Chapter 197
1.
Healing Country Life.
A huge number of seriously injured patients came to the hospital today, almost occupying all the doctors and regenerative technicians in the hospital.
"Just rest assured and receive your treatment here. Cooperate with the doctors and don't resist. I can tell you responsibly that there are many doctors here who are more capable than me directly pressing your acupoints... Of course, if you want to suffer a little, I don't mind."
In the large ward, a young girl, wearing a kimono with maple leaf patterns, repeatedly gave instructions to the patients lying in the ward.
"Axi, aren't you going to stay here?" Hearing the girl's words that hinted at leaving, Beimingyu Xingming, who was wrapped in bandages, asked.
"Yeah." Qingxi responded. "Let's sell some ingredients and exchange them for some of this world's currency."
"Before, when I left here, I thought I wouldn't be coming back, so I exchanged all the currency for physical goods," she explained. "Now I need it, so I'm going to the largest market in the adjacent food city to sell some high-quality ingredients for cash."
After all, there are seventy or eighty patients here with their families. I can be considered half the host. If I don’t come forward to solve the problem, who else can I ask?
"Don't worry." The girl placed her small hand on the young man's large one. "Here, my gourmet instincts are no longer suppressed, and my strength has returned. I can take care of myself and even go into the forest to hunt prey for you."
Beiming Island Xingming was still worried, but he knew in his heart that she was the only one who was most familiar with this place. In order to earn medical expenses for all the members of the Demon Slayer Corps who were injured in the battle with demons, she had to separate from everyone temporarily.
"Be careful," he said. "If you have any trouble, just come back."
"I'll go with you." Rengoku Makijuro said.
Qingxi shook her head, looking at him with a look that seemed a little strange. "Mr. Purgatory, we've already arrived at the best hospital. Why don't you consider asking the doctors here to treat your hidden illness as well? Ask them to help examine Madam Ruhi? Mr. Kuwashima, Mr. Kitaya, you too, have the most realistic prosthetic limbs here, and the doctors can make them just for you. Sister Kanae's body can also be healed here. My lord, although the curse on you has disappeared, your body is still weak, and you can recuperate here... In short, this is a rare opportunity, so everyone should get whatever injuries you can heal. Who knows if you'll have the chance to come here again in the future."
She pointed to Yagen Toushirou and Tsurumaru Kuninaga beside her, "Besides, who said I went there alone? I have a swordsman from Honmaru here with me."
Since the girl had already said this, no one tried to stop her.
Walking to the bedside of Rengoku Kyojuro, looking at the owl with one blind eye staring at him quietly, Qingxi gave him a big smile, leaned on the head of his bed, and whispered in his ear: "Get well soon, Kyojuro. When you get better, I'll take you to go shopping here. There are so many delicious foods. Now I can eat dozens of kilograms of food in one meal. I am also a big eater with both feet.
...Well, by the way, let me show you my tavern... It's the only thing I haven't dealt with before I leave here."
The gust of air from the girl's words made the young man's ears red. The hesitation he had felt since entering this world was finally dispelled. "Hmm, I understand."
"And you have to accompany me to the forest to hunt," Qingxi said. She stood up straight. "Well, if you don't feel comfortable spending my money, then after your wounds are healed, you can accompany me to hunt... There's something I absolutely can't do alone, so I need help."
2.
The market for food city is huge.
There are five districts from District A to District E, each covering an area of about 100,000 square meters.
Every day, a large amount of fresh ingredients are sent to this market for sale. When there are good products, there will be several small food auctions in the market. Its full name is the Central Wholesale Food Market.
Kiyoki was walking through the crowded market with Tsurumaru Kuninaga on his left, Yagen Toushiro on his right, and Horikawa Kunihiro, Okurigara, Esetsu Sahmonji, and Suzumaru Tsuneji behind them.
"Oh, it's so lively here, and there are so many things for sale." As Bai He always wanted to come here to play, he naturally would not miss such a lively place.
In order to prevent the other person from getting lost, Qingxi just held on to his clothes as they walked.
She said with great exhaustion, "Tsurumaru, if you want to go shopping, can you wait until I sell my stuff? Have you forgotten that you don't have a penny on you right now?
And I have no money either.
If you cause trouble for me now, I will definitely not clean up your mess."
