Astral Ant Tribe

Long Bai returned to the ant nest, asked questions, and made a tour.

This year the junipers are doing very well. When the cypress fruits are mature and picked, all the fruit branches are pruned to avoid wasting plant nutrients.

The five cypress trees in the Longbai territory and the nine common orchids in the Molan territory have all been harvested, dried and stored.

Juniper keeps the territory in good order.

Junipers stand guard next to the god-given seeds of fruit orchid in the north of the mountain.

…

Long Bai confirmed that everything was fine during his absence and felt relieved. He took the swamp water in a bamboo tube and transported it down the mountain overnight.

I was busy until midnight.

After resting for a short while, we started packing our goods again the next morning, preparing to head north to Yinbai Mountain.

Inventory and summary:

240 god-given ghost fans, worth 6,000 rough stones.

500 rice seeds, a gift from the gods, worth 1,300 rough stones.

200 jujube seeds, a gift from God, are not discounted and are worth 2,000 rough stones.

The cypress seeds and orchid seeds produced by the ordinary life seeds in Long Bai and Mo Lan's own territories can also be worth 1,000 rough stones.

There are also various ordinary force foods just collected from the ghost fan territory, including 3,000 ordinary ghost fans.

4,300 rough stones were collected, and about 300 were distributed to Bailiu. The remaining 4,000 rough stones, calculated based on the lowest 20% profit of traveling merchants, would become goods worth 4,800 rough stones in Longbai and Molan.

The total value of zero and zero is 15,100 rough stones.

It may already be winter in the north.

Long Bai and Mo Lan didn't want to suffer the cold anymore, and neither could the special blue ants.

We set off urgently in the middle of the morning.

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The cold wind howls, the vegetation withers, and the silent northern plains.

Yinbai Mountain.

Looking around, the strips of persimmon orchards are like a golden-red belt wrapped around the mountainside.

Shan Shi was busy picking persimmon fruits, carefully and attentively, and he didn't notice until the ruler's throne was approaching.

"Yamaki!"

Long Bai and Mo Lan greeted.

Shan Shi was stunned for a while, then responded in surprise: "Long Bai Ant King! Mo Lan!"

Long Bai took the initiative to explain: "This year's transactions are too busy, and the throne cannot fly very fast, so Mo Lan and I arrived a little late."

Mo Lan asked: "Shanshi, the persimmon fruits produced by your persimmon tree have already matured, right? Are they still there?"

Shan Shi said: "It has been mature for about ten days, so I have kept it."

Mo Lan: "That's great! Are you in a cave? Take a look."

"good."

Shanshi leads the way.

The cave where he lives is piled with persimmons, and a large number of birds are attracted. The persimmons wave their tentacles to drive them away, and they open up the dead branches blocking the entrance of the cave, get into the cave, and soon leave carefully holding a persimmon fruit. come out.

"Long cypress and Mo Lan have been left for too long and are too soft..."

"It's okay! It just so happens that my specialized blue ants can't stand the cold wind outside. I'll arrange them to work in your cave and we'll clean them up when we leave. Is that okay?"

"certainly……"

Shan Shi asked: "Longbai Ant King, how do you deal?"

Mo Lan circled to the ground, took the persimmon fruit and returned to the throne, giving it to Long Bai for inspection.

Persimmon fruit is relatively resistant to storage.

Fortunately, the pulp has not yet lost its force.

Long Bai glanced at it mentally and quoted: "Persimmon fruit, 3 rough stones and 2 pieces, the pulp and persimmon seeds are mine. How about it?"

Yamashiki: "I don't understand either...just listen to you..."

Long Bai asked: "How many are there?"

"547 persimmon fruits."

Shan Shi turned around and got into the cave, and carefully took out a dried persimmon fruit.

Long Bai inspected it and quoted a price: "The fruit is relatively small, one rough stone per piece."

Shan Shi didn't say much, turned around and got into the cave...

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Mountain Persimmon only has 4 types of persimmon trees, namely Mountain Persimmon, Dry Persimmon, Wood Persimmon, and Large Persimmon. The strengthening effects are all on the carapace, which is not good, but not bad either.

We accepted all kinds of dragons and cypresses, and we didn’t cheat anyone. We gave reasonable prices in turn.

