Pick up a dragon cub to farm

In the hottest midsummer, Nanvort worked hard, selling cakes and farming, and even Wen Yuren sometimes had to admire its amazing willpower.

After the first batch of fruits in the field were ripe, the dragon cub carefully dug out a thin note from the drawer of Wen Yuren's bedroom—it was stamped and signed on it, it was Mr. The order made above.

Although the quantity of goods written on the order is not much, it means that the fruit fields of Nanvortex are about to make their first money with this, and Dragon Cub takes it very seriously.

"150 catties of bayberry, [-] catties of peaches, [-] catties of plums..."

On the first day before the agreed time, Wen Yuren and Nan Nuo went to the field to collect the goods.The dragon cubs climbed up the tree time and time again, treated the ripe fruit as if it were a treasure, carefully picked it off, put it in front of its eyes, looked left and right, and then held it in its claws and stroked it carefully. Finally, Wen Yuren felt helpless. After urging, I reluctantly put it into the basket.

After the melons and fruits piled up into a hill in the basket, the little dragon cub was still squatting in front of them, sniffing left and right, like a poor father who was reluctant to leave his child.

In the end, watching Wen Yuren load the basket on his own cart, the little dragon cub was moved and wiped away his tears. He was extremely reluctant, and even hugged Wen Yuren's thigh and shook it, begging him to let him do more. Take a look at its precious melons and fruits.

"Come on, don't be sad." Wen Yuren carried the dragon cub into the basket, dumbfounded, and let the weeping young dragon sit cross-legged in his pile of fruits. "I sent this batch away, but what came back was a bag full of copper coins. Little stupid dragon, think about the money you can earn, and stop crying."

Nan Guo turned into a human form and followed Wen Yuren to the town.They first went to Boss Xu's fruit shop and watched the melons and fruits grown by themselves weighed one by one.The guy in charge of the harvest packed the fruits in sacks and carried them to the backyard of the shop. The accountant made a series of calculations and figured out the money to be paid.

"Yangmei has ten copper coins per catty, a total of fifteen hundred copper coins; plums have three copper coins per catty, a total of six hundred copper coins; peaches have two copper coins per catty..."

Nanvort didn't understand the market, so he was confused.He struggled to count with his fingers, but before he could finish, the squinted-eyed accountant finished his abacus and gave the count: "It's 25 copper coins, or [-] silver dollars."

As soon as the voice on this side fell, the little boy over there took out the money wrapped in cloth from the account room and handed it to Wen Yuren.

"Wait—" Wen Yuren didn't take it immediately, but turned to Boss Xu, who was leisurely shaking his fan in front of the shop, "The market price of bayberry is fifteen copper coins a catty, why do you only accept ten copper coins here? And plums and peaches, Although the price is not expensive, but it only sells for two or three copper plates per catty, so it is considered a cheap sale, right?"

Boss Xu smiled nonchalantly, "Is this the first time Daoist Wen is selling goods? Our Xuji fresh fruit is a one-buy price, a unified price, and fruit farmers in all towns and villages sell at this amount! If you don't believe me, go ask, this The fruit shops in the town are all around this price, which is pretty high for me!"

He squinted his eyes and patted his buttocks, and stood up from the bamboo chair: "Retail investors like you have small output and average quality. It's good to have someone who is willing to accept the goods. If you want, you can go to the Yamen to ask for a piece." Let’s set up a stall to sell fruit!”

Wen Yuren looked at him calmly, and he had an idea in his heart, so he stopped talking.Boss Xu stretched leisurely, turned around and entered the room to greet other guests.At the door of the store, only Yu Nanvortex and Wen Yuren looked at each other.

After standing silently for a while, they turned around and walked back, pushing the empty cart.

"Why is Boss Xu like this..." Sullen in his heart, Nan Zuo was indignant, "Back when the melon and fruit festival signed the order, Boss Xu was extremely enthusiastic, boasting that Benlong's melons and fruits are of good quality, and even said to sell them to him. Absolutely no loss. Now I actually changed my words and said that the quality of Benlong’s fruit is average..."

"It's just a businessman's tricks. Boss Xu wants to lower the price, so he naturally said that the quality of the goods is bad. Don't take it seriously."

