After the Fairy Disappeared

  He tentatively asked, "You don't usually eat so much, do you?"

"Of course not, otherwise the Ke family will be poor if they have the mysterious crystal mine." Fang Canran continued, "As rich as the Ke family, if you want to feed the torch, you won't just use infinite gold, you have to add more. Just coax it to eat half full. So according to the list I made just now, it only needs 1.2 million taels."

   "As long as." He Lingchuan smiled bitterly. He ransacked his whole body, and that was enough to pay a small change.

   All right, the plan to feed the torch to sleep and then act is bankrupt at this moment.

  If you don’t have money, you have no money, even if you sell it, you can’t get together 1.2 million taels. If a person bows to reality, he has to think of another plan B.

   "Do you know why the emperor assigned it to the Ke family? Not everyone can afford to worship the torch."

  He Lingchuan nodded again and again: "Then can I stand in the Star Picking Tower and throw ores into the rock pool?"

   "Yes." Why is this boy so interested in the torch?

   Could this be the "entrustment from a friend"?

  He Lingchuan rolled his eyes: "By the way, I remember Brother Fang once said that in recent years, the quantity of heterogeneous ores purchased by the Ke family through Dunyuan has been continuously declining."

   "Mr. He has a good memory."

   "Did the Ke family find another purchaser?"

   "No." Fang Canran shook his head, "We have cooperated with the Ke family for many years, and Dunyuan's supply has always been the most stable in price and quality."

  There was a touch of arrogance in his words: "Mr. He may not know that the most important thing for this kind of long-term cooperation is stable quality, but the price is second."

   "Then why did the Ke family purchase less?" He Lingchuan stroked his chin, "Could it be that they dare to withhold the offering of the torch?"

Fang Canran considered his words for a while: "Actually, Tiangong and the Ke family are responsible for the enshrinement of the torch in proportion. Tiangong takes about 70%, and the Ke family pays the remaining 30%. As far as I know, this ratio has been implemented for a hundred years, and it has never Change."

  He Lingchuan suddenly realized.

  The gods appointed the Xuanjing Mine to the Ke family. Although it is a supreme honor, the Ke family has a lot of obligations. Just worshiping, uh, actually feeding Shanze, is a huge expense—

  It's so big that even Tiangong doesn't want to bear it alone.

  But if they pay Sanqi, the Ke family will not be able to deduct the rations of the torch without authorization.

  The problem lies with Tiangong—the food and treatment provided by Tiangong to Yuju over the years has generally been downgraded.

  He Lingchuan can easily figure out why:

  After the spirit-gathering formation was put into use, it formed a huge suppression on the torch, making this rock fire monster unable to do whatever it wanted like before. Tiangong also hated that it caused a great earthquake in Lingxu City more than ten years ago, which severely reduced the prestige of the god. Now that the watchdog has been chained, Tiangong will teach it a lesson so that it will not starve to death.

  Of course, the objective reason is that the aura of heaven and earth has further declined in the past ten years, and the production capacity of the Xuanjing Mine has decreased, and the offerings to the torch cannot be as abundant as before.

  He Lingchuan said with a smile: "Poor Shanze must be very hungry. Well, Brother Fang doesn't happen to have these two flavors of ore?"

  He read out the two that seemed to be the cheapest on the list: "Shaoling Mine and... Qianjinyan?"

  Fang Canran is also a person with a good memory. After counting in his mind for a long time, he nodded: "Yes, there are."

Before He Lingchuan had time to smile, he continued, "Rough ore from the Shaoling Mine costs thirty taels of silver per catty. You have to bring at least three hundred catties to the Zhaixing Building. If you don't bring any less, you'll be in vain. I don’t bother to talk to you; Qianjinyan is cheaper, twenty taels of silver a catty, but Shanze doesn’t seem to like it very much.”

  He Lingchuan felt a sharp pain in his heart: "Three hundred catties?"

   Damn it, three hundred catties of Shaoling mine is nine thousand taels! Add another three hundred catties of Qianjinyan, and it will be fifteen thousand taels!

  Do nothing, but want to say hello to Yan Ju, and you have to pay 15,000 taels for the meeting fee? !

   Fifteen million dollars.

   No wonder Tiangong wants to deduct its rations. This stuff is too **** good to eat, and it only chooses expensive ones to eat.

  Fang Canran saw the veins throbbing on his forehead, and kindly said, "I can give you a 10% discount."

   "20% off, okay?" He Lingchuan smiled wryly, "Look at how happy we chatted today, let's make a friendly price."

   "Indeed...the 20% off, no less." A love affair hurts money.

   "Okay, when can I pick it up?"

"Tomorrow." Fang Canran also reminded him, "But these things are just snacks for it, and it's hard to say whether it wants to come out. You see people throw offerings down on the stone bridge of the Star Picking Tower all day long, but the mountain Ze never shows up. It’s not a koi in a lotus pond, and if it stutters, it will definitely show up.”

  "..." Are you kidding him? Throwing the fifteen thousand taels into the magma, maybe you can't hear a sound of water?

   "You'd better add some spirit wood to it to adjust its taste."

   That is to say, you have to spend more money? He Lingchuan felt his scalp go numb, and suddenly remembered something:

   "Uh, yes, can sea wood work?"

