Li Ruo: "Don't you have a blacksmith? Have your boss call some strong brothers to move pig iron and tell him to focus on blacksmithing instead of thinking nonsense all day."
Sun Ergou's eyes widened. "Sister, are you kidding me? Where did you get this pig iron?"
"Why ask so many questions? Hurry up."
"Yes, yes." Sun Ergou skipped back to fetch the people.
Li Ruo released all the pig iron from her spatial storage in the bushes beside the waterfall, and when she turned around, she saw Liao Fusheng emerging from behind a large tree.
She was startled. "What are you doing here? Did you come here to pee?"
You probably didn't see her release anything, right? If you did, the system should have given a notification.
system:……
Liao Fusheng was a little stunned. The next moment, his face turned red. "I, no, I was just browsing around."
"So what did you find?"
Liao Fusheng looked behind Li Ruo and jogged over, "When were all these pig irons brought up?"
"Guess?" Li Ruo asked him with a smile.
Liao Fusheng looked at her, his eyes flashing, "...I can't guess."
Just then, Sun Ergou arrived with his men. "Sister, where's the pig iron?"
“It’s here,” Li Ruo shouted.
Sun Ergou and his brothers' eyes lit up with astonishment when they saw it. "Sister, you're amazing! You managed to get all this at a time like this!"
Sun Ergou was rather thick-skinned and didn't think much of it. He immediately ordered everyone to pull the wooden cart with all their might.
Li Ruo and Liao Fusheng faced each other, one with a scrutinizing gaze, the other with a fiery look.
Finally, Li Ruo smiled wryly and said, "Let's go downstairs and let them carry it."
Liao Fusheng slightly withdrew his worshipful, burning gaze. "Okay."
After Sun Ergou finished directing his men to pick through the pig iron, he ran over again and said, "Sister, the boss said that you helped a lot this time, so we can't just take the stuff for nothing. He's asking you what kind of reward you want."
Li Ruo said, "He wanted it for free. He thought, I also need weapons, and he had promised to keep supplying me with the small arrows for my hidden blades."
"The eldest brother said he actually got the better deal. Even brothers should keep clear accounts. He doesn't want to owe you anything."
Li Ruo was taken aback. "They're already brothers? They haven't even sworn brotherhood yet." That's right, even brothers need to keep clear accounts.
“Your boss amassed quite a few treasures before, jade and porcelain and the like, give me a few,” she said.
Sun Ergou was puzzled. "What good are those? Money isn't enough these days. The boss said the flood will last a long time. Sister, it's more cost-effective for you to order pork and chicken."
Li Ruo laughed, "Didn't your boss say you were siding with outsiders? I'm a woman, so I'm a bit short-sighted and I like things that aren't useful."
"Okay, I'll go tell the boss."
Not long after, Sun Ergou brought over two boxes of bottles and jars, including porcelain and gold and silver items, all of which were exquisitely crafted treasures.
"so much!"
"The eldest brother said that these plates are usually used to hold meat and vegetables, and there are still many at home. These jars are too small to be used for pickling vegetables, so he gave them to you."
There was a small wooden box underneath. Li Ruo opened it and saw several items, including a gold-inlaid jade hairpin, a jade bracelet, an ivory comb, and coral beads. "What about these?" she asked.
"The boss said he doesn't need these as a man, and Xie Ying can't wear that many either, so they're free. Oh, I'll give them to you."
Ugh, the boss had to say such awful things.
Li Ruo smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take it as a gift for recognizing my sister. Thank you." She accepted it all without hesitation.
Hey, I can exchange for another batch of points!
Those bottles and jars were exchanged for a total of 5.6 million points!
The space level has increased eleven times! Each time it's multiplied. Just imagine what that means—you can't even see the end with a telescope. This time...
Adding the points I had before, I now have 6.1 million available points, bringing my total to 14 million.
Accumulating 12 million points unlocks fuel, which allows you to buy things like motorboats and airships. However, a motorboat costs 5 million points, and an airship costs 10 million!
"What the hell? Why don't you just rob it?" Li Ruo realized that anything that didn't exist in this era was ridiculously expensive.
Prices of all kinds of goods continue to rise.
Although Li Ruo really wanted to buy a jet ski to enjoy the water, she didn't buy it because she had already used up five million points.
Anyway, I don't really need it.
She bought four barrels of fuel, which are very useful, but they cost her 800,000 points.
With fuel in hand, Li Ruo also bought a manual pump-operated high-pressure water gun with a range of 30 meters and 200,000 points.
I used another 5,000 points to buy a lot of bamboo tubes, and now I have 5,090,000 points left.
Li Ruo didn't buy anything else. After leaving the room, she added some eggs, chickens, ducks, pork, mutton, and cabbage to the storeroom, since everyone assumed that the items were from Xie Dajia's place.
"Grandma, tonight I'll cook two chickens and pig's trotters to nourish everyone, especially my sister-in-law."
Grandma Li felt it was too extravagant. "Others eat coarse food and wild vegetables. It's not right for us to be like this."
“What’s wrong with that?” Li Ruoxin thought. “I still have lobsters and abalone. Let them know that we landlords have surplus grain, so they will trust us more and work harder.”
Who would want to work for a poor boss?
Can loyalty exist independently of self-interest?
Just then, Little Li came to find her, "Sister Ruo, the boss asked me to give you the little arrow."
He pulled out an exquisite quiver. "Fifty quivers in total."
Li Ruo knew that making this little thing was actually not easy, "How did Xie Xiao do it so quickly?"
Wouldn't they let someone rush to deliver her goods first?
Little Li grinned: The boss even did it himself.
A jumble of indescribable thoughts surged within Li Ruo. "Thank you for me, boss."
Hearing this, Old Lady Li said, "That's right, since we're adding dishes tonight, why don't we invite the head of the household over for a meal?"
Li Ru thought for a moment, "That works too."
But Little Li said, "The boss isn't here; he's gone out."
Li Ruo's heart suddenly skipped a beat. "Has his injury fully healed? Where did he go?"
"The boss didn't tell me."
Li Ruo went to Black Wind Village with Xiao Li Zi. Sun Er Gou was not there; Uncle Luo received her instead.
Because he felt that Li Ruo and the chief were definitely siblings, Uncle Luo didn't hide anything. "Our spies in Qinghua Mountain came back and said that the Prince of Runan used the canal boats to transport a lot of grain ahead of time and hid it in a mountain valley. The boss said to go and rob him."
“What? He still went.” Li Ruo frowned.
"Yes." Uncle Luo was worried. "This leader's injuries haven't fully healed yet. I advised him to wait a couple of days, but he said he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Prince of Runan was short-handed and recruiting soldiers, and that Qinghua Mountain was in chaos, to cut off their food supply. That way, even if Song Zhi wanted to borrow food from him, he wouldn't be able to. If he waited too long, he would miss the opportunity."
How does this relate to Song Zhijing?
That makes sense. He would retaliate sooner or later for robbing Song Zhijing's grain last time, and weakening the Prince of Runan would also weaken Song Zhijing.
The Prince of Runan is currently short-handed, so this is indeed a good opportunity.
However, Xie Xiao was still injured on this mission in the book because he encountered the Prince of Jiangning on his way back. Now that he is still injured, the outcome would be hard to say if he hadn't been wearing "soft armor".
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