When the three of them entered the office, Mr. Tan was already waiting and poured three cups of tea himself. They were all freshly brewed good teas. It was obvious at first glance that he was usually reluctant to drink them, but now he brought them out to entertain them. Tang Shi was quite surprised. He didn't expect that he would be treated like this just for hunting the horned ape man. If he had known that the treasures they collected would not be sold to the Awakened Guild, he wonders if they would have taken the tea back.
Mr. Tan motioned for them to sit down. The couch was more than enough for three people. Mr. Tan probably had seen the body of the horned ape man, and he didn't mince words. He said straight to the point: "Were you attacked by runes while you were hunting?"
Tang Shi didn't expect Mr. Tan to be so keen. He could already tell at a glance that the shapes drawn on the horns of the horned ape man were runes. "That's right." Tang Shi was not prepared to hide it.
Mr. Tan pondered, "No wonder, the runes on the left horn disappeared."
Tang Dynasty: "..."
Yanxu is really foresighted. What if the person he gave was not this one? He was attacked and died without using the runes on the horns. Unless the horned apes are stupid, facts have proven that they can kill so many awakened people. They are definitely not stupid. Fortunately, they are not stupid. Fortunately, otherwise it would definitely attract suspicion.
Mr. Tan regretted: "These runes have great research value. If Xianglong City makes a big breakthrough in the research of runes before the gathering place is rated, then there will definitely be extra points. Now there is only one horn left. It’s a pity that there are runes... but it’s an unexpected blessing that I can still keep one side.”
Tang Shi and the three of them drank tea in silence. It had been a long time since they had such fragrant tea.
After Mr. Tan sighed, he added, "Have you discovered anything else?"
Tang Shi continued to drink tea and expressed silence.
Yanxu City Mansion is even worse, there is no information at all.
Qin Lie couldn't do it. Among the three, Qin Lie was the most irritable. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes were rolling and Mr. Tan had already noticed it.
Mr. Tan smiled and said: "Don't worry, we are the Awakened Guild representing the interests of the Awakened, and we are not a bandit organization. I am just asking if you are willing to sell it to the Awakened Guild. I will naturally be happy. If not, I won’t force it, I just want to grow my eyesight.”
Tang Shi was not afraid of the Awakening Guild being tough. He knew the rules of the Awakening Guild very well in his previous life, so he had no worries in this regard. He deliberately made an embarrassing gesture so that he could negotiate the price later.
"We found this on this horned ape man." Tang Shi put his hand in his pocket and took out a black stone from his pocket and placed it on the coffee table.
Mr. Tan didn't notice anything strange about the stone at first. When he turned it over and saw the runes painted on the bottom, he was shocked and said: "This... these are also runes!"
"Yes, the horned ape man is good at making traps with stones. When we were chasing, we were trapped by this stone trap. What came out that time was a snake trap. I don't know what this one is." Tang Shi really didn't know, but from Among the five stones, one was picked out at random.
"Trap rune? It can be activated with just a stone. How on earth is this done?" Mr. Tan muttered to himself, staring at the rune carefully. He must have memorized the drawing method of the rune. The runes painted on the stones are not difficult to remember.
Tang Shi wanted to tell him that it was all because of the pigment. As long as there were pigments and runes to refer to, everything would be easy. The key was that the pigment was hard to get.
After studying it for a long time, Mr. Tan finally remembered, "Uh... your rune stone..."
Tang Shi waved his hand and said: "If it is helpful to the study of runes in Xianglong City, you can use it."
Mr. Tan laughed. Regardless of whether Tang Shi's words were true or false, the words he said made people feel comfortable.
"What do you call the three of them?" Mr. Tan was finally interested in their names. Just now he treated them politely and thanked them for hunting down the horned ape man. Now he is interested in making friends.
The three of them reported their names one by one.
