Chapter 21 Getting Rich

Er Gouzi walked quickly and arrived at the county town in the evening.

When he entered the city, he still felt a little proud of getting an advantage.

Just now on the road, he didn't expect that the bandits would not rest at home in the cold weather, but would come out to rob people on the road.

Although this group of bandits had good credit, Er Gouzi didn't want to pay dozens of coins for nothing.

He usually ate pork sparingly, and dozens of coins could buy a pound of pork.

So, he took advantage of the bandits' unpreparedness and suddenly accelerated and fled.

After he compared his leg strength with the black shadow last time, his confidence in his ability to escape increased greatly.

Especially recently, his cultivation has made progress, and the ray of true energy in his body has grown several times, running faster and with more endurance.

He ran wildly, and the bandits could only shout at the back and couldn't catch up at all.

As for fighting with the bandits, he never thought about it. Swords and knives have no eyes. If he accidentally pierces a hole in his body, he will suffer a great loss.

When Er Gouzi walked into the city gate, there were more beggars in the county town. They all swarmed up and surrounded him.

At first, he was a little hesitant, whether to whip him like Lai Fu.

But these beggars bullied him for being a country bumpkin. Many hands had already started to strip his clothes, snatch his sack, and even the rope on his pants was untied.

"Get out!"

Er Gouzi roared, using his hands and feet, and brute force to throw the beggars around him several steps away.

Now no one dared to beg, so they tied their belts again, tidied their clothes, and strode forward.

It seems that these beggars really can't be tolerated, otherwise even their clothes will be stripped off.

Huichuntang's business is still so cold, and the young man is reading at his desk.

When he heard footsteps and looked up to see Er Gouzi, he jumped up from his chair as if he had been bitten by a dog.

"You are finally here!"

"I have waited so hard!"

The young man held Er Gouzi's hands tightly with both hands, looking very excited.

Seeing this, Er Gouzi had guessed that the last batch of powerful pills had probably been used up.

"Do you still have the powerful pills you gave me last time? How many did you bring this time?"

The young man did not hide his desire for that kind of pill.

He had planned to keep the powerful pills he bought last time in the store to treat illnesses and save lives.

He was discovered by his martial arts brother and ate them as candy beans.

This brother pestered him for this kind of pill every day, saying that it had miraculous effects and was very helpful for martial arts practitioners.

He was pestered so much that he had no choice but to worry because he could not find Er Gouzi's trace.

"Look, I can't find you, and my hair has turned white with worry."

The young man pulled a white hair of his to show Er Gouzi.

"I brought some."

Er Gouzi nodded, but he felt that this young man was a few years older than him and was not sensible at all.

He showed his eagerness to buy, so he was not afraid that he would ask for a sky-high price.

He knew from a young age that when he wanted to buy something in the market, he had to pretend that he didn't like it and pick and choose before bargaining.

Maybe they had food and clothes since they were young, so they didn't have to be as cautious as he did.

He took off the sack on his back and opened the bag. It was full of Da Li pills, at least four or five buckets.

"So many! Okay, I want them all."

Generally, the more precious medicinal materials are very rare, but I didn't expect Er Gouzi to use a sack. This big bag must have at least more than 5,000 pills.

Immediately, the two counted one by one, and counted for most of the day, a total of 5,695 pills.

"Are we still going with the last price?"

The young man had already started to fiddle with the abacus beads on the counter, and then he remembered that the two had not yet discussed the price.

Er Gouzi nodded in agreement.

Last time, he was able to sell a pill for 50 wen, which was beyond his expectation.

Moreover, Er Gouzi felt that the young man in front of him had a cheerful personality and was not cunning, so he planned to cooperate with him for a long time in the future.

"Okay, a total of 5695 pills, 50 wen each, a total of 284750 yuan."

The abacus beads clattered for a while, and the young man had already quoted the total price.

Er Gouzi also learned some arithmetic from Li Banxian, and calculated in his mind for a long time before he figured out the result.

"I'll give you an integer, 285 taels of silver, how about it?"

"No problem, but don't worry, I still have two kinds of pills, take a look."

Er Gouzi said, taking off the two small bundles on his back and spreading them on the counter.

The two bundles contained enhanced versions of the powerful pills.

Er Gouzi himself tried them, and the spiritual energy of these two kinds of powerful pills was more concentrated, which was more helpful for the growth of cultivation.

I just feel that the one with Cistanche deserticola is not good. Every time he eats it, he can't help but have wild thoughts. He will dream of getting married, or the kind of anxious one.

