As one of the few large ports in the waters of Zhiyuan Prefecture, Qing Chucheng naturally developed into a very lively commercial city.

A bus with two red lanterns hanging in front of him, wrapped in iron sheets, and steam surging on the top was driving past. Inside the car, men were wearing short brown or deep clothes, smoking cigarettes, talking about their recent work while sucking clouds and mist. Women adjusted their hair buns on their heads, stretched their plain skirts from time to time, and chatting about interesting things in life.

Lu Jing held a scallion pancake in his hand, walked along the street with a cloth wrapped around his back, and dragged a wooden wheelbarrow carrying a large box behind him. Although he had been here several times before, he still looked at everything around him with interest.

The cities of this era have their own unique characteristics.

After expressing his feelings to Uncle Fu and getting affirmed, Lu Jing naturally had to consider the next thing.

Although his extraordinary ability gave him the ability to barely protect himself on this sea, the most important thing to go to sea is a ship of his own!

Lu Jing was thinking about this matter earlier, and he did not plan to build a big ship from the beginning.

On the one hand, the funds were not sufficient. Wu Lin's hush money and his savings over the past six months were enough to buy an ordinary two-masted sailboat, but the kind of ship that could only be used to deliver goods obviously did not meet Lu Jing's requirements, and he has always been a person who would rather be insignificant than indiscriminate.

On the other hand, Lu Jing is only one person, a companion who has no trust. If he really gets a big ship, he has to recruit crew members temporarily. It would be fine if it is for commercial purposes, but he is planning to take risks and has to go through all kinds of troubles. He doesn't want to spend time with a group of people with their own thoughts before the sea even comes out.

Therefore, after discussing with the people in the shipyard, Lu Jing placed his target on a small sloop steamship. Like Uncle Fu's steam whaling ship, the hull with wood and steel structures is mixed with steam and sails, and if he is skilled, he can control it alone.

Although the sloop steamer is not large in size, it is better because it has all the internal organs and has excellent ability to withstand wind and waves. There is no problem supporting the navigation of several people. In Lu Jing's plan, before he earns enough funds to buy an ocean-going ship and leaves the Shuoming Dynasty to travel to other countries, this will be his ship for transportation.

In fact, Lu Jing’s first goal after going out to sea was to buy an ocean-going ship, but now he has to buy a ship to go out to sea first.

Such hybrid ships, coupled with brand new ships, naturally the price will not be cheap. Lu Jing took a lot of saliva, and the people in the shipyard were only willing to lower the asking price to 6 gold leaves and made it clear that if Lu Jing still wanted to bargain, they would not serve him.

At present, Lu Jing’s savings are close to 1 golden leaf, and with the closure fee given by Wu Lin, there are 3 golden leaves in total. No matter whether you have to buy some other items after purchasing the ship, the ship alone is missing 3 golden leaves.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Jing immediately came to Qing Chu City after leaving the port, intending to find a place to sell the things he was dragging behind him.

The most important ones are scallops, human head statues and the three fish fins. Lu Jing knew that they should be quite valuable, provided that they find a suitable buyer.

"Don't miss it when you pass by. Today, Qingyun Tower mainly features a specialty stewed bluefin fish, first come first served~"

Standing in front of a restaurant, Lu Jing looked at the waiter who was selling at the door and raised his chin. When the latter noticed Lu Jing's eyes lit up immediately, he hurriedly came up.

"Brother Lu, what good goods are there to deliver today?"

"I don't even know the origin of the fish this time. Why don't you take me to see your shopkeeper quickly? Don't forget to call Old Man Xu. Isn't he known as a sea-related mess? I want to know that he has never seen the fish I caught this time."

In the past six months, in order to make extra money, Lu Jing often used his outstanding diving skills to catch some precious sea fish for sale during his long voyage. After a while, he followed the people from Qingyun Tower to get on the line. Every time he had goods, he would basically find them.

However, Lu Jing came here today not just to sell fish, what he really was looking for was Old Man Xu.

I followed the waiter all the way to the courtyard where the kitchen was. Not long after, a rich middle-aged man in silk clothes appeared with a smile on his face. He had also been calling the waiter to follow him, but this time he was carrying a thin, disheveled old man, and when he approached, he could still smell the strong smell of alcohol on his body.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, this time the goods are not ordinary."

As soon as the two sides met, Lu Jing did not waste time after a few greetings, and directly lifted the wooden box behind him.

"Wow, why does this fish grow so strangely..."

As the owner of the restaurant, he has seen many seafood, but this is the first time he has seen this kind of fish. Its huge size and strange shape are undoubtedly good gimmicks for attracting business. He hurriedly handed a look to the waiter next to him.

The waiter received the instructions and pulled his hands against the old man's waist, and he was swaying violently. The latter could not withstand such violent shaking. He lay down to the side and vomited violently.

"Old Xu, are you dead? If you are not dead, hurry up and check out the goods. I serve you with good wine and good food every day, and I don't let you be a bucket of water!"

Manager Zhou stepped forward and pulled the old man, lifted him to the edge of the wooden box, and said with his nose pinched.

