Chapter 165: Fishing in the City, Level 3 Bone Ring
Chapter 165: Fishing in the City, Level Bone Ring (Monthly Ticket Plus)
The city of Zhelong Prefecture has hundreds of thousands of households and a population of over two million. There is a constant stream of pedestrians and merchants coming and going, so it is extremely difficult to close it off and patrol it.
Riding in a carriage into the city, Li Yuan lifted the curtain.
"Cakes, freshly baked cakes..."
"Sugar-roasted chestnuts, only thirteen cents a pound."
"Selling charcoal, selling charcoal..."
The weather was still very cold just after the New Year, but there were already quite a lot of pedestrians on the streets, and the cries of various vendors could be heard everywhere.
"No wonder Old Man Hu is fishing. Trying to find a team of experts who are good at hiding and disguising themselves in the city is like looking for a needle in a haystack."
Li Yuan shook his head in his heart. Without Skynet, the only way to find someone is to search house by house, but this is meaningless for an expert.
He left as soon as they were searched, and then he climbed over the wall back. How could ordinary soldiers catch him?
"No wonder there is such a profession as ghostwriter. A warrior must be caught by a warrior."
In the carriage, Li Yuan gave an order, and the disciple driving the carriage slowly strolled down the street, while he glanced at the pedestrians on both sides.
After walking around a few streets and seeing that he was not far from the weapon forging shop, Li Yuan simply changed his route and went to the weapon forging shop.
We found Liu Zheng and Wang Peiyao who had gone down the mountain a few days ago to handle business.
"What's that smell on you? It stinks!"
As soon as Li Yuan entered the room, he heard Wang Peiyao's complaints and a foul smell hit him in the face.
"Brother Li."
Liu Zheng cupped his hands and explained awkwardly: "These past few days, I have been recruiting those night-scented men, so it is inevitable that I have been tainted with some of their scents."
"Yakaro?"
Li Yuan opened the door and sat down: "The Zhao family has been in decline for so long, is there no one who wants to do this business?"
Yakaro was a tough job, but Dung Tyrant was not.
Ye Xianglang walked the streets at night, collecting silver from every household, collecting the silver and transporting it out of the city, which was also excellent fertilizer.
There has always been no shortage of people competing for this business, and the Zhao family was able to win it thanks to Qiu Zhengxiong's connections.
"After the Zhao family fell, there were people who fought for it, but they were all small families. The larger families were frightened and didn't dare to make a move."
Wang Peiyao covered her nose and said, "The Zhou family, the one that cooperated with us the earliest, also intervened. Liu Zheng was afraid that his family would eat alone, so he also got involved."
Liu Zheng added:
"Brother Li, this business may look insignificant, but it is a big business. The Zhao family used to rely on this business alone and earned at least 5,000 taels of silver every year."
"so much?"
Li Yuan also knew that the dung tyrants made money, but he didn't expect that they could make so much money. You know, the Zhao family only monopolized the business in a few urban areas.
"Each family will get a share. I don't think it will be that much, but our family can at least get a share of over a thousand taels of silver."
Liu Zheng said.
Li Yuan nodded, and suddenly something occurred to him: "I heard that Ye Xianglang went from street to street, and asked every household to collect and return the dung buckets?"
"Senior Brother Li also knows?"
Liu Zheng nodded: "Cleaning the dung bucket is also included, but this is really hard-earned money. Generally, dung tyrants will not take a commission, which seems too mean."
"Well, that's it."
Li Yuan's heart moved:
"Then you should inform all the dung tyrants and ask them to pay attention to the merchants with foreign accents..."
"Don't use my name. You can decide the details yourself. You can spend some money. Try to contact as many companies as possible."
"Yes!"
Liu Zheng didn't ask, just nodded and went out to take a shower.
"Brother Li is looking for someone?"
Wang Peiyao opened the window as well, and when the smell in the room had almost dissipated, she stood up and poured Li Yuan a cup of tea:
"I heard that the information in Yunshu Tower is more complete than that in the Valley's Supervisory Hall, but it's very expensive."
"Yunshu Tower? I'll go check it out later."
Li Yuan nodded. Any force that dared to make various lists must have a strong intelligence system.
But there is no reason why Jing Shuhu didn't know about it. He was just afraid that he didn't have it or he didn't buy it. After all, the time is too sensitive.
Wang Peiyao didn't ask much, but went to the inner room to get the information she had collected during this period.
Li Yuan didn't even look at it, he took it in his arms first and asked:
"Have those leather shops responded?"
After experiencing the benefits of controlling boots, Li Yuan could not forget it.
"I did ask, but..."
Wang Peiyao shook her head and said, “The spiritual beasts in the prefecture city are much more numerous than those in Gaoliu, but they are also more useful.
Half of the spirit animal skins collected by those families were supplied to the Weapon Casting Valley, and the rest were consumed by various families. Most of them were used to make inner armor and outer clothing, and only a very small number were used to make boots. "
She naturally knew Li Yuan's hobbies and had already found out:
"The only ones who make boots in the city are Liuhetang and Yangxuezhai. They are easy to talk to. They will make you hides of spirit beasts if they have them, but the price is much higher."
"So, spiritual beast skins are still hard to come by?"
Li Yuan nodded, took out a few hundred-liang silver notes and handed them over: "Pay attention, if there is any spirit animal skin on the market, buy it at a premium."
It is difficult to raise spiritual beasts. Most of them are wild and live in deep mountains and forests, making them difficult to catch.
