Chapter 22 - Ive Finally Gotten It (1/2)
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Chen Shaojun successfully received his tallies.
He received eight tallies. If he included the two tallies he had received in the morning, his income for today was 860 wen.
It was quite a lot of money.
He was only about a hundred wen away from one tael of silver.
“An income of 800 wen a day in the capital is not low.”
Chen Shaojun kept the tallies. However, when he thought about how a celebrity could earn 208,000 yuan a day in his previous life, he did not pay that much attention to his income anymore.
It was because he could tell that in this world, the strong did not lack money. As for the weak, if they wanted to practice martial arts to strengthen themselves, this amount of money was simply not enough.
After that, Chen Shaojun didn’t stay here any longer.
Since he had already received the benefits, he naturally had to avoid showing his face in front of the scar-faced man.
He returned to the backyard.
Even though they couldn’t hide their fatigue, the apprentices were still standing outside the door excitedly. They were looking at a corner of the backyard and whispering.
“Who was it?”
“Who exactly did it?”
In the backyard, a crippled old man flew into a rage. Meanwhile, a large black dog was lying stiffly at his feet.
Chen Shaojun immediately understood what was going on at one glance.
“Brother Chen, you’re back?”
“Hehe, you definitely can’t think of what happened, right?”
Zhao Hu noticed Chen Shaojun’s figure and quickly called out excitedly, “See? Lame Liu’er’s dog is dead.”
“How did it die?”
“I don’t know. We only heard it let out a terrible cry. Then, we saw it lying on the ground, motionless.”
“Perhaps it suffered the wrath of the heavens?”
“The wrath of the heavens?”
“That’s right. This vile creature was a dog that relied on the power of others to commit all sorts of evil. I reckon even the heavens couldn’t bear to watch any longer. That’s why they decided to punish it by beating it to death.”
The others began to speak, their faces filled with schadenfreude.
“This beast died well. It should have died long ago.”
One of them was even gnashing their teeth.
Obviously, this person had suffered quite a bit under the hands of the black dog. Chen Shaojun glanced at him and knew that the reason this person was so resentful was mostly that he had just been bitten by the black dog a few days ago.
Then, Chen Shaojun looked at the black dog again. He realized that the black dog’s eyes were round and bloodshot. He could vaguely see endless fear in its eyes.
It had truly died with its eyes open.
“I have sinned! I have sinned!”
Chen Shaojun shuddered and stopped looking.
Meanwhile, Lame Liu’er had become tired after cursing for some time.
What about the black dog’s corpse?
No one cared about it.
It was not their turn to ask about it either.
…
Chen Shaojun quickly put this incident aside and focused on his own development.
He felt that he had gained too much today.
He received the Spirit Accumulation Pill, the Horse Taming Technique, the Four Diagnostic Methods used in traditional Chinese medicine, the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada technique, the Substitution technique, the Baleful Breaking Ruler, as well as the Substitution technique.
Oh right, there was also the Elemental Spirit Pearl that he had already used.
The effects of the rewards were different, but they could all be considered rare treasures.
They were all extremely helpful to him.
Especially the Elemental Spirit Pearl.
It tempered his body, established his Dao foundation, and even increased his lifespan by 30 years.
Furthermore, there were Daoist true techniques like the Supreme Sense Scripture that he could constantly cultivate to increase his strength.
However, he also noticed something.
The more good things he had, the faster his strength and methods would improve. As a result, the risk of him being discovered would become greater as time went by.
Luckily, there were no true experts in the pawnshop. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to hide for so long.