Chapter 23 Doing Business
The mountain air is fresh and warm, refreshing.
In the quiet greenery of the mountains, a long caravan carried goods and marched unhurriedly.
The Lishan caravan left Miaojiacheng and marched in the mountains for more than a month, and Ji Fan, who was arranged in the caravan, gradually adapted to this kind of merchant life.
There was a lot of work to be done in the caravan, such as replenishing water and food, setting up tents, and gathering the necessary things, all of which needed to be done in the field.
This time the Lishan caravan went to business, planning to go to a lot of cottages and markets, it takes more than a year to go back and forth, two years late, more than a month of travel, is nothing at all.
Early in the morning, before the morning sun had risen, the caravan that had rested at night had already hit the road again.
"Cheer up, walk for half a day to Gujiazhai, then everyone can have a good rest for three days, and you can have a good income. Qi Shiyou, a tall and thin man, loudly boosted morale.
Hearing the shouts of the thin and tall man, Ji Fan, who was walking, showed a little smile on his face.
The Lishan caravan walked for more than a month, and for the vast majority of the caravans, completely leaving the scope of Miaojia City meant an increase in trading opportunities.
As for Ji Fan, leaving Miaojia City no longer has to contact the patriarch of the dwarf old man, and the embarrassing situation of acting cautiously has also improved significantly.
Although Ji Fan still didn't speak, he was not lazy in his work, and when the caravan was resting and collecting in the wild, he could also dig up some medicinal herbs and get the approval of the caravan leader Qi Shiyou as his own resources.
The wild mountains are full of dangers, but they also contain abundant resources and products.
The goods carried by the caravans were mainly consumable goods, and each place they went to, they not only sold goods, but also bought and sold special goods from various places.
A caravan of the size of Lee Hill would even take on the work of bodyguards to ensure the safety of the people and goods of the paying party.
Walking with the caravan, Ji Fan paid more attention to the leader Qi Shiyou, as well as the more than ten cultivators in the caravan to escort him.
It is extremely dangerous in the mountains, but in front of outsiders, Ji Fan will never reveal his cultivation secrets, he always reminds himself that he is a worker in the caravan, observing the situation and waiting for an opportunity.
In the route of the caravan in the land of ten thousand mountains this time, there were some cultivation sects, and Ji Fan was secretly weighing them, and he felt that they were not very ideal.
"If the next journey goes well, the caravan will go for another half a year, and it will arrive at the Xuanyin Mountain Range. On the rugged mountain road, Ji Fan followed the pack beast and pondered whether to try to worship the Xuanyin Sect.
There is a lot of news in the caravan, and Ji Fan knows that this year's Xuanyin Sect's worship ceremony has begun, and if you want to worship the Xuanyin Sect, you have to wait another year.
Unlike the children of the cultivation family, it is very difficult for Ye Xiu and Scattered Cultivators to enter the cultivation sect, there is a great disadvantage in their education and cultivation since childhood, and they do not receive the family's support in terms of cultivation resources.
On the one hand, the cultivation sect recruits disciples, selects materials for the sect, and cultivates the successor strength, and it will also collect the offering of introductory cultivation resources.
Ji Fan sighed secretly in his heart, for the time being, he could only focus on the things in front of him, this month, because he dug up some herbs, collected some animal bones, ores, and fruit seeds and other things in the mountains, and completed the caravan work, but he could also have the qualifications to come out of the stall by himself.
It's just that compared to the tent business place of the caravan, Ji Fan's stall is obviously the lowest grade, and after operating it three times, it can't sell anything at all.
"Gujiazhai is relatively large, and the family cultivation atmosphere is strong, so there will be no shortage of trading opportunities. Ji Fan pondered whether he could have the opportunity to sell the coffin pendant and the black-haired corpse he was carrying.
At present, Ji Fan has not opened the spirit vein and cultivated the spirit root, the true yuan cannot be transformed into the spirit yuan at all, and the coffin pendant and the black-haired corpse are not something he can control.
"Although the Yin Corpse Seal is of little use to me, after all, it is the cultivation method of the Xuanyin Sect's spirit corpse, plus the ancient Dan Fang is recorded, it should be quite valuable. Along the way, Ji Fan studied in the caravan and also learned about some trading quotes.
"If you can sell the black-haired corpse, the necklace and the Stygian Corpse Seal together, it will be worth almost five low-grade spirit stones. Ji Fan thought silently and glanced at a light gauze sedan chair in the caravan.
The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, but the four men carrying the sedan chair walk very steadily, even if they encounter obstacles, they can lift the sedan chair and walk in the air for a short time.
As far as Ji Fan knew, the sedan chair and the group of people accompanying the sedan chair paid the caravan's bodyguards, and the caravan was responsible for protecting the safety of the group.
There is a girl in the sedan chair who can't see clearly, judging from the identity, it is obviously the master of the group, but Ji Fan is not very clear about the specific origin of this group.
For the group of people of unknown origin in the caravan, Ji Fan also had a cautious mind.
The pack beast of the caravan is the mountain gecko, this kind of second-level demon beast, although it usually walks not too fast, but it has the ability to fight, and ordinary qi refiners do not dare to provoke easily, especially when the caravan's route is difficult, the climbing ability of the mountain gecko is reflected.
