Chapter 87

After Ji Mingqing picked up the four-clawed lamb, he realized that it was indeed a sheep in the fairy world. It was called Muhuanyang and its function was a bit like a sheepdog. It could help the immortals look after the fairy beasts when they raised a large number of them.

Please stare at the little fairy beast, not caring what he can do. He put his face into the belly of the shepherd sheep and took a deep breath.

The lamb seemed to be pleased by Ji Mingqing's actions. After Ji Mingqing put his face close to it, it began to kick its four legs happily and made a "weeping" sound from its mouth.

Ji Mingqing was immediately captivated by him, and his heart was about to melt. However, considering that Xiaowan was next to him, Ji Mingqing put the sheep back to its original place after touching it for a while.

"It's quite cute." Ji Mingqing put his hands behind his back, and then in a corner where Xiaowan couldn't see, he rubbed his fingers with reminiscence.

Bai Cangze was very satisfied with Ji Mingqing's performance. Huang Dingzhi next to him was not as calm as Ji Mingqing. Just now he was holding one in his left hand and one in his right hand, but now he lay down directly on the stall, surrounded by all the furry creatures on the stall, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

Seeing him like this, Ji Mingqing didn't want to urge him, but he still turned around, pulled Xiaowan into his arms, and kissed her.

"I still like you the most."

Bai Cangze nodded reservedly and said, "It should be so."

Seeing Xiaowan's serious look, Ji Mingqing couldn't help laughing. The next moment, Ji Mingqing heard Huang Dingzhi next to him shouting.

"I've bought all the fairy beasts on the stall!"

Ji Mingqing suddenly turned around and looked at Huang Dingzhi: "Are you crazy? Didn't your father forbid you to raise a fairy beast?"

"I've made up my mind!" Huang Dingzhi vowed. "When I get back this time, I'm going to tell my dad I'm moving out. I want to keep all these spirit beasts by my side, and no one can stop me!"

After listening carefully, Ji Ming said, "I advise you to think twice before you act."

Huang Dingzhi was determined, "Don't worry, even for these immortal beasts, we have to move out of the island this time."

After saying that, he looked at Ji Mingqing again and said, "By the way, let's exchange the Immortal Ring Mark. Then I'll find a place to stay near your house."

Ji Mingqing: "...Okay."

Why does this guy seem to have no friends? Ji Mingqing complained in his heart, but he still exchanged his immortal ring mark with Huang Dingzhi.

"My two guests, where should we send the remaining immortal beasts? Please leave your coordinates. We will choose a day to send the immortal beasts that are not on the stall directly to your door."

Huang Dingzhi was stunned for a moment, then patted Ji Mingqing's arm and asked for help: "Leave your address and ask them to send it over first. After I move out of the house, I will come to find you."

Ji Mingqing had a bad feeling in his heart, but when he saw Huang Dingzhi's pleading eyes, he felt a little reluctant.

Anyway, Huang Dingzhi has already paid the full amount, so he will definitely not lose anything.

After he handed the coordinates of Fengxiyuan to the stall owner, he was satisfied and put all the fairy beasts on the table into special cages and handed them to Huang Dingzhi.

"If you have any questions, please contact me. You are welcome to come again next time."

Before leaving, Ji Ming reminded him, "The rations for these immortal beasts..."

The stall owner slapped his forehead and said, "Oh my god, I almost forgot."

Then why did you come up with this gimmick of buying a meal and giving away a fairy beast? You can't even remember it yourself!

Huang Dingzhi conjured up a small cart from somewhere and put all the cages on it. Ji Mingqing couldn't help but wonder if Huang Dingzhi had already made preparations and just wanted to ask him to come over.

After returning, Huang Dingzhi stood in front of the Fengxiyuan stall, pointed to a stall opposite and said, "That's my home on Sai Wan Island. I'll go back first and come find you later."

Unexpectedly, Huang Dingzhi was related to the previous Island Master Huang. The two people had completely different temperaments. However, the image of the unkind father who only liked wild beasts described by Huang Dingzhi was similar to the Island Master Huang in Ji Mingqing's mind.

