After the fog, I became a birdman

Chapter 160 The 2nd Year Rainy Season

After the goods came out, Su Qing's pace was one or two points faster than before, and Qi Jiang followed with some doubts.

The two went straight to the street, about four or five hundred meters away from the small store. Su Qing turned around and saw the boss with a livid face holding dried fish from the drawer and kept chewing. He was afraid that the boss would find out that he didn't want to be around. He laughed, but thinking about what happened in the store just now, he still couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing in a low voice.

"What's wrong?" Qi Jiang asked softly.

"It's nothing." Su Qing smiled and left the street at a faster pace, his eyes full of gloating.

Qi Jiang followed in confusion, until they were almost outside the small town, Su Qing let go of the hand holding his mouth, and burst out laughing: "He is too miserable."

"Who?" Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively, "The owner of the small store?"

"That's right." Su Qing looked at Qi Jiang adoringly, "You bargained so hard, you didn't even look at his face, it turned blue."

Qi Jiang looked at Su Qing tenderly: "This is just the appearance he wants to show us. Being the owner of the only store on the island is not as simple as it seems on the surface."

The smile on Su Qing's face slowly disappeared, and he quickly realized: "You mean, he's acting? In fact, he didn't lose money at all?"

"That's natural." Qi Jiang explained to him with a smile, "The prices I get for all commodities are [-]% higher than his reserve price. There are few people in the town and the purchasing power is insufficient. He is eager to sell things to us, even if I directly bid the reserve price, and he will sell it in the end, but the profit is not that much."

Now not only has it been sold, but it has also been discounted by [-]%, making more money. How could the boss be as reluctant as he showed just now.

Su Qing frowned, and went back to the street with some reluctance, and found that the boss was really happy, which made him lose all luck, and the smile on his face disappeared completely uncontrollably: "Fuck it for a long time, clown Is it me?"

"Doing business is like this. Remember what I taught you?" Qi Jiang patiently enlightened, "Always let the partner feel that it is profitable to cooperate with you. That's what the owner of the small store does."

Su Qing sighed slightly, and wrote down this lesson in a small notebook with some discouragement: "Doing business is really complicated."

Qi Jiang laughed: "Then do you still learn?"

"Study!" Su Qing nodded affirmatively, and cheered up again, "Our stall is so big, I can't let you do everything, can I?"

The smile on Qi Jiang's face gradually grew bigger: "Then go back."

Su Qing let out a hum, and while walking and reviewing the order, she found a suspicious point: "Brother Jiang, since you already knew the boss's reserve price just now, why did you bid [-]% higher?"

"Business is all about sustainable development." Qi Jiang taught Su Qing little by little his own business experience, "Sometimes giving up profits is for future development. Although this small store is small, we may not come back in the future , but the years are long, maybe one day he will have what we want in his hand. Businessmen have always made friends widely. If you are too stingy and do not give people a way to live, it will easily spread, although our chamber of commerce has no competition now. products, don’t worry too much, but now is the new world, maybe in the future some merchants will have some things we need but don’t have, if we leave a good reputation, others will be more inclined to do business with us instead of We're in the second tier of partnership priorities and even lower."

Although he used to be the kind of businessman who didn't give any profit or life, Qi Jiang felt that Su Qing probably didn't like to learn that kind of business.

Su Qing was still listening carefully, pondering in his heart for a few minutes, he found that there were too many twists and turns, although he understood it, but when the time came, it would be difficult for him to think like Qi Jiang so many.

After counting the precautions written down in his small notebook, he felt a little headache, and felt that it was really difficult to take everything into consideration.

"Do you think it is more difficult than researching a brand new formation?"

Su Qing nodded heavily, his eyes full of distress: "It's not difficult to study formations, and I haven't encountered any bottlenecks in my practice so far."

Speaking of this, he continued to ask: "It's all because of my talent. You have considered it so thoroughly. Is it because you have a talent for doing business since you were a child?"

talent?

Qi Jiang smiled and shook his head: "It's all the experience of falling down one by one, it's not a talent."

