The disaster in Qianyang Mountain was finally over, and Chen Shi also relaxed. He had been tense and highly nervous these days, and now he felt tired after relaxing.

I slept soundly this night.

In the middle of the night, he suddenly woke up, sat up suddenly, and saw several people beside his bed.

He was startled and looked closely, but it was Xiao Wangsun, Li Jindou and others. Grandpa was standing in the corner, holding a green umbrella in his hand.

The five people looked at him with strange eyes and couldn't take their eyes away.

"I didn't get sick tonight."

Grandpa shook his head, held an umbrella and walked outside.

The other four people also sighed with regret and walked out of Chen Shi's room one after another. Granny Sha asked: "Don't people who are killed by cannonballs get their souls?"

Chen Shi just felt baffled.

They came to his room and watched him sleep just to watch him get sick?

The next morning, Chen Shi got up to pay homage to his godmother and saw people already working in the fields.

Although this demonic transformation was violent and terrifying, and many people died, life went on.

By the third day, all villages were basically back to normal, and markets were even opened.

Because there were five more mouths in the family to feed sick people like Li Jindou, Granny Sha, Jin Hongying, and Xiao Wangsun, and Chen Shi himself had to make medicine and take medicine, the Chen family was quickly left destitute.

Grandma Sha has always been very poor. She can only make some hard money by working as a goddess for the villagers. Moreover, when she treated Chen Shi like her own son some time ago, Chen Shi went bankrupt.

Although Li Jindou came from the Li family in Quanzhou, judging from his elegant and simple clothes, he probably didn't have much money.

Moreover, when he came to Lao Chen's house to pay for his temporary stay, he only took out three taels of silver, which shows that both the grandfather and grandson are in a tight situation.

Xiao Wangsun was driving at night, and when he saw a dozen taels of silver on the road, he would stop to pick it up. It is expected that he spent more of the money on maintaining his appearance.

The richest person here is Jin Hongying, the military attache of Shenji Camp, with a very high salary.

But after Jin Hongying was injured, she dressed up as a village girl. It can be seen that she spends money lavishly on weekdays, but she hates it when she needs it. She also eats wherever she goes.

In the local dialect, this is called Qingguanggu.

The medicinal materials they and Chen Shi used every day were worth more than twenty taels of silver. The family was too poor to open the door to the problem, so Chen Shi thought about taking the turtle shell in his room to the market and selling it.

He found the turtle shell when he was cleaning the Tiger Temple. It was surprisingly hard and he thought he could sell it for a lot of money.

Grandpa also wanted to go out to buy medicinal materials, so he happened to bring Chen Shi with him.

Chen Shi picked up the turtle shell and put it on the car. The two men got on the car, with Black Pot leading the way.

Chen Shi looked at his grandfather's green umbrella. Strangely enough, since the end of the magic transformation, his grandfather has been holding this green umbrella and has never left his hand. The umbrella has never been closed.

Even at night, he still held an umbrella.

Chen Shi also saw that last night, Xuanshan in black came to their village for some reason and stood outside his house before leaving at dawn.

"Kaiguo, have you noticed that grandpa and Xuanshan are a little weird?"

Chen Shi said to Gouzi.

The black pot hesitated and didn't dare to say anything.

The wooden cart started and drove towards Qiaowan Town.

After the disaster, Qiaowan Town is still very lively. Qiaowan Town is not big, with only a few hundred households, but it is extremely prosperous and is located on the only way to Xinxiang County.

Thirty miles further east is Xinxiang County, and thirty-two miles further northeast is Buffalo County, so people traveling between the two counties will settle here.

In Qiaowan Town, the people I see the most are people coming out of the mountains. They are often men or women in their forties or fifties. They are short and strong. They only wear short coats and have patches of bronzed skin exposed, covered with sweat. Zhu, carrying a hundred kilograms of goods.

They often put down their burdens in Qiaowan Town, drink a bowl of tea for five cents, and then pick up the mountain goods again and set off to the county town thirty miles away.

They have to walk back and forth one day just to earn dozens of pennies.

Encountering dangerous water streams, dangerous bridges, cliffs, and wild animals, sometimes your life will be lost.

But this is the life of ordinary country people.

This has always been the case for generations.

Just after the disaster, many families were short of money, so there were many men carrying mountain goods to go to the city to exchange money.

When Chen Shi saw this, he thought that Li Xiaoding asked him to draw a peach blossom charm and gave him fifty taels of silver, so he felt something was wrong.

As for what was wrong, he couldn't tell.

