Chapter Twenty-Three: The Head of a Hundred Soldiers
Yue Yu's brows furrowed when he heard this, he knew that this matter was far from that simple. I just didn't expect the situation to be so bad. And Jin Xu's shot was so ruthless. A year's harvest failure, coupled with a series of losses and blows in previous years, was enough to shake the foundation of their family.
ββYue Yu remembered that the 1,200 acres of land at home also had certain obligations to the clan. Every year, nearly 20% of the grain needs to be handed over to the clan as public food. If that person does something about the price of food after the harvest is lost, it will be a catastrophe.
"Originally, I thought that this day was almost about to fall. β
Yue Zhang first laughed at himself, and then, his eyes gradually became as sharp as a knife. "But that was before! Yu'er, you are so angry. Then your mother and I are going to borrow debts, and we have to support this family! When you reach adulthood, they will have to spit it back to us obediently!"
The last sentence, Yue Zhang said very domineeringly. And Yue Yu is not surprised, the current situation in the Yue clan is that the patriarch uses the long family lineage to control the domestic servants. Then use a huge number of martial arts servants to hold the rest of the houses and tributaries hostage. Therefore, as a member of the long house, Yue Yu can hold power as long as his martial arts talent is permitted, and then he can hold power as an adult. He may have nothing to do with Jin Xu, but those few people who help him can be pinched to death in minutes. Whatever losses their families have, they can recover them from these people one by one.
It's just this debt, is there anyone still willing to lend them money in the current Yuejia City?
"It's not as difficult as you think, silly boy. I used to prepare some dowry for your sister, and now I will take it out and last a little longer. β
Yue Zhang's family saw through Yue Yu's worries at a glance, and smiled again at the moment. "If your sister knew that her useless brother was a genius who had trained the Great Mixed Yuan to the fifth level at the age of twelve, she would definitely be extremely happy!"
Yue Yu only felt that his scalp was numb, and his 'mother' was still suspicious after all. It should have been thought of a long time ago, once the agitated mood passed, Yue Zhang's brilliant mind should play a role again.
With a slight sigh in his heart, Yue Yu stretched out his right hand, and in the palm of that hand, there were two pills as white as jade. One of them was the one that Yue Yu had asked for from Yue Zhang's hand a few months ago. The other one is more pale in color.
At the same time, it was handed over to Yue Zhang's family, except for the Peiyuan Pill that Yue Yu had improved. There are also prescriptions for wound medicine and bone medicine that he has pondered in the past two months.
And Yue Yu's purpose was not only to prove that he was indeed a genius in medicine and to give Yue Zhang a plausible explanation. It also means to let yourself at home, so as to get through the difficulties. These two medicines are currently the most traded in Yuejia City, except for Qi Replenishing Pills. Not only are those hunters and medicine collectors needed, but the hundreds of thousands of martial arts practitioners in the city are not a few injured and broken bones every day for various reasons. Every month, a large number of people from other towns come to buy.
With these two prescriptions as the mainstay, if they are used for the pharmacy business, they may not make much money, but it is enough for their family to survive this difficulty.
Yue Yu had now made up his mind to play the role of a genius in alchemy. For this reason, he even performed a trick in front of Yue Zhang's family to identify all drugs without using his eyes and only his sense of smell. With the first two months, the experience in the pharmacy can be regarded as self-justifying.
And judging from the results, it seems to be working well. Yue Zhang was very pleasantly surprised to accept the explanation that her son, who had no hope of practicing martial arts and turned to medicine, suddenly awakened his amazing talent in this regard.
Just as he thought, there is probably no mother in this world who can't see her children get better. Even Yue Zhang's previous suspicions were just more in disbelief, and he had never doubted that his son had already changed to another soul.
Of course, he also knew that Yue Zhang's doubts might not have been completely resolved. However, Yue Yu couldn't care about it so much, what he needed now was a space that was enough for him to thrive. When you have a certain strength, whether you stay or leave, you can advance and retreat freely.
Yue Yu didn't waste too much energy in this regard. Even those prescriptions, after handing them over, he didn't care anymore. Yue Yu believes that in terms of management, Yue Zhang is more proficient than him.
His mother's surname is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she is also very good at running the family, if it weren't for her often doing some business to supplement the family's food and clothing over the years, their family might not be able to support it for a long time. In fact, Yue Yu had already understood her intelligence a few months ago.
- After that accident, he did not call in a more powerful martial artist from the manor to protect his safety, but let Ran Li, who was highly valued by the elders of the Yue clan, accompany him. I can't help but say that this is indeed a stroke of genius.
And what Yue Zhang did in the next ten days really did not disappoint him. hired servants, looked for a storefront, signed a few fixed veterans of medicine picking, and found a few reliable pharmaceutical apprentices from his mother's side, everything was arranged tightly and orderly.
With such a good management mother here, Yue Yu is even happier not to interfere. In fact, he really didn't have much time to take care of the pharmacy at the moment.
ββWith the strength of the true qi in the body, he is moving towards the fifth level step by step. He also had to start preparing for his trip outside the valley.
The first is the terrain outside the canyon, and the people here don't seem to value the role of the map. The hunters and herb pickers in the city usually rely more on their own memories, experiences, and feelings. And it took Yue Yu a full six days to draw a rough map by taking advantage of the information from all parties. Regardless of the exact surname, those more dangerous areas were clearly marked by him.
Then there is the preparation of the bow and arrow. In this world, the bow is the first of all soldiers. Whether it's a demon beast or a demon bird, it's all available.
In Yuejiacheng's mind, the first thing that all the children have to master when they start to practice martial arts is neither internal strength nor martial arts, but the key to archery. An archer who can shoot a hundred shots from a distance of 800 steps, and his status in the city is almost equivalent to that of a high-level martial artist.
Speaking of this bow and arrow, in fact, Xiao Yueyu also had a set before. The strong bow of the four stones, if it was replaced by Yue Yu's previous life, would stump at least half of the people. But here, it's just a rudimentary level.
And considering that his cultivation would soon make another breakthrough, Yue Yu decided to choose another set. When he and Ran Li were fine, they wandered around the market in the city. After several consecutive days, from the hand of an old hunter, he took a fancy to a six-stone black lacquer bow.
Since it was not a specialized bow maker, the black lacquer bow was extremely crudely made. However, the bow body made of the horns of the three-eyed rhinoceros beast, and then the tendon of the sitting tiger as the bowstring, the strength of the shooting and the strength of the bullet surname are comparable to the ordinary seven-stone bow. Compared to its power, durability is secondary.
Then there was Ran Li, with his innate great strength and eighth-level cultivation, he could barely pull away the twelve-stone golden-winged cloud-piercing bow left by his father. However, Yue Yu finally decided to heedi, and equipped him with a ten-stone Qinghua bow. This guy's archery skills are quite impatient, with this heavy fort, this trip outside the valley, at least not to be attacked by demon birds below the third order. As for the fourth-order and above, I'm afraid I don't have much energy, so I don't have enough energy to take care of these two of them, who can't even fill in the gaps between their teeth.
And at this time, Ran Li was still kept in the dark. Although he was puzzled by Yue Yu's behavior of buying a bow, he didn't say much. It's just that after a defeat, he was very simple, and he expressed doubts about his little master's archery.
At that time, Yue Yu smiled lightly, and then shot an arrow, four hundred steps away, through ten fallen leaves in a row, and then nailed heavily to a giant tree that was thick enough for ten people to hug. This made Ran Li suddenly suspicious, and he couldn't guess for a while whether this was a coincidence, or if Yue Yu really had amazing archery skills.