It was not yet night, but the rain kept falling, and the sky was completely dark.

Lao Ba sat under a yellow bamboo chair under the eaves. Two oil lamps lit in the shop behind him, glowing dimly.

The shop he was in was a bungalow, with black tile brick walls and wide open wooden doors, which looked no different from ordinary shops, and in the rain curtain facing him, there were many different shops on both sides of the stretching stone road.

There is a pond next to Lao Ba's shop, it seems that the rain has been falling for a long time, the water in this small pond seems to be very full, and there are a few big plantains planted on the edge of the pond, and the rain is dripping on it, making a popping sound.

At this time, there were no people on the stone road, and the sound of the rain hitting the plantain made it even more deserted and lonely.

Lao Ba's shop is located in Jinyun Valley in Bashan, and at this moment, these shops shrouded in rain look no different from the shops in the outside world, but in fact, these shops are trading things that some cultivators need.

In the entire cultivation world, except for some unknown secret markets like Nantianmen, there are about thirty publicly known markets, and this Jinyun Valley is one of them.

Although there are many cultivators of all kinds on weekdays, if a person has been here for more than ten years and guards a shop like this every day, it will always be a little lonely and lonely.

Many times, the loneliness and loneliness come from the mood.

...

No one passed on the wet stone road for a long time, and Lao Ba's eyes narrowed, as if he was about to fall asleep, but at this time, at the end of the stone road, in the rain, a young man wearing a bamboo hat and a robe came over.

Lao Ba's eyes opened, and there was a look of surprise in his dim eyes like oil lamps, he had seen countless cultivators, but this young man gave him a very peculiar, different feeling.

Under the robe, a pair of green cloth boots were exposed.

"Shopkeeper?" The young man walked in front of Lao Ba until he stopped, removed the bamboo hat on his head, and showed a smiling, very warm and warm face.

Lao Ba stood up a little stunned and looked at the smiling young man, "What do the guests want?"

The young man still smiled and looked at Lao Ba, "All the things." ”

"Everything?" the old man was stunned, he didn't understand the meaning of the young man's words.

"In addition to everything in your shop, there's everything you produce. The young man smiled and added, "Of course I'm going to buy, not to rob, and the price can be slightly higher than the price you traded here." ”

"IMHO. All the coldness and loneliness in Lao Ba's eyes disappeared, and some light appeared that he didn't usually have, "I still don't understand what you mean." ”

The young man explained in a very mild tone: "Yes, what you produce is very useful to us, and we need a very large amount, so I would like to make a long-term agreement with you, that all your products should not be sold to others, and that I could buy them all at a price slightly higher than the market price." ”

"Long-term agreement?" Lao Ba muttered, "Acquisition at a fixed price?"

"Exactly. If you're not sure, I can even make a partial deposit upfront. The young man nodded, smiled again, and said, "If you can't decide alone at this time, I can wait for your news here." ”

"This kind of long-term agreement is beneficial to us, and I can agree to it alone. Lao Ba glanced at the young man, frowned slightly, and said, "But how can this kind of agreement be observed? I promised you, but I made a deal with people in private, so what should we do? If there is a big sect that puts pressure on us to hand over how much to them, what will we do?"

"If you do not keep your promise, and make private dealings with others, and if you are revealed by me, you must give me double the profits you have received from me. This can be written in our agreement, and since I dare to make such a long-term agreement with you, if you really violate the agreement, I am not afraid that you will not return to me double the profits. The young man smiled slightly and said, "As for any forces that put pressure on you, it's a big deal that you open all your medicinal fields to them and let them pick them by themselves... So don't keep too much of your stuff in normal times, and trade it all to me when you have it. Since I want everything you produce, you don't have to worry about what you produce, no one wants it, and naturally you don't care too much about those forces. ”

Lao Ba pondered for a moment, looked at the young man, and asked directly, "Then what price can you give?"

"Ishei. The young man said seriously, "I can make a long-term agreement with you at a price that is 10% higher than the current transaction price." ”

After a pause, the young man added, "And if you keep abiding by the agreement, every few months, I can even provide you with an elixir cultivation and a pill for you." ”

"I want a part of the deposit. Lao Ba took a deep breath, didn't hesitate any longer, looked at the young man and said affirmatively, "You know, this is a lot of money, so I must take all the guarantees." ”

"There's no problem with that. The young man smiled slightly, took out a leather bag, and handed it to the old man.

