Chapter 454 Even gods cannot escape the need to make a fortune through the stall economy
Lin Du didn't give him the money in the end, so Wei Zhi found some iron tools from ancient times from among the things he picked up and used them to pay the bill.
Shengyan was very sympathetic. "Your valuable things are easy to sell. You don't even need to find a middleman. I'll show you a way. Just squat downstairs of my building and put your things out. Those immortals will come when they smell the scent."
Lin Du understood that even gods cannot escape the need to make a fortune through economic development.
Start a business with no capital and get rich today.
She actually followed Shengyan's advice, sat in front of her Xiangmanlou, spread out her rags, and put out the things from ancient relics.
At first, the bystanders could not remember what good stuff there was in such a stall, but when they took a closer look, they were shocked.
What kind of powerful being is so willful that he would just casually put something with the aura of the ancient origin out there for sale? Aren't they afraid that someone will snatch it away?
When they heard the people in the tavern calling the stall owner "Daojun", the immortals suddenly realized that everything was fine.
That's really okay.
There are only a handful of such young Taoists in the entire upper realm. It is obvious that this person with a token made of white jade produced from the innate treasure tree hanging around his waist could be no other than the thirteenth disciple of the Taoist Ancestor.
"How much is this?" A man bravely went up to him and shuddered when he met the cold grey eyes of Lingwei Daojun. "One hundred thousand jade coins?"
Lin Du didn't say anything. She hadn't figured out the prices in the upper world yet. She just turned around and looked at the other person who came up.
The immortal who asked the price responded immediately, "Five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, we don't have any more."
Lin Du, who had only glanced at it, spoke modestly, "Since you really want it, it's fine."
In this transaction, Sanxian felt that he had gained an advantage, and Lin Du also felt that he had gained an advantage. Both parties were very satisfied with the transaction.
As the first person bought it, the onlookers also swarmed in.
Those are all good things.
The items from these ancient ruins usually only appear at the Shangyuan Appraisal Meeting, and even those who have them would not sell them easily. To see so many of them suddenly displayed on the stalls is an opportunity that is even rarer than jade coins falling from the sky.
A barefoot immortal passed by and saw that the road was crowded with people. He pulled someone over and asked, "What's going on? What happened?"
"It seems like someone is selling something from an ancient ruin! It's the real thing! The real thing!"
The barefoot immortal was stunned for a moment when he heard this. "This is simply a fool's dream. How is it possible? Could it be some evil Taoist tricking people? Who wouldn't treasure that thing..."
Before he could finish his words, his consciousness passed through the crowd and landed on the stall, and his expression froze.
Really.
The stall owner was holding a heavy iron folding fan in his hand, talking and laughing freely in the crowd, occasionally waving the fan at things, bargaining with people, and chatting at the same time, looking very comfortable.
"Really? Why is the Three Yuans and Nine Palaces so quiet? No one? Not at all? There are more people in the Ghost Palace than in the Three Yuans and Nine Palaces?" Lin Du listened to the idle talk of the immortals with a smile on his face, "Really?"
"Which department has the most people?"
Seeing that Lin Du was young and carefree, the immortals started to tease him as if he were a child, "Of course it's a fight."
"That's not the way to put it. We can only say that there are too many positions in the fighting department."
"Yeah, that's right."
Lin Du tilted his head, "Oh, Kaiyang Star Lord is the Doubu, I know the Doubu!"
"So you know Kaiyang Xingjun. He ranks sixth in the Beidou tribe."
Lin Du yelled, "Sixth Brother."
Everyone thought about it and felt that what he said was indeed true, but it was a little funny.
Or is this child just at the right age to be lovable no matter what he does?
Lin Du listened to them discussing the composition of the Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Officials while selling things, and as he listened he also understood something.
The Beidou tribe is indeed extremely powerful. Nandou determines life, Beidou determines death, and the Beidou Seven Lords can also save people from disasters. Moreover, their top boss is different from Lin Du. He does not completely belong to the Emperor of Heaven, but is the Northern Pole Emperor, one of the Four Guards.
As Lin Du listened, he came to his senses. No wonder he was the one who went down to the Dongming Realm to deal with this matter.
After listening to the gossip, Lin Du finished selling his odds and ends and was about to close the stall when another immortal stood in front of the stall.