Mr. Tan said: "In this way, if you are willing to sell it, I will buy it at a high price. I will definitely not use your things in vain. To be honest, the research on runes is progressing slowly. The main reason is that there are too few research materials. Before I have heard that the Ox-horned Ape Man can use runes, and I have organized people to hunt them. However, the Ox-horned Ape Man is very cunning, and disappears when there are too many people. He will always hunt the awakened ones by surprise. This has been delayed until now. solve."
Tang Shi didn't refuse. It would be pretentious to refuse anymore. He just said, "That's okay, just give it to me."
Mr. Tan thought for a while and said: "In this case, I will make the decision for this rune stone and offer you the highest price of 300 gold coins. Although the actual attack power of this rune stone is limited, it has research value."
300 gold coins is already quite high. Ordinary quality level 7 cards are not even priced at this price. The price Mr. Tan gave is indeed not low.
"Okay, 300 gold coins is 300 gold coins." Tang Shi agreed immediately.
"Refreshing!" Mr. Tan laughed.
The four of them chatted for a while, and then someone sent gold coins and put them in two cowhide bags.
Mr. Tan said: "This is the money to buy the rune stone. This is your reward for completing the task. 900 gold coins. Count them. In addition, the contribution points have been added to your core card."
"Okay, thank you." Tang Shi naturally didn't really count. 1,200 gold coins was enough for him to count for a while, so that the Awakened Guild wouldn't even get the money wrong.
When they stood up to leave, Mr. Tan suddenly said: "Is there really only one horned ape-man?"
Tang Shi smiled and did not answer the question.
After leaving the office, Tang Shi threw two heavy bags of gold coins into the small grid. He did not leave the Awakened Guild immediately, but went to the service window again and took out all the material cards he had collected previously in the small grid. , what corpse-eating insects, black spider silk spewed by high-level ghost spiders, those valuable animal skins, animal teeth and other things that were picked up in the Black Moon Valley, of course, the Black Moon Monitor Lizard Tang Shi was not willing to sell them, like this Higher-level creatures are often full of treasures, and selling them to the Awakened Guild would be a huge loss. Then there are the white-scaled snakes and spiny-throated salamanders that were hunted today. These things were of no use to the Tang Dynasty. Keeping them took up space, so it was better to sell them all. .
After selling all the miscellaneous material cards, a lot of space was cleared in the small grid, and another 60 gold coins were obtained, which was a relatively good profit. After processing these, Tang Shi took out another 450 gold coins and gave them three After paying the tuition fee to learn how to make particle cards, I got three class attendance certificates, and made a reservation to attend the class before driving back to my residence.
Qin Lie originally didn't want to learn such a boring thing, but he actually asked for 150 gold coins per person to attend the class. It was more arrogant than robbing money. It was not easy to earn some money through hard work, but it was so easy to spend it. What was the use of learning that
Tang Shi ignored him, knowing that he was worried about the money, so he handed it over to him directly. It would be up to him whether he would get the money back anyway.
Only Tang Shi and Yanxu knew how important the particle card was. No matter how much money they paid, they still had to learn it. During this period of time, they did nothing but learn how to make the particle card.
Tang Shi counted the money in his hands, plus the money from selling Yuanengjing yesterday morning, there were 1560 gold coins in total. He spent another 450 gold coins to pay tuition, leaving only 1110 gold coins. They still need to buy a house. If they buy a suite, the money will be enough. If it is a single-family villa, the money will probably not be enough. They will have to think of another way.
When they returned to the woman's residence in Tang Dynasty, it was already dark. The woman was sitting in the small living room, looking outside anxiously. When she saw that they were back, she immediately got up and went to greet them.
She thought that something happened to them, like many of the Awakened people died outside forever when they were hunting. The woman thought that as long as she had some money in her hands, she should stay in the gathering place and never leave the city again. It's too dangerous. There are man-eating monsters everywhere. It's impossible to live a peaceful life at home.
