Chapter 81 - Chapter 81: Chapter 76 The Great Official Prestige 1 (1/2)

Chapter 81: Chapter 76 The Great Official Prestige 1

After entering the mountain, render grass gradually appeared by the roadside.

Ah Niu still worried that it was too small io eat grass. Xiao Nui nibbled a bit here and there, closely following Qin Niu.

In its eyes, this might just be an adventure through the mountains and streams.

Qin Niu wanted to build it a cowshed and needed to find suitable wood for that.

Fir was a relatively ideal material.

But since every household used it for construction, these peripheral areas had long been cleared.

Qin Niu had plenty of strength, along with a treasured sword and martial skills, so he fearlessly went deep into the mountain.

He soon found a grove of fir trees; not just a few, but even cutting a hundred firs wouldn’t be a problem.

“Xiao Nui, graze here by yourself, and don’t wander off too far. Ill cut a few fir trees to build you a cowshed,” Qin Niu said as he patted its head.

It didn’t resist.

Moo-!’

It answered Qin Niu with a deep moo.

It probably couldn’t understand Qin Niu’s words since he had only mastered Insect Trace Identification and couldn’t communicate with beasts yet.

But it was smart and seemed to roughly understand Qin Niu’s intentions.

Seeing Xiao Nui busily looking for tender grass and leaves to nibble, Qin Niu stopped minding it and drew his treasured sword, chopping at a fir as thick as an adult’s thigh.

A tree of that thickness was just right for building a cowshed.

With one swing, Blade Qi appeared, easily felling the large tree.

The cut was near and tidy.

He smiled, satisfied; he had long had this strength.

It was just that the treasured sword had revealed its Blade Qi just now, making the chopping much easier.

After pruning rhe branches and cutting off rhe narrower end where it was as thick as a lower leg, one fir was ready.

For a typical lumberjack, it would take at least a quarter of an hour or more.

With his Threefold mortal cultivation and the treasured sword that could reveal Blade Qi, he estimated he could fell six or seven trees in fifteen minutes.

He cut down fifteen fir trees in one go, each as thick as an adult’s thigh.

Bundling five together, he found dragging them to be very easy.

There was no need to carry them on his back.

Raw wood was very heavy; five logs together must weigh at least five to six hundred pounds.

“Moo-1”

Xiao Nui called out and then galloped towards Qin Niu.

“Quite spirited, huh! It knows I’m going back and came over without being called,” Qin Niu said with a laugh.

Having a companion in the mountains was a pretty good feeling.

Termites and bees couldn’t provide that feeling.

Only having Xiao Nui alongside gave him a sense of companionship.

Qin Niu dragged the five logs, his head bowed as he walked, but his eyes carefully observed the ground. His Insect Trace Identification skills had become proficient, allowing him to spot insects from their hidden traces.

Ordinary insects had no value in his eyes.

He aimed to catch rare insects.

Whether taming them as pets or selling them for Silver Money, it would be very good.

1 le didn’t discover any on the way.

There were countless unusual insects in the big mountains; not finding any only meant that his Insect Trace Identification skills were still weak.

The more formidable the insects, the more cautious they were, leaving behind very few traces.

Some powerful insects even went so far as to erase the traces they left or camouflage them as natural features.

Dragging the five firs down the mountain, he broke out in a sweat.

Xiao Nui ran to the back several times, using its head to push against the logs, seemingly wanting to help Qin Niu.

This comical scene made Qin Niu smile involuntarily.

“When you’re a bit bigger, you can help me with the work,” Qin Niu said.

Dragging the fir wood back to the village, from a distance, Qin Niu saw many villagers gathered around the entrance of Wang Furen’s residence.

A tremendously majestic black horse was tethered outside, obviously of a much higher quality than the one Steward Yan Qi used for his carriage by several folds.