Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 60: Shimin asks for help
Among the goods sold in this market, there is 50 jin of salt, which is packed into 100 fish maws. Each fish maw is sold for 2 liang of incense silver.
The salt alone brought in two hundred taels of silver.

In addition, one hundred bundles of dried earthworms were sold for one penny of incense silver per bundle, for a total of ten taels of incense silver.

There are also four types of dried meat of land birds and beasts with slight, medium, strong and extremely fishy smells. One pound is also worth one penny of incense silver.

A total of 150 kilograms of dried meat was collected, and the money earned was 15 taels of silver for incense offerings.

The above, the incense silver earned from the sale totaled 225 taels, plus the money earned from the buffalo monster's stomach space,
A full two hundred and forty taels.

He ordered his left-hand brother to lead the six newly born shrimp and crab monsters to cut rock salt, and then boil it to make salt. He also asked the short-tailed water python to lead the eight newly born snake and python monsters.
Go ashore to hunt prey to feed the monsters, store the excess, and wait for sunny days to pickle and dry them.
Then let the eel and the newly born loach take advantage of the slippery and muddy shore during the rain to collect earthworms soaked by the rain.
Either as bait or to dry in the sun. After finding the bait in the stomach of the buffalo monster, Liu Qing felt that he was too stupid.

There is no such thing as selling dried earthworms directly. The vendors mix the earthworms with grass seeds and sprouts to ferment them and sell them as bait.
This not only increases the weight, but also allows you to sell more silver.

As for Scar Carp, Bearded Carp, and One Touch of Red, they were ordered to patrol the Snake Pond-Xiaolugou water vein.

The bearded catfish was sorting out the many miscellaneous items that Liu Qing took out from the space in his mouth bag, preparing to set up a stall at night.

Because the underwater clams in Shetan Xiaolugou are often used as pots for boiling salt or as bowls and plates for serving rice,

Therefore, Liu Qing did not allow the catfish to gamble with river clams anymore, which made the catfish very regretful and he said that he had lost a great income.

Liu Qing had no choice but to agree to it and contact the Shrimp Merchants Company when he had time to import a batch of clams from the Wuding River and then use them to gamble on clams.

The Wuding River has been flowing for hundreds of years without drying up. The riverbed is filled with thick silt, and is home to many shrimps, crabs, snails, and clams.

After all the chores were arranged, Liu Qing spit out the incense silver, and the demonic energy in his mouth swirled, generating suction, and began to absorb the incense divinity contained in the incense silver.

[Incense Divinity +0.1]

[Incense Divinity +0.2]

[Incense Divinity +0.3]

As he continued to swallow and inhale, the divinity of the incense slowly accumulated, while the swallowed incense silver became as pale as paper ingots, wet and rotten by the spring rain.

[Divinity of Incense: 10%]

Suddenly, the panel trembled, and the incense divinity accumulated to 10%, just like the authority divinity, under the door, where the gods were hidden,

Incense smoke rises, and beneath the smoke, supernatural powers are being nurtured.

The time required for this gestation process may be one day or two days, which is unpredictable.

Liu Qing was happy in his heart and waited patiently, still spitting out the incense silver from his mouth and continuing to absorb the divinity of the incense.

Bai Sheer was bored and yawned. She put her head on Liu Qing's back and slowly closed her eyelids.

Liu Qing frowned.

This scene seems to bring back memories of the past, but the old people have left and the new ones are imitating them.

But the white snake is not a red carp, and the newcomer cannot replace the old one.

Liu Qing turned sideways to avoid the white snake, but the white snake muttered in its dream, then snaked closer and put its head on his back again.

"Silk"

Her tone was as soft as a young girl's, but her behavior was fierce and unyielding. Such a white snake made Liu Qing tremble, but she did not hide away.

Well, since she is the one raised by my family, I have to pamper her first. When I find Hong Gu in the future, I will let her teach her etiquette.

The continuous spring rain turns into silk threads, competing with the willows on the shore in the wind to see who is more supple.

Liu Qing rested for a while in the rain, and then continued to absorb the incense divinity from the incense silver.

[Incense Divinity +0.4]

[Incense Divinity +0.5]

[Incense Divinity +0.6] The river monsters were used to living in poverty. The incense silver they used to buy salt was mostly small pieces cut by shrimp and crab monsters with their claws, so they didn't have whole ingots of silver.

As a result, the divinity of the incense is very scattered when absorbed.

While Liu Qing was absorbing the divine power of the incense, he couldn't help but think about what would happen if he sent the shrimp and crab monsters in his home to the water palace.

Specializing in cutting incense silver for the big and small river monsters in the water palace in the lake must be a very good business.

Unlike the previous ones, when cutting incense silver with other river monsters, they also charged labor fees, Liu Qing thought that he could cut them for free.

It's just because when cutting shrimp claws and crab legs, there will always be some incense and silver crumbs stuck to them. Little by little, it adds up to a lot, and at the end of the day, the harvest is quite good.

Time slowly passes as you absorb the divinity of incense.

By noon, Liu Qing had absorbed almost all the divinity from the incense and silver in the mouth bag.

Only about ten taels of loose change were left to be used as change for the catfish in the evening.

[Name: Liu Qing]

[Species: Horned Boa (Metamorphosis)]

[Realm: Refining Essence into Qi 57%]

[Divinity: Authority 20%, Incense 26.1%]

【血脉天赋：1吞象（小成）；2尾鞭（小成）；3厚甲（大成）；4口囊（小成）；5沸血（小成）】

[Mystical Powers: Water Control (Minor Success); Water Puppet (Beginner)]

[Heaven and Earth Source Qi: 4 points]

The incense divinity, after absorbing nearly two hundred and twenty taels of incense silver, surpassed the authority divinity for the first time.

Deep under the door above the head, there were two clouds of smoke that gave birth to the magical power of incense.

Liu Qing was very happy when he saw this and was looking forward to the two magical powers coming to fruition.

The short-tailed water python brought a newly born yellow sheep lamb. Liu Qing took it after hesitating for a moment, praised the short-tailed water python, and made the python wag its tail in joy.

Although Liu Qing always said that he would not kill mother animals with cubs or newborn animals, he did not kill the lamb himself, so it was not a violation.

It rains a lot in spring, but the fire can be preserved by simply storing it in a cave high up in the mountains.

Therefore, the place where Brother Zuoshou and others cooked salt, as well as the dining hall where everyone ate, were moved to an unnamed cave.

It is said that ever since the monsters ate cooked food with salt, no one was so rude as to clamor for food to be eaten raw.

After all, eating cooked food is the dividing line between barbarism and civilization. Even though it is a river monster, it also has monster civilization.

After a hearty meal, Liu Qing climbed back to the crooked mulberry tree with a lazy expression. He was so full that he felt dizzy from carbohydrates, oh, and protein.

Just when Liu Qing was dozing off.

From the southeast of Snake Pond, a man came alone, holding an oil-paper umbrella.

The white snake was originally dozing off against Liu Qing. When it heard footsteps, it suddenly raised its head, its pupils turned cold, and it made a sharp sound.

The short-tailed water python heard it and looked in the direction immediately. There was another sharp hissing sound. Suddenly, a rat snake, two silver ring snakes, four three-flowered water pythons, and a green-skinned anaconda appeared.
It snaked forward with its body snaking, its upper body raised high, its snake core spitting out, its mouth slightly open, its fangs ferocious.

The oil-paper umbrella was folded, revealing the person under it.

"May I ask if Brother Liu is here? Shimin has come uninvited, and I hope Brother Liu will come out to meet him!——"

(End of this chapter)