In a sense, spiritual beast skins are more popular than spiritual beast meat, and they are sold out as soon as they appear on the market.
"Well, I'll keep an eye out."
Wang Peiyao was secretly shocked. The treatment of true disciples was really beyond her imagination.
He obviously came from a poor family, but it wasn't long before he was already buying luxurious things like 'spiritual beast boots' and 'spiritual beast belts'.
Fortunately, she doesn't seem to be interested in rings and necklaces, which are the big spenders...
"By the way, are there any rings or necklaces made from the bones of spirit animals?"
Li Yuan asked.
The appearance of the Five-Step Spirit Snake Skin Belt made him feel that the objects that could be controlled by the Weapon Control Scroll seemed to be much richer than he had previously expected.
Belts are fine, but what about rings and necklaces? "Huh?"
Wang Peiyao subconsciously straightened her back, almost thinking he could read minds, and stammered:
"Should, there should be, right?"
"Let's go for a walk!"
"Shopping?"
Wang Peiyao opened her mouth, her face slightly red: "Well, I, I'll go wash my face."
……
It was already noon, and the streets were still crowded with people, and the noise was very lively.
"There's a jewelry store in front."
Wang Peiyao was dressed up carefully, and she looked very pretty in a simple martial arts robe.
With her as his guide, Li Yuan strolled around slowly, glancing around. Except for the snack stalls, there was no need to stop at each place.
Because of the news of the Sanyuanwu army's departure, the number of merchants coming to Zhelong Mansion was much less than in previous years, but there were still many good things.
Master Li Dao is very wealthy, and he will buy anything, whether it is of high quality or not, as long as he thinks the controlling effect is useful or rare.
By the way, he also looked at the weapons carried by the people passing by.
Lights of various colors intertwined in his eyes, and before he even reached the jewelry store, Li Yuan felt his eyes a little sore.
"It would take me a long time to see the whole city."
Li Yuan rubbed his eyes and followed Wang Peiyao into the jewelry store. The first thing that caught his eye was the various gold and silver accessories, jade and agate were everywhere.
There were many women choosing items in the store, and they all had good looks and figures.
"Miss, sir, what would you like?"
A maid came up to greet her.
Wang Peiyao looked calm: "Are there any jewelry related to spirit animals?"
"Are you talking about the spiritual animal bone accessories?"
After the maid confirmed it, she bowed slightly and said, "The spirit beast bone ornament is in the back. Please follow me."
"Ah."
Wang Peiyao responded.
Li Yuan scanned the entire store. There were some flashes of weapons on the three floors, but most of them were from customers or their swords and sabers.
The ornaments that filled the walls and cabinets did not emit the light of weapons.
"Aren't they considered weapons?"
Li Yuan was pondering the principles of the Weapon Control Scroll in his mind, but he always felt that the boundaries of some weapons recognized by the Weapon Control Scroll were a bit vague.
But he believes that bone ornaments can be counted as weapons because the earliest ancient ornaments could also be used as weapons.
This jewelry store is very large, with five entrances from front to back. There is a shop at one end and another at the other. It spans two streets and occupies a larger area than a blacksmith shop.
"Please come this way, my two guests."
The maid called out, and even from a distance, Li Yuan's eyes lit up and he saw the light of the weapon.
Bone ornaments are indeed considered weapons!
It’s a small shop, much quieter than the one on the front street. It’s obviously not as popular as gold and silver. Besides, it’s also because of the price.
"How do you sell these things?"
Wang Peiyao was responsible for talking to the maids.
Li Yuan paced by himself, picking out those that glowed from among the many accessories.
There are bracelets, rings, necklaces, jade pendants, hairpins and so on.
There are more than ten items of lower grade, seven items of first grade, three items of second grade, and the highest one is a third grade bone ring.
[Spiritual Fire Bull Bone Ring (Level 3)]
[It is made from the bones of a spiritual fire bull, soaked in medicinal soup, and forged in fierce fire. The nature of the bull remains...]
[Control requirements: Ox shape]
[Control effect: Level 3 (dark blue): heat insulation, fire resistance
Level 2 (Blue): Water, Spirituality]
"Spirituality!"
Li Yuan took the bone ring in his hand. It was slightly hot at first, but turned cold after a while.
He narrowed his eyes slightly. The control power of this ring was indeed different from that of weapons.
[Spiritual: The spirit fire bull dies but does not dissipate, its spirituality remains, and controlling it can cleanse the spirit]
nice one!
Li Yuan's eyes lit up slightly. This bone ring was more direct than the belt. It was actually related to "spirit". This was very rare.
However, he did not disturb Wang Peiyao from bargaining. He waited until she agreed on the price before buying all the bone ornaments.
After going out, Li Yuan went to several other jewelry stores and spent thousands of taels of silver in less than half a day.
Afterwards, Wang Peiyao took him to several leather shops, including Liuhetang and Yangxuezhai, which sold boots.
They were not so lucky this time. Wang Peiyao and Liu Zheng had bought all the stock, so the six families only bought two pairs of first-level Liuhe boots.
After walking around more than ten streets and seeing that it was not yet dark, Li Yuan simply ran to the nearest ruined temple.
He urgently needs incense of level three or above.
……
"This kid is looking for someone like this?!"
Outside the ruined temple, Jing Shuhu, who was mixed in the crowd, had a black face.
You are used as bait, and you accompany women shopping?!
It’s a jewelry store, a leather store…
"Good boy!"
Jing Shuhu was so angry that his teeth itched, but he still followed him into the temple and only asked the disciples of the Supervisory Hall to spread the news.
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