Chapter 16 Insights

As I was walking, I saw a traffic jam ahead. A large group of people gathered together and I had no idea what they were selling.

Qiao Xi used his size advantage to successfully squeeze to the front of the large crowd. He saw a group of warriors with murderous looks on their faces hawking the spoils of their expedition, with their ferocious monsters next to them. They were indeed experienced warriors who had seen blood, and there was still a murderous aura in this busy city.

"What are you selling?" Qiao Xi asked curiously to the aunt who was also eating watermelon nearby.

The aunt looked at Qiao Xi, and seeing that she was young and wanted to show off, she gestured to Qiao Xi to look at the battle flag of this team: "This is a subordinate team of the Two-Headed Wolf Expedition Group selling spoils.

Their group is one of the best expedition groups in Chaoyang City. Every time they come back from an expedition, they will transport most of the valuable items to the more prosperous cities in the north to sell them. A small number of items that are difficult to transport and not too valuable will be auctioned in this city or set up stalls on the spot, and the highest bidder will win."

"Anyway, they are very powerful and no one dares to rob them. All the good stuff is sold on the spot. We can just watch the fun because we can't afford to buy." After the aunt said this, she focused on the two buyers in front of her who were haggling over prices. She took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and gave a small handful to Qiao Xi. The two of them ate the melon seeds in silence.

What the two men were fighting for was the essence of the fruit of some kind of magic fruit tree. The fruits of ordinary magic fruit trees will contain some energy essence and have some special effects, but the effect is not obvious when the amount is small.

But the essence of this fruit, one fruit contains the energy of more than hundreds of magic fruits, and is of great benefit to both people with special abilities and magical beasts. No wonder these two people are fighting for it so fiercely.

"But this fruit was also brought by other expedition groups last time, so it's not that precious. Otherwise, they wouldn't have kept it here to sell, and would have taken it away long ago." The aunt spit out the melon seed shells in her mouth and added to Josh.

"How can we grow the essence of fruit?" Josh asked unconsciously.

"Wow, you have great ambitions." The auntie smiled and teased Qiao Xi, "I heard that the essence of this fruit requires the magic fruit tree to be in a very nutritious state, with all its needs met, without pests, and without competition, in order to bear fruit.

Artificially grown fruits are generally difficult to meet their needs. Most of the fruit essences are obtained from the primeval forest or other secret spaces. The entire Chaoyang City has never heard of a farm that has grown them."

The aunt didn't laugh at Josh's silly question, she just told him everything she knew.

“Oh.” Josh nodded, which means that only when the highest level of requirements of the magic fruit tree are met can the essence of the fruit be produced.

Well, it seems her little farm is still far from enough.

Seeing that Qiao Xi was silent for a moment, the aunt thought that she had hit the farm girl, so she quickly encouraged her, "Don't be discouraged. I just said that we don't have it in Chaoyang City, but I heard that there was a top farm in Coral Harbor in the giant city to the east that harvested the essence of coral fruit.

Maybe you will be our first one." The aunt patted Qiao Xi and made a little joke to her.

Qiao Xi was happy, raised his hand, and assured the aunt: "Thank you for your good words, I promise to complete the task."

"Hey, little guy, I have to get along well with you in advance. If the result comes, don't forget to call me to come and see the fun."

"Haha, okay."

While the two were chatting, the price war between the two people in front had reached a white-hot stage.

"Eighty-eight thousand, Doruba. If you sell it to me, I will give you 200 more cans of supplies for the next expedition." said the factory owner, who was smartly dressed and slim.

"This is the owner of the cannery. He raises a group of fang-toothed pigs. I heard that the animals fed with the essence of this fruit will grow rapidly in size, and the essence will be passed on to the next generation. Although the effect will be lost after three or four generations, it is enough for him to make money. If a pig grows an extra hundred pounds, and a group of pigs can grow, that would be incredible." Someone nearby was discussing quietly, and Josh followed suit.

"Sto, could you not be so stingy? Eighty-eight thousand? Have you been raising pigs for too long and become a poor bastard with a pig's brain? Doruba, I'll give you one hundred thousand!" Another fat businessman with a delicate mustache said disdainfully.

One hundred thousand! Oh, although the fruit essence is indeed precious, but just for this one, they are asking such a high price, are they fighting or buying goods?

"Greven, stop talking nonsense. What's the point of buying it? Your family is a bunch of weaklings. It's useless to eat ten more. Stop talking nonsense. I'll give you 105,000 plus 500 cans."

"Poor fellow, if you can't afford it, don't embarrass yourself here. You're even using canned food to make up the difference. One hundred and twenty thousand!"

"You!" The factory owner looked at Greven hatefully. If looks could kill, he would have been killed hundreds of times.

Doruba is the iron-blooded warrior. He doesn't care about the dispute between the two people at all. He only needs to sell it to the person who offers the highest price. It doesn't matter who that person is.

It's no use building connections, he only cares about money.

"Okay, it's yours." Doruba threw the essence of the fruit into Greven's hand and signaled him to pay.

After Greven happily paid the money, he was thinking about showing off to Sto.

Then I heard Sto say in a mocking tone: "I didn't expect there is an idiot like you. Don't you know that I bought two of these fruit essences for 120,000 when the expedition came back last time? You think you made a lot of money, hahahaha."

Sto and the people around him mocked loudly, and Greven's face, which had just been rosy, turned red with anger.

"These two are old enemies. The Stowe family has been raising fang-tusked pigs for canning for generations. Now Graven has also raised a group of black pigs to compete with him for business. I heard that the quarrel is quite fierce." The aunt leaned close to Josh's ear and whispered with her hands behind her back.

With this inside story, it’s no wonder that the two of them spoke in a sarcastic tone. Qiao Xi quickly stuffed a melon seed into his mouth and ate the melon.

But perhaps because he had suffered a great loss, Greven was too embarrassed to stay any longer, so he squeezed through the crowd and left in a hurry without saying anything back.

And Dorudo and his friends didn't pay any attention to this little episode, but continued to introduce the things on their stall.

After all, they are brought back from outside, and not everyone may know the effects.

However, the things that came later were not as lively as before. Basically, people bought them after seeing a bid, and few people bid again.

Basically, after selling all the rare items, Dorado and his other teammates started to move the things down from the giant animal cart in the back. These were common goods in large quantities, and they didn't have time to wait and sell them slowly, so they took them all out and sold them at a price that did not lose them.

This time, Josh saw what he needed, a few milk jug trees tied together like straw.

Seeing that no one spoke, Josh asked tentatively: "Captain Dorudo, how much are these milk pot trees for?"

(End of this chapter)