It was not yet evening, but the drizzle of rain kept falling, but the sky was completely dark.

Lao Ba sat under a yellow bamboo chair under the eaves. Two oil lamps were lit in the shop behind him, emitting a dim light.

The shop where he is located is a bungalow with black tiles and brick walls and large wooden doors. It looks no different from the ordinary shops. In the rain curtain facing him, there are many different shops on both sides of the continuous stone road.

There is a pond next to Laoba's shop. It seems that the rain has been falling for a long time. The water in this small pond seems to be very full. There are a few large bananas planted on the edge of the pond. The drizzle of rain hits on it, making a puff sound.

At this time, there were no people coming and going on the stone road, and the sound of the rain hitting the banana leaves seemed even more deserted and lonely.

The shop of Lao Ba is located in Jinyun Valley in Bashan. At this moment, these shops shrouded in raindrops look no different from those outside, but in fact, these shops trade things that monks need.

In the entire world of Taoism, except for some unknown secret markets like the Nantianmen, there are about thirty publicly known markets, and Jinyun Valley is one of them.

Although there are many monks who come and go on a variety of occasions on weekdays, if you have been here for more than ten years and guard such a shop every day, you will always be a little deserted and lonely.

Many times, desolation and loneliness come from mood.

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No one passed by the wet stone road for a long time, Lao Ba's eyes narrowed, as if he was about to fall asleep, but at this moment, a young man wearing a bamboo hat and a straw raincoat walked over the rainbow at one end of the stone road.

Lao Ba's eyes opened, and some look of surprise appeared in his dim eyes like an oil lamp. He had seen countless monks, but this young man gave him a very strange and unique feeling.

Under the straw raincoat, a pair of green cloth boots were exposed.

"Ba shopkeeper?" The young man walked to Lao Ba before stopped, took off the bamboo hat on his head, and showed a very gentle and warm face with a smile.

Lao Ba stood up in surprise and looked at the smiling young man, "What are the guests want?"

The young man still looked at Lao Ba with a smile, "Everything."

"Everything?" Lao Ba was stunned. He was a little confused about the meaning of the young man's words.

"In addition to everything in your shop, there are all the things you produce." The young man smiled and added, "Of course I want to buy it, not to grab it, and the price can be slightly higher than the price you trade here."

"I am sorry." All the coldness and loneliness in Lao Ba's eyes disappeared, and some light that was not usually seen appeared. "I still don't understand what you mean."

The young man explained in a very gentle tone: "It's true that the things you produce are very useful to us, and the amount we need is very large, so I want to establish a long-term agreement with you, and don't sell all the things you produce to others. I can buy them all at a slightly higher price than the market price."

"Long-term agreement?" Lao Ba pondered, "Acquisition at a fixed price?"

"That's right. If you are worried, I can even pay a part of the deposit in advance." The young man nodded, smiled again, and said, "If you can't decide alone at this time, I can wait for your news here."

"For us, this kind of long-term agreement is beneficial but not harmful. I can agree to it alone." Lao Ba glanced at the young man and frowned slightly, "But how to comply with this agreement? I promised you, but I traded with others privately, so what should we do? If there is any major sect that has forced pressure to give us as much as we want to hand over to them, what should we do?"

"If you do not keep the agreement and trade with others privately, and I find out, you will double the gains you get from me. This can be written in our agreement. Since I dare to make such a long-term agreement with you, if you really violate the agreement, I am not afraid that you will not double the gains you will double the gains to me." The young man smiled and said, "As for any force that has forced pressure, you can open all your medicine fields to them and let them pick them on their own... So don't leave too much stuff in normal times, and trade them all for me if there is production. Since you have everything you produce, you don't have to worry about the things you produce, and naturally you won't be too concerned about those forces."

Lao Ba pondered for a moment, looked at the young man, and asked directly, "Then what price can you give?"

"10%." said the young man seriously, "I can make a long-term agreement with you at a price of 10% higher than the current transaction price."

After a pause, the young man added, "And if you keep following the agreement, every few months, I can even provide you with a spiritual cultivation and a pill recipe."

"I want a part of the deposit." Lao Ba took a deep breath, without hesitating anymore, and said affirmatively at the young man, "You also know that this amount is very large, so I must have all the guarantees."

