Couple cultivating immortality: My Taoist partner and I grew up through planting

Chapter 250 Four Arts Competition (9)

Zhang Ran forced a smile and said, "Thank you, Uncle Zhang. No matter if I can buy the elixir somewhere else, I will come to your place in two days."

Shopkeeper Zhang smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Before leaving, Han Xin asked Shopkeeper Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, do you sell elixirs?"

Han Xin saw that the shopkeeper was taking good care of Zhang Ran and thought that he must be a good person. She had stored a lot of pills in her space for the purpose of refining pills, and she wanted to take this opportunity to clear out the pills in her space while visiting the shop.

Shopkeeper Zhang nodded vigorously, "Take it, take it."

His shop is small, and the number of people who come to buy pills is limited, and the number of people who provide pills is even smaller. Fortunately, he has a young alchemist at home who can barely provide for the expenses of his shop.

His shop was able to gain a foothold in the huge outer city of Dragon City, thanks to his two promising children.

The eldest son has good talents and is a righteous man. He is appreciated by the young lord of the City Lord's Mansion and is brought along as a personal bodyguard.

With a son who serves as the young city lord's personal bodyguard, no one dares to cause trouble for his shop.

The youngest daughter has fire and wood spiritual roots, and is a good candidate for alchemy. Now that she has reached the initial stage of foundation building, she can already refine second-tier pills, and her success rate is over 70%.

My daughter has made the greatest contribution to the fact that the medicine shop can continue to operate without a shortage of medicines.

If this four-arts competition had been held a few years later, his youngest daughter might not have been able to bring back a top ten prize.

Unfortunately, the Four Arts Competition started too early. Since I am destined not to win any prize this year, I might as well not participate to avoid wasting time on refining the elixir.

Han Xin didn't know that Shopkeeper Zhang had thought so much in just one sentence. She first took out several common elixirs to test the price. If the price was acceptable, she would sell more.

The pills she took out this time were all second-grade, and Shopkeeper Zhang did not dislike the low grade of the pills. After all, his pill shop was just a small shop, and pills like this one for the foundation-building stage were his best-selling pills.

After Manager Zhang sorted out the different kinds of elixirs, he looked at Han Xin and said, "You are someone brought here by Xiao Zhang, so I won't lie to you. A second-grade elixir like this one costs thirty-six middle-grade spirit stones, and this one costs seventy-five middle-grade spirit stones."

When Han Xin saw that the price he quoted was several spirit stones higher than what she had purchased from the sect, she knew that he was not deceiving her, so she took out most of the second-level pills stored in the space.

When Shopkeeper Zhang saw that he had received so many pills at once, he felt so happy.

Today is a really good day. This amount of pills will be enough for his shop to consume for two or three months.

Shopkeeper Zhang took out his abacus, quickly calculated the price of the elixir, and then reported the number of spirit stones.

"Fellow Daoist, is the price acceptable?"

Han Xin nodded.

"Please wait a moment. I will go get the spirit stones." When addressing a distinguished alchemist, one must use respectful titles.

Because the formation was activated on the counter, only Shopkeeper Zhang himself could take out the herbs without being affected. He was not worried at all that the three people would do to the pills on his counter. After saying this, he turned around and entered a room behind him.

After a few breaths, he took out a storage bag and handed it to Han Xin.

"The spirit stones are all here, take a look."

Han Xin took the storage bag, scanned it with her spiritual sense, and transferred the spirit stones to her storage ring.

The storage bag was returned to Shopkeeper Zhang.

Half of these storage bags containing spirit stones were given away directly as gifts. Shopkeeper Zhang did not expect Han Xin to return the storage bag, but she did. He was very happy and put all the medicine bottles on the counter into the storage bag.

After that, Han Xin took out three different grades of third-level elixirs and placed them on the table. This time, Shopkeeper Zhang was even happier, thinking that he had encountered a great fortune. In his shop, third-level elixirs were rare items.

"This...this, this...are these all going to be sold in my shop?" Shopkeeper Zhang rubbed his hands and asked with a flattering look on his face.

He was really afraid that he was thinking too much.

Han Xin: Isn't this nonsense? Otherwise, why would she bring it up?
but……

"That depends on what price Manager Zhang offers. If it's suitable, it's not impossible."

"I'll definitely give you a good price."

Shopkeeper Zhang pondered for a while before speaking, "Well, for a third-grade lower-grade pill, you'll get two hundred middle-grade spirit stones each, a middle-grade pill will cost five hundred, and a top-grade pill will cost one thousand and fifty."

The prices of third-level elixirs and second-level elixirs are leaps and bounds, one is sold in bottles and the other is sold in pills.

"Forget about the top-grade pills. I don't have that many of them. I can buy you all the lower- and middle-grade ones."

Han Xin has quite a few high-quality pills, but not so many that she can sell them. She keeps them for her own use, and she will also need them when A Yan enters the Golden Core stage. She doesn't want to sell them for the time being.

"Hey, okay."

As long as he is allowed to purchase it, even if it is of lower or middle quality, it would be good too.

Seeing that he showed no reluctance, Han Xin waved her hand and the counter was immediately filled with densely packed porcelain bottles.

Shopkeeper Zhang's eyes narrowed into slits as he watched.

There seemed to be a lot of pills, but if she sold them all, it would only be worth a few hundred thousand medium-grade spirit stones, not even as much as she earned from a gambling game.

But Han Xin didn't think it was too little. If they kept the pills and didn't take them, wouldn't that be a waste? Any profit from selling them would be good.

As her proficiency improves, the number of lower and middle-grade pills she can refine will decrease.

"What's your name, little Taoist friend?"

Shopkeeper Zhang took out the spirit stones used to purchase the third-grade elixir and handed them to the other party. He thought that there might be a chance to cooperate again in the future, and it would be unreasonable not to know the other person's name.

"My last name is Han, Uncle Zhang can call me Xiaohan." Han Xin didn't want to tell the other party her full name so as not to cause trouble for him.

Shopkeeper Zhang didn't care about these things; what he cared about was how to address the other party.

"Ah, Xiaohan, when will you come next time? Can you continue to supply pills to my shop? Don't worry, as long as you buy the pills from me, I will buy them at a price half a percent higher than the market price."

Han Xin thought for a moment and said, "Before the Four Arts Competition is over, if I still have any pills, I will come to you again to sell them."

Now she would take some time out every night to make pills, but not every pill she made was 100% of the top quality.

"Oh... that's good."

After the three of them left Shopkeeper Zhang's shop, they went to several shops in the outer city, but in the end they did not find a shop that sold fourth-grade elixirs.

Pills above the fourth level are very precious. If a store buys them, doesn’t it hide them for its own use?
If you are lucky, you may find some bargains, but those are the items that the store deliberately leaves for sale in order to attract business.

Unfortunately, Zhang Ran is the unlucky one.