Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 284 - 123: Lady Yan’s General Store, Visitor Arrives

Chapter 284: Chapter 123: Lady Yan’s General Store, Visitor Arrives

Lady Yan said beside him, "The peddler still sells rouge, and because of the human skin, I turned him into a woman. Originally, evil ghosts don’t have a fixed appearance."

"Just now, that house we were in, was an inner room..."

Li Yuan understood, it was equivalent to the "employees’ break room"...

He asked again, "And what about Feng’Er? What business does Feng’Er do?"

Li Yuan had been curious about this for a long time, after all, Feng’Er sold Brother Xiong for a whole 1 cent.

It wasn’t about whether Brother Xiong was worth 1 cent, but he had personally witnessed some people burdened with sin being worth only 1 or 2 cents.

No matter how valuable Brother Xiong was, he couldn’t be a hundred times more expensive than those people, right?

Lady Yan said, "Husband, you must understand, not every ghost domain in this world happens to be located in a populated area.

Some ghost domains are very unfortunate, once they appear, the ghosts inside cannot kill anyone...

Because there’s simply no one in the area where the ghost domain is located."

Li Yuan was speechless about the use of the word "unfortunate," assuming it was his wife’s heartfelt evaluation of her peers...

"So, Feng’Er specifically sells people to those ghosts?"

"Exactly, that’s right... so the prices Feng’Er charges here are outrageously high.

This is something I only truly understood recently.

Feng’Er’s customers are all ghosts, not people.

What she runs... is a real black market."

"There should be quite a few people on Ghost Street, right? Can’t those ghosts just go to the main street for a walk?"

"They... don’t have that kind of awareness, or maybe it’s for other reasons.

But Feng’Er’s black market just happens to connect with them.

It lets them know that there’s a store here that can provide what they need."

"It’s that little black bag, right?"

"Yes, it contains human aura.

The evil ghosts can smell it through the bag, confirm the purchase, and Feng’Er will take them to the warehouse in the back to get the goods..."

"There’s even a warehouse?"

"Let me take my husband to have a look."

Then, Lady Yan took her husband and daughter for another round.

Li Yuan realized his wife’s "storefront" was a "one plus three" combination.

The large shop at the front was for window display and customer reception.

And the "three" at the back included a "break room" and two warehouses.

One warehouse had human skins hanging, piled with rouge boxes, unfinished rouge, and half-consumed human skins laid on a cold wooden table, clearly the unfinished "goods" of the gray-robed ghost trader.

What he sold wasn’t really rouge, but a powder of human skin infused with dense Yin Qi and part of his power.

The other warehouse was empty, but some vague shadows could be seen.

Each shadow represented a person, and if an evil ghost took a liking to them, they could come to claim them.

But these people could only reach here when fully asleep, so if they stubbornly refused to sleep, they’d just become fleshless bones, and if they happened to enter the Zhong Mansion, Feng’Er would run out of stock.

The method to break the curse for these people was to come here themselves, and then pay to buy back their own bag.

However, because it’s a black market, the price would be quite high.

The peddler makes money by selling in bulk with low profit margins, but Feng’Er is in the big business.

Li Yuan glanced at this dark street domain and said, "Sister Yan, if you merge with a few more evil ghosts, will the warehouses here need to expand? And would the variety of goods in the front shop windows increase as well?"

"Yes.

Stores like Feng’Er’s are like general stores, very versatile.

Unlike the flower shop next door that only deals in selling and planting flowers...

No wonder the peddler initially wanted to merge with Feng’Er." Lady Yan was forthcoming and then suddenly recalled something, "In a while, Feng’Er and the peddler might produce a new product together, and that product will be a special item.

By then, I’ll reserve one for my husband."

The trio walked for a while and then sat on the seating outside the store to rest a bit.

Li Yuan asked, "I’ve heard other fleshless bones say before that if you see someone calling to you on the street, you should pretend not to see them, why is that?"

Lady Yan laughed and said, "Because they can’t afford it.

In normal stores, once you go in, you must buy something to leave alive.

And when you come to a large shop like mine, you need to buy one of each type of product to leave alive.

The peddler’s items aren’t too bad, but Feng’Er’s items are expensive.

If you don’t have over 1 cent of ghost coins on you, you can forget about leaving here alive."

Li Yuan: ...

Lady Yan said, "I can’t change this rule."

Li Yuan said, "But Xiaozhao and I..."

Lady Yan said, "You came out of the back room with me, so you’re not guests.

However, if you came in from the outside, even you, my husband, would have to follow this rule."

Li Yuan said, "But yesterday you still had the peddler call me..."

Lady Yan said, "Didn’t you have quite a bit of money on you, husband? Even if not, I would secretly slip you money."

Li Yuan: ...

"Oh, Sister Yan, what about you? What do you do here?"

Lady Yan smiled and said, "Me? I’m responsible for collecting the money."

With that, she added, "The peddler and Feng’Er sell things, make money, and they have to hand it over to me, that’s how it is."

...

...

Li Yuan woke up the next day feeling refreshed.

He didn’t feel like he hadn’t slept well or was exhausted all over just because he dreamt of Ghost Street.

Instead, he felt particularly energized, better than usual.

Lady Yan’s general store, though filled with malice externally, seemed to nourish internally, and from now on, he would go there every night.

At this moment, he glanced at the beautiful woman’s face half-exposed outside the bedding, feeling a bit indescribable inside.