Li Yuan gestured and said, "Please!"
Only then did the ssenger ride away.
At Li Yuan’s fingertip, a strand of invisible thread suddenly shot out, entangling the ssenger.
Thousand-Mile in a Line,
when this ssenger crossed the Long Sleep River,
he... also crossed it.
...
As spring began, the Red Ant Comrce Association ca as usual.
It was still an old acquaintance—Steward Wei.
Li Yuan clapped his hands, said nothing, and smiled as he gestured for the maid to present a small box filled with gold.
Steward Wei didn’t look, just smiled and said, "Elder Li, as usual, without Blood Gold, the Sixth Grade product catalog won’t be shown."
Li Yuan raised his hand and placed a pouch of Blood Gold on the table.
Steward Wei paused, took a piece of Blood Gold, felt it, and then looked at Li Yuan in surprise.
However, he didn’t ask, "Where did the Blood Gold co from?" nor did he say anything silly like, "How can you have Blood Gold?" Instead, he quietly took out a small booklet from his chest and said, "This is the Sixth Grade product catalog."
Li Yuan smiled and said, "Can’t see the Fifth Grade ones?"
Steward Wei quickly said, "Elder Li, just a heads up, to see the Fifth Grade ones, you need to beco a VIP guest of our association. At that ti... our association’s president will personally issue a VIP Guest Token. With that token, you can see the Fifth Grade product catalog."
Li Yuan wasn’t surprised, as the product catalog itself contained a lot of information.
He took over the Sixth Grade product catalog and carefully examined it.
The catalog was divided into several sections.
The first section, Sixth Grade Demon Beast at, where the price for 30 jin of Sixth Grade Demon Beast at is 20 taels of Blood Gold;
The second section, Sixth Grade Skills, single book prices ranged from about 100 to 300 taels of Blood Gold;
The third section, Sixth Grade Weapons, ordinary ones were around 30 taels of Blood Gold, better ones required 100 taels of Blood Gold;
The fourth section, Sixth Grade Puppets, the puppet prices were extrely expensive,
with the cheapest being six or seven hundred taels of Blood Gold,
and the regular ones being a thousand taels of Blood Gold,
they even offered custom services, where the custor makes requests and gets what they pay for, with the last line being particularly conspicuous, the high-end custom Sixth Grade Puppet for three thousand taels of Blood Gold.
Li Yuan’s pupils contracted, he sowhat missed Tang Nian...
Li Yuan looked at the catalog for a while and said, "I want the Sixth Grade ’Lou Jin Dog Taming Skill’ from this book."
After speaking, he weighed it and then pushed 140 taels of Blood Gold in front of Steward Wei.
After so thought, he decided to first improve his Beast Taming Skill.
...
That day, Li Yuan rode to the Martial House.
Martial House disciples all saluted him as he walked straight ahead.
Before reaching his destination, he heard a chorus of voices.
"The Ancestor is here."
"Tang Nian, your foster father is here."
The sound was akin to "playing with a phone in class when soone says the teacher is coming, the teacher is coming..."
Li Yuan found it sowhat amusing.
But he did not slow his steps and walked to the thatched hut where Tang Nian resided in the Martial House.
As soon as he arrived, the courtyard of the thatched hut erupted into a commotion.
Li Yuan looked over and saw several female disciples with the scent of alcohol emanating from them, and in the middle, a girl in a bright red robe, with ink-like long hair, leaning backward and still pouring wine into her mouth... who else could it be but his adoptive daughter?
Tang Nian suddenly sat up straight, staring wide-eyed at her foster father who had walked in.
The scene was a bit awkward...
Tang Nian suddenly ran her wet fingers through her hair, tilted her body to the side, propping her chin with a flirtatious smile and said, "Foster father~"
Li Yuan glanced at the female disciples around, and they scattered like birds, Tang Nian couldn’t stop them.
Li Yuan closed the courtyard door behind him and sat next to Tang Nian.
He looked at Tang Nian.
This girl, sixteen this year, has unknowingly grown up. Although sowhat bold, she indeed has a few hints of a drunken reveler’s style.
Tang Nian’s cheeks blushed, her body teetered, her boot kicked off, leaving her bare white foot swinging in the air...
Li Yuan coughed lightly.
Tang Nian actually raised her foot, nudged Li Yuan, and said, "Foster father, have a drink~"
Li Yuan said, "The weather isn’t warm yet, aren’t you afraid of catching a cold? Put your shoes on."
Tang Nian spun her body around, giggling: "No way... When I was little, foster father wouldn’t let drink. Now that I’m grown, can’t I drink?
When drinking, the whole world becos blurry, everyone becos so easy to befriend... Niannian, is very happy.
Such a good thing, why didn’t foster father let drink sooner?"
A scene from the past flashed in Li Yuan’s mind, of Tang Chou’s death, and how this child had seen her father drink before he died, so... she wanted to taste that feeling too.
He pondered for a mont and said, "Then your foster father will drink with you."
With that, he picked up the wine jar from the ground, poured himself a cup, and drank it.
Tang Nian snatched the wine jar, poured a cup, and drank it up.
Then it was Li Yuan’s turn.
One jar finished, then opened a second one.
After the second, open a third.
Before long, Tang Nian, drunk, fell backward, but the Faceless Puppet behind her caught her with both hands.
Tang Nian humd a tune, fell to the side, and drifted into sleep.
Li Yuan looked at his adoptive daughter, picked up the boot, carefully put it on for her, then ruffled her hair, and softly patted the puppet, regardless of whether it understood, saying, "Take good care of her."
Lately, his matters were overwhelming, and after sending Tang Nian to the Martial House, he saw her only a few tis each year. This visit was sowhat out of self-interest.
After all... he didn’t expect that after the Sixth Grade, puppets turned out to be incredibly valuable.
But now that Niannian has friends here, let her continue to grow. It’s better than bringing her back to Baihua Manor, where she’d end up as a "reclusive research fanatic."
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