Wen Yuren weighed a solid bag of silver dollars in his hand, and shook the cloth bag jingling, trying to make Nan Guo happy again, "Look, Nan Guo, this trip has made a lot of money! Let's go Go shopping in other alleys in the town, what do you want to eat, let's go and eat our fill."

But Nanvortex was not happy.He held onto his cuffs tightly, and said firmly to Wen Yuren: "My errand, Ben Long don't work for profiteers anymore. Ben Long wants to be his own boss, sell his own goods and earn his own money!"

Wen Yuren narrowed his narrow eyes slightly.He was a little surprised, and he sighed softly when he saw the unwavering look in Nan Zuo's watery blue eyes.His little dragon cub has grown a lot during these days, and is no longer the little silly dragon who can be easily coaxed by a little favor.

"Okay." After a while, the man patted his head, "I support you if you want to be the boss. But this matter needs to be discussed in the long run. Now the melons and fruits in the fields are almost sold, have you thought about what to sell? "

Nan Zuo scratched his hair and thought for a moment.

"Second, let's continue making snacks!" At the end, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Ben Long picks fruits, and you make them, just like we sold scones before. Uncle Feng said that you are a good cook, so you must not only Making cakes, right? Just use Benlong’s fruit to make a lot of delicious snacks, and we’ll sell them in the town, and we’ll definitely not lose to Boss Xu’s Xianguoji!”

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Summer is approaching, and the weather is getting hotter.Hot biscuits are no longer suitable for eating in hot summer. After the wave of enthusiasm in early summer, the number of customers in front of the wild fruit biscuit stall gradually decreased.But at the same time, Nanvort saw a glimmer of business opportunity from the experience of making and selling cakes for many days.

Although the weather is getting hotter, there are fewer people eating scones, but now all kinds of wild fruits are growing lushly in the mountains.In addition to almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts and other nuts, there are also wild grapes, dates, mangosteen...etc.These are wild fruits that can be picked without being planted in the fruit field.

The fruit trees grow scattered in the deep mountains, and they don't bear many fruits, but with a little dragon like Nanvortex who is good at secret techniques, the small number is not a problem.A simple birth-promoting secret mantra can make the fruit tree grow fully within a reasonable range and bear fruit quickly.

In this way, in addition to the fruit fields that are still growing hard, the barren mountains and wild mountains have also become Nanvortex's exclusive fruit treasure house.As long as it wants, it can always get the fresh fruit it wants from the mountains, give it to Wen Yuren, and watch the plain melons and fruits change at will between his dexterous fingers, making many tricks.

Nan Guo and Wen Yuren pushed the cart to set up a stall on the street of Fengjian Town.The name on the wooden sign in front of their stall is no longer "Wild Fruit Cookies", but "Wild Fruit Snacks".

With the scorching sun above his head, Wen Yuren custom-made a large black oil-paper umbrella from a craftsman in the village in advance, and propped it up on the spot to form a shaded area with a diameter of more than half a foot, covering the entire stall completely under it .

On the trolley, there are all kinds of small snacks arranged in categories.

Nuts such as walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are sent to the roasted seeds and nuts shops in the town to make bags of dried fruits and roasted seeds and nuts.They are neatly packaged and placed neatly by category on the trolley.

For grapes, peaches, pears and other fruits, some of them are made into candied fruits and put on carts for sale, and some of them are placed intact in front for customers to choose directly, and Nanvortex helps squeeze them into juice on site. Or make a fruit smoothie.

"Whoosh..."

Behind the car, a furry ice mouse crouched on the ground.It puffed up its cheeks and blew cool air into a small bucket with all its might.

"Freezing" is the unique trick of the Alien Beast Ice Rat.An extremely cold aura is active in its body, which can condense the surrounding moisture into finely divided ice particles in a very short period of time and blow it forward.Any normal food or water source blown by its ice particles will quickly freeze to ice.Because of this special skill, this blue-gray rat-shaped beast was named "Ice Rat".

However, although the ice mouse looks like a huge fluffy mouse, it has always lived in the mountain glaciers or valley streams, and it is extremely hygienic. The ice particles it blows are also clean and harmless.

