Chapter 141 Appearance?
The two chatted as they walked, and soon arrived at a more lively "market".
This area is very close to the houses of the old players and is on the same street as the City Lord's Mansion, called "Chang'an Avenue".
The street is dozens of meters wide, with many small vendors pushing carts and carrying loads on their shoulders scattered on both sides. Most of them are familiar faces in Shenyou Village. They mainly sell food and drinks, and also some small miscellaneous items.
Among them, straw and bamboo utensils are the most popular. Players always gather around the stalls. Even the old player who brought Bai Chenxue here introduced them: "The soft baskets and baskets sold by the NPC who sells bamboo baskets are very useful. When digging spiritual herbs and plants and ores in the wild, you can directly put them in the system backpack, and it can also save space in the Qiankun bag!
"The key is that it's cheap! There was an old player selling it before, but that player sold it at a high price, asking for three spirit stones for a basket. After this NPC started selling it, that player became a middleman!"
Bai Chenxue asked curiously, "Second-hand dealer?"
"He gets the goods from the NPC every day and then sells them at the entrance of the teleportation array. He adds a lot of markup to the price. He dares to sell a small basket of ten cents for fifty cents, and a large basket of twenty cents for one cent! But some players still buy from him for the sake of convenience."
"It's quite dark, but it's not expensive at all!"
Indeed, Taiyin Sect disciples receive a fixed "salary" every month based on their contribution to the sect, also known as monthly wages. The highest amount can be up to hundreds of spirit stones, but as long as they do their daily work, no matter how little, they will still earn at least a few spirit stones a month. Converted into silver taels, it would be at least fifty or sixty taels!
In Taiping Town, the annual expenditure for a family of five is less than fifty or sixty taels!
Not to mention that players, whether as monks or affiliated with Taiyin Sect, have free bunk beds to sleep on and public kitchen meals exchanged for contribution points, so they don't have to spend any money on daily life. In addition, the materials obtained from the next level, the rewards exchanged for tasks, and the various natural treasures discovered during exploration can all be sold for silver and spiritual stones. Even killing wild boars can make a lot of money - the latter directly caused the price of pork in all towns near Taiyin Sect to drop several times!
Therefore, for the players, compared with the spirit stones that are used very carefully, there is really no difference between a dozen coins and a few hundred coins.
This value indirectly led to an explosive influx of population into Chang'an city.
The Taiyin Sect did not collect agricultural taxes, had no head tax or calculation tax (pollination tax), and did not require military service. These few points alone helped it stand out among the urban forces that exploited the people by more than 50% of their land. The Taiyin Sect's generous spending and cheap employment opportunities attracted many daring people to move to Chang'an City.
As long as you apply for a temporary residence permit, you can apply for a piece of land at a random location in Chang'an City. Although you cannot buy and sell it freely and you only have the "right to use" the land, the house built on the land is your real house. There are no harsh taxes, and the reclaimed wasteland is yours no matter how much you plant. There is no more relaxed life than this!
The villagers of Shenyou Village, who have been dealing with players for a long time, also teach skills to the newcomers...
"For example, if you want to start a food business, you don't have to fetch water or chop wood. Just go find those Taiyin Sect disciples who walk strangely, or just shout on the street, and many people will come to help! But remember, you don't have to pay them money afterwards, just give them some food or something. It's better to give them two five-cent buns to make them happy than to give them two or three cents of silver. It may be a little strange, but it will save us trouble!"
Many old players have come to their senses after being cheated by the native NPCs for more than half a month, but there are many new players coming! With too many people and too little porridge, this situation of selling cheap labor will probably continue for a while.
"Hey, although one penny doesn't sound expensive, a little bit adds up! This kind of basket is consumed very quickly. For a poor guy like me, I'd rather buy a cheaper one if I can! Oh, by the way! A few days ago, a player discovered a hidden way to obtain the appearance!"
The old player was like a male peacock spreading its tail, frantically showing off all the gossip he knew: "There is an NPC named Huang in Shenyou Village, and her tailoring skills are very good! You can ask her to make clothes! A relative of mine found a picture on the Internet, drew a picture herself, and then took all kinds of fabrics to find Grandma Huang, and she actually made clothes for her! In order to be practical, she spent a lot of money to buy mermaid silk from NPCs of other sects. Guess what? Grandma Huang actually made her a double-entry blue quality special effect clothes! One special effect entry of [Water and Fire Invulnerability], and another entry of accelerated mana recovery. It can be used as both appearance and equipment. It's awesome!"
Bai Chenxue asked enviously, "Wow! This game also has appearances!? Isn't that much cheaper than exchanging for sect equipment?"
"How should I put it? It's called appearance, but it's just normal clothes. You can go to the tailor shop in Taiping Town to make them, but they can only make a few fixed styles, and they are expensive and have no special effects! And although the sect equipment needs to be exchanged for contribution points, prestige points and spirit stones, it is at least much better looking than the landlord style made by the tailor shop in Taiping Town! As for this Huang grandma... you have to help her, and it depends on luck. My relative helped her farm for several days to get the opportunity, but it really didn't cost any money! Later I went there, but she refused to make it for me, saying that she didn't have time. My relative said that I was too unlucky, alas!"
Bai Chenxue sighed in disappointment: "Ah, that's just like Qi Yu, it depends on your appearance!"
"Well... it's not that exaggerated. My friend said that she is discussing with Grandma Huang about renting out the spiritual farm and then opening a tailor shop in the city. Then, maybe she can directly spend money to buy a customized special effects appearance, but she still has to prepare the materials herself."
"That's great! But where should I buy Jiao Xiao?"
"The night market stalls! Aren't there a lot of stalls at the city gate every day? Although most of them are players, there are also many NPCs from outside. Maybe you can find good stuff there. Even if there is nothing on display, you can just ask a few NPCs and maybe you can get some information. And it doesn't have to be Jiao silk. You can also look for other fabrics."
"That makes sense, I'll go check it out later!"
"Hey, why don't we add each other as friends and go together later? I also want to collect some materials. My relatives and friends promised me that when the tailor shop opens, they will give me priority in custom-made items! How about we go together then?"
Bai Chenxue said in surprise, "That's great! Thank you so much! I'll give you some earth-level spiritual herbs and plants later! Jin Cai has nothing to do, so you dug up a lot for me. They're not worth much when you sell them. I can't even put them in my Qiankun bag!"
"Wow! I'm so jealous! He is worthy of being the beast tamer of the server!"
"No, no! I just got lucky! By the way, what's your ID? I'll add you as my friend!"
"No, no! I'll just add you!"
"Hey? [Yun Canghai]?"
"It's me!"
"What a fairy-like ID! Nice to hear!"
"Hehehe thank you!"
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