Chapter 384

River Patrol Office.

Liang Qu looked around and tapped the table.

"Where is Shoufu?"

"Master Li is resting today. I don't know what instructions you have, Lord Liang?"

Registrar Huang Pingchang put down the paper in his hand and stood up to answer.

Liang Qu didn't dwell on it and handed over his seal: "Help me exchange for three bottles of Spirit Thinking Pills."

Exchanging things with acquaintances is mainly for peace of mind; if you can't find one, it doesn't matter. Huang Pingchang also had a few encounters.

"Wait a moment."

Huang Pingchang gathered his sleeves, took the seal with both hands, went to the bookshelf, and found Liang Qu's file.

According to the number of small merits required for Spirit Thinking Pills, Huang Pingchang crossed out the small merits on the account, specified the purpose, opened the red mud, stamped the seals of both sides, and issued a slip.

In no time, a clerk brought a tray, in which three small porcelain bottles with round bellies and thin necks stood steadily.

Liang Qu opened the bottle stopper and shook it; there were five pills in a bottle, and the medicinal fragrance was rich.

Fresh goods.

Comprehending a Grandmaster's charm usually requires the cooperation of Spirit Thinking Pills; it is said that after taking it, there is an immersive effect, with half the effort and twice the result.

Liang Qu originally thought that according to his triple martial arts talent, he could skip the assistance of external objects and save a sum of elixir expenses.

He didn't expect that after three days, things were more difficult than imagined.

Communicating with the charm of the secret manual doesn't seem to be entirely determined by talent.

Huang Pingchang flipped through two pages of the merit book and reminded: "Lord Liang, three bottles of Spirit Thinking Pills require a total of 45 small merits. After the exchange, the number of small merits remaining on your account will not be much."

Liang Qu was stunned: "Used so fast?"

Huang Pingchang said: "According to what is written in the merit book, you must exchange for three cockscomb fruits every day, and occasionally exchange for Qi-replenishing Pills. The small merits you can save are actually not many."

"In addition, you have exchanged for ship drawings, ship crossbows, a porpoise, and several medium-grade elixirs, all of which are large items, often dozens or hundreds."

"And you were controlling floods in Huazhu County from August to October last year, and didn't get many small merits, but your spending didn't stop."

"The harvest increased slightly in November, but from January to early March, perhaps because of the festival, it dropped again, and income and expenditure are barely balanced."

Hearing Huang Pingchang report the account, Liang Qu fell into silence for a while.

He didn't expect his spending to be so large.

It's not just small merits.

After asking Liu Quanfu to build the lucky boat, there wasn't much silver left in his hands.

Fortunately, every sum of money has its place, nothing more than turning into strength and assets.

The money and small merits didn't disappear!

They just changed a way to accompany him!

Huang Pingchang continued: "In addition, there is one thing I must inform you. I see in the merit book that most of Lord Liang's small merits come from hunting spirit monsters and cleaning up shallow water areas."

"Originally there was no problem, but from April this year, the routine task of cleaning up spirit monsters in shallow water areas will no longer exist, with only a few counties retaining it, and the rest will all be converted to obtaining treasure fish by boat."

While Huang Pingchang was talking to Liang Qu, many people in the document room pricked up their ears.

Big news!

The task of cleaning up spirit monsters in shallow water areas to get small merits is actually going to be canceled!

Liang Qu was thoughtful.

Expected.

Spirit monsters in shallow water areas won't refresh a batch after killing one.

Spirit monsters are somewhat smarter than ordinary wild beasts.

If you kill too many, they know the severity, and all flee to the depths of the Great Marsh, shrinking the range, and the number naturally decreases slowly.

Hunting spirit monsters and cleaning up shallow water areas is for the purpose of opening up fishing areas and increasing production.

After a year, the goal is achieved, so it is naturally no longer retained.

The daily patrols of the River Patrol and River Chiefs are enough to maintain the situation.

Ordinary martial artists who want to continue to obtain safe and stable small merit income can only participate in the subsequent development of deep water areas, which is to change to the routine task of fishing with boats.

Everything has its own timeliness and will always change.

"Okay, I know."

Liang Qu bowed to thank him, and as he turned, he was called back by Huang Pingchang.

"Lord Liang, please stay!"

"Anything else?"

"Don't blame me, my lord, there are two more things."

Huang Pingchang opened the long cabinet under the table and moved out a wooden box according to the name tag, "The first thing is the reward for the performance appraisal before the year, which arrived with the fleet yesterday. This is your remaining physical reward."

Liang Qu was first in the performance appraisal, and the reward he received was one great merit, one hundred small merits, and three hundred taels of silver, similar to a year-end bonus.

Among them, the great merit was used in advance, and the local River Patrol Office had the power to directly credit the small merits.

Only three hundred taels of silver remained.

Liang Qu opened it to take a look.

Two layers, a total of twenty silver ingots.

A piece of official silver is worth more than fifty taels.

"Why is there one thousand taels? Wasn't it agreed to be three hundred taels?"

"Because the remaining seven hundred taels are related to another matter. Lord Liang, do you have any impression of the treasure plant lotus root you contributed last year?"

"I have an impression, is there news?"

The Great Shun has rewards for offering treasure plants that have not been recorded.

Liang Qu had handed in lotus roots last year, and he had almost forgotten when he gave them.

Probably last spring?

"That's right, the reply was given with the reward issued yesterday."

Huang Pingchang handed over a small booklet.

Liang Qu took the small booklet and flipped through a few pages, roughly understanding why a treasure plant would drag on for so long.

Treasure plants, especially low-grade unrecorded treasure plants.

Their main research purpose is not how good the treasure plant effect is or how the medicinal properties are; that is only a small part.

More importantly, it is the input-output ratio of large-scale planting under the effect environment of the treasure plant itself.

To verify these, they must be planted in the ground and water, waiting for the treasure plant to grow naturally.

Afterwards, according to the yield, whether it can be cultivated and improved, etc., discuss the value and give rewards.

Since it involves planting, none of them take a short time.

Especially to ensure accuracy, not to mention that treasure plants cannot be forced to grow, they must be planted for more than one crop, at least two, and preferably three.

Liang Qu's lotus roots were planted for three full rounds.

The annotations on the booklet were dense, making people's heads big, so Liang Qu flipped directly to the end to see the conclusion.

"This lotus root has merits. The planting environment requirements are simple, without too much management input, and according to different soil components, the healing effect can get partial gains, enriching the category of lower-level healing water plants."

"However, regardless of yield or output ratio, it can only rank in the middle among similar water plants. After discussion, a reward of seven hundred taels of silver is hereby given."

When Liang Qu was at the Four Gates stage, he would have been ecstatic to suddenly receive seven hundred taels of silver.

A very huge sum of income.

But he is now at the Ultimate Galloping Horse realm, and seven hundred taels is not much if it's much, and not little if it's little.

"Having it is better than not having it."

Liang Qu was in a pleasant mood.

After so long, he had almost forgotten about this matter.

It feels really good to suddenly get a reward for something he didn't hold hope for one day.

Calculating the account, after deducting a large amount of expenses and a small amount of salary income.

The silver in Liang Qu's hands returned to a huge sum of two thousand six hundred taels.

Holding the silver and elixirs, Liang Qu rode his horse home, entered the quiet room, and continued his seclusion.

Taking a Spirit Shen Shen Si Dan.

The medicinal effect took hold, and Liang Qu's mind didn't become refreshed like taking Morning Dew Insect, but became increasingly drowsy.

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But when Liang Qu focused his attention on martial arts, green light flickered on it.