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Chapter 9 Everything Starts with Raising Chickens 1
As the night faded away, the east revealed a white belly.

The desolate and deserted residential area below has finally gained a bit of popularity. There are two to three thousand people in the entire mining area. Most of them stay in the mine during the day and fall asleep when they return home at night. Only in the early morning can they relax.

"Brother, what were you doing yelling last night?" Li Jinbao asked sleepily.

"Brother, what's the good thing? Tell us, so that we can also be happy." Another silly boy came over.

Xie Xiaoyu was a little embarrassed. He had known this group of people for several days, but he still didn't know their names.

Before, he was depressed and took everything very lightly. In his eyes, this group of people were just passing by, and he didn't take it seriously at all. But after venting a lot last night, he became refreshed. Who are you? All three points are pleasing to the eye.

Besides, he was able to get "Six Rufa" thanks to his uncle and these people. If "Six Rufa" is his chance, then perhaps it is also a chance to know these people.

"I still don't know how to call you." Xie Xiaoyu said.

"This is the second dat." Li Jinbao patted the shoulders of the people who spoke just now, and then pointed to them one by one: "That is the big daze, there are also wood, pillars, Tian Zhuang, little five, little six, old Bai, Uncle Chang, Uncle Chao."

"Brother, call me Laochang, Laochao is fine, we can't bear the name uncle." A middle-aged man who is similar to the uncle hastily cupped his hands.

"Brother, you haven't said anything yet. What's the good news?" Li Jinbao continued to ask after the introduction.

"I just figured out something." Xie Xiaoyu smiled slightly.

"What do you want to understand?" Muddy people always like to ask the bottom line.

"Okay, go wash your mouth and wipe your face, then eat, and after eating, go to work with me." The uncle came over and covered the pot again. He basically talked to his son with his hands, and rarely used his mouth to reason. , because it is too tiring to do that.

The silly boy shut up, he is most afraid of his father.

Others didn't dare to speak too much.

After tidying up, after breakfast, throwing the rice bowl aside, everyone followed the uncle.Uncle Zhang was left alone to clean up the dishes.

Uncle Zhang used to work as a servant in a wealthy family. He started as a handyman and became a manager. He also worked as a cook for a while, so all the messy things belonged to him.But he also has advantages, because he has to cook for everyone, so he can go to work half an hour later than others, and come back half an hour earlier than others.

After walking for more than a mile, the uncle turned his head and said sharply to his son, "Listen, kid, don't ask me about this again in the future."

"Why?" Li Jinbao asked suspiciously.

"Didn't you see it? When my little brother came out this morning, his spirit was different from before. It was like a different person. Don't look at him in the past. He was very polite, but his eyes were like looking at stones. , I don’t have us in my eyes at all, but I have them today.” Uncle Chao is a delicate person, and he quickly explained from the side.

"Does this have anything to do with what I asked?" Li Jinbao was still dissatisfied.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the back of the head immediately, causing him to stagger, and stars shot out in front of his eyes.

The uncle seldom hits his son hard. This time he really used his strength. After the beating, he scolded angrily: "Just remember it for me. Don't ask random questions in the future. You are not allowed to ask about anything. Just ask once." , I will hit once."

Uncle Chao just shook his head there, he didn't agree with the uncle's actions, so he explained again: "That little brother is different from us, he definitely didn't come here to make a living, he either committed something in Middle Earth, or It's for the four words 'love, hate, love and hatred'. If you ask random questions, you will commit a taboo. It is your chance to meet the little brother, and it is also our chance. Look at it now. What spiritual veins, last night I sat for an hour, which is comparable to the previous month's hard work. As long as the little brother doesn't leave, there will be good things in the future, don't turn opportunities into hatred."

This is not for Li Jinbao alone, but also for the other fools to understand the truth.

"Do you understand what Uncle Chao said?" the uncle shouted.

"Understood." A group of idiots said in unison. They didn't understand, but they didn't dare to say it, for fear of being beaten.

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Inside the cave, Xie Xiaoyu was busy.

