Chapter 92: Price Reduction

July 13, 2023Ai Hrist

Lu Jiu has recently rewarded more and more city-state resources, and now people become permanent residents almost every day, but at present, they were still professional players, and ordinary residents haven’t been yet.

Lu Jiu said: “Colorful spiders are good, but there are too many of them. I still want to collect some meat. Let’s go to Baiguo Forest tomorrow. There are 3-5 wild boar bosses in groups over there, which can be considered a venue for several cities to obtain a large amount of meat.”

Back then, there was only one wild boar boss, and a few city-states that were close to it were fighting for it. Now brown iron-level wild monsters were flooding, and ordinary-level bosses were starting to swarm.

When Shen Jufeng heard wild boars, he seemed to recall their delicacy: “In addition to wild boars, there are also many brown iron-level small fragrant pigs. Let’s go there tomorrow.”

Lu Jiu has never been to the Baiguo Grove since she came back from Jinghe District, and everyone rarely mentions wild monsters other than the colorful spider recently.

They were all dazzled by the colorful spider.

“Little fragrant pig! I want to eat barbecue, so let’s go there tomorrow.”

It can be said that the professional residents of several city-states have been focusing on killing colorful spiders recently, and the Baiguo Grove was rarely visited by people, or no one mentions it at all.

Lu Jiu checked her backpack, and there was still some meat left from killing wild boars, so she suggested: “I still have a lot of roast sausages and some meat, let’s eat barbecue tonight.”

Zhuang Yun said: “I still have some left over. To keep the shelf life longer, Old Man Zeng made sausages for me. They are delicious, but sometimes I still want to eat them fresh.”

The three of them decided on the content of the dinner without any objection.

Back in the city, Lu Jiu took the colorful spider eggs given to her by the other two teammates to find Old Man Zeng and his grandson.

After they moved to the residential area, Old Man Zeng was very envious. If it wasn’t for the high level of the colorful spider, he would have wanted to go out and fight.

Since it was confirmed that the colorful spiders could be bred, Lu Jiu and others contacted Old Man Zeng and made a private deal, but the old man paid according to the standard transaction price in the city.

Because the three of them got too many colorful spider eggs, Lu Jiu intentionally asked Old Man Zeng to become the colorful spider egg wholesaler in the borrowed building.

The grandfather and grandson can only raise nearly a hundred of them a week, and the rest were sold to others for 15-30 copper coins.

*Tock tock tock*

Old Man Zeng heard the knock on the door and asked: “Who is it?”

“It’s me, Lu Jiu.”

Hearing that it was Lu Jiu, Tang Yi immediately opened the door. Thanks to Lu Jiu’s blessing, their family accumulated a lot of wealth these days, so it was no problem to buy a house in a residential area.

“Sister Jiu, come in quickly.” Tang Yi called her Sister Jiu just like Zhuang Antong.

After Lu Jiu came in, she got straight to the point and took out more than a hundred colorful spider eggs. A few of them could kill more than a hundred colorful spiders in one day.

Because it was too easy to obtain, the professional players in the city who wanted to stock up at the beginning gave up. Originally, the effective incubation time of colorful spider eggs was only 3 months.

“Old Zeng, here are today’s eggs, a total of 146, with a total price of 18,250 copper coins.”

They have been trading for a long time. Everyone envies Old Man Zeng, he only has one grandson but has good relations with several professional residents, which were willing to supply him.

Old Man Zeng also came out of the house. The room was a bit cold. He handed a small heating stove to Lu Jiu: “Hurry up and warm yourself, I haven’t started using fire yet at home.”

Fire passages were available in every room. Residents now live in houses with mezzanines, which also have fire passages for burning firewood, allowing heat to spread throughout the house in all directions.

Lu Jiu took over the small heater, and Tang Yi next to her was also holding one in his hand, and the cover that wrapped the heater was made by Zhuang Antong.

