It was not yet night, but the pattering rain kept falling, and the sky was completely dark.
The old bus sat under a yellowed bamboo chair under the eaves. Two oil lamps were burning in the shop behind him, emitting a dim yellow light.
The shop he was in was a one-story house with black tiles and brick walls, and a wide-open wooden door. It looked no different from ordinary shops. On both sides, there are also many different shops.
There is a pond next to Laoba's shop. It seems that it has been raining for a long time. The water in this small pond is very full. There are a few big plantains planted on the edge of the pond. Poof.
At this time, there were no people coming and going on the stone road, and the sound of rain hitting plantains made it even more deserted and lonely.
The shop of Laoba is located in Jinyun Valley of Bashan Mountain. The shops shrouded in rain at the moment look no different from the shops outside, but in fact, the transactions in these shops are all things that monks need.
In the entire monastic world, apart from some unknown secret markets like Nantianmen, there are about 30 publicly known markets, and Jinyun Valley is one of them.
Although there are many ascetics of all kinds come and go on weekdays, if a person has been here for more than ten years and guards a shop like this every day, he will always feel deserted and lonely.
In many cases, desertedness and loneliness come from the mood.
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No one passed by on the wet slate road for a long time, and the old bus narrowed his eyes, as if he was about to fall asleep, but at this moment, a man wearing a bamboo hat and wearing a bamboo hat walked up in the rain at the end of the slate road. A young man in a coir raincoat.
The old man opened his eyes, and there was a look of surprise in his dim eyes like oil lamps. He had seen countless ascetics, but this young man gave him a very strange, different Different feelings.
Under the coir raincoat, a pair of green cloth boots were exposed.
"Ba shopkeeper?" The young man walked up to the old bus, then stopped, took off the bamboo hat on his head, and revealed a smiling, very kind and warm face.
The old bus stood up in astonishment, looked at the smiling young man, "What does the guest want?"
The young man still looked at the old bus with a smile, "Everything."
"Everything?" The old man was startled, he didn't understand the meaning of the young man's words.
"In addition to all the things in your shop, there are also all the things you produce." The young man smiled and added, "Of course I want to buy, not to grab, and the price can be compared to what you have here. The transaction price is slightly higher."
"Forgive me." All the desertedness and loneliness in the eyes of the old bus disappeared, and some light that was not there usually appeared, "I still don't understand what you mean."
The young man explained in a very gentle tone: "It's like this. The things you produce are very useful to us, and the quantity we need is very large, so I want to establish a long-term agreement with you. All the things you produce Things, don’t sell them to others, I can buy them all at a price slightly higher than the market price.”
"Long-term agreement?" Old Ba mused, "Purchase at a fixed price?"
"Exactly. If you are worried, I can even pay a part of the deposit in advance." The young man nodded, smiled again, and said, "If you can't decide by yourself at this time, I can wait here Your news."
"This kind of long-term agreement is of great benefit to us, and I can agree to it alone." The old man glanced at the young man, frowned slightly, and said, "But how to abide by this kind of agreement? I promised you, but I also deal with people in private, so what should I do? What if there are some big sects that put pressure on us and ask us to hand over how much to them?"
"If you don't abide by the agreement and deal with others privately, if I find out, you will return to me double the profits you got from me. This can be written in our agreement. Since I dare to make such an agreement with you Long-term agreement, if you really violate the agreement at that time, I am not afraid that you will not give me double the profit." The young man smiled slightly and said: "As for if there is any force to exert pressure, at worst, you will take your medicine. All the fields are open for them to see, and let them pick them by themselves...so don't keep too many things, and trade them all to me when you have production. Since I want all your production, you don't have to worry about the things you produce that no one wants. Naturally, I will not be too scruples about those forces."
The old bus pondered for a while, looked at the young man, and asked directly, "Then what price can you offer?"
"10%." The young man said seriously, "I can make a long-term agreement with you at a price that is 10% higher than the current transaction price."
After a pause, the young man added, "And if you keep abiding by the agreement, every few months, I can even provide you with a kind of elixir cultivation and a pill for you."
"I want a part of the deposit." The old bus took a deep breath, without any further hesitation, looked at the young man and said affirmatively, "You know, this is a huge amount, so I must guarantee everything."
