Chapter 52: Everything is Understood Without Words

"Brother Luo Chen, this is the wooden board I prepared for you. It's fine to attach it to the stall, no one will care."

Chen Shuyi moved a large wooden board from the back and firmly embedded it on one side of the bluestone slab.

"Thanks, Little Shuyi! Eat this."

Luo Chen grabbed a handful of roasted fairy beans from his storage bag and stuffed them into the girl's hand.

Chen Shuyi's eyes lit up, and she put one in her mouth, biting it with a crunch.

"Mmm, the snacks Brother Luo Chen makes are indeed delicious!"

In the past, most of the snacks Luo Chen gave Old Man Chen were actually taken home by the old man for his granddaughter to eat.

Otherwise, how would a sixty-something-year-old man think about Luo Chen's spicy beef jerky for no reason?

Seeing the girl's satisfied and enjoying appearance, Luo Chen smiled.

While setting up the elixir jade bottles, he asked curiously, "Is business very good lately? Seeing you've set up so many talisman skins, can you sell them all in a day?"

Mentioning business, Old Man Chen immediately became spirited.

"You kid probably haven't been out much lately!"

"How so?"

"The foot traffic in the Great River Market has at least doubled compared to before!" Old Man Chen pointed to the bustling market, "There are too many visiting cultivators, and the Yuding Sword Pavilion even specifically opened several trading points in the inner and outer cities. In their words, this is a trade fair facing the five major markets."

Under his explanation, Luo Chen finally realized what impact the changes in the Great River Market during this period had brought to local cultivators.

Business was simply too easy to do!

Perhaps because it was close to the Million Mountains, the various cultivation materials in the Great River Market were distinctly different from those in the interior.

Visiting cultivators coming here often saw things they liked and bought a lot.

Similarly, those people would also set up stalls to sell some things they brought with them.

Old Man Chen's business had been exceptionally booming lately!

It wasn't the talisman business, but his other specialty—talisman skins!

Talisman making involved many aspects.

Talisman brushes, cinnabar, beast blood, talisman skins.

Talisman skins were further divided into book skins, wood skins, beast skins, etc.

Among them, talisman skins made from beast skins had the advantage of carrying a huge amount of spiritual energy, and talismans drawn with such skins were often extremely powerful.

It just so happened that Old Man Chen was good at making talisman skins using beast skins, and the reason was also because it was close to the Million Mountains, making various monster skins easy to buy.

Visiting cultivators saw the high-quality talisman skins he made; they either didn't buy them, or if they did, it was a large-scale purchase.

Looking at Old Man Chen's bloodshot eyes, hands full of calluses, and even the fishy smell on his body that couldn't be washed away.

Luo Chen knew that this old man was probably crazy about making talisman skins during this period.

So much so that the stall they had been sharing was now completely filled with talisman skins.

Even his granddaughter, who had always stayed at home, was pulled over to help sell things.

With Luo Chen's sense of smell for spirit stones and business, he instantly realized that this was also a good opportunity for him.

If he missed this time point, I'm afraid there wouldn't be such a good opportunity in the short term!

"Pity, I was too much of a homebody before and knew about the situation too late, otherwise I would have stayed up late to refine a few more furnaces of elixirs."

"Fortunately, the proficient-level Zhongmiao Pill alchemy technique allowed me to succeed nine times in the past half month, and I have as many as ninety Zhongmiao Pills on hand!"

Luo Chen was not the type to complain about heaven and others; even if he occasionally did, he would adjust quickly.

At this moment, he had adjusted his mindset and laid out all the Grain Bigu Pills and Zhongmiao Pills.

It had to be said that the wooden board prepared by Little Shuyi was large enough.

It was more than enough for him to set up nearly two hundred jade bottles.

However, this was also due to the current loose market management system; the Yuding Sword Pavilion wouldn't come to manage them.

If it were normal times, Luo Chen would have had to pay another one spirit stone stall fee.

After setting up the elixirs, Luo Chen still felt it wasn't enough.

After thinking about it, he took out a pen and wrote a few big characters on a piece of white cloth.

When he hung it in front of the stall, Chen Shuyi beside him read it word by word.

"Zhongmiao Divine Pill, Manifesting Man's Heroic Spirit!"

"Go away, go away, you little girl, aren't you ashamed!"

Chen Xiuping quickly pulled the little girl to the side, his red eyes glaring fiercely at Luo Chen.

Luo Chen didn't care, and even when the sun rose and there were more and more people, he shouted loudly.

"Look here, look here, the days of cultivation are truly brilliant!"

It had to be said that a cultivator who was as shameless as him and shouted loudly was very rare in the current environment where social customs were still very conservative.

But precisely because of this, it quickly attracted one cultivator after another.

Among them, visiting cultivators were the majority.

"What kind of elixir is this?"

"Manifesting man's heroic spirit? Hmph, cultivators of our generation, why cherish... why need this thing!"

"Is it really as good as you say?"

"Cough cough, it's not that I want to buy it, it's really that I have a friend who fought with others and left something behind in that aspect. Cough cough, you understand, give me five bottles!"

"Give me one bottle, I want to see what kind of specialty the Great River Market's specialty elixir is."

After a batch of people bought them, Luo Chen didn't even drink a sip of water and shouted loudly again.

"Walk around, take a look. Zhongmiao Pills that used to sell for eight or nine spirit stones are now sold cheaply."

"In order to give back to the vast number of old customers and to welcome visiting fellow Daoists, we are now launching medium-grade Zhongmiao Pills for only five spirit stones!"

"Yes, you heard it right. Our Zhongmiao Pills, increased quality without increasing price, five spirit stones, you can't buy a loss, you can't buy a deception!"

A crowd gathered again!

Chen Shuyi, who was squeezed into the corner, was dumbfounded.

In the past, hearing her grandfather say how shameless his stall neighbor was, she only felt that her grandfather was looking at people through a crack in the door, seeing everyone as flat.

Now it seems, does she have too deep a prejudice against her stingy grandfather?

She wanted to apologize to her grandfather.

Looking back, she found that her grandfather's old face was flushed, his lips were muttering, and he seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Chen Shuyi had been smart and sensible since she was a child, and she was even more understanding.

Seeing this, she immediately comforted, "Grandpa, don't be angry. Doing business is like this, it's not shameful."

Old Man Chen's eyes lit up, and he gently rubbed the little girl's head.

"Right, my Little Shuyi is right, doing business, earning cultivation resources, it's not shameful."

Then, in the shocked gaze of Little Shuyi, Old Man Chen gathered his Qi in his dantian and roared.

"Walk by, don't miss it!"

"Good talisman skins!"

"Talisman skins tanned with fresh beast skins, which can carry any beginner's at least three failed talisman drawings, only ten spirit stones a bundle."

"Absolutely fresh, still steaming with blood, and stained with monster meat."

Before long, the bluestone stall was also surrounded by a crowd.

Two small stalls, for a time, actually had the atmosphere of a sea of people.

In this bustle, Luo Chen turned his head, and Old Man Chen turned his head as if they had a tacit understanding.

The two looked at each other and smiled, everything was understood without words. ===== CHAPTER 53 =====