He Jian Chuyun exhaled a breath and said in a cold voice: "I will deliver the eight hundred taels of silver in at most two days."
"This is the best." The female shopkeeper didn't even raise her head, stroking the exquisitely carved flower hairpin in her hand, with unstoppable love in her eyes, and pretending to wear it on her head.
But as soon as he made the move, Tsurumi Chuyun stretched out his hand and snatched it away.
"What are you doing?"
"This is not yours."
"It seems that this hairpin is very important to the girl, but since you chose to bet it with us, the hairpin is mine for the time being."
"..."
Tsurumi Chuyun stared at the other party. This flower hairpin was the most valuable item left to her by her mother. She was completely unwilling to give it to others.
But she had to give it, and after a stalemate for a while, she could only pick up the white mask, get up and walk out of the small door.
"I'll come back for it."
"Waiting for good news, but girl, please remember carefully, you only have seven days."
"..."
She opened the door and was about to go out when she stopped, looked back at the female shopkeeper and said word by word: "If I don't see the hairpin when I deliver the eight hundred taels of silver, I will definitely tear down your shop."
The female shopkeeper didn't say anything, or in other words, she didn't pay attention at all. She was just observing the flower hairpin.
…
At dusk, the sky became increasingly gloomy.
After eating the noodles and taking a sip of soup, the customers on the roadside put down a few coins and stood up to leave.
"Waiter, the money is on the table."
"Okay, sir, please go slowly."
The waiter came over with a smile on his face and quickly put away the coins on the table. When he was about to clear the table, he looked up and saw two beggars not far away. He curled his lips and finally walked into the store straightened up. .
The leftover noodle soup was like a piece of fresh meat. As soon as the waiter left, the two beggars surrounded him like wolves, grabbing the bowl and opening their mouths to drink. However, the noodle soup could only be smelled but not tasted. Before his lips came into contact with the noodle soup, he was pushed to the ground by another beggar.
"Get out of the way, this is mine!"
"You son of a thief, I obviously saw it first!"
"You think it's you, huh? I'll beat you to death, you piece of shit!"
Just for a mouthful of noodle soup, the two beggars started to fight without explanation. The waiter from before appeared again at some point, leaning against the door rail and watching with interest.
The battle lasted for a while, and the final result was that the short beggar was carried and thrown away by the tall beggar.
He still wanted to fight for it, but when he finally got up, he had already drank all the noodle soup in the bowl.
Seeing this, the beggar, who had been beaten with a bruised nose and face, spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the roadside and had no choice but to give up.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, he sat down on the steps in front of a dilapidated house. Thinking about what had just happened, he became increasingly angry. When he turned his head, he saw a stone next to him.
As soon as his eyes lit up, he stretched out his hand to take it, but before he touched it, he felt that the world in front of him suddenly darkened, and a faint fragrance gently brushed his nose. The little beggar was startled, and looked up, only to see an unknown person in front of him. When did a woman appear with a bamboo hat on her head and a black veil that completely covered her appearance?
"You...who are you?" he asked stammeringly.
The woman didn't say anything, she just raised her hand and threw something out. He took it hurriedly, and after a closer look, he discovered that it was two pieces of silver.
"Yes... yes, it's for me?"
"Yes." She nodded. Before the beggar could speak, another bag appeared in her hand and was placed on the ground. The contents inside made a pleasant sound when they collided and rubbed.
"I want you to do something for me. These two taels of silver are a deposit. I will give you another three taels of silver after the work is completed."
"how?"
"A total of... five taels?"
"Um."
The beggar's eyes were a little dull. He had five taels of silver. The last time he saw so much money was the last time.
Anyway, I can’t remember when it was. If I had five taels of silver on me, wouldn’t I be able to eat a lot of soup noodles?
His eyes became hot, and he never thought about what the mysterious woman in front of him would ask him to do. He shouted without hesitation: "I'll go, I'll do whatever you ask me to do, just pay me!"
The woman handed over a piece of paper indifferently, and the beggar took it and looked at it. He felt that the words on it were very regular, but he had never read a book, was illiterate, and had no idea what it meant.
"Take these things and walk over there. After passing two intersections, turn right. Walk another 40 steps and you will see Jishi Hall. Go inside and ask the shopkeeper to get the medicinal materials for you according to the instructions on it. Come back after you get the things. Find me here and I’ll wait for you under this tree.”
Tsurumi Chuyun pointed to the withered tree next to the house. The beggar moved his eyes away and nodded. He was walking among the wells of Juacheng City. He was very familiar with the surrounding environment.
