Chapter 235 (Exclusive Published on Jinjiang Literature City): It's Time to Buy a Warship
The greenhouse wasn't very soundproof, and they could hear everything the villagers were saying from outside.
Upon learning that those who awaken supernatural abilities can be granted titles and thus escape the status of ordinary people, I couldn't help but feel extremely envious.
With the camp harvesting multiple times, they no longer lack food, and even have a considerable amount of stored grain. However, evolution fluid cannot be obtained simply by having food.
Previously, Huo's army could only obtain a few dozen weapons each time. Later, it was heard that when Yunxianhou went to other settlements, he also traded out a lot of them, so it was unlikely that there would be any extra for them.
The simplest and most promising way to obtain the evolution fluid is to become a member of Yunlu Village.
This is one of the reasons why they insist on coming to help out even though they are already well-fed: they want to see if they can marry into the village or become sons-in-law of Yunlu Village.
Unfortunately, while there were some transactions where money and goods were exchanged directly, none of them actually came to fruition.
It wasn't possible before being granted a title, so it was even less likely afterward.
After all, their social standing had changed, and they were now from different worlds. How could they be worthy of a family that had produced a baron?
While the villagers were overjoyed, the helpers, harboring their own ulterior motives, became increasingly disheartened.
The villagers didn't make a ruckus in the greenhouse for too long.
Having received such a glorious honor, everyone wanted to go home and celebrate with their families, have some private conversations, pay respects to their ancestors, and tell their deceased elders the good news.
The Li family has two noble titles and two in-laws. The Wu family, father and son, also have two noble titles. Then there's the Ye family; although Ye Lin hasn't awakened his powers, Ye Jing, who possesses hearing abilities, has been granted the title of Lady of the Township.
These people are all related by blood or marriage; they are all part of their family's network. The total number of them is even greater than that of the Lu family, enough to make the Li family laugh for three days and three nights.
Li Tie placed his hands on Li Jing and Li Tuo's shoulders respectively, his face flushed, and said, "You two have really made me proud! With you two brothers, our Li family can finally stand tall."
Li Jing and Li Tuo were beaming with joy, while Wu Yinyin and Li Kangbao's eyes were also sparkling.
Miao Jinfeng looked at Li Tuo with relief, "It's a good thing I didn't rush to find a wife for Li Tuo before. Now that you are a baron, a nobleman, you have more opportunities to go out. Maybe you can meet the daughters of noble families in other places in the future. At the very least, you can marry a well-educated and reasonable woman like Mr. Ji to be your virtuous wife."
Li Tie nodded in agreement.
He wouldn't become arrogant just because his family suddenly became rich, thinking that only daughters of noble families were worthy of his son. People might not even look at families like theirs, which were essentially still from humble backgrounds.
However, marrying a woman with better conditions is the only way to ensure harmony in the family.
Li Tuo hasn't figured it out yet, so he doesn't care about these things.
If the woman he chooses in the future comes from a poor family and is illiterate, he can simply teach her. Nowadays, everyone in the village, adults and children alike, can read, and they all learned to read gradually.
The whole family made a ruckus for a while before calming down a bit.
At this moment, Li Tie suddenly said with some concern, "Now that there are so many people in the village who have been granted titles, is it really appropriate for me to be the village chief?"
Miao Jinfeng looked at him in surprise, "You've been the village chief for decades, what's inappropriate about that?"
Li Tie scoffed, "Before, everyone in the village was just an ordinary citizen, so it was fine for me to take care of them. But now I'm still a commoner, while everyone else is a baron or viscount. How can it be my place to take care of them?"
Li Tuo retorted, "What's the big deal, Father? You're not a baron, but you have two sons who are dukes. You can still manage things. Otherwise, are you going to give up your position as village chief? And who would you give it to? My brother?"
Li Jing quickly shook his head, "I can't be the village chief." The position of village chief may not sound like a big deal, but in reality, it involves a lot of trivial matters on a daily basis.
He found his father's handling of those matters bothersome and even annoying, but he didn't think he could handle it.
To avoid getting into trouble, Li Jing reassured him, "I think you're overthinking it, Father. If we're really going by rank, Lu Xuan's title is definitely the highest, but do you think he'd be the village chief?"
Li Tie quickly shook his head, "No."
Li Tuo said, "That's it then."
Li Tie sighed and said, "Ah Xuan is Ah Xuan, but others may not be as indifferent to fame and fortune as he is."
It is said that when one person attains enlightenment, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Perhaps someone who has become a benefactor wants to bring glory to their family members by making them village chiefs as well.
Li Tuo felt that his father was worrying unnecessarily, so he simply said, "Then you should ask Brother Lu for his opinion and see what he says."
Li Tie thought it made sense and immediately called Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan didn't say much, only saying, "You've managed things very well," which put Li Tie at ease, as if he had taken a reassuring pill.
Miao Jinfeng laughed and said, "Are you relieved now? Even Ah Xuan has no objections, so the rest of the villagers certainly won't dare to say anything."
Li Tie smiled too.
