Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Clank, clank.

The kitchen cleaver, specifically sharpened and cleaned for this job, nearly chipped its edge earlier than one of many Mountain Drum’s tusks was wholly faraway from the basis.

After the tusk was cleaned, Chi Qiaosong felt very glad as he examined it intently in his arms.

Mr. Chi had already ridden his bicycle to city to get the second uncle. He additionally deliberate to borrow a tractor from there, or else they might haven’t any approach to transport the Mountain Drum.

Mrs. Chi squatted on the bottom, fortunately scooping up all of the earth blended in with the blood from the Mountain Drum.

The soil soaked within the boar’s blood was wealthy in vitamins and could possibly be used to fertilize the small vegetable backyard.

The reality was that Chi Qiaosong additionally wished to fertilize his area, however not a lot soil was soaked in blood, so he didn’t combat for it. He sat by the farmhouse, wanting on the lentil seedlings swaying within the one-acre area, and he was in temper.

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Grade 1 area: One acre

Fertilizer Storage: None

Spirit Root Supply (1): Bay tree (Crazed Bull Heavy Fist, Accomplished)

Exterior Religious Root (0): None

Spirit Plant: Lentils

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The data was up to date once more, and the Crazed Bull Heavy Fist was exhibiting as having been upgraded from achievement attribute to finish attribute, that means that Chi Qiaosong had now completely mastered this martial artwork.

The following time there was a change, it will in all probability be when the lentils ripened or when the navy academy restarted once more, so he might be taught one other set of martial abilities.

Night time.

The beeping sound of the tractor slowly approached from the foot of the ridge. The second uncle fortunately drove the tractor close to the Chifamily’ss residence.

No highway led to the farmhouse, so the tractor couldn’t get any nearer.

A number of of them needed to work collectively to tug the Mountain Drum up and onto the tractor. All of them have been sweating and exhausted when it was accomplished.

“Dad, uncle, have you ever discovered a purchaser?”

“Grand Ink Ridge Lodge. They mentioned that if it’s a Mountain Drum, they’ll pay three {dollars} a pound for it,” the second uncle mentioned excitedly.

The price of dwelling in Daxia Republic was not so costly. Pork was normally one greenback per pound. Wild boar was a few greenback fifty. For the Mountain Drum to command three {dollars} per pound was certainly a beneficiant worth.

Chi Qiaosong’ss little uncle labored as a clerk in a grain retailer and made, on the very most, 50 {dollars} a month.

In fact, promoting meat alone wouldn’t be essentially the most worthwhile approach to go.

If the Mountain Drum was taken aside, its pores and skin and pelt could possibly be bought for a better worth individually. Nonetheless, they didn’t assume it was a good suggestion to trigger an excessive amount of commotion, so it was simpler simply to promote the entire animal to the restaurant.

“I’ll go along with you.”

“Sure, you come alongside to make sure we aren’t cheated.” By now, Mr. Chi was very satisfied of his son’s potential.

Coated by a thick plastic tarp, the Mountain Drum was tightly tucked in. Chi Qiaosong jumped onto the automobile and sat on the plastic tarp. The second uncle drove the tractor to the town beneath cowl of the evening.

“Xiuyuan, what are you doing with a tractor?” The villagers on the foot of the mountain heard the noises and got here out, holding the bowls of rice they have been consuming.

The second uncle’s title was Chi Xiuyuan.

The second uncle smiled and replied, “My brother desires to promote some grains that had been in storage for some time.”

Promoting grains from the storage was an excuse the Chi household selected to cowl up the truth that Chi Qiaosong had been capable of kill a Mountain Drum.

The journey into Ink Ridge County went easily, they usually headed straight to the Grand Ink Ridge Lodge. This was essentially the most upscale resort within the county, the one resort with a three-star score. The higher echelon within the county all the time took their visitors there.

They drove the tractor to the loading dock, and the resort supervisor introduced a crew over. After they lifted the plastic tarp and noticed the MountainDrum’s corpse, they couldn’t assist however exclaim, “It’s a large one. It in all probability took thirty or forty years to develop to this dimension!”

“Mr. Tao, have a look..” Mr. Chi rubbed his arms collectively.

“Let’s weigh it.”

“Okay.”

Everybody labored collectively to elevate the Mountain Drum onto the size, and it got here out to a complete of 1 thousand 100 and twenty-five kilos. The worth of three {dollars} per pound got here out to a few thousand 300 and seventy-five {dollars}.

“How a lot?” Mr. Tao turned to ask the accountant behind him.

The accountant reported the quantity. “One thousand and 100 kilos with out the pores and skin. The entire is thirty-three hundred {dollars}.”

Mr. Tao nodded. “Give them twenty-three hundred {dollars}.”

When Mr. Chi and the second uncle heard that quantity, they responded anxiously, “Mr. Tao, you made a mistake. It needs to be thirty-three hundred, not twenty- 300.”

That’s true; I ought to have paid you thirty-three hundred {dollars}, however don’t you see {that a} tusk was lacking? With a lacking tusk, this Mountain Drum doesn’t look so good, and I’ve to make it up by some means,” Mr. Tao mentioned solemnly.