"I can help you buy things!"
"Going right now."
"Okay, I'll go now."
For just one errand, there was a generous reward waiting for him. The beggar didn't want to stay for a second longer, so he picked up the heavy bag and headed to the Jishi Hall.
But after walking a few steps, he remembered something and turned around and asked: "When you come back after shopping, will you give me another three taels of silver or..."
He saw that Chuyun had disappeared long ago, and he didn't know where he went, and his questions stopped abruptly.
"Eh? Where did he go?"
After staying for a second, the beggar walked to the side of the dilapidated house and took a look, but there was no sign of him under the tree.
It was as if the world had evaporated.
"It's really weird." Scratching his head, he had no choice but to walk in the direction of Jishi Hall.
As he walked, the things in the bag made a clattering sound, and the weight of it made him a little curious. After passing an intersection, he glanced around and saw that no one was following him, so he opened the bag and looked inside. .
It didn't matter if he didn't look at it. He was shocked when he saw it. The white money immediately blinded his eyes.
The beggar stayed where he was.
In his more than twenty years of life, he saw so much money for the first time.
The hands holding the bag unconsciously used strength. He slowly raised his head, came to his senses, and glanced down again.
That’s right, it’s silver!
I am not dreaming.
His heart was beating rapidly, and he couldn't control his body, trembling slightly.
I'm afraid there are hundreds of taels of silver, right?
Five taels of silver would allow him to eat many bowls of noodle soup.
For one hundred taels of silver, he could eat noodle soup for a lifetime, so he would never have to worry about going hungry again.
Thinking of this, he turned around again and looked around. After confirming that no one was following him, the greed and courage in his heart were infinitely magnified.
Where to go to Jishitang?
What errands are you running?
What does five taels of silver count?
One hundred taels of silver is just too much!
The beggar made up his mind, closed the mouth of his bag, turned around and ran into the alley next to him.
He who was originally hungry could no longer feel hunger at this moment. His legs became stronger than ever before. He ran faster and faster. Thinking of the ordinary bowl of noodle soup, he couldn't stop drooling. Flow out from the corner of the mouth.
He just wanted to run farther away, because the woman just now couldn't find him, and the money belonged to him.
The beggar only had this idea in his mind, turning left and right in the complicated alleyways. Even if he bumped into someone, he would just look back.
He was full of expectations for the future, but when he turned into an alley, he stumbled and his dream was shattered.
The girl wearing a bamboo hat and green clothes was leaning against the wall, turning the round dart that was as green as a bamboo leaf in her hand, and turned her head to look at him casually.
"What are you doing here? Where is what I want?"
"I...I..." The beggar stammered for a long time and didn't know what to say. He looked panicked, and finally shouted: "I...I'm going to buy it right now!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran away.
The girl did not pursue him and continued to spin the green leaf dart in her hand with a focused expression.
"I'll wait for you under the tree."
"Yes Yes Yes."
The beggar quickened his pace. After running out of the alley, he looked back.
The girl's figure disappeared again. Everything she just saw seemed to be an illusion. In fact, she never appeared.
All the unusual things made him feel nervous. The beggar didn't know that the girl had been staring at him, but he couldn't find where she was.
There are some things that you shouldn't touch.
Five taels of silver is just five taels of silver. It's better to be able to eat many, many bowls of noodle soup than to lose your life.
He didn't dare to think about the more than one hundred taels of silver anymore. He just ran to Jishi Hall honestly carrying a bag of money.
When he came to the door, the thugs guarding him on both sides saw his disheveled appearance and impatiently picked up sticks to drive him away.
"Where is the dead beggar? Get away now."
"go!"
"Ah, you two gentlemen, I came in to buy something. I don't want to beg for food."
"Buying something? This is a medicine seller. What are you buying?"
"Just...just come here to buy...well...I have money."
"What money do you have, you stinky beggar?"
"I'm so rich!"
Seeing that the two people didn't believe it, the beggar became anxious and opened the bag, revealing the money inside.
When the other party saw it, he was stunned for a moment.
"Where did you come from?"
"This belongs to someone else. I'm running errands for them." The beggar explained, and the two thugs in front of him looked at each other, and then looked at him with a strange expression. Without saying anything, they waved their hands and moved out of the way.
"You go in."
The beggar breathed a sigh of relief and ran in with his money bag.
The shopkeeper inside had already noticed what happened outside the door, and as soon as the beggar came in, he asked: "What do you want?"
