I became an old man in my leisure time

Gu Ke was startled and couldn't help but say "Fuck" in his heart. Reading

The last time the special field for cultivating immortals was 10 units of soul source, it has become 20 now, which is a direct price increase of one time, but it is still worth the money.

There are no more new modules that can be activated, which is slightly beyond his expectations.

Upgrading existing modules consumes twice as much as activating, which is reasonable.

However, building a bamboo house can actually reduce the consumption of soul source?

At present, only two masters can stay in the ancestral tomb hall, "brush monsters once a month on the 15th", and produce strange crystals to obtain soul source, each unit is very precious.

Repairing the bamboo house only consumes some bamboo and labor, what's the big deal? Bamboo is always growing in the immortal field.

In order to make life less boring, he doesn't want to starve to death, people can do things while they are alive.

In this way, the cost of repairing the bamboo house is about zero.

However, there are three crops, soybeans, yellow millet, and black millet, and the supply of bamboo must be increased for a period of time, so these two immortal fields are definitely not enough.

And the immortal field is one of the fundamentals of his comfortable life, and he will never have too much.

With this in mind, he reserved a piece of fairyland in his mind, which left only 60 units of soul source.

After thinking for a while, he included the Xiuxian study room in the scope of consideration. It is impossible that this thing is only for him to practice calligraphy, right?

Moreover, if it is just a room for practicing calligraphy, it can also be a place for sleeping and living. It is common for the male owner of a wealthy family in ancient and modern times to sleep in the study room.

10 units of soul source, betting that the study room has special functions like a warehouse and a workshop, this can be considered.

After a closer look, Gu Ke included the pergola in the reservation list.

From the name of this thing, there is no use value at all.

But just like the study room, the system gave this module, it can't be just for him to see the scenery, right?

The gambling nature of choosing this is greater, but the pergola has another advantage, that is, it can be adjusted like the workshop.

It occupies an area of ​​two fen, and it can be square or round or even stretched into a long strip, and it can be curved like a corridor. Does it seem to have some use value?

There are also bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and processing workshops. Their names clearly show their functions.

But for Gu Ke, he can sleep anywhere. Didn't Bai Suqing live in a bamboo house for so many days?

In his previous life, Gu Ke lived in a big city until he was in his early thirties. He always rented a house, and he certainly couldn't afford to buy a house when he was old.

In that big city, there are many young and middle-aged people who can't afford to buy a house and work far away from home, but they still live there.

So the bedroom is very important for the quality of life, but when there is no money and there are alternatives, it doesn't matter if you can bear it.

The kitchen is similar. He likes delicious food, and the biggest reason that prevents delicious food from appearing in the valley is the lack of ingredients and spices.

As the saying goes, a good cook can't cook without rice. Unless this kitchen can directly turn into seasonings, it will only make cooking easier or make cooking more delicious?

Hmm, this is too hard to give up.

There is also a processing workshop, which can process various raw materials into further high-end or special materials.

For example, wheat straw is processed into brown sugar - the sugar is indeed a little red when it is thick, and brown sugar is processed into rock sugar and white sugar, and purple wheat is processed into flour and wine.

Thinking of the three new grains that will be harvested soon, soybeans are processed into soy milk, tofu, and soybean oil, and yellow millet and black millet can also be processed into flour and wine, Gu Ke couldn't help but put it on the reservation list.

20+10+10+40=80? Damn, I have "so much" soul source and it's gone? The scene of delicious food all over the sky suddenly disappeared.

No matter how good the house is, it can't resist the "wallet" being empty.

Wait, he can also build a bamboo house to reduce soul source consumption and achieve "discounted house purchase"?

Except that the fairy field is not a building, it can't use self-built bamboo houses to reduce consumption, other study rooms, pergolas, and processing workshops can all be used.

Each saves 3 units of soul source, 3 saves... 9 units of soul source? Damn, there is still 1 point to activate a new building.

After thinking about it, Gu Ke finally decided: put the processing workshop aside for the time being, and try to build a bamboo house to reduce consumption.

Anyway, the soul source will not be reduced if it is put aside for a while, so there is no need to make a decision in a hurry.

The fairy fields that cannot be "discounted" can be made today, and then all bamboos will be transplanted to provide raw materials for making bamboo houses.

Even if the output is more, it can be kept as raw materials.

When the needs of this batch of system buildings are met, the excess bamboo forest will be removed.

After making up his mind, he chose a position next to the No. 1 fairy field and extending down the mountain on the system's 3D topographic map, and placed the No. 3 fairy field.

