This Side Effect Is Awesome

This Side Effect Is Awesome Chapter 6

2021-10-09

Chapter 6 Earthworms urge me to forge ahead

"The weather this year is not good, it has been dry for several months, if If it goes on like this, I'm afraid there won't be much harvest, and the days will be difficult."

"We are better, the taxes paid are much lighter, and the talents outside the estate are miserable. The drier the weather, the more insects. I don't know what's going on."

"I just changed the new owner this month. It is said that I can't do any farming work. I have never grown food or medicine ingredients. There are ways to help us solve the problem."

"I'm afraid many people will die again in the winter. I hope the new owner will not exploit too hard, and always leave us some food to save us from starvation to death. Oh, alas."

......

Song Ankang fell silent after hearing these comments, and Qiu Shi next to him was a little indignant: "These people are too much, and they are talking behind their backs. , see if I don't take care of them."

"Don't worry, they are telling the truth." Song Ankang stopped Qiu Shi, and the good mood just now diminished a lot.

Originally in Song Ankang's position, when I heard these tenants gossiping, they could slap them, or even whip them, and no one else would say anything.

However, Song Ankang, who has just crossed over from modern times, is not used to doing this kind of thing, and there are many employees who chew their tongues behind Earth, and I haven't seen any Boss because they chew their tongues and whip employees. Song Ankang has done this kind of complaining about bosses, so he didn't clean them up.

The tax of Cloudcourt Estate is not heavy. If it is a normal year, after paying the tax, the estate can still have about 20% of the grain and about 10% of the medicine ingredient.

Among them, 10% of the medicine ingredients and half of the food belong to the owner, who can decide where to go, and the remaining 15% is the harvest of the farmers.

It seems quite cruel, but you must know that outside the estate, even in normal years, the villagers have to pay more than 90% of the tax, and only 10% belongs to themselves.

The share of Cloudcourt Estate can reach 15%, far more than the villagers outside. Naturally, many people are eager to become tenants of Cloudcourt Estate.

However, the severe drought this year has greatly affected both food and medicine ingredients, but the tax will basically not be reduced, and may even increase, which means that Cloudcourt Estate has more The share will be taken by Tang Family.

In this case, let alone 20% of the food and 10% of the medicine ingredient, I'm afraid not even half, or even less.

Even so, Song Ankang, who is the owner of the village, has to share a lot, and the rest belongs to the tenants. There will be very few left, and it is difficult to survive.

But even in this case, not too many people would think it was too much, and almost no one would think it was too much.

Because these taxes were not handed over to the Tang Family, nor were they embezzled and put into personal pockets, but most of them were shipped to the front lines.

As I have said before, Profound Desolate Great World stands in great numbers, Human Race is just an unremarkable Lower Grade 3 clan in it, the area occupied is only Land of a Province, surrounding There are many races, many of which are far better than the Human Race.

Two of these races have been at war with patriarchs, one is the Sharkmen Race, the other is the Angel Race, and there are demons and ghosts in the Human Race, and the situation is precarious. Of course, the biggest danger comes from the front line .

Whether it is the celestial front or the mermaid front, as long as one falls, the Human Race is not far from extinction.

In order to be able to defend these two fronts, the entire Human Race is supporting the soldiers on the front line with austerity.

The soldiers on the front line are fighting desperately for them. Isn't it justified that they pay more tax on contribution point?

So no matter how much tax the country collects, basically no people will object to it, because everyone knows in their hearts that this is for the soldiers on the front line, and for themselves.

Song Ankang once again experienced the difficulty of the Profound Desolate Great World Human Race, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is walking on a tightrope.

sighed, the mood that had just been relaxed became tense again, and was about to go back to the cultivation when he heard bursts of exclamations from the wall of the village.

"Run quickly, you will be safe when you return to the village. There are green stone slabs in many places in the village. There is not much danger when you stand on it."

"Don't look back. Now, the earthworm is right behind you, you have to run past it."

"Help, come and help me!"

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Song Ankang complexion changed, quickly moved towards the wall, and there were a lot of people standing on the wall. Seeing Song Ankang coming, these people made way for Song Ankang.

Song Ankang quickly came to the wall and saw the situation outside.

Cloudcourt Estate is surrounded by large forests and grasslands, which cannot grow food and medicine ingredients.

There are beasts in the woods from time to time, so Cloudcourt Estate built a wall to resist some small and medium-sized beasts and protect the safety of the tenants.

At this moment, on the grass north of the estate, a tenant of the estate in burlap clothes was running frantically, and behind him there was a raised dirt line chasing him.

If the original owner's memory is correct, it should be an earthworm, a beast with a strength comparable to the internal training second layer Martial Artist, active in the red-leaf forest around the estate, and occasionally feeding on humans.

Apparently, the tenant named Shanwa was stared at by an earthworm when he was outside and tried to eat him, but he desperately ran to the estate.

Although there are many people shouting on the wall, no one dares to go down, because going down is basically courting death.

At the moment, the most powerhouse in Cloudcourt Estate is the external practive fourth layer, which is more than two realm behind the earthworm, and the gap from external practive to internal training is even bigger.

Not to mention that when earthworms hide in the soil, even Martial Artists who have surpassed internal training can't do anything about them, so no one dares to go down to save people.

"pu..."

Just when the mountain doll was still dozens of meters away from the wall, the dirt line that was chasing suddenly accelerated to under him, and then A grey black bald earthworm with the thickness of a bucket and a length of three meters rushed out of the ground, swallowed him in one bite, and quickly disappeared into the ground.

If nothing else, this tenant named Shanwa is impossible to survive.

There was a dead silence all around, and after a while there was a cry, it was Shanwa's relatives and friends.

"It's only a little bit. If Shanwa were faster, he would be able to escape to Zhuangzi. There is a green stone road in Zhuangzi, and earthworms can't pass through."

"It's a pity, it's the first time Shanwa has come out in the past few months. I originally wanted to get some wild vegetables for my family, but I didn't expect it to be gone forever."

" If the harvest is good, who is willing to go out and take risks, seeing that the weather is getting drier and drier, I don’t know how much I can harvest this year, I hope the owner of the village can make less profit, let us live.”

“ The owner of the owner, there are many adults in our Cloudcourt Estate who are in charge, and they also have to live."

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Cloudcourt Estate can get about 10% of the normal year. The medicine ingredients and about half of the grains are not entirely owned by the owner. After all, as the owner of the Cloudcourt Estate, he is also responsible for the monthly salaries of many managers in the estate.

The monthly salary of Song Ankang is still saved from last year's big harvest. If this year's harvest is not good, the managers of Song Ankang and Cloudcourt Estate will not be able to live comfortably next year.

sighed, Song Ankang asked people to deal with Shanwa's death. Actually, there is nothing to deal with. Even people were swallowed whole. Coffins and cemeteries are basically unnecessary. At most, he would be a burial mound and bury a few pieces of his clothes during his lifetime.

Taking Qiu Shi back to the residence, I heard a knock on the door: "son-in-law, I'm back!"

"It's Instructor Jiang, Instructor Jiang is finally back." Hearing the voice outside, Qiu Shi, who was a little sluggish, immediately regained his energy and quickly moved towards the courtyard gate.

(end of this chapter)