After exchanging beast mates, those crazy S-rank beasts are all vying to be my pets.

Chapter 156 Asking for Help
"No, I had Quan Jingtian return. Xiong Hengba's black market is now closed. I heard it's losing over 100,000 every day."

Sang Tian put another piece of cake into her mouth, pondering whether or not to take on this hot potato.

The separation of Bai Mingchen from the two was not solely due to her; a significant part of the reason was that the two allowed others to plunder resources and spirit crystals, making them difficult to manage.

Furthermore, the black market here has just been severely damaged, and Sang Tian is worried that she will not have time to take care of it. She wants to refuse Xiong Hengba, but she can't refuse the spirit crystals.

"Let's discuss it when Mingchen gets back. I have more important things to do right now."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that she still needed to recruit wood-type females, and decided to ask in the group if there were any wood-type ability users.

There are quite a few females with elemental abilities on the mainland.

A few days later, Sang Tian opened the group chat again and found that a large portion of the people in the group had returned.

Just as Sang Tian was about to send the message, she suddenly realized that she could ask Cang Lan to do it for her, so that she wouldn't be exposed.

After coming up with this idea, Sang Tian quickly found the chat page with Cang Lan from last time and sent it to her as a message, in the process of discussing it.

Seeing that Sang Tian was engrossed in the conversation, Qing Zhi swallowed back the question he wanted to ask.

During this time, Bi Jingyan had already prepared two dishes and a soup, and was just waiting for the meal to be ready so they could eat.

Sang Tian closed the cloud, her eyes glued to the braised pork and stir-fried pork.

"What have you and Bai Mingchen been doing for almost two days?" Bi Jingyan asked, seeing how hungry Sang Tian was while serving her rice.

"I met his clansmen and asked Shen Jinxi for some help, which took up a lot of time."

Sang Tian didn't elaborate, so the other two didn't press her for details.

After she finished eating, Cang Lan had already replied to her messages, sending a series of more than twenty messages. First, he agreed to help, and then he talked about the recent situation in the black market.

One second they were asking about Bai Mingchen's whereabouts for Quan Jingtian, and the next second they were saying that Bai Mingchen had already gone to the black market.

Sang Tian told Cang Lan the details of the recruitment, which Cang Lan then forwarded to the group chat.

When the people inside saw that it cost 8,000 spirit crystals a month, the group chat exploded with excitement. They were all curious about what Canglan was planning to do: recruit twelve female masters with wood-type abilities all at once.

According to market rates in mainland China, the normal salary is around six or seven thousand.

With Canglan offering such a high price, the number of applicants reached thirty.

So Sang Tian decided to add an extra round of interviews and try to cultivate herbs in normal soil. The fastest twelve people could get jobs.

Having solved the problem of recruiting, Sang Tian remembered that she didn't own any land yet. She opened the cloud mall and found that there really was land for sale.

The price was 20,000 yuan per mu, and she bought five mu in one go.

The land on the mainland is heavily polluted, so land is extremely cheap. At the same time, Sang Tian thought about the pollution and wanted to build a protective device for the land first, otherwise all her hard work would be wasted after an acid rain.

She initially thought five mu wasn't much, but now that she thinks about it, she realizes it's still too much, so she can only develop three mu first.

With her current mental strength, purifying three acres is not difficult; anything more would be an excessive drain on her energy.

She told Bai Mingchen about this plan yesterday, and today she told the other five people.

Qingzhi frowned slightly, worried that Sang Tian was working too hard. "You still have to manage the black market. Isn't that too tiring?"

"The black market is not under my jurisdiction; Bai Mingchen can handle it all by himself. If he wants to take over another black market, then you'll be there for him too."

Bao Zeming didn't understand her actions.

"Others have so many spirit crystals and they just lie at home enjoying themselves."

Sang Tian was using a calculator to calculate her labor and land costs, trying to figure out the minimum monthly profit, since valerian was never hard to sell.

"It's not wise to just sit around and do nothing; making money from money is the only true principle." Besides, recruiting soldiers and buying horses will require spirit crystals everywhere, so I must become the richest person in the Beast World Continent.

Bao Zemin hesitated, but seeing that Qing Zhi beside him wasn't in a hurry, he swallowed back what he wanted to say.

“I’ll go with you to help in the fields,” Bi Jingyan quickly offered, worried that Sang Tian would assign him to the black market.

He knows nothing about management, but he's perfectly capable of doing manual labor.

“Okay, there’s something I need your help with, but before that, I need to go see Tang Xiaoyan first.”

She plans to ask Tang Xiaoyan to make a watering device so that she won't have to do it manually and can save a lot of time. It would be even better if it could do something else as well.

Sang Tian was too tired from the past two days to move around, so she decided to go find someone tomorrow and ask Tang Xiaoyan if she was free.

Sang Tian: [Are you free tomorrow? I need your help with something.]

Tang Xiaoyan replied almost instantly.

[You're free now. I happened to bring your Deer Sleeping Child out to see the world today. Shall I come see you this afternoon?]

Tang Xiaoyan was very enthusiastic; one could guess her current mood just by reading her words.

Okay, then come to my house.

Tang Xiaoyan quickly asked, "Are you taking Lu Mian with you? You have no idea how pitiful this child is. Everything is new and exciting to him. He keeps staring wide-eyed at his new surroundings. People might think he's crazy."

Seeing how pitiful she was just from reading the words, Sang Tian didn't refuse her.

Bring it along, we can have dinner together tonight.

Sang Tian and Tang Xiaoyan agreed on a time, knowing that the other party would probably finish their work around 4 pm and come over.

“We’ll have some important guests coming over later, so let’s prepare a few more dishes tonight.” Sang Tian looked at Bi Jingyan and, after getting his consent, said, “Look at who’s quick and efficient, and call them over to help you.”

She's a kitchen disaster, so she doesn't need to get involved in that part; her job is simply to provide good hospitality.

This was the first time the five beastmen had heard the word "distinguished guest" from Sang Tian, ​​and they all took it seriously.

Looking at the long table for eight people, Sang Tian thought it would be better to change it into a large round table. Although it wouldn't look as exquisite, it would be more practical.

So she replaced the old table with a new large round table in the mall, which could seat at least ten people.

After arranging everything, Sang Tian sent Bai Mingchen a message: "Tang Xiaoyan is coming over for dinner tonight, so come home early."

Sang Tian knew that Bai Mingchen hadn't rested well these past few days and had barely slept.

After dropping her off this morning, he went straight to the black market to settle things. He's practically an iron-willed beastman.

Just as Sang Tian was about to close the panel, Bai Mingchen replied to the message.

On the way back.

It was 12:30 pm, and there was still a long time before Tang Xiaoyan arrived at the house, so Sang Tian went back to her room to catch up on some sleep.

Before going to sleep, she thought about Lu Mian coming into the house, so she turned off the protective barrier in advance, allowing the orc to enter and leave the house.

When Sang Tian opened her eyes again, it was already getting dark outside.

Winter is approaching, and it's getting dark earlier and earlier, with temperatures dropping as soon as night falls.

Before leaving the room, she checked the time; it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, just in time for Tang Xiaoyan to arrive.

Sang Tian reached the corner of the stairs and heard a puzzled voice coming from the entrance hall, "Why are you here?"