He wasn't actually after the title of village chief or the little bit of power.
He was just worried that others might not know their place, and that they might become arrogant after receiving the reward, causing trouble and dragging the village down with them.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
The fact that the able-bodied men of their village go out to do business everywhere is already quite noticeable. Especially at times like these, they should keep a close eye on things.
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The Lu family.
After hanging up the call, Lu Xuan continued talking to his family.
Since returning home, Lu Chen has been jumping around excitedly on the sofa, shouting, "I'm a nobleman now!" "I'm a nobleman too!" "I'm so awesome!"
Lu Qing and Lei Yan's reactions weren't as exaggerated, but they were still all smiles.
Lu Qing, cradling her eight-month pregnant belly, uttered a silly remark: "Who knows whose title our child will inherit in the future?"
Before Lei Yan could speak, Lu Chen, who was still bouncing on the sofa, chuckled and reminded her, "Sister, have you forgotten that you're carrying a boy? Isn't 'village lord' a title for women? The baby will definitely inherit your brother-in-law's baronial position."
Lu Qing suddenly realized, slapped her forehead, shook her head and laughed, "It really is true that pregnancy makes you stupid for three years, look at my brain."
Lei Yan smiled and reassured her, "If our son inherits the position of baron, and we have a daughter in the future, she can inherit your title of village chief."
The circumstances of granting titles based on supernatural abilities are special. His Majesty has made an exception and allowed them to inherit the title without fail for one generation. Even if the title of baron is the lowest rank, it can be passed down for another generation.
The title of village chief held by Lu Qing has been passed down for two generations. Lei Yan felt that there was nothing more gratifying than knowing that his descendants would live a better life than they did.
Lu Xuan, however, felt that the rank of baron was too low.
Lu Chen has a higher starting point than others. He is only eight years old this year, and his gravity ability is also more powerful after it is upgraded. It is not impossible for him to achieve great things and become a high-ranking official when he grows up.
But it's uncertain whether Lu Qing's unborn child will awaken superpowers in the future. If not, the child may only be able to live off the title of Baron.
Lu Xuan also thought of his title of Marquis of Yunxian.
However, Lei Yan did not marry into the family; strictly speaking, Lu Qing was a member of the Lei family. Noble titles are generally inherited by people of the same clan and surname. How to pass on this title without wasting it will need to be considered later.
At the same time, the Zhang family, the Xiong family, the Chen family, the Ye family, Wujia, and many other families were filled with laughter and joy.
The laughter and noise didn't stop until late into the night.
And most of them came to the Lu family the next day.
What are you here for?
Of course, it's buying a house!
After making several trips, the young and middle-aged men had accumulated so much grain that they couldn't believe it themselves. Their goal of buying a house, which they had thought would take at least two or three years, could now be achieved ahead of schedule.
However, after receiving the title, each family's goal for buying a house also changed.
Every family that had been granted a title gave up the idea of buying a two-bedroom villa and, as if by agreement, all wanted to buy a three-story villa, the kind that was on par with the Lu family.
Lu Xuan has a lot of safe houses from blind boxes. Safe houses that were difficult to obtain in low-level blind boxes can now be obtained frequently after switching to black and gold blind boxes, saving him the trouble of investing extra costs.
In just one day, Lu Xuan sold nearly twenty three-story villas and about ten two-story houses, earning about 500,000 catties of grain.
[Tsk tsk, I used to think that the profit margin on selling houses was huge, but now it seems like it's not that much.]
[It's really not much, only 500,000 jin (250 tons), just enough for the streamer to give us one prize draw.]
"...You guys are really getting cocky."
The village underwent a dramatic transformation on the very day the house was purchased.
The two-story houses and double safe houses around the Lu family's residence have all been transformed into three-story villas with slightly different exteriors but similar floor areas, which look exceptionally grand.
With the houses getting bigger, the yards also had to be larger. In addition, those families who replaced their double safe houses with two-story villas have almost doubled in size.
Not all of them left the safe houses they originally lived in. Most chose to stay and continue living there, planning to buy them all at once after accumulating more supplies. This would allow for more spacious living for larger groups.
After buying the houses, the villagers started preparing to develop the land.
There wasn't much farmland to be given around the capital, which wouldn't be very convenient for the villagers of Yunlu Village.
Fortunately, Yunlu Village was not short of nutrient solution that could be used to fertilize the fields, so the new emperor allowed the villagers to cultivate the land themselves. As long as the acreage matched, it would be considered a royal gift and they could enjoy tax-free treatment.
If they move to a new place and start a new life in the future, they can record it again.
Considering the upcoming rainy season and the lack of available land in the hills, the group decided to move to a more open area further away and cultivate some low hills.
Of the village's original 200 mu of greenhouses, five mu were allocated to each of the few families who had not awakened their special abilities and had not received any rewards. The remaining fifty-odd households were divided up by lottery, and X distributed the shares as rewards to the families who were drawn, thus eliminating the trouble of clearing the land.
Aside from these two hundred mu, the village also needs to develop more than three thousand mu of land, including the land bestowed by the emperor.