Su Qing opened his eyes wide in surprise, and looked at Qi Jiang with even more admiration: "But you are only in your twenties."

"Just like you have been exposed to spiritual practice since childhood, I have also been exposed to these since childhood." Qi Jiang slowed down, and gently talked to Su Qing about some past events, "But my parents divorced before I was born. Well, before I was in elementary school, I was just carried by my grandfather to watch the company, and he would explain some of the tricks to me. When I was in the first grade of elementary school, my grandfather’s family went bankrupt, and I went back to Qi’s house, uncle..."

He stopped, chin pointing forward.

Su Qing, who was listening carefully, followed his line of sight and found a group of people wearing the badge of the Hope Base Management Department walking out of the wetland, and the one in the front was their acquaintance.

Liu Xingjie.

"The action is quite fast." Su Qing ended the conversation with Qi Jiang regretfully, "Do you want to go up and say hello?"

"Isn't our production line short of some raw materials? Ask him to come aboard and ask."

Su Qing's eyes flickered, ready to take notes: "What do we want to ask?"

"Ask about the output of raw materials, find out the largest wholesale supplier, the base price, and the biggest discount." Qi Jiang fell in love with his obedient note-taking appearance, and couldn't help bowing his head and kissing him.

Su Qing rolled his eyes, but he was still a little puzzled: "Isn't it okay for us to go to the Hope Base to inquire about this kind of thing?"

"But we still lack a messenger."

Su Qing had a flash of inspiration: "You mean, the one that makes a living?"

"Ruzi can be taught."

Qi Jiang smiled lightly and kissed Su Qing again, walked two quick steps to the front, getting closer and closer to Liu Xingjie and the town residents behind him.

"Team leader, it's Mr. Qi." The team member behind Liu Xingjie whispered.

Mayor Gu's eyes flashed, and he asked knowingly: "Group leader Liu also knows this Mr. Qi?"

"Of course." Liu Xingjie nodded with a smile, and visually measured the distance between the two sides, feeling a little too late, "Let's go faster."

Everyone quickened their pace and approached Qi Jiang and the others. Mayor Gu continued to inquire: "This Mr. Qi seems to be very respected by everyone. I wonder what position he holds in your base?"

"Mr. Qi is not from our base, he is a businessman."

Mayor Gu was a little surprised: "Mr. Qi is so powerful, didn't he come from your base? Then his base must be very powerful."

Liu Xingjie is not stupid, don't say he doesn't know where Qi and Su are from. Come grab the business.

"It's not easy for me to reveal this." He shook his head with a dry smile.

I hope the base is proficient in intercepting people, they walked in front of Qi Su and the two of them not long after, and they didn't let them slip away.

"Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, I didn't expect to meet you here." Liu Xingjie greeted with a smile, "I just came from the teleportation formation, we are really destined."

The team members behind him also greeted Qi and Su respectfully. They were a little curious after they hadn't had much contact with them, but they couldn't show it in front of the town residents.

"Group Leader Liu is more and more able to open his eyes and talk nonsense now." Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows, "The teleportation array was opened by our chamber of commerce. Didn't you expect us to be here?"

"Didn't you think that only the technical department needed to open the teleportation array remotely?" Liu Xingjie rubbed his nose with a dry smile, "Mr. Su wasn't there when we opened the teleportation array."

Qi Jiang let out a muffled laugh: "What do you want from me?"

"It's not a big deal, just say hello when I meet you, so that you won't ignore me in the future."

Yoho, this guy is getting thicker.

Su Qing suppressed a smile: "Go ahead, our boat is at the pier, you can come and sit if you have time."

"Today only." Qi Jiang added.

Liu Xingjie couldn't wait for it: "Okay!"

He watched Qi and Su get on the boat, and when he found the mysterious blurred ship at the pier, he was shocked again, and secretly wrote down this thing.

After a while, he apologized very sincerely: "I'm sorry, Mayor Gu, I neglected everyone just now, let's continue talking about seafood."

