Ma Dazhu was extremely reluctant.
"He bullies orphans and widows. I just don't like him!"
"He bullied the Li family, what does it have to do with you?" Old Man Ma was furious. "What is your relationship with the Li family?"
"The village elders haven't said anything yet, so why do you have to step in?"
"Is the Li family's wife a good person? If she hadn't allowed her grandson to steal things and set a trap to injure Zhao Laosan's foot, would Zhao Laosan have targeted the Li family?"
Mrs. Li sighed, "Dazhu, being a stepfather isn't that easy."
Ma Dazhu was indignant, but he couldn't refute it. After a long while, he said, "With our family's situation, do I still have a chance to get married? If I can find Widow Zheng, you guys can just laugh secretly. You'll get three children for free!"
"Go and apologize when I tell you to!"
"I won't go even if you kill me." Ma Dazhu stood up. "If I apologize to Zhao Laosan, will I be the captain again? If I apologize, he will stop targeting me? The barefoot are not afraid of those wearing shoes, so why should I be afraid of him?"
After saying that, he left angrily.
"Come back!"
"Dad, actually I think what my second brother said is right. There's no use apologizing..." The third son of the Ma family said quietly.
...
At the same time, in the Zhao family cellar.
Zhao Zheng was delighted to see the wild delicacies brought by Niu Dalei and others.
[Ding, dried wild comatus mushrooms, 75 wen per pound, value 300 wen, store/sell?]
[Ding, wild hazel mushrooms, 200 wen per pound, worth 1600 wen, store/sell?]
[Ding, dried wild porcini mushrooms, already 500 Wen, worth 2700 Wen...]
These mushrooms are picked by villagers in the mountains on weekdays.
They live off the land and the water, and these fungi are one of the keys to keeping them alive during disaster years.
The most valuable item is wild dried matsutake mushrooms, which sell for 2,000 wen per pound.
Fungi alone brought Zhao Zheng a profit of fifteen taels of silver.
In addition, there are medicinal herbs collected by Jiang Wogua and Big Beard.
[Ding, wild isatis root (processed), 30 wen per jin, worth 500 wen...]
[Ding, wild astragalus (special grade), 500 wen per jin, worth 10,000 wen...]
[Ding, wild epimedium...]
These are all pure wild medicinal herbs.
Zhao Zheng kept some tonics for backup and sold all the others.
His balance also increased from over eighty taels to two hundred taels in an instant!
This is the right approach.
Reaping profits is much better than working alone.
At this moment, the system notification sounded again: [Balance has exceeded 100 taels for the first time. Mall items have been updated. Warehouse storage prices have been reduced by one-third, and the storage weight limit has been increased to 100 tons.] [Weather forecast updated, available for viewing at any time...]
Zhao Zheng was overjoyed. He didn't expect that such a good thing would happen when the balance exceeded 100 taels.
When he bought the chainsaw, he wondered if the system would be upgraded. Now it seems that he was right.
Click to open the mall.
As expected, the word "Buy" appeared below the gray and white chain saw picture.
"Great! It will be much easier to cut down trees in the future."
In addition, some commodities that were not open before were now open. He even saw hunting bows with sights, Nepalese machetes, **** and other items.
However, there are still no hot weapons.
Most importantly, there are more small electronic products in the mall.
Zhao Zheng directly spent one or two taels of silver and bought himself a low-end Longines watch with luminous elements.
"Hey, is it still automatically checking Dakang's time?"
Zhao Zheng thought about it and sold two more ladies' watches to give as gifts to Zhaodi and Xiao'e. With these things, they would know the time and would not be in the dark and get up at the sound of the rooster crowing.
However, what Zhao Zheng was most concerned about was the warehouse storage update.
Previously, the warehouse storage limit was ten tons. If it was fully stocked, the daily cost would be one hundred coins.
Now that the upper limit has been raised to 100 tons, there are so many things that can be stored.
Let me put it this way, even if Zhao Zheng is not a landlord, by doing business and trading goods, after deducting labor and transportation and adding profits, he can make a few thousand taels a year like a piece of cake.
With storage fees reduced by one third, there is even less pressure to store.
And there might be surprises in the next upgrade.
Zhao Zheng rubbed his hands and then looked at the weather forecast that popped up on the panel.
[Dakang Dynasty, Fengtian Year 26, Winter, December 9th, 4:30 PM]
Mingzhou will be generally cloudy, with sunny to cloudy parts of Yingtian, Da'an County, and Fugui Township. Small mountain villages will be cloudy!
Hey, this feature is useful.
However, the annoying thing is that you can only see the weather for the current day and the past, but not the weather for the next day or even the future.
"Not bad, it refreshes the weather for the day at 12 o'clock. If used well, it's like controlling the weather trend for the day. Unfortunately, there's no hourly function!"
Zhao Zheng was not discouraged. "One hundred taels has so many functions. What about one thousand taels, ten thousand taels? Wouldn't it just take off?"
These days are becoming more and more promising!
Just then, a voice came from outside the door, interrupting Zhao Zheng's thoughts.
"Who is it?" Zhao Zheng stood up.
"Old Zhao, I am the wife of the Yan family."
Zhao Zheng walked out the door and saw Yan's wife standing outside with Yan Dali, who looked embarrassed.
He couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and had no intention of opening the door, "Oh, it's the sister-in-law of the Yan family, what's the matter?"
"Old Zhao, can you let us in?"
"If you have anything to say, just stand outside and talk. If you go into the yard, I'm afraid your Dali will talk nonsense outside again." Zhao Zhengke didn't give her any face.
Yan Dali clenched his fists, wishing he could just leave.
The wife of the Yan family gave a bitter laugh and said, "Old Zhao, it was my Dali who was at fault in this matter. I brought him here to admit his fault."
Then he scolded Yan Dali harshly, "Why are you still standing there? Apologize to your Uncle Zhao."
Yan Dali had to bow his head no matter how reluctant he was. "Yes, I'm sorry, Uncle Zhao. I won't say that again."
"Old Zhao, please be magnanimous and don't bother with my family." Yan's wife reluctantly placed two kilograms of corn on the courtyard wall. "Old Zhao, these two kilograms of corn are a small token of our family's appreciation. You must accept them."
Zhao Zheng didn't expect that the Yan family would be willing to cut off their own flesh to apologize?
Do they also know fear?
When the neighbors saw this scene, they were all shocked.
This old man Yan is well-known in the village for being stubborn and cunning.
Now it seems that his Genghe and Zhou are only towards ordinary people. To those who have backers, doesn't he have to bow his head obediently?
"Zhao Laosan is really going to be rich. Even Old Man Yan has to bow his head!"
"The Yan family is fine, but the Ma family is unlucky. Ma Dazhu complained about Zhao Laosan in front of Yao Youjiao. Zhao Laosan must hate him to death!"
Zhao Zheng didn't know what others were saying. Although he really wanted to kill Yan Dali, if he was too narrow-minded, it would ruin his image.
Wouldn't it be easy to deal with the Yan family?
If he wasn't really related to Yao Yingxiong, he would be dead this time.
So, just apologizing is not enough.
"I apologize, but you don't need the rice. Take it back!"
Seeing that Zhao Zheng refused to accept the rice, Yan's wife became anxious, "Old Zhao, our Old Yan has already instructed us that this rice is an apology, you must accept it!"