In the winter, the farmers who farmed the fields paid their own rents, and then used the remaining surplus grain to exchange for some money, and bought some relatively rough food by the way-these things are of course not comparable to those grown by themselves, but these things are It can feed the whole family so that they will not be unable to survive the winter.
Of course, a small portion will be specially reserved for eating during the Chinese New Year. Fine grains and white noodles are the best rewards they use to celebrate the passing of a year.
This year, the life of these farmers will be easier, but this only refers to those tenant farmers of the Shushan School.
"Master Ye is such a good person!"
These tenant farmers would say similar things after the Shushan faction sent people to collect the rent, because Ye Wen not only lowered the rent by himself, but also asked his disciples to check from house to house. If the situation of any house is not good, the Shushan faction is willing to borrow some money. To help them survive the winter, it is just that the rent that this family will have to pay in the coming year will be slightly higher.
But even so, the rent to be paid was a little less than in previous years. Even so, these farmers were very happy, and they kept praising Ye Wen as a good person.
Is Ye Wen a good person? Although he thinks that he is not a villain full of evil, but he still seems to be a little far away from a good person. When Li Sen, who was in charge of these things at the time, asked him why he wanted to lower the rent of the tenant farmers, Ye Wen only said: "If you want them to work hard, the prerequisite is that they can survive!"
The life expectations of tenant farmers in this world are not high, as long as they can eat a full meal every day, and then the whole family can survive, it is enough.
If the exploitation is so severe that even survival becomes a luxury, then even if you want to survive, you will still farm the land, but the energy will inevitably be much worse-if you work hard to farm the land, you will not be able to eat if you don’t work hard, and winter every year is like torture. Then some people will have the idea that it is almost enough to deal with it.
In the end, it was the Shushan faction who were landlords. Therefore, Ye Wen simply treated the tenant farmers well, and he even prepared a series of support measures - such as providing farm tools and renting them to the tenant farmers for cattle at a low price, as long as these guys worked hard to farm the land for him. The more food he grows, the better he can send from Shushan.
"It's just that, in this way, the income of our Shushan faction may be greatly reduced in the recent period!" Li Sen's worry is not unreasonable. Although the Shushan faction now has more and more industries, the scale of the sect is also gradually increasing. When it gets older, the vegetable garden on the mountain can barely provide vegetables, and some eggs can also be provided, but fish and the like need to be purchased separately—a martial arts practitioner can’t eat meat, Ye Wen stipulates that even ordinary disciples, the daily meal There must also be meat.
Therefore, although the income is more, the expenses are also very high. Fortunately, Chen Yizhong's medical center has been opened. Shushan County has only had one medical center for a long time, and there is only one doctor in it. Ordinary people deal with their illnesses by themselves It's over in a moment. Now that Ye Wen has opened a medical clinic, the business is really booming - considering the popularity, the first three days are free free consultations, but as a result, everyone who is sick or not comes to visit, making Chen Yizhong very tired.
After three days, the business was no longer so hot, but those three days of hard work brought enough prestige to Baozhilin, people in Shushan County now come to Chen Yizhong if they have any headaches, and Chen Yizhong travels all over the country so much. Over the years, this medical skill is really good. After more than half a month, people who have been diagnosed and treated by Chen Yizhong spread word of mouth. As a result, Baozhilin has become the largest medical center in Shushan County.
"It's not enough, we have to find a way to open these two shops to Linshan County!"
Ye Wen is not satisfied, because Shushan County is still too small, and it is not a major transportation route. Only those who go to more remote borders to find furs or deliver goods to the border garrison will pass by. In addition, there are no special local products in Shushan County, so the population flow is not large.
Linshan County is different. This is the main traffic route between the north and the south. In addition, it also has special products. There are quite a lot of merchants and tycoons traveling from south to north. If you can open your shop there and establish a foothold, it will be considered a real profitable business.
"You are too busy this year, so take a good rest in the past few months. When the spring begins, you will have to run back and forth to open a branch in Linshan County!"
Li Sen quickly cupped his hands: "This is what a disciple should do!"
