Traveling to Ancient Times: My Space Contains Weapons

Chapter 973 Old Age Worth Gold

After briefly discussing the route into the city, Chu Chen slung his backpack over his shoulder and pulled Wang Guifang along, heading down the mountain in another direction.

A day later, before nightfall, the two arrived at the city gate of Shanba City.

"Where did you come from, you country bumpkin, to the city so late at night? What are you up to?"

At the city gate, soldiers with swords at their sides saw the tattered clothes on Chu Chen and Wang Guifang and immediately stepped in front of them.

"What's in that bamboo basket? Let me see it, sir!"

After listening, Chu Chen thought to himself, "Damn it, the people are really suffering. Those people inside bear a lot of responsibility."

If I were an ordinary person, the contents of my backpack would probably be confiscated if these soldiers saw them.

In that case, how can ordinary people ever have a chance to rise up and improve their lives?

So he stepped forward with a grin, then reached into the basket, and with a thought, the contents of the basket vanished without a trace.

Instead, there were small bags of wood ear mushrooms, which were wrinkled and looked extremely ugly.

After rummaging through the basket haphazardly for a while and finding nothing of value, the soldier began to curse and grumble at Chu Chen and Wang Guifang.

"Get out, you two poor bastards."

Wang Guifang was very puzzled as she watched this scene. She wondered if Qingxuan had some kind of illusion magic. How could the general not see so many good things?

Is this person blind?

After hearing this, Chu Chen smiled obsequiously again, picked up his backpack, and pulled Wang Guifang into Shanba City.

"I know I shouldn't ask, but I'm still very curious. Is that soldier blind?"

Chu Chen smiled after hearing this and pulled Wang Guifang to a corner.

Then he took off the basket, pulled out the bag of black fungus, and showed him a hidden compartment inside the basket.

"Haha, that soldier isn't blind, but he's not exactly a good judge of character!"

After saying that, Chu Chen put the basket back on his back and walked directly into the street.

Wang Guifang watched Chu Chen's incredibly fast movements and didn't have time to think before Chu Chen pulled her away, so she simply gave up her curiosity.

If she could escape the eyes of the military officer, it meant her man was capable.

"It's getting dark. We need to take care of some things and get some money before we can be safe."

"Otherwise, it wouldn't be good if someone robbed me in the middle of the night!"

Wang Guifang nodded after hearing Chu Chen's words. Although in her mind, Chu Chen was someone who could kill a tiger, what if the other side had more people?

The two of them were unfamiliar with Shanba City, so how could they possibly provoke those local bullies?

"Qingxuan, you do what you think is best. I'll just follow behind you!"

Chu Chen smiled after hearing this, then turned and walked towards a very luxurious-looking pharmacy.

Arriving at the entrance of the pharmacy, he turned to Wang Guifang and said, "You wait for me outside. Don't worry, I have a way of dealing with these people."

Wang Guifang nodded obediently, then found a rock and sat down.

"Go ahead, you're a city person, dealing with city people. I'd only be in the way!"

Chu Chen gave her a reassuring look and then stepped into the pharmacy.

The shop owner was preparing to close up and rest because it was getting late, but at that moment a man dressed in tattered clothes rushed in.

Looking at the basket on Chu Chen's back, he immediately understood why he had come.

"Go away... come back to sell medicinal herbs tomorrow, I'm closing up shop!"

"You haven't left yet, have you?"

"Hey, your mountain goods, whether I leave or not is up to my mood. Believe me or not, I'll make sure you can't sell what's in your basket."

Chu Chen was too lazy to argue with a mere apprentice medicine boy: "Where's your manager? Call him out, I have some good stuff!"

"Why are you so tactless? Are you looking for a fight?"

"You? I could take on three of you with one hand. Hurry up and call your manager out here."

The pharmacy owner had been thinking that it was getting dark and he would go back to have some fun with his concubine, but he didn't expect that the noise outside would attract his attention just as he was about to leave.

So he turned around and walked out: "Hehe, I'd like to see what good stuff you have that's worth me waiting for!"

Chu Chen immediately thought to himself that this guy must be the shopkeeper.

So he pulled out an old ginseng root and tossed it over: "Give me a price!"

The shopkeeper saw the old ginseng flying towards him and instinctively caught it with his hand. However, when he looked down, his mouth dropped open in astonishment.

"A hundred... a hundred-year-old ginseng, no... at least five hundred years old... you... you... you'd better be careful, what if you break it!"

However, after he blurted out that sentence subconsciously, he immediately changed his expression.

"Ahem, young man, are you selling this medicine?"

"Are you kidding me?"

Seeing the shopkeeper's expression change instantly, Chu Chen immediately realized that this guy was probably going to try and lower his price.

"Hey...you young man, come here and talk to me."

Chu Chen, carrying a bamboo basket on his back, followed his directions and sat down at the table next to him.

On the other side of the table, the shopkeeper held the wild ginseng tightly in his hand, his joy evident on his face, but it was clear that he was trying hard to restrain himself.

You should know that this is an old ginseng that is about 500 years old, which is extremely rare.

"Go, get this young man some silver!"

Upon hearing this, the apprentice glanced at the shopkeeper's gestures under the table and immediately understood.

He turned around and walked back. When he came back, he was holding two large silver ingots in his hand. Chu Chen took them and saw that each ingot was worth fifty taels, for a total of one hundred taels.

So he threw down the silver and said to the shopkeeper, "You really think I'm some kind of mountain vendor?"

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper immediately tensed up and pulled the ginseng behind his back.

But he was nowhere near as fast as Chu Chen. Chu Chen, like a ghost, snatched the ginseng back with a wave of his hand.

"Damn it, if I didn't have some ability, would I dare hand this thing over to you!"

Upon seeing Chu Chen's formidable strength, the shopkeeper immediately changed his expression: "Young man, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. This is a deposit, a deposit."

"Hehe, then tell me, how much silver do you charge for this thing?"

The shopkeeper thought to himself that he couldn't be fooled. He had bought wild ginseng before, mostly from people who came from the mountains. It was several decades or even a hundred years old. If he gave him ten or eight ounces, it would be enough to make those peasants nod and bow with joy.

"Young man, let me tell you, this old ginseng is indeed of good age, but it was specifically requested by the head constable. Someone in the city lord's family urgently needs this, so it's three hundred taels of silver."

"Otherwise, if the head constable finds out you have this thing, you won't be able to protect it either!"