"What does the guest officer like?"

Seeing Xiao Qianli coming to the inner hall, a young man with quick hands and feet immediately greeted him.

"Has the broken snow lotus in the twenty-second line of the sixth painting on the north wall been sold? Contact the seller for this seat, and say that someone wants this thing!"

"Okay!" the young man flipped through the books in his hand, pointed to one of them and nodded, "The guest came just in time, the thing has not yet been sold, and the seller happens to be in the backyard." ”

"Take this seat with you!"

The backyard of this shop is huge, part of it is used as a warehouse, and the other part is divided into dozens of small and large huts, which are used as temporary residential inns, but they are also used to the fullest.

Under the leadership of the young man, Xiao Qianli went straight to the backyard, and saw that the goods were piled up, and there were hundreds of businessmen-like people talking to each other, which was very lively.

"Guest officer, the seller is there!"

Xiao Qianli followed the young man's guidance and saw a young man about sixteen or seventeen years old squatting in the corner of the wall, his skin was tanned, his palms were thick, he was obviously used to doing hard work, his long messy hair hung down in front of him, and he couldn't see his face clearly, only to see a bowl of water in his left hand, and a large cake in his right hand, which was stuffed into his mouth.

"Hey, you're you, you're talking about you!" the young man cried out from afar, "you have a guest for that thing!"

The eyes of everyone next to him suddenly looked at the young man, and when they saw the young man pointing to the young man in the corner, they couldn't help but "sigh", and turned their eyes back to talk about the topic just now.

The young man didn't hear it, and the young man shouted twice before he raised his head suspiciously, and when he saw the young man's finger pointing in his direction, he couldn't help but look in both directions in surprise.

"What are you seeing? Why don't you come over here?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and suddenly threw away the flatbread and bowl, and ran up with great strides, grabbed the young man's hand, and shouted, "Are you calling me?"

"It's you!" the young man grinned and pulled his hand out of the young man's big hand, glaring at him angrily, "Finally, I met a guest who was interested, so you quickly lower the price and sell that thing!"

How can an intermediary talk like this? Xiao Qianli's eyes narrowed, and he looked at the two of them with interest, obviously this young man's situation was extremely poor, even the young man in the store felt upset, and he wished to let him sell his things and leave.

"Hehehe......" The young man smiled innocently, let go of his hand, touched the back of his head, and said with a smile, "Daoist, is that what you want from my snow lotus?"

"Hmm!" Xiao Qianli saw that this young man was not tall, but he was extremely strong, his face was honest and honest, his eyes were not big, and he smiled so much that he narrowed into a slit and spoke with a big grin, which was even more funny. Immediately smiled, "Where's your stuff?"

"It's in their shop!" the young man pointed to the young man, who gave him a blank look, and snorted: "Just that broken snow lotus, and like a baby, if you want me to say, as long as this guest officer likes it, it will be better to sell it for less, and there will be some silver in the account......"

Xiao Qianli smiled lightly and ordered, "Brother Lao has brought it." ”

The young man agreed, turned around and walked to the large grass garden behind the courtyard, looked around, picked up one of the small porcelain basins covered with gauze, and brought it to Xiao Qianli dilily.

Seeing someone looking at the goods, several good people next to him came around, staring at the small porcelain basin, waiting for the little guy to open the gauze, and suddenly made a "cut" sound, and most of them scattered in all directions.

Looking at the plants in the porcelain pot, Xiao Qianli couldn't help but laugh, the top of this thing resembles a lotus, the leaves are oval, the membranous silver white, the inflorescence is divided into twelve petals, and there are sharp teeth on the edge, but it is indeed a surviving snow lotus. It's just that the flower head is missing, and the leaves seem to have been eaten by insects, and the condition is simply useless.

"It's basically worthless. An old pharmacist who knew the goods next to him kindly explained, "Fortunately, the roots of the plant are intact, and it is still useful to cultivate it for a year and a half. ”

The young man's swarthy face turned red as he spoke, and he muttered after a while, "That's how it was when I found this thing, and I didn't hurt it...... I was afraid that I would not survive, so I deliberately dug up the roots together......"

Xiao Qianli could only smile bitterly and shake his head, seeing him shaking his head, the young man hurriedly shouted: "Daoist, if you really want it, you say a price, I ...... I ......"

Xiao Qianli looked at his eager but speechless expression, only found it interesting, and asked, "If I only give ten taels of silver, will you sell it?"

"Ten taels?" The young man's eyes widened, and he couldn't speak for a long time, and it took a while like a deflated ball, his expression suddenly withered, and he shook his head with a sad face, "Ten taels, ten taels is too little......"

The young man really couldn't stand it, and interjected: "I said that it's already good that you can sell this thing for ten taels, don't you really plan to exchange this remnant for a hundred taels of silver?"

"But...... But......" The young man stopped talking, and looked at Xiao Qianli with a pleading look in his eyes, "Daoist, it's okay to lift it up again, lift it up again?"

"Lift" is the local dialect, which probably means raising the price, Xiao Qianli looked at the broken snow lotus, and was just about to speak, when suddenly his heart moved, and he was silent.

"One hundred taels, I bought it!"

As soon as these words came out, the people next to him couldn't help but be startled, and the pharmacist who kindly reminded him hurriedly said: "Later life, the old man has served the medicinal materials for most of his life, and what he just said is the experience of the old man, and he will never lie to you." ”

"I know that the old man is a good heart, but this seat has its own plans. ”

Xiao Qianli comforted the old man, took out a silver ticket with a face value of one hundred taels, stuffed it in the palm of the young man's hand, and said with a smile: "Now this thing belongs to me?"

