Chapter 273: Chapter 273

Lin Wei stopped talking further. What Yinxing said was true, and he knew he couldn’t negotiate the price down. Although the stall owner was easygoing and spoke pleasantly, he had his own principles.

"I’ll take all the flour and pastries you have."

Yinxing smiled and said, "We have one hundred kilograms here, and one thousand kilograms at the Deserted Mountain. Are you sure you can take it all?"

Lin Wei was initially taken aback, but then he smiled. So much flour was exactly what he wanted!

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"Yes, I can take it all. I’ll leave the money here now. Today, I’ll take as much as I can, and I’ll come back tomorrow for the rest. Where is your Deserted Mountain? I’ll go with you to fetch the goods."

Yinxing hesitated a bit. Although they had dealt with each other for a long time, she was still apprehensive about taking a stranger to their Deserted Mountain.

If this person had any ulterior motives, she wouldn’t know how to handle it.

Pei Shu’er smiled and said, "Come on, follow me."

Lin Wei smiled and nodded when he saw Pei Shu’er. They were all regular customers.

He drove several horse-drawn carriages, following Pei Shu’er to the Deserted Mountain.

Upon reaching the gate of Desolate Mountain City, Lin Wei was stunned. He thought he was coming to a barren land, but to his surprise, it was such a place.

The two-meter-high walls, along with the parapets and city gate, were built impressively.

There were even people patrolling, and everything was orderly.

Upon entering the Deserted Mountain, he was suddenly amazed. This place was surprisingly vast.

Although most of it was still under construction, it was not difficult to imagine the bustling and orderly scene it would present once completed.

Many of the facilities here were exquisitely built, unlike anything he had seen before. It was like a rising small city rather than a border land.

However, the city seemed to have too few people.

This Deserted Mountain was divided into residential and planting areas. Almost all the residential houses had become red brick or blue brick tile-roofed houses, but the crops in the planting areas were lush and thriving.

During times of drought or war in other places, where harvests failed, this place not only had normal rainfall but also achieved extraordinary crop yields.

Lin Wei entered a stone house with three rooms. At first glance, the stone house seemed ordinary, made from the most common stones.

But inside, it revealed hidden depths.

It had basic defensive facilities, undeniably lethal to anyone who tried to forcibly enter.

There was also a large fish pond, full of fish, all well-fed and large.

Was it really this woman in front of him who had developed such a place?

During trades, everyone said that this woman was the true master of the Deserted Mountain.

After observing all the way, she found that this person had good character and was worth befriending.

Seeing his genuine interest, Pei Shu’er took him for a tour.

The pig pen was sunken, housing wild boars whose tusks had already been removed, so there was no worry about them harming anyone.

The sow was pregnant again and was about to give birth, but it was being well taken care of.

The first litter of piglets had grown midway, just the right age for eating. Fed with pig feed daily, they were fattened up, almost as big as the boar next to them.

Even caged, the pigs were separated one by one, and the pen had no strong odor, indicating frequent cleaning.

Moreover, the pig pen was made of a building material he had never seen before, called cement by Pei Shu’er.

Lin Wei saw a business opportunity and was about to ask further, but Pei Shu’er shook her head with a smile.

"It’s not that we won’t sell it to you. It’s just that we don’t have much of it ourselves, and we’re currently under construction."

Lin Wei had to let it go and continued following Pei Shu’er to look at the chicken pen.

The chicken pen was also well-constructed; it was large and housed mountain chickens.

Through generations of breeding, there were now more than a hundred, with no worry about running out of wild eggs daily.

These mountain chickens, when they grew too old to gain weight, were slaughtered to prevent dying of old age, serving as a supplement for those in the stone house.

As for the wild rabbits, they were even more remarkable. Previously, they’d traded for a pair of male and female wild rabbits, with some caught by those in the stone house on the mountain.

Now, the wild rabbits were breeding in successive litters, and their pen had been expanded several times.

These wild rabbits were all chubby, showing they had lots of meat, making them more delicious as food.

Pei Shu’er smiled and pitched them.

"These wild rabbits are good too. Grown ones are only five wen each. You might want to buy some to take back. After all, the nobles in the city are likely to enjoy this game."

"Besides, our wild rabbits are fed specially, making them much tastier than ordinary wild rabbits."

Lin Wei nodded, "Sure, but do you have cages here? I’d prefer to buy them with the cages."

Lin Wei toured for a while and decided on 50 wild rabbits and 20 mountain chickens. He also wanted to buy the wild boar, as it was something the nobles liked as well.

However, Pei Shu’er shook her head, "We need to slaughter a few for winter this year, so I’m afraid not."

Lin Wei understood; being from the nearby mountain range himself, he knew better than anyone how cold it got in winter. Keeping some meat for the winter was necessary.

That day, much of the flour was bought.

Lin Wei found that even the rice here was better than elsewhere, with each grain distinct and no broken ones.

Wasn’t this supposed to be the Deserted Mountain?

Wasn’t it the coldest, most desolate part of the Gulan Mountain Range?

Why were there so many treasures here?

It was like a feng shui treasure trove.

After hauling the grain out of the stone house, he went to other households to ask about the price of grains per catty.

The people thought for a moment, looked at the several large carriages behind him, realizing he was a merchant, and assessed the situation.

"Five wen, this isn’t actually expensive."

Lin Wei frowned, realizing that the Tang Family’s flour was indeed the cheapest.

However, the prices of other households weren’t expensive either.

If he were to sell it elsewhere, he would surely sell it for 20 wen.

And 20 wen was already considered cheap in the city.

If it weren’t for seeing the Tang Family’s flour, the quality of everyone’s flour wasn’t bad.

But with a point of comparison, the other flours seemed lacking.

Nonetheless, he had to purchase them. With times so harsh, encountering someone willing to sell grain was truly a rare opportunity.

Lin Wei first bought the Tang Family’s flour. The other households agreed for him to return after some days, but he only offered three wen.

The other households reluctantly sold, as besides this merchant, there hadn’t been many people coming to the Deserted Mountain recently.

So, encountering someone willing to buy things was surely something to seize upon carefully.

Lin Wei sold the flour that day. When the townsfolk saw the flour, they were stunned, unable to imagine that such white flour could exist in the world.

No one knew how it was made.