Chapter 51: Greed

Chapter 51: Greed
Wen Yu returned to his residence after leaving the palace, and unexpectedly, Jingwei was already waiting there.
"Wen Yu, I'm sorry, I couldn't help you at all. Father wouldn't let me go to the great hall today, which resulted in you being conscripted into the army. I will go and ask father again to not conscript you into the army."
Seeing Jingwei back, she looked a bit lost and said to Wen Yu.
"It's okay, Jingwei. I don't feel dissatisfied with the judgment of Emperor Yan. Now for me, it's already the best result. I can still train and strengthen my skills in the army."
溫钰见精卫这个样子，面露微笑的对精卫安慰道。
“可是军队里面每天都要打仗，很危险的。”
溫钰忍不住像大哥哥般地摸了摸精卫的头。
"I'm so amazing, definitely nothing will happen to me. Jingwei, you don't doubt me so much, do you!"
Jingwei blushed as Wen Yu touched her head.
Wen Yu seemed to feel the awkwardness and quickly withdrew his hand, and Jingwei also nervously left.
Wen Yu stood still, not knowing what she was thinking, then shook her head and sighed before entering the residence. Inside the room, Wen Yu tidied up a bit, grabbed some things, and then left the house.
………
As he arrived at the marketplace, Wen Yu wore a bamboo hat to cover his face and walked into the pawnshop. It's always better to be cautious. Wen Yu was planning to exchange some gemstones here.
"Sir, what items are you looking to sell?"
Wen Yu took out a tiger claw from his arms. Last time, his Qiankun Bag was destroyed in the Jiaogu Mountain, leaving only a pair of tiger claws.
"Please wait, sir. Let me go inform the person in charge. I cannot make decisions regarding valuable items."
溫钰对他点点头，示意他去。
不一会，一个中年富贵打扮的男人向溫钰走了过来。
“客官，我是这儿的主事，是您要出售虎爪对吧！”
```htmlWen Yu nodded and handed the tiger claw to him. The middle-aged man took the tiger claw from Wen Yu's hand and began to probe with his divine sense.
Wen Yu immediately sensed the man's cultivation level, unexpectedly at the initial stage of Golden Core. He hadn't noticed it when he came over earlier; it should be that the man carried some treasures that isolated divine sense probing. Now with a slight movement of his divine sense, Wen Yu detected it.```
```html"Sir, are you really going to sell this item?"
Upon hearing him ask, Wen Yu was not only puzzled but nodded at him. The middle-aged man only relaxed after receiving Wen Yu's affirmative answer.```
“此妖生前应该是金丹中期修为，它的虎爪太珍贵，如果出售的话，说不定客官你会有些吃亏，不过小店一定会拿出客官满意的价格。”
"How about this price, sir?"
The middle-aged man extended five fingers.
Wen Yu frowned.
Fifty thousand?"
"Five hundred thousand."
Wen Yu was slightly surprised in her heart, fifty thousand fine stones could buy a mansion and courtyard in the imperial capital.
Seeing that Wen Yu remained silent, the middle-aged man thought she was dissatisfied and quickly said, "
Six hundred thousand, this is the best gem that our shop can currently offer. If the customer doesn't buy it, then our shop can't afford it either."
Wen Yu, hearing the middle-aged man emphasizing the quality of the gemstone, knew that he had misunderstood her meaning. Helplessly, Wen Yu could only go with the flow.
"Alright, deal."
Upon hearing Wen Yu's agreement, the middle-aged man suppressed his joy and returned the tiger claw to Wen Yu. He hurriedly said to her:
```html"Please wait a moment, sir. We will go gather some fine stones."
"How long will it take?"
"Half an incense stick's time is enough."
Upon hearing something within his tolerable range in this world, Wen Yu nodded to the middle-aged man, who then left. Immediately, two handsome maidservants, both around eighteen or nineteen, approached Wen Yu with some food and drink, standing by to serve. Wen Yu felt very uncomfortable with this and told them it was fine for them to just stand by and do nothing.```
Before long, a middle-aged man hurriedly walked towards Wenyu, indicating that the two maidservants could leave.
"Sir, here are your 600,000 fine stones. Please take them."
The middle-aged man handed a Qiankun belt to Wenyu, who took it and casually looked inside with his divine sense, then handed the tiger claws to the middle-aged man.
“客官，交易愉快，下次还有什么东西可以再来我们店出售。”
溫钰点了点头，便转身离开了。
在溫钰离开之后，走出来两位女子，这赫然就是伺候溫钰点两个丫鬟。
```html“Father, shall the two of us follow him and take the opportunity to kill him, snatch the spirit stone, and plunder the treasures on him?”
A seemingly younger woman said.```
“此人头戴斗笠看不清脸，他的修为我也看不透，那只虎爪的妖怪说不定就是被此人所杀，能轻易杀死金丹中期，此人绝不简单，还是不要冒险的好。”
"Just now, the two of us, watching this person, he should be a young man, perhaps even younger than the two of us, his cultivation should not be stronger than mine."
The slightly younger woman retorted indignantly.
"Alright, it's settled. Neither of you are allowed to go."
The middle-aged man said seriously, but even if he had caught such a big fish like Wen Yu, receiving this tiger's paw today still meant a profit.
(End of this chapter)