"I want what's written on it." The beggar handed the paper that Tsurumi Chuyun handed to him. The shopkeeper took it and squinted at it. There were various medicinal materials on it, more than a dozen in total.
The shopkeeper who often selects medicines for the alchemists in the city immediately understood that these were the materials needed to refine Yun Beast Pill and Peiyuan Pill respectively.
Ten copies of the former and six copies of the latter.
He raised his head, focused his gaze on the beggar, and asked seriously: "Who asked you to buy this?"
These words startled the beggar.
"I, I don't know, am a woman with a hat on my head. I can't see what she looks like."
It seems that he is an alchemist...
The shopkeeper tapped his hand on the counter, already having a guess in his mind. However, he remained calm on the surface and called the clerk in the shop to fetch the medicinal materials according to the marks written on the paper. Then he packed them and handed them to the beggar.
"The above medicinal materials are here, a total of one hundred and forty-two coins."
"Are these enough?"
The beggar put his money bag on the counter, making a clattering sound.
The shopkeeper and the shop assistant counted together. There were a total of one hundred and forty-five taels of silver in it, with just three silver coins left.
"Three taels more, I'll give them back to you."
"Ah?" The beggar was stunned for a moment, then realized that the remaining three taels of silver belonged to him.
"Oh oh oh."
After taking the money, he took the medicinal materials he bought and left as if running away.
As soon as the beggar left, the two thugs outside the door walked into the store and asked respectfully: "Uncle Bang, how are you doing?"
The shopkeeper didn't know much about it and said: "Nine times out of ten, he is an alchemist who has not entered Jiyuansi."
"Alchemist..." A look of surprise flashed in the eyes of the two of them, and they asked anxiously: "Do you want us to follow?"
"Go ahead. If you see that alchemist, please invite him over. Be careful. If he doesn't want to, don't force him."
The shopkeeper wanted to nod in agreement, but in the middle of the sentence, he thought that it was not just his own family that opened the medicine house, but the relationship between the four major families was even more tense, so he shook his head: "Forget it, there is no need to go, it will make her dissatisfied with us." Yue is not good either.”
"yes."
The two thugs looked at each other and had no choice but to give up.
On the other side, after the beggar got the medicinal materials, he hurried to the agreed place. Next to the dilapidated house, Tsurumi Chuyun leaned against the dead tree and waited quietly.
When she saw him coming back, she reached out and snatched the medicinal materials from his hand, then put them all into the storage space, and then left without saying a word.
The beggar opened and closed his mouth, and stared at the place where she was standing for a moment in a daze. He soon remembered that he still had five taels of silver with him, and ran towards the noodle shop with joy.
As soon as she returned to the inn, she didn't waste a moment, released the alchemy furnace, a ball of flame appeared in her hand, and started refining the elixir directly.
In order to get back the Flower God Hairpin, she had to keep all the elixirs she refined in her hand. Only in this way could the money earned from selling the pills be used to redeem the Flower God Hairpin.
Shen Yi didn't say anything in the conscious space. He could feel that after coming out of the fabric shop, the old witch became gloomy. If she couldn't get the flower hairpin back, she would really destroy the shop regardless of the consequences. Turn everything upside down.
Hanging upside down above the altar, Shen Yi closed his eyes and checked the red gas in his body. Seeing that there were still twenty units, he felt relieved to digest it.
Outside, Tsurumi Chuyun also held his breath and focused all his attention on the elixir fire. The time required to make the elixir was shortened, and it took only one hour and twenty minutes to successfully refine the eleven. A piece of Yun beast elixir.
Taking out the beast-accumulating pill, she raised the pill furnace and started refining the second furnace without stopping.
The beast-accumulating pills she had left in her hand before were sold to Zhuo Mingjin for four, and half of them were eaten by Shen Yi when she came to Juacheng to make up for it. Now she still has ten beast-accumulating pills in her hand.
If she wants to earn eight hundred taels of silver in one night, she must refine four furnaces of Beast-accumulating Pills before midnight, and the number of Beast-accumulating Pills in each furnace must not be less than ten.
In short, Tsurumi Chuyun worked very hard, and his nerves were tense throughout the whole process and he did not dare to relax for a moment.
She continued with such high-intensity alchemy until the dead of night, and finally managed to refine four furnaces of Beast-enhancing Pills before midnight.
It wasn't until this moment that she breathed a sigh of relief, took the forty-two refined beast-enhancing pills and hurriedly left the inn with Shen Yi. (End of chapter)