   "Do you have it in your hand?" Fang Canran thought for a while, "It's okay, but the vintage must be good, or the taste must be special."

   "Is there a difference?"

   "Of course, spirit wood has life, and life is very different, not as stable as ore."

  He Lingchuan took a deep breath: "Thank you, Brother Fang! By the way—"

  He remembered something again: "Can you get Shuangwan?"

   "Shuang Wan?" Fang Canran thought for a long time, "It sounds familiar, what is it for?"

   "The spar produced by a certain kind of Danube is a special product that can only be obtained in Caohai activities."

Fang Canran let out a long "Oh": "I remember. The last Caohai event did not hunt out frost pills. If you want it, you may have to wait a few days for the Caohai event to start. I can collect it for you, but This item is very rare and may not be received.”

  He Lingchuan knew it well, and took out 7,700 taels of silver notes: "Here, the money from Shaoling Mine. Let's forget about Qianjinyan."

  It is a little bit to save a little. His aunt's, the bank note he just got from Fang Canran, returned it before it was warmed up!

  Fang Canran took the bank notes without giving change at all. "It will be delivered tomorrow."

  He Lingchuan was about to go back, Fang Canran sent him to the gate of the villa, the two sides said goodbye with a smile.

  Trying each other this time is over.

  …

  Fang Canran returned to Dunyuan.

  In a huge manor, he lives in a two-story building with a single-door detached house on the west side. In the splendor and exquisite buildings of Dunyuan, it is unremarkable but quiet.

  Fang Canran walked up to the bedroom on the second floor, and the servants quickly left after filling up the hot water. Manager Fang came here to rest because he didn't like to be disturbed by others, and the whole Dunyuan knew it well.

   While he was washing his face with water, there was the sound of flapping wings, and then a slightly rough voice asked him:

   "You went to test that kid, what happened?"

  A large red-backed and blue-winged parrot landed on the washbasin stand, and its cheeks were covered with fine lines.

   "I didn't find out." Fang Canran casually placed a barrier, checked the room again, and then told everything about the trip to Pianxiang Villa.

  The big parrot flapped its wings when it heard the tension: "I said a long time ago, you shouldn't do it yourself! Strategizing is your strong point!"

   "The strong hand hasn't returned yet, and the rest of the people can't deal with He Xiao." So he took action himself, "It's about the thread ring, and I don't want the third person to know."

   But Parrot was right, he shouldn't have taken the risk.

   "Where did this person come from, so clear about old man Shao's past?" The parrot shook its feathers, "Could it be that you have been suspected, and this person is here to test you?"

   "No outsiders would know the address he read out." Fang Canran shook his head, "Now only you know and I know, not even the Fang family branch. Lingxu City? Impossible."

   "How much truth do you think he told? He talked about his own background, that's pure nonsense." The parrot cried, "It's a prevarication without sincerity."

   "If another person came, I would think that he wanted to blackmail or blackmail me, which would be easier to deal with." Fang Canran wiped his face with a towel, "The most troublesome one is the one who can't see the motive clearly."

  The voice of the parrot became high-pitched: "Is the chain of vows sure to be effective? What if he still finds a way to harm you? The demon will go crazy when he hears the name of your ancestor, and he won't give you a chance to protest."

"He wants to get in touch with me, but he seems to have scruples, so he only tells the truth." Fang Canran was not in a hurry, "I checked his behavior in the case of the old medicine, and Zhong Sunmou and Cen Boqing harmed him several times. They were all resolved, just like what happened to him in Lingxu City. Others probably died several times. This person's means and will cannot be underestimated. And he followed the case from Chiyan Kingdom to Lingxu City. Come, if he said that he had some premeditated plans for me, or was instructed by someone, um—”

  Fang Canran shook his head: "Not like."

   "Then what are you going to do?" The parrot was a little anxious, walking up and down on the shelf on two legs, "Just let it go?"

   "He actually asked about the offering of the torch today, and I told him too."

   "Sacrifices? He actually asked about the offerings!" The parrot was nervous, its feathers stood up, and one bird seemed to swell into two, "Did he find something!"

   "Not necessarily." Fang Canran stroked his chin, "Is this man rushing to the torch? What's his plan?"

   "It won't be the same as you, right?" The parrot said angrily, "You know everything about Lingxu City, and you have failed."

   "The gods won't sit back and watch the crater under the **** erupt again, so this matter is not easy to handle." Fang Canran thought for a while, "But when it comes to the case of elixir, there is another strange thing."

   "Ah, what?"

"The case handed over by the Chiyan Kingdom shocked the royal court, because it involved Da Si Nong and Tong Xinwei. I heard that several elders rushed to the Zhaixing Tower to surround the emperor in the middle of the night, and wanted to consider who to send Bai Shahao as a special envoy. .It was going to be a long game here, but the emperor said that Bai Ziqi is already in the Chiyan country, so he can just be transferred there to deal with it. The elders were caught off guard and were very unhappy."

   "What's the matter?"

   "Bai Ziqi is Du Yun's deputy envoy, trusted by the gods and valued by the emperor, he is indeed the best candidate to handle this case. But..."