Mayor Gu still has self-knowledge. There are only 2 people in their town, and they can't even compare to the Hope Base. It's normal that they don't pay enough attention to them.

However, he was surprised that Liu Xingjie, as a fourth-level power user, who came from a large base and held an important position, would be so flattering: "What is Mr. Qi's chamber of commerce mainly about?"

"This... is a commercial secret."

He didn't want anyone to grab the business, but he never thought that his strict guarded attitude would make Mayor Gu even more curious, and reduce his doubts about the chamber of commerce, and he even planned to find an opportunity to ask Qi Jiang again.

Liu Xingjie didn't finish his work until the evening, when the heavy rain subsided. Thanks to the weather preference in the past two days, the hurricane at sea has not disturbed the island, otherwise his progress would not be so fast.

All day today, he walked around with Mayor Gu and collected a lot of information. After he was done, he returned to the guest room that Mayor Gu had arranged for him, and gathered information with the team members before he was free to go to the pier.

At this time, the tide had already risen, and the pier was relatively crude, and the height was not high, and most of it was already submerged by the tide.

Liu Xingjie waded to the pier and looked up at the blurry boat beside him. It felt like looking at a mosaic. He knew it was a boat, but he couldn't see the specific shape of the boat.

He couldn't hear any movement from below, so he shouted in the rain: "Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, I'm Liu Xingjie, is it convenient for you now?"

On the flying boat, Two Trees and One Soul, who were playing cards, hurriedly cleaned up the poker table, instead of returning to the owner, they found a random room to continue playing.

The mosaic was removed to reveal the original appearance of the flying boat. It looked like a two-story yacht. The whole looked like it was made of wood. Liu Xingjie didn't find any cracks on it, not even a nail.

The boat didn't have any windows, and it was relatively large. The draft was unexpectedly not deep, so it floated lightly on the water, as if it was made of foam boards.

He was still observing the ship, and when he looked up, he saw Qi Jiang pointing him in a direction: "The stairs are over there."

Liu Xingjie looked to the side, and really found a staircase that appeared at the place he just looked at. He was secretly surprised. After stepping on it, he found that the wind and rain were still isolated. He was shocked again, curiously Look at the wooden walls on both sides of the stairs and climb up the stairs.

Su Qing had already prepared tea and drinks on the deck, and when he saw Liu Xingjie's head emerging from the stairs, he said, "Come and drink tea."

Not seeing Qi Jiang who just showed him the way, Liu Xingjie felt a little strange: "Where is Mr. Qi?"

"I went to the warehouse to check the goods." Su Qing picked up a cup of tea and took a small sip, "What's the matter? What can I do with him?"

"That's not true." Liu Xingjie lowered his head to drink tea, and took two gulps, "Mr. Su, your boat looks so special, did it come from the base?"

"No." Su Qing put down the teacup, "It was given by the base when I came out, otherwise the world is so big, we can't run around."

"I saw that you didn't take it out before, so I thought it was delivered recently." Liu Xingjie continued to inquire.

"There was no need to use a boat in Maomiao Continent before. After all, this guy still consumes energy." Qi Jiang walked out of the cabin, "It's just that you are here, I have a few questions to ask you."

Liu Xingjie stopped drinking tea, the rim of the cup was still on his mouth, and he didn't know whether he should continue to drink for a while.

He said why Mr. Qi and Mr. Su were so amiable today, they were waiting for him here.

"Don't worry, it's not something confidential." Qi Jiang sat next to Su Qing, "We've been short of some basic materials recently, and we couldn't find them on the island today. I just want to ask if you want them at the base."

Liu Xingjie heaved a sigh of relief, drank the last sip of tea, and gulped it down: "Hey, it's a small matter, just ask whatever you want."

That being the case, Qi Jiang was not polite, and started with some very commonly used materials, and Su Qing who was on the side strictly followed the knowledge points in the small book to assist from time to time.

Liu Xingjie didn't notice anything wrong all the time, and was soon set up by Qi Jiang and Su Qing, and got the information they wanted.

