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Chapter 392 Selling the Fox Down the Mountain
Chuyun Village .
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This is a place where clouds are born in the morning . It is halfway on a mountainside outside the Sunset mountains . The largest city below the mountains is Feng City which is located in the westernmost Penglai . Azhi is illiterate and the farthest place he has been since his birth is the county down the hill . Therefore, the messages above is all he knows .
For Lin Luoran, the most useful information is that this country is called Penglai .
She is definitely very happy about finally stepping on Penglai . In the face of her honest “saviors”, Lin Luoran only tells them she is a lady of Feng City as the old lady said before . She also says she will thank them when she is home .
The old lady looks at her honey-colored skin and is suspicious of what she says . Lin Luoran thinks secretly that maybe ladies of the ancient times don’t have the same skin color as hers . However, she has already said that and she can’t take it back . Lin Luoran can only let things run their course .
Lin Luoran stays in Chuyun Village for a few days and she knows a lot of things from the young hunter named Azhi .
She knows that this world holds the martial arts in high regard . The entire country is chaotic but this small village is relatively peaceful . Azhi hasn’t heard of cultivators . It’s said that there are immortals who can fly around this land in the legend . However, it only happened thousands of years ago .
Azhi’s father was drafted into the army a few years ago . They have not heard from him for many years . If the teenager had not grown up and learned to be a hunter, the family would have been even poorer . Life of an orphan and a widow is not easy . Azhi cannot always catch something every day . Even if he gets one, they have to take care of Lin Luoran as a “wounded person” . Besides, most of his preys will be made into bacon . Saving bit by bit, the young boy will take it down the mountain to sell in the county together with some leather goods .
Watching the mother and son eating roughage and potherbs, Lin Luoran herself as the wounded is very uncomfortable about drinking the pheasant soup . She can’t be comfortable with her identity as a patient and her “wound” goes well very soon . By the third day, she can get out of bed and walk around .
Everyone in the village comes to see this strange “noble girl” . Lin Luoran endures the gossip of village women while gathering some useful information . However, the mountain people are dull and village women have little knowledge . They are always gossiping and talking about trivial things but none of them are useful for Lin Luoran .
Lin Luoran has been idle in the mountain but her mind is not here now . She is thinking about how to say goodbye . The opportunity comes soon .
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Two days later, young Azhi returns happily before noon .
It turns out that the trap he usually sets has caught a fire fox . Only its hind legs are injured and it is still alive . The blood of fire foxes is very nutritive and their fur is extremely valuable . For the Azhi family, it is a huge sum of money to sell this fire fox .
It is difficult to keep a fire fox alive so Azhi decides to go to the county town the next day .
Lin Luoran says goodbye timely . Her reason is that she has been here too long and her families may worry .
Lin Luoran feels really guilty about drinking the pheasant soup made by the old woman for totally two days . She remembers she once dug a large amount of gold from the Dragon Palace so she stealthily makes a part of it into a few golden beans . She tells them it is emergency money hidden in her heels, and now she wants to give it to the old woman as a reward .
The old woman refuses to accept it . Lin Luoran says in a gentle voice, “This is nothing since you have saved my life . It’s just my food expenses for staying in auntie’s house for so many days . When I return to Feng City, my family will send a gift as a token of my gratitude . ”
The old lady is shy . At this time, she really kind of believes Lin Luoran is a well-educated lady from Feng City .
“Sister Lin, we can go down the mountain together tomorrow . I can send you home first . You are right . Your families must be worrying about you . ”
Azhi is making a bamboo cages in his hands and he totally agrees with Lin Luoran . The boy is honest but not stupid . He has made efforts to save Lin Luoran . He will not decline a few golden beans she is willing to give him .
As for the gift Lin Luoran said, Azhi doesn’t take it seriously .
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All of them get up early the next day . Azhi’s mother has strung a variety of bacon and hung it on both sides of the carrying pole . There is also a bundle of leather goods no less than one hundred kilograms . Azhi is strong so that he can carry these things of one hundred kilos on the mountain road while he walks vigorously .
Lin Luoran follows him with a bamboo cage in hand . She is still wearing the Protean Dress .
After the snow melting day, it is getting hotter and the summer is coming soon . It is one of the reasons why Azhi is so anxious about selling bacon and leather goods down the mountain .
Lin Luoran carries a bamboo cage with a little fire fox in it . Every hair of this fox is extremely beautiful . It must be sold at a good price .
After walking for more than four hours, they come out of the mountain . At noon, Lin Luoran finally sees the county Azhi talks about .
It’s much smaller than expected and wooden houses on the street are not tall . This county actually looks like a town . Azhi sells all bacon to the restaurant . It’s said that this small wooden building with two floods is the largest restaurant in this county . Azhi only gets less than two taels of silver for bacon of more than 50kg .
The wild meat which Lin Luoran thinks may be expensive costs only four coins more than pork per kilo .
For the remaining dozens of different sizes of leather goods, the store only bids four taels of silver which is a little better than bacon but is still unbelievably cheap . Azhi is also not very satisfied with the price so he then inquiries about information in the rice shop . Azhi is told the situation is turbulent now and brown rice has risen to a price of three hundred coins per 60kg . After threshing, it is only 40kg of brown rice .
Since the price of rice has soared, there is no reason that the price of meat has not risen . Azhi hasn’t been out of the mountain for a long time and he is obviously fooled by the profiteers who bought his bacon and leather goods .
Five or six taels of silver can buy much brown rice . However, he has saved bacon and leather goods for a long winter and his family can’t only live with brown rice .
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He still has to buy cloth, medicine, salt, etc . Various daily necessities consume the six taels of silver quickly . Azhi also wants to save some money to buy a good bow . Now he can only rely on the fire fox which hasn’t been sold yet .
The owner of the leather goods store wanted to buy this fire fox with the price of two taels of silver . Azhi refuses to sell it unhesitatingly and holds the bamboo cage tightly . After ordering 120kg of brown rice at the rice shop, he waits to sell the fire fox on the street .
The teenager doesn’t handle everything promptly and now he forgets to send Lin Luoran “home” .
Lin Luoran has been following him silently all the way . In fact, her spiritual mind is scattered, receiving useful news from everywhere in this small county .
From two businessmen in the restaurant, she knows the reason for soaring prices .
Two months ago, Ying attacked the northern part of Penglai . Having problems with civil unrest, Penglai has to grapple with domestic problems and foreign invasion at the same time .
The news of war spreads to this westernmost county . People are in a tizzy and prices soar naturally .
The businessmen are talking about the difficulties of the current situation and Lin Luoran has been thinking about something else . Ying? It’s said that there are three Spirit Mountains overseas named Penglai, Yingzhou, and Fangzhang . Now she has heard two of them .
Only mortals undergoing many tests can visit Spirit Mountain . It reminds Lin Luoran of the summary statement in the ancient book of monsters of wood . Lin Luoran now has a feeling that she is fooled . She is not afraid of tests but she worries about not knowing what they are .
“Huh, this little fox is so pretty . Black guy, do you want to sell it?”
A beautiful young girl in a red dress is on a horse, condescending and looking Azhi up and down . Her tone is not very polite and she just calls him “black guy” . Lin Luoran doesn’t like it .
Azhi is about to answer when something happens at the end of the street .
The red dress girl just says “so troublesome” and throws a few golden beans to Azhi . She then flashes out the whip to get the bamboo cage .
Isn’t it transaction by force?
Lin Luoran frowns . She gently puts her hand on the bamboo cage with fire fox inside .
The whip rolls up but the bamboo cage remains motionless . The girl in the red dress is confused . She finally looks at Lin Luoran who always keeps silent .
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