Chapter 69 What a coincidence!
Chapter 69 What a coincidence!
The news of Xia's arrival in the county town quickly reached the ears of those who were interested.
Weijia Village, Anping County
Upon hearing that Xia Mo was coming to the county town, Wei Zhishu quickly asked his attendant to bring him clothes, as he wanted to pick out a nice set.
Wei Zhishu's movements were so large that it would be difficult for Huangfu Qianxiang not to notice them.
Inside the side courtyard where Huangfu Qian lived—
Jiang Feng said, "Master, it is Miss Xia who has entered the county town, and Young Master Wei plans to 'accidentally' meet her."
Huangfu Qian's brows furrowed slightly without his notice.
Jiang Feng asked, "Master, did Miss Xia recognize you?"
Huangfu Qianying glanced at Jiang Feng, his eyes seeming to say: Nonsense.
Jiang Feng whispered, "Could it be that Miss Xia is attracted by the identity of the Third Young Master of Zhongwei? If that's the case, as long as you reveal your identity, Miss Xia will definitely choose you!"
Huangfu Qianying glanced at Jiang Feng with disdain, suppressing his impatience, and waved his hand, signaling Jiang Feng to step back.
Jiang Feng stole a glance at Huangfu Qian. Without his master's orders, he dared not act on his own.
* * *
Outside Anping County, on the road to Anjia Village—
Boss Gao watched as the jailer took the items into the prison, not knowing whether they had been delivered to Xia's father and brother.
On the way back, Boss Gao raised a question.
"It's in Dad's and Big Brother's hands," Xia Mo tilted her head slightly, gave a cute and playful reply.
She used her divine sense to follow the jailer, watching him and the guards deliver the items to cell number eight, where Xia's father and elder brother were located.
"I've been wanting to ask this before. It's almost Chinese New Year in a little over a month. Are they going to drag out the case until then?" Boss Gao held back for a moment, but couldn't help asking.
Mentioning this, Xia Erge's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.
Yes, he also wanted to know when their trial would begin, and how long they would keep his father and older brother imprisoned!
Xia Mo glanced at Boss Gao, her eyes darting around, but she remained silent.
In fact, the fact that the other party was deliberately dragging out the case of Xia's father and brother was actually a good thing for her.
Currently, with her not-so-powerful body as a medium, she has too little spiritual power to use, making it impossible to remove the ultra-mini chip in Sun Zheng's brain without harming him.
At the same time, Wei Zhishu rushed to the side of the street that was the only way out of the city and waited for Xia Mo and the others to pass by. Then, he was told that Xia Mo had already left.
Wei Zhishu was filled with disappointment at that moment.
* * *
Anjia Village, Xiajia Village—
Brother Xia thanked Boss Gao and gave him twenty coins as payment for helping him move the items.
The morning is only halfway over; there's still plenty of time today.
After greeting her mother, second brother, and third brother at the end of summer, and solemnly instructing her third brother to protect her mother and second brother, she headed back towards the mountains.
She could make money by hunting, but relying on hunting to make a quick buck was not a long-term solution. Moreover, the amount of jade she needed was far more than a few hundred taels of silver could cover.
The immediate problem is that she needs to make a quick buck, at least a thousand taels, and then buy five pieces of slightly spiritual jade to add to the medicine for strengthening her body, which she will then use for bathing.
Xia Mo pretended to go into the mountains, but in reality, she took a detour, sped up, and headed towards Anning City, the capital of the prefecture.
Half an hour later—
The carriage journey would have taken more than four hours, but Xia Mo used his swift movement technique and arrived in just half an hour.
Beside the side city wall of Anning City—
With a quick tiptoe, Xia Mo used her second-level Refining Spirit cultivation, without relying on her divine sense, to easily leap onto the nearly 1.5 zhang (4.5 meters) high wall.
As summer ended, Xia entered Anning City and quickly deployed his divine sense, gathering information about jade while moving towards the clinic where he had previously sold medicine.
As soon as Xia Mo appeared, her face covered by a face mask, Pharmacist Zheng recognized her and warmly greeted her.
Pharmacist Zheng's enthusiasm surprised the doctors, apprentices, waiters, and patients in the clinic.
Xia Mo gestured with her hands.
Pharmacist Zheng immediately understood and gestured for Xia Mo to walk into the inner hall.
People in the lobby of the clinic stared curiously at Xia Mo's figure.
Who is this person that Pharmacist Zheng values so highly?
Xia Mo decisively opened the rectangular box in his hand, revealing two thousand-year-old ginseng plants and a large Ganoderma lucidum.
Pharmacist Zheng's eyes widened instantly, and he carefully and excitedly reached out to take it.
"These two are thousand-year-old ginseng. As I mentioned before, ginseng less than a thousand years old is valued at 20 taels per hundred years. But for ginseng over a thousand years old, the price is directly estimated. The current market price for a thousand-year-old ginseng is 300 taels. What do you think?"
Pharmacist Zheng's heart pounded with excitement. If he were to miss out on these two thousand-year-old ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum, he would regret it so much that he would want to die.
Xia Mo pointed to the large Ganoderma lucidum and asked Zheng Yaoliang to estimate its value.
“This kind of thick-fleshed Ganoderma lucidum is rare, and its quality is even better. The current market price is estimated to be three hundred taels per plant. Of course, it cannot be compared with our selling price,” Pharmacist Zheng swallowed and looked expectantly at Xia Mo.
Xia Mo frowned, pointed to the two thousand-year-old ginseng and large Ganoderma lucidum, and gestured three times four hundred, which means one thousand two hundred taels.
Pharmacist Zheng thought that Xia Mo was now Dr. Lin's sweetheart. Although Dr. Lin was not in the clinic at the moment, if he made an exception for Xia Mo, it would be equivalent to doing Dr. Lin a favor.
"Twelve hundred taels is too much. I can only give you one thousand taels at most. Is that alright?" Pharmacist Zheng looked at Xia Mo expectantly.
Xia Mo stared at Pharmacist Zheng for a while, then nodded.
"You want cash, right? I'll go get it now," Pharmacist Zheng said with a smile as he carried the medicine box to his account to withdraw the money.
With a thousand taels in hand, Xia Mo turned and left.
"Aren't you going to wait for Dr. Lin?" Pharmacist Zheng asked, trying to persuade him to stay.
Xia Mo paused for a moment to listen to what Pharmacist Zheng had to say. "Oh, that's what it is," she thought. Without the slightest hesitation, she took a step and left.
Pharmacist Zheng sighed as he watched Xia Mo's departing figure: "It seems the man is in love, but the woman is not. Alas..."
At the end of summer, Dr. Kobayashi was just a minor figure in her life, someone she didn't take seriously. She never imagined that she would have a connection with Dr. Kobayashi before, but that's another story.
At the end of summer, he took a thousand taels of silver and went straight to the jade mine.
It's such a coincidence.
The triennial jade fair (gambling stone convention) was postponed by a few days this year for some reason, and she just happened to run into it.
What a coincidence!
Xia Mo thought of the "luck value" marked in the live streaming system, and the comments that said she was protected by luck and that if you wanted her to die, you had to absorb all of her luck first.
She suspected that her arrival today, coinciding with the triennial jade gambling convention, was also related to her luck.
Very good!
She possesses divine sense, allowing her to penetrate stone and see if there is jade inside, as well as the quality of the jade!
This casino event seemed to have been specially postponed and opened for her by fate, as if to lend her a helping hand!
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