"That's no problem." The young man smiled slightly, took out a skin bag, and handed it to the old bus.
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The contents in the skin bag are very simple, only a stack of banknotes, a green medicinal herb in a jade box, and a prescription written on a piece of ordinary paper.
But after the old bus looked at it carefully, his eyes showed an extremely moved look, and the hand holding the leather bag trembled slightly.
"How often do you want to get the goods?" After a while, the old bus regained his composure, looked at the young man in front of him and said this, and added: "The quantity is relatively large, I need some time to prepare."
The very gentle young man said: "The sooner the first shipment, the better, tomorrow is the best. As for the subsequent ones, once every five or six days is enough."
"Are you coming in person, or..." the old bus continued to ask.
"I'll send someone over." The young man took a look, walked into Laoba's shop, took out an ordinary red talisman from a shelf, then tore the red talisman in half and handed in half To the old bus, "My surname is Tong. When my people come to pick up the goods, they will bring my half of the talisman, and they will say that it is someone sent by Mr. Tong."
"Okay!" The old man nodded.
Seeing the old bus nodding, the young man didn't say much, put away the half red talisman, smiled friendlyly, put on the bamboo hat again, turned around and stepped into the rain.
From the beginning to the end, the young man did not make any written evidence with the old man, and the old man knew very well that the young man did not need any written evidence at all, because he did not have to worry that the old man would go back on his word. Agreement to do it.
Basically, any shop that has been operating for a long time in this kind of ascetic trading market will have a strong force behind it, like Laoba's shop, the power behind it is Dantai Sect.
Dantai Sect is one of the three largest sects in the monastic world that specialize in cultivating elixir.
Lao Ba himself is one of the elders of Dantai Sect.
And in his current shop, there are many kinds of talismans and some fine gold ores needed for refining magic weapons, and all kinds of elixir for refining elixir just occupy a very inconspicuous corner.
So even if it is a force with ulterior motives, even if it pays attention to this shop for a long time, it will basically be misled, thinking that the force behind this shop is one of the few sects that specialize in refining talismans.
But in the conversation between this young man and him, he has clearly pointed out the medicine field and the elixir... Coupled with the conditions he gave, it is obvious that the power behind the shop of the old bus is clearly Dantai sect.
Now the face value of the first batch of banknotes given by the young man is astonishing, enough to pay for the three-month elixir production of the Dantai Sect. The unique aura of mana fluctuations, and the young man's surname Tong... Lao Ba already vaguely knew the identity of this young man.
With the identity of this young man, since such an agreement has been made, Dantai Sect absolutely dare not violate it.
Moreover, the conditions offered by this young man were simply impossible for Dantai Sect to refuse.
For example, the green jade grass he gave this time is of a higher grade than most of the elixir cultivated by the Dantai Sect, and the pill given by the young man this time is the green jade pill. The Green Jade Pill refined from the Green Jade Grass has the effect of tempering the body and strengthening Qi and blood, which is several times stronger than almost most such pills in the market.
The ability of Dantai Sect to cultivate elixir is already one of the few in the world of cultivation, but in terms of alchemy, Dantai Sect does not have much attainment, and some good alchemy, other sects are impossible to spread. . Therefore, Dantai Sect has always been equivalent to the lowest farms. Other alchemy sects have taken the elixir cultivated by Dantai Sect, and after refining the elixir, the value has doubled several times.
This is equivalent to burning a pot of chicken soup. Others have eaten up the chicken, but Dantaizong himself can only drink the soup.
If this young man can really provide some high-level elixir and pills, the Alchemy Sect will definitely benefit greatly from it.
At this moment, Lao Ba didn't understand what the young man was trying to do, but it had nothing to do with him, because to Lao Ba, it was just a transaction between businessmen. No matter what kind of cultivator, they are just businessmen in this kind of trading market, and among businessmen, they only pay attention to the best interests.
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"Those shops are out of stock?"
Located in the north of Jingzhou, in a trading market similar to Jinyun Valley called Jiayu City, a middle-aged man in a silver robe frowned, and a stern light flashed in his eyes.
"Someone must be doing something secretly."
After a glint of stern light flashed in his eyes, the silver-robed middle-aged man said to a young man in green clothes who stood in front of him, "Go and inform Shopkeeper Wang!"