Such a dilapidated shop cost one thousand gold coins to rent for a month. The moment he pressed his fingerprints, Luo Chen felt like crying.
"Hey... welcome."
The old man shook the contract in his hand and left with a smile. Luo Chen's face looked like he had constipation. That day, he went to ask all over, and the result he got was just as the old man said, ordinary.
Fighting Soul Liquid mixed with water can be bought for as cheap as fifty gold coins.
For those with higher purity, the maximum price is 200 gold coins. Luo Chen reluctantly took out his fighting soul liquid to compare, but in the end, he was reluctantly settled at 300 gold coins. This is different from the previous price.
The price difference in Licheng has more than doubled!
He visited several street shops, and this was already the highest price. He gritted his teeth and exchanged the fighting spirit liquid in his hand for gold coins, and then returned to the shop.
But at this time, the old man was actually in the shop. He still had a chicken drumstick in his hand, and Yinyin beside him was drooling.
"Old man, why are you here?"
"Hey, nonsense, old man, I only have a store like this. Why don't you let me sleep on the street? This little girl is pretty good. Where did you get her?"
With that said, the old man shook the chicken leg in his hand, bared his teeth at Yinyin and said, "Little girl, do you want to eat?"
"think."
Yinyin swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, her jewel-like eyes sparkling with light.
"Think whatever you want, eat, eat, eat, you will know how to eat, and you will not even know if you are being sold."
Luo Chen knelt down, pinched Yinyin's little face angrily, and said.
"But Yinyin is hungry, grandpa is not a bad person.
Yinyin stepped forward and hugged Luo Chen's neck, muttering in a low voice. Luo Chen stood up and carried Yinyin to the back kitchen. Prices in the imperial city were too high. Li Ruotong could buy more vegetables and meat by himself.
Save some amount to control your expenses.
Li Ruotong's cooking skills are very good, no worse than some restaurant chefs.
"Sister Ruotong, what should I do with that old guy?"
Luo Chen glanced at the old man outside, frowned and said.
"There is no way. In the contract we signed, there is only one shop outside. The kitchen in the back and the two bedrooms inside are not ours. I still waste a lot of words, plus Yin Yin's
It's so cute that I asked for permission to use the back kitchen.
Moreover, I also promised three meals a day..."
"What?"
When Luo Chen heard this, he almost jumped up.
"Are you kidding me? The rent is a thousand yuan a month, and that old guy has already earned so much that his hands are cramped. He still has to take care of the food? I'll go find that old bastard to review it!"
Luo Chen has such a bad temper! Putting down Yin Yin, Luo Chen turned around and walked out of the back kitchen, but after a while, he came back in cursing with a bruised nose and a swollen face.
"Sister Ruotong, are you just going to watch me get beaten?"
"There's nothing I can do, sister, I can't beat him either."
Li Ruotong shrugged with a wry smile. The old guy had deliberately approached Yinyin before. With Li Ruotong's protective character, how could he have endured it? But what shocked her was that with her six-star Soul Fighting Master realm cultivation, she could strike with one sword.
, enough to split a huge boulder, but the old man easily caught the long sword between his two fingers. Even thinking about it now, Li Ruotong still felt a little incredible.
"So strong?"
Luo Chen was surprised. He knew Li Ruotong's strength. He was a six-star soul fighting master and a swordsman. He could still fight against a top six-star soul fighting master. But that old man
But he clamped Li Ruotong's long sword with just two fingers. With such strength, he has at least the eight-star soul fighting master level, or even higher!
Such a strong man, even if he were placed in the imperial capital, would be a top-notch strong man, so how could he stay here? Moreover, the first impression this old guy gave him was that he was a scoundrel, and how could he look like a strong man at all?
Even now, this old man still gave him the feeling of being a wretched and scoundrel!
"By the way, there are only two bedrooms in the shop, and there is only a broken curtain between them. How can I sleep at night? It doesn't matter if I sleep outside, but what about the old guy?"
Thinking of the wretched appearance of the old shopkeeper of Sanfu Inn when he was in Licheng, he thought of the old man outside. Moreover, the old man had such a strong cultivation level. If he had evil intentions, he would...
"I bought new quilts. You guys will sleep in the inner room, and Yongyun and I will sleep outside."
Li Ruotong glared at Luo Chen, what was he thinking?
"That's good. Hey, it hurts. This old guy is really tough. How can I sign up tomorrow?"
"How about...I'll boil two eggs for you later and knead them?"
"That's all it can do."
Luo Chen left the kitchen dejectedly and tidied up a broken table that could still be used. The old man was quite at ease, sitting on a wooden stool with his legs crossed leisurely and humming in his mouth.
Luo Chen's ears were as disturbing as flies.
After waiting quietly for a while, the smell of meat came from the kitchen. Li Ruotong was still busy in the kitchen, but Yin Yin came out first with a plate of braised pork.
The old man smelled the smell, took the small wine gourd from Yinyin's hand, just grabbed a piece with his hand and chewed it up: "Not bad, not bad, fat but not oily, barely edible."