"You belong to you!" the young man was overjoyed, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to touch it in his arms, and only after a while did he smile at the young man and say, "I have no broken silver on me......

"Knowing that you are a poor ghost, where can you afford to pay those fees?" The young man glanced at the young man, handed the porcelain basin to Xiao Qianli, and snatched the silver ticket, "Two percent of the transaction fee, the deposit fee will be waived for you!"

He trotted back to the inner room, quickly exchanged a small amount of silver tickets and some loose silver, stuffed them into the young man's hand, turned around and saluted Xiao Qianli, and then turned to leave.

The young man counted the silver in his hand with joy, but the old medicine merchant sighed, shook his head, and said, "I really don't know what you young people are thinking now......

Xiao Qianli smiled, motioned to the medicine merchant to take a closer look, and asked, "Old man, besides Snow Lotus, didn't you think of something else?"

The old medicine merchant's beard was about to be cocked, and he said angrily: "Hou Sheng, are you entertaining the old man?" There are many herbs that resemble lotus flowers, such as the Fallen Immortal, Regen, Unicorn Lotus, Immortal Grass, Mirror Flower, and Zizhi Nian...... But what can this thing be other than a snow lotus?"

Xiao Qianli said with a smile: "Old man, your eyes are like pearls, is the defect on this petal really caused by insect gnawing and ant bites?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the old medicine merchant was stunned, and then carefully looked at the broken hole on the snow lotus, and several people next to him also came around, looked at each other a few times, and were silent for a while.

After looking at it for a long time, the old pharmacist said uncertainly: "Could it be ...... This snow lotus is born like this?"

"It's good to be born like this, but this thing isn't a snow lotus!"

"Not Snow Lotus, what is it?" Several people next to him looked at the herb in surprise, but they really couldn't see any way, and they couldn't help but look at the old medicine merchant who was twisting his beard and groaning.

"Wait......" The old medicine merchant's eyes suddenly lit up, and his voice trembled slightly, "The old man once heard that there was a kind of heterogeneous medicinal herb growing in the Great Snow Mountain, similar to a lotus flower, born with a residual body, but it can make up for congenital deficiencies...... Could it be ...... Could it be this?"

"Make up for congenital deficiencies?" Hearing these five words, everyone in the audience was in an uproar.

Xiao Qianli smiled slightly, nodded and said: "The old man is really well-read and strong, this herb is called the Remnant Heart Ice Lotus, the heart of the flower is yin, the petals are yang, the solid qi is Peiyuan, and the two qi of yin and yang are used to make up for the deficiency of the innate five elements." ”

"Yin and Yang Qi make up for congenital deficiencies?" With a burst of exclamation, many people around opened their eyes wide, and at the same time, an extremely fanatical green light flashed, as if they had been hungry for three months!

Among them, there were even a few martial arts scattered people with long swords hanging from their waists, and they were even more greedy, and they couldn't help but take a few steps forward, as if they wanted to swallow this herb into their stomachs.

"Hou Sheng, you make a price! I will never bargain!" The old medicine merchant grabbed Xiao Qianli's wrist, and said in a trembling voice, "The old man brought about 300,000 taels of silver this time, as long as you nod your head, this batch of goods will all be yours!"

"300,000 taels?" The onlookers were even more amazed, and the huge backyard suddenly surrounded the three layers inside and three layers outside, making it as noisy as a busy city.

"I'm sorry, but this thing is really useful to this seat, and it's really hard to give up. Xiao Qianli smiled slightly, stuffed the Broken Heart Ice Lotus into the Hundred Treasure Bag, and said with a smile, "Don't hide it from you, this seat is about to open the mountain to teach apprentices, this Broken Heart Ice Lotus, this seat still needs to be refined, so that I can mention the number of innate paths to the apprentices in the future." ”

Speaking of which, even if the old medicine merchant was full of regret, he could only reluctantly let go of Xiao Qianli, and said with a wry smile: "The old man has been dealing with medicinal materials for most of his life, but he is clumsy for a while, and he can't recognize this rare heaven and earth spirit treasure, which is really terrifying." ”

Xiao Qianli smiled slightly, turned his head to look at the young man who was still smirking, and asked, "This Broken Heart Ice Lotus, which is worth 300,000 taels of silver, you sold it to me for 100 taels, do you regret it now?"

The honest young man smiled, shook his head and said, "I have these ninety-eight taels of silver, I can go and save my mother, as for how much you sold, what does it have to do with me?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone next to them couldn't help but hide their mouths and snicker, but the old medicine merchant nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "This son is really simple-minded, and he has been in the medicinal materials business for many years, and he is nothing more than keeping a 'letter' word." If you don't have a way to make a living, you might as well come to me as an apprentice, and I'll give you eight pieces of silver a month. ”

Nowadays, prices are extremely low, and the salary of eight cents of silver is really a rare high salary for an apprentice. The young man hesitated, shook his head, and said, "I still have to save my mother......

While the old medicine merchant was talking to the young man, he heard a commotion at the door, and several men dressed as martial arts people with long swords hanging from their waists pushed everyone aside and strode in, and the man at the head shouted angrily: "What kind of broken medicinal herbs? It's worth 300,000 taels of silver?"