Chapter 477: The Pay-to-Win Palace Intrigue System (12)

The "female guard with a saber" didn't even draw her blade; with a single whirlwind kick, she sent those men flying.

These estate guards, who usually relied on their master's status to act like bullies and pick on the weak, were either groaning on the ground or clutching the parts where they'd been kicked, howling in pain.

What kind of leg is this, damn it? Is it made of iron? It hurt them so much!

Xie Yang: Get to know the interstellar metal leg.

The other stewards had originally been annoyed enough to want to bring men to teach this pair of mistress and servant a lesson, but seeing this, how could they dare?

They finally understood why such a young mistress would only bring one female guard when traveling; it turned out her individual combat power was worth more than a whole group.

Look, the guards of Dexing Restaurant, seven or eight burly men holding clubs, were beaten to the ground without even having a chance to make a move.

At this rate, even if a dozen more came, they probably wouldn't be her match!

The various stewards had complex expressions as they imagined the possibilities.

Then, comforting themselves, they decided to follow behind this short-legged little mistress and pick up whatever seafood she didn't want to take back to finish their task.

If their masters asked, they would just say the winds and waves at sea had been strong these past few days, and the catch didn't look very good.

In any case, the wealthy families and restaurants in Fucheng had all been buying seafood of this quality lately; even if their masters wanted to hold someone accountable, they couldn't blame them.

Just like that, Xie Yang easily contracted all the premium catches from the fishing boats for the few days before the New Year.

In the following days, she didn't need to rush to the docks early; she could eat breakfast and still buy good goods when she arrived.

Starting from the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the fishing boats stopped going out to sea.

With no fresh seafood to collect, Xie Yang went to the Fucheng market to collect various dried goods.

She accidentally discovered a stall selling a rhinoceros horn comb; the Great Ye Dynasty had no rhinoceroses.

Xie Yang asked the stall owner about the origin of the comb.

"My son once went out to sea and saved a Nanyang islander. That person thanked my son and gave him this. It's almost New Year's, and our family's harvest hasn't been good this year, so we want to sell it for some Silver to buy a few catties of meat and make new clothes for the children. If the young lady likes it, just give us a few pieces of broken Silver."

Xie Yang gave him a small two-tael silver ingot and bought the rhinoceros horn comb.

Two taels of Silver bought not just a rhinoceros horn comb, but also a new idea for her: she was going to sea! She was going to Nanyang!

One month later.

Xie Yang returned to Jiaozhou Fu with her Robot Bodyguard.

During this month, she operated her Invisible Small Flying Saucer to fly over all the islands in Nanyang, large and small, and exchanged many good things with the local islanders.

There were round, plump, top-quality Nanyang Pearls, as well as hawksbill, coral, ivory, rhinoceros horn, and exquisite ornaments made from them, along with various fine woods suitable for making furniture.

She also hoarded plenty of spices, medicinal herbs, sea cucumbers, and Nanyang Bird's Nest, which were abundant in Nanyang.

Xie Yang remembered that Malaysia had two medicinal herbs that could definitely rank as national treasures; one was called Kachifatima, which was said to balance hormones in the body and improve microcirculation disorders caused by endocrine issues.

Long-term consumption could not only make women healthier and more energetic, but also enhance the breasts, beautify the skin, maintain female youth, and extend life. At the same time, it could harmonize marital life and increase the chances of conception.

In short, Kachifatima was a gynecological medicine born specifically for women.

There was a local saying: women eat Kachifatima, men eat Tongkat Ali.

From this, one could tell that Tongkat Ali was a potent aphrodisiac.

Tongkat Ali was also called Nanyang Ginseng; middle-aged men there would regularly drink tea boiled with it, as casually as people in Guangdong drank herbal tea.

However, there were many inferior products passed off as Tongkat Ali in later generations. Xie Yang had once heard a tour guide say that only the yellow roots were the genuine article, while the black ones were inferior products with much poorer medicinal effects.

Therefore, even though she had never bought it before, she wasn't fooled by the locals and managed to exchange for premium Tongkat Ali with yellow roots.

