Cannon fodder Gong Just Wants To Take The Imperial Examination [MTL]

Chapter 21

It wasn't until Shen Chenyu got down from the tree that he realized that many people had come to the village this time. And the person who almost killed him with an arrow just now was the invisible Mu Linting.

Originally, Shen Chenyu was still a little angry, but when she saw Mu Linting, she was no longer angry. Because Mu Linting would appear on the mountain, he must have come here because he was worried about him.

Mu Linting had an old injury on his leg, and he couldn't find it if he walked slowly on weekdays. At this time, probably because he was worried about Shen Chenyu, his steps were a little fast, which highlighted the inconvenience of his legs and feet. Mu Linting reached out and grabbed Shen Chenyu's wrist, and he let go only after Shen Chenyu said that he was fine.

At this time, the villagers were holding torches and agricultural tools, and were chasing away a big wounded tiger. The tiger was shot by Mu Linting's arrow, and faced with so many armed villagers, he let out a low growl and wanted to run into the deep mountains.

The village head on the side shouted, "You can't let this beast run away, kill it while it is injured." In

this era, it is not uncommon for wolves, tigers and leopards to exist in the mountains, and some villages near the mountains often have wild animals hurting people . thing. In the past three years in Xiling Village, there have been tigers going down the mountain to eat people. The person who was eaten was a young and beautiful daughter-in-law.

Back then, this incident was reported to the government, and the government also sent people to go up the mountain with the villagers, but the tiger was not found at that time. Unexpectedly, after three years, this tiger came to the door by itself today.

When the little daughter-in-law's man saw the tiger, he immediately rushed up with red eyes, looking like he wanted to fight the big tiger desperately. At this time, all the young and middle-aged people in the village were there, so he was not allowed to fight the tiger alone, and each of them followed with weapons in their hands.

Because Mu Linting's arrow hit the vital point, the big tiger was soon subdued by a group of villagers. After everyone finished dealing with the tiger, they found that besides a dead wild boar, there were two live wild boars in the cracks on the ground.

Shen Chenyu was about to go over to look at the wild boars over there, when she saw a brother leading an old couple coming over, the family of three would kneel when they saw Shen Chenyu.

Shen Chenyu had never seen such a battle before, she stretched out her hand to support the two elders and said, "What are you doing, talk about it if you have anything to say."

The little brother said with red eyes when he heard the words: "This Thanks to the little brother of the Shen family, otherwise I would be in danger this time. I am the only child in our family, if something happens to me, my father and dad will be finished." The

little brother's father also said quickly: "Yes, yes, This time, thanks to Xiaolang of the Shen family, the kindness and virtue of Mr. Xiaolang, our Liu family will definitely remember it in our hearts."

At this time, Shen Chenyu recognized that this little brother was the little brother he had rescued before. The couple are the two parents of the little brother.

Everyone in Xiling Village already knew about Shen Chenyu's rescue of people. Everyone felt relieved when they saw that Shen Chenyu was not injured, and everyone gathered around Shen Chenyu to praise him for his courage.

Because of the appearance of a big tiger, Shen Chenyu didn't need to explain anything aloud, and the villagers automatically made up a big drama. Even people who looked down on Shen Chenyu before now think that Shen Chenyu is not bad.

Tigers and wild boars are protected animals in later generations, but in this era of harsh living conditions for the common people, these large beasts will not only hurt people but also destroy farmland.

In addition, the production capacity in ancient times was very poor, and there were no weapons and weapons that could threaten them, so these beasts multiplied wantonly in the deep mountains. Sometimes it will not only endanger the lives of ordinary people, but there have even been cases of wild beasts massacring villages in history.

Over the years, the government has sent people to hunt and kill large wild animals every five years to ensure the safety of the people near the mountains. But because the government has a lot of things to do, in order to encourage some folk heroes to fight for the people, ordinary people will give rewards for hunting large wild animals. This is actually similar to bandits, and even in some special cases, the reward is more than that of catching bandits.

Because there was a bandit incident not long ago, many troops have been stationed in various small towns recently. After learning that a herd of wild boars appeared in Xiling Village, people from the army came to Xiling Village early the next morning.

Because Shen Chenyu is good at archery and knows more about the situation on the mountain than the army. When the army went up the mountain to encircle the remaining wild boars, they brought Shen Chenyu and two villagers with them.

Shen Liushi was quite worried about this, but looking at the high-spirited Shen Chenyu, even if she was worried, she couldn't stop him in the end. What's more, she has never really raised Shen Chenyu, and she has no position to point fingers at Shen Chenyu.

Shen Chenyu stayed with the army on the mountain for three days, not only saw the hard-working spirit of the ancient soldiers, but also became a good friend with one of the soldiers. The other party admired Shen Chenyu's archery skills very much, and when he went down the mountain, he said that if he had a chance in the future, he must have a good archery competition with Shen Chenyu.

