Chapter 020: City Trip

After the leader finished speaking, the other four minions waved their hard fists and hard chickens at Lu Xuan, and the threat was obvious.

"Boy, if you know what's best for you, hand over the silver quickly to avoid physical pain."

Lu Xuan chuckled lightly, it was still unclear who would suffer.

After a dozen breaths.

The five arrogant thugs fell to the ground with bruised faces and noses, screaming in pain.

Lu Xuan took a few money bags in his hands and poured out the silver and copper coins inside and counted them. The five of them combined didn't even have two taels of silver. He immediately said with disgust, "How poor."

The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't help but burst out laughing. The host was really killing people!

They looked at the miserable robber with sympathy. Tsk tsk, he was robbed back and was despised for being poor. How miserable.

No, that’s not the case.

Recall how the wolves in the mountains died. In fact, the host had shown mercy and just beat them up with his fists. They only had some minor skin injuries and they would be fine after a few days of rest.

If the anchor showed the mutated vampire vine to deal with these people, I can’t imagine how beautiful the scene would be.

Lu Xuan put the silver in his pocket, threw the purse on the ground, turned around and left the alley to continue shopping as if nothing had happened.

Next, he visited the vinegar workshop, soy sauce workshop, and bean paste workshop respectively, and bought fifty jars of vinegar, soy sauce, broad bean paste, and soybean paste, each weighing 100 kilograms, spending a total of 100 taels.

Then I went to buy salt.

Because overseas trade was developed and the technology for making sea salt was relatively mature, there were not too many restrictions on salt in this dynasty, and the price was not exaggeratedly high. Fine salt cost fifty cents, and coarse salt only twenty cents.

Lu Xuan bought 1,000 kilograms of each.

People will have no strength without salt. The price of salt is indeed relatively stable on weekdays, but in years of disaster, cities and towns may not be able to maintain stability. In addition to food, buying salt will also become a big problem, so it will definitely not be a loss to stock up more.

However, asking for two thousand kilograms of salt at once was still too eye-catching, so Lu Xuan went to several more stores to get the enough quantity.

Despite this, it still attracted strange looks from the shop owners.

Since we have salt, we also need sugar.

The sugar-making technology in this era was still quite advanced, but the price of sugar was still not low, costing one hundred coins per pound.

Because sugar can be considered hard currency in a sense, Lu Xuan also bought a lot of it, including a total of 1,000 kilograms of white sugar, brown sugar, and rock sugar.

After buying almost all the staple food, salt, sugar and sauces, Lu Xuan began to go to various butcher shops in the city to buy meat.

There is a lot of wild game in the mountains, but it is not as delicious as domestic poultry and livestock. Domestic pork, in particular, is an absolutely indispensable commodity.

Pigs in ancient times were not as fat as they are today. The average pig weighed only about 100 pounds and was far smaller than wild boars.

Lu Xuan found out the price. A domestic pig with skin and bones cost three taels. He ordered a thousand pigs at once, almost buying up all the pigs that could be delivered by all the pig farmers who cooperated with all the butcher shops in the city in a short period of time.

In addition, a thousand native chickens were ordered.

There is no shortage of pheasants in the mountains, but domestic chickens and wild chickens each have their own flavors and are indispensable.

Living things cannot be stored in the space, so these pigs and chickens need to be slaughtered and sent here.

Due to the large quantity, the delivery time was extended to the evening of the next day.

When buying pork, the butcher saw that Lu Xuan was spending a lot of money and specifically asked him if he wanted mutton.

Frankly speaking, Lu Xuan had a very average feeling towards mutton. At most he would eat mutton skewers or grilled lamb chops that were cooked well enough. However, other people in the Lu family might not dislike it.

"Let's get a hundred." Averaged over five years, that's about two per month. It's not a lot, but it's enough.

If that is not enough, they can go into the mountains and hunt wild sheep to eat.

The total cost of pigs, sheep and chickens was 1,400 taels, which was much more expensive than the grain.

After buying the mutton, Lu Xuan suddenly thought that the main reason why he was generally not fond of mutton was because mutton was more fishy than pork. When it comes to removing the fishy smell... of course, alcohol is indispensable!

There is alcohol unlocked in the system mall, but it is used for disinfection only and has a too high alcohol content to be consumed.

So he went to the winery again.

Lu Xuan did not intend to sell expensive items such as Zhuangyuanhong or extremely rare wines. He mainly bought the most common yellow wine, rice wine and shochu.

Wine was also sold in jars, each jar held 100 liters and cost between 30 and 50 wen. Lu Xuan bought 50 jars, spending a total of 200 taels.

As Lu Xuan was busy spending money on purchases, the sky darkened unknowingly and the day passed.

There are still many things I need to buy that I haven’t had time to buy, so I can only continue tomorrow.

After returning to the inn, Lu Xuan asked the waiter to prepare hot water and took a bath as usual.

After a busy day, if you ask Lu Xuan if he is tired... the answer is naturally no.

The physique of people with special abilities is much stronger than that of ordinary people. The reason why they found an inn to rest early yesterday was ultimately because they were in a hurry.

I have been wandering around the city today. The road conditions in the city are much better than the official roads outside the city, so it is naturally not a hassle.

