Chapter 112
Tang Yu'an looked at the tips of the small buds in the flowerpot, and a little blue could be vaguely seen among the green buds.
Could it really be the seedling of the blue beech tree?
He quickly gave the little bud a basic identification skill.
[Do you want to deduct 200 points and use the primary appraisal skill on this item? ]
The appraisal fee alone is 200 points, which means the entire seedling is worth 2,000 points? That's twice as expensive as the original cooling fruit seedling!
Tang Yu'an glanced at his points balance: 327, and quickly closed the appraisal interface.
He is a poor guy now and cannot afford such a high appraisal fee.
Looking at Granny Guo lying on the woolen quilt with her eyes closed to rest, Tang Yu'an couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
If only there wasn't a protective barrier for the second store...
Granny Guo and Kang Kang must stay at No.1 Store, but unlocking the function of inviting customers to stay overnight requires 200 popularity and 2,000 points.
Could he achieve this before nightfall?
Tang Yu'an glanced at the popularity of No.1 Store: 141, 59 points away from 200. Maybe with some effort, he could barely reach it today?
But the points...
It's so hard! I feel like I never have enough points!
While he still remembered, Tang Yu'an quickly opened the 3D map of Store No. 1 and narrowed the protective barrier to the 9th and 10th floors.
In this way, when the non-business hours arrive at 6 o'clock, Granny Guo and Kang Kang will not be sent out of Store No. 1.
However, safety at night cannot be absolutely guaranteed, so Yuanbao and the others need to keep watch.
As for recruiting Granny Guo and Kang Kang...
This may need to be considered after there are more employee positions in the future. After all, given the personalities of my mother-in-law and Kang Kang, it would be too difficult for them to do business with others.
They are more suitable to stay in the safe rear and open up land for planting research.
"Kang Kang, is this a blue beech tree seedling?"
Tang Yu'an placed the flower pot at Kang Kang's feet. Afraid that he didn't understand, he quickly took out his piece of blue beard leaves and said, "These are the seedlings grown from these leaves, right?"
Kang Kang nodded, "Lulu helped...it's growing, it's growing!"
He pointed at the Spirit Gathering Grass and made a growing motion.
Tang Yu'an understood quickly.
The "Green" should refer to the spirit-gathering grass, because it can gather wood-type spiritual energy. In Kang Kang's eyes, it should be particularly green, so it is named "Green"?
Then, with the help of the spirit gathering grass, Kang Kang successfully made the blue beard tree seedlings germinate?
Regardless, this is a super amazing thing!
Old Li, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard their conversation. "Blue Hu tree seedlings? Are they the kind of blue Hu trees that grow in Lan Hu Town?"
Although Tang Yu'an was holding the blue beard leaf that Mo Ke gave him, which fully demonstrated this point, Old Li still couldn't help but confirm it out loud.
"Yeah."
Tang Yu'an nodded, "I got the second blue beard leaf by chance and gave it to Kang Kang, and then..."
He looked at the mutant blue beard tree seedling in the flowerpot and never thought that Kang Kang had actually grown it.
Old Li looked at Kang Kang, who looked confused, and couldn't help but sigh, "I didn't expect Granny Guo's grandson to possess such a powerful wood-type ability!"
Besides, he is still so young, and it is hard to say how much he will grow in the future.
He looked at the blue beech tree seedling again and suddenly thought of something.
"Could it be..."
Old Li muttered, then suddenly looked at Zhou Qi and asked, "Xiao Qi, when you were fighting that mutant giant bear, did you notice anything unusual?"
Zhou Qi recalled and nodded.
"There seems to be something in my mother-in-law's house that has a special attraction to it."
When he shook the bell of the cat toy, the mutant giant bear was not attracted at first, but showed obvious hesitation and struggle.
This had never happened before, and at that time he thought the cat toy was ineffective against the mutant giant bear.
"Grandpa Li, do you notice anything wrong?" Zhou Qi asked Old Li.
Old Li nodded, pointed at the mutant blue beard seedling, and said seriously, "It's probably this seedling that attracted the mutant giant bear."
"Some mutant plants have a special attraction to certain mutant animals. The higher the level, the stronger the attraction."
Old Li said, "As far as I know, the level of the Bluebeard tree is not low."
After the blue beech tree grows up, it can quickly differentiate and grow into an entire forest. Because it has a special ability to control temperature, it will eventually create a new ecosystem.
Not only humans, but ordinary animals can also get a better living environment in the blue beech forest.
"If that's the case..."
Zhou Qi's expression also became somewhat serious. He asked, "Will other mutant creatures be attracted here in the future?"
"It's very likely." Old Li said, "And..."
He looked down at the other three flower pots. In fact, it might not be just the blue beard seedlings that were the cause. Perhaps it was more likely that so many mutant plants appeared in the same place and attracted the mutant giant bear.
