No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 69 Accident
"Two hundred? Don't think this is a joke!" When Shopkeeper Dao heard Xu Shun's offer, he shook his head like a rattle.

He added, "Two hundred, we can't even get in at the purchase price."

Xu Shun looked around and said, "When I came here, I saw that although there were many shops on this street, there were not many people coming and going."

"Many stores may not even have a single customer for days."

"Qingyun Market is well-known. The rent for such a large store should not be cheap."

"Your operating costs are so high, I guess you won't launch a market for three years, and you'll make a profit for three years if you launch one."

"Twenty percent is a bit low. With three hundred taels of silver, I think the shopkeeper still makes some money."

Shopkeeper Dao's eyelids jumped when he heard this. How come this young monk knew so much about their business?

Aren’t all monks just practicing hard?
Considering Xu Shun’s age, he doesn’t look like a veteran who has been running the business for many years!
"Ahem... Your Excellency is wrong!" Shopkeeper Dao said, "You don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are until you run a household. It looks like our profits are high, but after deducting our expenses, we can barely survive."

"Business is getting harder every year! Since you understand business, you know that we can't sell below a certain profit."

If you sell it, you won’t make any money, and if you don’t make any money, you will lose money, so it’s better not to sell it.

"Hey! Shopkeeper, you are not being honest. How can you say you are losing money by selling it?" Xu Shun shook his head and said, "I bought it today. Aren't you going to collect the silver and continue to circulate it with it?"

"Treasure Pavilion doesn't need turnover! Our boss has money!" Shopkeeper Dao said sternly, "Dear guest! The minimum price for a bronze ring is eight hundred silver coins. This is the base price set by the boss."

"The so-called low price is just an excuse! I don't believe you won't sell it if we make money?" Xu Shun said, "350? Almost 60% off, not low anymore."

"Your purchase price is 15% to 25% at most!" Xu Shun stared at Shopkeeper Dao and said, "I'm not asking you to lower the price, I'm leaving you some room."

The meaning of leaving space does not mean preventing the shopkeeper from making money.

Before traveling through time, I used to be in the jade business. Although I suffered heavy losses, at least I knew the market price range.

He didn't know how much profit the shops in the world of cultivating immortals made, but generally speaking, for items with low sales, it wouldn't be a problem to bargain down the price to this level.

No matter where you are, the logic of doing business is the same.

"This..." Shopkeeper Dao saw that Xu Shun had a very convincing argument and that he had hit the nail on the head on many points.

He estimated that the monk in front of him was most likely from the same profession.

I really envy my colleagues' luck, they can actually join the Qinghua School!
"I'll go ask the boss for instructions!" The shopkeeper Dao bowed and said, "Dear guest, please have some tea first."

"Okay! Go ahead!" Xu Shun said, sitting on the mahogany chair next to him and holding up the teacup.

Asking the boss for permission is the same as asking the manager for permission before traveling through time. Xu Shun has seen this many times and knows that this is probably the same.

Although I don’t know how much other people’s magic weapons sell for, it shouldn’t be expensive if I can buy it for three hundred taels.

About half a quarter of an hour later, Shopkeeper Dao came to Xu Shun from the back hall with a wooden box in his hand.

Naturally their boss was no longer in the shop, so the so-called asking for permission from the boss was naturally just an excuse to go downhill.

He is the shopkeeper. Apart from the boss, the shopkeeper has absolute control over the goods purchased in the store.

He can sell it or not.

He finally decided to sell it.

“May I know your name, sir? And who is your master?” The shopkeeper opened the wooden box, revealing a bronze ring.

The bronze ring just now was a model, you can only look at its appearance.

"My name is Zicai." Xu Shun took the bronze ring and put it on his finger. After the bronze ring was put on the ring finger, it automatically adjusted its size to fit the thickness of the finger.

Xu Shun tried to inject a bit of magic power, and he felt as if there was a space above his fingers, about ten feet square.

He suddenly realized it and put down the cup of tea on the mahogany table and went in.

He input some more magic power and took out the cup of tea again.

"Not bad! Not bad! Three hundred taels?" Xu Shun said with satisfaction.

"I just asked the boss for advice. He said that since we are in the same industry and are senior disciples of the Qinghua Sect, we may meet again in the future. Therefore, I will only accept 280 taels of green silver from you."

In the name of his boss, the shopkeeper Dao gave Xu Shun another twenty taels. Since he was not making any money anyway, he might as well earn twenty taels less. When he became rich in the future, he might still have some face and say a word to him.

By then, the favor would be worth far more than these twenty taels.

This is the business philosophy of businessmen.

You don’t have to make money, but you have to have favors.

Harmony brings wealth!

"This opportunity you have is really cheap!" Xu Shun said with a smile.

"Ha! This customer is really humorous!" Shopkeeper Dao also said with a smile.

He took out a compass-like magic array. He was not a disciple of the Qinghua School, so he could not use the jade token to deduct the blue and silver from the jade token. He could only use this magic array to deduct the blue and silver from the jade token.

"Two hundred and eighty taels of silver!"

Xu Shun nodded, took out Lan Daoren's jade token and placed it in the center of the magic circle.

Shopkeeper Dao controlled the compass array. A faint light emerged from the compass array, forming a light curtain with two lines of words appearing on it.

The first line of words is deduction.

"Two hundred and eighty taels of silver."

The second line is the balance.

“??? Two pieces of blue silver.”

"Huh?" Shopkeeper Dao was stunned. What the hell is two silver coins?

His pupils shrank and he suddenly realized something.

"This... this... could this be the legendary jade token?" He saw the word "髯" on the blue jade token and immediately realized:
"This is the jade token of Master Lan Ran! Master Lan Ran is about to ascend to heaven, and you are his disciple!"

"Yes, my master is Lan Ran." Xu Shun said after taking back the jade token.

"Oh! Oh! I saw such a jade pendant today!" When the shopkeeper Dao saw Xu Shun taking back the jade pendant, he thought about taking it and taking a look, but felt it was inappropriate.

"It's such a great honor!" he said.

The immortal who is about to ascend to heaven has a completely different status from him, a small shopkeeper, but they can actually have contact with each other. How can he not be excited?

"If you had told me earlier, I would have given you the bronze ring as a gift!" said the shopkeeper Dao.

It's a good deal to pay for a ring and get to know the disciples of the Ascended Master.

He didn't dare to say the other word.

You already have unlimited credit, and you still want to bargain with me? What are you trying to do?
Isn't it okay to just buy whatever you see with your eyes closed?

"Now that things have come to this, goodbye!" said Xu Shun.

"Goodbye, my dear guest! I have some local specialties here for you." When Shopkeeper Dao saw Xu Shun saying goodbye, he wanted to give him some gifts.

Xu Shun left without even looking back. He was unwilling to take advantage of others by using the disciples of the Ascended Immortal, nor was he willing to use Lan Daoren's jade token to spend lavishly and show off.

He looked down on people who pretended to be cool, so naturally he wouldn't want to be that kind of person.

By bargaining in this way, he bought two undershirts and some pills.

Finally, when buying the gourd, an accident happened.

"You mean, you want this gourd?" Xu Shun said strangely.

"No matter how much money you offer, I will offer one or two taels of silver more than you!" said an arrogant voice.

　Yesterday afternoon, Xiaolaba, I will try to update three times in the next few days.

　　
　
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