The old man seemed to have been familiar with this process for a long time. His two thick-boned palms pushed apart the hair in front of him, lay on the edge of the wooden box and looked inside, while his mouth was still burping.

However, when he saw what was inside, his burp suddenly stopped. His originally soft body suddenly stood up, and his hands were holding the wooden box and he was about to look closer.

Bang ~

People who were drunk had no balance at all. Old Man Xu leaned into his head and flipped in, his upper body in the box and his lower body outside, and his whole body was fluttering.

"Help, help..."

The sound is getting lighter and lighter.

Lu Jing took a step forward with a laugh and cry, grabbed the old man's clothes on the back with one hand and lifted him out of the wooden box. Unexpectedly, the old man turned around and grabbed his collar, widened his eyes and asked, "Where did you find this fish? Where is the thing in its belly?"

"I caught it at sea, how do you know it has something in its belly?"

Lu Jing was stunned for the sudden questioning of Old Man Xu, and then his expression became serious.

He didn't tell these people in front of him that he had gotten something from the fish's belly!

"The big head, wide belly, black all over, and a big body... Do you know what this fish is called by people at sea?"

He waved his hand excitedly. At this moment, the old man looked around the people present with a bit of arrogant attitude, and suddenly spoke,

"The gift from the deep sea - the black gold treasure fish!"

"Okay! This name is so good... Hurry up and notify the kitchen that tomorrow's specialty dish is this deep-sea fish. This portion is enough for a whole fish banquet. Brother Lu, a price of 10 silver dollars, I'll collect this fish!"

When Manager Zhou heard this title, his squinting eyes flashed with a shiny light. He didn't care how the fish tasted or what was in his stomach. The key was that the title should be loud.

The gift from the deep sea, is this title a joke with you?

If there is no entry fee of 5 silver dollars, would you be embarrassed to sit down and eat?

"The deal was made at 10 silver dollars, but I had a request, that is, Manager Zhou had to prepare a table for me. In order to keep it fresh, I got up early."

There is no reason for Lu Jing to refuse the price of 10 silver dollars. Anyway, he had already obtained the treasure in the fish's belly. On the other hand, the shopkeeper Zhou was very satisfied with Lu Jing's pleasure. He immediately patted his chest and said that Lu Jing would eat it openly in the building. In his eyes, people like Lu Jing who could get to cherish deep-sea fish would undoubtedly need to win over, or even please.

Of course, if he knew that Lu Jing would not go out to sea to catch fish again, he would probably regret it.

"Boy, I just saw this fish belly was cut open. What exactly is inside?"

Old Man Xu still asked Lu Jing for the news, and he was very interested in not giving up until he asked.

"Or we'd rather have some things while drinking and chatting. I did get some things, but I just don't know their value and am planning to find you to identify them."

If you want to sell things, you naturally have to understand the goods. Lu Jing doesn't want to be a sucker, so he immediately thought of the knowledgeable old sailor in front of him.

"You boy is so good at it, don't worry, you know everything!"

When he heard that Lu Jing was going to treat him to dinner, Old Man Xu immediately pulled up his hair and put his shoulders on the former. His whole face was as smiling as a chrysanthemum. The scar on his left cheek seemed to be a little less ferocious.

A table was placed on the second floor of Qingyun Building. When the food and food were served, Lu Jing took off the cloth and took out the moon-white scallops the size of a palm, intending to test Old Man Xu first.

Puff ~

When I first saw the scallops, I just picked up the wine bowl and drank it into my mouth before I could swallow it. Old Man Xu reached out and snatched the scallops over, looking at them with his eyes radiating.

"Moonlight shells are still of this size... Boy, you are lucky. After grinding this shell into powder, it is an extremely expensive medicinal material. For this size, you can find shops that can find goods to at least 1 gold leaf. If you encounter something in urgent need, the price will still rise!"

Old Man Xu's face turned red, as if he had just filled a few bottles of strong wine. After a pause, his expression became a little surprised again. He turned to Lu Jing,

"This thing shouldn't be the thing in the fish's belly, otherwise it would have been completely digested."

"I got it by chance, and there are two other things."

Knowing the value of this moonlight shell, Lu Jing felt aroused and decisively took out the statue of the human head and the three fish fins.

This time, Old Man Xu lost the excitement he had just now. Looking at the two things in Lu Jing's hand, he suddenly frowned, and there was a little more suddenness and pity in his eyes when he looked at the latter.

"Boy, for this meal, I'll give you a piece of advice. If you want to live a few more years, don't go out to sea in the future, especially during the stormy weather last night."

Old Man Xu did not take what Lu Jing had, but just shook his head and said,

"I told you how did you get the treasure fish and the moonlight shell. It turned out that you accidentally bumped into their corpses. These things are indeed treasures, but you... what kind of expression you have, can I still deceive you? Wait, what you won't meet is alive, right?"

Halfway through, Old Man Xu noticed the strange expression on Lu Jing's face, and suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes immediately changed when he looked at Lu Jing.

“Hahaha~”

Lu Jing picked up the wine bottle and took a sip, looked at Old Man Xu, and replied with his eyebrows raised.
Chapter completed!