This Side Effect is Awesome

  Chapter 6 Earthworms urge me to forge ahead

   "The weather this year is not good. It has been dry for a few months. If it continues like this, I am afraid that there will not be much harvest. It will be a sad day."

   "We are better. The taxes we pay are much lighter. The talents outside the farm are miserable. The weather is dry and the bugs are increasing. I don't know what happened."

   "The new owner just changed this month. It is said that he can't do any farm work. He has never grown food or medicinal materials. He is just a rice eater, and he can't help us solve our problems."

   "When winter comes, I'm afraid many people will die again. I hope the new owner will not exploit it too harshly. He will always leave us some food to save us from starving to death, alas."

  …

   Hearing these discussions, Song Ankang was silent, and Qiu Shi next to him was a little indignant: "These people are too much, and they are talking behind their backs to see if I won't clean them up."

   "Don't worry about it, 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 he heard these tenants gossiping, he 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 are talking about the back of the earth. I have never seen any boss who slaps employees and whips employees because of talking. Song complains about the boss. Ankang also did it, so I didn't clean them up.

  The tax of Chaoyun Grange is not heavy. If it is a normal year, after paying the tax, the Grange can still have about 20% of the grain and about 10% of the medicinal materials.

   10% of the medicinal materials and half of the grain belong to the village owners, and the village owners can decide their whereabouts at will, and the remaining 150% is the harvest of the villagers.

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

The share of   Chaoyun Grange can reach 15%, which is far more than that of the villagers outside. Naturally, many people are eager to become tenants of Chaoyun Grange.

However, due to the severe drought this year, both food and medicinal materials have been greatly affected, but the tax will basically not be reduced, and may even increase, which means that more shares of Chaoyun Grange will be taken by the Tang family. go.

   In this case, let alone 20% of the food and 10% of the medicinal materials, I am afraid that even half of it will not be left, 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 definitely 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, or even basically 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 line.

   As I have said before, there are thousands of races in the Great Desolate World, and the Human Race is only an inconspicuous lower third-rank small race. The area occupied is only one state, and there are many races around it, many of which are far superior to the Human Race.

  Two of these races have been at war with the human race for a long time, one is the merman race, the other is the angel race. There are monsters 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 reasonable for them to contribute more tax.

   Therefore, 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 difficult situation of the human race in the Xuanhuang world, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is walking on a tightrope.

   sighed, and his mind that had just relaxed became tense again. He was about to go back to practice 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 many places in the village with Qinggang stone slabs, so it is not too dangerous to stand on it."

   "Don't look back, the earthworm is behind you, you must run past it, Shanwa."

   "Help, come and save me!"

  …

  Song Ankang's face changed, and he hurriedly ran towards the wall. There were already many people standing on the wall. Seeing Song Ankang coming, these people made way for Song Ankang.

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

  Chaoyun Grange is surrounded by large forests and grasslands, which cannot grow food and medicinal materials. It takes years of cultivation to be able to be used slowly.

  There are beasts in the woods from time to time, so Chaoyun Tianzhuang 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 Grange, there was a Grange tenant wearing burlap clothes 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 a second-level martial artist, active in the red leaf forest around the farm, and occasionally feeding on humans.

   Apparently, this tenant named Shanwa was stared at by an earthworm when he was outside and wanted to eat him, but he desperately ran to the vicinity of the farm.

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

   At this moment, the strongest person in Chaoyun Grange is only four layers of external forging, which is more than two realms behind the earthworm, and the gap from external forging to internal forging is even greater.

   Not to mention that when the earthworm is hiding in the soil, even the martial artist who surpasses the inner training can't help it, so no one dares to go down to save people.

   "Pfft..."

Just when Shanwa was still dozens of meters away from the wall, the earth line that was chasing suddenly accelerated to under him, and then a gray-black, bald earthworm about the thickness of a bucket and three meters in length rushed out. On the ground, he swallowed him in one bite, and then quickly disappeared into the ground.

  If there are no accidents, it is impossible for this tenant named Shanwa to survive.

  The surroundings were dead silent, and after a while there were cries, which were Shanwa's relatives and friends.

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

   "It's a pity, Shanwa is the first time in the past few months to come out of the village. 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 and let us live."

   "The owner of the house is the one who supports the people. There are many adults in charge of our Chaoyun Grange, and they also have to live."

  …

   About 10% of the medicinal materials and half of the food that Chaoyun Grange can obtain in normal years is not entirely owned by the owner. After all, as the owner of Chaoyun Grange, he is also responsible for the monthly salaries of many managers in the Grange.

   Now Song Ankang's monthly salary is still from last year's Dafeng harvest. If this year's harvest is not good, Song Ankang and the managers of Chaoyun Grange will not be able to live comfortably next year.

With a sigh, Song Ankang asked people to deal with Shanwa's death. In fact, there was nothing to deal with. Even the person was swallowed whole. Basically, the coffin cemetery and the like are basically unnecessary. Clothes tomb, buried a few pieces of his clothes during his lifetime.

   took Qiushi back to the residence, and heard a knock on the door from outside: "Master, I'm back!"

   "It's Instructor Jiang. Instructor Jiang is finally back." Hearing the voice outside, Qiu Shi, who was a little embarrassed, immediately got up and walked quickly towards the courtyard gate.

   (end of this chapter)