Xu Shang touched the money in his inner pocket and felt like he had returned home rich.

In 2006, the average income of farmers nationwide was only 3,587 yuan. In remote and poor places like Tianya Village, it would be even lower, perhaps even less than half of the national average income of farmers.

Xu Shang earned 2,000 yuan in less than a week, which is likely to be higher than the annual income of many farmers in Tianya Village.

Of course, to be able to make so much money, everything is inseparable from the help of the system.

In addition to the system, information asymmetry is also an important reason why Xu Shang can make money. You should know that ten years ago, a pair of jeans bought for a few dollars in the coastal areas could be sold in the north at ten times the price. There was even a legendary businessman who made a fortune out of nothing and exchanged canned food for an airplane.

It is not difficult to understand why the people in the mountains are poor. With blocked information sources, even if they are guarding a treasure mountain, the bulk of their money is transferred to the dealers and middlemen.

But now is still an era full of opportunities and chances. Housing prices are not high, and everything is so vibrant and full of vitality.

Unlike Xu Shang’s previous life, everything seemed to be settled, and the word “opportunity” seemed to have completely disappeared from the lives of ordinary people.

At that time, most of the people in Tianya Village had left, leaving only a few old people and children.

Xu Shang also heard that a few years after he started teaching, all the people here were relocated, and the place that carried the childhood memories of the mountain children and Xu Shang's memories of teaching eventually disappeared among the vines and green ivy.

Xu Shang felt that he had an obligation to lead Tianya Village to prosperity, rather than letting it disappear silently like thousands of other villages.

After returning to Jiang Xiaotiao's home, the first thing Xu Shang did was to find Grandma Sang.

"Why did you buy so many things?"

Grandma Sang looked at the full basket on Xu Shang's back in surprise. She knew very well that it was impossible to buy such a large pile of things with the 50 yuan she gave.

"You have to spend the money you earn! By the way, Grandma Sang, I'm going to return the money I lent you!"

Xu Shang took out five hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Grandma Sang.

"So much?" Grandma Sang was surprised again, "How can medicine be sold for so much money?"

Not only did Grandma Sang not believe it, even the program crew didn't believe it. They looked at the bright red hundred-dollar bill in Xu Shang's hand and felt that Xu Shang got the money inexplicably.

"You must be kidding me, how can you sell medicine for so much money?"

"You guys think Xu Shang won't cheat, right?"

This sentence seemed to awaken the dreamer, and someone immediately said:

"Yes, how could Xu Shangcai's medicine be sold for so much money? If it was so easy to make money, how could Tianya Village still be so poor? I wonder if he went to the bank to withdraw money when he disappeared from our sight?"

"Very likely! This also explains why he went to the city, because the bank he wanted to find was in the city, and there were many bank machines, so it was easy to find them."

The director's face was solemn. The main theme of the program was authenticity. If the city protagonist cheated, the program would definitely cause great controversy.

It is true that a program needs popularity, but not all popularity is a good thing.

Public opinion, especially negative public opinion, is still quite fatal to a program in this era. Once any rumors spread, it is very likely that the program will be suspended.

"Director, should we go and confiscate Xu Shang's money and investigate whether he really went to the bank to withdraw the money?"

The director shook his head. "Given Xu Shang's current attitude towards our production team, do you think he will easily cooperate with us? Moreover, do we have any evidence? What if Xu Shang insists that the money was earned from selling drugs? If we don't handle it properly, we may fall into a more passive position."

"That……"

The director thought for a moment and said, "In Tianya Village, there is no place to spend money. Whether he took the money or not, the total amount is not that scary. The key is what he does next. If he doesn't do anything with the money, then we can just pretend nothing happened. If he wants to do something with the money, we can investigate the origin of the money!"

"What if it is proven that Xu Shang really cheated to get the money?"

"Then film it as it is! Our show is inherently topical, and this level of topicality is well within our control!"

At this time, Xu Shang didn't know that he had been labeled a cheater by this group of people.

But even if he knew it, Xu Shang didn't think it was a big deal. After all, the system was indeed cheating.

And it’s a life cheat that no one knows about.

Xu Shang saw that Granny Sang was unwilling to accept his five hundred yuan no matter what, so she only accepted one hundred yuan and told him that he could always come to her if he was short of money. This moved Xu Shang greatly and strengthened his belief in his heart.

Even if it means cheating, he must find a way to change the poverty of Tianya Village!

Xu Shang already has an idea of what to do next.

He still had more than a thousand yuan left, which was far from enough to build a house for Grandma Sang. It was even less than a drop in the bucket to change the poverty-stricken appearance of Tianya Village, but it was enough as Xu Shang's current start-up capital.

Xu Shang planned to steal the business from the convenience store owner and started collecting medicinal herbs.

To some extent, collecting herbs is unsustainable.

Although Tianya Village is so small, even if all the villagers go out together, it is impossible to cause destructive impact to the surrounding deep mountains and forests.

If Xu Shang just relied on himself, he would ultimately be unable to do it.

For example, the centipedes, scorpions and other poisonous insects in Tianya Village have basically been killed by Xu Shang. This will not affect the ecological balance, after all, there should not be so many poisonous insects in places where humans live.

However, if this happens, Xu Shang will have to go farther away if he wants to look for it. At least there is nothing for him to catch in the village. So, his efficiency will definitely be greatly reduced by going back and forth.

In comparison, even if the people in the village did not have a medicinal herb radar detector, the amount they collected would be far less than what they collected themselves, but if accumulated, the gains would definitely be far greater than what they could get alone.

As for making money, Xu Shang had no intention of making money from the villagers' information gap.

Just like the price difference between processed medicinal materials and prepared medicinal materials is several times, what he intends to earn is precisely this technical processing fee, which is also his core competitiveness.

And to make all this happen, it seemed that Xu Shang didn't need to do any deliberate publicity.

At this time, in the village chief's house, the old couple looked at each other in disbelief as they saw the two hundred yuan that Jiang Xiaotiao handed over.

"Two hundred dollars!"