"Hey, hey, hey, I know, I know." Tsurumaru Kuninaga raised his hand to assure, "Really, at least have a little faith in me. Tsuru's pranks are also based on the occasion."
Qingxi: "...That's great."
"General, where are we going now?" Yagen Toushirou asked as he blocked another passerby from pushing towards the girl.
"Go to the wholesaler I used to work with," Qingxi thought, unthinkingly. "Their stall has been run by my grandfather's generation until now. Because they had so many children, they even split up the younger generation and spread them to different cities. Sometimes I suspect their main goal is to spread their brand across the entire human world."
...The most important thing is that the price they offer is very reasonable in the entire market.
They won’t do anything to treat customers who stumble upon their stall by chance.”
Qingxi came here by spaceship last night. After selling some things casually, he used the money to book seven rooms in an affordable hotel.
Note that when buying tickets, she only bought her own. She urged everyone else to return to their respective bodies.
The same thing, no money.
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He brought six people to the door of the wholesaler's stall that he had strongly promoted.
There is a 400-square-meter shop on two floors.
"Don't be fooled by the smaller stalls than others; it's just a 'front display case.' They have several large warehouses where all their goodies are stored." Standing at the entrance, Qingxi explained the situation to the six people around her. "By the time I went back, everyone was already in their sixties or seventies. I don't know if this wholesale market is still run by people of the generation I know, or if it's been handed over to a younger generation."
"Do these guests have any good goods they want to sell to me?"
The arrival of Qingxi and his seven companions had already attracted the attention of the store owner who was placing ingredients on the shelves. However, he was a little confused by the fact that they had been standing at the door of his store, talking and looking as if they were not going to come in, so he walked out and asked.
A girl with black hair tied into two low ponytails with hydrangeas and dressed in a traditional kimono stared at the young man in front of her for a while. The young man was wearing a hat and had a long scar on the left side of his face from under his eyelid. She thought for a moment and said, "Ten Dreams?"
The young man was startled when his name was called, but then he became interested. "Oh, has this lady heard any of the elders in her family mention me?"
As someone who has been running a business in the market for many years, Shi Meng believes that his memory is pretty good. If the girl in front of him has been to his store, he should have a vague impression of her. However, he didn't, so he thought that the girl must have heard the adults in her family mention him.
Thinking of this, he leaned forward, his tone becoming slightly gentler than the polite yet distant tone he'd used earlier, between wholesaler and customer. He repeated his previous question, "Do you have anything to sell?"
After confirming that he was the grandson of his former business partner, Qingxi nodded and said bluntly, "I'm short of money, so I came here to sell you some good stuff. I just don't know if you can eat it."
Shi Meng's gaze first lingered on Qingxi, then he looked up and his sight accurately fell on the adult carrying a large sack behind those people.
He stepped aside and said, "Let's go inside the store first. How can we do business standing outside? Right?"
Qingxi didn't refuse, so the seven of them followed him into his shop.
"So, Miss, what ingredients are you going to sell?" Shi Meng asked directly.
"A piece of Qingxi sugarcane, some water-splashing pears, some baby corn, and a few puffer whales," Qingxi said. "You can take a look, they're still very fresh."
At just one glance, Shi Meng was stunned by the ingredients in the sacks.
"Oh, by the way, the Qingxi sugarcane is too big, and it is not convenient to carry it as a whole, so I broke it in half several times." Qingxi added.
Shi Meng: “…”
As a wholesaler, Shi Meng felt that today was really his lucky day. Although this season was not the ripe season for these ingredients, it was better not to delve into the sources of some things. This was the way for wholesalers to find good sources of goods in the long term, so Shi Meng did not ask any further questions.
After confirming that the ingredients the girl brought were all very fresh, Shi Meng said to her, "Although I really want to eat them all today, it may be a little difficult. However, since you have come to my house, you should know my family's reputation.
If you feel comfortable with it, you can leave the food here for three days. I will transfer the money for the food to your bank card within three days. What do you think?"
Qingxi hadn't originally planned to sell it to someone else, so she simply nodded and said, "Okay, but if possible, could you please give me a price after the settlement and pay me some money first?"
Faced with her predicament, she looked at him and said sincerely, "A family of seventy or eighty people are lying in the Healing Country Life. I'm really anxious to use it."
Shi Meng: “…”
The dark-skinned young man twitched his lips, "Do you really have to be so exaggerated?"