"Do you think Huang Dingzhi will succeed this time? Will his father compromise?" Ji Mingqing said as he sat aside and looked at Huang Dingzhi's determined back.

"He won't succeed." Bai Cangze saw through everything. "He has run away from home many times, but he always returns to Xihuan Island. However, before returning to the island, he will place his fairy beast with his friends."

"What if his friends don't want to raise fairy beasts?"

"Then we can only give the immortal beast to someone else. There are always some immortals in the immortal world who like immortal beasts very much, and they will accept anyone who comes to them."

"Is this why Huang Dingzhi has no friends?"

Ji Mingqing finally understood!

Seeing Huang Dingzhi's generosity, he must have been so generous in buying fairy beasts before. Which friend would not feel embarrassed if he received dozens of fairy beasts at once?

Wait a moment!

Ji Mingqing said to Xiaowan stiffly, "If he fails to fight his father this time, won't these immortal beasts be sent to our Fengxi Garden?"

He couldn't afford to support so many fairy beasts all of a sudden, and he didn't know how to take care of these little creatures.

"You can send it away." Bai Cangze proposed a solution, "I know an immortal who likes immortal beasts very much. We can send the immortal beast to him when the time comes."

"Ah... that's fine." Ji Mingqing pondered for a while, "Actually, it's not impossible to keep this fairy beast..."

Bai Cangze immediately refused when he heard Ji Mingqing's words: "No!"

Ji Mingqing was startled, and he quickly comforted her, "No, no, I'm not raising you." Ji Mingqing immediately expressed his loyalty, "I definitely only want you. No other fairy beast can compare to you."

Although he knew that Ji Mingqing was only confessing to his cub form, Bai Cangze still couldn't help blushing when he heard it.

He tilted his head awkwardly, avoiding Ji Mingqing's eyes, coughed lightly and said, "Then tell me, what are you going to do with these immortal beasts?"

"Of course I have to raise them. I plan to open a refreshment room where guests can interact with the fairy beasts up close." Ji Mingqing got this inspiration from a cat cafe he had visited before, except that the kittens were replaced with various fairy beasts.

Just now the stall owner introduced that some of these fairy beasts will never grow up, and even if they grow up it doesn’t matter. He remembered that there is also an alpaca cafe.

However, Ji Mingqing hadn't decided yet whether to build a new tea room or keep this part in the inn. "Or should we put it on the 31st floor?"

Bai Cangze didn't expect Ji Mingqing to have such a plan, but since Ji Mingqing wasn't raising the beast himself, he had no problem with it. "Okay, even if Huang Dingzhi doesn't give you the fairy beast this time, you can buy some more and arrange for them."

Ji Mingqing thought it made sense. He sat on the stool, looking at the stall diagonally opposite, and then at his own snack stall which was very crowded, feeling very leisurely.

Not long after, Ji Mingqing saw Huang Dingzhi walking towards him dejectedly. He and Xiaowan looked at each other and had an idea in their minds.

"What's wrong with you?" Ji Mingqing asked pretending to be ignorant.

Huang Dingzhi ignored his image and sat down on the ground, "Don't mention it." After saying that, he sighed dejectedly and stopped talking.

Ji Mingqing pursed his lips, took out a glass of Duomei drink from the stall, and handed it to Huang Dingzhi, "Drink some water to smooth it out."

"I haven't eaten anything yet." Huang Dingzhi didn't understand, but still obediently opened the bamboo tube and drank the plum blossoms in it.

"Seeing that you're unhappy, I just want to calm you down."

After hearing this, Huang Dingzhi put down the bamboo tube in his hand, opened a chatterbox, and began to complain to Ji Mingting.

"I just want to raise a fairy beast, what's wrong with that?"

"I don't believe he won't like the fairy beast after I bring it home!"

"I'm really tired. My dad is a control freak."

…

"Brother Ji, you and I hit it off right away, so can you do me a favor?"