The young man looked down for a long time, and then took the three pills in his hand to compare.

"I can only feel that the efficacy of these two pills has increased a lot, but I am not sure what the specific effects will be. I need to test it several times."

"If you don't mind, sell these pills to me for 60 coins each. If they are indeed effective after the test, I will increase the price."

Er Gouzi saw that the young man was very sincere, so of course he had no objection.

"These two pills are 50 each, a total of 100 pills, which is 6 taels of silver."

After the young man calculated it, he went into the back hall of the pharmacy, and after a while, he came out with a small wooden box.

The wooden box was opened in front of Er Gouzi, and inside was full of silver, which made people happy.

The young man took out the silver ingots one by one and weighed them in front of Er Gouzi.

Each ingot was a standard 10 taels, and he took 29 ingots, and then weighed one tael of broken silver.

"A total of 291 taels of silver, please check again."

"My name is Sima Yi, and you can sell me any powerful pills in the future."

"Oh, okay, my name is Zhang Er Gou, and I will sell you in the future."

Er Gouzi took the silver ingots and wrapped them in several layers with a bundle, and then tied them all in a knot.

He walked out of Huichun Hall with more than 200 silver taels in his arms. It was the first time in his life that he had seen so much money.

This money was enough to buy a hundred acres of good land and enough for the expenses of an ordinary tenant family for more than ten years.

This money could be used to buy a dozen virgin girls at the market, and they could be taken home as wives, concubines, or maids.

At this time, it was already dark, and there were all kinds of people on the road, and everyone looked suspicious, like a thief.

Every person who passed by would make Er Gouzi alert.

With a huge sum of money in his pocket, Er Gouzi finally stood up straight.

When he passed by the bun shop, he waved his hand and bought 10 of the largest meat buns without bargaining.

Holding a pile of big meat buns, he ate them while walking, and they were so delicious.

The beggars on the roadside saw it and drooled three feet long.

When he finished eating 10 meat buns, it was completely dark. He first found a place to spend the night. He had to go to the blacksmith shop to buy a sword tomorrow.

Er Gouzi planned to be extravagant again and find an inn to stay for one night.

There happened to be a Hongyan Building on the side of the road. It was five stories high and there was a big lantern hanging at the door, which looked very impressive.

Er Gouzi hesitated for a while at the door, rubbed the mud on his feet in the snow, and then walked towards the Hongyan Building.

I want to see what it is like inside.

As soon as he walked to the door, a young servant in blue bowed his head and greeted him.

But when the servant saw his muddy feet, the smile on his face disappeared, and he looked at Er Gouzi from head to toe with cold eyes.

A bumpkin from the countryside!

"Get out!"

The servant shouted coldly.

Er Gouzi was stunned, thinking that there was some misunderstanding, and probably thought he was a beggar, and said hurriedly.

"I'm here to stay in the hotel."

"Stay in the hotel?"

The servant looked at Er Gouzi again.

His hair was messy, his skin was dark and rough, he was wearing a torn cotton coat, he looked rustic, his hands were full of calluses and cracks, and he didn't even have a pair of shoes.

"Bah! Don't you see what this place is!"

"Two taels of silver a night, can you afford it?"

"If you are allowed to stay in, where will the other nobles and gentlemen here put their faces!"

The servant said, and was about to push and drive him away.

However, Er Gouzi was not tall, but he had several hundred pounds of strength.

The blue-clothed servant was like being pushed on a stone mountain, and he did not move at all.

At the same time, Er Gouzi gently pulled the servant with his arm, and the servant fell on his back.

"Dog eyes look down on people!"

Er Gouzi turned around and walked out of the gate of Hongyan Tower.

In fact, he heard that it would cost two taels of silver to stay for one night. Even if he was allowed to stay, he would not be willing to spend such a large sum of money.

It would be better to buy 10 to 20 pounds of pork for himself than to spend so much money on accommodation.

Learning from the lesson of Hongyan Tower, he did not go into those places that looked very expensive at first glance to ask the price, so as not to humiliate himself.

Finally, he found a small inn with a shabby door, and it only cost 30 coins to stay for one night.

There was no bed and quilt in the guest room, and it would cost another 10 coins to get a quilt. There was a kitchen, and he could cook by himself.

This kind of small broken shop actually had a good business, and many people from all walks of life lived in it.

There were many thieves in the store. One night, he was visited three times, which made him almost unable to sleep. Fortunately, he didn't lose a penny.

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