"What, why is croton so expensive, this thing is fed to pigs, and pigs don't eat it!"

In the Fang Market of Autumn Wind City, Wu Hao was talking to the vendors selling medicinal herbs with an unhappy face.

He originally wanted to come here to prepare some medicinal materials so that he could return to the sect to continue his alchemy career.

Because the materials for his alchemy are somewhat special, not all of them can be bought in the Dantang. So Wu Hao also had to buy some in Autumn Wind City.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he started buying, Wu Hao encountered something unpleasant. This medicinal herb merchant that Wu Hao often buys, his croton has more than doubled compared to before.

How could Wu Hao accept this behavior of sitting on the ground and raising the price, and reasoned with him on the spot.

You must know that this is related to the cost of the pill and the profit of Wu Hao's alchemy, of course he has to make it clear.

"Wu Shao, you don't know anything!" the herb merchant smiled cautiously: "It's not just croton, the price of medicinal materials on the market is rising now! Some medicinal materials have soared, and even four or five times in just one or two days!"

"This price is still based on the fact that we are so familiar with each other, and your purchase volume is large, so I will give you a discount!"

Wu Hao naturally didn't just believe his words, he and Qian Baoer took a turn in the market again. I found that the medicinal herb dealer was right, most of the medicinal materials on the market have risen to varying degrees, and the increase is still very large.

Seeing this, Wu Hao frowned: "How can this be?"

"Generally, the price of goods in the market is determined by supply and demand. If there is a big change in prices, it is very likely that there is a big problem in both supply and demand. Qian Bao'er suddenly said beside Wu Hao.

"How much do you know?" Wu Hao said with a funny look at Qian Bao'er.

"That's ...... After all, she is a young lady from a big family!" Qian Bao'er said as a matter of course.

But I secretly thought in my heart: "No, I have to show my own value, otherwise the little devil thinks I'm useless...... It's scary, it's scary!"

At this time, she only heard Wu Hao say: "Then ask the young lady of the big family to analyze and analyze, why the medicinal materials here are rising so outrageously!"

Qian Bao'er thought for a while and then said: "The more water in the country, less in the mountains. Therefore, it is not the main source of medicinal materials. Because of the regional relationship, the medicinal materials on our side are mainly imported from the Chu and Qi countries. ”

"Of course, because of the distance, we still mainly rely on the Chu State, followed by the Qi State. ”

"Now that the price of medicinal materials has soared, there are only two possibilities, one is that the demand has increased suddenly, so that the original normal supply has begun to be unavailable. The other is a sudden decrease in supply, so that normal demand is not met!"

"However, in these two cases, even if they cause price increases, the increase is limited, and it is unlikely to be as outrageous as it is now. So what is most likely to happen now is the most extreme of the two possibilities. ”

"One means that war is approaching, so demand is almost bottomless. The second is that relations with neighboring countries have deteriorated, so that normal import trade can no longer be carried out. ”

"Or even the two become one, so this market deformity!"

"This girl is right!" Qian Bao'er had just said this when someone interrupted her. Then a handsome young man stepped forward, hugged his fist at Wu Hao and said, "Senior Brother Wu, you are finally back." ”

Wu Hao saw that it was actually Situ Xiaoming.

"Xiaoming, why did you come to Autumn Wind City?" Wu Hao asked suspiciously.

Wu Hao knew that now Situ Xiaoming also had a group of pumps around him, and it seemed that he didn't need to run errands for ordinary things.

"Senior brother, something is wrong!" Situ Xiaoming came to Wu Hao and whispered: "Yesterday, the Chu State suddenly announced that it had stopped the foreign trade supply of hundreds of cultivation materials to my Yue Kingdom. Now the prices of all materials related to the Chu State on our side have begun to skyrocket. ”

"Chu State?" Wu Hao frowned: "Isn't that my Yue country's ally? Why is this so?"

