Fan Sheng saw through Xia Qingqing's thoughts and looked dejected: "Miss Xia, it seems that I have nothing else to trade with you besides these things."
Seeing him like this, Xia Qingqing couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
If Fan Sheng were someone who liked to use clever tricks, she probably wouldn't have sympathized with him, but he wasn't.
Anyone with eyes could see that Xia Qingqing knew nothing about the world he lived in. He didn't have to tell Xia Qingqing about the shortcomings of his boxing style, but he honestly told her everything without hiding anything.
For this reason alone, Xia Qingqing felt she could lend him a hand.
She sighed softly, "Fine, how much prey do you have? I'll buy it all."
Anyway, we eat these things at home all the time, so I'll just consider it as buying some local specialties from the ancient martial arts world.
Fan Sheng, who had originally planned to give up, lit up upon hearing this and looked at Xia Qingqing with gratitude: "Really? You really want to buy them all? Thank you so much, Miss Xia."
He had a very good day, catching three rabbits, two pheasants, and a roe deer weighing about 40 pounds, which was quite a good haul.
The total value of these game animals, based on market prices, is about 1.3 taels of silver. However, if he takes them to the restaurant in the county, the restaurant manager will only give him 1 tael of silver at most.
Fan Sheng knew that the other party must have been skimming off his share, cutting a little bit each time, and over time his losses were increasing.
Although he was dissatisfied, he dared not speak out and offend the restaurant owner, fearing that the owner would be angry and unwilling to accept his prey again.
In that case, he could only sell these prey at a stall, but setting up a stall would take a lot of time, and there was no one else in his family who could help him.
He has to hunt and bring his prey to the county to set up a stall all by himself, which takes too much time and is impossible for him to manage.
On the other hand, setting up a stall means there is a risk of not being able to sell the game. In this hot weather, the game won't last long, and if he can't sell it, his losses may be even greater.
The restaurant owner also understood this point about him, so no matter how unwilling Fan Sheng was, he had no choice but to continue selling his prey to the restaurant.
After receiving the prey sent to her by Fan Sheng, Xia Qingqing rummaged through a box in the corner of the system's inventory and pulled out a 5-tael silver ingot: "Is this enough silver?"
Upon seeing the silver, Fan Sheng waved his hand somewhat awkwardly: "I don't need this much, just give me 1 tael and 3 mace of silver."
"It's alright, you can keep it," Xia Qingqing said, and directly transferred the silver to Fan Sheng.
The silver ingot she gave to Fan Sheng was the smallest one in her system's inventory; there really weren't any smaller ones left.
"Thank you, Miss Xia," Fan Sheng bowed to Xia Qingqing in thanks, his dark cheeks flushed red with emotion.
It seems the system in his mind really wasn't lying to him; he really could earn a lot of money.
Xia Qingqing waved her hand: "You're welcome. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up now."
Fan Sheng looked at Xia Qingqing hesitantly, then asked, "Miss Xia, will you need any more prey in a couple of days?"
He wanted to continue trading with Xia Qingqing; if he could do it a few more times, he could save enough for the tuition fees needed for Siyuan's enrollment.
Xia Qingqing met his expectant gaze, thought for a moment, and then said, "I don't need prey for now, but if you have eggs or vegetables, you can sell them to me."
Eggs and vegetables are foods that the Xia family eats every day, so it's no problem for her to buy more and stock up. It also saves Xia Heping from having to go to the grocery store to queue up before dawn to buy vegetables.
Fan Sheng nodded happily, "Yes, yes, how many eggs and vegetables do you need? I'll prepare them for you."
"I'll take 200 eggs and 100 jin of different kinds of vegetables," Xia Qingqing said casually. "That should be enough for the family to eat for a month or two."
"Okay, I'll try my best to deliver the items to you before tomorrow."
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After ending the video call, Fan Sheng happily rushed home. When he arrived, he saw his eldest son, Fan Siyuan, chopping firewood in the yard.
Although Fan Siyuan is only 8 years old, he is much stronger than his peers and can do chores like carrying water and chopping wood just as well as adults.
Although Fan Sheng did not want his son to practice the family's low-grade yellow-level boxing technique, he had paid special attention to his eldest son's strength and physical fitness training since he was 3 years old, all in order to lay a good foundation for him, which would be of great benefit to his future martial arts practice.
Fan Sheng was overjoyed. He strode over, picked up his son, and spun him around a few times: "Son, Dad will soon have enough money to pay for your tuition. You'll be able to enter the Jingwu Academy soon. Aren't you happy?"
Fan Siyuan was suddenly picked up and spun around a few times by his father, and then heard his father say that he would soon be able to enter the Jingwu Academy. He was a little dizzy for a moment and looked at Fan Sheng in disbelief, asking, "Father, is what you said true?"
Can he really get into Jingwu Academy?
Seeing his parents looking worried these past few days, Fan Siyuan guessed they were concerned about his tuition fees and had already resigned himself to not being able to go to school. Unexpectedly, his father suddenly told him this good news.
"Of course it's true, how could your father lie to you?" Fan Sheng smiled and patted his son's head.
Hearing her husband's voice, Luo Suyue, who was inside the house, came out with her little daughter in her hand: "Husband, you're back."
Three-year-old Fan Xiaomei saw her father carrying her brother and spinning him around, and immediately ran over with her little legs, shouting in her baby voice, "Daddy, I want a hug too~".
Fan Sheng was completely charmed by his little daughter's adorable appearance. He immediately put his son aside and caught his little daughter who rushed towards him: "Haha, okay, here comes Daddy's precious daughter."
After Fan Sheng finished interacting with his daughter, Luo Suyue stepped forward and asked gently, "Husband, I think I heard you say in the room that you'll soon have enough money for Yuan'er's tuition?"
Fan Sheng held his wife's hand and said, "That's right, my wife, don't worry, I will definitely send Yuan'er to Jingwu Academy."
He didn't want his children to grow up to be like him, a useless hunter. If his son could study at the Jingwu Academy, he would have the opportunity to participate in the martial arts examination and have the chance to change his family's fortunes.
Even if their son doesn't become an official in the future, at the very least he can pass the exam to get a job as a constable in the yamen and live a stable life.
"Yes, my husband, I believe you can do it," Luo Suyue said, her eyes filled with trust as she looked at Fan Sheng.
Fan Sheng handed her a silver ingot from his pocket: "This is the silver I earned today, Yue Niang, you can keep it."
Luo Suyue always kept all the money in the house. No matter how much money Fan Sheng earned, he would hand it over to Luo Suyue and ask her for money when he needed it.
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