Although Granny Guo is a wood-type ability user, her abilities are relatively weak, and she has not cultivated so many mutant plants.
In addition, she was trapped in one place for a long time to give birth before, so she may not be aware of the danger of this matter.
Old Li traveled to many places when he was young, and he had heard about this information.
"If we want to keep these mutant plants, we have to strengthen our defenses. Fortunately, it's only during the day..."
Hearing this, Tang Yu'an couldn't help but hesitate to speak.
He pulled Old Li outside and told him the limitations of the protective barrier.
"So all the buildings below the 8th floor are exposed tonight?" Old Li said in surprise.
Then he nodded.
In this case, we can only find a way to solve it.
"Okay, I'll be on guard tonight," he consoled her. "This building's defenses are pretty good, and we have Yuanbao and the others, so don't worry too much."
"This is the worst-case scenario. We will try to earn enough points before nightfall."
Tang Yu'an went back to the room to say goodbye to Kang Kang, and then said goodbye to Old Li.
Old Li watched them run upstairs, feeling somewhat puzzled. Hadn't they gone to Jufeng Town? Why were they still in the deserted city?
At this time, do they still want to set off for Jufeng Town?
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If they wanted to earn points quickly, they naturally had to go to Jufeng Town. Anyway, they could now use the teleportation array without restrictions and didn't have to worry about the distance at all.
Soon, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi came to the basement of Store No. 2 in Jufeng Town again.
They didn't have time to explore where the secret passage behind the arch led to. They had to hurry to earn points and attract attention to the store.
Just as I was about to leave, a system prompt popped up.
[You have a new message in the "Plane Shop" window, please check it out]
New message?
Tang Yu'an blinked, then he remembered that after his level was raised to lv11, the window of the plane store seemed to have unlocked the "message" function.
Because I was busy building branches, I didn’t check and research it before.
Tang Yu'an said something to Zhou Qi, then opened the plane store to check.
Seeing this, Zhou Qi was not idle either. While Tang Yu'an was checking the information, he went to clean up the house of Store No. 2.
Although Store No. 2 is temporarily closed, it still needs to be used, and those holes must be blocked, otherwise their every move in the house will be observed.
Tang Yu'an opened the interface of the plane store and was about to check the message, but he accidentally glanced at the backend balance and then paused.
【Points available for withdrawal: 500】
Huh?
Tang Yu'an was slightly stunned. What was sold? He quickly looked through the records.
【16:23:10】
Sell 1 "Cooling Fruit" and receive +500 points.
Wow, did this just sell?
How long has he been hanging out?
Could the new message be related to the buyer of the cooling fruit?
Tang Yu'an quickly opened the backstage window to check, and sure enough, there was an extra "Leave a Message" button, so he clicked it.
[I can finally leave a message now. I need a mutant lantern fruit, please.]
Tang Yu'an blinked. Why was there no punctuation in this message? Could it be that... there was a word limit on the message?
He flipped through the pages but couldn't find a place where he could reply.
DM334591 plane, Joanna.
So, was the mutated lantern fruit also purchased by this dimensional merchant named Joanna? Did the mutated lantern fruit prove to be very useful in that other dimension?
DM...what does this prefix mean? Low Magic? Magical Plane?
Tang Yu'an shook his head.
He only had three mutant lantern fruits left. The lantern fruit tree was damaged when it was moved this time, and he didn't know how long it would take to recover.
Anyway, let’s sell these three first.
He removed the original dark green spider legs and then placed two mutant lantern fruits on them.
After withdrawing 500 points from the plane store backend, his points balance became 777 points, a big step towards 2,000 points.
As long as these two mutant lantern fruits can be sold successfully, another 900 points can be withdrawn.
Tang Yu'an instantly felt a lot less pressure.
He quickly found Zhou Qi and shared the good news with him.
Zhou Qi was somewhat surprised, then he smiled and nodded: "It seems that we can have a stable channel for earning points in the future."
"Yes, but we have to wait until Liangliang recovers."
Liangliang is the mother plant of the mutant lantern fruit, and this is the name given to it by Kang Kang.
"I'll see if I can transplant it into the yard and grow more plants."
"good."
Tang Yu'an then opened the map and discovered that Hongli was in the guard post, so he said, "Let's go find Sister Hongli to make a deal."
"Yeah." Zhou Qi nodded.
So they left Store No. 2 and went to the guard post again.
Because of the mountain master's order, the guards did not stop them. They only took them over after informing Hongli.
It hadn't been that long since they last left, but when they met again, Hongli's condition was obviously different.
She looked high-spirited, with smiles in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, giving the impression of being in high spirits due to a happy event.
Could it be because of the soybeans Xiaocao gave her? Zhou Qi wondered in his heart.