Besides, spending money... the purchasing process itself is also very enjoyable.

When the modern world entered the end of the world, because the end of the world came suddenly, no one had time to make any preparations.

As a rich second-generation, Lu Xuan's card savings, which he could never spend, turned into waste paper in the blink of an eye. He had no chance to stockpile supplies at all, so that Lu Xuan felt extremely upset every time he thought about it for many years.

Now, this reckless and crazy stockpiling has made up for his regrets to some extent. Lu Xuan only feels that his spirit has been greatly satisfied and he doesn't feel tired at all.

Lu Xuan calculated the total expenses for today.

Among them, grain and meat were the most expensive, followed by sugar. The rest of the miscellaneous items added up to a total cost of less than three thousand taels.

This way of painting really shocked the audience in the live broadcast room.

[The anchor really spends a lot of money! ! ! ! Really spends a lot of money! ]

I thought making millions a day was impressive, but I didn't expect him to spend nearly half of it in the blink of an eye!

[Although there were no exciting battles in today's live broadcast, I couldn't stop watching it for some reason.]

[I can't stop +1ing! Seeing this has me stockpiling so much that I couldn't resist placing an order for a bunch of nutritional supplements on StarNet Mall. They'll last me years.]

[Although, despite spending money, the host bought a lot of food! It's all natural food! Tens of thousands of pounds, which converted into star coins, is far more than a few million. The host is making a killing!]

[The key point is that even if you want to buy it, you can't buy it, but the anchor can buy as much as he wants as long as he has money. It's really enviable.]

[For a moment, I didn't know whether I should feel sorry for the anchor's money or envy his food.]

I know the streamer bought necessities, essential supplies for the disaster, and I understand the logic, but I still can't help but say, the streamer is such a spendthrift! ! !

【Who says it isn’t? 】

Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows.

Spendthrift? That's totally different.

He had expected that the things he bought today had already accounted for the largest portion of his purchasing expenses, but at the end of the day he didn't even spend half of what he earned from selling medicine?

This is much less expensive than expected.

If you keep spending at this pace, you might still have a lot of money left over later on.

During a famine, silver is as useless as modern money. Even if you have money, you can't buy food.

If he really has some money left, he will find a way to spend it all.

Maybe the people of Interstellar really have a desire to stock up. Even though today's live broadcast did not contain any battle-related content, the popularity of today's live broadcast room was surprisingly quite good.

Online, the number of fans and gifts received has increased significantly.

After Lu Xuan exchanged all the gifts for points, he took a look at today's daily discounted items, but still restrained himself from buying anything.

It's not that he is thrifty, he just simply wants to accumulate more points and then spend them all at once.

On the morning of the third day, Lu Xuan had a simple breakfast and came to the temporarily rented yard to begin receiving the first batch of supplies delivered.

The first thing delivered was food.

It was said that the goods would be delivered before noon, but in fact, in order to get the balance as soon as possible, the people from the grain shop and Lu Xuan arrived at the courtyard almost at the same time.

Perhaps because he was worried about errors in the large transaction and the final payment was too large, the owner of the grain shop made the trip in person.

Lu Xuan stood aside and counted the amount, and from time to time he would check if there was any inferior rice in the bag.

Only after confirming that there were no problems did I settle the balance with the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper counted the banknotes in his hand and asked casually, "Speaking of which, sir, you bought so much grain at once, are you planning to use it for business?"

Lu Xuan glanced at him as if he was looking at a fool.

If he wanted to do business, he wouldn't go to a wholesaler, or a retailer like a grain store? Is he stupid?

The shopkeeper actually understood this principle, so he was even more curious about the reason.

He couldn't help but think of conspiracy theories and suspected that Lu Xuan was sent by a competitor to cause trouble.

But the retail price is not much cheaper even after discount. What's the point of spending a lot of money to give them a profit?

Moreover, more than 30,000 kilograms of grain is really not a small amount. The new grain of this year will be delivered in two months. If so much grain cannot be sold in the short term, it will be a waste of money.

He thought about it over and over but couldn't figure out the trick, so he couldn't help but ask.

Lu Xuan could see through the shopkeeper's temptation.

He first asked the shopkeeper if the amount of the banknote was correct, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he said nonchalantly: "I bought so much food to prepare for the upcoming natural disaster."

The shopkeeper, who had just pocketed the banknotes, responded: "......?"

The shopkeeper was stunned and said, "Natural disaster? What kind of natural disaster is this? Isn't the harvest good this year?"

Lu Xuan: "Just because it was good before doesn't mean it will be good in the future."

Shopkeeper: “…” It seems to make some sense.

But even if there is a natural disaster, who would stockpile tens of thousands of kilograms of food?

Even if there are more than a dozen people in the family, they won’t be able to finish so much food.

The shopkeeper felt more and more that Lu Xuan just didn't want to reveal his true purpose and was deliberately teasing him.

He laughed and said, "Young Master, you really know how to joke."

Forget it, he has already earned the money, so why should he care about others buying food?

Even if it really ends up in his hands, it has nothing to do with him.

After making sure that the money and goods were settled and there was no dispute, the shopkeeper left with the unloading people, and the people delivering the first batch of meat arrived.