"There is no problem." The young man smiled slightly, took out a skin bag and handed it to Lao Ba.

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The things in the skin are very simple, with only a stack of silver notes, a green herb placed in a jade box, and a pill recipe written on ordinary paper.

But after Lao Ba looked carefully, his eyes showed an extremely moving look, and his hands holding the skin shaking slightly.

"How often do you need to get the goods?" After a while, Lao Ba regained his calm expression. After looking at the young man in front of him, he added: "The quantity is relatively large, I have to prepare for it."

The young man who seemed very gentle said: "The faster the first batch of goods, the better, it is best to have it tomorrow. As for the future, it will be fine every five or six days."

"Are you here in person or..." Lao Ba continued to ask.

"I will send someone." The young man looked at it, walked into Lao Ba's shop, took out an ordinary red talisman from a shelf, and then tore the red talisman in half and handed it to Lao Ba. "My surname is Tong. When my person comes to receive the goods, he will bring my half of the talisman, and he will say that it was someone sent by Mr. Tong."

"Okay!" Lao Ba nodded.

Looking at Lao Ba nodding, the young man didn't say much, put away the half-red talisman, smiled friendly again, then put on a bamboo hat, turned around and walked into the raindrops.

From beginning to end, the young man did not establish any evidence with Lao Ba, and Lao Ba was also very clear that this young man did not need any evidence at all, because he did not have to worry that Lao Ba would repent in this regard and did not follow the oral agreement between the two.

Basically, there will be strong forces behind shops that have been operating in this kind of cultivator trading market. For example, the shop of Lao Ba, the power behind them is Dantai Sect.

Dantai Sect is one of the three largest sects among the sects specializing in cultivating spiritual medicine in the Taoist world.

Lao Ba himself is one of the elders of the Dantai Sect.

And in his shop now, there are many kinds of talismans and some fine gold ores needed to refine magic weapons. Various elixirs for refining pills only occupy a very inconspicuous corner.

Therefore, even if the forces with ulterior motives are concerned, even if they pay attention to this shop for a long time, they will basically be misled, thinking that the forces behind this shop are one of several sects that specialize in refining talismans.

However, in the conversation between this young man and him, he had clearly pointed out the medicine field and the spiritual medicine... plus the conditions he gave, it was obvious that the power behind Lao Ba's shop was the Dantai Sect.

The face value of the first batch of silver notes given by the young man is very amazing, enough to pay for the three months of spiritual medicine production in Dantai Sect. Such a large amount of money, coupled with the unique magic fluctuation felt from this young man, and the young man's claim to be surnamed Tong... Lao Ba has already vaguely known the identity of this young man.

As this young man, since he had already made such an agreement, Dantai Sect would never dare to violate it.

Moreover, the conditions given by this young man also made Dantai Sect unable to refuse.

Like the green jade grass he gave this time, the grade is higher than that of most spiritual medicines cultivated by the Dantai Sect, and the elixir recipe given by the young man this time is the green jade pill. The green jade pill refined with the green jade pill has the effect of tempering the body and strengthening the blood and blood, and is several times stronger than almost most of these elixirs in the market.

The ability of Dantai Sect to cultivate spiritual medicine is already a handful in the world of cultivation, but in the elixir recipes, Dantai Sect has not much attainment, and some good elixir recipes cannot be passed down from other sects. Therefore, Dantai Sect has always been equivalent to the lowest farm. Other sects of Dandao took the elixir cultivated by Dantai Sect and after refining the elixir, the value was several times higher.

This is equivalent to cooking a pot of chicken soup. Others ate all the chicken, but Dantai Sect can only drink the soup.

If this young man could really provide some upper-level spiritual medicines and pill recipes, the Dantai Sect would inevitably gain huge benefits from it.

Lao Ba didn't understand what the young man was trying to do so, but it had nothing to do with him, because for Lao Ba, it was just a transaction between merchants. No matter what kind of monk he was, he was just a merchant in this kind of trading market, and merchants only paid attention to the greatest interests.

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"All those shops have been cut off?"

Located in a trading market similar to Jinyun Valley in the north of Jingzhou, a middle-aged man in a silver robe frowned and a slight shone in his eyes.

"Someone must be secretly causing trouble."
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