The second uncle added hurriedly, “The tusk can’t be eaten, and it doesn’t have an effect on the meat itself.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Tao wouldn’t budge. He insisted that he needed to deduct a thousand {dollars} only for the lacking tusk.

Seeing that Mr. Chi and second uncle have been at an deadlock, Chi Qiaosong interrupted the argument and mentioned, “If you wish to deduct the cash for a lacking tusk, the deal is off. We aren’t promoting it to you.”

Mr. Tao gave Chi Qiaosong a sideways look. “You already received all of it the way in which over right here. The place else are you going to take it?”

As quickly as Mr. Tao completed talking, the restaurant employees who have been round appeared to shut in on them. In these troubled occasions of warlords and such, even when society was civilized, cases of the sturdy consuming the weak weren’t extraordinary.

However Chi Qiaosong was frightened by none of it.

It confirmed his unparalleled energy and braveness if he might convey down the Mountain Drum by himself, however there was no cause to make use of pressure unnecessarily. In any case, such a grand resort in Ink Ridge County should have highly effective backing.

For now, he knew he couldn’t afford to poke this hornet’s nest.

He appeared on the iron rod used to elevate the Mountain Drum and took it in his hand. As Mr. Tao watched him with a little bit of confusion, he slowly elevated the facility in his arms till the iron rod that was as thick as a child’s arm was bent in half.

Clank.

As he tossed away the rod, Chi Qiaosong mentioned calmly, “Mr. Tao, it’s not applicable to insist on a deal that we don’t agree with.”

One thing modified in Mr. Tao’s eyes, and after some time, he laughed all of a sudden. He took a enterprise card from his pocket and handed it to Chi Qiaosong. “Did you assume I used to be being severe? I used to be simply joking. Thirty-three {dollars} it’s, not a penny much less. Right here is my enterprise card. Sooner or later, in the event you catch something huge, simply ship them to us.”

When he noticed this, Chi Qiaosong took the enterprise card and checked out it earlier than placing it in his pocket. “In fact.”

Mr. Tao beckoned the accountant, “Mr. Tan, pay them.”

After counting thirty-three blue one-hundred-dollar payments, all the cash was handed to Mr. Chi. Mr. Tao politely walked them out himself.

Watching the tractor drive out of the loading dock, a clerk requested, “Sir, did we overpay?”

Mr. Tao narrowed his eyes and replied, “That’s not essential. What’s essential is that we made a good friend.”

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“Goodness, it’s lucky that Qiaosong was with us. In any other case, we’d have been cheated for positive.” After the second uncle returned the tractor, he was nonetheless speaking about it on the way in which dwelling.

If Chi Qiaosong didn’t show how he might bend the iron rod together with his naked arms, revealing his energy, Mr. Tao in all probability would have gotten the Mountain Drums for twenty-three hundred {dollars}.

Mr. Chi was a bit of nervous, nonetheless. “Qiaosong, do you assume they’ll comply with us dwelling?”

“It’s tremendous.”

Chi Qiaosong was not too involved.

He saved a low profile merely out of prudence. He was afraid to reveal the existence of the Golden Finger. Nonetheless, that acre of the sphere could possibly be taken again into his thoughts at any time. He was not afraid of another person taking it from him.

In one other few years, when he was extra completed in martial arts, he wouldn’t want to fret about anybody or anything.

Solely then did Mr. Chi and second uncle resume their means dwelling, much less nervous. After they received dwelling, Mrs. Chi and second aunt had been anxiously ready for all of them this time.

Dinner was prepared and had been saved heat within the pot.

“You might be again. Did all the things go nicely?” Mrs. Chi requested anxiously.

“It went very nicely. Let’s eat first. We’re ravenous.”

After dinner, Mr. Chi started dividing up the cash. “When Qiaosong went to the navy academy, the tutoring was fifteen hundred {dollars}, and we borrowed twelve hundred. We have now to pay again that cash first. The 2 of you gave us 2 hundred {dollars} on the time. Take these 2 hundred.”

“We…” The second uncle was reluctant to take it.

Mr. Chi shoved the cash in his hand, “Don’t be like that, simply take it!”

Then he took 9 hundred out of the remaining nineteen hundred {dollars} and handed the sum to Chi Qiaosong. ” Didn’t you say you want cash? You at the moment are the pillar of the household, so it’s best to maintain some cash on you.”

Chi Qiaosong didn’t hesitate and instantly put the cash in his pocket.

Mr. Chi then divided the final thousand {dollars} in two, half of which he took for himself and the opposite half he stuffed into second uncle’s hand.

“We’ll cut up this cash, and every of us will get 5 hundred {dollars}. I can’t run a enterprise, so I’m staying right here working the fields and crops, and this 5 hundred will subsidize the household properly. You and Yuping take this cash and see whether or not you can begin some small commerce yourselves. It’s not a safe livelihood to all the time work these short-term jobs.”

The second aunt was overjoyed as she mentioned, “Elder brother is correct, in fact. We have now wished to begin a small commerce ourselves for a while.”