Chapter 4 Money is a Good Thing
Wang Hong's biological clock has been in a mess during this time, if it weren't for the extremely powerful physique enhancement of the big turtle template, I am afraid that there would have been various small problems in the body.
Now that he has arrived in a relatively safe place, he naturally has to adjust as much as possible, so Wang Hong did not return directly to the Earth Star, but slept in the inn of this realm for one night.
Of course, the most important thing is that the time in the two realms is relatively static, if you go back to the earth star to sleep, you can't do anything when you come here or at night.
Instead, I rested here, and even if it was the second half of the night, there was no shortage of places to eat, drink and have fun in a big city like Furong City.
The next morning, Wang Hong began to wander around the town, paying attention to the way people in this realm spoke, behaved, and what they needed to be careful about.
Only by mastering all the details can we truly integrate into this world without leaving a trace.
There was a bookstore in the town, and Wang Hong found that there were exercises for sale in it, although it was only some of the most basic fists and swords, and the price was quite high, but it also made him overjoyed.
I couldn't touch the cheats on the man in black before, but he got a lot of silver tickets, adding up to more than a thousand taels of silver, and he naturally wouldn't be stingy when he bought these cheats for dozens of taels of silver.
The characters in this world are very similar to traditional Chinese characters, Wang Hong can basically understand them, and it is not difficult to find someone to ask about individual words that he does not understand.
However, in order to reduce the covetousness of others, Wang Hong only bought four cheats, namely "Tongmen Boxing", "Iron Cloth Shirt", "Nanshan Knife Method" and "Spirit Snake Step".
There is no internal strength in the bookstore, which is also to be expected.
Otherwise, not to mention whether the store can keep it or not, even if it is really sold to Wang Hong, he will not dare to practice a book in a hurry that does not know the depths.
On the contrary, the four cheats he bought now are all the most common road goods.
This kind of exercise may not be very powerful, but it will definitely not have hidden dangers, otherwise it would not be possible for so many people to practice it.
Moreover, the sentences in the cheats are simple and easy to understand, and the supporting humanoid illustrations are also easy for Wang Hong to learn.
Back at the inn, Wang Hong flipped through all four cheats, and the other three could only be practiced and improved for many years, and only the iron cloth shirt could progress at a faster speed through the medicinal bath.
If the practitioner is really willing to spend money, he will be able to achieve a small success in about half a year!
"If you don't have internal skills, you can practice external skills first, you need a lot of medicinal materials to cultivate the iron cloth shirt, Ping'an Town is close to the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, and the price of medicinal materials is relatively cheap, so there is no need to go back to the earth and spend a lot of money to buy them."
There are three medicinal bath recipes provided in the Iron Cloth Shirt cheats, among which the most effective one, even if you buy medicinal materials in Ping'an Town, you have to spend thirty taels of silver every day.
Cultivating the iron cloth shirt requires hitting some special acupuncture points on the body to stimulate the potential of the body and enhance the resistance to blows on the body surface, so it needs a medicinal bath to nourish and repair the body.
The most expensive set of medicinal baths can not only quickly repair the injuries caused during practice, but also strengthen the effect of external practice, so that cultivators can take up to three days a day, greatly speeding up the progress of cultivation.
"We have to find a way to make money, otherwise both sides can't afford to burn money like this."
At present, he is indeed not short of money, but the truth of being poor and rich makes sense, silver may not be able to smash masters, but most masters need silver.
In the past few days, Wang Hong has been wandering around the town and has also found a lot of ways to make money, but he can't look down on those who make less money, and it is risky to make more money, and it is easy to provoke vested interests.
Now that cultivating the Iron Cloth Shirt required a lot of silver, he could no longer afford to look ahead and backwards, so he had to take some risks.
Wang Hong, who had made up his mind, immediately returned to Dixing, at this time it was still more than two o'clock in the morning, and he did not feel sleepy, so he had to find a park nearby and practice the Tongmen boxing he had just obtained.
Tongmen boxing is the most common boxing method in the other world, long-term practice can condense the strength, make the body strong, the strength is transparent, many people who have no door and no faction, are the foundation of using it.
And the reason why Wang Hong chose this boxing method is because it is easy to learn and easy to master, although it does not have too broad a future, but it does not need to divide too much energy.
The strongest thing about the big turtle template is physical strength, Wang Hong practiced until seven o'clock in the morning, and he didn't feel too tired.
After eating, I found a grain and oil store, bought a whole sack of salt, found a corner where no one was around, and teleported to the Ping'an Town Inn in the other world again.
Ping'an Town is located on the southern border of the Tiannan Kingdom, where there is neither the sea nor salt wells, and all edible salt is transported from other places, which is not only expensive, but also very scarce.
Although the kingdom of Tiannan has a law of monopoly on salt, it cannot control all parts of the country at all.
The day before yesterday, when Wang Hong was listening to the news in the tavern, several salt dealers even dared to discuss the price in public, which shows that the local government should have a tacit attitude towards this matter.
There is no special salt shop in Ping'an Town, which is basically sold in grain stores, and Wang Hong walked into the store with a sack on his back.
"The shopkeeper is not there?"
After walking around Ping'an Town for a few days, Wang Hong's accent has also changed a lot, but unfortunately he didn't know that he could enter human society so soon, otherwise he wouldn't have to go to Furong City to learn dialects.
A middle-aged man in a robe walked out, arched his hand and asked:
"I wonder what's the matter with the guest officer?"