She would take these two medicinal herbs back to honor her cheap father and mother.

As for herself, she hoarded quite a lot of Dendrobium.

The Dendrobium in Nanyang was basically "Noble Dendrobium," which had a particularly high alkaloid content and was more suitable for medicinal use than Iron-skin Dendrobium. Iron-skin Dendrobium was generally used for health maintenance.

There was also a medicinal herb called "Dragon's Blood Resin," taken from the resin of dragon blood trees in rock crevices; it was a potent blood-activating remedy for treating bruises, both for external application and internal consumption.

In modern times, wild Dragon's Blood Resin had long been unavailable; the Dragon's Blood Resin on the market was basically an artificially cultivated substitute, and its medicinal effect was naturally discounted.

Now that she had the chance to come to the ancient Nanyang, Xie Yang naturally hoarded as much as she could.

Fortunately, she had earned quite a lot of bounty money by cracking down on human traffickers and uncovering wanted posters on her way south.

It was just that there wasn't much Dragon's Blood Resin on the market, so Xie Yang simply operated her Invisible Small Flying Saucer to go up to the rock walls and harvest it herself.

Besides these, she also hoarded plenty of Nanyang Bird's Nest.

In modern times, Malaysian Nanyang Bird's Nest was not allowed to enter or leave China. She didn't know this rule when she was traveling independently, and the few boxes she bought were all confiscated at the airport.

Since she had rarely come to the ancient Nanyang, she naturally had to hoard more.

Nanyang Nanyang Bird's Nest came in three types: White Bird's Nest, Hairy Bird's Nest, and Blood Bird's Nest. What she hoarded the most was Golden Silk Blood Bird's Nest, which had the highest salivary protein purity and nutritional value.

I'm afraid the royal family, nobles, and high-ranking officials in Jingcheng might not have even enjoyed Golden Silk Blood Bird's Nest of such good quality.

The Nanyang Bird's Nest that the Old Matriarch of the Xie Mansion occasionally stewed to nourish her body was just the most common White Bird's Nest.

Even then, it was stewed with millet and white fungus into Nanyang Bird's Nest porridge or Nanyang Bird's Nest soup.

Even the Old Matriarch couldn't afford to eat a whole bowl of pure Nanyang Bird's Nest.

Later generations hailed Tongkat Ali, Nanyang Bird's Nest, and pewterware as the three national treasures of Malaysia.

Since she had already hoarded the first two, she might as well buy some pewterware too.

So, she picked out a few exquisitely crafted pewter teapots, teacups, wine cups, and tea canisters.

While shopping in the pewter market, she discovered durians.

Xie Yang suddenly remembered that Malaysia was the home of the Musang King Durian!

What was she waiting for! Hoard!

Besides durians, she also hoarded plenty of other tropical fruits: mangoes, papayas, snake fruits, dragon fruits...

She picked the large, plump, and good-looking ones and bought them vigorously.

In the end, the bounty money she had earned on the way south was spent.

There were still many things she wanted to hoard, so she sold a batch of Great Ye Dynasty specialties she had bought on the way south: tea, embroidery, porcelain, Cloud Brocade, brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, and various snacks...

Unexpectedly, the Great Ye Dynasty specialties that were not enough to count as rewards were surprisingly popular in Nanyang.

After selling out a batch, there were even people chasing after the Robot Bodyguards—who had changed into "Nanyang" skins to impersonate local Nanyang people—to ask when the next shipment would arrive.

Xie Yang: "..."

Should she organize a caravan and go overseas for trade?

But that was just a thought; before the Task was completed, she had no heart to go all out in organizing a caravan for overseas trade.

Besides, her Task location was in Jingcheng; she must not get distracted by earning money and hoarding goods, only to lose track of the Task—

If, while she was unaware, the Krypton Gold Palace Struggle System and Xie Ping unbound and went to another plane, she would cry herself to death.

Therefore, after staying in Nanyang for a month or so and hoarding enough of the good things that Nanyang produced in abundance, she took the Small Flying Saucer back to Jiaozhou Fu.