My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

"You can also go back in the next two days and expand your village protection team. Also, you can add more people to the security team in Teng Teng Town. In this way, we can have 100 to 200 people in total, which should be enough."

Jiang Li nodded and said, "Don't worry, father-in-law. I have already had the village protection team expanded. The security team in Teng Teng Town has also been increased to 60 people, but they are still short of weapons and equipment."

"The people I sent to the provincial capital to buy guns may not be back for a few days. They will also need some time to practice with the guns after they are back. I'm afraid they won't be able to help much in the short term."

Ren Fa frowned and said, "I used my connections to get those old rifles, but they are not many in number. Now the 30-man Renjia Town Security Team can't even have one for each of them. I'm afraid I don't have the energy to help you."

Seeing that the topic was becoming more and more dull, Jiang Li immediately said with a smile, "As for my father-in-law, there is no problem now. When the news leaks out after a while, our problem may have been solved long ago."

"Besides, we still have Maoshan as our backer. Even if things are impossible, we can just teach others how to grow mushrooms. I don't think they will kill us all."

Ren Fa heard this and then he calmed down and said, "You are right, the situation is not too bad now. As long as we don't disclose the production of shiitake mushrooms, there will be no problem."

Afterwards, Ren Fa brought a batch of fresh shiitake mushrooms back to the town to hold a mushroom banquet in order to build momentum for future sales of shiitake mushrooms.

As for Jiang Li, he continued to lead people to harvest mushrooms. There was not much he could do now. The gun was still on the way and he could not help. He had already ordered people to expand the village protection team and the security team.

But the other good news is that there are no such big warlords around. The largest one is Marshal Long in Huangqi Town. Uncle Jiu said that he has more than 100 people under him and controls several towns around him. He is a small warlord. (Marshal Long in New Mr. Zombie)

Thinking of this, he felt relieved a little. As long as he gave himself a month, he could build an army that could compete with them, and then he wouldn't have to worry about these things.

After a whole day's work, all the mature mushrooms on Gravel Mountain were harvested, with a total of 20,000 kilograms. Because Jiang Li had limited strains of mushrooms to cultivate, the number of mushrooms he planted was not too many.

Fortunately, the technology is now mature and the Jiang family also has twenty people, who can continuously cultivate mushroom strains. In the future, they just need to continue to recruit people to expand the scale.

As for other varieties of mushrooms, we should wait for a while until our armed forces are stronger before we can take out other varieties of mushrooms.

After drying most of the mushrooms on the drying rack, Jiang Li carried dozens of kilograms of mushrooms and bought two chickens to go to Uncle Jiu's place.

Actually, Ren Fa originally wanted to ask Uncle Jiu to attend the mushroom banquet, but because his mind was full of the matter of building the Taoist temple, he declined.

When Jiang Li arrived at the charity cemetery, he found that Uncle Jiu and Qiu Sheng and Wencai were not there, so he asked A Qiang and A De to kill chickens and stew meat.

Jiang Li, who had nothing to do, came to the black dog and the yellow cow. Looking at their almost completely fading spirits, he couldn't help but think, "It seems that I will be able to obtain two more spirit beasts soon."

It turned out that when Uncle Jiu went to Huang Silang to get blood last time, he brought these two guys with him. After Huang Silang cast a spell to absorb the evil spirits of these two little monsters.

Uncle Jiu also boiled several doses of medicine with the hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum vine, and with the help of Uncle Jiu's pure Taoist magic power to suppress it, now most of the demonic energy in the two little demons' bodies has been eliminated.

It’s a pity that they have been monsters for too short a time and don’t have much spiritual power.

After feeding the two guys some food, he went back to his room and started meditating.

It was not until dinner time that Uncle Jiu and Qiu Shengwen returned to the charity cemetery from Lingxiu Mountain. It must be said that Lingxiu Mountain was named by Uncle Jiu himself. According to him, since a Taoist temple was to be built, the mountain had to have a suitable name.

Otherwise, if people called it Woniu Mountain or Erlong Mountain, it would be a disgrace to Maoshan.

Upon learning that Uncle Jiu had returned, Jiang Li finished his training and went out to ask, "Master, how are the preparations for the Taoist temple going? Is there anything I can help you with?"

Uncle Jiu said in high spirits, "No, no, now it's just a matter of buying materials and laying the foundation. Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai can handle it. You should continue to help Master Ren harvest mushrooms!"

"Speaking of the harvest this time, the output is as good as the previous estimate."

As soon as Jiang Li heard what Uncle Jiu said, he knew that he was deliberately avoiding his disciples, and he immediately said with a smile, "The yield per mu has indeed been achieved. This time I came here just to bring you some to taste."

Uncle Jiu laughed loudly upon hearing this and said, "Great, great, great. In this case, your future is limitless, and I, your teacher, will be relieved."

At this time, Aqiang and Ade brought the chicken stewed with mushrooms to the table and said, "Master, you can eat now."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Jiu immediately called several apprentices to the table to eat. When they arrived at the table, they saw that the main dish was chicken stewed with mushrooms, scrambled eggs with mushrooms, stir-fried pork with mushrooms, and mushroom and chopped green onion soup.

In short, there were mushrooms on all the dishes on the table. While Uncle Jiu was still observing the dishes, Wencai picked up a chicken leg with chopsticks and started eating.

While eating, he said, "Master, it's almost time to eat. I'm starving after working all day." Then he took another big bite of the chicken leg.

Uncle Jiu became furious upon seeing this and slammed Wencai hard on the head. Wencai stood up in pain and rubbed his head with one hand while still holding the chicken leg with the other.

Uncle Jiu immediately said angrily, "You have no manners at all. How can you be a good senior brother when the Taoist temple is built? Kneel down in front of the portrait of the ancestor and reflect on yourself."

Wencai then looked at the dishes on the table reluctantly, walked to the portrait of the ancestor, looked back every few steps, knelt down, and started eating the chicken leg.

Jiang Li was speechless upon seeing this. Wencai was indeed a talented guy, heartless and without any scheming.

After the meal, Jiang Li said to Uncle Jiu, "Master, I think the eldest brother might be really hungry. Please spare him. There is still a lot to do in the construction of the Taoist temple tomorrow."

Uncle Jiu sighed and said, "Among my disciples, you are the only one who looks presentable. Look at the others. Don't they all have a lot of problems?"

Jiang Li persuaded, "Master, you are right to think so, but you can think about their advantages!"

"At least they all listen to you, and apart from being a little playful, they don't have any bad habits, so overall they are pretty good."

Uncle Jiu heard this and said helplessly, "Let him get up and eat, then come to my room and I will help you comprehend the secret techniques in those books."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Li quickly greeted Wencai and then quickly came to Uncle Jiu's room.

Uncle Jiu took out a few books that Jiang Li had brought back from Mount Mao and said, "You can study these pill recipes and records of spiritual beast taming yourself."