Huang Dingzhi reached back and held Ji Mingqing's hand. When Bai Cangze saw this, he subconsciously slapped Huang Dingzhi's hand away and threw himself out.

Ji Mingqing was startled by the sudden change. He quickly helped Huang Dingzhi up and apologized, "Are you okay? Sorry, sorry!"

How could Huang Dingzhi, who had something to ask of Ji Mingqing, be angry? Instead, he looked at Ji Mingqing excitedly, "Look, I was blown away by your cat. Can you do me a favor?"

After saying that, he wanted to raise his hand and put it on Ji Mingqing's shoulder, but Bai Cangze jumped onto Ji Mingqing's shoulder again before he could do anything, forcing him to pull his hand back halfway.

"Can I?" Huang Dingzhi looked at Ji Mingqing expectantly.

Ji Mingqing thought about it, nodded hesitantly, and then asked with pretended curiosity: "What do you want me to do for you?"

Huang Dingzhi sighed heavily, "It's because of my father. He said that if I dare to leave Xihuan Island, he will take back all my immortal stones and will never let me go home again."

"Without immortal stones, how could I possibly support so many immortal beasts?"

Ji Mingqing paused, then looked at Cui Ding and Xu Yihe who were busy beside him, then turned to Huang Dingzhi and suggested: "You can find a job in the fairy world, save some money, and then it won't be too late to raise fairy beasts."

Anyway, gods are immortal, so it’s never too late to raise one.

Huang Dingzhi shook his head vigorously after hearing Ji Mingqing's suggestion. "Do you think I haven't tried it before? The longest I've ever been away from home was ten years, and even then I still couldn't save enough money to raise a fairy beast. After returning home, I even had my dad pay the boss five thousand fairy stones before we could even settle the matter."

"Huh?" How could this be? How could someone work and still lose money?

"Alas, I found a job refining pills, but I accidentally blew up my boss's palace." Huang Dingzhi shook his head. "Forget it, forget it. The past is too painful to look back on."

I understand. This kind of person is really not suitable for going out to work, and if he goes out again, his father will definitely be very worried.

I understand a little bit.

At once

"So?" Ji Mingqing leaned over and looked at Huang Dingzhi, who was looking down. "Tell me what you want to say. I'll definitely help you if I can."

For example, the kind of favor where you can send all your little fairy beasts to me.

"It's like this. I don't have a place to keep my fairy beast for now, so I'm leaving it with you for now." Huang Dingzhi looked at the stall next to Ji Mingqing and said a little embarrassedly, "You look rich, you should be nice to them."

Ji Mingqing didn't expect that Huang Dingzhi's condition for choosing an adoptive parent was to be rich, and it was the first time someone said that he was rich.

Ji Mingqing felt a little dizzy.

"Okay, okay, it's just a small matter. Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of these fairy beasts for you. But let's be frank, you can't control how I raise them, but I can guarantee that they will be healthy."

"That's enough!" Huang Dingzhi breathed a sigh of relief. After getting Ji Mingqing's affirmative answer, he took out a handful of fairy stones from his storage bag and stuffed them into Ji Mingqing's hands without any question.

"These fairy stones are considered as foster care fees. You must give them something delicious to eat!" Huang Dingzhi looked at Ji Mingqing eagerly. Ji Mingqing didn't expect that Huang Dingzhi would actually give him money, and he felt a little emotional.

It seems that he is just a young master who is strictly controlled by his family. He is a good person and has some sense of responsibility, but not much.

"Anyway, I've kept all these fairy beasts in Fengxi Garden. If you like, you can come and see them anytime. I wonder if Xihuan Island is far away."

Whenever Ji Mingqing encountered something he didn't know, he would lower his head and ask Xiaowan: "Xiaowan, where is Xihuan Island?"

"It's not far from Fengxi Garden, about 30,000 miles away."

Thirty thousand miles sounds far, but if you take a Duanyun car, you can get there in about an hour.

"That's really not far." Huang Dingzhi, who had resolved the heavy burden on his heart, felt relaxed at the moment and began to chat leisurely with Ji Mingqing.