Lin Du and Wei Zhi only sold a small portion of the things they picked up and had no intention of selling all of them. Seeing that the man was standing in front of the stall and refused to leave, they said as they packed up their stall, "Closing the stall, closing the stall. No more selling. We have nothing left."
After selling more than a dozen items, they were already considered wealthy. People should be content and not be greedy.
But the man didn't leave and asked, "I want to buy your fan. Will you sell it to me?"
Lin Du was stunned for a moment. Before Chu Guanmeng could react, he shouted loudly, "I'm not selling this! I can't sell it!"
The barefoot immortal lowered his eyes and looked at it for a while, "Are you really not selling it?"
Lin Du raised his face and said, "When it's time to sell, it should be sold, don't you agree, Xuanying Immortal Lord?"
Barefoot Sanxian shook his head, "What are you saying? It won't be good to sell this to anyone. Can you carry it?"
"Whether you can afford it or not is up to me." Lin Du stood up and put away his stall. "Since you are here, let's go back and clean up Sanyuan Mansion. It's all covered in dust, right?
Xuanying Immortal Lord is the only immortal among the Three Origins and Nine Palaces who still has traces of activity.
In other words, Lin Du was the leader he parachuted in.
Xuanying followed him without saying a word, "I'm telling you, if you really can't do it, go get two boys to clean up."
"You can lead if you can." Lin Du walked ahead in a leisurely manner, his thin figure made by the shining robe look like the mountain breeze.
"What have you been doing these years? Why haven't you returned to Sanyuan Mansion?"
Hearing this, Xuanying said honestly, "This government office is empty. Why go back? Just hang around outside to exorcise demons and monsters. Lingwei Daojun is young, how can he be so capable?"
Lin Du shook his head, turned around, and suddenly swung the top of the heavy iron folding fan forward, "No, no, the Taoist master instructed me, and I will follow my own path. Xuanying Immortal Lord, you have a lot of experience. Since we will work together in the future, why don't you first consider the weight of this fan."
Xuan Ying suddenly stopped and looked at the folding fan that was within reach. "What kind of joke is this, Taoist Master?"
He only felt the icy immortal power on the top of the fan pressing against his throat. A smell of cold rust entered his nose. Following the straight and cold fan bones, he slowly raised his eyes and met a handsome face that was clearly smiling, but without any hint of joking. The coldness of the grey eyes matched the brilliance of the fan.
Lin Du really had a pair of cold and harsh eyes, but because of the gentleness of the rest of her face, people overlooked the danger beneath her beauty, just like a vast sea of ice beneath the rustling snow.
Xuan Ying endured the fear of having his soul seen through, and slowly spoke, "Master Dao, it is so easy to clean up a mansion, but it is so difficult to clean up the Tian Palace or even the world."
"If you can't clean up one government, how can you clean up the whole country?" Lin Du put away his fan and said, "I hope the elders will forgive the younger generation's rude behavior."
It was clearly just an ordinary test, but Chu Guanmeng seemed to see the flashes of swords and sabers in the air.
At this moment, Wei Zhi suddenly saw a real, pure leader.
When Lin Du arrived at Sanyuan Mansion, he found it extremely deserted.
As expected, there wasn’t even any sweeping boys here.
It is indeed a nice and quiet department where retired cadres receive pensions in name only.
When a few people were cleaning the house neatly with magic, an uninvited guest came to the door.
"You, the new Taoist Lingwei, have brought back your only subordinate who was away from home so quickly? That's really fast! If all the immortal officials in the Heavenly Palace were as efficient as you, they wouldn't have to worry about anything."
Kaiyang seemed to pass by inadvertently, with two little boys following behind him. He pushed the little boys and said, "Go, help Lingwei Daojun."
Lin Du turned around and looked at Kai Yang. "Xingjun, you came at the right time. How about you help me? The evil spirit under my mansion is too heavy. You guys in the Doubu are the best at solving problems. Do you have any books I can borrow?"
Kaiyang was surprised when he heard this, "Why, what is it that Daojun is not familiar with?"
Lin Du smiled, "But please give me some advice, Lord Kaiyang."
"How dare I, how dare I, I thought that Daojun should not be familiar with evil spirits anymore." Kaiyang looked down at Lin Du from a high position, "Could it be that the ancient gods' inheritance did not teach you some ways to deal with it?"
