After leaving, Meng Xiaofang did not do anything special. She just picked up some firewood every time she passed through the mountains and forests, and then traveled around with the firewood on her back.

When passing through towns or cities with wealthy families, she would visit them and ask them if they needed to buy firewood. Of course, like her predecessor, she often encountered people who did not need firewood, but this did not matter, she continued

Carrying firewood on your back, head to the next home or place.

Over the past few years, she had been living in the open, eating wild vegetables and wild birds, and had accumulated a lot of money, but except for occasionally buying some clothes, she rarely spent it.

However, during this process, her state of mind continued to improve, and she also made progress in refining the talisman.

Now the talisman she refined using the same quality of papyrus is more effective than the one she refined when she first came to this world, both in terms of time and frequency of use.

Although Dafang became a top talisman master in his previous life, he was obsessed with making better talisman paper and then refining stronger talismans. He ignored that the same quality of talisman paper can also have more refined changes. Nowadays,

She was able to discover this because of this mission, which made her look forward to future missions even more. Of course, for her, the current mission is the top priority.

At the age of eighteen, Meng Xiaofang arrived at Meng Jing, the imperial capital.

Xu Shi's name has the word "Meng" in it, and Meng Jingcheng gives people a sense of vicissitudes of life, weight and ancientness. She quickly made the decision that she must stay here for a long time this time.

When she entered the city, the guards guarding the city stopped her for questioning. Seeing that she was carrying a bundle of good-quality firewood, the guard joked: "Are you here to sell firewood in Mengjing?"

Meng Xiaofang replied seriously: "Of course, I happen to have a bundle of ready goods here. If your family needs it, you can buy it directly. I guarantee that you will not regret it. In addition, since you are the first person I have met since coming to Mengjing,

As a customer, I can give you half price."

Maybe I saw that she was from a girl's family and couldn't bear to carry such a big bundle of firewood.

The guard relented and spent 250 copper coins to buy the bundle of firewood. However, he only had silver and did not have that many copper coins. After taking out 2 taels of silver, he collected another 5 taels from his colleagues on the side.

Ten copper coins were used to pay for the firewood.

After Meng Xiaofang left, a colleague who had a good relationship with him heard about the incident and hurriedly told him about the market situation of firewood.

It turned out that a bundle of firewood was only sold for one tael of silver in the shops in Didufang City, and the full price of the firewood bought by this guard was five taels of silver. Although he only paid half the price, it was far more than the actual value of the firewood.

Apparently he met a liar and didn't run away.

The guard listened to his colleague's words, but argued that the girl said that the firewood she sold was very useful, and he guaranteed that I would not regret buying it. Besides, he didn't think the girl was a liar.

When the colleagues saw that the guard had no consciousness of being deceived and even defended the liar who sold him firewood, he shook his head helplessly.

After entering the city, Meng Xiaofang checked into an inn, and then asked the innkeeper where there were rental houses or shops nearby. After hearing this, the other party told her that there was a shop specializing in housing intermediaries in the market.

She left the inn and went straight to the market, and soon found a shop that the shopkeeper told her about.

There are a lot of shop resources in this store that are being rented out, and many of them are in the form of shops in the front and residential courtyards in the back.

She picked a few places based on price, and went to check them out under the guidance of the people in the store. Then she settled on a house that was not in a good location, but was cheaper in price and spacious enough. But the owner neglected to take care of it.

In the yard, the weeds in the yard have grown as tall as a person.

Meng Xiaofang casually asked the clerk at the agency store if the owner of the house had any plans to sell the house.

When the clerk heard this, he looked embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and then told the truth. It turned out that there was something evil about this house, and it was extremely cold inside. The previous tenants would fall ill as soon as they moved into this place. Over time,

, there were rumors that the feng shui of this place was not good, and no one was willing to rent this place anymore.

It is said that the current owner of the house invited an expert to come and perform dharma, but it was of no use.

To elaborate, he was also tricked by the previous landlord, so he is now in a hurry to sell the house.

Seeing that Meng Xiaofang didn't say anything after hearing this, the store clerk was afraid that she would be unhappy and move to another place, so he quickly said that he just brought her here for a look, and did not suggest that she rent this place, but suggested that she rent it again.

Go look at houses elsewhere.

Unexpectedly, Meng Xiaofang immediately decided to buy the house and asked her clerk to arrange a meeting with the owner.

The two returned to Fangshi and sent someone to ask the owner of the house. As soon as the other party heard that someone was going to buy the house, he seemed to be afraid that the buyer would regret it, so he rushed to the store without stopping.

After some negotiations, the house was finally sold for 850 taels of silver. In addition, both parties paid the intermediary a fee of 50 taels of silver. Meng Xiaofang successfully obtained the house, spending a total of 900 taels of silver.

Half a month later.

Meng Xiaofang moved into a renovated new home, and a new plaque was hung on the shop fronting the street, named "Xinhuo House".

The owner of the Xinhuo House sells firewood and straw paper. Firewood is five taels of silver per bundle, and straw paper is sold at market prices.

After the store opened for a while, not a single bundle of firewood was sold in the store, but a lot of straw paper was sold. However, many people came to inquire about the shop owner Meng Xiaofang and see where she lived in the name of buying straw paper.

When will you get sick in this house and move out?

It's a pity that these people never found out that the owner of Xinhuo House had any intention of moving out. Without the opportunity to watch the excitement, customers who were far away stopped coming to Xinhuo House's toilet paper business.

As a result, the business in the store became increasingly deserted.

Until one afternoon, a man came looking for her.

"Shopkeeper, I didn't expect it to be you. I wonder if you still remember me? I was the guard who bought the firewood you carried on your back at the city gate."

When Meng Xiaofang saw the person coming, she smiled and cupped her hands and said, "I've seen General Zhang."

When Zhang Zhao heard this, he was slightly startled, a little surprised that the other party knew his identity. But when he thought about it, he realized that he had indeed not deliberately concealed his origin, and he was relieved.

"Shopkeeper, I heard that this store sells firewood worth five taels of silver per bundle, so I came here to try my luck. I didn't expect you to open a store in the Imperial City in such a short time. Congratulations."

Meng Xiaofang raised her eyebrows. It seemed that the other party had already investigated her before coming. Thinking like this, she joked: "How about it? The little general couldn't forget the firewood I sold after using it, so he bought it specially?"
Chapter completed!