Chapter 37

The pain of enlightenment was like being cut with a dull knife. Fu Le could only bite down hard on the cloth in her mouth to keep herself from making a sound. Fortunately, after two days and two nights, with the help of nutrient solution and Qiqi fruit, she survived. Wu Luo was not curious about what she was eating, nor did he accept her gifts. She did not force him to accept them either.

When Fu Le got up, he noticed that his pants had reached his calves.

Oh no... Her parents will be terrified when she goes back. Her weight has increased to 170 overnight, how scary is that!

The pants she had stored in her storage space were only suitable for her 162cm height, and they were all too small for her. After worrying for a while, Fu Le found a pair of tall boots that fit perfectly, covering most of her calves.

“Let’s go look at the fabric. I’m going to buy all the fabric your friend has.” Fu Le said as he saw Bai Ji outside.

Bletilla striata: !!!

Su Qun: !!!

Fu Le bought all 50,000 bolts of undyed silver silk fabric, 20 meters long and 10 meters wide, which were newly produced this year, as well as 100,000 bolts of defective fabric accumulated over nearly ten years, all at a quarter of the price of the new products.

When Fu Le left Bai Ji's friend's cloth shop, he saw the hundred taels of gold that Bai Ji's friend had given to Bai Ji.

"Why give it to me?" Fu Le hadn't expected Bai Ji to give him a hundred taels of gold.

“This is yours. You’ve made him a lot of money this time, and you’ve also recovered all the losses of the past ten years.” Bai Ji really didn’t want to take it, as it would make him seem morally corrupt. The reason he introduced Fu Le was not to help his friend clear out his inventory, but to let Fu Le buy cloth at a cheaper price. His cloth was of very good quality, and it was no exaggeration to say that the quality was far superior to the cloth on the market. However, because he offended a minor official in the provincial administration, he was suppressed. Even if he sold it at 80% of the market price, he was still forced to lower the price. Most of the time, he could only sell it at 60% of the market price, barely enough to keep the workshop running and ensure that his family could live comfortably. Any more, and there would be nothing left.

My friend has also suffered greatly over the years, with unsold goods accumulating year by year or being sold off at low prices.

Fu Le and his friend achieved a double success, and the price Fu Le offered was very fair at 7.8%. Even if it was less than 80%, it would be enough for them to live comfortably for several years, not to mention the losses from the previous stockpile, which have been completely made up.

"Take this; consider it my payment for your employment."

Unable to refuse in the end, Bai Ji put it away. It was at this moment that Fu Le learned that Bai Ji also had a spatial bracelet.

Fu Le: ...

Aren't spatial bracelets supposed to be very rare? How come everyone has one?

Seeing Fu Le's question, Bai Ji smiled bitterly, "This is what I earned with all my savings from the past eight years."

All right……

Having a spatial bracelet is indeed convenient.

"If your friend were to expedite the production of that fabric, how much could he produce within five days?"

"You want more?" Bai Ji was taken aback. What did she need so much cloth for?

"Never mind that, how much can you afford?" Fu Le asked impatiently.

"If we work as fast as we can and hire another batch of piece-rate workers, we can probably make five thousand."

"Okay, let him do it. By the way, have him buy up some decent quality but flawed fabric from the market. He'll oversee the quality. I'll come to collect the goods in three days."

"good."

Suicheng.

After Su Qun received the final payment of ten grams of gold, the transaction between the two parties was considered complete, and Bai Ji once again followed Fu Le to Suicheng.

Suicheng has a textile bureau, and the textile workers registered there are all top-notch textile masters.

Only the top craftsmen at the Suicheng Textile Bureau had the skill to turn Fu Le's bird feathers into cloth and garments.

The entrance fee to Suicheng was thirty grams of gold per person. Fu Le had a lot of gold, but she still couldn't help feeling the pinch, after all, she was a thrifty Chinese.

The residents of Suicheng are indeed residents under the emperor's nose. Even the residents on the outermost edge wear clothes made of silk cloth, and their hair is not greasy at all. It seems that there is no shortage of water here.

"How do the residents here make a living?" The houses here are all the same as those in Wancheng, but the people's attitudes are very different, and the gap between the rich and the poor is enormous.

"They raise silkworms and silkworms, as well as sand ants, hunt, mine, and work in many workshops. The residents of Suicheng are all martial arts masters. Even if they can't cultivate internal strength, their external martial arts skills are quite good. Incomes are very high, and of course, the cost of living here is also very high, although resources are abundant."

Fu Le was shocked. Hundreds of thousands of martial arts masters!!

After visiting several fabric shops, Fu Le finally realized that the fabric here was indeed expensive. "Are there many fabric workshops around here?" He felt it was a waste of talent to have so many martial arts masters weaving cloth.

"There aren't many cloth workshops here; most are located in other lower-level cities. Among the three cities, Wancheng has the most cloth workshops."

"Raising silkworms and sand ants is simple and effortless, and the wages are decent, so quite a few low-level martial artists are willing to do it, especially female martial artists. Most of the silk is transported to other cities to be processed into cloth. The output of those small cities is not high, only Wancheng has a decent output, which together supplies eighteen cities, just right. The profit of the cloth workshops is not bad, but not many martial artists here are willing to be textile workers because the income is not high. Those above level three basically go out to hunt, and the price of animal meat is very high..." Bai Ji told him everything he knew.

Fu Le listened attentively and gained a better understanding of the upcoming trip to Suicheng.

"Aren't you going to make the Black Feather Robe? I know a master who can take you there."

Fu Le stared intently at Bai Ji, "Who exactly are you? How could a teacher possibly know such capable people?"

Bai Ji was taken aback by the question, then fell silent. "This is something I don't want to talk about. Can't I be your guide if I don't tell you?"

“No, let’s go.” Fu Le didn’t want to force anyone.

This time, things went very smoothly. Fu Le traded five bird beaks for all the black feathers used to make textiles and garments. The person who accepted her order was a female textile worker. When she saw Bai Ji, her expression was a little strange, but when she heard the purpose of her visit, she quoted a price and accepted the order without saying a word. It was strangely smooth.

Judging from her appearance, Bai Ji's identity is anything but simple.

There was a good amount of black feathers. The weaver estimated that it could be woven into a hundred bolts of cloth. Fu Le chose to have five outfits made, all of them sportswear. She also asked for some to be made into thread so that she could find a tailor to make the clothes herself later. The reason for this was that the black feather cloth could only be sewn with black feather thread and special animal bone needles.

Fu Le even went so far as to exchange hundreds of bone needles with a textile worker, in various sizes. These were obtained by exchanging ten ribs from a Kui bird, and he only charged the cost price.

After leaving the textile craftsman's house, Bai Ji continued to take Fu Le to visit the markets and shopping malls. Compared to Wancheng, there were mining halls here, and many people would buy ores and have them forged into weapons by weapon makers.

"Firearms?" When Fu Le learned what the most commonly used weapons were during the beast tide, he felt like he had almost missed out on a fortune.

"Damn, why didn't you say so sooner?" Fu Le exclaimed.

Bletilla striata: ? ? ?