Ye Wen nodded: "Go back and pay more money to have a good New Year! You don't have to run around during this time, go to your master to teach you about your kung fu, if you want to go out for a walk in the rest of the time, It’s better to take a good rest, it’s up to you. Just remember to come back for the New Year’s dinner during the Chinese New Year!”
"yes!"
Li Sen's family had passed away a long time ago, and he didn't have any relatives in Shushan County. Now that Ye Wen gave him such a big vacation, he really couldn't think of where to go for a while. But it's always good to have free time, plus my skill has indeed dropped a lot this year, I could have fought dozens of tricks with Xu Ping, but now I can't do it anymore.
"Well, let's go to the master to practice kung fu!"
Ye Wen didn't know that Li Sen was already wary of being left behind in his skills. He was still thinking that if he opened a branch in Linshan County, then Li Sen would definitely be in charge there. The industry is afraid that no one will manage it.
Fortunately, these industries are not far away, so there won't be any troubles. It's just that people need to be sent to sit in the town. Ye Wen thought about it, and considered whether it is time to let Yue Ning go out to practice?
Yue Ning has followed him up the mountain since he was eleven years old, and now he is fourteen years old, his figure is close to that of an adult, and his kung fu is on the same path as him. After checking a few days ago, he found that the Quanzhen Fa has been practiced to the fullest by him. In addition, when Zhong Xiaoxiao was besieging Shushan, he had fought with others. With actual combat experience, he knew how to advance and retreat between these moves. .
"The big deal is to call Zhou Dingye or Xu Pingping to take a look at it from time to time!"
There was a calculation in his heart, but Ye Wen didn't tell anyone. It's better to wait until the time to discuss this matter. Although Yue Ning has a relatively calm nature, he is still a half-grown child after all, exactly the age of flying and jumping. Tell him now, he probably won't be in the mood to practice.
In the next few days, Ye Wen called Xu Ping over again. He didn't teach any saber techniques in person, but he just thought of some tricks of using strength and force recently, which should be beneficial to his practice of saber techniques, so Call to listen to him.
Xu Ping was worried that it was difficult for him to improve his martial arts, he heard what his master taught, so why don't he listen attentively? After listening to it for a while, I felt that what Ye Wen said was indeed exquisite and profound. I could barely remember it clearly, but I was afraid that if I wanted to comprehend it, I would not be able to comprehend it all every three to five years. up.
Seeing Xu Ping leave contentedly, Ye Wen was slightly relieved.
Among his three disciples, the eldest disciple, Yue Ning, basically practiced according to his current path, so the disciple is probably what he is, and he will not be able to escape the internal force-based style of play in the future. It's just that if you don't have your own adventures, you need time to accumulate achievements if you want to practice.
The second disciple, Zhou Zhiruo, also has a general teaching method. Although he has practiced the Quanzhen Fa at the moment, his future development direction is estimated to be to practice the little Wuxiang Gong of his junior sister. There is no way, if he can practice to a high level and is suitable for women, he has the Little Formless Kungfu in his hands.
Moreover, Xiao Wuxiang's skill is very important, and it's not the kind of kung fu that is head-to-head with others. As a woman, Zhou Zhiruo has to consider this aspect.
You don't need to think too much about the moves. Right now, Piaoxueyunzhang, Mianzhang, Miejian, and Juejian are enough for Zhou Zhiruo to use. The swords in his palms are all ready, and the two swords of Extinction are extremely lethal. There are all kinds of moves to defeat the enemy. How far she can go in the future depends entirely on herself, and Ye Wen can't help much.
Only this third disciple Xu Ping, because he wanted to practice swordsmanship and swordsmanship together, came to a swordsman. Ye Wen knew a lot of swordsmanship, but his swordsmanship was only superficial. Knives are not considered exquisite kung fu, but Ye Wen has a lot of exquisite sword skills in his hands.
Such a situation is like a wooden barrel, half of which is long and half of which is short. If things go on like this, the sword and sword will be just a joke. He really doesn't want this kind of result to happen, so he always thinks of ways to teach this disciple. Not only racked his brains to think about the descriptions of those exquisite knife skills, but also helped the apprentice with some ideas on cultivation from time to time-such as chopping paper, chopping firewood, and cutting tofu.
