Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1261 603: Life Within the Wormhole_3

"Gone to procure goods, it'll probably take at least an hour!"

The snack seller turned and left. Two hours later, Tang Changfa and Yan Hong'er returned. Before the newly obtained goods could be put into storage, Yan Cui'er first recounted the previous business to them.

"I don't even want to deal with them, just offering a three percent commission. Who'd want to do business with them?"

Tang Changfa poked Yan Cui'er on the forehead: "Fool! We've been in the Outside Provinces for so long, yet you can't figure out any accounts? Do you know how much money scientific research stuff costs? A business worth ten million, we earn three hundred thousand, isn't that enough?"

Yan Hong'er also got angry: "We're doing business on someone else's turf, aren't we supposed to give them a little face, do you have any sense of propriety in your heart?"

Yan Cui'er pouted, tears brimming: "You all just know how to bully me, tomorrow let's go find the shopkeeper for judgment."

Upon hearing this, Tang Changfa fell silent, as Yan Cui'er was quite favored by the shopkeeper.

Yan Hong'er wouldn't humor her: "Go tell the shopkeeper then! Let's go right now, if we have reason let it be known, I just don't believe the shopkeeper won't recognize right from wrong!"

Tang Changfa advised: "Enough, I'll go ask, what this business is really about."

He voluntarily approached the snack seller and accepted the business down.

Returning to the room, he checked the list and paced back and forth several times.

Yan Hong'er asked: "What's wrong? Are the items hard to buy?"

"Buying them isn't hard, it's whether we should buy them." Tang Changfa showed Yan Hong'er the list.

Yan Hong'er's eyes were sharp, immediately spotting the electromagnetic instrument: "Isn't this the item the shopkeeper previously asked us to buy?"

Yan Cui'er looked at it: "Maybe it's just a name resemblance, perhaps it's different from what we bought."

"It's not just a name resemblance!" Yan Hong'er examined carefully, "These words are the model number, it's the same as what the shopkeeper bought."

Yan Cui'er scratched her head: "I guess this item is just like the elixir, the shopkeeper wants to buy it, others want to buy it too, it's not something surprising, is it?"

Yan Hong'er shook her head: "That's not how it works; this is different from an elixir!"

Tang Changfa quickly picked up the phone: "This matter needs to be immediately told to the shopkeeper, if the shopkeeper doesn't allow buying, we'd rather not be doing business here, but we must hinder this purchase."

Li Banfeng was still in Puluo State, and upon receiving Tang Changfa's call, he roughly listened to the equipment list.

Li Banfeng was familiar with these pieces of equipment because his wife was using them all.

Someone is researching the Boundary.

"Shopkeeper, should we undertake this business?"

"Yes, help them well with it, and ideally find out something: who is buying these from Lin Fojiao,

but if you can't find out, it's okay, just don't offend Lin Fojiao, make sure this connection stays intact, by no means let it break."

Li Banfeng hung up the phone, thoughtfully contemplating the connections behind the events.

Could this equipment buyer be connected to the situation with Qin Xiaopang?

The phonograph carried the clock pendulum and Meng De to the laboratory; whether they can cross through two Dark Bridges and pull Little Fatty out from the river still depends on his wife's research.

...

At midnight, a martial arts film was shown at the Cultural Palace, and the black market was selling weapons today.

The snack seller was doing business when a puff of smoke drifted over, drawing a circle before him, dissipating and disappearing.

Looking back, the snack seller saw a man in a red-checkered shirt sitting in the back row smoking.

This man was his loyal customer, He Haisheng.

The snack seller approached He Haisheng and handed him a bottle of water.

He Haisheng looked at the water bottle, it had "216" written on it.

After sitting in the hall for a while, He Haisheng went to suite 216, waited for a few minutes, and the snack seller entered.

Lowering his voice, He Haisheng asked: "I heard you've recently taken a big deal, planning to buy a batch of research equipment?"

The snack seller remained silent.

He Haisheng understood his meaning, until the price was agreed, the snack seller wouldn't disclose any information.

He took out a check, writing down a figure.

After checking it, the snack seller accepted the check, took out an equipment list, and handed it to He Haisheng.

After reviewing the list, He Haisheng asked: "Who asked you to buy this set of equipment?"

The snack seller was silent again.

He Haisheng took out another check, writing down a figure.

After checking, the snack seller accepted the check, handed a copy of "Fragrant Words Tales" to He Haisheng.

He Haisheng flipped from start to finish, at the book's last page, he saw the bookstore's stamp.

Lu Family Bookstore.

He Haisheng nodded, took the list, and left the Cultural Palace.

...

At eight in the evening, Lu Family Bookstore closed early, Boss Lu had urgent matters to attend to tonight.

He balanced the books, organized the books, lit a furnace of incense, brewed a pot of tea, set out eight small plates of preserved fruit, under candlelight, brought out the "Jade Fragrance Record" sent by Zhang Xiuling,

The entire series is planned for twenty-six volumes, with eleven volumes already released; Boss Lu opened the first volume and began to read slowly.

This "Jade Fragrance Record" was jointly created by two talented women, Zhang Xiuling and Shen Rongqing, from Puluo State. Others may think these talented women are creating prose or poetry, or novels of high taste, but they would all be wrong.

This book "Jade Fragrance Record" is shocking in scale, according to book lovers' reviews, this book is the only work in nearly a hundred years that can rival the "Xiu Shuang Collection".

At first, Boss Lu didn't have much hope for "Jade Fragrance Record"; in his view, female authors are relatively conservative in some aspects.

After reading one volume, Boss Lu discovered that his understanding was severely flawed; the relationship between "Jade Fragrance Record" and "Xiu Shuang Collection" wasn't one of rivalry.