Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 11 0011 Entering the County

The Cheng family’s house is in the eastern corner of the village, near the foot of the mountain.

On the way back down the mountain, I only occasionally met one or two villagers with pale and yellow faces and almost protruding cheekbones.

They are all hungry.

They all knew Cheng Zongyang, and although they looked at the prey on him greedily, they were not so crazy as to rob Cheng Zongyang.

Cheng Zongyang was born with great strength. He had taught several ruffians in the village a lesson, so he naturally became famous.

This also shows that they are not so hungry that they lose their minds.

Cases like theirs are common throughout Jinqiao Village.

Because the Cheng family is an independent household, although they have some interactions with the villagers, their relationship is not very close.

The ones that are better to you can be counted on one hand.

When Cheng Zongyang returned to his home, the door was closed, so he knocked.

"Who is it?"

A childish voice came from inside the door.

Hearing his sister's voice, Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but smile: "It's me. Open the door."

At this moment, the little girl's excited voice rang out from inside: "It's Daguo! Erguo, go open the door quickly, I can't open the latch on top."

"I know. Why are you so anxious?" Cheng Zongliang sighed.

Soon, the upper and lower bolts were opened, and Cheng Zongliang with messy hair was seen opening the door.

"What's wrong with you?" Cheng Zongyang walked in, staring at his second brother's messy hair.

Cheng Zongliang complained tearfully: "She was my little sister, but she insisted on tying my hair. If I didn't let her, she would cry in front of me and even said she would tell Dad. This is what happened."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang looked down at the girl beside him, and then saw the girl arguing anxiously:

"Big Pot, it's because he doesn't study that I let him play with me."

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang smiled:
"Okay, little sister is bored too. It's your fault that you don't like to study. If you could learn the knowledge I wrote to you, you wouldn't be like this. Where are Dad and Mom?"

As he spoke, Cheng Zongyang placed his belongings at the kitchen door.

Cheng Zongliang closed the door, and the girl next to Cheng Zongyang rushed to say:

"Father and mother were called away by the village chief, Aung."

Cheng Zongyang frowned and looked at Cheng Zongliang who had followed him after closing the door and was staring at the backpack:
"Second brother, did you say anything?"

Cheng Zongliang, who didn't have time to open the lid, turned back immediately, thought for a moment, and said uncertainly:
"It seemed like they were saying something about the village being safe. I didn't hear all the details, they just said it outside the door."

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly.

"what…!"

Suddenly, the little girl's scream attracted the attention of her two brothers, and they all looked over quickly.

"Snake! Snake! Wuuwuwu..."

The little girl stepped back in panic, turned around and ran behind Cheng Zongyang, buried her little face in his clothes, and almost cried.

Cheng Zongyang was relieved when he heard this. It turned out that he was just curious and went to look through the backpack.

Cheng Zongliang looked over in surprise.

When I saw that the backpack that was tightly covered by leaves was actually full of dead snakes, even in the sack!

"Wow, brother, how did you do it? You got so many snakes!"

In his eyes, these are all meat. So many snakes, too many!

Cheng Zongyang did not respond to his words, but said:

"I need to hurry to the county to sell the snake. I'll let my mother deal with the pheasant and pheasant eggs when she comes back. Wash these blueberries and eat some with my sister. They're very sour, so don't eat too much."

Cheng Zongliang nodded, took the things from his elder brother and went to the well.

When the girl heard there was food, she was no longer afraid. She stretched her head and looked over. With tears in her eyes, she saw her second brother running away. She followed him with her short legs, shouting as she ran...

"Second pot, I want to eat too!"

Cheng Zongyang was helpless, wondering how he had raised such a little foodie.

"Second brother, don't let my little sister get close to the well!"

Cheng Zongyang shouted. Without waiting any longer, he picked out seven or eight larger dead snakes to keep as dishes at home, and took the rest away.

"Close the door."

After walking out of the door, Cheng Zongyang closed it and shouted inside.

"it is good."

Soon, the sound of a door bolt being pulled shut was heard from inside.

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang left home carrying a backpack, a bow and arrow, a hatchet, and a sack. There was only one way out of the village. You could only go from the east to the west.

