Chapter 304
"A long time ago, there was an ancient gluttonous demon king in the mountains."
"The Gluttonous Demon King is a ferocious beast that devours everything in the world. It can swallow everything, but it can only get in and out."
"It's just that after the Taotie Demon King died, his body turned into 10,081 fragments and were scattered among the 100,000 mountains."
"Due to devouring so much essence during his lifetime, Taotie's body fragments will also turn into fine gold after death, which is the legendary Taotie Gold."
"Sacred objects often obscure themselves. Taotie gold is no different from a stone in normal conditions. Only after being washed away by the spiritual power of the human heart can it show its original appearance..."
"This gluttonous city is actually named after this."
"It's just that it's too old. The mountain people who have settled here now have forgotten this ancient legend..." Qiao Mu sighed sadly.
The head of the Luo family next to him frowned:
Even he, a local, had never heard of the legend of Taotie. How could this martial artist from out of town know so much about it?
Wait... wasn't this Taotie Gold just forged by this person right under his nose? Are you making up a story in front of him?
"You don't understand." Qiao Mu shook his head and sighed:
"The Taotie Beast in gold and stone already exists. I just unearthed it through carving."
"Chen Gongfeng." Qiao Mu looked to the side.
"Young man is here. If Mr. Qiao needs anything, please give me your instructions." Chen Congfeng was completely shameless. As soon as Qiao Mu called out, he had already bent over and came over.
"Then I'll tell you straight." Qiao Mu said:
"Now I have a big project in hand, and I just need some start-up capital."
"You are not young anymore. If you want to delay the decline of Qi and blood, you need to spend a lot of money on various external and internal tonic drugs, right?"
"Do you want to make a lot of money with me, do you want to have wealth and freedom?" Qiao Mu whispered in Chen Chongfeng's ear.
"...What does freedom of wealth mean?" Chen Gongfeng looked confused when he heard this.
"To put it simply, you don't have to work as a tribute to others, and you can still have a steady stream of money income, which is enough to cover your various expenses."
"The key to financial freedom is passive income, income after sleeping." Qiao Mu plausibly painted a grand blueprint for Chen Chongfeng:
"Ordinary warriors have no land or ancestral property, so naturally they can only rely on investment."
"First of all, we need to understand the concept of compound interest, compound interest, and money begets money."
"You give me 50 taels first, and I'll give you a good talk."
Chapter 301 You are violating the law (9k)
From Chen Gongfeng's mouth, Qiao Mu learned a basic fact:
The Luo family's fortune depends on the so-called philosopher's stone.
And their money was naturally defrauded from other people in the city like Lao Yang.
When Qiao Mu entered the city, he felt that although the city was small, there were both rich and poor, and the lines from the inner city to the outer city were clearly distinguishable... This was naturally related to the Luo family.
After learning such a thing, Qiao Mu could let go.
If fists can't pry open the mouth of the head of the Luo family, then he will use some technical skills to play a mind-attacking strategy like a god-refining warrior.
Of course, Qiao Mu had no intention of hanging himself from a tree. The head of the Luo family couldn't open his mouth, so he tried to find other clues elsewhere in the Taotie City.
The news about gold in Golden Township has obviously been widely spread, and Qiao Mu doesn't believe it. Everyone who has come into contact with the monsters in Golden Township is as arrogant as him.
"Everyone." Qiao Mu and Chen Gongfeng walked outside the ancestral hall again and said to the crowd:
"You may not believe it, but I, Qiao Long, did come here to do business."
At this time, hundreds of people gathered in three circles outside the ancestral hall, dozens of whom were bruised and swollen and had just been beaten by Qiao Mu.
"...Yes, yes, you are right." The Luo family was silent for a long time, looking disbelieving, but no one refuted.
Just kidding, the person named Qiao in front of them is obviously not a good person... Although they don't understand the status of the Qiao family in the martial arts world, they can somewhat see it from Chen Chongfeng's change in attitude towards Qiao Mu.
In addition to the Luo family, there were dozens of people who heard the noise and came over to watch the bustling city dwellers.
Qiao Mu was very thick-skinned. He took their silence as recognition and said seriously:
"This city is called Taotie City. In fact, I came here just for this city...Have you ever heard of the legend of the Taotie Demon King thousands of years ago?"
Qiao Mu repeated what he had said to Chen Gongfeng before, and then added:
"The fragments of Taotie's body, also known as Taotie gold, are distributed in the mountains around the city. Because the sacred objects are self-obstructed, their shapes are similar to the stones of eggs."
"I entered this city to collect as many as possible 10,081 pieces of Taotie gold. If anyone can get the Taotie gold for me, I would be very grateful."
"For every Taotie gold, there is a reward of one tael of silver, first come, first served, as long as my money is used up."
People in the Luo family were confused when they heard this.
Luo Cheng, a businessman with a bright mind, has gradually come back to his senses.
Isn't this just the same rhetoric as that of Golden Township with a different rhetoric? Is there really a fool who would be fooled?
Everyone was talking a lot.
Unexpectedly, not long after, a white-haired old man squeezed in from behind the crowd.
"Outlander, this is what you said." The white-haired old man held up three ordinary stones shaped like eggs and said with a smile:
"I've found you, please give me the money."
The white-haired old man didn't take it too seriously, he was just having fun.
As for the egg-sized stones... they were just what he picked up casually from the ground.
