Chapter 202: Spiritual Stones Have Prices, but Spirits Are Priceless
Chapter 202: Spiritual stones have a price, but spirit is priceless
"Haha, this child is as talented as his father." Old Zhang touched the little girl's head kindly and said with a smile.
"Her father? Mr. Zhang, since three generations of your family have such talent, why don't you all become our fortune tellers!" Shi Yan smiled, his face extremely thick.
Shi Yan was a bit arrogant, and he was greedy and wanted to recruit all three mathematicians. But he couldn't be blamed. Three mathematicians, even if they were just beginning to learn the ropes, were a force that could not be ignored. In the Zimu Liuhua Region, which sect had mathematicians? Not to mention three mathematicians? If it were someone else, they would be like him when they heard the news.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Lao turned pale and looked sad. He sighed softly, "Ah, but I don't know where my poor child is now. How easy is it to find him?"
It turned out that when Zhang Lao's son Zhang Yun gave birth to the little girl, he and his wife, the mother of the little girl Zhang Xiuxing, were sold to someone else.
In the following years, Mr. Zhang and Miss Zhang Xiuxing were sold several times, and their whereabouts were lost.
At this point, Mr. Zhang's voice choked up, his eyes were red, and he had already burst into tears.
Men don't shed tears easily, but they do when they are sad. Let alone an old man?
I don't know how much grief there is in my heart, which burst out all at once and became uncontrollable, leading to my current state.
Shi Yan sighed, stepped forward and patted Mr. Zhang on the back, advising: "Don't be sad, Mr. Zhang. In fact, having your granddaughter by your side is also a blessing from heaven."
He knew the situation among the slaves. They were allowed to marry and have children, but if a family reached a certain number of people, they would be separated. This was a means to prevent slave rebellion. Even if they could not practice, the controller would do so in case of accidents. So, it was also his luck that he still had his granddaughter by his side.
"I know, I know!" Zhang nodded, wiped away his tears, and gently hugged the little girl. "It's a great honor to have Xiuxing by my side!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang. When you are proficient in arithmetic, you will be able to find your son, Xiuxing's parents!"
"Yes, I have to thank you too!" Zhang Lao hurriedly pulled the little girl to kneel down and nodded to Shi Yan, "If it weren't for you, we might never have a chance in our lifetime."
"No, Mr. Zhang, this gift is too great!" He hurried over and helped the two of them up. Ye Yier said, "You shouldn't thank us. We just paved a way for you. In the end, it still depends on your own efforts."
Zhang Lao nodded, "What the girl said is very true. In the end, it all depends on us." As he said that, he turned his head and looked at Xiuxing. The little girl was shocked by the scene just now. Where had she ever seen her grandfather cry like this? Even when the foreman whipped her, she just frowned and held back. "Xiuxing, you must study the arithmetic that our benefactor taught us well, and then repay our benefactor with all your skills!"
"Yes, I will!" Xiuxing has a pair of big, shining eyes and a weathered but still beautiful face. She nodded heavily, "Xiu'er understands. Xiu'er will study hard!"
She looked at Shi Yan without saying anything, with something strange in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Shi Yan asked curiously when he saw her looking at him like that.
The little girl shook her head and said, "It's very strange. The book says that after learning arithmetic, you can see some waves around people, and use these waves to deduce everything about people. I can see these waves for each of you, but I can't see anything for you. There is nothing around you."
Everyone was speechless, not because they couldn't see Shi Yan clearly, but because this little girl was so amazing. She was only a few years old, but she could use arithmetic to make calculations and figure out something.
Only Shi Yan frowned slightly, and no one knew what he was thinking.
The training went on as usual. When the twenty people woke up and found out their physical condition, they were all shocked. They actually felt full of energy, totally different from before. It was useless to sleep because they were exhausted.
And look at it now, my essence, energy and spirit are all in the best condition!
“Amazing!”
But soon, they knew why this happened.
The training was still the same, and they found that one lap was much easier than yesterday! They were exhausted after running one lap yesterday, and fainted after running only three laps at best. But today, after running one lap, they were only slightly out of breath, and did not feel tired at all. After running four laps, they did not even feel dizzy!
“Is this still me?”
At this moment, Mo Feng Mo Le, who is now their instructor, asked them to line up and come to a steaming pool of water. The water was misty and they took a deep breath, and their mouths were filled with the fragrance of medicine, which made them feel refreshed.
