Seeing a guest coming to the door, the proprietress hastily wiped the corners of her eyes, stood up with a forced smile and greeted the guest.
"Miss Boss, I want to buy that plane map," Yue Jinghua explained his purpose.
The things in the grocery store are mostly ordinary items, and the prices are mostly between a few points or even dozens of points of merit, which is still within Yue Jinghua's tolerance.
When the proprietress heard that Yue Jinghua wanted to buy a map, she showed a bit of reluctance on her face. She hesitated, "Guest, the map is not for sale."
Most of the items in the grocery store are clearly priced and sold outside, but the map is an exception.
Plane maps can only be drawn by those who have wandered through the four major planes. This map is a rare map of the four major planes. The strange person who drew this map did not know where he was, and the proprietress was also accidental Acquired, because it is an orphan, so it has been kept privately in the store as a personal collection.
"If you can't sell the original, can you make a copy for me?" Yue Jinghua asked the next best thing. All she needed was a general understanding of the basic situation of the four planes, and she didn't have to get the original picture.
"Guest, you don't know that drawing a map is a very hard job, and ordinary painters are simply not competent. Take this map of the plane in my hand as an example, it will take at least several years to draw it. As early as There were also a few guests who loved to travel around and wanted to buy this map from me, and the price they offered was very attractive, but I rejected them all. The so-called money is hard to buy, and I hope the guests can understand my difficulties." The proprietress was very embarrassed, she had a good impression of Yue Jinghua, she felt guilty for repeatedly rejecting her.
"Since that's the case, then there's nothing you can do. You don't have to mind, proprietress. I just wanted to buy it on a whim." Yue Jinghua didn't care too much when he saw that the transaction failed, and after looking at the grocery store for a while , intends to leave.
Before she left, seeing the frowning look of the proprietress, she couldn't help asking: "Madam proprietress, but what happened in the store?"
The proprietress opened her mouth and sighed, "To tell you the truth, something happened in the store, and I was wondering whether to report it to the city lord."
These days, due to the matter of the Four Elephants team, the Changsun City Lord has been busy with training affairs and has no time to take care of the chores in the city. The proprietress of the grocery store is just an ordinary resident living in Chen District, and she dare not harass the City Lord unless it is absolutely necessary.
What troubled the proprietress of the grocery store was the delivery of food and grass that she and Yue Jinghua and the others had mentioned earlier.
For most of the residents in Chen District, due to their limited cultivation, they cannot enter the battlefield. The only way to obtain merit points for survival in Sixiang City is to complete various chores issued by the City Lord's Mansion.
Over the years, the proprietress of the grocery store has been delivering food and grass twice a month to obtain corresponding merit points.
Although the work of transporting grain and grass does not get many merit points, the good thing is that I work for the city lord's mansion twice a month, and the merit points that make money are still enough for the boss's daily expenses. Yue Jinghua heard what the boss said, Only then did I know that there were defenders stationed outside Sixiang City.
These days, the outside of Sixiang City is not stable, and I don't know if the news of the stolen Tianwu Pill has leaked out. The border river area of the mainland has been quiet for hundreds of years, and foreign ships and teleportation arrays appear from time to time.
In order to guard against enemy attacks, Changsun City Lord not only deployed a large number of mysterious formations and Feng Yinlings around the boundary river, but also dispatched a team of scouts to station at the front line to monitor the movements near the boundary river on the mainland. As long as there is any trouble, report it to the city immediately.
Since the garrison was stationed beside the boundary river, the defenders did not carry cumbersome military pay, food, grass and other supplies with the army. They just sent a batch of military supplies from the city every ten and a half months.
For several months, the proprietress sent two men she hired and a team of grain trucks to pass through the northern suburbs of Sixiang City to the boundary river basin more than ten miles away.
This kind of itinerary has been back and forth no less than ten times, each time smoothly, but just a few days ago, when the grocery store clerk was delivering the goods as usual, an accident happened.
"I don't know who buried some shadow antlers in that area. It's hard to find on the ground, and only a profound practitioner who has cultivated spiritual power can barely find it. Although my buddy is a master of alchemy, he can't find it in terms of spiritual power. The reason is very ordinary, and he accidentally fell into an ambush and was seriously injured. Even the mysterious beast that transported food was frightened, and it was difficult to control. It seems that we can only hire the masters of the alchemy realm, but the alchemy realm Dacheng's masters are expensive, and I'm afraid I won't be able to hire them anytime soon," said the proprietress, with a distressed expression on her face.
Antlers are an obstacle used on the battlefield. Most of the antlers are made of sharpened wood and can be used to ambush the enemy and set up obstacles.
The shadow antlers are a special obstacle, which is derived from the horns of a monster called shadow deer.
After the antlers are cut off at the root, they are air-dried, and then the wind element is drawn on the antlers, so that the hidden antlers can be hidden under the soil.
The shadow antlers are so sharp that they can pierce through thick armor in an instant, and because they are invisible and can move freely, they are difficult to detect.
Therefore, it is widely used in the plane battlefield, and it is one of the most terrifying weapons on the plane battlefield.
But outside the Four Elephant City, there were no shadow antlers in previous years, so the transportation of food and grass has always been safe, but I don't know why the shadow antlers suddenly appeared these days.
The proprietress of the grocery store was originally a small business. After this accident, the clerk couldn’t keep working, and had to pay some lost wages and medical expenses for nothing. Not only that, the food and grass that were originally delivered on schedule were also delayed for several days. If no suitable carrier can be found, I am afraid that the final delivery date will be delayed.
The proprietress wanted to report the discovery of the hidden antlers to the City Lord's Mansion, but if she reported the matter to the City Lord's Mansion and sought the help of the City Lord's Mansion, even if she delivered the grain and grass to the city on time, she would be exempted from punishment, but she would still be punished because of ineffective handling. , was disqualified as a grain supplier.
But if you don't report to the city lord's mansion, the delivery period may be delayed, and you will be awarded merit points several times the salary.
As a result, the proprietress was caught in a dilemma, should she tell the city lord or not
But one thing is for sure, no matter whether you tell the city lord's mansion or not, if the delivery of grain and grass fails again this time, it will undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the grocery store run by a small business, and it will even make it impossible for the proprietress to gain a foothold in Sixiang City .
After hearing this, Yue Jinghua thought for a while, "Miss Boss, if I can transport it for you, in exchange, can you give me that map?"