Grandpa first went to the medicine shop in the town to buy medicine. Chen Shi planned to find an open seat in the market, but he arrived late and the market stalls were already overcrowded. However, when he saw Chen Shi coming, the simple villagers looked pale and hurriedly squeezed in. Squeeze and make room.

The people who come here to buy and sell are all fellow villagers from all over the country. They are all familiar faces and recognize Chen Shi.

Chen Shi expressed his gratitude to them for their kindness, put down his turtle shell, and waited for business to come to him.

"What a big turtle shell! Is this dog for sale?"

A magician from other places passed by and was very interested in the black pot.

"Not for sale!"

Chen Shi refused sharply.

"It's a pity. You can get a lot of black dog blood by killing it."

The Talisman Master shook his head and continued to look at other stalls.

At the market in Qiaowan Town, there will be many monks from the city selecting things. Some things that look ordinary in the countryside are good things in their opinion, and they will often buy them at a good price.

Chen Shi waited for a while, and the talisman master turned back and said, "How about buying your dog for ten taels of silver?

Chen Shi shook his head: "You can't sell dogs.

The Talisman Master gritted his teeth and seemed to be in great pain, and said: "I'll give you another twenty taels, twelve taels of silver, plus this turtle shell.

As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar around him, and the villagers looked at Chen Shi with envy.

Dogs in the countryside are not worth much. For twelve taels, you can buy dozens of black dogs.

Chen Shi's heart moved slightly, and he shook his head and said: "We don't sell dogs, only turtle shells."

The Talisman Master gritted his teeth again and said: "I really like this dog. In this way, I will give you another three taels of silver and fifteen taels of silver. This dog plus this turtle shell! I am the Talisman Master. I want to use

Dog blood drawing talisman.

How about giving me your turtle shell as a bonus?"

Sell ​​it, sell it!”

The villagers all around said

Chen Shi shook his head: "You can't sell dogs."

The Talisman Master left sadly, looking back at Hei Guo. He sighed as he walked, "Hei Guo, I don't think he wants to buy you, but the turtle shell."

Chen Shi was suspicious and whispered: The black pot hesitated for a moment to express that he did not dare to behave like a dog.

He is obviously very valuable.

What's so good about this tattered turtle shell? It can't even be bitten.

After a while, another well-dressed monk from the city came to Chen Shi's stall. He looked at it with a pretense of reserve and then asked to buy a dog. A tortoise shell was given as a gift to him.

Chen Shi became more and more sure of his idea and flatly rejected it.

Several more groups of people came, and many people were eyeing the turtle shell. Gradually, the price of the black pot became higher and higher, and soon it rose to twenty-four taels of silver.

They claimed that they liked black pots and wanted to buy dogs. As for the turtle shells, they sold them half and gave them half.

"Is this turtle shell really some amazing treasure?"

Chen Shi was even more confused.

Several turtle shells weigh more than a hundred pounds, which is very heavy.

He punched it, making a sound like gold and stone, and light spilled out, but the turtle shell was not broken at all.

He was shocked. He practiced the Seven Refiners of the Big Dipper every day to refine the body of the Holy Embryo. His strength was much stronger than before, but he still couldn't break the turtle shell. This shows how tough the turtle shell is!

Chen Shi planned to punch a few more times to test the limits of the turtle shell, when a voice laughed and said: "Stop punching, if you really break it, the turtle shell will be worthless."

Chen Shi looked up and saw a scholar in Tsing Yi coming to his stall. He had delicate features, a high and round forehead, and was full of heroic spirit. He was wearing a pair of black oil boots, but there was no dust at all.

"This person walks using armor and horse talismans. His feet do not touch the ground, and his shoes are naturally dust-free.

Chen Shi said sincerely, "He is very rich!"

Although Chen Shi himself is also a Talisman Master, he is rarely willing to use the Armor and Horse Talisman. Even if he does use it, it is only during a life and death fight.

This man came from the city and his shoes were dust-free, which meant that he had been traveling with his armor and horse talismans and his feet never even touched the ground. He must be a rich man.

"This gentleman recognizes turtle shells and knows their value?"

Chen Shi asked

The scholar in green clothes smiled and said: "A tortoise that lives for a hundred years is called Zheng, a thousand years is called Bigui, a turtle that lives for five thousand years is called Baxia, and a turtle that lives for ten thousand years is called Xuanwu.

Ao's shell is four feet wide, Bigui's shell is five feet wide, and Baxia's shell is seven feet wide.
To be continued...