Because most of the wild boars were killed by the army, only the three before were caught by Shen Chenyu "by luck". In the end, Shen Chenyu only got eight taels of silver reward. Of the eight taels of silver reward, thirty taels was the reward for the three wild boars, and the remaining fifty taels of silver was the money he earned by leading the way.

As for the silver reward for the tiger, because the tiger was handed over to the army in the end and could not be sold for money like the three wild boars, the silver reward was more than that of the wild beast.

A tiger gave ten taels of silver, of which five taels were given to Mu Linting. Because without Mu Linting's fatal blow, it would not be easy for the villagers to catch it.

Then, it was the matter of selling the three wild boars for money. Although Shen Chenyu caught the wild boar on the surface, but without the help of people from Xiling Village, even if he caught the wild boar, he couldn't get it down the mountain. In the end, Shen Chenyu sold the two wild boars and distributed the remaining one to the villagers.

In this way, Shen Chenyu won't be jealous of selling wild boars before, and he will also gain a lot of favorability because he is relatively generous. After this incident with the wild boar herd, Shen Chenyu could be considered to have fully integrated into Xiling Village.

The price of pork at this time is about 18 Wen a catty. Because the smell of wild boar meat is very strong, not everyone can accept it, and it may be difficult to sell it for 18 cents a catty.

The two wild boars weighed more than 200 catties each, and the other weighed more than 260 catties. The wild boar weighing two hundred catties was dragged by the second grandfather of the Shen family and sold to a restaurant in the town.

Because the wild boar has not been treated, after removing the wild boar hair, pig offal, and blood, it is estimated that only about 150 catties are left. The shopkeeper of the restaurant saw Er Niu's face, and finally sold the wild boar for more than 2,700 yuan.

Half of the remaining wild boar was sold to the butcher shop in the town, and the other half was sold cheaply to the people in the town, for a total of 3,100 Wen. Selling cheaply has the advantage of selling cheaply, that is, the wild boar meat is sold out quickly, and there is no need to run to the town every day after that.

This time, most of the selling of wild boar meat was done with the help of the second cow of the Shen family or the Shen family. Shen Chenyu didn't know much about these things, and his body was not as good as theirs, he was like a half-hands-off shopkeeper throughout the whole process.

In order to thank the two for their help, Shen Chenyu gave them fifty Wen each. It is said that it is easy to do things with money, and they will look at Shen Chenyu's generosity in the future, if Shen Chenyu has something, they will definitely help.

Even if the Shen family is Shen Chenyu's cousin, but the brothers still know how to settle accounts, let alone Shen Chenyu who came back halfway. As a human being, you can't always care about small gains and losses. It's easy to care about the road getting narrower and narrower.

Excluding the one hundred Wen and the ten Wen for renting an ox cart, Shen Chenyu earned 5,750 Wen in the past two days. Including the reward he received before, he only earned thirteen taels and seven hundred and fifty Wen after working for seven or eight days.

This amount of money is already a huge sum of money for ordinary farmers. But for Shen Chenyu, the rich second generation, even a good horse can't be bought for more than a dozen taels of silver.

Horses in ancient times, like cars in later generations, were indispensable means of mobility. Shen Chenyu had seen horses in the army before, so she wanted to buy a horse. It's a pity that he doesn't even have enough money for his studies, so he may have to wait for a while to buy a good horse.

After the matter of the wild boar was finished, the weather was fine, so Shen Chenyu took his family to the town.

Their house is short of many things now. He built a yard with five taels of silver and three taels of silver before, and he has been reluctant to use the remaining two taels of silver. Their family's food and drink are all subsidized by others, and even the tea, rice, oil and salt they bought before were spent by Shen Liushi.

Now that Shen Chenyu finally has money, the first thing to do is to buy everything that needs to be bought, and make some new clothes for the family by the way. Seeing that spring is here and the weather is getting warmer, but the family of four doesn't even have decent clothes.

A group of them went by bullock cart, and there were other people from the village on the bullock cart. Many people in the village like to tease children. Seeing that the dolls of Shen Chenyu's family are so cute, they can't help but want to touch Xiao Roubao's little cheeks.

Xiaoroubao was considered a premature baby, and he suffered a serious crime after birth. Even if he is in better health now, he is not as strong as other children.

Shen Chenyu was afraid that some people's hands would not be clean, and it wouldn't be worth it if Xiao Roubao got sick. So in order to prevent them from touching the little meat bun all the time, Shen Chenyu handed the child to Mu Linting after getting in the car.

Because Mu Linting always had a cold face and there were several hideous scars on his face, no one in the neighboring villages in the west dared to speak to Mu Linting.

Seeing that Shen Chenyu handed over the child to the other party at this time, the group of people did not dare to move forward any more, they could only turn their heads and chat with Shen Liushi one after another.

They all said that Mrs. Shen Liu's hardships are rewarding, and if they exchanged an unfilial Shen Ming for a good-tempered and capable Shen Chenyu, life would only get better and better in the future.

Shen Liushi also felt that what they said was reasonable, probably because of the filial son in her mother's eyes, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that Shen Chenyu was better than Shen Mingxuan.