Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 123 Market
"Is there anyone selling mutant beasts?"

This is what Li Mu cares about most.

Hu Li immediately became interested when he heard this question, "I know this best!"

"About a month ago, someone would sell it every few days, but I was poor at the time and had nothing to exchange, so I didn't pay attention to what was being sold."

After a pause, she changed the subject and said, "Recently, there have been quite a lot of people selling pheasants, rabbits, and even field mice!"

Li Mu nodded thoughtfully. Aunt Wang probably bought the wild rabbit here.

Those who sold mutant beasts in the past must have been members of the hunting team. If they couldn’t finish eating them, they would exchange them for what they needed.

But I don’t know who are the people who come to sell it now. After all, it doesn’t take much strength to catch animals like pheasants and rabbits.

During the conversation, the three of them had already arrived at the residential area. At this time, both sides of the road were already full of people.

Suddenly, a slightly noisy hawking sound was heard.

"Pheasants for sale, big, fat pheasants!"

"Rice cake! Fragrant and sticky rice cake!"

……

Li Mu smiled when he heard the vigorous hawking voices, as if he had returned to the snack street in his hometown, feeling familiar and friendly.

He strolled to a small stall selling rice cakes. The stall owner was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties. She was wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket and was squatting on the ground with a simple wooden box made of wood in front of her.

"Auntie, how much is the rice cake?"

The old lady looked up at Li Mu and saw that he was only wearing a thin coat in such a cold environment. She immediately knew that this man might be a wealthy cultivator.

A warm smile instantly appeared on his originally expressionless face, and he said, "One copper spirit coin and five dollars. It's guaranteed to be delicious!", and then opened the wooden box in front of him.

Li Mu looked down and saw that the wooden box was filled with white rice cakes that were slightly larger than a matchbox. There were about thirty or forty pieces, and they were still emitting an enticing aroma.

"However much you have here, I want all of them."

Li Mu was already a little hungry, and the sight of these rice cakes made his appetite even greater. It was just right for him to eat a little to fill his stomach.

When the aunt heard that he wanted it all, she was instantly overjoyed. She was right, he was a rich man!
"It's thirty-seven pieces in total. Just give me seven bronze spirit coins."

Upon hearing this, Li Mu took out an Iron Spirit Coin from his pocket and handed it to the aunt. Since he was going to the market, he naturally had money with him.

The old lady took the iron spirit coin, first used chopsticks to wrap the rice cake in the huge mulberry leaf that had been prepared in advance, then took out three copper spirit coins from her pocket, and then handed both to Li Mu.

"Yeah, it tastes okay."

Li Mu threw a piece of rice cake into his mouth. It was not very sweet, probably because no sugar was added, but it was soft and sticky, with a natural rice aroma.

"You guys should try it too."

He handed the plastic bag in front of him, indicating that they should eat together.

Hu Li, who was very outgoing, naturally didn't hesitate to take out two pieces from the plastic bag and handed one to Hong Pengfei beside him.

"for you"

She knew that her colleague was shy and might feel embarrassed, so she just helped him get it.

Then the three of them walked further inside. At the same time, the items sold on the stalls on both sides became more and more abundant.

There are shops selling homemade snacks, furniture, and condiments...

Perhaps noticing Li Mu's previous generosity, the hawking became louder as he passed by, with occasional calls of "handsome guy, come and have a look." Just then, Li Mu noticed a stall selling rabbits: on a curtain more than a meter wide, there was a fat, brown-gray dead rabbit.

Two men in cotton-padded jackets and cloth hats were squatting behind the stall, with their hands tucked into their sleeves.

"Could it be that Aunt Wang bought her rabbit from them?"

With such doubts, Li Mu quickly walked to the stall and asked inquiringly:
"How much is this hare?"

The taller man of the two said loudly, "Eight copper spirit coins per pound, the whole thing is for sale, no bargaining."

The person who was speaking was Hu Fugui, and the person squatting next to him was Wang Quan.

Before it got completely dark, the two returned to the place where they set the trap to check the situation. To their surprise, they not only caught another fat rabbit, but also learned about the number of rabbits.

“There are lots of wild rabbits, and they’re easy to catch!”

This is their common opinion, otherwise they would not have caught two in a row in the same place.

This also means that they can really make a fortune by catching rabbits in the future and live the life of their dreams.

Li Mu squatted down and observed the dead hare in front of him. He immediately found the marks on the rabbit's hind legs and immediately understood the two people's capture method.

"The price is fine, but just one?"

Li Mu asked curiously, one was not enough for several big eaters.

"There's only one today, there should be more tomorrow."

The one who was speaking was Wang Quan. When he was collecting rabbits today, he set up a few more traps nearby. If there were really as many rabbits outside as expected, he might be able to catch several at once tomorrow.

Hearing this answer, Li Mu's eyes flickered, and he thought to himself:

Since they dare to say so, it means that they are very confident of catching more rabbits tomorrow. It seems that there are still many alive and well small animals in the wild.

He looked at the two of them again, using his mental strength to sense the source energy in their bodies, and concluded that they were still ordinary people, and were still far from becoming source warriors.

It seems that with the popularization of breathing techniques, more people want to hunt mutant beasts.

"Okay, let's take this one first. How much is it in total?"

Hu Fugui was very happy to see that the man in front of him did not bargain, "There are still many rich people around the tree house!"

He had reasons to think so. When he sold the first rabbit in the morning, it went smoothly. It was bought after less than ten minutes of waiting. At that time, they felt that they had made a wise decision to come to the tree house to sell rabbits.

But the sales in the afternoon were not so smooth. They had been waiting for more than half an hour before Li Mu arrived, but still hadn't sold any products. Their legs were almost numb from squatting.

It’s not that no one wants to buy, but that those who do either push the price down very low or want to buy them separately.

The two of them initially ordered a price of nine copper spirit coins per pound, but now they have reduced it to eight copper coins because they are afraid of wasting money.

But after hearing the price, those people bargained it down to five copper spirit coins per pound, which they could never agree to.

After all, one was successfully sold in the morning. If the price was reduced in the afternoon, it would be a huge loss!

Besides, there are only so many people living nearby, so once the price goes down, it won’t be able to go up again.

They also thought about buying them separately, but when they thought about the fact that no one wanted the remaining offal and they didn't have a kitchen to cook them, they felt that it would be a loss.

So I finally decided to sell the whole thing.

(End of this chapter)