More than a month and a half into the hottest season, the temperature has already risen to nearly fifty degrees Celsius.
The villagers were all wearing bio-suits, but they still didn't like the high temperatures and immediately changed the heating materials.
First, they built a greenhouse and installed air conditioning. Then, they privately funded the rental of a large tiller from Lu Xuan and began clearing the land in a flurry of activity amidst the cool breeze.
In addition to cultivating fields, almost every household has set aside at least one acre of land for mushroom cultivation.
Private mushroom farms only need to pay 20% of the public resources; the rest belongs to the owner. They can harvest seven or eight thousand catties of mushrooms a month, which they can dry or make into sauce for themselves or sell.
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A large, newly built greenhouse area.
During his lunch break, Chen Rong strolled over to the Zhang family's land and teased Zhang Chengming, who was still busy at work, "Hey, Lord Zhang, you haven't finished working on your land yet?"
Zhang Chengming, whose name was called, looked up and wiped his sweat. "Lord Liu, are you taking a lunch break? You know our family has 150 acres of land, so naturally we can't be fast."
Others were also resting, and they gradually gathered around to chat.
When people greet each other, they deliberately call each other "Lord Li" or "Lord Xiong" to flatter each other. After saying this, someone can't help but touch their chin and laugh.
"I must say, it really feels good to be a master."
Chen Rong glanced at the kids huddled together laughing and joking in Zhang's field and said, "Speaking of which, aren't Lu Chen, Mei Cheng, and those other kids having even more fun?"
After awakening his superpower, Lu Chen, who was no longer sensitive to anything, heard Chen Rong's words and turned around. He deliberately put on a proud face and shouted at him, "Uncle Chen, my rank is higher than yours. You have to call me Viscount Lu, or Lord Viscount."
Mei Cheng blinked: "I am Viscount Mei."
Zhang Dafu joined in the fun, saying, "I am Viscount Zhang."
Xiong Dabao pouted, feeling a little aggrieved, but thinking of the various foods and toys his friends had given him over the past two days, he quickly cheered himself up and gave the adults a snort.
Chen Rong laughed heartily and said, "Yes, yes, you are all viscounts, all adults, and all more capable than us."
After saying that, he suddenly put his arm around Zhang Chengming's shoulder and said with a smile, "By the way, you are a baron, but your son is a viscount. Do you think people outside who don't know the situation will think that you are his son? Hahahaha."
The others hadn't thought of this before, but after Chen Rong reminded them, they also found it amusing.
Zhang Chengming, on the other hand, seemed indifferent. "As long as I know who the son is and who the father is, that's enough."
He wouldn't feel his pride hurt just because his son held a higher title than him.
He was overjoyed that his son was more capable than him.
With the crystal core, Dafu's superpower also leveled up to level two, and now he can even help his family speed up the fermentation of sauerkraut.
Although it can only produce a small jar each time, it's still a significant improvement over the previous situation where it was difficult to even accelerate the production of a single ginger plant.
With such a unique time-manipulation ability, he's bound to have a bright future. What's a viscount compared to that? Maybe his son Dafu will become a marquis someday.
Zhang Chengming glanced at Chen Rong and said, "Don't laugh at me. Hurry up and finish your work in the fields to earn money. If you don't go, the disaster victims in those settlements will think you've run away."
Chen Rong snorted, "I'll be going out in a couple of days, no need for you to tell me."
After buying the new house, the grain I earned from a few trips was almost gone.
The others were in a similar situation. In order to make more money from the savings they had spent on buying a house, the group immediately started discussing which more cost-effective items to bring with them this time.
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The Lu family.
"I'm back." Lu Chen returned from outside, covered in sweat. Seeing that only Lu Qing and Lu Miaomiao were in the living room, he asked, "Isn't brother here?"
Lu Qing said, "Ah Xuan is in his room, probably playing games."
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen immediately took out his holographic helmet and put it on, ready to see what game his brother was playing.
After unlocking the purchase permission for holographic capsules, Lu Xuan equipped his family with one. However, it was not very convenient to use the holographic capsules during the day, so Lu Chen usually used the helmet instead.
However, when they logged in this time, they found that Lu Xuan was offline and had not entered the game.
Lu Chen was a little confused, but his underlings in the game quickly came looking for him, so he temporarily put aside his idea of finding his brother and began to roam the game world with his underlings.
At this time, Lu Xuan had indeed not entered the holographic world.
The first batch of grain used to repay debts in the capital totaled ten million catties. After that, with the new batch of goods traded, the sales of individual protective shields to aristocratic families, and the profits from various households' greenhouses, Lu Xuan's account easily exceeded 10 billion, and even exceeded 1 billion more.
With so many points, he has far exceeded his goal.
It's time.
Lu Xuan smiled and opened the system store, accurately searching for the military warship he had looked at repeatedly.
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Author's Note: Thanks to "Changyushan" for throwing two landmines. (Time of throwing: 2025-06-14 18:33:50)
"Swallow", irrigate with nutrient solution +1
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