Heimarian Odyssey - Chapter 527

[Chapter 527: Zhang Village]

Our Uncle Locke is following his ‘girlfriend’ Zhang Ling, looking for medicinal materials in the wild outside the village.

“Don’t take the gossip of the villagers seriously.” Zhang Ling blushed a little.

“Don’t worry, I’m not so stingy, and I proposed this identity.” Locke said.

Following Zhang Ling to Zhangcun, Locke had to fabricate an identity. After much deliberation, the most reliable one was Zhang Ling’s boyfriend in Shangyuan City, which was more feasible.

So as soon as he entered the village, Locke felt that the people in Zhang Village were so enthusiastic.

He didn’t give these natives a hint of spiritual power, Locke thought vaguely.

From noon until the afternoon, the two of them harvested very little. Zhang Ling held some wild yams in her hands and was going to take them back to make soup for Locke.

“Hey, wait!” A flash of light flashed in Locke’s eyes.

Leaping over, on the shady side of a certain hillside not far away, under the roots of an old tree, he dug out a white rhizome plant.

“Old ginseng!” Zhang Ling exclaimed.

“Why, you know this?” Locke raised his hand.

“Well, when the Taoist boy came to our village a few years ago, he had something similar to this in his hand. He said he had collected it from the next village.” Zhang Ling’s face was flushed, and she was excited.

“Very precious?” Locke frowned. In his opinion, this thing is useless except to nourish a little blood.

“En! En! That Daotong said that we dug it up and sold it to him, and he paid 20,000 yuan to collect it.” Zhang Ling said with burning eyes.

“Huh, twenty thousand…” Locke shook the ginseng in his hand. He knew the value of money in this plane. This kind of material for replenishing qi and blood is not considered a magic material in the wizarding world, but it is better than ordinary ginseng. Medicinal materials should be precious.

Converting the currency value, the value of this old wild ginseng is at least more than 100,000 yuan. That Daotong is obviously bullying the villagers who are ignorant and do not understand the market.

But if he can come up with 20,000 yuan to collect it, Locke still has to admit that the dog has not eaten his conscience.

Based on his knowledge of the nearby villagers, even if the old wild ginseng was sold for two hundred yuan, those villagers would sell it to him without a second thought.

Putting the wild ginseng into the space ring, Locke and Zhang Ling returned to Zhangcun first.

Today’s meal, the Zhang family has never had such a good meal during the Chinese New Year.

The two-year-old hen was stewed, and a lamb just born in the sheep pen was slaughtered. The second sister of the Zhang family went to the grain store in the village to buy a few catties of white flour. The millet wine, the whole family is full of joy.

Making their family so extravagant and wasteful is inseparable from the 20,000 yuan that Locke gave to the cheap father-in-law before dinner.

Old man Zhang has never seen so much money in his life. Their family is miserable. The eldest daughter goes out to work, and the second daughter helps farm in the village. , The savings at home at the end of each year did not exceed three digits.

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With the money, old man Zhang straightened his waist and spoke fluently, and his rheumatism for many years seemed to be completely cured (in fact, it was Locke who combed him with a little grudge).

At any rate, Locke let Zhang Ling take care of eating and drinking for a few months, eating people is short-sighted, and a small reward still needs to be done. Locke has a bottom line for being a human being.

“Old Zhang, I have a bottle of Fen wine that my nephew gave me last year. Today happens to be your family’s happy day, and I bring it for you to celebrate.” At the dinner table, the village chief came to the door with a bottle of wine.

Anyone who comes is a guest, and the honest Zhang family is not good at driving people out, let alone this is the village head.

Through communicating with Zhang Ling, Locke knew what this old guy was here for. He didn’t want to spoil Zhang’s family, so Locke called the tanned village chief outside the door.

“How much does it cost to build roads in your village?” Locke asked straight to the point.

He discovered that it was not power, but money that formed class suppression among the native creatures of this plane.

Money is the uncle!

“This… 20,000, do you think it’s okay?” The village chief raised his head and glanced at Locke secretly.

Locke was expressionless.

“Ten thousand, ten thousand will do!” the village head said immediately.

Locke still didn’t speak.

The village chief gritted his teeth, “Five thousand! All the young people in the village are used to build the roads. The money is mainly used to buy cement, stone and sand in the town, and the labor force in our village can take care of the food!”

The village chief gave Locke a certain number this time.

Locke nodded in satisfaction after hearing this. He is not a philanthropist, and he has helped Zhang Village a lot. He is not helping the Zhang family, but harming the Zhang family.

With decades of life experience, Locke is well aware of the ugliness of human nature, which is applicable no matter which plane he is in.

If he showed too much enthusiasm, wouldn’t Locke become synonymous with being a fool with a lot of money, and if Zhang Village people still ask him for money in the future.

This five thousand is the only help Locke gave to the villagers of Zhang Village.

Touching his pocket, Locke pretended to withdraw money from it, but in fact he took out five thousand yuan directly from the space ring.

“Take it well, and treat the Zhang family better in the future.” Locke said in a deep voice.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, ninety percent of our village’s surname is Zhang, and everyone in and outside the village is from the same family. Don’t worry, my son.” The village chief said with a smile.

With this pile of money, the good life of their village will come sooner.