"Come on, let's go for a walk now. This market is only open for two days. The next time it's this busy will be fifteen years from now."

"Are you saying that the entire fairy world is no longer so lively?" Ji Mingqing asked in disbelief as he followed Huang Dingzhi out.

He thought he was ignorant. After all, in such a vast fairyland, how could there not even be a market?

"There are urgent matters, but there aren't any markets this large and filled with this many people," Huang Dingzhi explained to Ji Mingqing. "For example, the city lord next door, Yin Fuzhang, often holds a market in his city, but the variety of goods is too limited, and he doesn't make much money. Furthermore, because he doesn't make much money, other merchants won't travel thousands of miles to set up stalls there just for a few days."

"If you ask me, in the entire Immortal Realm, only the Lord has such charisma. No one else can do that."

"What about Yuexian Pavilion? The goods in Yuexian Pavilion are also among the best and most complete, right?"

"That's true, but the goods in Yuexian Pavilion are all produced and sold by their family. They can't get their hands on some goods with secret recipes."

So that's how it is. Ji Mingqing suddenly realized, wasn't this the situation before online shopping became popular?

A vague plan began to form in Ji Mingqing's mind. He asked Huang Dingzhi for advice, "Tell me quickly what things I can't buy outside of here? I want to buy more to take back."

"Then you've found the right person. No one understands this more thoroughly than I do." Huang Dingzhi puffed out his chest proudly. "For example, the Ci Ling Fruit from our Xihuan Island. It's a specialty that only grows on our Xihuan Island and only bears fruit once every ten years."

"Hey? What are you writing down?" Huang Dingzhi asked curiously when he saw Ji Mingqing take out a jade slip.

Ji Mingqing took notes while explaining to Huang Dingzhi, "I have a feeling this will be useful in the future, so I wrote it down first. Please leave me alone for now and tell me if there is anything else special."

Huang Dingzhi didn't understand what was going on, but he continued to explain according to Ji Mingqing's instructions, "That's the stall of Hengbing Palace. Let me tell you, the jade snowbirds from Hengbing Palace are absolutely delicious." Huang Dingzhi couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "I'll buy another two hundred of them. Do you want to buy some?"

"Buy, buy, buy!" Ji Mingqing hurriedly followed. When he passed by just now, he saw that there were many people here, so he didn't go up to join in the fun. Unexpectedly, after so long, there were still many customers.

"The meat of the Jade Snowbird is so delicious! Even if you roast it over a high fire for a whole year, the juice will still flow out when you tear it open."

"Is it true?" Ji Mingqing felt that Huang Dingzhi must be exaggerating, but the presence of so many people was enough to confirm the fame of the Jade Snow Bird.

"It's true." Huang Dingzhi did not answer, but Xiaowan spoke, "The Jade Snowbird tastes really good." He used to eat Jade Snowbird often when he was in Kunze Palace. It was one of his favorite dishes because it tasted good no matter how he cooked it.

It has been a long time since I last ate Jade Snow Bird after coming to Fengxi Garden, but this was also thanks to Ji Mingqing's good cooking skills. Now after seeing the Jade Snow Bird, he couldn't help but want to try it.

"Even Xiaowan likes it?" Ji Mingqing was a little surprised. Xiaowen rarely said what he liked to eat, and Ji Mingqing judged it based on his expression.

"Then we'll buy some more later." Ji Mingqing whispered in Xiaowan's ear, assuring him quietly, "My cooking will definitely taste better than those people out there."

Bai Cangze was already accustomed to Ji Mingqing's closeness. This time, he just lowered his head and said "hmm" softly.

When it was their turn, Ji Mingqing and Huang Dingzhi had already begun to eat less. Fortunately, there were already prepared jade snow birds here to satisfy their cravings.

"Let's start with the Thirty Jade Snowbirds. Ten will be grilled, ten fried, and the remaining ten will be braised."

"Okay." After receiving the money, the stall owner skillfully packed thirty jade snowbirds for Huang Dingzhi. Seeing that he bought so many, Ji Mingqing asked curiously.