After the chat, it was completely dark, and Liu Xingjie got up to say goodbye: "Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, it's getting late, so I'll go back first, so I won't disturb you two."

Qi Jiang stood up: "I'll see you off."

"No need, just two steps." Liu Xingjie didn't have the nerve to bother him.

That being the case, Qi Jiang didn't insist: "The tide is high below, you should be careful."

"Okay." Liu Xingjie walked to the stairs, walked down a few steps and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Mr. Qi, when are you leaving?"

Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows, stood on the deck and asked, "Why do you ask this?"

"I heard from the residents of the small town that you were just passing by, so I was a little curious about how many days you were going to stay."

"Let's release some collection tasks tonight and leave." Qi Jiang came along, "It's been a long time since the base told us to open up trade routes. If we don't leave, I'm afraid there will be opinions from above."

In other words, the town has no time to find out what products Mr. Qi and the others are selling?

Liu Xingjie rejoiced in his heart: "Then I wish you two a smooth journey."

"Thank you."

Liu Xingjie continued to walk down, and when he almost finished the stairs, he faintly felt that something was wrong, and turned back: "Mr. Qi, what is the collection task you are talking about?"

A gleam of satisfaction flashed in Qi Jiang's eyes, who was going to stop him from revealing the news, and he replied naturally: "Of course, a batch of goods is imported and sold to other bases. The teleportation array of the base can't be sent here yet. If we can’t send it, what do we live on if we don’t want other ways to make ends meet?”

Liu Xingjie's attention was diverted, and his eyes rolled away, probably because he recently received some scriptures from Vice President Zhou, and now he is thinking about business: "Then can you bring some to our base?"

Qi Jiang declined with the same tone: "You can sell it to us."

Feeling a little disappointed, Liu Xingjie went down, waved thanks to the two on the deck, and disappeared into the rainy night.

Qi Jiang looked at him and secretly thought that Liu Xingjie was still young, and if Vice Commander Zhou was in charge, he would probably continue to question him.

"Let's go, go release the mission." Su Qing was a little excited, "I didn't expect that there would be such a way to wholesale supplies in Hope Base, and the price would be so low."

"It's also Liu Xingjie who is young and easy to talk about, but he seemed to feel something was wrong just now, and he probably will be able to react when he gets home." Qi Jiang smiled lightly and shook his head.

As Qi Jiang thought, Liu Xingjie realized something was wrong shortly after he returned to the temporary residence.

The collection task that Qi Jiang mentioned just now does not exist on the island, so he is going to the Hope Base to purchase supplies?

Liu Xingjie carefully recalled the conversation on the boat before, and realized that he had been tricked, and patted himself on the head regretfully: "Oh! I was careless!"

He hurriedly ran out again and wanted to notify the base, but when he was halfway through the run, he suddenly realized that he couldn't solve the problem at all in the past.

Unless...he stops the deal.

This is impossible, he can't do this kind of unproductive thing, even if he can do it, he doesn't have the authority, even if he has the authority, he doesn't dare, unless the base doesn't want to use the teleportation array in the future, and doesn't want to follow Qi Su and the two of them. I bought something there.

"Oh! Really!" Liu Xingjie stomped his feet angrily in the rain.

When he returned to the temporary residence again, Qi and Su also came back from Hope Base, and the flying boat docked at the pier soon sailed to the depths of the sea again.

Su Qing learned a lot of useful business lessons today, tried it on poor Liu Xingjie and found it quite effective, and decided to cook for himself when he was in a good mood at night.

The kitchen was occupied by the enthusiastic Su Qing, and Qi Jiang went in to help but was rejected. In the end, he simply went to draw the design of the production line.

The two trees and one soul on the ship had nothing to do. They had never seen the so-called production line with their own eyes and ran to watch for a few minutes. After a while, they felt bored and went back to the deck to start their happy playing time.