"Isn't this person... Lao Yang?" Luo Cheng, a businessman, suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
This old Yang is an old gambler, and his brain is not very bright. He was almost deceived into bankrupting his entire family before, and he even lost his son’s wife...
If Lao Yang would be tricked, Luo Cheng would naturally not believe it.
"Well... this stone is really gold." Qiao Mu pretended to take the stone, weighed it carefully, and held it lightly in his hand.
The stone in his hand was crushed into powder and fell from his fingers.
"He is so strong that he can turn a stone into powder?"
The onlookers immediately put away their contempt.
At first they still had fun in their hearts, but now it's different.
A foreigner who can easily turn a stone into powder is obviously not a fool who gives them money for nothing.
Qiao Mu crushed the two stones into powder in turn. When it came to the third stone, he held it hard in his hand and squeezed it. When he opened his palm again, he saw that the stone was intact.
Then his face showed joy:
"Okay, here's your reward, one tael of silver, take it."
"...It's really good." Lao Yang took the silver with his eyes wide open, biting into a silver ingot in disbelief, and then he was ecstatic.
"This money is real, it's really money!"
The crowd suddenly exploded, and the discussion gradually became louder.
At first, they came here just to watch the excitement, and no one took it seriously.
But Lao Yang's proud face after getting the money made them a little anxious.
The crowd was still doubtful, and some people carefully took the money from Lao Yang's hand to see if it was genuine...
"Your money... seems to be real?"
"Lao Yang, are you a pawn for this foreigner named Qiao? Accompany him to act here to trick us."
Lao Yang also happily allowed everyone to question:
"Yes, yes, I am a shill. This acting trip is just to entertain you."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly threw up his feet and ran out.
"Why are you running away all of a sudden? You haven't finished asking me yet?" someone shouted.
"I went to the river to pick up stones... No, I went to pick up gluttonous gold!"
The words went further and further away as his figure, and Lao Yang's figure had disappeared.
Everyone looked at Lao Yang's background and gradually became impatient.
"Damn it, you can get one tael for picking up a stone... I worked so hard as a helper for a month and only got one tael."
"Seeing him make money is more uncomfortable than me losing money!"
"Damn, don't take advantage of me, you bastard. This is really just picking up money. I'll pick it up too!" Someone in the crowd followed closely and ran away.
At first, only three or four people went to find the stone, and more people were doubtful.
But as the first few people received one or two silver rewards from Qiao Mu, the crowd gradually became excited.
"Hey, are you serious? Aren't you afraid that the outsider named Qiao deceived us?"
"Even if it's a lie, how much effort does it take to pick up a stone? If it's true, it's a gain of one or two!"
"Didn't you hear what the outsider said? It's first come, first served. If you're late, it won't be such a good thing!"
In a quarter of an hour, Qiao Mu had fifty stones as round as eggs in his hand.
He did not accept all these stones as ordered, but pretended to pick out some that were in better shape and rounder.
Even so, after two hours, Qiao Mu already had hundreds of stones in his hand.
At this time, Qiao Mu saw that it was getting late, so he announced that the acquisition was temporarily suspended, poured cold water on the excited crowd, and then found an inn to rest in Taotie City.
He walked away under the watch of people, but the enthusiasm of the mountain people did not extinguish.
"I'm just picking up money. I just picked up stones by the river. I made twenty taels in one go, which is equivalent to my salary for a year."
"It's getting late, let's go here today. I picked up so much money for nothing, and I can have a good sleep tonight." The mountain people left happily.
As Lao Yang watched these people walk away, he made a small calculation in his mind:
"You still want to have a good sleep? How stupid." Lao Yang couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth:
"In this kind of money-making business, of course you have to stay up all night and work hard!"
"When they wake up, I will be a rich man."
He didn't plan to sleep tonight, but picked a sack and prepared to pick up stones all night.
As night falls, the crowd disperses.
Qing Li, who was wearing a bamboo hat, looked at the backs of the crowd as they left, completely confused.
She no longer understands what the Qiao family is doing on their trip to the mountains...
Not only him, but many people in the Luo family didn't understand it at all.
Someone asked: "The patriarch...he took away some of our philosopher's stones and gold. What should we do? Do we want to report him to the official?"
The head of the Luo family sighed and warned other clan members:
"You must not get involved in this matter. If the person named Qiao wants to defraud money, then let him defraud him. We can't afford to offend him. No matter what happens, don't provoke him, and don't even think about exposing him."
"Reporting to the official... this matter must be done in private, and must not be discovered."
Chen worships a second-grade martial artist, so he deserves to be treated with caution by the head of the Luo family.
The height of the tree was naturally beyond the reach of the Luo family, but from Chen Congfeng's previous attitude, he had already guessed that he was someone they could not afford to offend.
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The second day.
"Have you heard? There is a kind man named Qiao Rong who is giving money to people to pick up rocks."
"As expected of the Qiao family, they turned out to be great philanthropists who gave money to others."
After a night of fermentation, the news that a great philanthropist Qiao Xun came to Taotie City has spread throughout this small town.
In a sense, the common people care more about a good person who gives money than the family of Jianghu Wufu Qiao.
When Qiao Mu appeared again in the open space near Luo's Ancestral Hall, there was already a sea of people around. There were probably more than a thousand people waiting here, and even Qiao Mu himself was startled.
"Don't worry, come one by one." Qiao Mu asked someone to put the stones forward, then picked some ugly stones and crushed them into powder depending on his mood.