"You bought so much, can you finish it? Don't you have to buy some that are not yet cooked?"

"These are for my father's gang and the people at your stall. You won't have to buy any more later." Huang Dingzhi said, without waiting for Ji Mingqing's reply, and turned to the stall owner and said, "Give me another 500 plain birds."

The stall owner seemed to know Huang Dingzhi. "Can you finish all of this? Didn't you buy a thousand the other day?"

"Oh, I just made my dad angry, and I have to go back and comfort him."

Ji Mingqing watched the interaction between the two and found it amusing. When it was his turn, he said generously, "Give me a hundred prepared birds, and five thousand plain birds."

This time it was Huang Dingzhi's turn to be surprised. "Why did you buy so many? I just bought thirty, enough for our two families."

Ji Mingqing turned around and said to Huang Dingzhi with a smile, "I want to bring some back to share with everyone when I get home. A lot of people wanted to come and help, but I didn't agree. I'll just consider this as compensation for them."

After hearing this, Huang Dingzhi said with some envy: "I wish the boss I met when I ran away from home was like you."

Ji Mingqing laughed dumbly, "You can't make much money working for me, so I can only compensate you in this way."

The same thing happened in front of many stalls in the market. Many people were shocked by Ji Mingqing's generosity, but what made Huang Dingzhi a little confused was that after each consumption at a stall, Ji Mingqing would leave the stall owner's fairy ring mark, saying that he would contact him in the future.

It wasn't until the two of them were on their way back that Huang Dingzhi asked, "Why did you leave so many stall owners' marks? I told you they absolutely won't cooperate, so don't bother with it anymore."

Huang Dingzhi reminded that some people had thought about integrating the stall owners together before, but they had never succeeded. The main reason was that those who could set up stalls at the market basically had no shortage of money and were unwilling to put in the effort to run them.

"Just let me try. I won't turn back until I hit the wall. It doesn't cost any money to try, so the worst that can happen is failure." Ji Mingqing had even prepared for failure a long time ago, and he was no longer the Ji Mingqing who needed to gamble everything on one throw. He already had a stable income, and what he needed was to move to the next level.

Huang Dingzhi was also infected by Ji Mingqing's emotions, "You're right! The worst that can happen is failure!"

"I'll go back and kneel down and beg my father to let me keep the fairy beast!"

Ji Mingqing: "..."

He persuaded Huang Dingzhi for a long time before he gave up the idea. When he returned to the stall, Huang Dingzhi suddenly thought of it.

"By the way, can you sell me some of your Lumei drink? I always feel that the Lumei drink I drank before wasn't as tasty as this one."

"Then drink more." Ji Mingqing took out a storage bag and gave Huang Dingzhi a hundred bottles. "I can't give you more. The stall has replenished a lot of goods in the past two days, but they are sold out quickly. There is not much left in stock."

Huang Dingzhi originally wanted to take out money, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind and took out a large bag of fruit from his storage bag.

"Try our specialties from West Island. No matter what you want to do, we here at West Island will definitely support you!"

Ji Ming listened to Huang Dingzhi's words and smiled, "Okay, once I finish writing the plan, you'll be the first person I'll contact."

Huang Dingzhi also smiled and bumped fists with Ji Mingqing, "Then it's a deal."

After separating from Huang Dingzhi, Ji Mingqing struggled again and wanted to help at the stall, but as expected, he was still persuaded to leave by Xu Yi and Wenrou.

Forget it, he didn't struggle. He sat back in his chair, took out the jade snow bird he had just bought, cut it into small pieces, piled it on a full plate, and then handed it to Xiaowan.

"You eat these first, I'll give them another plate."

After hearing what Ji Mingqing said, Xiaowan pushed the plate in his hand forward and said, "Give this to them. I'll wait for you."

Ji Mingqing happily presented the plate of jade snowbird to Xu Yihe, and even emphasized it with some boasting when presenting it.

"You guys eat first, Xiaowan will eat with me later."

Hearing Xu Yi and "..."

Damn, I got shown off again!