I don't know if I'm too thoughtful or what, this summoning in winter actually caused Ye Wen to summon a blood knife cheat book. Although the sword technique in this cheat book was used by the evil sect in the original book, there is no such thing as it here. people know. In addition, the saber technique itself is extremely exquisite, if he hadn't considered that he was not proficient in the saber technique, he would have even taught this set of saber technique to Xu Ping directly.
Right now, he had to take out some essences to teach Xu Ping from time to time, and even considered that these essences could be used universally, so he could teach them with confidence.
Thanks to the bloody knife technique is worthy of the title of exquisite knife technique, many of the subtle principles are beneficial to Ye Wen after seeing it, even if he doesn't use a knife, the ingenious movement of the blood knife technique is astonishing, and he learned from it A lot, increased a lot of martial arts knowledge.
In the original book, Di Yun's fingers are half disabled and the bones of his lute are pierced. Although the magic of Shenzhao allows him to practice internal skills and attack the enemy, he cannot use weapons.
However, the sword skills of the Blood Knife School can be practiced without any hindrance, and the power is still powerful. It can be seen that this kung fu is indeed amazing-in addition, Ye Wen only has a book of blood knife secrets in his hand, which contains the essence of the knife skills and some luck. The key to using force, but did not see any internal strength and more advanced sword techniques.
"I don't know if the Blood Sea Demon Art and Blood Demon Sword Technique in the game can be summoned..."
But even so, it has already made him happy enough, not to mention that when winter comes, it is equal to his and his junior sister's birthday, and when he gets this secret book at this time, he doesn't know if it is a gift from this ring.
Thinking of this, Ye Wen kissed the ring, completely forgetting that a few days ago he scolded this thing for being too cheating, and didn't give a full set of things.
Anyway, now that a big problem has been solved, Ye Wen can finally calm down and arrange the matter of the martial art competition. He chose to hold the martial art competition at the time when winter was about to enter, it was just at the right time.
It took some time for new disciples to worship in the sect, and as the end of the year was approaching, those disciples who went out also came back one after another, only a few who were still alive did not return. But it does not affect the normal ratio.
But then I thought about it, and only when the year is approaching, the disciples will gather in the faction. It is indeed the most suitable time to hold a grand competition, so I directly decided: "From now on, we will compete every year! The winner can pass on a few moves. The exquisite martial arts of the sect, the one who has improved the most is also the same!"
Of course, the last and most important point is to see if there are any disciples who can be absorbed into the inner sect.
This year's big competition starts on November 1st. As for how many days the competition will last, Ye Wen doesn't know. He will only know after this big competition is over and he has a general understanding in his heart.
This competition, Ye Wen watched from the beginning to the end, although there were no disciples of them to participate this time, but the few senior members of the Shushan School valued it very much.
At the same time, several personal disciples were standing aside, and they can also learn about this competition. Although these people's kung fu is not as good as their own, it is also beneficial to their cultivation to watch others fight. Wen said in one sentence: "Everyone must go!" So no one dared to be absent.
The girl Huang Rongrong also asked for a seat and sat down next to Xu Xian. She didn't think there was anything wrong, she just thought that she was a distinguished guest invited by the Shushan School, she kept looking around with her head, pointing to a certain disciple from time to time and said to Xu Xian: "That person looks very strong, maybe he is very powerful!"
Every time Xu Xian heard the words, he couldn't laugh or cry, and he only said: "It has nothing to do with the level of kung fu!"
Huang Rongrong was about to refute, but then remembered that the Shushan School seems to have a lot of good kung fu teachings, and those outside disciples can learn a good set of inner skills and mental methods. After knowing the inner skills, it is indeed difficult to judge the level of kung fu from the body shape—— ——Internal kung fu is not like external kung fu. It has a lot of requirements on body shape, and it is difficult for an external master to practice kung fu to the depths to hide it. A knowledgeable person can tell it from his body shape at a glance.
After watching for a while, I saw Guo Aniu who was a little stunned. At this time, the kid was standing in the crowd and looking around, and from time to time he would take a peek at Ye Wen and the others. He didn't realize that in the eyes of many people, he was just making up the numbers.