A gray light lit up more than ten feet away. Miss Qin and Bai Suqing turned their heads at the same time, stood up at the same time, floated to the edge of the stone platform, and looked down from a high position.

The newly appeared two-point black soil fairy field appeared on the slope, and Qin and Bai, who were not far away, showed joy in their eyes.

In this valley, no one would dislike having too many fields.

Besides, the food plants planted in this black soil grow at an incredible speed and have their own magical uses, so they will not dislike it.

But... that's it?

It's not that they are greedy, it's just that the previous ghosts are far inferior to the black ghost last night, and Gu Ke "conjured" two fairy fields, a small hut, a warehouse, and a workshop.

It's really unexpected that there is only one fairy field at this moment.

Gu Ke didn't say much, just called two young employees and asked them to transplant bamboo from field No. 1 to the new field No. 3 later, and try to ensure that the bamboo quickly grows into a forest in the new field.

Xiaoman waved the indestructible bluestone knife in his hand, replied that he knew, and started working with Xiao Ping'er.

She had done bamboo transplanting with Gu Ke many times, so she was very familiar with it and didn't need him to worry about it.

Immediately, Gu Ke smiled at Qin Bai and the other two girls: "Now, let's build another bamboo house. How much benefit we can get this time depends on it."

Miss Qin's eyes lit up: "Build a bamboo house? This is worth a try."

Bai Suqing watched coldly, suspecting that someone was trying to please the young lady.

She heard Gu Ke talk about the last time Miss Qin played with the stone mill.

Of course, he was not gossiping about others behind their backs. It is not a bad thing for people to have a little childishness, but a normal phenomenon.

And now the maids have been sent back to the ancestral tomb hall, the two little girls are busy planting bamboo, and there are only three of them on the stone platform. Isn't it up to Miss Qin to play as she pleases?

No matter what the two girls were thinking, the construction of the new bamboo house began soon.

During this period, the bamboo forest in the field has resumed growth. Gu Ke would pick out the tallest and thickest ones every day and cut some and put them outside the warehouse to dry.

After more than ten days of accumulation, it is also a large batch.

This time the construction work is much easier than the last time.

Gu Ke and Bai Suqing have both done it once, Miss Qin is doing it for the first time, but the powerful strength and control of the body of the sixth-level warrior are seriously exceeded. It is a human crane, a living crane.

The Tianluo hand makes his body movements more flexible and coordinated, especially his hands.

Cutting bamboo poles is steady and fast, and weaving rattan strips is fast and accurate.

Just like playing musical instruments, talented people can play extremely difficult songs with their fingers, while people without talent can't even play the simplest songs.

The Tianluo hand made him go from a beginner who knew nothing to a quasi-professional with manual talent, and he only needed to learn related skills.

The work that used to take three-tenths of strength to complete can now be done with one-tenth of strength.

However, in just half an hour, a long bamboo house that is twice as large as Bai Suqing's bamboo house appeared in front of the three people.

Miss Qin's forehead was slightly sweaty, but it was not because of fatigue, but mainly because of excitement.

Cut bamboo poles, tie bamboo rafts, tie thatch, and then put them together.

She had never seen bamboo and rattan quickly turn into a house under her hands. It was so novel and so... fun.

Yes, for a young lady who had studied and practiced martial arts since childhood, she had never even made an embroidered handkerchief, let alone making such a large item by herself.

So she could play with a stone mill for several days, which could only grind flour, but now she built a house with her own hands.

Although most of the work was still done by Gu Ke and Bai Suqing, Miss Qin still felt a sense of accomplishment.

Gu Ke had no time to pay attention to Miss Qin's excitement, but paid attention to the system prompts.

The second bamboo house was deliberately built larger, twice the size of Bai Suqing's bamboo house, and the consumption that could be reduced as a material became 5 units.

A system building with 10 units of soul source reduces 5 units of soul source.

However, the workshop can use two bamboo houses as materials at the same time, reducing the consumption of 5+3=8 points of soul source in total.

Gu Ke thought about it, and asked Qin Bai's two daughters to dismantle the bamboo house into several large pieces and transport them to the workshop.

As soon as he thought about it, the workbench turned into a huge table slightly higher than the ground, and then the three of them put the bamboo house together again on this table.

Qin Bai's two daughters had no objection to this.

The items made in the workshop would have a magical effect. They had experienced it personally, and their strength had soared to the sixth level.

It was just that just now, they did not think that the bamboo house could be made in the workshop.

Choose to end the manufacturing, and the system prompt appears: "This manufacturing is completed, and the bamboo house is obtained, the basic attribute is solid +5, and the characteristic is dust-proof +1."

