Chapter 17: Wanbao Firm
As the saying goes, "you can't get sick if you have anything, you can't have money if you don't have anything", thinking that he is now poor and white, and he doesn't even have the money to go out on a date with girls, Tong Chen, who was still walking on the street, unconsciously stopped, and when he raised his head again, he found that there was a very good decoration on the opposite side of the street, called "Wanbao Firm", and there was a wooden sign hanging at the door of the firm, which said "Purchase all kinds of medicinal materials" A few big characters, seeing these few, Tong Chen's heart couldn't help but move, and then he raised his feet and walked towards the merchant across the street.
After entering the firm, Tong Chen found that the interior of the firm was also very well decorated, judging from the wooden staircase extending up from the corner of the hall of the firm, this firm obviously had more than one floor, and there was a very long sandalwood shelf on both sides of the hall on the first floor of the firm, and some ornaments and a few small and exquisite weapons were displayed on the shelf, which looked unique.
At the same time that Tong Chen's front foot had just stepped into the door of the commercial bank, a handsome young man who was standing near the door of the commercial bank immediately greeted him and said, "Welcome guests to our store, how can I help you?"
Tong Chen glanced at the young man, and then said, "I saw that it was written at your door to buy medicinal herbs, so I came in and asked, where are you in charge?"
Hearing Tong Chen's words, the young man looked Tong Chen up and down with his eyes, and pointed to the inner hall in the hall and said to Tong Chen: "That's it!
After speaking, the young man took the lead in raising his feet and walking towards the inner hall, and Tong Chen immediately followed.
Suddenly, the two of them entered the inner hall with their front and back feet, only to see a large counter in the inner hall, a slightly hunched middle-aged man was standing in front of the counter, seeing the young man, the middle-aged man was about to speak, and then saw Tong Chen following the young man, the middle-aged man was looking at Tong Chen, the young man said: "Counter, this is a customer who came to ask about the purchase of medicinal materials, you can entertain it!" After speaking, the young man had no intention of turning around and leaving, still standing in place, looking back at Tong Chen.
Hearing the young man's words, the middle-aged man standing behind the counter showed a symbolic courtesy smile to Tong Chen, not too enthusiastic, not too cold, it just seemed to be just right: "This guest, what do you want to ask, just ask me!"
Tong Chen nodded slightly to the middle-aged man, then raised his feet and walked to the counter, and said, "I saw that there was a word written outside your door to buy all kinds of medicinal materials, I want to ask what medicinal materials you are buying?"
"Well!" the middle-aged man smiled: "That's a lot to say, probably speaking, as long as it is a valuable medicinal material, our firm is willing to buy it!"
After the words fell, the middle-aged man stared at Tong Chen and said, "This little brother, do you have any medicinal materials in your hand?" If so, you can take them out for me to identify, and I can give a specific purchase price." ”
"I didn't. Tong Chen replied.
Hearing Tong Chen say that there were no medicinal materials in his hand, the middle-aged man looked at Tong Chen's expression and unconsciously became a little lighter: "Oh, it seems that the little brother just came in and asked casually!"
Tong Chen smiled, and suddenly said, "What about the pills, do you buy the pills?"
"Pills?" Unexpectedly, Tong Chen suddenly changed the topic and mentioned pills, the middle-aged man was slightly stunned at first, and then said with a smile: "We naturally accept pills, but there are no decent alchemists in a small place like Yuquan, even if anyone is lucky enough to get a few pills, it is too late to keep them for themselves, how can they take them out and sell them to us?
Tong Chen nodded, pondered for a moment, and suddenly reached out and took out a pill from his pocket, handed it to the middle-aged man, and said, "Shopkeeper, look at this pill, what price can you give?"
"Oh?" Seeing Tong Chen suddenly take out a pill and hand it to him, the middle-aged man was surprised, he glanced at Tong Chen, then reached out and took the pill handed by Tong Chen, put it in front of his eyes and measured it carefully, and said while looking at it: "Little brother, with all due respect, I don't seem to have seen this kind of pill of yours, what kind of pill are you?"
"Pure Heart Pill. Tong Chen said: "A low-grade elixir that has the effect of warming the meridians and nourishing the veins and improving cultivation. ”
"Really?" The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and took the pill to look at it from a distance, then withdrew his hand and said to Tong Chen: "Little brother, with all due respect, my ability is limited, I can't identify your pill, you see that it's inconvenient for you to wait for me here, I'll go upstairs and find someone to help you identify it?"
Tong Chen nodded: "Yes." ”
After receiving an affirmative answer, the middle-aged man turned around and went up the stairs from the small building behind the counter.
After the middle-aged man left, Tong Chen found that the young man who had brought him in before was standing aside and staring at him, as if he was about to find something different from himself, which made Tong Chen feel a little uncomfortable, and he turned around and walked to the chair on the side of the inner hall and sat down.
Originally, he thought that the middle-aged man would come down in a few minutes, but he didn't expect that he waited for a quarter of an hour and the other party still didn't show up, originally he wanted the young man to go up and help urge him, but when he raised his eyes, he found that the young man was still looking at him with a look that he didn't like very much, and this thought in his heart was dispelled.
Tong Chen didn't know that just when he was waiting below for a long time, the upstairs had already set off a storm because of his pill.
In a room on the second floor of the firm, an old man with white hair and eyebrows stood in the center of the room, holding Tong Chen's Qingxin Pill in his hand and looking at it carefully, and in the middle of the room sat a young woman, who looked eighteen or nineteen years old, with better skin than snow, beautiful face, and a better appearance and temperament than Mu Qing.
Hearing the woman's question, the white-haired old man who was called "Master Liu" by the woman was still looking at the pill in his hand without looking up, but said in his mouth: "Actually, this pill is not a high-grade pill, the reason why I say it is good is because as far as the low-grade pill is concerned, the medicinal properties of this pill are simply incredible!"
After a pause, the old man continued: " As we all know, alchemists with similar abilities will not disdain to refine low-level pills, so most of the low-level alchemists who refine low-level pills are low-level alchemists, and low-level alchemists cannot control the situation in the Dan furnace well when refining the pills because their divine sense is not strong enough, which will eventually lead to a great loss of the medicinal properties of those medicinal materials in the Dan furnace, and the refined pills will not retain the medicinal properties of the finished ones to three layers at most, but this pill, I smell that the medicinal properties are at least retained to more than six layers, for low-level cultivators, this pill is undoubtedly a high-grade pill to enhance stable cultivation。 ”