Situ Xiaoming shook his head blankly: "I don't know either." It is said that the envoys of my Yue Kingdom staying in Chu once questioned the Chu royal family, and they replied that it was just a normal trade adjustment. Because these materials are also in short supply in Chu during this period of time, they cannot meet the supply to Yue. ”

"I heard that the Yue Imperial Court and my Red Lotus Sect are forming an embassy to prepare to negotiate with the State of Chu on this issue. But even so, it will take a long time to go to Chu when you are ready, and you don't know what the outcome of the negotiation will be. ”

The picture of Cao Wushuang's dying moment flashed in Wu Hao's mind, he shook his head, and then said to Situ Xiaoming: "We can't change this kind of thing, how about business in the past two days since I left." ”

"Fortunately, it became two orders!" Situ Xiaoming said: "But the money for these two orders has been used by me to stock up on the goods." ”

"Hoarding goods?" Wu Hao raised his eyebrows.

"That's right!" Situ Xiaoming explained, "I have a cousin who cultivates in the Yellow Lotus Dao, so I got the news from the Chu State one step ahead of others. Before the news spread here, I began to stock up on those supplies. ”

"After two days, wait until the price increase stabilizes before making a move, which should be able to make a lot of money for our store!"

"Not bad, not bad!" Wu Hao patted Situ Xiaoming's shoulder in a good mood and said, "Wait until I go back and reward you with two pills to eat!"

Situ Xiaoming's expression suddenly became tangled.

However, Wu Hao no longer paid attention to him, and his eyes were attracted by Qian Baoer.

Because he found that Qian Baoer was looking at Situ Xiaoming directly, and the expression in his eyes was a little complicated!

"Ahem!" Wu Hao coughed twice in surprise, and then glanced at Situ Xiaoming without a trace.

Situ Xiaoming was full of excitement, he suddenly jumped up, patted his head and shouted: "Oops, I suddenly remembered that I still have something very important to do." Senior Brother Wu, I'm leaving, I'm really in a hurry, and if I don't do it again, I'll die. Farewell, farewell!"

As he spoke, he slipped away from the smoke.

From beginning to end, I didn't look in the direction of Qian Bao'er.

It wasn't until Situ Xiaoming disappeared from the street that Qian Bao'er turned her head, looked at Wu Hao with the same small and complicated eyes, and then asked, "Are you from the Red Lotus Sect?"

"Huh, you don't have amnesia, how do you still know about the Red Lotus Sect?" Wu Hao turned his head and asked.

When Qian Bao'er heard Wu Hao's words, she frowned tightly: "Red Lotus Sect...... I think I've heard of it, and it seems familiar. I always feel that I have a very important thing about the Red Lotus Sect, but I can't remember it!"

Wu Hao only woke up at this time, it turned out that Qian Bao'er was looking at Situ Xiaoming just now and looking at his inner disciple clothes.

There are a total of three sets of vestments for the inner disciples of the Red Lotus Sect, one set of ceremonial clothes and two sets of civilian clothes. One of the two sets of casual clothes was a daily dress with the logo of a disciple of the Red Lotus Sect, and the other was a casual dress without any logo.

Wu Hao went out this time to prepare to kill people and steal goods, so he naturally had to wear plainclothes without any markings. Therefore, Qian Bao'er couldn't connect him with the disciples of the Red Lotus Sect.

However, Situ Xiaoming was indeed wearing a magic robe with the logo of a disciple of the Red Lotus Sect today, and called Senior Brother Wu Hao again, which naturally made Qian Bao'er judge that Wu Hao was from the Red Lotus Sect.

Wu Hao couldn't figure out whether Qian Baoer had real amnesia or fake amnesia.

But is this important?

Unimportant.

snapped, Wu Hao slapped Qian Bao'er on the head, and then said with a smile: "Don't think about it if you can't think of it, just know that you are my Qian Bao'er!"

"Let's go, let's go home!"