Chapter 7: Song Jueye!

  After parting with Xiao Jie Ling Bing, Ling Tian Ao did not immediately rush back to school or his small company, but instead came to the most prosperous trading market in An Nan City - Thirteen Streets.

  Thirteen Streets, the largest trading market in An Nan. Here, you can buy everything you want and sell all your goods: home appliances, agricultural machinery, antiques, food... As long as you have money and goods, you can trade with anyone.

  The Thirteen Streets are divided into five districts: east, south, west, north and central. Ling Tian'ao is heading to the North District, where agricultural products are traded. His purpose for coming here is naturally to collect medicinal materials needed for refining the Rejuvenating Pellet.

  "Eighteen kinds of medicinal materials, most of which are common goods, and only Silver Star Flower is a bit tricky to get."

  Lowering his head and muttering a sentence, Ling Tian strode into the largest Chinese medicine shop in the North District - Ren Xintang!

  "Hello, what can I help you with?"

  As it was approaching noon, the business at Renshentang wasn't very booming. As soon as Ling Tian'ao stepped in, a shop assistant in his twenties immediately ran over and asked him with a professional smile.

  "White fruit, tea flower, reed rhizome... silver star flower, a total of eighteen kinds of medicinal materials, each requiring ten catties."

  Ling Tian didn't bother to haggle with the shopkeeper, and directly got to the point. He reported a string of Chinese herbal medicine names. In order to reduce the number of trips running around, he spent his time on important things, and asked for ten kilograms of each medicinal material as soon as he opened his mouth.

  One piece of Stay Youthful Pill requires about 40-50 grams of various medicinal materials on average. Ten catties is enough to refine one hundred pieces, which should temporarily meet the internal direct sales needs of his younger sister's international cosmetics store.

  After all, he just wanted to use this trick to make the first bucket of gold and then get more benefits and skills from the conquest system, rather than turning himself into a "pill maker" for that money which didn't mean much to him, tightly binding his nature.

  "All the other herbs are easy to get, but that Silver Star Flower you mentioned. Honestly, I've never heard of it before. Just wait a moment, I'll go ask the boss in the back room and be right back."

  The shop assistant, obviously not having met someone as direct as Ling Tian'ao before, fortunately, being polished by the constant flow of people every day, he was able to quickly react and come back to his senses after a brief moment of stunned silence.

  Two minutes later, the shopkeeper rushed back, followed by an old man. The old man had a ruddy complexion and was full of spirit, although his hair was white, he didn't give off an air of age. In fact, due to the strengthening of the Conquest System, Ling Tian could clearly feel the strong and vigorous aura emanating from the old man's body.

  "Haha, you're the young man who wants Silver Star Flower, right?"

  Kind and benevolent, the elderly give people a very good first impression.

  "My surname is Song, and I'm called Song Jueye. You can call me Boss Song or Old Song."

  Unexpectedly, the old man's posture was quite low-key, and even his words had a hint of flattery. This made Ling Tian Ao's heart slightly bulge, unsure what kind of trick this old man was playing.

  "Haha, Boss Song is really too polite. I have an urgent matter, why don't you first take out the goods for me? Don't worry, I'll pay every penny that's due."

  Hehe, with a smile, Ling Tian slowly got up and chose a moderate title to clearly distinguish his relationship with Old Man Song. He didn't know what kind of medicine this old man had in his gourd, but the secrets on his body were not trivial, so it was better to have less contact with this old fox.

  Song Jueye lived for over 70 years, his mind was extremely profound. At this moment, seeing Ling Tian's expression, he naturally knew what he was worried about in his heart. He didn't get angry, but smiled slowly: "Little friend is worrying too much, the reason why I'm being so polite to you is because we are fellow travelers on the same path."

  As soon as the words fell, Song Jueye smiled and glanced at Ling Tian'ao, paused for a moment before continuing: "The main hall is crowded with people, if it's convenient, please come to the back hall to gather, as for the medicinal materials you mentioned, I'll have my men prepare them for you."

  Song Jueye's request was sincere, and Ling Tian'ao also wanted to see what tricks he had up his sleeve, so he didn't refuse. After Song Jueye made a inviting gesture with his hand, he nodded slightly and followed him towards the back hall.

  The hall to the back hall is not very far, about 100 meters away. About half a minute later, Song Jueye brought Ling Tian'ao into the back hall filled with ancient charm. This back hall is about 100 square meters in size, not large but very exquisite and luxurious.

  The desk and bookcase, tea table and chairs were all made of the finest pear wood. On either side stood two medium-sized cabinets, each two meters long and three meters wide, straight as arrows. On top of them were various ceramics, copperware, paintings, antiques, and trinkets that dazzled the eyes. But what most astonished Ling Tian was a large antique fish tank made entirely of rain flower stone in the center of the back hall, where several high-quality golden arowana swam leisurely.

  The entire back hall was further adorned with copper-colored incense burners from which sandalwood incense wafted out slowly, giving it a rather tasteful appearance.

  "Hmm, Mr. Song's house is really nicely decorated."

  He lightly praised, in Ling Tian's proud and arrogant gaze, was full of admiration. Although his old man could also be considered a successful person, with assets surpassing the Song boss in front of him, but that guy was completely a nouveau riche, in his eyes, antiques were far less beautiful than gold and silver treasures.

  "It's just a small brush stroke, compared to those truly great ones, I'm far inferior."

  Song Jueye shook his head slightly, waved his hand to signal Ling Tian'ao to sit down beside the tea table, and he himself picked up a purple clay teapot, lifted a purple clay cup, and served as a tea servant for Ling Tian'ao.

  "Taste it, top-grade Tieguanyin!!"

  He poured three times and filled the purple sand cup, then Song Jueye made a gesture of invitation with one hand, indicating that Ling Tianao should taste the tea.

  He didn't put on airs, nor did he worry that the old man would poison his tea. He simply picked up the teacup and started drinking. However, he never liked drinking tea to begin with, so this top-grade Tieguanyin tasted no different from the ten-yuan-per-kilo tea dregs sold by street vendors.

  "Let me have a cup of tea, no need to beat around the bush, let's get straight to the point, the sooner we settle this, the sooner I can leave, I still have important things to attend to."

  He picked up the teacup and drained it in one gulp, slamming the purple sand cup onto the tea table with a loud 'bang', then stared blankly at Song Jueye, throwing the question nakedly onto the table.

  Song Jueye saw Ling Tianao speaking so directly, and no longer pretended to be mysterious. He lightly put down the teacup in his hand, smiled faintly, and stared at him with piercing eyes.

  "Heh heh, little friend is so anxious. If I continue to hide it, it would seem that I'm not magnanimous enough. Alright, let's get straight to the point. I just want to ask one question: what do you want this Silver Star Flower for?"