After entering the medicinal soup, I immediately felt that all the pores in my body were dilated and I felt extremely comfortable. From the outside of my skin, there was a stream of heat that kept drilling into my body, itchy and numb, but there was an indescribable comfort.
"Could it be because of the water in this pond?"
Someone bravely asked Mo Le a question, and after Mo Le admitted it, everyone suddenly realized it.
"Listen carefully, this pool of water is special. The energy you need to consume by lying in it for an hour is more than what you would consume in a year. So, you must train well and don't let us think that giving you this medicine is a waste! You must let us know that it is worth it for you to use this medicine!"
Everyone looked at each other and felt heavy in their hearts.
It is just as the instructor said, don’t let this pool of potion go to waste!
So, Shi Yan saw that the twenty people who were supposed to rest were still sweating hard on the training ground.
"Hmm? Did they take the wrong medicine?" The experimenter suspected, "Could it be that the drug is too effective and they have no place to expend their energy? Hmm, it seems that we need to design more training programs for them."
The poor guy's morale was high and his blood was boiling due to the encouragement given by Mo Le, but Shi Yan mistakenly thought that the training intensity was not enough and that the intensity should be increased. If these people knew what he was thinking at the moment, I don't know whether they would cry or laugh.
Apart from these twenty people, the remaining forty-eight people were arranged by Shi Yan to undergo relatively simple training in another place. It was said to be simple, but compared to the twenty people, it was still unbearable for them. But compared to before, they are much happier. You know, they were slaves before, living in fear every day, and they would be beaten if they did something wrong. It was common to be hungry, and it was even common to not eat for a day. Although this situation did not occur under Xu Zuoxian, the identity of the slave was like a mountain pressing on them. They were slaves and had gotten used to it, but they did not want their children to be slaves too. Slaves were allowed to marry and have children because slaves had to continue. As parents, of course, they did not want this.
The current situation is their only hope to get rid of the slaves. No one will let them start a new life like Shi Yan and his friends did.
Although they knew very well in their hearts that they were doing this just to make themselves work for them, but it didn't matter who they were selling to, because others didn't want them! So they were not only not dissatisfied, but full of gratitude.
Three days later, what they didn't expect was that a mirage from "A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella" was auctioned for a sky-high price of fifty third-grade spirit stones, and five of them were sold on the first day!
Five, that's two hundred and fifty third-grade spirit stones, a huge sum of money! This toy that can't be eaten or worn, and can't increase cultivation, can actually be sold at this price.
How these people lack spiritual food! This was the first thought that came to Shi Yan's mind when he heard the news.
After all, the initial price was set at twenty third-grade spirit stones. In his mind, the auction might fetch around thirty third-grade spirit stones. However, he didn't expect that he had completely underestimated the consumption level of these people. These were not cultivators at all; they were clearly pigs waiting to be slaughtered!
Shi Yan was very puzzled: "Where did you find so many suckers?"
Lai Jie and Lin Qingzhi looked at the strange man brought by Mo Cheng with contempt: "I have been in this circle for so long, how come I don't know anyone here. Besides, this is called knowing the goods. Anyone with a little vision can see the value of such fine goods." Their underlying meaning was that you really don't know the goods.
Shi Yan was speechless. How could I not know this? But the cost of this thing is less than ten second-grade spirit stones! Thinking back to the time when I fought to the death for some first-grade spirit stones, I blushed when I thought about it now.
"What they pursue is spiritual satisfaction, don't you understand? In their eyes, fifty third-grade spirit stones can be earned back in a few weeks, and this is still a conservative estimate. If they are lucky, it will probably be earned back in a day. In this case, who wouldn't be tempted to encounter such a good thing and who wouldn't rush to buy it. If the last few people who bought it didn't have some power here, I'm afraid they could have sold it for a higher price."
"How high can it go?" Is the world changing too fast or am I unable to keep up with the world's trends?
"Besides, isn't there a saying that spirit is priceless? If we sell it at a low price, won't it enrich their spiritual world?"
Well, spirit stones have a price, but spirits are priceless. In that case, shouldn’t I try my best to cooperate with you in order to satisfy your spiritual needs?
Shi Yan laughed, which made Mo Cheng, Lai Jie and Lin Qingzhi beside him feel cold. Why is it so cold all of a sudden?
Shi Yan thought, "Sister, it's your turn!"