Chapter 22 Taobao
Santong City is located in the middle of the border between Chu Zhu Kingdom and Yunling Kingdom. Although it belongs to Chu Zhu Kingdom, due to its proximity to Yunling Kingdom, people from Yunling Kingdom account for a large part of the people coming and going here.
Santong City is called Santong, but due to its geographical advantage, it can be said that it is accessible in all directions. It has Bliss Palace in the north and Wandan Hall in the south. The key is that it is located between Renwu Gate, Shifang Hall and Baihua Hall. At the center of the glyph, under the governance of the city lord Ouyang Yingdao, it was bustling and noisy, and it was a dazzling landscape for the Zhuzhu Kingdom and even the entire eastern power.
Although Ouyang Yingdao is only at the late stage of rank nine and is not a member of the top ten forces today, no one in the entire eastern force dares to look down upon him. This is not only related to the security team under him. I heard that his eight heroes, the security guard, All of them are powerful, and the highest one has reached the realm of earthly immortals. This is the second best thing. The key is that he gave birth to several good children. Ouyang Yingdao had three wives. The eldest wife and second wife did not have any children, but his third wife was very successful and gave birth to three sons and a daughter for him. His three sons were all disciples of Shifang Hall. They are all soul cultivators. Not only are their cultivations good, but their status in Shifang Hall is also very high. His only daughter is even better than his three brothers. Not only has she joined the Palace of Light, she is also said to have become one of the ten members of the Palace of Light. One of the leaders has reached the realm of immortals.
Under the governance of such a city lord with strength and background, Santong City not only has good security, but also develops smoothly. Many businesses, whether ordinary people or cultivators, are willing to set up stalls here. Either seek a way to make a fortune, or exchange for what you need. The word "Taobao" that the eastern forces talk about began to spread from here.
Legend has it that a martial arts cultivator who was not very high-level found a heaven-level magic weapon here. From then on, he relied on this magic weapon to fight against people one level above him. In the end, he became the most powerful person in the world. Revenge was avenged, and it became a favorite story among the entire eastern forces.
Bai Fei has not yet had the opportunity to come into contact with magic weapons, although he vaguely feels that his Shentian Ring is a high-level magic weapon, as well as the alchemy furnace left by the senior Wandan Hall, and the medicine cauldron in Yun Ling's hand. They are all high-level magic weapons, but I have never seen a truly offensive magic weapon. He only learned from the mouth of the old man Tianxuan that in the world of cultivation, if the level of the magic weapon is not high, it will not be of much use to those who really pursue cultivation, but for cultivators below the pill formation stage It is said that even ordinary weapons or magic weapons will play a key role in the battle. For example, for two people who have just entered cultivation, one is bare-handed and the other is holding a weapon, the outcome is obvious.
Standing in this bustling market, even Bai Fei secretly admired it. Not to mention those magnificent shops, let alone those countless stone gambling shops, even the dazzling array of items on the stalls on both sides of the street will make people dizzy.
The first thing Yun Ling did was to buy a dozen sets of skirts of different colors, which made Yao Jie very confused.
"Let me, let me..."
The three of them had just collected some strange and interesting things and were wandering around when they were suddenly rushed aside by a group of guards dressed in fine attire. Bai Fei didn't want to cause trouble, so he consciously avoided them. After a while, I saw three strong men with heroic faces riding on mighty horses roaring past.
"The adults from the security team are here. I don't know who dares to make trouble here because of the courage of a bear and a leopard. Let's go and take a look." Someone in the crowd whispered.
Bai Fei and the other three looked at each other and followed the others forward.
"Second Fatty, this is your fault. If someone pays a higher price than you, then the things belong to them. Why are you still messing around here?"
Bai Fei came to the front and happened to hear one of the three strong men on horseback say.
"Brother Ouyang, how dare you, brother?" A tall and fat man immediately came up to him, nodded and bowed. It was obvious that the two of them knew each other.
This third brother Ouyang is a younger relative of the city lord Ouyang Yingdao. His full name is Ouyang Chisun. He and the six and seven brothers behind him are the eight security guards of Santong City. The three of them are assigned to manage the security of this market. Hearing the report from his subordinates that a conflict had occurred here, he rushed over in a hurry.
"Your Excellency, you have come at just the right time. These two young masters are arguing. Are you still waiting to take action?" the old man who owned the stall said.
"Old man, what on earth can make people fight for it like this?" Ouyang Chisun asked.
"This is it..." the old man moved a bonsai over and said.
In the pot of soil, there was a grass-like plant fluttering in the wind. The thin stem held two small leaf buds, swaying in the wind, as if it could be broken accidentally.
"Old man, are you kidding me? What kind of mess is this that makes people rush to buy it?" Ouyang Chisun laughed.
"My lord, I don't know. When I got this thing, it was already like this. I have cultivated it carefully for forty years, but it is still like this. Sir, if you think about it, if it is an ordinary thing, it should grow in less than a year. But I have carefully cultivated it for forty years, but it..."
"Looking at it this way, it's really strange. Old man, couldn't you have used the wrong method?"
"Originally, I thought that my cultivation method was wrong, but I asked several capable people at Wandandang Hall, and they couldn't even explain the reason. When I thought about it, now that I am older, half of my foot has already stepped into the I found the coffin, so I took it out, hoping that some strange person could figure out the mystery."
"Then what happened to them? Why are they still arguing about this?"
"The old man always abides by your Lordship's rules. As the saying goes, the highest bidder gets it. This young master bids higher, so..."
"Hey, old man, it should be said that you are greedy for money." The fat man shouted.
