Chapter 149 - 149 Chapter 144: Rain and Dew are Shared Equally i (2/2)

“Master, you’re back! Quite early today, aren’t you!”

Xiao Qing saw Qin Niu return and, delighted, dropped the broom in her hands and ran to the entrance to greet him.

“Hehe, you came home early to save me the trouble of carrying a lantern down to the foot of the mountain to meet you.”

Qin Niu patted her head.

“Oh, Master Tang, you all haven’t finished work for the day yet!”

He saw inside the courtyard, the Tang Fang brothers and their workers were working overtime, busy with tasks like building walls and laying floor tiles.

“Didn’t you lend us your ducks? And you also gave our Tang Family’s patriarch some advice which, after setting up the buffer zone, really succeeded in stopping most of the locusts from entering the village. Everyone is especially grateful to you, so we wanted to help finish your new house as soon as possible. It’s estimated that it can be completely finished the day after tomorrow!”

Tang Fang turned his head and smiled as he explained.

“Thank you so much! Later, each person can take home a piece of wild boar meat!”

Qin Niu didn’t wait for their consent and, taking Xiao Qing with him, entered the house.

The four hundred pound wild boar yielded nearly three hundred pounds of meat.

Qin Niu had Xiao Qing distribute five pounds of meat to each worker.

The Tang Fang brothers were the foremen and had put in the most effort, so they received ten pounds of meat each.

This made the workers beam with joy, and they repeatedly thanked Qin Niu.

Even if a pound of wild boar meat sold for only three Wen Money, five pounds were fifteen Wen Money.

It wasn’t much money, but Qin Niu’s gesture made the workers very comfortable and filled them with gratitude.

Qin Niu personally cut a piece of meat from the boar king, about ten pounds in weight.

“Master Tang, please give this piece of meat to Tang Caixian and ask her to eat more of it.”

Qin Niu didn’t openly say that eating this meat would aid in cultivation.

One must always guard against others.

After all, Tang Fang might secretly switch it out.

The difference between the boar king’s meat and regular wild boar meat was too great.

To know, that boar king had cultivated a Beast Core and was considered a magical beast.

Tang Caixian was a good girl and had also given Qin Niu an extremely valuable jade pendant. Naturally, if capable, he would take care of her in every possible way.

After sending the workers off and looking at the newly taking shape house, Qin Niu was quite satisfied.

He cut another piece of the boar king’s meat, also around ten pounds.

“Xiao Qing, go give it to Miss Wang next door. Remind Miss Wang that she can eat more of it.”

“Hehe, I knew the master wouldn’t forget Sister Wanyan.”

Xiao Qing seemed young, but she was quite the little devil.

Having tasted the meat buns that Miss Wang had given, her fondness for Miss Wang was quite obvious.

“You’re a little imp, now hurry and go!”

Qin Niu scolded her with a laugh, gave her the meat, and then went into the house to take a bath and changed into clean clothes.

Xiao Qing had already returned after delivering the meat.

“Sister Wanyan says thank you and asks that you visit her for tea when you have time. Actually, she came to look for you twice in the past two days, but since you were not home, she left.”

“I’ve been so busy every day recently; I really haven’t had much time. Next time she comes, tell her to come find me in the evening.”

Qin Niu had intended to say, let her come find him at night.

But then he thought that might be inappropriate.

After all, how would it look for a young unmarried woman to go to a man’s house at night?

Unless one day he married her or they were engaged, that would be a different matter.

“Oh right, Steward Yan Qi from the Yan Family also came looking for you. Learning that you had gone into the mountains, he sat at Wang Furen’s place for a while and then left.”

“Did he mention what for?”

“No, he didn’t say. He just bought the two thousand ducks from Wang Furen.”

“Do you know how much he paid for each one?”

“I really don’t know that.”

Xiao Qing had limited information she could inquire about, and people wouldn’t tell an outsider like her the price of the transaction.

Qin Niu decided to ask Wang Furen about it the next time he saw him.

He felt like selling the ducks now was a bit premature.

The scale of the insect disaster was so large, it definitely wouldn’t stop within a day or two.

With over seven months left until winter, if the locust plague was not dealt with by human effort, it would at least continue to ravage for over six months.

Moreover, their breeding speed would get faster and faster, and it would only get more terrifying over time.