I'm just a swineherd, not a beastmaster.

After Yuan Feng practiced hard all night, the stars above his head became brighter.

It will take some time before it actually lights up.

If we can achieve some success after the new year, it will be considered fast.

Yuan Feng calculated the time and was not in a hurry. As long as he could achieve some success before the secret realm opened, it would be enough to give himself a trump card.

Taking a breath of the cool morning air, my fatigue was relieved a little.

There was a clanging sound outside the yard; it was Wang Er and his wife Hu Niu coming to work.

To be precise, it was Huniu who forced Wang Er to start working.

Also coming with them was Wang Er’s father Wang Gao.

Yuan Feng saw at a glance that the dark face of the old man, who was just over five feet tall, was as bright as a flower.

Just yesterday, Wang Er was still worried that his father would not agree to the marriage, but it was obviously unnecessary worry.

Wang Gao likes his daughter-in-law Hu Niu very much.

In Wang Er's eyes, all of Hu Niu's shortcomings became shortcomings.

After all, Wang Er's father, Wang Gao, has been worn down by life and has toiled all his life. His only hope is that his prodigal son can find a wife.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was so capable and straightforward in dealing with people, Wang Gao couldn't be more satisfied.

As for Wang Er’s desire for sweet love, it means nothing to Wang Gao, his worried father.

Seeing that he didn't need to worry about anything here, Yuan Feng went back to his room to catch up on his sleep.

With the old carpenter Wang Gao in charge of the alchemy furnace, Yuan Feng had no reason to worry too much.

The next day, when Yuan Feng came back, it was already time to finish the work.

The only thing that surprised him was the appearance of a young man with a simple and honest appearance.

"Wang Er, who is this?"

Seeing Yuan Feng coming over, Wang Er threw the trowel to the ground casually and said, "He is my new apprentice, a refugee who just escaped."

"Can you still accept apprentices?" Yuan Feng had no other intentions, he just felt that if anyone was going to accept an apprentice, it should be his father Wang Gao.

"Hey, you look down on me, don't you? I've been working in the city for half a year, and the foreman and the boss are all very satisfied with my skills. If I didn't have some skills, you couldn't ask me to build a furnace, right?"

That's true, but Yuan Feng still feels that Wang Er is too careless to be a good master.

"He is your apprentice, do you pay him?"

"What wages? How can there be any rules for paying apprentices?"

"The poor master doesn't pay the apprentice because he has no money. Wang Er, you make a lot of money doing this job for me, but you don't pay the apprentice?"

Whether the apprentice can get the money is none of Yuanfeng’s business. Yuanfeng just wants to see if Wang Er can do something.

This is also one of the few happy things that Yuan Feng has to do with him.

"That seems to be the case." Wang Er was a little overwhelmed by what he said, and suddenly realized that he was now a rich man. "So, starting from me, apprentices will also get wages, fifty copper coins a month!"

"Fifty copper coins?" Yuan Feng shook his head. "It's not suitable for a prince."

Yuan Feng deliberately emphasized the word "Young Master Wang", which made Wang Er feel elated.

"Five hundred copper coins! For a month!"

"Thank you, Master!" The young man hurried forward to apologize. He originally just wanted to be an apprentice and learn a skill, but he didn't expect to get paid. It was truly a pleasant surprise.

"Haha, Wang Er, you are really generous." Yuan Feng patted him on the shoulder and left contentedly.

It took Wang Er a while to react.

"Damn it, have I been fooled by the pig farmer again?"

He did react, but Wang Er was a man who cared about his reputation. He promised to pay the apprentice 500 copper coins a month and he didn't dare to go back on his word.

After another day, the alchemy furnace was finally completed.

Yuan Feng called Wang Er to the alchemy furnace.

"What do you mean, Brother Feng, are you satisfied?"

"If you are satisfied, I will give you another job."

"Ah? Anything else?" Wang Er said with a bitter face.

"So? You're not happy even though there's money to be made for you?"

"I'm happy, Brother Feng."

“I plan to build a road.”

"Repair the road. I thought it was a big deal. Your broken road really needs repairing. Every time I come here, my soles hurt."

Yuan Feng looked down at Wang Er's shoes, a pair of tattered cloth shoes with the soles almost worn out.

