Chapter 24: The Good Material Shop
Sitting in the carriage back to the city, Gao Zhen could still feel the smell of blood remaining in his nostrils.
What is it? Does it have anything to do with the person who failed to awaken the Blazing Yuan Sect? That person escaped from the sect and is now being hunted down?
It feels like things are getting more and more complicated. From the reappearance of the ghost snake, to Dai Mian's mysterious deal, to the failed awakening of the disciples of the Blazing Yuan Sect and the strange soil in the Yan Iron Ore Cave.
I just want to complete a mining task, why did I happen to encounter these bizarre things? Could it be that this is not a coincidence, but someone is secretly arranging?
Gao Zhen shook his head, he didn't think that these things were designed for him, he was just a nobody in the fairy world, and there was nothing worth paying attention to. If there is really someone behind this, it can only be a coincidence created indiscriminately.
He suddenly became interested in the owner of the good material store who issued the task, what kind of person is he?
With such and such speculations and imaginations, he rested on the carriage for a whole night, and finally returned to the west gate of Yancheng in the afternoon of the next day.
As soon as he entered the city, he followed the information on the task card and looked for the place where the "Good Material Shop" was located.
To his surprise, this good material shop was actually in the north of Yancheng, you know, this Yanbei City is a place where dignitaries live. To be able to open a store in such a place, there must be something behind this horse boss.
After coming to Yanbei City, the number of pedestrians on the streets decreased significantly, and even if there were, they did not travel alone, but were followed by servants, or rode in sedan chairs and carriages.
Gao Zhen didn't know much about the powerful people in the fairy world, and he didn't want to get involved in right and wrong, so he hid when he could, avoided when he could, and tried not to travel on the same road with these people.
After a long detour, he finally saw the sign of "Good Material Shop" at an intersection. There is also a pattern painted on the signboard, which is a small figure wearing yellow clothes, wearing a yellow hat, and open hands. It felt familiar, as if I had seen this pattern somewhere.
The exterior design of the shop is very unique, with a Japanese style, which is clearly different from the other buildings on the street. The storefront was open with a shrunken door made of wood and paper, and a few pieces of cloth hung from the door.
Gao Zhen looked around a few times, and found that he was the only one here, he shook his head and walked into the shop.
What he didn't expect was that there was a hole in this shop. As soon as you enter, there is a place to change shoes, and customers have taken off their cloth shoes or boots and placed them neatly. And then on, there is actually a circular corridor, surrounded by a courtyard in the middle. There are rockeries, pools, flowers and green bamboo in the courtyard.
Boss Ma is quite tasteful. Thinking so, Takatsu took off his shoes and walked into the corridor. He admired the view from the courtyard as he walked towards a room at the end of the hallway.
"Hello this immortal master, is there anything you need to serve?" Gao Zuo was startled, and a paper door next to the hallway was suddenly opened, and a woman knelt on the ground and asked, bowing.
The woman was wearing yellow kimono-like clothing and looked a bit like a waitress in a store.
"Well, I want to see Boss Ma." Gao Zhen said.
"You need to make an appointment to meet Boss Ma, have you made an appointment before?" The woman said, still on her knees.
"Uh......" Gao Zhen scolded in his heart, you are a horse boss, not to mention such a dangerous mission, and play a big name, I want to see what kind of character you are.
"I completed the task he posted, and I came to hand in the task." Gao Zhen took out the task card and held it in front of the woman.
The woman took it with both hands, checked it front and back, and said, "Okay, I'll go and inform Boss Ma, Immortal Master, please wait here for a while." ”
This is about the same, Gao Zhen thought to himself, watching the woman kneeling on the ground close the paper door, and then walked into the courtyard, watching the green bamboos swaying in the wind, while watching, in a daze.
"Hey!" After a while, someone called him from behind, and when he looked back, he found a middle-aged man standing in the hallway. He has a strange appearance, his face is square, his eyes are not big or small, his hair is tightly pressed against his scalp, and the lobes of one pair of ears are large and hang down on both sides of his head.
