Chapter 291 The Wooden Stake Shattered into Slag
"I can find the change. I'll give you one ounce of silver for a thousand copper coins. Let's go back to my house first. I'll give you the key and then help you find the money."
When they returned to the village chief's house, he asked her to sit down in the yard and then called his wife over, saying, "Old woman, quickly make some tea."
Gu Liyue said, "Don't bother. It's getting late. After I finish my work, I still have to clean up the house."
The village chief immediately said, "Okay, I'll go get the copper coins and keys."
The village chief's wife watched him go into the house to get the money, and followed him in and said, "Old man, what is this girl doing here? Why are you still taking money?"
The village chief said, "She is here to rent a house. This girl only has silver on hand. I will give her the change in copper coins."
"It's silver!" The village chief's wife's eyes lit up. "I wonder how much more silver she has."
This old woman hasn't seen silver for a long time, probably decades. When she first got married, the village chief's father was the village chief. She had seen silver at that time.
Later, life in this fishing village became increasingly difficult. Everyone used copper coins. Even if other families had copper coins, they had very few. Only their family would collect some copper coins to help everyone go to the city to purchase goods.
Suddenly, a little girl holding silver came to the fishing village, which made her unable to help but ask one more question.
The village chief gave her a warning look and hurried out.
Gu Liyue took out a tael of silver, watched the village chief turn around, put it in his mouth and took a bite to confirm its authenticity.
Then he took out nine hundred and fifty heavy copper coins and gave them to Gu Chunyue with both hands. Gu Chunyue pretended to put the money into his pocket, but actually put it into the space.
Then Gu Liyue went to take care of the house herself. All the daily necessities were available in the house. There was also a simple kitchen next to the room with a stove and a small pile of firewood next to it.
Gu Liyue took a look and felt that there must have been people living here before. Maybe the house was vacant after they left.
At this time, San Ya also went home. It was getting dark. Gu Liyue lit the oil lamp in the room. She tidied up the things inside and took out the things she was used to from the space.
She didn't want to enter the space tonight, and she didn't know what would happen on the first night.
She meditated on the bed, feeling the spiritual energy in the air. She found that the spiritual energy here was very thin and difficult to absorb into the body. She felt that the reason why people here could not practice cultivation might not be a problem with the people, but because of the spiritual energy here.
She tried hard to guide the spiritual energy into the spiritual veins and found that once the spiritual energy was introduced into the body, it would turn into spiritual power after circulating for a week. The amount of spiritual power was twice what she had originally in the Cangwu Realm. She was overjoyed.
Although it is more laborious to introduce spiritual energy in the early stages, the rewards obtained are greater.
In the middle of the night, Gu Liyue suddenly heard a strange noise outside the house. It sounded like two people's footsteps. She got out of bed, lit the oil lamp, walked to the window, gently lifted a corner of the curtain, looked outside, and found two men standing outside, looking at her window.
The two men were somewhat similar to the village chief. When they saw the oil lamp in the house turned on, they were a little at a loss.
Gu Liyue asked, "Who?"
Then she pushed open the door with a dagger in hand and looked at the two men.
The two men watched the door open and saw a pretty woman holding a dagger and looking at them with a cold look in her eyes.
Unexpectedly, they took a step back unconsciously when they were stared at. After realizing it, they instinctively knew that this woman was not someone to be trifled with. They couldn't help but feel a little bit of retreat in their hearts.
But money is tempting. When the eldest brother thought of the way his father and mother's eyes lit up when they took out the silver, and looked at the weak woman in front of him, he realized that they were two tall men after all. The eldest brother measured each other's strength and felt that the winner should be on his side.
Gu Liyue watched the expression in his eyes constantly changing, and knew that if she didn't scare them, they would definitely take action tonight.
In this mortal world, she didn't want to get involved in too many causes and effects. After all, they were not on the same level, and it was not a good idea for her to interfere too much.
She walked out the door and slapped a wooden stake in the yard, breaking it into pieces.
The two men's faces changed drastically, and the eldest man had no choice but to say, "Second brother, how come there's someone living in our house? I haven't heard Dad say that?"
Another said, "Brother, we didn't get back until midnight, and Dad went to bed early. Even if he rented it, we wouldn't know."
The eldest brother said, "I'm sorry, we didn't know Dad rented out the house. We were afraid of waking up the family if we went home in the middle of the night, so we decided to stay here for the night. We didn't expect the girl to be here."
Gu Liyue watched them act out their own show for a while and said, "Now you two know what's going on. Please go back!"
"Okay, we'll take our leave."
With that, they turned and walked away. After a dozen steps, the boss turned back and saw Gu Liyue still standing inside the door, watching them. The dagger in his hand gleamed coldly in the light from the room. He shuddered and walked even faster.
This caused the second brother to call out to him from behind: "Brother, wait for me."
In the second half of the night, Gu Liyue only felt that the sea breeze outside the house made the woods behind the house rustle, and there was nothing else unusual.
The next morning, she went into the woods to see what they looked like.
In fact, there is a high mountain behind the house. The forest on the mountain is very dense. At first glance, it looks like just a forest.
She climbed to the top of the mountain and stood there looking towards the sea. The coastline curved slightly, forming an inner bay. This small fishing village was built in the inner bay at the foot of the mountain by the sea. It felt like it was backed by the mountain and faced the sea. The place was not small.
Gu Liyue wanted to see what was on the other side of the mountain, but found that there was another mountain behind the mountain, and she couldn't see anything.
There are indeed no large wild beasts in this mountain, just like the mountains and forests in the mortal world, but there are not even wild boars.
She pondered the setting of this world and felt that it was not a real world, but she could not sense any flaws while being in it.
She looked at the seashore again and saw the fishing boats parked there. It seemed that the fishermen were about to go out to sea again.
They were sorting fishing nets and other things by the boat, chatting while doing so, and seemed very happy.
Gu Liyue went down the mountain. In order not to make people think that she was different from others, she had to eat. She killed a pheasant and a rabbit, threw them in the kitchen, and walked to the beach to see what they were talking about.
"We were really lucky yesterday. The fish was so huge that we didn't expect to catch it. This time the village chief will transport it to the city and sell it for a good price. Our lives will be better then." said one of the dark-skinned strong men.
San Ya was standing next to him, and she also had a smile on her face.
"Daddy, where is the big fish? Why didn't San Ya see it?"
"The village chief arranged for it to be transported to the city early this morning, so San Ya can't see it anymore." Cai Dazhuang teased her.
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