"Oh, this old bastard!"
Luo Chen rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward. The old man curled his lips and squinted his eyes in disdain.
Yinyin stepped forward and pulled the angry Luo Chen to the back kitchen. Li Ruotong picked up a spoon and knocked Luo Chen on the head, and said angrily and funny: "Is the injury on your face healed?"
"Isn't this old bastard too disgusting? How can we eat it?"
Luo Chen felt a little nauseous when he thought of the old man's nose-picking hand.
"I'll keep it for you. There is a night market in the Imperial City in the evening. After eating for a while, Yinyin and I went out for a stroll and bought some new tableware. As for you, you just stayed in the shop, No.
, I’ll boil the eggs for you. After I finish applying them, I can’t waste them. There are ten copper plates each.”
Luo Chen nodded obediently. After dinner, Li Ruotong and Yinyin went out. The room was a little dark. Luo Chen found a few candles. Thinking that he would have nothing to do, he went to buy some junior soul doctors nearby.
There is a pile of books needed, as well as some engravings of medicinal herbs.
No matter what, Sister Ruotong is right. If you want to live a stable life in the imperial city, you must have a kind of identity protection and become a soul doctor. This is the best choice.
Just when Luo Chen was concentrating on reading, the old man, who had eaten and taken a nap for a while, wandered up to Luo Chen and threw the wine gourd in his hand directly in front of him.
"Um?"
This old guy is very strong. Luo Chen touched his handsome face. He suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to keep his tone calm: "Is something wrong?"
"Hiccup~ No more wine."
The old man let out a wine burp, and Luo Chen's face turned green when he was drunk. Why don't you take care of my business if you don't have wine? Isn't there a restaurant nearby, and I don't know how to burp it? Didn't you see that I'm busy?
"No time."
Throwing the wine gourd in his hand back to the old man, Luo Chen began to study it.
"Hiccup~ It's just a blur on paper. Boy, if this thing was useful, the soul doctor would have been on the streets long ago. With such leisure, even working as a clerk in an ordinary drug store is better than watching these useless things here.
Damn it, young people these days are too naive.
With all this money and time to waste, you might as well go get me a drink for this old man, stupid, stupid!"
With that said, the old man wandered out of the dilapidated shop and came back after a while. Seeing that Luo Chen was still holding a book of medical skills and memorizing them by rote, he shook his head and kept saying "
He kept mumbling: "It's useless, rotten wood can't be carved, and idiots can't be touched..."
He was drunk and snoring so loudly that Luo Chen was so angry!
"Damn it! This old guy must have done it on purpose!"
He closed the book in his hand, stepped forward and kicked it with his feet. The old man slept like a dead pig, feeling nothing at all. This scrawny little old man was surprisingly heavy, and it took a lot of strength to even push it.
He pulled it again and brought it to the bedroom.
"Why don't I drink you to death?"
The quilt in the bedroom was shabby and shabby, almost infested with insects. He dragged a corner of the tattered quilt outside and threw it away. He threw his new quilt on the old man's body and then turned around and left the bedroom.
The moment Luo Chen turned around and left the bedroom, the old man suddenly opened one eye.
Grinning with big yellow teeth, he unhurriedly stretched out the quilt to cover his body, and then fell asleep again: "It's not too stupid... stupid..."
When Li Ruotong and Yinyin came back, it was already dark outside. Taking advantage of this time, Luo Chen read for a while and cleaned the shop a second time. Some old waste was thrown out of the house.
This made the space in the shop quite empty.
Yin Yin's mouth was full. She was eating candied haws in one hand and sugar cakes in the other.
"You are a snack foodie, if you keep eating like this, sooner or later you will surpass your sister Wang Zhenzhu."
Luo Chen couldn't help but pinched Yinyin's cute little face again, but then again, why didn't this little girl look any longer?
When she was in Wuling County, this girl was so big. More than half a year later, why is she still so big?
Just as he was suspicious, Li Ruotong stretched out the quilt and waved to Yinyin. Yinyin trotted into the bed. Before going to sleep, she was not willing to put down the snacks in her hands.
"How do you see it?"
"Well, I've pretty much seen the names, medicinal properties and related knowledge of junior medicinal materials. After a while, I'll buy some medicinal herbs and come back to practice. I think the assessment of junior soul doctor shouldn't be that difficult."
Luo Chen gave Li Ruotong a reassuring look and put the pile of messy books aside.
"Where's your bedding?"
"Here!"
Luo Chen clicked his tongue, then pointed to the bedroom in the back room and shrugged innocently: "It's okay, I have thick skin and am not afraid of the cold."
"Forget it, Yin Yin is still young and can't take up much space. You can come here and make a living for the night first. I will buy you a new bed tomorrow, but you have to be honest and don't be careless. I heard you
No?"
She was very suspicious whether this guy did it on purpose.
Hearing this, Luo Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded obediently. Is this considered sleeping together? Ahem... (To be continued)