Chapter 3 I want to make money!
In half a month, my body fully recovered, but I was still sick and weak, and then I realized that Tianrong didn't look sick because of the injury, but she was born like this. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info during this period I and Xiaoxue became good friends, she knew everything about me, and said everything. And what I know can't be said, what can be said is not known, and I can only be an audience in front of her. Xiaoxue is also a magical person, she can use electricity. I didn't hide it from her either, and told her that my magical properties were corrosive. In terms of internal strength, I carefully tested it, and found that people in this world don't know how to use internal strength, so I didn't mention it to Xiaoxue.
Xiaoxue likes to be lively the most, and always pulls me around to play after my health improves. However, I am not in that mood, after all, under the fence, Dr. Liu is kind enough not to treat me as an outsider, I can't really treat myself as a green onion! It's not a matter of being idle all day long, so let's find a way to make money to support ourselves. So I asked Xiaoxue to discuss if I could find a job to do, Xiaoxue told Sister Liu about it, Sister Liu didn't agree with me going out to work now, after all, I had amnesia and didn't understand anything, she was afraid that something would happen to me and wanted me to get used to it. But I insisted again and again, she finally had to agree, and let Xiaoxue accompany me, after all, Xiaoxue also worshipped a famous teacher, and she could go out to practice when the master was not there these days, if the two of us were together, Sister Liu said that she could rest assured. With Sister Liu's consent, Xiaoxue was happier than me, because she had already wanted to go out and find something to do, so she took me to a place where I could find a job - the Bounty Palace!
On the way there, Xiaoxue introduced that the Bounty Palace is located in the southeast of Yong'an City, where I live now, and it is the only place officially licensed for people to take tasks and find jobs. Although this bounty tower is only seven floors, it is the tallest building in Yong'an City, it is not the kind of thin and tall tower, because it covers an area of super large but can not show the height, looking at the short and fat but majestic atmosphere, there is a flat forehead with gold characters on a black background above the main entrance, and the emperor personally mentioned the three big characters of "Bounty Palace", which is majestic and vigorous. The bounty hall has a total of seven floors from low to high, which are the Shaking Light Pavilion, the Kaiyang Pavilion, the Yuheng Pavilion, the Tianquan Pavilion, the Tianji Pavilion, the Tianxuan Pavilion, and the Tianshu Pavilion. The material of each layer of waist cards is also different, from low to high, it is wood, bone, jade, iron, copper, silver, and gold. Xiao Xue said that the ebony card on my body was that of the Shaking Light Pavilion, and that I had awarded it to the Bounty Hall after completing a certain number of tasks in the Shaking Light Pavilion. It reminds me of Xiao Hanqi, who has a bronze medal...... That's Tianji Pavilion's waist Pai Luo, I didn't expect him to be a very powerful person, I don't know if I can see him again......
The door of the Bounty Hall is open all year round, day and night, and the door is like a market, so it is not lively. As soon as I entered the door and looked inside, I was stunned, if I used two words to describe my current mood, it would be shock! The space of the Shake Light Pavilion on the first floor is too large, and I estimate how it can also have the area of the Beijing Bird's Nest. Up and down by nine huge stone pillars with a diameter of five or six meters in a circular array support, there is a huge wooden pillar with a diameter of more than 30 meters in the middle, Xiaoxue said that it was once the tallest tree in Yong'an City, the whole tower is built around it, its trunk has been used to penetrate seven floors until the top of the tower, it is it that supports this majestic building!
Underneath the wooden pillar and the nine stone pillars in the middle, there is a counter around it, and there are many people in uniform standing between the pillars and the counter, which Xiaoxue says is the place in charge of registering and handing over tasks in the hall. Then he pointed out to me the walls of the entire hall, except for the places where there were windows, they were all covered with paper, and on each piece of paper was a task, there were merchants recruiting employees, farms recruiting workers, pharmacies collecting medicinal herbs, the army recruiting miscellaneous workers, the government recruiting informants, and the rich asking for bodyguards...... Blah blah Among them, the tasks of the government, the army, and the tasks of leaving the city are all divided into separate areas, and the other tasks are put together in a mess. Because the task of Shake Guang Pavilion is the simplest and most ordinary, and there are no restrictions, there are not many ordinary people, and it feels like a labor market or a talent exchange center.
Xiaoxue dragged me around. After walking around, I found an interesting thing, they all say that things gather people in groups, and I found that the people who stand in different mission areas also have their own characteristics: the people who stand in non-specific mission areas are all kinds of people, and they are the most disorganized. Most of the people in the mission area of the government are scholars, wearing neat and clean belts, most of them are long shirts and robes, and their heads are scarves; The remaining few who took over the task were mixed with all kinds of things: thieves and rats, those who were angry, those who were vicious, and those who were rough ....... Most of the crowd in the army's mission area are big men with tigers on their backs, wearing armless vests on their upper bodies and knee-length shorts on their lower bodies. The people who go out of the city mission area are almost all those who have aura and personality at a glance - martial arts people? Anyway, it's all with style! Dress in style, no standard.
The two of us finally stopped in the mission area out of the city, and Xiaoxue stopped shopping, saying that she would wait for someone. I don't care, after all, I really don't know the world, it's best to work with Xiaoxue, so I don't have an opinion on what Xiaoxue wants to do, just follow it. In the process of waiting, Xiaoxue's eyes have been searching in the task room, it should be looking for a suitable job, I have no experience in this area and don't want to make a mess, so I stand on the side.
