After listening to Ye Li's explanation, Li Xifeng looked at his expression and saw that he did not seem to be faking it. He believed it a little and said, "Young Master Ye, I never thought that I would be able to recruit a Spiritual Sea Stage expert when I sent out a commission to recruit Spiritual Mist Stage guards.
If you are really willing to serve as a guard in the trade market for three days, it will be a great bargain for our Chamber of Commerce.
Otherwise, I will increase your remuneration. Twenty mid-grade spirit stones are not enough to hire a talisman master of the Spiritual Sea Stage.
Next, how about I let you be the captain of the guards and be responsible for commanding the other six guards?"
Hearing Li Xifeng's words, Ye Li waved his hand and said, "Senior Li, you don't have to be like this. I came here for the mission and I obviously fully accept the conditions you set.
And I don't really want others to know about my cultivation level of the Spirit Sea Stage, so you'd better not give me special treatment. It's hard to convince others that I, a young man who has just left home to make a living, should be the captain of the guard.
Besides, I am not familiar with these things, so if I let others take charge, at least I can gain some experience."
Hearing Ye Li's words, Li Xifeng hesitated for a moment, and then nodded and said, "Okay, then I won't treat you specially. You are the last person on this mission. If you haven't found a place to stay, I can provide you with a room in this inn."
Ye Li was a little uncomfortable hearing an old man in his sixties or seventies addressing him with respectful titles, and said, "Senior Li, you don't have to address me so politely, just call me Ye Li or Brother Ye.
I just arrived in Yeyu City today and I haven't found a place to stay yet. If you can provide me with accommodation, that would be great."
Li Xifeng saw that Ye Li did not have the manners of a young master, and finally nodded and said, "Brother Ye, I will call you that, and you don't have to call me senior. I am dull and have practiced for a lifetime, but my cultivation level is not as high as yours. I am really unworthy of the title of senior.
If you don't mind, just call me Uncle Li.
Since you haven't found a place to live yet, I'll go tell the shopkeeper right away. I remember the room next door is empty and you can stay here.
I will take you to the trade fair tomorrow morning. We are still setting it up. You can go and get familiar with the environment and meet the other six guards."
Ye Li said: "Then it's all up to Uncle Li to arrange. I have no objection."
As if sensing that Ye Li was easy to talk to, Li Xifeng revealed a sincere smile on his simple old face.
After he walked out of the room, he took Ye Li to the counter of Lotte Inn to check in.
After getting the key, Ye Li started chatting with Li Xifeng again.
"Uncle Li, I wonder if there will be any Spiritual Sea Stage demon pills for sale at the traveling merchant trade fair you're hosting the day after tomorrow?"
Ye Li asked, this was what he was more concerned about. After all, he still had a few high-quality spirit stones, and he didn't know how many Spirit Sea Stage demon pills they could be exchanged for.
If he had sufficient Linghai stage demon pills to support him, it would be like he was constantly taking earth-level and heaven-level pills to practice, and his speed would definitely be very fast.
Li Xifeng only remembered at this moment that Ye Li's original intention of taking on this commission was not for the reward, but to find the demon pill of the Linghai period.
"Brother Ye, don't worry. Although I don't do the business of purchasing demon pills myself, I have an old friend, Old Man Chen, who specializes in purchasing demon pills from hunting teams in various demon beast habitats.
You can buy it from him after the trade fair begins, the price is absolutely reasonable."
Hearing Li Xifeng say that someone was selling the demon pill, Ye Li finally felt relieved and said, "That's good. I feel relieved now."
After the two talked for a while, Li Xifeng invited Ye Li to have dinner together before they returned to their respective rooms.
Nothing happened overnight, and the next morning.
Li Xifeng and Ye Li got up early. After breakfast, he took Ye Li to the venue of the trade fair.
After leaving the south of the city, the two walked along the road outside the city towards the hilly area in the distance.
Ye Li casually chatted with Li Xifeng and asked, "Uncle Li, are all the merchants participating in the trade from around here?"
Li Xifeng shook his head and said, "Not entirely, I am not originally from here, but after I ventured out here, I settled down here.
I have been working as a traveling merchant for the past twenty years because I realized that there was no hope for me to continue practicing Buddhism.
There are five main initiators of our traveling trade fair. All five of us live in Katayama County, and our daily business scope includes the three surrounding counties.
The five of us are already quite old, and we don’t know how many more years we have left in business, so we decided to leverage our personal connections and set up a traveling trade fair.
If this gathering goes well, we can provide some special sales places for the traveling merchants nearby in the future.
After the market is established, it will be much more convenient for everyone to buy and sell goods.
The goods we peddlers sell are often cheaper than those sold in the city's shops. Although we don't have high-end goods, mid- and low-end goods are the ones in greatest demand, and we have enough capital to attract people to come to the market to buy and sell.
Therefore, this trade fair is very important to us. As long as it goes smoothly, our traveling merchants’ trade fair will have a real foothold.”
As he spoke, Li Xifeng's weathered face, which looked like an old farmer, revealed a childlike excitement.
After all, Ye Li came from a noble family, so he could understand the importance of this trade fair to the other party. Li Xifeng and the other four wanted to use this as a basis to attract all the nearby traveling merchants to form a trade organization.
After the organization is formed, it will be possible for numerous traveling merchants to have in-depth cooperation. Once a trade network is formed, everyone's resources can be shared, and there will be a wider scope for cooperation.
Li Xifeng walked along, talking incessantly to Ye Li about his ideas. Their plan was not only to connect the traveling merchants in several counties near Piayama County, but also to use this as a basis to continue connecting to more distant places.
The originally loose-knit group of traveling merchants can be brought together into a relatively free entity, making fuller use of everyone's strengths, integrating everyone's resources and sharing them with each other to achieve a true win-win situation.
In this way, the marginal businesses that are not monopolized by the big chambers of commerce are enough for traveling merchants to make a fortune.
Listening to Li Xifeng talk about his various ideas, the two spent about half an hour and finally arrived at the trade meeting place. An open space surrounded by simple wooden stakes and fences appeared in front of Ye Li.
"Brother Ye, we are here. This is the venue for tomorrow's trade fair. We have to make final preparations today and put up some wooden platforms and numbers.
Fifty wooden platforms will be placed in the center of the venue, because fifty traveling merchants have already reserved seats in advance. The remaining open space around will be left for others who have not reserved seats in advance. "