Later, Cheng Zongyang needed to go to the county frequently to sell game and mountain products, but he didn't want anyone to know his details.

So he built a small path on his own, which also led directly to the county road.

He came to the back of the house, pulled aside a patch of thorn bushes that he had planted when he was a child to protect his home and keep out wild beasts, then walked into the woods and disappeared into the forest.

Less than a quarter of an hour after Cheng Zongyang left, Cheng Guanghai and Zhou Xiao'e returned with heavy hearts.

When they heard the second son say that his eldest brother had killed a lot of snakes, and saw the big pheasant, thirteen pheasant eggs, and several snakes nearly two meters long in the kitchen, they were both shocked.

A sack and a backpack?

How much does that cost?

Zhou Xiao'e felt something was wrong and asked suspiciously:

"Is there such a big snake nest outside the mountain? It's almost impossible to see this kind of pheasant, right?"

Cheng Guanghai knew it very well, and when he was secretly shocked by the rich resources of the inner mountain, he also explained to his son:

"The outer mountain is so big, it's impossible to clean it all up. Maybe Yang'er is lucky."

Zhou Xiao'e didn't think much about it, nor did she think her son should go into the inner mountains. She had heard it more than once or twice that the inner mountains were dangerous.

It can be said that no one who enters can ever come out.

"There are so many. We need to pickle them, or they will go bad."

“My son is amazing!”

Other families were short of rice and meat, but Cheng Zhoushi couldn't even finish her meat.

Cheng Guanghai shook his head. He was tired of hearing this.

But when he thought of the meeting at the village chief's house, his brows frowned again.

On the mountain path, Cheng Zongyang hurried along while being alert to his surroundings.

Yufeng County was under the jurisdiction of Qianye County, Xiangyang Prefecture.

Cheng Zongyang had no idea how big the county was, but he knew it was impossible to tour the entire county in one day.

This was not the first time he had been to the county town, sometimes early and sometimes late.

If he couldn't get back before the county town closed, he would stay in his second uncle's clinic for one night and leave the next day.

Soon, he entered the official road. He disguised the sack and backpack with leaves or branches. He met many people along the way, but no one paid attention to him.

I was familiar with the route, and after an hour's journey, I arrived safely and dustily near the west gate of Yufeng County.

He originally wanted to save the things and sell them on the black market at night, but when he thought about the quantity and the fear that he would be targeted if he didn't have the time, he gave up the idea.

He can go to the black market, but he rarely goes there. The danger is the main reason.

Therefore, he had no choice but to ask Tianxianglou, which often sold mountain products and game.

The county guards paid no attention to the people coming in and out, at this moment they were leaning aside without any posture, ignoring the people coming in and out.

Cheng Zongyang had already decided in his heart that Daliang would be doomed.

There has been a severe drought in a prefecture for two years. Not only have the officials done nothing, but the taxes have increased instead of decreased. There are countless refugees, and no one is willing to make arrangements for them.

Even critical corvée labor could be offset by money. No matter how you look at it, it was a harbinger of troubled times.

But it doesn't matter to him, it's even better.

Corvée labor can lead to death, so anything that can be solved with money is not a big deal.

As for the drought, although the main source of water for the village's fertile fields has dried up, at least they still have well water and can still rely on the mountains for food.

With their savings, at least their family is living well.

Now with the wild world, he can make life better for his family.

Even if something really went wrong, he wouldn't worry.

"There seem to be a lot more beggars in Yufeng County."

When Cheng Zongyang came to the county town again after five days, he noticed at the first sight that there were many people in tattered clothes, disheveled hair, and skinny bodies in front of many shops or on the streets, begging passers-by.

"It looks like some refugees or refugees have come here. There shouldn't be many of them."

Although he thought so, this scene made Cheng Zongyang feel nervous.

There are few people, but it means that there are more refugees coming here!
What will this mean?
Cheng Zongyang was shocked and quickened his pace.

　The contract has been signed. Passers-by, please take a look. No rewards or votes are required. I just ask you to raise your Midas Touch and make me healthy and thin until the end...

　　Collect and read, collect and read, collect and read!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)