The ice mouse whistled, and soon the whole bucket of clear water was frozen.Wen Yuren used his palm force secretly, and chopped down with a palm knife. The whole bucket of ice cubes immediately shattered into irregular ice cracks, and the ice cubes burst open one by one, breaking into particles. ——Crushed ice is finished!

The timing was just right.Nanzuo turned his head and looked forward, just in time to meet the first customer coming tentatively.This person seems to be an uncle in his 50s. He especially loves the sesame seed cakes at Nanwoo stall, and he has been a regular customer since they set up the stall for half a month.

The uncle saw the roasted seeds and dried fruits on display at their stall, and then looked at the newly changed signboard, and reacted: "Boss, you don't sell pancakes anymore?"

Nan Guo smiled, and said generously: "It's hot, and we won't be selling biscuits for the time being. However, we have all kinds of roasted dried fruits, candied fruits, and iced juices squeezed from fresh fruits. Would you like to come and see them?" ?”

"Uh, okay... let me take a look." Seeing the cold air coming out of the ice bucket, the uncle couldn't help but leaned forward.On a hot day, the pedestrians on the street are all sweating profusely. They become very sensitive to the cool air, and their bodies involuntarily want to move closer to the source of the cold air.

The uncle tilted his head, hesitantly, "This is...juice?"

"You can choose the fruit you want on the spot, and squeeze the juice out of it." Nanwo smiled sweetly, and stretched out three fingers, "After you choose, count to three, and I'll make you a glass of iced juice!"

The uncle looked east and west, scratching his chin in confusion.After a long while, he picked out a bunch of fresh and bright wild grapes from the small stall, and handed them to Nan Chao, "Well... well, I like grapes, so get me a glass of iced grape juice!"

Nan Zuo readily took it, put the grapes into a five-inch high ceramic bucket, and closed the lid.He put his hand on the back of the porcelain barrel, and silently recited the secret juice-pressing mantra.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!"

The uncle watched Nan Voo holding the small porcelain bucket with his eyes closed, muttering words in his mouth.As he chanted the mantra, there was a sound of "woo hoo" from the covered porcelain bucket, as if some mysterious force was stirring it vigorously, which made his eyes widen in shock: "This is... ..."

"Three, two, one!"

After counting three times, Nan Voo put the porcelain bucket on the stall.Then he took a small bowl from the side, opened the porcelain bucket, and poured out light green wild grape juice from it.

"Oh... this!"

The uncle was speechless, watching helplessly as the wild grapes, which were still intact just now, "passed" in the small porcelain bucket for a while, and when the lid was opened again, it turned into a bright light green juice.

"What, what kind of spell is this? It can turn grapes directly into juice!"

Nan Zuo smiled faintly.Naturally, he couldn't tell the other party about the Dragon Clan's secret technique, so he changed the facts of the matter and told a white lie: "Ah... this is the juicing technique I learned from a fruit picking master in the mountains. This Porcelain barrels are specially used for squeezing juice."

As he spoke, he bent down, poured the freshly squeezed grape juice into a small bowl filled with crushed ice, and placed the small bowl in the ice bucket.Secretly activated the secret method in his hand, allowing the cold air of the ice cube to quickly penetrate into the juice, quickly lowering the temperature.

"Ah... is this all right?"

Nanwo smiled, and put a bowl full of grape juice in front of the uncle.The white smoke-like cold air visible to the naked eye came out chilly, and the uncle took a deep breath.

"Well...it's really ice!" His fingers touched the cold bowl wall, and he let out a low cry of surprise.

I can't wait to open my mouth and take a big sip, gurgling...

Well, sweet and cool.Cool!

"Oh, this is really delicious..." The uncle drank a few sips and looked at Nanwo curiously, "Little baby, where did you pick these wild grapes, and they are not sour at all!"

Nanwo smiled: "Wild grapes are indeed quite sour. But, I added honey to them!"

As the owner of the flower field, Wen Yuren, the most important thing in his family is all kinds of nectar.Whenever the beekeepers came to collect honey, in addition to paying the fee, they would also leave one or two jars of honey for Wen Yuren for his own use.

