30 Re-entering Seven Horn Mountain (1/2)
”Then would you, pavilion master, please set the price!” Xiao Chen looked at Nangong Yan and requested indifferently.
Nangong Yan muttered to himself for a while before deciding, ”This Fasting Pill… Hmmm, Linlang Pavilion will start the auction for this at 10000 silver taels per pill, what do you think?”
Xiao Chen did some calculation in his head: twenty Fasting Pills would be a starting price of 200000 silver taels. Following the rules of the auction house, he could obtain 30% of the starting price as a kind of deposit, which was 60000 silver taels. That should be enough for his short-term usage.
”In that case, it's settled. These twenty Fasting Pills will be left here for Linlang Pavilion to auction. Please draft the contract now.”
Nangong Yan smiled gently, ”No hurry. I want to discuss something with you. Out of the twenty Fasting Pill, I would like to purchase ten for myself. Of course, I will not take advantage of you. For however much this Fasting Pill sells for at the auction, I will add an additional two-fold.”
The deal did not result in any loss for Xiao Chen, so it did not matter who he sold it, ”For these ten Fasting Pills, you have to give me 30% of the starting price first, as the rules state. As for the other ten pills reserved for you, you have to give me threefold of 30% of the starting price. That will be a total of 130000 silver taels.”
Nangong Yan nodded his head, ”That is not a problem. According to the normal procedures, Linlang charges a 10% handling fee. I can reduce this to 5% for you. My friend, if you have any more pills you wish to sell, I hope you will continue to patronize our Linlang Pavilion.”
This was quite an attractive offer. Without a large amount of money to spend on materials and ingredients, it would be difficult to improve as an alchemist. It would, therefore, be a wise move to partner with Linlang Pavilion.
After signing the contract and receiving the money, Xiao Chen immediately left Linlang Pavilion.
Hu Lao took out ten Fasting Pills and placed them in another jade bottle before passing them to Nangong Yan, ”Pavilion master, can we directly place this into the catalog?”
Nangong Yan shook his head, ”Not yet, find a person to test its effects on first. In case we made a mistake.”
Hu Lao was startled in his heart. So even the pavilion master was unable to verify the effects of this pill.
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Xiao Chen avoided attracting anyone's attention by virtue of leaving through the back door of Linlang Pavilion. He searched for an isolated area and immediately changed his get-up. Holding the banknotes, he snickered in a silly manner. This was the first chunk of money that he had earned by himself, so he felt very excited.
Going to the herbs shop, he purchased a hundred sets of ingredients for each of both of the pills he intended to refine. After this, he still had quite a lot of money left. Giving it some more thought, he bought some things that girls would like, such as make-up or head accessories. He purchased these to give to Bao`er and Xiao Yulan.
After purchasing everything, he ended up carrying tens of packages of various sizes. It was incredibly inconvenient. But this merely further motivated him to refine a spatial storage treasure. However, in order to do this, he had to cultivate the Purple Thunder Divine Incantation to the second layer first. Only by achieving that would he have met the basic requirement to forge equipment.
His only option now was to spend a small sum of money to hire a horse carriage. Xiao Chen threw a banknote with a hefty amount ascribed to it at the owner of a horse carriage, who immediately scampered off and left behind his horse carriage. It feels great to be rich, Xiao Chen sighed in his heart.
After placing all of his goods on the horse carriage, Xiao Chen felt much more at ease. The horses drawing the carriages in this world were much more docile than the ones on Earth. Xiao Chen gave driving it a try and gradually figured out the trick behind it.
As he drove the carriage out of the city gates, the number of people on the road started to decrease until he could no longer see anyone save for the occasional passing traveler. Xiao Chen, who had earned such a large sum of money for the first time in his life, was at present in a very good mood. He started to sing a nonsensical song that he made up on the spot in a tone-deaf manner.
”The weather today is very sunny, and the scenery is great, great scenery. The butterflies are busy, as are the bees… the clattering of the horse hoofs…~”
”I am rich, rich, there is a Nokia in my left hand and a Motorola in my right…”
Most of the things he sang were nonsensical, as he could not remember the lyrics to any song whatsoever. Ever since he had come to this world, this was the first time he had felt this relaxed. As there were no one on the road, no one would hear his tone-deaf singing, thus he sang happily and without restraint.
”Ha ha…”
Suddenly, from the roof of the horse carriage, bell-like laughter emerged. It was like the tinkling of a wind chime as it moved in the wind.
”Who is it!”
Xiao Chen hurriedly stopped singing and shouted sternly. He was too careless—how long had this individual been following him? He couldn't actually sense them.
Drawing the Lunar Shadow he had placed on his back, he put down the horse reins and leaped up gently, somersaulting as he hacked towards the direction of the sound.
Feng Feixue, who was on the roof, gently laughed as she avoided Xiao Chen's saber with incredibly soft movements. She somersaulted twice in the air before gracefully landing on the ground.