...

The contents of the skin were very simple, only a stack of silver tickets, a turquoise herb in a jade box, and a pill written on an ordinary piece of paper.

But after Lao Ba looked at it carefully, his eyes showed an extremely moving look, and the hand holding the leather bag trembled slightly.

"How often do you want to get the goods?" After a while, Lao Ba regained his composure, looked at the young man in front of him and said this, and then added: "The number is relatively large, I have to have some time to prepare." ”

The young man, who looked very mild-mannered, said: "The sooner the first batch of goods, the better, preferably tomorrow." As for the future, once every five or six days will do. ”

"Are you here in person, or.... Lao Ba then asked.

"I'll send someone. The young man took a look, walked into Lao Ba's shop, took out an ordinary red talisman from a shelf at random, and then tore the red talisman in half and handed over half to Lao Ba, "My surname is Tong, when my people come to pick up the goods, they will take my half of the talisman, and they will say that they are sent by Mr. Tong." ”

"Good!" the old man nodded.

Seeing that the old man nodded, the young man didn't say much, put away the half of the red talisman, smiled friendlyly, and then put on the bamboo hat again, and turned around and stepped into the rain.

From beginning to end, the young man did not make any written note with Lao Ba, and Lao Ba also knew very well that this young man did not need any written note at all, because he did not have to worry about Lao Ba repenting in this regard and not following the verbal agreement between the two.

Basically, the shops that have been operating in this kind of cultivator trading market for a long time will have a lot of power behind them, like Lao Ba's shop, and the force behind them is the Dantai Sect.

The Dantai Sect is one of the three largest sects in the cultivation world that specialize in cultivating elixirs.

Lao Ba himself was one of the elders of the Dantai Sect.

And in his current shop, there are many kinds of talismans and some pure gold ores needed to refine magic weapons, and all kinds of elixirs for refining elixirs only occupy a very inconspicuous corner.

Therefore, even if it is a force with ulterior motives, even if they pay attention to this shop for a long time, they will basically be misled, thinking that the force behind this shop is one of several sects that specialize in refining talismans.

But in the conversation between this young man and him, it was already very obvious that he pointed out the medicine field and the elixir... Coupled with the conditions he gave, it is obvious that the force behind Lao Ba's shop is Dantai Sect.

Now the face value of the first batch of silver tickets given by the young man is very amazing, enough to pay for the production of the elixir of Dantai Sect for three months, such a large sum, coupled with the unique aura of mana fluctuation that he felt from this young man, and the fact that this young man claimed to be surnamed Tong... Lao Ba already vaguely knew the identity of this young man.

With this young man's identity, since there is already such an agreement, Dantai Sect will never dare to violate it.

And the conditions given by this young man also made Dantai Sect unable to refuse at all.

Like the green jade grass he gave this time, the grade is higher than the vast majority of the elixirs cultivated by the Dantai Sect, and the pill given by the young man this time is the green jade pill. The green jade pill refined from green jade grass has the effect of refining the flesh and strengthening qi and blood, which is several times stronger than the effect of almost most of such pills on the market.

The ability of the Dantai Sect to cultivate elixirs is already one of the few in the cultivation world, but in terms of Danfang, the Dantai Sect does not have many attainments, and some good Danfangs are impossible for other sects to spread. Therefore, the Dantai Sect has always been equivalent to the lowest farm, and other Dandao sects took the elixir cultivated by the Dantai Sect and refined the elixir, and after refining the elixir, the value increased several times.

This is equivalent to burning a pot of chicken soup, and others have eaten up the chicken, but Dantaizong himself can only drink the soup.

If this young man could really provide some high-level elixirs and pills, the Dantai Sect would definitely gain huge benefits from it.

Lao Ba didn't understand what the young man was trying to do at the moment, but it had nothing to do with him, because for Lao Ba, it was just a transaction between merchants. No matter what kind of cultivator they are, they are just merchants in this kind of trading market, and among merchants, only the greatest interests are emphasized.

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"Those shops are out of stock?"

In a trading market similar to Jinyun Valley in Jiayu City, located in the north of Jingzhou, a middle-aged man in a silver robe in a shop frowned, and a grim light flashed in his eyes.

"Someone must be doing something in the shadows. ”

After a glint in his eyes, the silver-robed middle-aged man said to a young man in Tsing Yi who looked like a young man standing in front of him, "Go and inform the shopkeeper Wang!"