"bite!"
"Objective achieved! Level 7 has been automatically unlocked for you. Please check the unlocked items in the shop!"
"Automatically start the next target, 1280 coins!"
As Tian Sangui walked down the street, Fei Wangwang's broadcasting voice suddenly popped into his mind.
After listening, she stopped in her tracks, excited to have unlocked level seven in an instant. She looked around and found a corner piled with clutter, then squatted down.
With a thought, a transparent screen quickly appeared before my eyes, and seven unlocked ingredients appeared right next to the red chili pepper.
The vegetables are: bok choy, green bell pepper, celery, lettuce, rapeseed, toon sprouts, and bamboo shoots.
Meat options include pork, chicken, lamb, and other cuts, for a total of seven types.
There are also seven kinds of fruits and seasonings.
Wow!
With these ingredients, you can now pickle kimchi. In this season, a bite of spicy and savory pickled cabbage is incredibly appetizing and makes rice even more delicious. Someone who can usually only eat half a bowl of rice will definitely be able to finish three more bowls with kimchi.
As Tian Sangui thought about it, he almost drooled.
Without further ado, seeing that there was still some time before noon, I went to buy two large jars.
She put away Fei Wangwang, and as she stood up, she disappeared from sight along with the basket on her back.
Tian Sangui smiled knowingly and headed to the general store.
On the bustling street, a corner was completely surrounded by people. Tian Sangui loved watching the excitement, and this kind of occasion wouldn't be complete without her.
She walked among the onlookers, taking advantage of her short stature, and used her hands to part the gaps between the adults' legs. With her head down, she squeezed through the gaps until she was standing in the front row watching the show.
It was a thin, weak donkey, harnessed to a rotten wooden cart. An old man with white hair was kneeling on the ground, wiping away tears and urging it on.
"Gentlemen, please have mercy on me. My family is really starving. Please have pity on me and take my donkey. Five hundred coins... five hundred coins will do. Please, gentlemen, take it."
After the old man finished speaking, he knelt down and kowtowed to the onlookers in front of him, begging to buy the item, but he was instead jostled and pushed by the crowd.
"Hey old man, look how skinny your donkey is. Are you going to buy it and treat it like royalty?"
"Hahaha~" The audience burst into laughter after pondering it carefully.
"Even if you killed him and ate him, the meat wouldn't be enough to fill a tooth gap, and you want five hundred coins for something like that? I wouldn't take it even if it were given to me for free!"
He was dressed like a wealthy landlord, his belly greasy, arms crossed, arrogantly pointing at the donkeys and picking and choosing, before finally turning away in disgust.
Upon hearing this, the old man realized that the donkey was the most valuable thing in his family, but he never expected that the other party would not even take it for free. It seemed that God really wanted him to starve to death.
His cloudy old eyes were now filled with tears, his dark lips trembled beneath his white beard, and his face showed an unconcealable despair.
Tian Sangui looked at the donkey lying on the ground. It didn't look like an old animal; it looked more like a calf a few months old.
Unsure, Tian Sangui turned his clear eyes to the old man: "Uncle, is your donkey a calf?"
As soon as he said that, everyone looked at Tian Sangui, including the old man kneeling on the ground.
He glanced at her and saw that she was a little girl, only a few years old, wearing many patches on her clothes. She looked like she was from some village, and since she had come to town, she was probably there to buy groceries for her family.
The old man thought it best to give her the donkey in exchange for the copper coins in her hand. Although it wasn't much, it was still better than these adults just looking and not buying. Besides, it wouldn't be difficult to coax a girl.
So the old man perked up, casually wiped away a tear on his sleeve, and put on a smile for Tian Sangui.
"You have a good eye, it's definitely a cub. Its mother died when it was born in early autumn. It grew up eating grass and looks a bit weak, but if you take good care of it for a while, it will definitely grow as strong as an ox!"
Besides, animals can survive as long as they have food. Kid, have pity on the old man and buy it; just give him a little something!
The old man's words were all a trap. Tian Sangui wasn't a real eight-year-old child, so how could he not understand what he meant?
However, she did want to get a cart for the convenience of traveling between the town and the village, but she had never raised a donkey before, and the young donkeys were too thin and weak. Who knows who would carry whom if she bought one?
"Old man, you can't just trick a little kid into buying a donkey. That donkey looks sickly, and you'll probably have to spend a lot of money on vet bills if you buy it. Why don't you sell it to me, kill it, and I'll give you ten coins?"
The black-bearded uncle who was watching realized that the old man was trying to deceive him. When he heard the old man say that he would give him whatever he wanted, he became tempted and offered to buy some.
Tian Sangui thought that what others said made sense. After all, she was short of money. She had finally managed to get a few hundred or a thousand extra coins, so she would use them to survive first.
If it's really sickly, wouldn't buying it cause suffering for the whole family?
Forget it, next time I'll have more money, I'll go to the market and pick out a good animal to use, at least the money won't be wasted.
With that thought in mind, Tian Sangui lost interest in watching and decided to get down to business.
But just as he turned around, the little donkey, which had been lying quietly on the ground, suddenly became restless. It struggled to stand up several times, braying loudly as it approached Tian Sangui and did something that made everyone's jaw drop.
It knelt on its front hooves, nodding its head repeatedly as if kowtowing. Its large, dark eyes, beneath its long eyelashes, stared straight at Tian Sangui, with two lines of clear tears streaming from the corners of its eyes.
Good heavens, anyone who sees this would find it unbearable; it's even more pitiful than a professional actor's performance.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Tian Sangui wouldn't have believed the story of the donkey kneeling down to acknowledge its master.
"Oh my, look at this beast, it's so intelligent!"
"Yes, yes, look, isn't it crying?"
“Oh dear, young lady, since it’s kowtowing and kneeling before you, why don’t you have a kind heart and buy it? Among animals, donkeys are the easiest to raise. After feeding it for three to five days, it will be able to work in the fields.”
A plump woman, dressed in flamboyant attire, wiped her eyes and tried to persuade Tian Sangui.
Tian Sangui felt pity; animals that understand human nature are most likely to evoke the soft and kind heart in people.
Oh well, not every animal has the wisdom to understand human nature. Since God gave it this ability, it's not its time to die. It's not like we can't afford to feed grass-eating animals.
"Alright, then I'll... buy it!"
"Good!" Some kind-hearted people in the crowd applauded and cheered for Tian Sangui.
Hearing Tian Sangui's reply, the little donkey's eyes seemed to light up. When its legs left the ground, it used its fluffy mouth to take her hand and put it on its head, rubbing against Tian Sangui. Its coquettish appearance was incredibly cute.
Following its lead, Tian Sangui stroked its head and scratched its chin from time to time.
The little donkey instantly began to enjoy itself.
The old man also got up and came to Tian Sangui, his old eyes gazing at her expectantly.
Tian Sangui knew what he was thinking, but the donkey calf was too thin and small to be worth five hundred coins.
“Uncle, you know what kind of donkey you are. I may be young, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know anything. I’m giving you a hundred coins because the donkey is intelligent. If you don’t want it, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
"Yes, yes, I'm willing, I'm willing!"
He'd be willing to pay even ten coins, let alone a hundred, as it's better than nothing.
Seeing that he was honest, Tian Sangui took out the hundred coins that Steward Fang had given him and handed them to the old man. After taking them, the old man counted them with trembling hands.
Perhaps it was because he hadn't seen money in so long that he couldn't help but get excited. One hundred coins was a lot of money for him, enough to live on for several months.
After counting the money without missing a single penny, the old man happily bid farewell to Tian Sangui, and the crowd naturally dispersed.
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