"Second Fatty, I'll give you a chance, just say it." Ouyang Chisun said.
"Brother Ouyang, I had already agreed with this old man that I would exchange a hundred low-grade crystals for his bonsai, but because I didn't have enough crystals on hand..."
"You can still be so poor?" Ouyang Chisun laughed, and even the old men behind him couldn't help but laugh.
"No, I had one originally, but... I contributed it all there..." He said, pointing to a stone gambling shop not far away.
"It's no wonder. How many did you lose this time?"
"It's not a lot, maybe one or two hundred mid-grade crystal stones!"
The second fat man said easily, but the people around him couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. This was too wasteful. Some of these people could not even get two or one medium-grade crystal in their lives, but it was good for him. One time he gambled on stones. He squandered one or two hundred pieces of mid-grade crystals, which were mid-grade.
"Second Fatty, your father's family fortune will be ruined by you sooner or later. Okay, without further ado, can you tell me what's going on here?"
"Brother Ouyang, because I am short of money, the old man agreed to exchange it for me at this price, so I asked the young one to go back and get it for me. Unexpectedly, before my slave comes back, the old man will sell it to me. Others, originally, I didn’t understand this thing, and I just bought it casually for fun, but at this juncture, someone actually came to snatch my things, don’t you think I’m angry?”
"Hey, I'm calling you. How many spar do you want to give me?"
"Xiao Ke offered one hundred and one low-grade crystal stones!" The man dressed as a scribe replied calmly.
"Only one more dollar? You...you...third brother, look, are they trying to be angry with me?" Only then did the second fat man know the price offered by the scribe, and his face was trembling with anger.
"Old man, have you really forgotten the principle of first come, first served just for this piece of crystal?"
"Sir, I don't dare. It's just that I haven't seen this master's crystal for a long time. I'm not in a hurry to go home. Now..."
"So it's like this. It's not your fault. Okay, let's not argue about such a trivial matter. All the previous ones are cancelled. This thing will be put on sale again. The one with the highest price will get it."
"I'll give you one hundred and two low-grade crystal stones!" The second fat man shouted first.
"Second Fatty, don't be too impulsive. Are you still afraid that you won't get anything good? There will be an auction in this city in two days, and you will have money to spend on it. It doesn't matter if you don't want this rubbish. Just listen to me. I'll treat you to a drink tonight - —" Ouyang Chisun laughed.
"Okay, I listen to brother, now I will invite the three brothers to have a drink at Zuihua Tower." The second fat man clapped his hands.
"We are here for the good. Don't let us make mistakes. Besides, aren't you penniless now?"
"This slave, oh brother, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about my slave. He hasn't come back yet. Let's see if I don't break his legs."
"I'll offer you one hundred and fifty low-quality crystal stones."
This call made even Ouyang Chisun pause as he was about to leave. He really didn't expect that someone would increase the price for such an inexplicable thing. Looking towards the place where the call came from, he saw a calm expression on his face. Fly in vain.
When the old man took out the thing, Bai Fei felt an inexplicable pain in his dantian and in his mind. After the old man explained the strangeness of the bonsai, he was puzzled. Anyway, he got it from Nonghua Langjun. There are a lot of low-quality crystals, just to buy some luck.
Yun Ling and Yao Jie were confused when they heard his bid, but they didn't say anything.
"I'll pay you two hundred yuan!" The scribe thought he would get it smoothly, but he didn't expect to be kicked in the face. He gritted his teeth and said.
The second fat man saw that he had also met his opponent. It was a real reward and he was very happy.
"Three hundred yuan!" Bai Fei said lightly.
"Five hundred yuan!" The scribe glared at Bai Fei and continued shouting.
Everyone looked at it and didn't think it was valuable. They just thought that Bai Fei was here to cause trouble. But under the rule of "the highest bidder gets it", there is nothing wrong if this is really trouble.
"A middle-grade crystal stone!" Bai Fei shouted.
As soon as this price came out, the scribe suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Although a medium-grade crystal stone is equivalent to a thousand low-grade crystal stones, it is not something you can exchange for. In the black market, sometimes It is difficult to exchange two to three thousand low-grade crystal stones for one medium-grade crystal stone.
"This young master..." the old man turned to the scribe and said.
"I don't want it anymore." He said, staring at Bai Fei hatefully, and quickly left through the crowd.
"Sir, it's yours."
The old man happily took the middle-grade crystal stone from Bai Fei's hand and handed the bonsai into his hand. Bai Fei didn't look at it and put it into the Shentian Ring. Anyway, cultivators have a storage. The ring was normal, and he wasn't worried about what others would think.
"Let's go." Ouyang Chisun glanced at Bai Fei meaningfully and said to the second fat man and the two brothers.
Bai Feijing said he was a man. Although he knew the fat man well, he had no intention of showing any favoritism at all. He was decisive and fair in dealing with things. When he saw him looking at her, he nodded slightly.
These people came and left quickly, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the streets immediately resumed one after another shouting.
Bai Fei and the other three wandered around for a while. Although they didn't encounter any strange things, they collected a lot of strange things. Seeing that it was still early, the three of them finally discussed and borrowed a stall to set up a stall. Bai Fei put some low-level magic cores, corpses of monsters, and some low-level elixirs on them. I thought that in less than an hour, they were all sold out in exchange for countless low-grade crystal stones.
He thought it was fun at first, and also wanted to get rid of those things that were of no use to him, but he didn't expect these things to be so popular. In the end, even Yun Ling generously donated the low-level elixirs she refined. Take it out. They didn't expect that these pills were in such short supply, it was really an unexpected gain.