The copper pot has been taken out and placed on a small stove. The copper pot is filled with water, the copper pipe is connected to the spout, and the reciprocating part is covered with two layers of thick quilts. The eggs are placed one by one on the quilt.

As long as the water is boiled, steam will be ejected through the copper pipes, and the copper pipes will become hot, making the quilts very hot. After three or four days, the eggs will hatch and become chicks.

When he was in the sect, he used to read a lot of books, including some miscellaneous books such as geography and agricultural books, one of which mentioned that people in northern Liaoning raised chickens in farmhouses.

In northern Liaoning, it is freezing cold in winter, and the snow that falls can bury people.Chickens will freeze to death if kept outside.Therefore, people in northern Liao built wooden frames in the farmhouse, covered with layers of shelves, and raised chickens on the shelves.A small farmhouse can raise two to three hundred chickens.

These chickens eat worms, which need to be raised specially. People in Liaobei feed them with straw, bran and other things, which are not eaten by humans.

So even though northern Liaoning was covered with ice and snow for half a year and there were no crops growing in the fields, the people there lived well.

Although Tianbao Prefecture is not cold, the water, soil and air are poisonous. Even the things grown in the farmland around Linhai City have toxins in them, but less.

This is about the same as Liaobei.

During the half-year voyage, he thought about many things, including how to survive after coming here?This memory was dug out by him.

But the things in the book can't be trusted, they have to be verified, so he only bought two hundred eggs.

Wait until you succeed before scaling up.

After finishing the incubation table, Xie Xiaoyu returned to her seat and sat cross-legged again. Cultivation is a boring thing, and most of the time will be spent in meditation, so you must endure loneliness.

Sunrise and sunset, meditating in the cave did not feel the passage of time at all, until he heard a heavy footstep outside, and then heard the sound of burying pots and cooking, he didn't know that it was night.

It was Uncle Zhang who came back to cook first.

After half an hour, there were indeed noisy footsteps outside.

Everyone else is back too.

Coming out of the cave, Xie Xiaoyu saw the uncle and the others climbing up the cliff with their faces black and unkempt.

"How's the harvest?" he asked.

In the past, he would never even ask, anyway, it has nothing to do with him, and now he more or less regards himself as one of them.

"It's true that the mine is almost exhausted. After a day, the harvest is much less than before." The uncle was a little helpless. If this continues, even eating will become a problem.

"After dinner, I'll go over with you to have a look." Xie Xiaoyu said, since he is one of this group of people, he should make a contribution.

Hearing this, the uncle was overjoyed immediately, and said to the eldest uncle repeatedly: "Quickly, serve the food. After eating, I will accompany my brother to the mine. You can meditate and practice for me. When you are tired, practice the exercises." Most effective."

The crowd responded.

The uncle is not worried about someone being disobedient. Although he is stupid, his people know what is good and what is bad, and people from the countryside are willing to endure hardships.

The meal had been prepared long ago, the uncle made a bowl of fine white rice, and handed it to Xie Xiaoyu respectfully.

"I can't eat that much." Xie Xiaoyu removed half of the bowl with chopsticks. It's not that he has a small appetite, but he doesn't want to eat too much, and he doesn't want too much toxins to invade his body.Until the chicken hatches and grows up, it only needs to eat something to maintain its vitality every day,

Others certainly didn't know the reason, they thought that real monks didn't need to eat.

The uncle put the rice into his mouth in two mouthfuls, and the uncle impatiently walked in front of Xie Xiaoyu.

"Okay, let's go." Xie Xiaoyu put the bowl on the ground.

The two of them didn't bring a pickaxe, so they went to the mine empty-handed.

The mining area is very large, along the way, there are mines everywhere on both sides, and the entrances of some mines have been sealed by wooden strips, which are waste mines that have been dug up.

The uncle and the others went to a relatively remote mine, and they needed to walk five or six miles.

Entering the mine, the inside is very low and narrow, the mine tunnel slopes downward, dark and gloomy, with only a faint bright spot every [-] meters.

But all of this is not a problem for Xie Xiaoyu.He has the great method of observing the sky and penetrating the cave. In his eyes, the entire mine is as bright as day, and colorful light clusters can be seen everywhere.

