Experience of living in a chaotic world of demons

It was the first time to hunt in the mountains, and the harvest was rich.

But I also saw all kinds of things. Zhang Ze was careless and almost lost his life. The hunters in Lijiabao had ulterior motives. The beasts and poisonous insects in the jungle were all potential dangers.

Gu Sheng made up his mind to be very careful when going into the mountains in the future.

No matter how good your archery skills are, you can't be complacent, otherwise you won't know how you died.

The four of them carried the wild boar back to the village.

It immediately attracted a burst of amazement and envy.

"Erniu, you are so lucky. You killed another wild boar this time!"

"You must take me with you next time you go into the mountains!"

Some hunters saw the harvest of several people and were jealous.

Gu Erniu just nodded and smiled.

Back home, the four began to divide the wild boar according to the agreed share.

The wild boar has a good meat yield. A wild boar of nearly 300 kilograms can have a meat yield of 50% to 60%.

Gu Sheng got 25%, which was 40-50 kilograms of wild boar meat, and the rest were some odds and ends like pig bones and pig blood.

Seeing the rich spoils, everyone finally smiled again. No matter how the hunting process was, the result was good.

One kilogram of wild boar meat can be exchanged for about three kilograms of corn.

With this meat, even if the other few people need to support their families, they can be relaxed for a long time. If they save some rice bran, they can even not go into the mountains to hunt for a month or two!

As for Gu Sheng, one person can feed the whole family, and this is even more true.

However, in order to strengthen his body quickly, Gu Sheng never saves on food. He must eat meat at every meal, and he has enough rice. He consumes a lot of food alone.

But no matter what, this is a pretty good harvest.

It is rare to have such a harvest in a year when hunting.

"If calculated according to the market price, this harvest is at least one or two silver taels. It is indeed a high-risk and high-return!"

Gu Sheng sighed in his heart.

"Sell some of the pork for money, plus the money I saved before, the tuition of one or two silver coins for martial arts training is enough! But there is no rush for now, my nutritional needs must be met first. Now that I can make money by hunting, there will be many opportunities to make money in the future."

He was in a good mood.

Hunting accumulates wealth much faster than chopping wood honestly, it is not of the same order of magnitude.

"Wait until I go into the mountains with Brother Erniu and others a few more times, accumulate experience, and achieve archery mastery, then I can try to go into the mountains alone."

"The tuition for martial arts training is only one of the expenses, and the consumption afterwards is the big one. I have to save money, the more the better!"

"But now, go and exchange some corn first. I'm tired of eating rice bran every day!"

If it was just bad taste, Gu Sheng could barely tolerate it, but the key is that the nutritional value is low and it doesn't satisfy hunger. Now that the conditions are good, it is natural to exchange some corn.

Not to mention eating corn every meal in the future, at least you can eat it occasionally.

Seeing Gu Youfu and Zhang Ze leave, Gu Sheng also said goodbye to Gu Erniu:

"Brother Erniu, I'm going to exchange some corn. Leave the meat with you first and I'll come back to get it."

Gu Erniu hurriedly said:

"Wait, I just ran out of rice at home, I'll go with you."

The two walked together to the village trading market.

It's called a market, but it's actually just a small station.

After all, Gujia Village has only a thousand households.

This station was originally just a place for the owner to buy supplies, and later it gradually developed into a place where villagers would trade supplies, but the scale was very small, most of which were a piece of meat for a pound of rice.

The world was in chaos, bandits were everywhere, and ordinary villagers could only hide in the village.

If you want to go to Canghe County, you have to follow the village's caravan.

Every once in a while.

The village would send warriors to follow and go to Canghe County to purchase supplies for villagers to exchange.

Although the price is a little higher than buying in the city, it is not much more expensive. It is safer and Gujiazhuang is still conscientious.

Gu Erniu took Gu Sheng to the only formal trading point with ease and said with a smile:

"Manager Wang, I'm here to exchange some corn."

The middle-aged manager who was squinting suddenly opened his eyes and saw that it was Gu Erniu. He couldn't help but smile more:

"Erniu, wow, you killed another wild boar, awesome!"

"You kid, since you entered the mountain with Lord Gu Changming, you have been very lucky!"

Gu Erniu hurriedly said humbly:

"It's all thanks to Lord Gu Changming. How can I have such luck myself."

Manager Wang smiled and nodded, and took out a scale.

"How much corn do you want to exchange?"

Gu Erniu handed over the wild boar meat in Gu Sheng's hand.

"This is 20 catties of wild boar meat. How much can you get in exchange?"

"This pork looks good. I will exchange one catty for three catties. I will give you 60 catties of corn."

Gu Erniu thanked him repeatedly. Gu Sheng stood behind and watched the two of them chatting without saying anything.

Since Gu Erniu had some relationship with Gu Changming last time he went into the mountains, many people would give him some face, especially the steward of the main family. They all knew that Gu Changming promised Gu Erniu that he could find him if he had any problems.

Seeing that the two were packing rice, Steward Wang pondered for a moment, then pulled Gu Erniu over and whispered:

"If you want to exchange rice, you'd better exchange more."

Gu Erniu was not a fool. He immediately tasted the deep meaning and said with his eyes wide open:

"You mean, the price of grain is going to rise?"

"Keep your voice down. I heard from Steward Gu Renxu, who is in charge of purchasing, that Yunzhou is suffering from a severe drought and no grain has been harvested. It's very miserable. A lot of grain from the surrounding states has been transported there. I heard that there is a war there..."

"Our Canghe County is a little far away, so the impact is small, but the rise in grain prices is inevitable. It's just a matter of time. The world is in chaos..."

Manager Wang couldn't help but sigh, with a worried look on his face.

The general trend is unstoppable. Not to mention that he is a small manager, even the entire Gujiazhuang is just a drop in the ocean.

Gu Erniu's face turned pale.

In fact, he had no idea about Yunzhou. After all, the farthest place he had been in his life was Canghe County.

But he knew what the rise in grain prices meant to the people at the bottom.

Life will become more difficult.

Gu Sheng had wisdom from his previous life, so his knowledge was naturally not comparable to Gu Erniu. He felt nervous when he heard the sudden news.

If it was just a drought, it would still be a natural disaster.

But if the drought brought war, it would mean that this dynasty had already lost order and chaos was beginning to appear!

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the difficulty of survival in a chaotic dynasty would increase several times!

Starving people, exchanging children for food, will no longer be just records in books.

Gu Sheng couldn't help asking:

"May I ask Manager Wang, what is the situation of the war in Yunzhou? Is it an uprising of refugees or a rebellion of the rebels? Is the war still going on now?"

Manager Wang looked at Gu Sheng in surprise, shook his head and said:

"I don't know the details. Manager Gu Renxu heard from the storyteller that the news came a month ago. It is estimated that it is over now, but the mess over there will definitely not be cleaned up for a while. It's always right for you to stock up more food."

Gu Sheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The ability to quickly suppress the unrest shows that the foundation of the dynasty is still there, so it won't collapse so quickly.

What Gu Sheng fears most is that the world is in chaos now, then he can only go with the flow and has no power to protect himself.