When drawing cards, Xiang Shengshu couldn't help saying with emotion: "Honestly speaking, the Taoist partner Su Qing found is really reliable. He can figure out things like the production line. If you didn't say it was feasible, I wouldn't have done it." I want to keep them busy."

"It's indeed feasible." The Creation Tree touched a card with a bud, "I discovered this problem when Su Qing taught Fengcheng's talisman masters to draw symbols before, but it's not easy to mention it. It's a good thing that they have realized it now. "

"Senior, couldn't you draw talismans like this before?" Long Hun was a little curious.

"Of course not!" Xiang Shengshu retorted immediately, "The four major auxiliary industries have few talents, and they depend on their talents to eat, even if they are apprentices and entry-levels, they have to be careful every time they are made. If the environment is not suitable, the success will fall short, even if it is a previous standard object, it is not exactly the same, there will be more or less differences."

Dragon Soul suddenly realized, and was a little puzzled: "However, today's situation is similar to before, and you also say that the rules have not changed. Why can we directly produce mechanically now?"

"The core of the law has not changed, but the law of operation has changed." The Creation Tree patiently explained to him, "Although human beings have done a lot of harm and demands to the parent star in the past, we cannot deny the advantages of technology. Although technology cannot Bringing the mother planet back to life, but the way of heaven does recognize the era of science and technology, so after the recovery of the aura, it changed the law of operation and incorporated some characteristics of the era of science and technology."

"That is to say, in the future, formations can also be mass-produced?"

"There is a chance, there is a way, but mass production itself is very difficult, right four." Tree of Creation played a card, "Puppet art was a skill comparable to formations in those days, also known as the fifth assistant."

"Yes Qi." Dragon Soul was a little curious, "Is puppet art so difficult?"

"Yes." Xiang Shengshu snorted and explained to him, "The puppet art has been lost for so long. The Su family has passed it down for so many years, and there is only one puppet master. Not only the Su family, but the whole world There is no one who can inherit his mantle."

"To Q." Tree of Creation continued to add, "An advanced puppeteer is proficient in all kinds of existences. Even entry-level puppetry is three points more difficult than refining weapons. Others can only learn superficially at best. .”

"No." Long Hun shook his head and continued to ask, "But I see that Qi Jiang is quite handy when he learns puppet art."

"No." Xiang Shengshu sighed with some regret, "That's because the knowledge of refining weapons is needed in the early stage of puppet art, and after that, you have to study the inscription patterns. If you want the puppet to be spiritual, I still have to study soul-hunting technique, and combine it with alchemy to make a puppet, um... a brain."

"Three with three belts and one with five." Fortune Tree also sighed slightly, "There are many ways to do this. Qi Jiang doesn't have much talent in magic talismans and formations. It's too difficult for him to delve into inscription patterns. Su Qing There is a chance to become an advanced puppet master, but I don’t think he has much interest in this way, I haven’t seen him touch weapon refining and alchemy for a long time.”

"No."

"Hey~ just right, three fives and one three." Xiang Shengshu laughed and played the cards in his hand, and then continued to explain, "Actually, Su Qing is also protected by the ancestors, and the inheritance of the Su family is very comprehensive. A genius can be an all-rounder, although Su Qing is not a real all-rounder, but in terms of knowledge resources, he is much richer than Qi Jiang."

"Actually, it doesn't matter. I don't think Qi Jiang is very interested in puppet art." The Fortune Tree played a few more cards and went out, "I don't even think he is interested in refining weapons and alchemy, just for the needs of life. Just go to learn, look at the magic tools he made himself, what kind of spatula, machete, shower head, what a mess."

"Pfft~" Xiang Shengshu smirked, "So outrageous?"

"Oh, there are even more outrageous things. Fruit knives are magic tools, even alchemy, such as water purification pills, seasoning pills, flavoring pills, incense pills, it makes my head feel big. Such a mess."

Xiang Shengshu laughed again: "Then what is he interested in?"

Dragon Soul and Creation Tree spoke in unison in a very speechless voice: "I'm interested in Su Qing."

Xiang Shengshu: ...that makes sense.