Those light clusters are ores, with different colors and different types of ores.

Suddenly, he stood still, and there was a section of the cave wall densely covered with light clusters, most of which were dark purple in color.

This mining area mainly produces copper. In addition to ordinary copper, there are also red fire copper, Zichen copper, pearl copper and blood pattern copper.

The piece in front of me is Zichen Copper.

"This is a vein." He drew a large circle on the cave wall with his hand.

"Mine lode!" The uncle's eyes widened. He has worked here for many years, so of course he understands what it means to find a mine.

If it was in the past, they would definitely not be able to keep their secrets. When there were the most people, there were 10,000+ miners mining here, and every mine shaft was full. Whoever found the veins would be known to others immediately.

It's different now. There are only two to three thousand people working in such a large mining area, and there are often only a few people working in a mine.

"This vein is all Zichen copper, so don't work too hard, and be careful not to be discovered by others." Xie Xiaoyu warned.

"The poisonous gas inside the mine is too heavy, so I'll let them throw stones outside." The uncle understood Xie Xiaoyu's meaning. If it was Zichen copper, two baskets a day would be a good harvest. Let those boys smash stones, It was to exercise their strength. He did not forget that Xie Xiaoyu said that in the "Lishi Jing", one should practice strength during the day and Qi at night, and they complement each other.

Xie Xiaoyu suddenly thought of what he was going to do.It's better to leave it to the uncle and the others.

"You help me build a shed, and also make some wooden frames and shelves, which look like the silkworm houses in the south of the Yangtze River." Xie Xiaoyu didn't know how to explain, and kept gesticulating with her hands.

"I understand, we also have a silkworm house like this at home." The uncle is not an ignorant person.But he immediately fell into disrepair.He thought of the good old days.In those years, selling raw silk alone could earn 60 taels of silver a year, and the two silkworm houses at home were simply cash cows.

It's a pity that natural disasters combined with man-made disasters, no matter how strong the family is, they can't stand it.

"Then I'm relieved." Xie Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately thought of another thing: "If you leave another person here, in a few days, he needs to take care of some things."

"Are those eggs?" The uncle had already guessed the purpose of the eggs and copper utensils. He is a countryman, but he is not stupid. The eggs are either used for eating, or they are hatched and raised as chickens.

"This is the first batch. It's a test. Once it's successful, you don't need to worry about the poison in the water and soil." Xie Xiaoyu revealed something: "Don't eat too much rice, although it looks clean, There's still a lot of toxins in there."

The uncle let out an ah, his expression changed drastically.Of course he didn't think Xie Xiaoyu was sensational.

"I'm afraid it's too late, right? My family also raises chickens. It takes two or three months for a chicken to grow from a chick to a big one." The uncle was so anxious that his forehead was covered with sweat. Anyone who heard that the food he ate was poisonous would do this.

"It's not necessary, one and a half months is enough." Xie Xiaoyu has this confidence, those eggs have been nourished with wood spirit energy, and the growth speed will definitely be much faster.

Besides, he didn't intend to let the chicken grow too big, it would be enough to grow to a catty.

"I saw in the vegetable market that the chicken, duck and fish here seem to be classified into different grades. The price of the same thing is ten times higher." Xie Xiaoyu originally wanted to eat for himself on the way here, so he didn't plan to make it too big. Da, after walking around the vegetable market, he suddenly had a new idea.

Gold and silver in Tianbao State are cheap, but the price of ingredients is expensive, especially those ingredients with very little toxins, which are basically a scarce resource.

The uncle didn't know what Xie Xiaoyu was thinking, but his eyes were still bright.

Of course he knows the preciousness of those high-level ingredients. In the past, the guild he belonged to opened up a spiritual field, which produced less than [-] catties of food every year. Ordinary people could not enjoy it at all. Can be divided into a bag.

I didn't expect that I would also have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of the incense master.

The uncle became more and more sure of one thing. It was definitely his chance to meet this little brother. He must hug this thigh tightly.

(End of this chapter)