Silly Zhu's Moving: The Old Neighbor's Nightmare

Sha Zhu felt a chill run down his spine.

He quickly said, "This is my secret stash of money, and some was secretly left to me by my mother; even my father doesn't know about it."

I've kept it all this time, never spent it. Master Wang, please don't tell my dad!" Sha Zhu quickly offered his deceased mother as a substitute.

When Master Wang heard what Sha Zhu said, he asked, "Sha Zhu, your mother has been gone for several years. What money did she leave you?"

Sha Zhu lowered his head and said, "Two small yellow croakers and a few pieces of jewelry. They've been buried at home for several years. I heard from the government that I could exchange them for small yellow croakers, since gold isn't allowed to circulate in the market. I didn't have much money on me, so I went to the market and found an acquaintance to exchange them for one."

When Master Wang heard what I said, he quickly stood up, went to the main gate of the courtyard, looked around, then closed and bolted the gate. He then returned and sat down on the stool, saying...

"Zhu Zi, you've got some nerve, how come we didn't rob you?"

Gold is hard currency; you can spend it anytime, as long as the government doesn't find it.

Look at money now, with inflation, money is worthless, and it might be abolished at any time.

Right now, for Xiaomi, fabric is the real hard currency.

"Look at the chefs at Fengzeyuan Restaurant, they all look so listless at work, and their wages are getting worth less and less," Chef Wang said, catching his breath.

"Bury the jewelry your mother left you at home, bury it deep. If you run out of money later, just ask me for it. Your father is unreliable too."

Master Li, standing nearby, said, "Zhu Zi, listen to Master Wang. From now on, hide your money well and don't flaunt it. Don't spend money recklessly. I'll let it go this time and give you the money back later."

Sha Zhu was quite annoyed by the two masters' nagging, but he managed to get away with it. He heard from Master Li that he needed to pay him.

She was so busy that she said, "Master, no need, no need. That was a gift from me to you. How can I give you money? If I run out of money, I'll just ask the two masters for some. There's nothing else I need to buy right now. I just won't spend money recklessly in the future."

Hearing what Sha Zhu said, the two masters stopped working together to deal with him. Master Li said, "Zhu Zi, have you eaten? Have a drink with us."

"No need, Master. I ate a full meal outside and came back. I've been running around all day. I'm going to rest for a while before practicing."

With that, Sha Zhu picked up his bag and went back to his room. Back in his room, lying on the bed, he reviewed the whole process. Luckily, it was his two mentors who had questioned him so thoroughly.

You'll have to be careful from now on; you can't stand out. Just pretend to be a poor kid, okay?

After the two masters finished their drinks and Master Wang left, Master Li called Sha Zhu over to continue practicing his skills.

Today I'll teach you how to scrape the ground, single grip, and dragon-shaped wrap, so that Shazhu can master the scraping technique.

Master Li taught Sha Zhu the Meteor Chasing the Moon and the Three Styles of Crushing Kick. "These are what your master learned from Grandmaster Lu," he said. "You must learn them carefully."

Master Li explained the usage of the single handle and the dragon-shaped wrapping horizontal technique to Sha Zhu from different angles, and carefully described the techniques of the three tiger-shaped skills (tiger pounce, hip strike, and tiger tail swing).

Sha Zhu listened attentively to his master's instructions while diligently practicing. He didn't finish his practice until it gradually grew dark.

Back in my room, I grabbed a towel, quickly washed myself by the sink, and then returned to my room.

Only after seeing that the lights in his master's room were off did Sha Zhu slip into the space.

Looking at the soaking beef and the murky spring water, I quickly took the beef out and rinsed it clean.

The soaking time was a little too long. I mentally cut the beef into chunks, threw them into a pot of cold water, and started making braised beef.

Two hours after the braised beef was ready, Sha Zhu tasted a piece and almost swallowed his tongue.

Take out four ceramic basins from the warehouse, pour the braised beef from the pot into the basins separately, and let them cool before storing them in the warehouse.

Sha Zhu thought for a moment, then took a drop of divine water, intending to accelerate the growth of a tree. However, the moment he put it in his mouth, it merged into his body.

A comfortable feeling spread throughout my body, the fatigue from practicing disappeared, I felt energetic and no longer sleepy, as if I wasn't tired at all even without sleeping.

Sha Zhu was both amused and exasperated, so he had no choice but to bring another drop into his palm to prevent himself from fainting again.

Sha Zhu used his mind to lock onto the vicinity of a rosewood seed, and slowly, time accelerated in that area.

A seed from a huanghuali tree slowly sprouted, then gradually broke through the soil.

When the trees grew to ten meters tall, Sha Zhu felt exhausted and quickly stopped his consciousness from accelerating time.

The trees stopped growing. I quickly put the holy water in my hand into my mouth, and only then did I feel my fatigue disappear.

Sha Zhu thought for a moment and realized that rosewood trees typically take hundreds or even thousands of years to mature.

How old is this huanghuali tree, which is over ten meters tall? Sha Zhu continues to accelerate its growth.

When the rosewood tree stopped growing at a height of over 20 meters, Shazhu knew it had basically reached its limit, with a diameter at breast height approaching one meter.

It took two drops of divine water for the rosewood tree to grow into a lush, verdant tree.

Sha Zhu drank another drop of divine water, and his divine sense detected an oak seed, causing it to grow faster.

Unexpectedly, it grew to 35 meters in a short time, with a diameter at breast height of 1.0 meter, and then stopped growing.

And I didn't feel any discomfort in my head at all. The difference is just too big.

It is estimated that rosewood takes thousands of years to grow, while oak only needs a few decades.

Sha Zhu was overjoyed. Oak was a good thing, and it had solved his immediate problem.

Oak is favored for its hardness, toughness, high density, few knots, uniform color, and smooth feel.

It is often used to make wine barrels, especially for aging wines, and can impart unique aromas and flavors to the wines.

Of course, making buckets is also a piece of cake. We won't have to worry about not having enough storage containers anymore.

If that's not enough, we can just make some oak buckets. Since they're for use in the Time Freeze Warehouse, we don't have to worry about them getting damp, moldy, or cracked.

Without hesitation, Sha Zhu used his mind to cut down the tree, removing all the side branches and nodes that grew from the main trunk, leaving only the main trunk for cooking.

Then it was carefully divided into 30 pieces of different sizes, each piece of wood being nearly a meter long.

Using his mind to control a wooden stump that was more than a meter long, he cut it two centimeters from the edge of the stump, leaving two centimeters at the bottom edge of the stump.

A one-piece wooden tub was thus completed. It could easily serve as a bathtub. Sha Zhu jumped into the tub, and found it quite spacious inside.

This wooden stump was used to make a large wooden barrel, which was still nearly a meter wide. Sha Zhu continued to use his mental power to cut the barrel on this stump until he made seventeen barrels of various sizes. Sha Zhu saw that the remaining stump was about 30 centimeters long, and it would be too small to make any more barrels.

He simply used his mind to divide the logs into about ten pieces of different sizes and burned them as firewood. Sha Zhu then used the same method to turn the remaining 29 logs into barrels before he was finished.

Aside from a few that cracked during growth and were uneven in size, there are nearly 500 wooden barrels of various sizes here.

Then Shazhu used his mind to polish the uneven areas on the inner and outer surfaces of the bucket, making them smooth and burr-free, in order to increase the bucket's durability and aesthetics.

Then they washed the handleless wooden buckets in the lake and let them dry in the wind.

So it was moved to the warehouse. I checked the time; it was past midnight.

Sha Zhu took a shower, left the space, set his alarm, and went to sleep, as he needed to get up early to practice martial arts in the morning.