Chapter 108 Selling Salt

The beastmen exchanged glances, but no matter how eager they were, they dared not speak.

Everyone knows how formidable Mo Jiu is; messing with him will only lead to trouble.

I was too anxious to see him, and now that I have, I don't dare to make a sound.

Yuanyuan peeked out from Mo Jiu's arms, "Everyone, don't rush. I'll make a deal with this aunt first, and we can talk about everything else later."

The female hadn't expected her to be willing to trade with her, so she quickly took out the wicker basket.

"Come on, let's switch first." At this point, her several companions had surrounded her to protect her, and she became bolder.

Yuanyuan took out half a bowl of fine salt. "Is this enough?"

Everyone's eyes lit up. "Wow! It's really fine salt!"

"That's enough!" The orc next to the female quickly took it and put it away. They would be heartbroken if he spilled it.

"In all my years, I've only ever seen fine salt from the sea creatures once, and it's even coarser than this!"

The salt in the little messenger's hand was as white as snow in the dead of winter.

"Such fine salt, how many animal hides would it take to exchange for it!"

"Little messenger, do you have any fine salt? I'm willing to trade two medium-grade animal hides for it!"

“Two aren’t enough!” a fox-clan beastman next to him immediately retorted. “I’ll offer three! No, four! As long as you’ll give me a bowl in return, I’ll go get the animal hide right now!”

"I'll change too!"

"Me too! I want some too!"

The orcs became excited again, raising their hands to bid, afraid that if they were too slow, the salt would be snatched away by someone else.

Yuanyuan was taken aback by the scene of people rushing to bid, and her little mind quickly began to calculate.

She had originally thought that one bag of salt would be enough for one animal hide, since she had plenty left in her space, but she never expected that these orcs would be willing to offer so much.

She asked the uncles and aunts at the Forestry Bureau to prepare salt for her because the salt in the Beast World was not tasty and there was not much of it.

"Don't grab it, everyone!" Yuanyuan shouted, raising her little hand. "I have lots and lots of bags of salt here. One bag for one animal hide. Anyone want some?"

The moment those words were spoken, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.

The orcs looked at each other, thinking they had misheard.

The fox-clan beastman cautiously asked, "Little envoy, you said... a bag of salt for a piece of animal hide?"

How much is the package?

Yuanyuan reached into the animal skin bag and took the opportunity to take out a packet of salt from her spatial storage.

"It's just this big of a bag."

This packet contains far more than the previous half bowl; "If you pour it out, it should fill two bowls to the brim."

"Such a big package?"

"A single animal hide for this much? Really?"

"Little envoy, are you kidding me? Normally, this much coarse salt would require three animal hides, let alone fine salt!"

The orcs went wild. The few orcs who were bidding just now rushed forward, afraid that someone else would beat them to it.

"I want ten packs! No, twenty packs! I'll go back and get the animal hides right now!"

After shouting, the tiger-tribe orc turned to run away.

"Wait! I want one too! I have some animal hides here, I can exchange them right now!"

A leopard-tribe orc carrying a large bag of animal hides squeezed to the front; the hides he carried were all high-quality, tanned hides.

"Little envoy, how many packages do you think we can exchange these for?"

"Everyone, please don't get excited yet. I'll go and get ready. We'll set up a stall and have people line up to buy later."

After saying that, he added, "Each person can only exchange a maximum of 5 packs."

With so many orcs, she only had two large bags in her storage space, totaling only 200 bags, which was simply not enough to distribute.

She couldn't possibly sell them all at once.

Although the orcs were anxious, they had no choice but to wait patiently in order to exchange for salt.

Some people even volunteered to help her set up a small stall in the open space.

Yuanyuan led Mojiu to a secluded spot under a tree in the forest and took out a bag containing a hundred small packets of salt from her spatial storage.

Mo Jiu's pupils trembled slightly. "Sell all of these?"

"Okay, let's sell this many for now."

Yuanyuan thought that animal hides were really good things, and she could give them away when she got back.

Mo Jiu looked at the large bag full of fine salt, suppressed his shock, picked up the bag with one hand and carried her with the other, and hurried back.

As soon as Yuanyuan arrived, the people who had been waiting anxiously became restless again.

"Little envoy, can't you really exchange for a few more packs?"

"That's all the quantity we have. If we give you any more, there won't be any left for the later generations."

"Alright then, I'll take five packs."

The leopard orcs chose five of their finest animal hides for her.

He excitedly hugged the five bags of salt to his arms, repeatedly saying, "Great! With this salt, our tribe won't have to worry about the cold season!"

Five packages actually far exceeded their expectations.

Seeing this, the other orcs also sprang into action. Some went back to retrieve animal hides, while others simply took them out of their bags.

In no time, a long queue formed in front of Yuanyuan's stall, all of them orcs who came to exchange salt.

The female stall owner stood aside, watching the bustling scene before her with envy on her face.

They set up their stall for a long time, but no one paid any attention. In the end, they sent another animal handler with a few animal hides to the back of the line.

Not far away, several other orc tribes were drawn to the commotion.

Upon hearing the news, they rushed over and were alarmed to see the mountain of animal hides and the rapidly empty salt packets at Yuanyuan's place.

"Young envoy, could you sell us some salt as well? Our tribe is willing to pay a higher price—two animal hides for one bag!"

"Go, go, go, and obediently wait in line backstage."

"First come, first served. Everyone gets the same treatment. A bag of salt for a piece of animal hide. That's fair."

I was stunned for a moment. Could there really be such a fool? Not even willing to take one more?

"Little female, you're so kind. We'll take thirty packs. Go get the animal hides now!"

"Each person can only exchange for five packs, no more."

As the sun rose higher overhead, more and more people gathered at the trade fair, and Yuanyuan's salt bag was almost empty.

After exchanging salt, an old orc couldn't help but exclaim, "Young messenger, you are truly our savior! With this salt, we will surely get through this year's cold season safely."

Yuanyuan smiled so hard her eyes narrowed into slits: "As long as everyone has salt to eat, that's good enough!!"

She sat amidst a pile of animal hides and wicker baskets, her little face rosy.

Mo Jiu stood beside her, seeing that she was covered in sweat but smiling happily, and took out some dried meat and handed it to her, "Sit down and eat."

"They're not all sold out yet!"

"I'll buy it for you, just sit still."

"Okay!" Yuanyuan took the jerky and obediently started eating it.

After they had eaten their fill, the pile of animal hides beside them had grown quite high. She secretly poked Mo Jiu's thigh and whispered, "Father, we've earned so many animal hides!"

Mo Jiu chuckled softly, looking down. "If you order two pieces of animal hide, you'll get even more."

"That won't do, two animal hides are too expensive."

My father said that the animal hides she brought back were quite valuable; even the smallest hide could sell for over a thousand yuan.

A thousand dollars can buy a lot of salt.

But she couldn't sell it too cheaply, otherwise the orcs who made a living by selling salt would have a hard time trading it.

Before long, the salt bags on the ground were all snatched up, while the animal hides around Yuanyuan were piled up into a small mountain, almost burying her.

The orcs in line were very disappointed to find that the salt was gone. "Little messenger, is there any salt left? When will you come back to sell it? We'll wait for you! Two animal hides for a bag will do."

Yuanyuan doesn't know if she'll ever see him again; she can only say she'll wait until the next trade fair!