Wang Er felt pain in the soles of his feet, which had little to do with the bad road leading to his home.

"When I say repair the road, I don't mean repair the path leading to the village."

"Where's the road?"

"I will build a three-meter-wide hard gravel road to connect with the four official roads in the east, west, south and north."

"Three zhang wide?" Wang Er was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped. "Do you know what you are talking about? The official road leading out of Ping'an County is also ten zhang wide. You are more arrogant than the officials. You want to build a road three zhang wide and connect it in four directions. This will cost a lot of money. The silver will start from tens of thousands."

Yuan Feng certainly had an idea. Three zhang, that is, ten meters wide. If he hadn't taken into account that the adjacent official road was only ten zhang and would not be able to keep up if the road was widened, he would have planned to build a road of ten zhang.

"I know what I'm doing, so I'm just asking if you can do it."

"It's tough. There are only three of us, including my wife and my father. The distance in four directions is at least 20 kilometers. It will take a lifetime."

"I didn't say that you can only do it with your whole family. You can recruit workers to do it together."

"Then wouldn't I become a foreman?" Wang Er was a little excited.

"Of course, Foreman Wang."

This made Wang Er feel comfortable: "If that's the case, it can be done, but I don't really understand. What exactly are you going to do with such a big project?"

"What else can we do? If we want to get rich, we need to build roads first. We don't even have a flat road out of Xiufeng Village. If we don't build roads, we will only get poorer and poorer, and we won't get rich."

Wang Er looked at the serious Yuan Feng in surprise: "You have always had strange ideas since you were a child. If I were you, I would have gone to the city to enjoy myself with this spare money instead of messing around."

Yuan Feng is not doing this for nothing. He plans to build Xiufeng Village into a transportation hub.

And he relied on this hub to open a shop to sell his medicine.

However, he doesn't need to go through so much trouble and can find an agent to sell the pills and collect the money easily.

After all, he still has feelings for the villagers of Xiufeng Village. It doesn't matter where the elixirs are sold. In Xiufeng Village, he is happy to see that the villagers can get rich.

"No matter how you do it, as long as you pay, I'll take the job. However, Hu Niu and I are getting married in a few days, so I'm afraid I don't have time for the time being."

"That's right. It's winter now and the ground is frozen. I didn't ask you to start construction now. You have to wait until spring. By then I will be away from home. If you need money to build the road, go ask Mu Xin for it."

"it's not good."

"What's wrong?" Yuan Feng didn't understand.

"I mean, the young lady and I also had a sadistic relationship. If we get in touch again, I'm afraid my wife will be unhappy."

"Hiss~" Yuan Feng was so embarrassed that his teeth hurt.

Wang Er was as humble as ever. He just licked Zhao Muxin's boots one-sidedly. Zhao Muxin never paid any attention to him, but in his mouth it became a sadomasochistic relationship.

"How about this." Yuan Feng thought for a moment, "Just let your wife ask Mu Xin for money, then nothing will happen."

"Good idea, just do it like this!"

Wang Er was still very happy at the moment and had not yet realized that from now on the financial power of his family would fall into the hands of Hu Niu.

That night, Yuan Feng and the two girls gathered around the table and talked about their plans, including their plan to build a store and sell pills.

Hu Jiuer only said: "It's none of my business."

Zhao Muxin also said: "I also plan to open a clinic."

When she has nothing to do, she reads about herbal medicine and comes into contact with various herbs. Now she is eager to show them off, especially her beauty tea.

"Open it. Open a bigger room. I'll give you the spirit stones. You can do whatever you want."

After saying that, Yuan Feng shook out the two hundred spirit stones, leaving only thirty-two spirit stones for himself.

"Ah?" Zhao Muxin was stunned. "Brother Feng, I'm afraid I can't keep all these spirit stones here."

"What are you afraid of? Jiu'er will protect you, so nothing will happen."

The look Yuan Feng gave Hu Jiuer showed an indifference towards money.

Yuan Feng felt more relieved now.

Of course Hu Jiuer regarded spirit stones as dirt. To her, spirit stones were just shiny stones. Spirit beasts could not absorb the spiritual energy in spirit stones like human cultivators could.