Wang Hong saw that there was no one else in the grain store at this time, so he opened the sack directly, pinched out a pinch of salt, and sprinkled it on the small table next to him.
"This ......"
The shopkeeper, who was still a little puzzled, was full of surprise the moment he saw the salt, and then he glued some with his fingers, put it in his mouth and tasted it.
"Good salt!" The shopkeeper sighed quietly.
The salt sold in their store is coarse salt with large particles and severe yellowing, Tiannan is not without better refined salt, but those high-quality goods are only for the county and above, and it is a little difficult for the big families in the county to get it, let alone Ping'an Town.
The shopkeeper looked at the sack in Wang Hong's hand again, and whispered, "Come back with me." ”
The two came to the warehouse behind the grain store, and the shopkeeper looked at Wang Hong, frowned and said:
"Although the government doesn't care much about the sale of smuggled salt, you are too blatant!"
Wang Hong ignored the other party's beating, gently put down the sack, and said concisely:
"How much do you pay for all of this?"
The shopkeeper rummaged and rummaged in the sack, and after making sure that it was all refined salt, he said with a smile:
"Your bag is about two hundred catties, even if you have one hundred taels of silver."
As soon as Wang Hong heard that the sack was mentioned, he was about to leave, but the shopkeeper hurriedly stopped him and said:
"At most, one hundred and fifty taels, it will take time and effort for me to sell it, you can't help but let me make money."
Because there is no salt produced locally, the coarse salt in the grain store is sold for half a tael of silver a catty, and Wang Hong brings refined salt, even if the wholesale price should not be so low.
"There are ten bags in total this time, can you eat it?"
Wang Hong thought about it and didn't bargain anymore, but asked how much the other party could charge.
The shopkeeper said excitedly when he heard this: "No problem, the owner of our store has hundreds of grain stores in Jinghong County, and this refined salt can be eaten as much as possible!" ”
If he can get 1,500 taels of silver and get 2,000 catties of refined salt, he can be promoted to the county when he turns around, after all, the annual production of refined salt is limited, and there are very few border counties like Jinghong.
"Trade these first, and talk about the rest tomorrow." Wang Hong nodded and said.
The shopkeeper looked a little hesitant, and said hesitantly:
"There are only more than five hundred taels of silver in the store, and there is no problem in trading these, if there are more, you will have to wait a few days."
Wang Hong looked around, found a lot of medicinal materials in the warehouse, and asked, "Do you collect medicinal materials?" ”
Although the shopkeeper was a little inexplicable, he still nodded and said:
"Yes, there are a lot of medicinal materials in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, and a certain amount of them will be sent to the county town, and our owner has a pharmacy there."
Wang Hong asked about several medicinal materials needed for the iron cloth shirt, and there were all of them in the warehouse, in addition, there were two ginseng plants that were more than 100 years old, which made Wang Hong overjoyed.
The shopkeeper saw that Wang Hong needed medicinal materials, and he was immediately relieved, otherwise if the other party was in a hurry to ship and find someone else to sell salt, then his dream of raising the county would be in vain.
"That bag of salt, for a ginseng plant."
Wang Hong saw the two century-old ginseng plants taken out by the shopkeeper, and immediately pointed to one of them and said.
"It's a big loss......"
The shopkeeper habitually wanted to bargain, but it could be seen that Wang Hong was a little impatient, so he had to pretend to be unhappy and nodded, but in fact, he was happy in his heart.
He received this ginseng plant for only eighty taels, but now it is worth one hundred and fifty taels, and the remaining seventy taels can be erased from the account and quietly stuffed into his pocket.
The two agreed on the time of tomorrow's transaction, and Wang Hong took ginseng and the medicinal materials that he had cultivated for half a month in the iron cloth shirt, and left the grain store satisfied.
The shopkeeper of the grain store looked at Wang Hong's back, but hesitated, and after half a ring, his expression was slightly hideous, and his heart was ruthless, so he asked the store guy to leave Ping'an Town with a letter and quickly.
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Returning to the inn with ginseng and medicinal herbs, Wang Hong cleaned up and returned to Dixing again.
"First ask the second uncle if they want ginseng in the factory, and don't find an auction house to operate."
Wang Hong's second uncle is an executive of a large pharmaceutical company in S Province, and during the Chinese New Year's dinner, he also heard him complain that it is difficult to collect medicinal materials now, especially some high-end medicinal materials, ninety percent of which are fakes.
Their boss has always wanted to get a few treasures of the town, but they are always approached by scammers to sell them.
Wang Hong took a photo of the ginseng in the wooden box and sent it to his second uncle Yan Quan, with a sentence:
"Good stuff you just got your hands on, do you want it? (‐^▽^‐)”
Before Wang Hong walked back to the hotel, WeChat rang.
Second uncle: Are you kidding? Where did you get this 100-year-old ginseng?
Wang Hong: Anyway, it's not stolen and robbed, it's a good thing that comes from legal trading, do you want it?
Second uncle: You really didn't coax me? If it's true, I'll go back to my hometown now!
Wang Hong: It's really in my hands, but I've just come to Furong City, so let's talk about it when I go back.
Second uncle: Don't, don't, hurry up and send your location, I'll look for you tomorrow!
Wang Hong: Send a message tomorrow before you get on the plane, I'll pick you up at the airport.
The two didn't talk about the specific price, after all, it was their own uncle, and this kind of transaction couldn't trap him, so it was better to wait until they saw the real thing and then talk about it in detail.