Most of the wild fruits collected from the mountains are sour, not completely sweet.So Wen Yuren thought of this method, take out some of the honey stored at home, mix it into the fruit juice, balance the taste, and get rid of the sour feeling.

"It's delicious, it's delicious!" The uncle gulped down a whole bowl of honey grape juice, and drank it until he smacked his mouth.He had a loud voice, and when he exclaimed in the street, he immediately attracted many passers-by to look at him.

Nanwo hit the iron while the iron was hot, and advertised in a clear voice: "When you pass by, come and have a look! The latest iced wild juice is sweet and delicious, and it's cool!"

The uncle took out twelve copper coins and put them in the money-collecting basket next to the stall.He wiped his mouth, picked two bags of candied fruit from the stall, and left contentedly.

And after him, people were attracted one after another to buy the roasted seeds and candied fruit from Nanzuo's family, and of course——the most popular one is iced wild fruit juice.

With the scorching sun above their heads, most of the passers-by walking on the street are thirsty and sweaty. All kinds of delicious food on the street are popular, such as popsicles, mung bean soup and other cold drinks.The iced juices at the Nanvortex stand are not only refreshing, but also sweet and refreshing. You can choose the flavor you like. It is indeed the best choice to accompany people to spend the small days in the summer market.

"Whirring whirring……"

On the stand, all kinds of wild fruit juices are selling very hotly, and Nan Nuo can't wait to grow a few more pairs of arms, repeatedly urging the secret method of squeezing and stirring the juice in the small porcelain bucket; and behind the cart, the chubby ice mouse is sitting in front of the bucket, He puffed up his cheeks and blew vigorously, making buckets of cold ice.

Business is booming.Wen Yuren, who was squatting in the shadow of the car, half-closed his eyes in relief, stirring honey quickly in his hands.He heard Nan Zuo chatting and laughing with the customers, and he knew that this little dragon cub had already integrated well into the social life in the market, and he was able to do business with ease, and he would no longer hide from anyone and let others bully him.

only……

He turned sideways quietly and glanced back.

Nanzhuo used the secret method many times today, injecting spiritual energy into the porcelain bucket and small bowl.Although he has practiced for a hundred years, the amount of spiritual energy he can refine every day is limited. It is not easy to maintain a human form, and the veins of the body must withstand such frequent activation of spiritual energy, which is a heavy load on his body.

In Wen Yuren's mind, whether he can make money is secondary.He was worried that Nanvortex would harm his body due to excessive use of secret techniques, and he was even more worried that he would not be able to hold on due to exhaustion of spiritual energy.

It would be troublesome if it showed its original shape in public... After all, the last time the little dragon cub was chased and intercepted by the captors after he showed his shape in the town, he was beaten all over his body.Wen Yuren didn't want to see such a situation again.

Just now.

Nanvortex's slender body gradually began to tremble.

Wen Yuren's heart was raised in an instant - his worry might have come true!

"I...too bad, my second!"

Nan Zuo felt it himself.He suddenly lowered his arms, and felt a strange fluctuation in his lungs, as if something had been emptied from his body, he immediately covered his stomach weakly, and gasped for breath.

A blue light flashed faintly on the boy's body surface.That was the sign that he was about to restore the young dragon's body...

Wen Yuren didn't have time to take him away.Seeing that Nan Voo's body was trembling and sweating constantly, and he was about to lose control and return to his original shape under the watchful eyes of everyone, he took out a Dao Talisman from under the skirt of his clothes and hit Nan Voo on the back. Chant quickly.

At the same time, the boy's body trembled violently.He felt a stream of pure aura flowing into his body from behind, and when he realized what had happened, he immediately turned his head in shock: "My errand, you...!"

"Save your strength, don't talk!"

The man gave a low drink.His expression was hidden under the brim of the hat, and Nan Zuo couldn't see it clearly, but he felt the continuous aura coming from the man's body, Nan Zuo was so anxious that he was about to cry: "Don't! Er, don't put your The aura was given to Ben Long, it is very dangerous!"

That's right—Wen Yuren didn't have time to take Nanvort away, so he chose a desperate move, directly sending the spiritual energy accumulated in his body to Nanvort to help him maintain his human form.