"You're the one who got the job done? Not bad! My name is Ma Yunteng, I am the owner of this store, and that task is what I posted, just call me Boss Ma! Ma Yunteng said.
Ma Yunteng? Gao Zhen felt that this name was a little funny, he forced back a smile, untied the cloth bag on his back, and wanted to hand over the Yan Iron Mine to Boss Ma.
"Eh, don't be in a hurry, come in and sit down, and talk slowly." Seeing him like this, Ma Yunteng waved his hand and asked Gao Zhen to come to the room at the end of the corridor.
Gao Zhen followed him into the room, and when he saw the furnishings in the room, Gao Zhen was deeply fascinated.
In the room, there are rows of wooden cabinets, each two or three meters high, full of large and small drawers, and on each drawer there is a note with the name of the material contained in the drawer. Gao Zhen thinks it's a bit like a medicine cabinet in a Chinese medicine pharmacy.
"This side is low material, and that side is medium material. Customers can pick up a bamboo basket by the door, and then go to the cabinet to pick up the items they need and put them in the bamboo basket. When they're done, they can go to the platform over there and weigh it, and finally pay for it. This is our procurement method specially invented according to customer needs, and it is the only one in this smoke city, which is the characteristic of our good material store. Ma Yunteng introduced Gao Zhen.
Awesome, awesome, Gao Zhen felt a strong aura of the world, and he extremely suspected that this horse boss was a gamer from the world.
Ma Yunteng sat down at a coffee table in the room with a high pillow. There are no stools here, both of them are sitting on their knees, and they feel very unaccustomed to the high pillow, but Boss Ma is nothing, but feels very comfortable.
The woman in the yellow kimono brought tea for the two of them, and Boss Ma asked Gao Zhen a few words about mining minerals, and Gao Zhen answered simply, omitting those details about the Blazing Yuan Sect. Only four burning wolves killed by him are mentioned.
"Burning wolf's eyes? Very good materials, we can recycle them at a high price. Ma Yunteng wrapped the eight green eyes taken out of the high pillow with a white handkerchief and asked the waiter to weigh them.
When he saw the iron ore core that Gao Zhen took out, Ma Yunteng's eyes lit up, praised Gao Zhen again and again, and told him that he was willing to take out two additional silver dollars to buy this core.
Gao Zhen left a few pieces of hot iron ore for himself, and handed over the rest to Boss Ma, which can be regarded as completing the task. Ma Yunteng happily gave him a five-star review and invited him to go to the cabinet with medium materials to choose the materials he wanted in return.
After searching back and forth in front of the tall cabinet, Gao Zhen soon found two of the materials needed to make the "Five Elements Ning Yuan Dan": dwarf soil and spirit camphor wood.
This dwarf soil is a kind of soil that can grow and replicate on its own, and if left unchecked, it will grow more and more. The known way to control its growth is to pack it in a wooden box, because the rate of its growth will be greatly inhibited because of the wood.
It is still different from the real "resting soil", the more this kind of soil grows, the less earth-attribute spiritual power will be contained in the unit volume, that is, it cannot increase in value indefinitely like the resting soil, and after increasing to a certain volume, it will stop and lose its use value. That's why it's called "dwarf polygon".
As for this camphor wood, there is nothing special. It is a kind of wood made of the trunk of the fairy wood, the color is brownish, the surface is oily, and it exudes a strong aroma, which can be used to make incense sachets. Gao Zhen even felt that the rarity of this material was not medium at all.
However, he wanted to get both of these materials, as it would greatly reduce the time he spent collecting them, so that he could advance faster.
After inquiring about the price, Gao Zhen learned that this dwarf soil was a little more expensive than the camphor wood. So he chose dwarf soil as a reward for his mission, and spent the two silver dollars he had just gotten to buy enough camphor wood.
In this way, three of the five materials were finally collected, but the money on his own body was left, and he was left with more than 200 copper coins from selling the Burning Wolf's eyeballs.