Chapter 85: Chapter 61: The Heirloom Jade (Vote for Recommendation)
“Stop!”
“Hiss???? ”
Accompanied by a hissing neigh, Sherri raised her front hooves high, while in front of her, two men dressed as merchants were startled and panicked.
“You, you, you, what are you doing? Who rides a horse like this?!”
The man was speaking in Azure, obviously a local from the Azure Duchy.
Since his childhood, Bailuo had been taught several major national languages by his uncle and was quite proficient in them.
“Is this the miracle?”
Bailuo sized up the two men in front of him, “Is it something on them?”
“No, that’s not it.”
Bailuo felt that it shouldn’t be something on their person.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, Bailuo’s attention was drawn to something behind the merchants. There stood a small slave, dressed in tattered clothes, with disheveled hair and a dirty body, looking very frightened and shivering.
“It’s him!”
Without hesitation, Bailuo stepped forward and grabbed the other’s hand.
(You have found her, but she is not yet yours, so why not buy her with all the money you have on you?]
“Just as I suspected!!”
Bailuo thought to himself, while the other merchant quickly said, “What are you doing? Stealing my business? I saw her first.”
“Are you selling slaves?”
Time was pressing; there were less than three minutes left.
Bailuo didn’t care about the merchant beside him, spoke in Azure, and immediately took out his purse and threw it to the merchant—all the wealth he had on him: “Is this enough?”
“Uh, ah?”
The merchant was obviously confused, not knowing what was going on.
This slave was part of a batch he had bought from another slave trader, but because she was too ugly, she was left unsold.
By chance, a merchant passed by, looking to buy a little maid for his home, and so they began to negotiate.
This transaction was even more profitable than selling a thousand slaves minus the cost of the slaves.
“Sherri.”
“Yes.”
Watching the merchant leave with a laughter, Bailuo had Sherri silently note his scent—if he had harmed the girl, who knew if there might be a task for revenge in the Black Leather Book?
In this matter, Bailuo was always cautious.
As for the money...
To exchange a mere Large Gold Coin, five small gold coins, and several silver and copper coins for a miracle creature was a steal.
“Wait!”
Suddenly, Bailuo called out, and Sherri burst out like a gust of wind, blocking the merchant’s path: “What do you want to do?”
“We’re doing business. Once the money is given, that’s the end. There’s no such thing as a refund for buying a slave.”
“The key!”
Bailuo didn’t leave the small slave girl, but instead yelled from a distance.
“Ah right, right, right.”
The merchant hastily took out the key for the slave girl’s chains and threw it to Bailuo: “Now are you satisfied?”
Bailuo didn’t want to deal with him and simply waved his hand, signaling him to disappear quickly.
[You have obtained her, and she now belongs to you, but the chains still bind her, depriving her of freedom]
[????]
Level: Unable to evaluate
Type: Miracle Creature
Faction: Lost Realm
Status: Unawakened
‘So, it’s a girl.’
Bailuo noticed the wording in the Black Leather Book; it used ‘her,’ not ‘him,’ and remembering what the other merchant had said about the Misty Rain Alley Beauties, ‘No wonder no one wanted her; that figure, indeed, doesn’t stir any interest.’
‘The chains still bind her, depriving her of freedom...’
Bailuo continued to read the riddles in the Black Leather Book, thinking to himself, ‘Is this telling me to release her?’