Hongli should have quite a few wood-type mutants like Granny Guo. With the help of these people, it won't take much time to harvest.
When they came in just now, they could clearly feel that the guards' faces looked fuller than before.
"Did Chi Hao look for you again before he left?" asked Hongli.
Obviously, she already knew that Tang Yu'an and the others came with the "land deed", and Chi Hao did not tell her about the portable warehouse, so she asked this question.
Tang Yu'an could only nod.
"Well, he left us the title deed and then set off back to Aoki Castle."
Hongli looked at the two young men, then suddenly stared at Tang Yu'an and asked, "Have you met Xie Chaori?"
Xie Chaori? Who is that?
Tang Yu'an blinked blankly at first, then suddenly remembered something.
Could it be the person who went on a mission with Chi Hao before? It seems that he died in the center of the deserted city?
Hongli noticed his reaction and narrowed his eyes slightly, but then he heard the young man say, "Brother Chihao seemed to have asked us, but he didn't say the man's name was Xie Chaori."
Tang Yu'an shook his head and said, "We only saved Brother Chi Hao and never met that person."
Hongli stared at him for a few seconds, then finally looked away, hiding the disappointment in her eyes.
"Yes, he is Xie Chaori."
Hongli said, "I know you live in the deserted city. If you hear any news about him, please let me know and I will repay you."
"Okay, we'll keep an eye on it for you." Tang Yu'an nodded.
Although they currently don't know where Old Xie is, but... he seems to have a way to find him, if he is still alive.
Because he had marked him when he first met him and Chi Hao.
Although he had never had any contact with Xie Chaori, nor had he made any transactions with him, he could no longer see him on the map as soon as he entered the fog.
However, he had unlocked the annotation search function when he upgraded previously.
As long as we search for the marks, even if he is still in an area where the fog has not been cleared, we can roughly know where he is and confirm whether he is alive or dead.
However, Tang Yu'an could not produce any evidence, so he had no way to tell Hong Li for the time being.
Faced with Hongli's scrutiny, he didn't dare to look it up on the map immediately, for fear that she would notice something wrong.
After a brief greeting, Hongli asked, "So what do you want to talk to me about?"
Tang Yu'an looked at Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi is now the branch manager of No. 1 Store. Only he can negotiate with Hongli to increase the popularity of No. 1 Store.
Zhou Qi nodded, then looked at Hongli and asked, "We came here to ask, do you need salt?"
Hongli couldn't help but sit up straight, staring at Zhou Qi with sparkling eyes. She asked, "Do you have salt?"
Zhou Qi nodded.
Hongli's eyes looked back and forth between him and Tang Yu'an, and suddenly asked with a smile: "You were the ones selling salt in my market before, right?"
Zhou Qi paused slightly. He hadn't expected Hongli to be so direct. However, they were using the "Dad Tang" vest at the time...
"That salt merchant is coming along this time?"
Hearing this, Zhou Qi couldn't help but nod. It seemed that Hongli only guessed that it was related to them, but did not realize that it was actually their pseudonym.
"Yeah." Zhou Qi said, "It seems that there was a little misunderstanding last time, so we decided to talk to you first this time."
Hongli nodded, appearing calm on the surface, but feeling relieved in her heart.
Fortunately, she listened to Black Bear's advice last time, and was busy with soybean planting and storage, so she was not in a hurry to talk to Jin Fu.
Jin Fu only sent someone to ask once, and did not send anyone again until he got her reply. Perhaps he was confident and wanted to wait for her to come to him and beg him for help.
Thinking of this, Hongli's eyes couldn't help but show a hint of coldness.
If the cooperation with the new salt merchant goes smoothly, she won't have to be controlled by this profiteer and the bastards behind him.
So when facing the two teenagers, Hongli showed a kind and friendly smile again.
"It was Black Bear who failed to do his job last time. If your friend doesn't mind, I'll have Black Bear go and apologize to him."
Hongli took the initiative to lower his stance and said, "As long as it can make him calm down, you can beat him or scold him, just don't kill him."
Zhou Qi heard her seriousness and shook his head quickly.
"No, he's not angry. He just wants to continue doing business in Jufeng Town."
"Oh? So, how exactly does he plan to do this deal?" Hongli personally poured them two glasses of water and said, "Why don't we invite him to the garrison so we can discuss it face to face?"
“That might not work.”
Zhou Qi showed an embarrassed expression and said, "He asked us to negotiate with you as his representative."
Hongli raised an eyebrow, "Can you make the decision for him?"
Zhou Qi didn't make any promises, but simply said, "It's possible within a certain range."
Hearing this, Hongli could no longer insist.
"Well, how do you want to talk?" she asked. "How many kilograms of salt did you bring this time?"