However, this move is extremely dangerous.The spiritual pool reserves of the human race and the dragon race are very different.When the little dragon cub transforms into form, it needs to consume a lot of spiritual energy to maintain its human form. Even Wen Yuren, a master of Taoism among humans, has a considerable amount of spiritual energy in his body, but it is not one-tenth of that of Nanvortex.

He risked his life to transmit his aura to Nanvortex, which was like filling the sea with sand. Not only might he not last long, but he was in danger of exhausting himself and even backlashing himself.

During the hundred years of cultivating in the Dragon Valley, Nan Zuo hadn't even seen much pterosaurs of the same clan sending spiritual energy to each other, let alone someone sending Qi to the dragon clan.His eyes were red with anxiety, and he instinctively wanted to push Wen Yuren's hand away, but the man just formed a stop seal with his hands calmly, completing the transmission of spiritual energy.

"Nanzuo, the aura I gave you can last for a while. Get over this matter and come home with me."

Tears welled up in Nanwo's eyes.Although he couldn't see Wen Yuren's face, the man's deep and slow tone and slightly trembling voice made him understand that he had indeed made a great sacrifice in just a moment.

"The stall owner... the small stall owner?"

Finding Nan Zuo standing stiffly in place, with sweat dripping from his face and pale face, the customer standing in front of the stall didn't know why, so he called him twice worriedly: "Small stall owner, what's the matter with you, are you feeling unwell? "

Nan Zuo glanced back, only to see that the man who had given him his spiritual energy turned around silently, and weakly slid along the edge of the cart to the ground, with his back facing the customers in front of the stall, bowing Nodding his head, he pulled the bamboo hat down again so that no one would notice his existence.

Not wishing to disappoint Wen Yuren's efforts, Nan Guo wiped his face, and calmly told the confused customers: "I'm fine." He quickly ended the business at hand.After seeing off the customers, he quickly took Wen Yuren's hand, packed up things with the ice mouse, pushed the cart, and walked quickly towards the village.

Sure enough, as soon as he left the crowded town, Wen Yuren slammed onto the ground with a thud, barely holding on to his half-kneeling without falling down; the last trace of spiritual energy in Nan Zuo's body was also exhausted, and his slender body shrank rapidly.

A faint light flashed, and the boy disappeared, leaving only the chubby little blue dragon standing in place.

"Woo... woo!"

The young dragon ran forward unsteadily, its little paws struggled to grab the man's shoulders, trying to help him up when he was exhausted.

"Whoa whoa!"

Wen Yuren wiped his sweat with his sleeve.He looked up and saw the little dragon cub shaking his arm anxiously, and smiled slightly.

"Silly dragon cub, I'm fine now. It's just that my spiritual energy has been overdrawn. I'll get better after a night of rest. You don't have to worry about me." Wen Yuren hugged the young dragon in his arms, trying to force out a pale smile, "It's you... Fortunately, no one saw your original shape."

He touched the big head of the dragon cub, "The little guy is getting smarter, huh?"

"Woo..." The little dragon cub clenched his fists and thumped the man's shoulder twice.Er, why are you so adventurous...

Just now they experienced a crisis and danger that no one knew about.Maybe it was just a little bit short, and Wen Yuren might die from backlash because his aura was emptied.What he sent to Nanvortex was not only aura, but also his own life...

Fortunately, Wen Yuren's foundation was solid, but he was only temporarily exhausted.Maybe go home and lie down for a while and you'll be fine.

Thinking of this, Nan Zuo wiped away his tears, and tried his best to support the man's arms.

Er, it's okay, Benlong will help you back!

The man stood up with difficulty.However, as soon as he took a step, his face suddenly froze, and his forehead was suddenly dripping with sweat.

He covered his heart, panting uncontrollably.

"not good!"

Nanvortex was shocked.What's the matter, didn't you say it's getting better?

"My spiritual energy is exhausted, and the blazing poison that was previously sealed by the spiritual energy can no longer be suppressed... It has already started to bite back at this moment!"

The situation took a turn for the worse, and Nan Zuo watched in horror as his face quickly turned pale.After coughing for a while, a large stream of blood dripped from the corner of the man's mouth.

Blackened blood slid down his handsome chin, drop by drop, and landed on Nan Zuo's face.