The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Even though Li Laosan said he would help with the book cover for free, Zhao Chuanxin also gave Xiaoyang two jiao.

Everyone praised him for being honest and generous. Li Laosan grinned to the back of his ears, extremely happy.

In fact, Zhao Chuanxin is also very proficient in the way forest elves deal with things.

Two dimes is a lot.

Ten jiao Xiaoyang, that is a silver dollar.

The terms Yin Yuan and Xiao Yang are also imported words, and various parts of the country imitated foreigners to make money.

There is also a local mint, and silver coins and small coins are produced every year. They are very popular among businessmen and gentry from all walks of life, including the common people.

Zhao Chuanxin doesn't like to ask for broken silver, it's too inconvenient. As for the copper coins, when giving change, he couldn't throw them away, as that would look too wasteful.

Leaving everyone behind, Zhao Chuanxin went home.

After washing up, I stewed half of the leopard meat and steamed the rice.

As a result, the meat had some psychological effect, and the more I chewed it, the more disgusting it became. Cut the rest into minced meat and keep it to be fed to dry rice slowly.

There was half a piece of raw meat left, which he blanched with water and sorghum wine and stir-fried in thick oil and red sauce. He only ate a little bit and gave the rest to the snot-nosed kids outside who were watching eagerly.

Then, assign tasks to the children waiting outside.

He mixed the yellow mud himself and continued to build the wall.

Several children stepped forward to move bricks and took turns as laborers. They became more and more discerning.

While leveling the mud bricks, he said to the children: "After the house is built, I will ask Carpenter Li to go to the city to help bring back cakes. Each of them will have one piece as a reward."

"Oh...there are pastries to eat!"

Everyone was so happy.

Each person mixed a bite of meat and had some pastries to eat when he was done.

The house is not big, and Zhao Chuanxin is very capable. Before night, he had built the remaining part of the wall.

Next is the house.

He first tore down the original kang and stove, and also tore down the wall that separated the bedroom and kitchen. After all the rubbish has been removed, rebuild the middle wall first.

This wall is very important. In Zhao Chuanxin's plan, this wall not only plays a role in isolating the bedroom and the kitchen, but also serves as a warm wall. Below, he will build a fireplace.

The entire wall is a warm wall, with bedroom windows and kitchen windows on both sides of the wall. In this way, the warm wall will create two thermal convection currents in the house.

This trick he learned from a big brother on the list.

That guy spent a lot of money to build a house in the countryside. Instead of using electricity for heating, he used a fireplace. The auxiliary heating effect of the fireplace is definitely more efficient than air conditioners and electric heaters, but it is not as reliable as an earthen kang. So, the buddy asked someone to design it, and built a wall in the middle, not the entire partition, but half of it.

This gives a sense of modern decoration design. Below is the fireplace, which is surrounded by glass and you can see the roaring fire inside, which is very stylish. The most important thing is the half wall, which is hollow inside. The fire from the fireplace fills the hollow wall, and then exits through the chimney at the top of the opposite corner. The principle is actually not much different from that of a fire kang. You can imagine that the fire kang is erected and placed across the center of the room.

As a result, after completion, the heating effect was surprisingly good!

Zhao Chuanxin used a smaller version, but he believed that the area of ​​his cabin was much smaller than that of his buddy's house, so the heating effect would be better.

After working hard until evening, I went to Liu Baobao's house for a meal.

After dinner, open the diary.

No one else can read the words in the diary.

Therefore, Zhao Chuanxin discovered something magical: he could read the words in the diary at night without using a candle.

[Have a good rest and I will continue on my way. 】

[The new lantern flower given by the forest elves guides me to avoid all possible dangers on the road. 】

[I can feel that the environment has completely changed. It was a wonderful feeling, as if everything was covered with soldiers and other people's eyes were everywhere. I had the illusion of being spied on. 】

[Until, a big walking tree came to me with overwhelming momentum. 】

[In front of the tree man, I became as short as an elf and needed to look up to it. 】

[The tree man shook his beard and spoke, his voice as thick and long as history: Stranger, you have come to the territory of the tree man. Although you are very small, I can crush you with one kick, but I will not do that. What are you doing here? If you are a friend, I will prepare sweet and delicious sap for you. If it is an enemy, I will show you what a fatal blow is to a peace lover! 】

Is this a neutral clan?

Zhao Chuanxin was very suspicious, because Shuren's fresh and refined sense of pretentiousness in and out of his words was so familiar.

Um? A coup de grace for peace lovers? learned!

"I looked up to the tree people without being humble or arrogant, and said: I was entrusted by someone to come and talk about it. A race on the verge of extinction - the forest elves, they asked the tree people to take action."

[The tree man grunted like an old man's phlegm. He thought slowly like a dying old man. After a moment, he said: The tree man is a peaceful race and will not participate in their wars. The balance of the Shadow Forest cannot be broken. 】

In fact, Zhao Chuanxin is an eloquent person, and what he is best at is convincing people with reason.

"I said sincerely: I am a human and do not belong to the Shadow Forest. But I am still willing to lobby for the forest elves. Because, like you, they are all peace lovers. They should be peaceful and continue to live their lives. They lived a carefree life. However, the other eight tribes used their identities as invaders to break all of this. If the tree people just sit back and watch, how can they know whether the tree people will be invaded next?"

[The tree man continued to think slowly and said to me: Stranger, what you said makes sense. But you overlooked one thing, tree people are very powerful. The tree man only needs to step forward to crush everything! 】

Playing a debate match with someone who has a slow brain is really a bit bullying.

Zhao Chuanxin wrote in his diary with ease: "I said to the tree man: The tree man spent too much time in isolation from the world while standing and thinking for a long time. So much so that he didn't know that the outside world had been turned upside down. The birdmen have pocket technology that can even hold the entire huge tree body. The bear warriors, who are already gifted with strength, have developed limb balance technology. Not to mention, the beetles have now forged even you. Even the Treants may not be able to trample the armor. As for the Ant-men, they will use their numerical advantage and fearless spirit to tear you into pieces with their powerful jaws, and then use the bodies improved by powerful potions to destroy your Treants. The debris is transported away and used as fertilizer for them to cultivate edible fungi. Together, they will raze your tree people's territory to the ground. Is this the balance you want? Could it be that you would rather be neighbors with these invaders than To associate with peaceful forest elves?"

[Finally, the tree man’s vicissitudes of life, mottled, and moss-covered face revealed a look of emotion. The tree man's face was tangled and twisted for a while, and then he said: You are right, it seems that we have wasted too much time thinking about life. I can promise our tribe to participate in the war, but there is one thing I need to emphasize to you! Forest Elf is not as perfect as you said. These little things have a cunning temperament! Maybe not as bad as intruders, but they are something to watch out for. 】

This time, it’s a true one-way reward mission.

Coming to the tree people's territory, I wasted a lot of time and gained nothing.

This group of honest people don't know how to use profit to drive people to do things for them.

It doesn't seem that difficult to trick them into something. But Zhao Chuanxin didn't want to do that.

In the entire Shadow Forest, I'm afraid the tree people are the only ones who are truly kind.

[I said goodbye to the tree people and rushed back to the mausoleum. 】

[I got the one-year lifespan reward I deserved. 】

Rewards arrive!

Zhao Chuanxin fell in love with this kind of comfort.