Gu Ke's attention was directly placed on the part that could reduce the consumption of soul source. The number behind this new bamboo house is 6, which can reduce the consumption of soul source by 1 point.

The corners of his mouth curled up, and he could no longer hold back his laughter.

Miss Qin was inexplicably surprised and looked at him sideways.

Bai Suqing was calm and knew that he must have gotten some benefits again, so he lost his composure like this.

After Gu Ke was happy, he did not explain, but waved his hand: "Build, build as much as possible, and finish all these bamboo poles today."

Miss Qin: ??? Are you kidding? Then at least two more can be built!

Bai Suqing just silently pulled the bamboo poles: If it can be useful, then it doesn't matter if a few more are built, anyway, it won't tire her.

But this time Gu Ke was in a hurry, so he called Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju, Chun, Xia, Qiu, and Dong to help.

More people can solve the problem of sorting and delivering materials and stabilizing the position of bamboo poles.

He only needs to take the rattan and tie it with all his strength.

An hour later, four bamboo houses of different sizes were lined up in the south workshop.

Fortunately, the workshop was more than ten feet long on one side, enough to place four bamboo houses.

Gu Ke asked Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju and others to make lunch, and only left Qin Bai and his two daughters on the scene.

Miss Qin finally couldn't help suppressing her curiosity for the whole morning: "How is this bamboo house made? What will it be used for?"

Gu Ke didn't answer immediately, but stroked the bamboo house with satisfaction, while looking at the prompts in the system.

This experimental new bamboo house No. 234 is smaller than the first new bamboo house.

They can reduce the soul source consumption by 6 units, 5 units, and 4 units respectively.

The 5-unit bamboo house plus the 4-unit bamboo house, used to activate the study, can still only reduce the consumption by 6 units.

The 4-unit bamboo house and Bai Suqing's 3-unit bamboo house are still the same.

And the workshop that needs 40 units of soul source can use 4 bamboo houses in a stack, reducing consumption by 21 units in total.

Gu Ke had some speculations about this, but that still needs to be tested, so he continued after dinner.

"The work is not finished yet, and we have to modify the bamboo house after lunch." He said so to Miss Qin.

Miss Qin's face was full of "Are you kidding me?", but curiosity made her quickly succumb: Let's eat! I don't believe you can delay it until the evening.

She was right, Gu Ke really couldn't wait until the evening.

He was more anxious than anyone else, but the soul source was so little, and being anxious meant waste, and unnecessary anxiety was not good.

Everyone ate lunch quickly.

Xiaoman and Xiaoping'er were called to eat together, and they stayed in the workshop after eating.

They planted bamboo there for a whole morning, and they were very envious when they heard everyone talking about building bamboo houses together during dinner.

Xiaoman also built one with Gu Ke and Bai Suqing, and it felt better.

Xiao Ping'er was a little anxious, feeling as if she was "exiled".

Fortunately, Xiao Man was with her, otherwise she would have cried.

But after lunch, in order to complete the experiment as soon as possible, Gu Ke called everyone, including her, to work.

First, dismantle the two smaller bamboo houses, replenish bamboo poles and straw, and make two new large bamboo houses.

In the system, a single new bamboo house can reduce the consumption of 6 units of soul source in buildings such as study rooms, and four together can reduce the consumption of processing workshops by 24 units.

So far, Gu Ke has basically confirmed his speculation and discovered the law of reducing soul source consumption - it is a law, not a loophole.

In short, a large part of the soul source used to build system buildings is consumed in "void creation".

When the bamboo house is provided, there is a ready-made framework and raw materials.

The system does not have to waste soul source to create "void creation" from scratch, it only needs to check for omissions and complete the rest.

However, this raw material and framework only account for 50% of the soul source consumption.

No matter how big the bamboo house is and how many materials it has, it can only reduce the consumption of 5 units for 10 modules, or 20 units for 40 modules.

Excess raw materials will only "overflow" and will not continue to reduce consumption.

And the change from 5 units to 6 units and 20 units to 24 units may be the "added value" brought by his workshop manufacturing.

Take the house in modern society as an example. Before, the system "all-inclusive" construction, including materials and labor, until the final product is produced.

Gu Ke does not have to worry about anything, and the price is to pay more money (soul source).

When he builds a bamboo house, he just repairs the main building by himself.

The system is only responsible for dealing with defects and loopholes, and then doing some simple decoration, the charge will naturally drop significantly.

The workshop processes the bamboo house, and completes part of the simple decoration, and the charge can be lower.

In short, if you want to save trouble, you will spend more money, and if you want to save money, you must pay more energy.