Chapter 398

Zhao Chi specifically had Gu Qing take a detour to avoid them.

Dodging east and west, they slipped into the village.

The moment he was back in the small house, Zhao Chi instantly entered the territory.

Then he immediately opened the system and entered the various group chats.

Mainly to see if anyone was discussing tonight's events.

The result was nothing.

Whether it was the school group, the family group, or the Stream Village group, everything everyone was talking about was pretty much the same as before.

Nothing special.

That made sense, though.

After all, a black market being shut down is pretty much the same as an anti-vice crackdown.

Normal people wouldn't even get close to something like that.

Still, Zhao Chi was heartbroken.

His most important source of funding was gone.

For now, he knew of one other black market, but it was a bit far, north of River Valley Town.

If going from the academy, it only took 1 hour.

But if going from Stream Village, one way alone took 2 hours.

And that was the time cutting straight through the town center.

At night there were soldiers on patrol.

Zhao Chi couldn't go through the town center, so he could only take a detour.

If taking the small paths around the outskirts, one way alone would take at least 3-4 hours.

It really was a bit too far.

Besides, he had never been to that black market, and didn't know if it still existed.

Zhao Chi felt a bit glum.

But what worried him most right now was still the nobles' investigation.

Although reason told him they couldn't find out Gu Qing's identity, he still couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

Gu Qing softly comforted him in his heart.

Zhao Chi smiled and withdrew from Gu Qing's body.

Gu Qing sighed: "Lucky we bought quite a lot of supplies this time, it should last us a while."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Yeah, at the end we didn't care about the price, even if it was a bit more expensive we still bought it. After all, even if it's expensive, as long as there's no tax, it's still much cheaper than normal channels."

Gu Qing smiled: "My lord, let's go take a bath, I'm really a bit tired today."

She really was tired.

After all, the whole way she had been running at full speed.

The drain on her stamina was enormous.

On top of that, Zhao Chi had been using Bliss Frenzy on her the whole time.

Although this let her relive that feeling of extreme pleasure, experiencing that much extreme pleasure also made one very tired — tired all over.

After the bath, Gu Qing went to rest first.

Zhao Chi patrolled the territory.

As of today, the village had a total of 192 people.

There were also several dozen buildings of various types.

Right in the center was the Lord's House.

Outside the Lord's House there was a small clearing, which served as a little square.

Originally the women all ate here.

But ever since the Carefree Spring appeared, they all liked eating by the hot spring.

Around the Lord's House, two main roads ran east-west and north-south.

The other buildings were all built along the roads.

Although the layout was very basic, this was still the early stage of development, and it hadn't reached the point of planning the buildings yet.

Later on, all these wooden houses and workshops would be torn down.

Stone buildings would be built in their place.

More fire-resistant and more solid.

They'd just replan everything then.

To the east were the farmlands.

Those two farmlands were both on the east side, and team leader Gu Yan had already brought the farmers of the planting team, along with those 200 Flower Demons, to start clearing new farmland.

When Zhao Chi went over, he saw that the two farmlands where the Growth Talismans had been used yesterday were already mature.

The one on the left was a wheat field.

The golden wheat ears were plump, hanging low.

Every grain was puffed up like a bean.

After all, this wheat had been improved, with an extremely high yield.

A single harvest was 10 times what it used to be — each field could yield 6.5 tons of wheat per harvest, an extremely high figure.

This kind of wheat not only had more grains on each ear, every single grain was also bigger.

And it only took a month to mature.

But with the land's enhancement, they only need twenty-five days to mature, and with the flower demons' innate gifts, it drops to twenty-three days.

So after using the Speed-Growth Talismans, these fields should originally have matured only in the early hours of the morning.

Yet now they've already matured ahead of schedule.

Gu Yan spotted Zhao Chi and hurried over.

"My lord, some sisters have already gone to fetch carts and tools—we can finish the harvest tonight."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Not bad. Remember to save everything as seeds, then keep sowing."

Gu Yan smiled: "I understand, my lord."