"Are you back? Come on, come on, dinner is ready, let's eat first." The woman welcomed them into the house attentively.
The little girl sat on the stool and swallowed her saliva while looking at the white rice porridge on the table. She had obviously been waiting for a long time. The white rice porridge was cooked very thinly. At first glance, it was all rice soup, with only a few thin rice grains. There were only three dishes of wild vegetables placed in the middle of the table. I don’t know whether they were dug or bought.
Tang Shi estimated that most of them were dug by women themselves. Their lives were difficult, and it was their limit to be able to cook such a pot of gruel. The current price of grain was not much lower than that of meat. Although there were many butcher shops opened, Ordinary people like women still can't afford it. They will save their money, buy some food to eat, and go to the city wall to dig some wild vegetables to go with it.
Tang Shi and the others hadn't had a decent meal for a long time. A meal like this would not be enough to fill them up. If they were all fed to one person, they would probably be hungry soon.
When the woman saw three grown men standing at the door, looking at the food on the table without saying anything, she thought she was dissatisfied and said hurriedly: "This... this is what my family has. If... if..."
The woman stammered and could not speak complete words. The pressure of life prevented her from speaking generously.
Tang Shi took out 5 gold coins and handed them to the woman, "Pay your rent. Use the extra money to buy some wine and burn the meat."
Tang Shi said, and took out a piece of twilight wild boar meat from the small grid and handed it to the woman. The twilight wild boar meat was very delicious. Although it was not as delicate as the long-tongued giant frog, the taste was very fragrant. It was moderately fat and thin, fat but not greasy. The twilight wild boar meat braised by Yanxu was extremely fragrant. Tang Shi didn't feel tired even if he ate the braised meat. If it was stir-fried and eaten, it would definitely be more fragrant. With the help of the woman's craftsmanship, Tang Shi wanted to relax.
The woman was carrying this heavy piece of meat, which weighed more than ten kilograms. She would definitely not be able to finish it in one sitting, and she happily said yes.
The little girl who was sitting on the stool suddenly jumped down, threw herself in front of the woman, and shouted around the meat, "Mom, meat, it's meat, there is meat to eat, I want to eat meat..."
The woman peeked at the faces of the three people in embarrassment, and was relieved when she saw that their expressions were as usual.
Tang Shi also proposed a small bag of rice and put it on the table. It was a 10-pound bag. Although it was not much, it would definitely not be eaten by several people.
There are still a lot of rice and flour in the small compartments in Tang Dynasty. Almost half of the small compartments are filled with these. I haven’t eaten these all the way here. However, I have finished all the snacks, cans, instant noodles and so on that I brought with me. I can eat them directly. Nothing was left, except rice and white flour, which couldn't be eaten raw and had to be left there.
Tang Shi said: "Cook some more rice and we will have a good meal."
"Hey, okay, I'll do it right away." The woman agreed, happily carrying the meat and rice and going to the kitchen. They all knew that the awakened people were very capable and could produce meat and rice with just a flip. This ability will only make ordinary people more envious of the awakened ones.
The reason why the woman is so happy is that she thinks that her child may be able to benefit from it and have a full meal and a piece of meat. She has no ability and can only make a living without starving to death, but she cannot let her child eat well. As a mother, she felt distressed and guilty.
The little girl was afraid of strangers. When she saw her mother leaving, she also chased after her, causing Qin Lie who originally wanted to play with her to miss her.
Tang Shi said amusedly: "Why, you don't even let such a little girl go?"
"Damn it, I didn't realize that Brother Tang, you have such dirty thoughts." Qin Lie smirked and the villain complained first.
Yanxu also looked at Tang Shi with a meaningful look in his eyes, "You want it? If you want it, just come to me and I will satisfy you."
With such a posture, Tang Shi turned his face away in embarrassment, but his throat slid unconsciously. Yanxu raised the corners of his mouth. He could always easily guess what Tang Shi was thinking, even though he didn't say it out loud.