Chapter 136 - Chapter 136: Chapter 131 Mid-Level Farmer_i (1/2)

Chapter 136: Chapter 131 Mid-Level Farmer_i

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One powerful Worker Ant, one powerful Soldier Ant, two Poisonous Ants, one Breeder Ant, the rest are all regular Worker Ants and Soldier Ants.

The Ant Queen now produces a hundred eggs a day, and with the base number up, almost every day there are special ant species emerging.

Keep in mind, these special ants can all be promoted to Grade Three after a secondary cultivation.

However, special ant species like Fourth have not appeared again.

But from a probability standpoint, there should be special ants like Fourth emerging in the future, just in even smaller numbers than elephant-nosed Soldier Ants.

After cultivating the termites, he came to the beehive, looking at the Queen Bee that had become a Grade Three War Bee, along with a group of Grade Two Green Ring Worker Bees, he felt equally satisfied.

Now, the Queen Bee produces a hundred eggs a day; just wait for a dozen or so days, and he could cultivate a hundred special bees each day.

By then, he should be able to achieve great things.

There might even be special types of bees to appear.

After the ten newly eclosed bees came out today, he discovered one of them had a notably large size and a deeper color.

After careful identification, a wave of disappointment.

It was a male bee.

The Queen Bee would mate with the male bees numerous times, but she wouldn’t mate with those male bees that were related to her by blood.

This was particularly miraculous.

When she released pheromones to attract other male bees, the ones related to her by blood seemed not to feel it at all.

Only those non-blood-related male bees would be attracted.

Qin Niu did not cultivate this male bee, letting it fend for itself.

His time, energy, and resources were limited.

It was impossible to cultivate two bee colonies.

There was no need for that either.

So, cultivating this male bee would essentially be meaningless.

Having completed cultivating the insects, he naturally went under the banyan tree to cultivate without mention.

When he emerged from under the banyan tree once more, his Everlasting Spring Technique had broken through to the mortal’s Eightfold level, and it seemed there would be no issue for the Medicine King Sutra to break through to the Fivefold level tomorrow.

This frightening speed of cultivation made his strength rise very quickly.

When he returned to the village with a large group of special termites, he found that Wang Furen had already bought the ducks back.

“Master Qin, a full three thousand ducks, please count them! We arrived just in time, as a locust plague hasn’t occurred there yet, so the ducks didn’t go up in price. After haggling with the owner, I bought them each for six Wen Money,” said Wang Furen, looking travel-worn, as did the other villagers who went with him.

He managed to buy the ducks for only six Wen Money each, Wang Furen was truly a businessman, even after over a decade of not working, he still had an amazing business acumen.

“It would be great if these ducks could really prevent the locust plague! I rented nearly twenty acres of land this year, eighteen acres of which are in our village, and my whole family is depending on the yield from these eighteen acres,” said Liu Shengli, another villager who went along.

The locust plague was so severe that despite many measures taken on his family’s land, none were effective.

Few villagers had their own land, and many were tenant farmers.

Those who rented less had only three to five acres, while those who rented more had twenty to thirty acres.

Xu Zhenchang must be the biggest tenant farmer, renting at least a hundred acres. If the crops are really eaten up by the locusts, many might consider hanging themselves with a rope.

“Hasn’t the locust plague occurred over in Ping Shui yet?” Qin Niu was more interested in this piece of information.

“It seems the locust plague is sweeping in from the north. Once we left our village’s boundary, we saw locusts ravaging everywhere, but Ping Shui was still calm for the time being. So, I surmise the locust plague must have originated from the north,” Wang Furen provided an important piece of information.

“Thank you all for your hard work! Just put all these ducks into the buffer zone!” Qin Niu said, looking at the semi-grown ducks brought back in layer upon layer of bamboo cages. Each cage should hold about a hundred.

They had bought back more than fifty cages in total.

“Master Qin, I bought two thousand ducks myself, and the villagers who went with me bought dozens or hundreds. In total, the number of ducks bought back is five thousand four hundred and sixty. We rented five ox-carts, which cost five Wen of Silver Money. We ate our own dry food when we were hungry on the road, and drank from natural water sources when we were thirsty. So, there were no other expenses. You had three thousand ducks, and if we calculate the ox-carts as three, that would be a transport cost of three Wen of Silver Money.

The ducks were six Wen Money each, three thousand ducks in total cost eighteen taels of Silver Money.

Adding the transport fee, the total comes to eighteen taels and three Wen. You gave me twenty-six taels, and this is the remaining Silver Money. Please count it,” Wang Furen calculated the account very clearly.

The aim is to save as much as possible.

This is also a good tradition of country folk.

You have to be thrifty; earning money is too hard, and it hurts to spend it.

“You’ve worked hard! You are the lead leader, so I am giving you a hundred Wen Money a day as wages, and for three days that totals three hundred Wen,” Qin Niu said, taking the returned excess silver and immediately handing three Wen to Wang Furen.

“Oh, I can’t take it, I can’t take it. I bought two thousand ducks myself. Besides, this is for the good of the whole village; I can’t accept this money,” Wang Furen hurriedly refused.

“Take it if I tell you to take it, why so much nonsense!” Qin Niu said, his face darkening slightly, which frightened Wang Furen from refusing any longer, and he honestly accepted the silver, showing an expression of covert joy on his face.

A hundred Wen Money a day as wages, such high-paying work is hard to find anywhere.

“There were seven of you in total. Each person will be paid twenty Wen Money as wages. Sixty Wen each,” Qin Niu said without hesitation.

Don’t even mention him; even the Yan Family has to pay wages if they want someone to work for them.

That’s the rule, and it’s the most basic social norm.

If you try to use your status to push people around and expect them to run errands for free, the next time something comes up, everyone will avoid you like the plague. Either they’ll pretend to be sick or hide and not show up. What can you do about it?

The seven people took the wages from Qin Niu with an outward appearance of trepidation, but inwardly they were just as overjoyed as Wang Furen.