Old Man Zeng paid for the stove and went to his room to get money. According to the belief not to put all the eggs in one basket, many residents have several places to put money.

When he came out, Old Man Zeng gave Lu Jiu 18 silver coins plus 250 copper coins: “Oh, 250 is too ugly, add 10 more.”

Lu Jiu just smiled and didn’t refuse.

After collecting the money, Lu Jiu said, “Mr. Zeng, you also know that the purchase price of silk in the mission hall has come down, and the price of the colorful spider eggs will also be reduced in the future. Starting tomorrow, the price of a spider egg will be 90 copper coins.”

Old Man Zeng knew about this, and the price of this silk thread was reduced today, the city lord said that the silk thread was too saturated, so the price was reduced, but the lowest price of the colorful spider silk thread was set at 1 silver coin, which was the same as the purchase price of the tailor shop.

While the price of colorful spider silk thread was 500 copper coins. The exclusive window for the colorful spider egg of the city owner has been sold out long ago, so there was no reminder of how much the price has dropped.

Old Man Zeng said: “No problem, this old man has earned enough during this time, and it doesn’t matter if the price drops more.”

They all expected the price of the colorful spider silk thread to drop. After all, there were too many colorful spiders. If it wasn’t for the game world, they were all worried that the colorful spiders would take over the world.

“By the way, we will go to Baiguo Grove tomorrow, and we will ask you to make sausages then.”

Old Man Zeng knew the wild boar in the Baiguo Forest, the meat of the pigs there was too fragrant. Among the wild monsters near the city, there were very few pigs.

“What is there to worry about? This old man has the cooking skill to make them.”

If it weren’t for this skill, he wouldn’t know how to support his grandson.

Before she left, Lu Jiu left about ten catties of fresh wild mountain pork for Old Man Zeng.

After the big update of the game before, Old Man Zeng was worried that the pork would not be finished in time, so he marinated them and kept them for the winter. The remaining fresh meat had been exhausted some time ago.

Tang Yi swallowed drooling looking at the wild boar pork, Old Man Zeng said with a smile: “Save all of these, I’ll make you braised pork today, okay?”

No matter how sensible Tang Yi was, he is still a child, and his resistance to food was not strong. “Okay!”

During this period, what he ate most was mutton. No matter how delicious the fresh mutton was, he would miss the familiar pork delicacy after a long time.

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When Lu Jiu went to Zhuang Yun’s house, Zhuang Antong was still feeding the colorful spiders, but she got goosebumps when she saw this, so she didn’t bother the child.

The cut meat was being cooked on the grill, and the clear oil and the red meat make a pleasant oily sound, and soon the tip of the nose can smell the aroma.

Zhuang Yun served dipping sauces for several people, there were dry dishes and wet dishes, all of which were uniformly spicy.

In addition to fresh pork, Zhuang Yun also cut up mutton and venison and put a few grilled sausages. Zhuang Antong was looking at the grilled sausages eagerly.

If people want to say that the game world was a bit good, well it was, people don’t need to avoid food. As long as it was not poisonous, they will not get fat no matter how much they eat, and there was no problem of getting disease.

While waiting for the barbecue, Zhuang Yun brought some dishes of stewed vegetables, all bought from Old Man Zeng.

Zhuang Antong temporarily gnawed on the braised chicken legs, staring at her beloved sausage.

Lu Jiu was eating the lo mei, remembering that she didn’t know how much pork Shen Jufeng left, she looked up at him, and asked: “Is the pork you save before still have a good shelf life? Why don’t you take it out and sell it, anyway, we’ll make it fresh tomorrow.”

Shen Jufeng didn’t even lift his eyelids, he just replied: “I’ve finished eating.”

Lu Jiu’s eyes widened, she couldn’t believe it: “So much, can you finish it?”

The pork she got was sold by her, and most of it was given to restaurants in the city. Who made her the city lord?

“Are you a pig?” Lu Jiu questioned his soul.