Zhou Qi replied, "That depends on how much Jufeng Town can eat."
Hongli couldn't help but chuckle.
"You're so young, but you're so arrogant," she said. "If I need a hundred pounds, can you give it to me?"
One hundred kilograms of salt can supply the garrison for about three months, which is not a small amount. Jin Fu only supplies them with forty or fifty kilograms at a time.
It takes less than half a month to go back and forth to Linhai Town, plus the time he stays in the two market towns to rest, it can be said that every time Jin Fu is on the verge of supplying salt to the garrison in the last few days.
If the guards were to run out of salt, the consequences would be disastrous, but Hongli could not afford to develop his own salt business, so he could only endure Jinfu's constraints.
This made Hongli feel very disgusted, but he had to cooperate with Jinfu, and he also had to find a way to protect him and not let him die.
Is there anything more frustrating in the world than this?
If the new salt merchant could provide her with forty or fifty kilograms at a time...even if not that much, if they could supply her with a month's supply at a time, she would be much richer and would be more confident in her negotiations with Jin Fu.
But after she finished speaking, the boy said without hesitation: "Okay."
Hongli was stunned. She blinked and looked at Zhou Qi and asked, "What did you just say?"
"I agree," Zhou Qi said. "If you want a hundred kilograms of salt, we can provide it, but... what specific price can you offer?"
Hongli stared at him with more excitement in his eyes.
"How many 100-jin can you provide?" She controlled her voice, trying to remain calm. "Is this a one-time deal, or a long-term partnership?"
One hundred kilograms is definitely not a small amount, but Hongli was not carried away by it. She looked at the long-term picture.
"Long-term cooperation." Zhou Qi said with certainty.
"How often can we cooperate?" Hongli continued to ask.
"It depends on your needs." Zhou Qi naturally hoped to cooperate every day, but this was obviously impossible.
Hearing this, Hongli couldn't help but ponder, "If you can supply 100 kilograms of salt every time, I hope we can trade once every two months."
She had been observing Zhou Qi and Tang Yu'an's reactions - of course, mainly Tang Yu'an's.
Although the child tried hard to hide it, his eyes could not lie. She could easily observe his emotional changes from his eyes.
So Hongli quickly noticed that after she made this request, the boy frowned slightly.
Is it too difficult to lose 100 pounds in two months?
Hongli was just thinking about lowering his demands when he heard Zhou Qi say, "Why don't we discuss the terms of this deal first?"
Indeed, if the first deal fails, forget about the future.
Hongli was determined to get the 100 kilograms of salt, so she asked, "What do you want?"
Zhou Qi didn't keep anyone in suspense. He had already thought of the terms of the deal and got straight to the point: "Have you found a new crop recently?"
Now the new crop is the lifeblood of Red Carp, and if anyone asked her about it, she might have gotten angry.
But when Zhou Qi asked this question, she chuckled and said, "Sure enough, it was you who gave it to that little girl."
That kind of soybeans, both in terms of yield and taste, really don't look like the wild ones from the mountains.
Coupled with Xiaocao's vagueness about the soybean plants and their friendship with the two siblings during their last stay in Jufeng Town, it was easy for Hongli to come to this conclusion.
Zhou Qi shook his head in denial and said calmly, "No, it was Brother Chi Hao who told us."
Tang Yu'an opened his eyes slightly and then quickly lowered his head.
Hongli looked at them with a half-smile, and did not dwell on the question. Instead, he said, "Indeed, I recently got a crop called soybeans. Do you want to trade soybeans?"
"Hmm." Zhou Qi opened his mouth and said, "One pound of salt for ten pounds of soybeans, what do you think?"
The red carp couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then quickly calmed down.
Although her expression changed quickly, Zhou Qi still caught a hint of daze, which made him frown slightly.
Is he...going to be less?
Hongli showed an embarrassed expression, but in Zhou Qi's eyes, it seemed that she couldn't suppress the smile, because she didn't bargain at all and just nodded.
"Okay, I'll try to scrape it together. I can still get it together." Hongli said reluctantly, "It may take a few days before I can give it to you."
100 jin of salt requires 1,000 jin of soybeans at this price. The current output of the garrison is 200 jin per day.
Exchanging five days' production for three months' worth of salt was a steal! However, she couldn't come up with 1,000 kilograms of soybeans at once, so she had to wait a few more days.
Realizing that he had indeed said too little, Zhou Qi couldn't help but sigh, but now that things had come to this, he wouldn't go back on his word.
After all, after deducting the point cost of 100 kilograms of sea salt from 1,000 kilograms of soybeans, the total number of points he and An An can obtain is... 22,500 points!
Zhou Qi looked at Hongli with a sharp gaze and said, "Can you deliver half today? If so, then the deal is done."
Hongli looked back at him, gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay, deal!"
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