Not long after, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old man who was sunny and silly ran towards us while shouting Xiaoxue's name. Xiaoxue introduced us to each other, the man's name is Blaze, Xiaoxue's hair is small, and he is also her senior brother, and the two worship Qianqiu as a teacher together. The blaze is a fire-savvy kid with a straightforward and sunny personality.
After some politeness, Xiaoxue stepped forward and tore down a task list, and then told us about the task we received. The task is probably a wealthy family surnamed Li, whose daughter suddenly suffered from an eye disease, and needs two dazzling spirit fruits that only grow on the Sky Ridge ten miles outside the city to be cured. This fruit is a rare medicinal herb that has a miraculous effect on eye diseases, and it is a blue spherical fruit produced by vine plants, which is about the same size as grapes, but not like grapes in clusters, and grows in a single one; The leaves are very similar in shape to the maple leaf, but the underside of the leaf is white; Its roots are only rooted in the extreme shade of the year, where there is no light; Its vines, on the other hand, only climb on tall trees close to the summit to receive the most sunlight. Because the growing conditions are extremely harsh and the fruits bear little, it is difficult to collect, and it often becomes a sought-after medicinal material in the city, and it is often out of stock in the past two years.
This plant is too scarce and difficult to find, so even if the Li family pays a high price of 100 taels of silver, ordinary people are reluctant to take this job. Xiaoxue insisted on taking it because of the bounty, and she recently spent money uncontrollably, and her purse was almost bottoming out, and she was about to reach the point of being stretched, so she wanted to take this job very much; And Blaze can do anything as long as it is a mission out of the city, he just wants to experience the feeling of freedom in the vast world outside the city, and he is tired of being in the city for a long time; Of course, I don't care. Now that all three of us have passed, we went to register and began to prepare the supplies we needed to get out of town. Xiaoxue and Blaze basically have what they should have, this time they were bought just for me, and it was Xiaoxue who paid for me, which made me feel both moved and embarrassed.
It was almost dusk when everything was ready, and the three of us went back to the hospital together. As soon as I approached the door of the medical hall, I happened to catch up with Sister Liu to send a girl out, the girl's clothes were not colorful but neat and clean, her face was thin but her eyes were clear...... It looks weird. When Xiaoxue and Blaze saw the girl, they ran over and greeted each other warmly, introducing each other to me and the girl, and the girl's name was Ah Xiu. After Ah Xiu said hello to us, she said goodbye and went home, and Xiaoxue wanted to send her off, but she politely declined. As she walked, she struck the pavement with a wooden stick and made a regular "click" sound, and I suddenly realized that she was blind. At sunset, her thin back was far away, but the shadow was still pulling to my feet, and the sound of da-da kept echoing in my ears, as if it was the sound of beating on my heart, and I looked at her for a long time and couldn't come back to my senses. It wasn't until Blaze came to tap me on the shoulder that I suddenly woke up and found that Xiaoxue and Sister Liu were no longer outside, so I hurriedly followed Blaze into the house.
Blaze is here to eat, maybe it's because we grew up together, Blaze is as comfortable as in his own home, not always polite like me. During the dinner, they talked about Ah Xiu, and I know a rough idea from their words. Ah Xiu's parents died when she was a child, and she depended on her grandmother, who was a hard-working person and couldn't do any work with poor health, so it was not easy for the two to live. Two years ago, her grandmother suddenly fell ill, and Ah Xiu poured all her belongings to cure her grandmother's illness, but the blessing and misfortune did not go alone, and it didn't take long for Ah Xiu to fall down due to overwork, and the high fever did not go away for several days, and finally saved a life, but his eyes could not see from then on, only a vague glimmer of light. Sister Liu is kind-hearted and often treats her for free, but she has been suffering from eye disease for a long time, and she needs five dizzy spirit fruits to be applied externally and internally at the same time to hope for a full recovery. This dazzling spirit fruit is a rare thing, and it is not easy to think of one in your hand, let alone five, this matter has become a piece of Sister Liu's heart.
Seeing that her cousin was worried, Xiaoxue's eyes rolled and she had an idea. After the meal, she called Blaze and me to her house, reminding her that this trip to Skyling would not only complete the Li family's tasks, but also find five dazzling spirit fruits for Ah Xiu to heal her eyes and help her cousin solve problems. Blaze raised his hands in favor of Xiaoxue's idea, believing that it was chivalrous and righteous, and that it was the work of the eldest husband. Although I also really want to help Ah Xiu, her back always lingers in my mind, but I think that things may not be as easy as I think, that Sky Ridge is not far from the city, and this dazzling spirit fruit can still be out of stock, which shows how difficult it is to find. However, I didn't want to dampen their enthusiasm, and nodded in agreement with Xiaoxue's idea.
This time, our goal has changed from two dazzling spirit fruits to seven, so we have temporarily prepared a few more days of dry food. When we were fully armed and ready to leave the West City Gate, we happened to encounter two seriously injured people who were helping each other back, and were taken to the hospital by the officers and soldiers guarding the gate. Xiaoxue and Blaze chatted and guessed the cause of their injuries, as if they were not surprised by such things, they had long been used to it, and it did not affect the mood of the two of them at all; And I have seen too many dead people, but I can't see the living suffering, and my heart is awkward. But under the influence of light snow and flames, I quickly recovered my mood, and seeing their elated appearance, I felt like we were on a journey to collect Dragon Balls and fulfill our wishes. This sudden idiotic thought made me laugh self-deprecatingly, ran a few steps to catch up with the excited two, and embarked on the road to Ferris Ridge together...... Road?
Huh? Huh? Huh? …… What about the road? …… Where's the road?!