A family of seventy or eighty? Are you sure? Or did you mean seven, eight, or ten people?
Qingxi shrugged: "If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself."
Shi Meng: “…”
So what on earth did your family do that caused all of them to lie there?
"Shi Meng?" Qingxi had to remind him after confirming that he was in a daze.
Shi Meng came back to his senses and suppressed the urge to complain, "You..."
Qingxi responded cooperatively: "My name is Qingxi, and the people around me are Tsurumaru Kuninaga, Yagen Toushirou, Horikawa Kunihiro, Daikurigara, Esetsu Sahmonji, and Suzumaru Tsuneji."
As wholesalers, their memory has been honed to perfection. Even if Qingxi only said their names once, with so many good products in front of him, even if he didn't want to remember them, his brain would have reacted and remembered them.
There is no way, business is difficult to do. Now that there is someone who can get so many high-quality ingredients, he naturally wants to attract a supplier for his store.
"Ah, well, I can give you this amount for now." He stretched out his hand and gestured to the girl, "Can I transfer the rest to your card within three days?"
Seeing this, Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief. With this amount, she could go back and pay everyone's medical expenses.
She nodded. "Okay."
"But," she said, changing the subject and pointing at the puffer whales, "I'll remove the poison sacs from their bodies."
The difference between detoxified puffer whales and non-detoxified ones is too huge. Qingxi has no money and has to support a whole family, so it is impossible for him to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars to make up for the difference.
Shi Meng was stunned, then he became a little skeptical, "Qingxi, can you remove the poison sac from the puffer whale's body?"
Qingxi took out his kitchen knife and said, "Don't believe me? Then let me try. If I can't remove it, the puffer whale won't belong to you."
Qingxi had already said this, and since he hadn't paid yet, Shimeng took Qingxi to the simple kitchen here and let her do it herself there.
The news that a little girl in Shimeng's shop was preparing to remove the poison sac from the body of a puffer whale on the spot was spread by several people who happened to be in his shop. Not long after, Qingxi had just made preparations when a group of people rushed here and crowded Shimeng's shop.
Seeing that most of the people here were familiar faces and there were more people rushing towards him outside, he had to go to Qingxi to discuss and ask her if she was willing to change to an open-air venue to detoxify the puffer whale.
It’s not like Qingxi hasn’t experienced being watched by people before, so he said it’s no problem.
Shimeng quickly went to make arrangements, and more than ten minutes later Qingxi brought six swordsmen to change positions.
The sharp kitchen knife first went down from the fish's tail, then cut off the nerves and spine from the gills, and finally the tip of the knife cleanly cut through the belly, revealing the purple-black poison sac inside.
Qingxi put down the kitchen knife. The venom sac of the puffer whale was connected to the fascia, and they had to be peeled off gently bit by bit with both hands.
Once all the fascia has been peeled off, the last step is to remove the complete venom sac from the puffer whale's stomach.
Shi Meng glanced down at his phone screen and couldn't help but click his tongue.
The whole process takes no more than ten minutes.
While puffer whales are famous for their deliciousness, they are also extremely poisonous. Currently, there are only about ten chefs in the world who are known to be able to prepare this fish. Now...
This is the eleventh person to appear.
With the cheating device, the Dialysis Eye, Qingxi quickly processed the puffer whales she wanted to sell to Shimeng, handed the processed puffer whales to Shimeng, and told him her bank card number. After receiving the notification sound of money arriving on her mobile phone, she prepared to take people to visit other places.
Qingxi only stayed here for one day. He gave each of them a map of the food city and gave them a brief introduction to the place. Finally, he gave them some pocket money and let them go shopping on their own.
It was only at dawn the next day that Qingxi took them back to the Healing Country Life.
Here, she had to thank Atong. Although she had not returned yet, he had helped them to obtain temporary passes for a large group of people who came from other worlds in the Gourmet World. It was because of this that she was able to bring so many people from the Demon Slayer Corps to the Healing Kingdom to complete the hospitalization procedures.
After returning, the first thing Qingxi did was to pay off the medical expenses of all the people who had temporarily mortgaged their belongings.
Well, after paying this huge sum of money, she became a pauper again.
However, this slight feeling of frustration did not last long, because Shi Meng transferred all the remaining money for the ingredients into her card.
Now with this money, she can afford food, drinks, entertainment, and everyone's subsequent medical expenses.
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