Locke nodded, did not continue to chat with the village chief, and went back to the house to continue eating.

“Where’s the village chief, won’t he come and have a drink?” Old man Zhang opened the Fen wine sent by the village chief, and filled a glass for Locke.

“He still has something to do, so let’s go first.” Locke replied casually.

“This wine is good!” Lifting his glass and taking a sip, Locke praised.

“Yes, yes, this Fen wine is the treasure of the village chief’s family. I have only heard of it before, but I don’t know what it is like.” Old man Zhang said with a silly smile.

A table of meals was finished quickly. In front of the old man Zhang’s family, Locke behaved too strangely. He only ate two minutes full and stopped moving his chopsticks.

Chopsticks are the latest eating utensils that Locke has learned in this plane.

The old man Zhang’s family was reluctant to throw away the unfinished food, and there was no refrigerator in his house. After discussing with Zhang Ling’s mother, the old man Zhang planned to put the leftovers in a shaded cool room, and bring them out to cook a pot for the children tomorrow morning. chowder.

Locke definitely can’t eat leftover rice and chowder with the children of the Zhang family. Old man Zhang’s wife, Mrs. Liu, has already thought about making stewed eggs for uncle tomorrow morning.

At night, the sky was full of stars outside the house, and Locke sat in the yard feeling the tranquility of this moment.

After Zhang Ling helped her mother clean up the dishes, she went to the yard and sat next to Locke, and said, “You’re not full, why don’t you find a place where no one is around, and I’ll make you some more?”

Zhang Ling knew that there was a complete set of cooking utensils in the Locke space ring, as well as some spare food and water, which she helped to purchase in the supermarket in Shangyuan City.

“Forget it, I’m not very hungry.” Locke shook his head and said.

“Your place is indeed very different from the city,” Locke said.

“Of course it’s different. Our village is not as prosperous as Uehara City.” Zhang Ling said, every time she returned to the village from Uehara City, she always felt like returning from a civilized society to a primitive tribe.

The only electrical appliance in the village is the gray and white TV in the village chief’s house, and there is not even a street light in the village, so Zhang Ling rarely walks at night in the village.

Locke continued to shake his head. Zhang Ling didn’t understand what he meant. What he actually wanted to say was that the energy elements in this remote mountain village are a little more than those in the city, and most importantly, there are much fewer impurities.

He is now a little convinced that the magic that Zhang Ling said exists in this world, but with the energy concentration here, the energy users who practice Taoism will definitely not surpass the low-level attendants.

Unless he has energy spar like Locke.

How is this possible? With this concentration of elements, the probability of producing energy crystals is almost zero.

Low-level servants are still mentioned by Locke. In fact, if Locke is left here and given the best skills, Locke thinks that with this low concentration of elements, it will be difficult for him to become an entry-level servant.

Getting up and patted his pants, Locke said to Zhang Ling, “Go back to the house and sleep, now we’ll wait for that Taoist boy to come.”

Zhang Ling nodded in agreement.

They told the Zhang family that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, but they still slept in separate rooms. People in this small mountain village were extremely conservative about the relationship between the opposite sex.

Not married, not in the same room.

This is an iron rule that has been passed down in the village for hundreds of years.

So Locke sleeps together with Zhang’s third and fifth children at night.

The second baby, the fourth baby, and Zhang Ling are all women, and they sleep together with their mother Liu.

The living room where old man Zhang sleeps today, he used to sleep with his two sons.

Locke originally wanted to sleep in the living room, but the old man Zhang refused to agree. Even his wife Liu came out to persuade Locke to sleep on the kang. Locke could only accept the family’s kindness.

Lying on the kang of the Zhang family, Locke stroked the space ring. He was glad that he had a good habit of storing energy spars. There were hundreds of high-grade energy spars and more than a dozen top-quality energy spars in it. It was he who settled down in this plane. fundamental.

In the corner of the space ring, there are still a few pieces of negative energy fusion beads that have been broken into fragments. Locke tried to use them to contact Angelina and other women in the three western islands. It may be that the distance between the two planes is too far, or It may be that the magic circle on the negative energy fusion bead is completely scrapped, and there has been no movement.

“I hope everything is safe.” Locke closed his eyes and sighed softly.

He didn’t fall asleep, but silently circulated the wind fighting spirit. It was not his goal to recover the first level. If he wanted to cross endless time and space and return to the wizarding world, he felt that he had to have at least the strength of a second-level knight to have a chance.

This summer is a wonderful summer for the people of Zhangcun.

Successive heavy rains have moistened the dry land in this village, adding a bit of greenery and vitality to Zhang Village.

Outside the entrance of the village, the village head personally commanded and called the labor force of the whole village under the age of 50 to come out and build roads.

“Yellow-faced Wowotou is enough, and each person earns 50 cents a day!” The slogan of the village chief spread to every household in Zhang Village.

Everyone was excited, not only all the people from Zhang Village were mobilized, but even the young and strong young people from the neighboring villages also crossed the difficult mountain road, hoping to come to Zhang Village to earn some extra money.

The salary of 50 cents per person per day is unimaginably low in Shangyuan City, but in Zhang Village, it is enough to arouse the enthusiasm of the whole village.

[End of this Chapter]