Chapter 26: Childhood Friends
Hurriedly asked, but this guy only focused on the tasty food and didn't pay attention to anything else.
It's evident that in the years I've been gone, these childhood friends haven't had it easy.
No way around it, Small Knife had to slowly explain and have him find out the situation.
Soon everyone was happily eating the delicious food Small Knife prepared and discussing how unbelievable this realistic game is.
"The game is too real, and extremely attractive, but we're not getting any younger, we can't just play games. This time I went out to get a helmet, and the kids of Third Uncle's family are already running errands," said Mountain Grass.
This made everyone fall silent, the atmosphere was a bit oppressive, no one wanted to marry into the mountain ravine, those present were people who couldn't make it outside and had become a problem for their parents.
Farming at home can't lead you to wealth, it only prevents starvation.
Hunting, haha, not to mention how prey is becoming rarer, even if you managed to hunt, it's only enough to eat, too many animals are protected now, selling them means trouble.
The only prosperous times were the past few years following Small Knife, but everyone ate, drank, and made merry, young and vigorous, didn't really regard money preciously, later causing trouble outside and compensating, now there's little savings left.
Only now do we understand money is hard to earn and certain things are hard to swallow, if you want to save, it's already too late.
Only Small Knife has been without a father since before birth, and his mother left after giving birth to him, growing up on the kindness of many families.
Seeing this, Small Knife smiled and said: "You are all my childhood brothers, no different from real brothers, now that I'm back, following me and you'd still be short on money? With money, are wives still a problem?"
The others, hearing this, their eyes lit up: "Brother Dao! Should we continue transporting goods?"
"Psh, there are many ways to make money now, why take risks? Don't mention transporting goods to me again, what era are we in now," Small Knife rolled his eyes.
"Haha! Listen to Brother Dao, he is the king of our Taishu Hao generation, we're all like family brothers, what's there to worry about?" laughed Mountain Grass.
"Exactly, exactly!" The others nodded repeatedly, looking hopefully at Small Knife.
"From now on, you're working for me, I'm your boss."
"That's right, that's right, as it should be, would Brother Dao treat us unfairly?"
"Every one of you couldn't make it outside, yet you've learned to be slick!" Small Knife thought to himself but said directly, "Your current task is to play the game, report to me daily, follow my guidance, and there's a guaranteed monthly salary of ten thousand."
"Wow!" Everyone immediately got excited, ten thousand, outside you could live well, plenty to eat and drink, it seems hopeful to find a girlfriend too.
"Brother Dao, can playing games really make money? You must not use your savings for us brothers," the most thoughtful Mountain Grass chimed in.
"Rest assured, Brother Dao isn't foolish, wouldn't support you for free, work hard, and there'll be plenty of good days ahead." Small Knife patted Mountain Grass's shoulder.
"We naturally trust Brother Dao's words."
Small Knife knew Mountain Grass was dragged down by some of these troublemakers, otherwise, he wouldn't be struggling outside.
Eating and drinking carelessly, Small Knife made everyone practice Taishu Hao's earthy martial arts for a while to sweat and digest the additional ingredients in the food.
Reportedly, this set of earthy martial arts was quite famous back in the day, but to avoid trouble, the older generation of Taishu Hao wiped away the name after fleeing here, everyone gradually got used to it.
After arranging their future development, especially paying attention to collecting cultivation techniques and treasures in the game, Small Knife first needed to understand their birthplace conditions to plan their development. Upon asking, Small Knife felt sentimental.
These guys, including the most incapable Mountain Grass, were born with skills, basic martial arts.
This kid Stick directly achieved great success, others had minor achievements, proficiency wasn't low either.
They thought all players were like this, didn't find it remarkable.
After instructing them, each left, preparing to make a mark in the game, needing to live up to the over ten thousand salary.
After sending off these guys, Small Knife immediately started a private meal.
Although he hadn't learned the Flying and Earth Escape cultivation technique, eating beast meat containing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, strengthening himself certainly wasn't mistaken.
In reality, he trained, ate beast meat, and worked out with Ah Shan for most of the day, until the sky turned black, before entering the game.
In the courtyard, Big Soldier was busy planting various crops, having finished most of the work.
Xiu'Er was cheerfully teasing little chicks, seemingly very delighted.
"Master Brother, I'm going to practice shooting now." Upon seeing Small Knife, Xiu'Er's expression changed, she hurriedly said.
"No problem, balance work and rest, girls don't need to work too hard." Small Knife softened, waved his hand.
Girls, in reality, his life had made him used to spoiling them, as long as it wasn't excessive.
However, Xiu'Er was still very diligent, picking up the crossbow to start practicing shooting.
With so many wild beast corpses, Xiu'Er had already processed them all, they turned into quality beast meat pieces, ready for Small Knife to handle.
Naturally, back home using pressure cookers to stew them.
But so many, they needed to be divided into several batches.
Small Knife was contemplating when suddenly he was startled by a protruding voice.
"Daddy, how could you ignore me? I'm heartbroken." A disgusting voice came, seemingly as if talking to himself.
This made Small Knife get goosebumps.
"Master Brother, almost forgot, that person has been here for most of the day, Master didn't let us open the door, safety first, I just…!" Xiu'Er hurriedly explained.
"Do just that; if I'm not here, don't open the door, don't go out, safety first." Small Knife nodded with satisfaction.
Only then did he open the courtyard gate.
"Golden Leg! Ah no, Brother Knife, Brother Knife, you finally opened the door, your most loyal little bro has passed your test, always guarding here," Slutty Mouth fawningly said.
Indeed, he came early, talked until his mouth dried up, yet still didn't open the gate, the wall just one and a half meters tall couldn't see inside, very strange, he could only amuse himself by pretending to be various obedient babies knocking on the door, from little obedient rabbit to a grandson paying respects.
This persistence lasted until now.
Having lost all his limits, calling out Daddy, Slutty Mouth completely let loose, even found joy in it, something impossible in reality.
"Speak properly, I had some matters in reality, only just logged on," Small Knife said displeasedly.
"Oh! That's good, that's good, Brother Knife, I thought you abandoned me," Slutty Mouth sighed in relief.
"Speak properly, if you keep being so shady, I won't be polite." Small Knife took a deep breath, really couldn't stand it.
"Ah, ah haha! Brother Knife, it's not much, just that your godly might has now spread across the entire tribe, a spear flew out, transformed into hundreds of shadows, instantly killing a large part of Young Master Dai's people. I'm here to report the good news!" Slutty Mouth promptly explained.
And continued without pause, moving the wood beside him inside.
Relying now on trading wood for quality stone spearheads, he's really doing quite well, truly scared this leader won't accept him anymore.