The leader of the caravan, Qi Shiyou, was a monk in the Xuan Period, beyond the scope of the ninth layer of qi refining, which was already quite a powerful existence among many cultivation forces.
At noon, as the caravan entered a mountain with a road built, the Gujia cottage gradually appeared in view.
"The caravan is coming, the caravan is coming......"
The family guards guarding the gate of the cottage canyon saw the winding caravan, and shouted happily, with a welcoming attitude towards the caravan.
"Boom!boom!boom~~~"
There was nothing wrong with checking the caravan's qualifications, and the lock gate of the cottage was only raised as several guards pushed the lock mill.
"This wave of the Miao family's caravan seems to have come a little late!" The patriarch of the Gu family's cottage personally greeted the gate of the village, and seemed to know Qi Shiyou, the leader of the caravan.
"In the rainy season in autumn, the mountain roads are not easy to walk, and there is a wave of mountain wolves along the way. Qi Shiyou smiled easily, without any sense of arrogance.
"Hurry up and lead the team into the cottage, tonight the old man asked people to prepare some good wine and good food, and they must have a good drink. The red-faced old man smiled politely at the tall and thin man.
"Then thank you Patriarch Gu. ”
The thin and tall man was not pretentious, and after thanking him, he summoned the caravan into the cottage.
The children in the house were very happy about the arrival of the caravan, shouting and running to tell each other, and the adults also had smiles on their faces.
"Hurry up and unload the goods, feed the mountain geckos, don't forget to add some meat, and the stalls and tents are also ......" The deputy leader of the caravan, a very experienced old man, arrived at the cottage at the foot of the mountain outside the vast woods prepared for the caravan, and hurriedly shouted.
Preparing to start a business, Ji Fan is very busy, the young man's body is not as good as the man with a big waist and a round waist in the caravan, but he carries a lot of things, and he is very diligent and capable.
"Brother, is there any sugar this time?"
A little boy with a snot on his nose asked Ji Fan, who was moving goods, with an expectant expression.
Ji Fan put down the big package, showed a rare smile, took out two pieces of candy from his arms, and gave them to the snot boy for nothing.
It was busy from noon to the afternoon, and the caravan was set up in tents.
If it is not a caravan's personal business, it can only set up stalls, and the sales of goods are not in quantity, there are few types and not many goods.
Ji Fan, who helped feed the pack beasts, also set up the stall and put some herbs dug on the road.
There are not many people who follow the caravan to do personal business, these people are not from the Miao clan, and the merchants need to pay a fee and accept the management of the caravan.
Ji Fan was arranged by his wife Qi Ying in the Lishan caravan, and he usually didn't say a word, because he could help the caravan do some work, he followed his personal stall, and he didn't take the amount of goods, so he couldn't compete with the caravan's goods, and the team leader Qi Shiyou turned a blind eye and let him go.
The personal transactions in the caravan are not only external but also internal, but the individuals in the caravan rarely move around each other, and pay great attention to the privacy of the transaction, which is also an unwritten rule in the caravan, which is a good interpretation of the meaning of peers as enemies.
From the small stalls outside the mountains and forests, it can be seen that only people with good relationships will put the stalls together, so that they can say good things about each other's goods.
Whether it is the goods of the caravan or the goods sold by individuals, unless it is marked as a gambling treasure and the one with the highest price, it is not allowed to deceive at a high price, and once the deceived buyer is reported, after the caravan leader is determined, he will be severely punished.
Ji Fan's stall was far away from the other stalls, opened the wooden boxes of goods layer by layer, carefully took out the red rehmannia root, Ganoderma lucidum, and comfrey, and finally placed a piece of iron essence stone and a piece of moon vine root on the stall.
Red rehmannia and ground comfrey can barely be regarded as low-grade spiritual essence, but it is a pity that the medicinal age is too short, and red ground rehmannia is only a shriveled piece the size of an eyeball, and there is only a cluster of ground comfrey.
After the caravan opened a business in Gujiazhai, a lot of people from Gujiazhai came and bought a relatively large number of daily consumables.
The cultivation items are also very popular with the cultivators of Gujiazhai, but compared to the good things operated by the Lishan caravan, the things on Ji Fan's stall are really unavailable.
Ordinary herbs, for the Gujiazhai people living in the mountains, the attraction is not great, the amount is OK, if it rises to the essence, it depends more on the quality.
Although there were monks from Gujiazhai, when they came to Ji Fan's stall, they just took a look, and they didn't mean to buy a few slightly shabby goods.
Seeing that the business would not open when there was a lot of traffic, Ji Fan scratched his head helplessly, hesitated in the package, and took out a mud ball.
The fist-sized mud ball had dried up, and Ji Fan smashed it open with a stone, revealing the bone ring wrapped in oiled paper inside.
This bone ring used to be the hunchbacked old man Chen Gengnian, and the carved runes were very detailed, and in Ji Fan's feeling, it should be a magic weapon.
After getting the bone ring, Ji Fan wrote barter on a piece of wood.
Although Ji Fan was working in the caravan during these days, referring to the price of the caravan's magic weapon, it should be set at between one and three spirit stones, but he did not clearly mark the price.
The preciousness of the magic weapon is generally based on the role of the weapon, and the defensive magic weapon is usually more expensive, and the magic weapon of the ring is also quite rare.