The output of 9 persimmon tree seeds has a final total price of 3,700 rough stones.

Long Bai moved 20 specialized blue ants to the cave and directed them to start working.

Mo Lan asked: "Persimmon, where are the silver cypress seeds?"

Shan Shi picked up the bulging bag of spider silk and handed it to Mo Lan.

Various dried fruits, including cypress seeds, were packed into a bag in confusion.

First, twist up a cypress seed, check it, eat it, feel it, and comment on it:

"Yamushi, you are right. Silver cypress seeds are the strengthening effect of body optimization! They are of high quality!"

Shan Shi asked: "Longbai Ant King, how to buy it?"

Long Bai pondered for a moment, then gave a high price and said: "The cypress seeds are small, about 15 for each rough stone."

Mo Lan asked: "How much is the yield of silver cypress seeds?"

Shan Shi was at a loss, held it in for a while, and replied: "A lot... other species of life also produced a lot. The spider silk bag couldn't fit in it, so I ate some. However, I kept the silver cypress seeds for you."

Eat some? Earn less!

Long Bai and Mo Lan suddenly felt distressed.

Long Bai still had a headache. With all this mess put together, he and Mo Lan might have to sort it into categories and then count the quantities.

I was busy from noon until late at night to settle the accounts.

"Shanshi, the total price of the force food you sold is 7,100 raw stones."

Finally, Long Bai reported the general ledger.

Calculated based on 20% profit, you can sell the rough stone for 8520 later.

Mo Lan picked up a ghost fan and enthusiastically promoted it: "This is a ghost fan produced by a god-given seed. Each one sells for 25 raw stones. Take a look, Shanshi."

Mo Lan took out another ordinary ghost fan and said: "This is the ghost fan produced by the ordinary ghost fan tree. The price is 1 rough stone per piece. Shanshi, you can compare it."

Mo Lan handed the two kinds of ghost fans to Shan Shi. After waiting for a while, Shan Shi saw his head buried in a daze. He picked up a white rice seed and said: "The white rice seeds produced by the wild rice god are sold for 5 grains." The price is 13 rough stones, and there are only 500 left.”

Mo Lan took out another Ziziphus jujube seed and said: "This is a Ziziphus jujube seed produced by the God-given wild Ziziphus jujube seed. It was sold at a loss, 10 rough stones per piece."

There was a long silence in the cave.

Shan Shi said: "Longbai Ant King, Mo Lan, I want all your white rice seeds and southern jujubes! I also buy all the ordinary ghost fans! The ghost fans produced by the seeds given by the gods... I want... I’ll look at something else first.”

Are the southern jujubes sold again? !

Mo Lan and Long Bai were secretly happy.

Mo Lan first counted the goods for Shan Shi.

Long Bai helped with the calculation and said: "200 rice seeds, 2,000 rough stones; 3,000 ordinary ghost fans, 3,000 rough stones; 500 white rice seeds, 1,300 rough stones, the total is 6,300 rough stones."

"Yamaki, you still have 800 rough stones at your disposal."

"oh--"

Shan Shi thought for a long time and said: "Longbai Ant King, you don't need to tell me the price of these ordinary force foods. Help me choose a little of each and collect 800 rough stones."

This was the first time that Long Bai encountered someone who didn't even ask the price when buying something.

Since the other party is so upright, we can't trick him even more.

Long Bai gave him the same name, quoted price, picked out various force foods, collected 800 rough stones, and finally gave him 4 additional god-given ghost fans to give him a taste.

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Transaction completed.

Rest overnight.

20 specialized chemical worker ants are busy refining persimmon fruits in the cave.

Shanshi is busy picking persimmons.

Long Bai and Mo Lan went to the abandoned silver cypress nursery and collected a batch of seeds from the 23 surviving silver cypress trees.

I searched again up and down the mountain, but still couldn't find any other silver cypress trees.

There are a lot of large-fruited junipers.

Long Bai plans to cultivate cypress trees on a large scale and has also collected a large number of seeds.

It's already very cold in the north.

Two days later, the special chemical worker ants completed refining the persimmon fruit. Long Bai and Mo Lan said goodbye to the persimmons and left Yinbai Mountain as if they were running away.

Thanks to book friends Bai Fei, 753684268, Yin Hong, Black Eyes, and Yun Yun for their tips.