The heavy iron folding fan fell lightly in Lin Du's hand. The immortal raised his eyes and said gently, "It turns out that Kaiyang Star Lord also knows that it is evil demonic energy."
"So the area near my mansion is where the Fallen Angel is buried?"
Kaiyang frowned, "I thought you would understand my intention."
Lin Du crossed his arms, "What's your intention? You let me feel the evil demonic energy at the source of the demonic energy?"
"You may not understand one thing." The tall and strong man from Kaiyang stood on the threshold of Sanyuan Mansion, "How terrifying is the evil spirit? Can't you hear the roars and wailing sounds at night?"
"Do you really think that's just Hou Tu's corpse? Just the three corrupt poisons? Do you think your self-righteous righteousness can bring peace to the three realms?"
"I tell you, the three poisons in Hou Tu's body are the result of the resentment of the three realms. The three poisons accumulated year after year due to floods, natural disasters, earthquakes, and famines are also the resentment generated by the decay of souls that cannot be reborn after death!"
"And Hou Tu, Hou Tu is the source of all evil."
"How many celestial officials under Hou Tu lost their lives in those days, all because she was kindhearted and reluctant to destroy the souls that refused to enter reincarnation. She used her body to nourish the souls, which led to the backlash of the three poisons and the birth of evil demons. Didn't she deserve to die?"
"What do you think the demon fetuses born in your Dongming Realm are? They are the resentful souls who died unjustly and refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation with the power of incense and wishes. They are neither human nor ghost, made of clay, and pray in the community. They look gorgeous and lifelike, but they actually feed on flesh and blood and souls."
"In the past, the underworld made a big mistake in this regard. It was because of Hou Tu's connivance that the underworld was not under the control of the Heavenly Palace."
"She is the one who deserves death the most in the entire Heavenly Palace! But she didn't die! She even entered the cycle of reincarnation and escaped our Doubu's life and death review."
Kaiyang stared at Lin Du with a strong threat in his eyes, "Don't let the hypocrites take advantage of you without realizing it. Don't let me catch you doing anything."
He was not a fool. During the last heavy snowfall, he had clearly noticed some unusual fluctuations.
Although she didn't know what Lin Du had done, she'd better not do anything to reshape the Clay Bodhisattva.
"Kaiyang! Don't be rude!" A voice suddenly appeared, breaking the confrontation between the two.
Kaiyang's expression froze. He turned his head and looked at the figure in the divine light. His voice immediately weakened, "Emperor."
Lin Du suddenly smiled and said, "It's just right. The Emperor will be a witness. Since Kaiyang Star Lord suspects that I am doing something wrong, I dare to enter the illusory world of Floating Life and let the Dream Pen judge my merits and demerits and decide my blessings and sins. Kaiyang Star Lord, do you dare?"
She suddenly opened the fan, raised her eyebrows and looked at Kaiyang with a hint of provocation.
Kaiyang subconsciously glanced at the figure behind him. There was a sudden commotion in Sanyuan Mansion. A broken wooden shelf fell in front of Emperor Fusang, just blocking Kaiyang's sight.
Wei Zhi walked out apologetically, "Sorry, sorry, I caught it crookedly, I blocked it, I hope it didn't hit the Emperor."
He was very sincere and successfully disrupted Kaiyang's thoughts.
"It seems that Kaiyang Star Lord doesn't dare. After all, he has lived for nearly ten thousand years. It's hard to say." Lin Du shook his head and turned to step into the inner courtyard of Sanyuan Mansion. He turned around and smiled at Xuanying, "Let me tell you, the reason why our cold government office is so big is that no one dares to come in, for fear of exposing the guilt of their life."
Xuanying's mouth twitched. Young people really take it for granted and even use provocation. They have lived for thousands of years, who can be provoked...
"Sure! Why wouldn't I dare?"
Kaiyang stepped into the threshold of Sanyuan Mansion.
Xuanying: ...Ah?
Lin Du suppressed the dark light in his eyes, curled his lips and smiled, "Please."
We still need to do a good job of mass work in advance. What did the masses say? Oh, Kaiyang Star Lord, who is naturally strong and stubborn, has been taught for many years and has calmed down, but it is only on the surface, and his heart has not changed at all.