Some people even asked each other: "Who has met Guo Aniu? Isn't that the same as giving for nothing?"——In order to shorten the competition time and let everyone have a chance to compete, this time the competition Ye Wen came directly A single-game elimination system, everyone draws a note, and then uses the note to find out which game they are in and which number they are competing with on the match board.
So when the lottery was over and the group questioned each other, it was inevitable that they would hear 'Oh, I ran into him! I'm done this time! ''Ouch? I don't have to fight the first round. What luck! ''Wow ha ha ha, I'm sure to win this time! ''I'm going, you actually met a stupid cow, this time you have a good time! ''hey-hey! ' and the like.
Ye Wen heard clearly there, but he didn't speak. He just thought to himself: "It's not a good thing!" Before the fight started, each of these people behaved like this, so impatient, I'm afraid they will be outer disciples for the rest of their lives.
It's just that he sat there with a sullen face, showing the majesty of the master, but he didn't directly scold, but directly ordered Xu Ping, who was in charge of the competition: "Let's start!"
Xu Ping, as the referee, supervised every match this time, and when necessary, he would rush in to separate the two, so as not to prevent someone from fighting too much and being unable to hold back his fists, causing serious injury to a disciple. In addition, Chen Yizhong's apprentice who stayed on the mountain also stood aside, holding the golden sore medicine in one hand and the life-saving pill in the other, ready to give first aid at any time. Anyway, as long as he hangs in one breath, Ye Wen can save the person. This is also because these disciples have low skills and cannot cause too serious injuries.
As Xu Ping stepped into a flat stone slab that had been set up as a ring in advance—this stone slab with five feet on all sides was planned when the Shushan School was built, and it was located on the square where martial arts was practiced. . If the disciples want to compete, they will choose this place, which is like a ring for the Shushan sect.
This big competition is also here, Xu Ping just said a few words casually, and then directly announced the start of the big competition.
"I don't have the talent of a host at all..." Ye Wen muttered casually when he saw Xu Ping getting straight to the point. But Ning Ruxue who was next to her heard it, and asked in confusion, "What did you say, Senior Brother?"
Ever since being yelled at by Huang Rongrong for a while and felt that she had treated her junior sister a little bit badly, Ye Wen always had a smile on her face when she saw Ning Ruxue, and she spoke softly: "It's okay, it's just this competition, junior sister can take this opportunity See if there are any disciples you like, so you can accept them!"
Ning Ruxue just hummed casually and didn't take it seriously. She only said that she will follow Ye Wen in the future, but it doesn't matter if she accepts her own disciples or not. Ye Wen's disciples are her disciples, and she just teaches them with all her heart! So he put away his thoughts of finding a disciple for a long time.
The two were talking, and the game had already been divided. Ye Wen kept paying attention to the field, and saw that the disciple who used the sword used a move to chop Huashan with a force, and directly let go of the long sword of the disciple who used the sword. He swung the knife horizontally and said: "Accept!" But he directly believed that he had won.
In fact, it's almost the same, the disciple who wields the sword has no weapons, so he fights with a pair of fleshy palms? At the moment, he had no choice but to salute with fists in his hands, and then walked down in frustration.
The knife disciple who passed the first level was very proud, and went down with his head held high to chat with his familiar friends.
"Using a long sword to harden a long sword? I don't know what this disciple thinks!" It was Xu Xian who shook his head and sighed. He originally wanted to find another apprentice to teach him. Seeing this, he thought to himself. : "If they are all at this level, I'm afraid my plan will be useless!"
Thinking of this, he suddenly turned his gaze to Liu Muyan who was standing aside, and found that this guy was in a horse stance, with his right hand as if he was holding something. He knew that he had been practicing calligraphy with Ye Wen these days, and gradually made progress. At this time, it is also very hard to practice these basic skills. In addition, fighting on the field couldn't improve his nature, so he simply practiced on his own.
Xu Xian saw that although Liu Muyan felt that he was a bit old, his perseverance was extraordinary: "Why don't you want to be an apprentice under the sect?"
Just as he was thinking, Huang Rongrong next to him twittered and attracted everyone's attention, and when he turned around, it turned out that it was Guo Aniu who had entered the stage.
"A Niu, don't be ashamed!"