I was entrusted by someone to come and tell a story. A race that is on the verge of national extinction - the forest elves, they asked the tree people to help."

[The tree man made a grunting sound like an old man spitting up phlegm, thinking slowly like a dying old man, and said after a while: The tree man is a peaceful race and will not participate in their wars.The balance of the Shadow Forest cannot be broken. 】

In fact, Zhao Chuanxin is an eloquent person, and what he is best at is convincing people with reason.

"I said sincerely: I am a human being and do not belong to the Shadow Forest. But I am still willing to lobby for the forest elves. Because, like you, they are peace lovers. Live a carefree life. However, the other eight ethnic groups used their identities as invaders to break all this. If the Ents sit idly by, how can they know whether the next one to be invaded will be the Ents?"

[The tree man continued to think slowly and said to me: Stranger, what you said makes sense.But you overlooked one point, tree people are very powerful.Treants only need to step forward to crush everything! 】

It's a bit of a bully to play a debate match with someone who is half-beaten in the head.

Zhao Chuanxin wrote in his diary with ease: "I said to the tree man: the tree man spent too much time in isolation during the long standing and thinking. So much so that he didn't know that the outside world had turned upside down. Birdmen have pocket technology that can even hold the entire body of a huge treant. Bearmen warriors who are already gifted with strength have developed limb balance technology. Not to mention, the beetles have now forged even you Treants may not be able to step on the armor. But Ant-Man, they use the advantage of numbers and the spirit of not fearing death, relying on their powerful jaws, they will tear you into pieces, and then use the body improved by the powerful potion to tear you into pieces. Take away the debris and use them as fertilizer for cultivating edible fungi. Together, they will raze the land of your treants to the ground. Is this the balance you want? Could it be that you would rather be neighbors with these invaders than With the peaceful elves?"

[Finally, the treant's vicissitudes, mottled, and moss-covered face showed a moving expression.The tree man's face was contorted for a while, and then he said: You are right, it seems that we have wasted too much time thinking about life.I can promise our race to join the war, but there is one thing I need to emphasize to you!Forest elves are not as perfect as you say.These little things have a cunning temperament!Maybe not as bad as intruders, but they are something to watch out for. 】

This time, it is a real one-way reward mission.

Coming to the tree man's territory, I wasted a lot of talking and got nothing else.

These honest people don't know how to use interests to drive people to do things for them.

It doesn't seem that difficult to trick them into something.But Zhao Chuanxin didn't want to do that.

In the entire Shadow Forest, perhaps only tree people are truly kind.

[I bid farewell to the tree man and rushed back to the mausoleum. 】

[I got the one-year life reward I deserve. 】

Rewards arrive!

Zhao Chuanxin fell in love with this kind of comfort.

(End of this chapter)