After leaving the black market, Mu Xi headed straight for the small park. She first checked the surroundings carefully before taking out a thousand jin of apples in a secluded spot. If there weren’t enough, she simply picked more directly from the trees inside the space.
As for covering her tracks or anything like that, Mu Xi didn’t think it was necessary.
Mainly because she wasn’t afraid of the other party double-crossing her.
As long as they had functioning brains, they probably wouldn’t dare try anything. The table she had shattered into pieces was still sitting in their room.
With nothing else to do, Mu Xi sat beside the pile of apples and released her wood-type ability to communicate with the plants.
Her ability was only Level Two right now, so she couldn’t communicate with them effectively yet. At most, she could soothe them, turning her ability into tendrils that gently stroked them.
Once she reached Level Three, she would be able to communicate with plants in simple ways, though they would still have to be plants with some spirituality.
As her ability level increased, the efficiency of that communication would also improve. Eventually, regardless of whether the plants possessed spirituality, she would be able to obtain information from them.
An hour soon passed, and Brother Mang arrived on time with his men. When he saw the apples piled all over the ground, his expression became somewhat indescribable.
“Elder Sister, why didn’t you at least put them in bags? If they get knocked around and bruised, won’t that ruin their appearance?”
Mu Xi straightforwardly replied, “Then inspect them. Checking the goods before completing a transaction is standard procedure.”
She had only just taken them out of the space, so there was naturally no possibility that they had been bumped or bruised.
As for how they transported the apples afterward, that had nothing to do with her.
Brother Mang was speechless. With a wave of his hand, Haozi stepped forward and carefully inspected them.
“Boss, there’s no problem.”
“Since there’s no problem, can we make the exchange now?”
She still wanted to get home early and continue cultivating.
Just think how much cultivation progress she was losing by wasting an entire night here.
Brother Mang said, “All right. I brought a scale. We’ll weigh them, load them up, and then pay you.”
They were businessmen, so naturally, payment and goods had to be settled clearly.
The apples still needed to be weighed. After all, this was more than a thousand jin, not merely one or two jin. They couldn’t possibly rush through the transaction based on nothing but trust.
Mu Xi understood and stood to one side, watching them work.
Finally, more than ten minutes later, all the apples had been weighed. There really were exactly one thousand jin.
Only then did Brother Mang raise his hand again, and Haozi handed him a bundle of money and coupons.
“The apples are one yuan and fifty cents per jin, so one thousand jin comes to fifteen hundred yuan. Since you asked for coupons, I exchanged three hundred yuan’s worth into various coupons for you.
“There’s a total of twelve hundred yuan in cash and three hundred yuan’s worth of coupons here. Elder Sister, count them and check.”
Mu Xi didn’t stand on ceremony. She took them and counted everything right in front of them.
“Mm, the money and coupons are all correct. All right, since our transaction is complete, I’ll be leaving first. You should hurry and get these apples back too.”
With that, she waved her hand casually and walked away without looking back.
“Boss, should we follow her?” Haozi leaned closer to Brother Mang and asked quietly.
Brother Mang rolled his eyes at him.
“If you’re not afraid of dying, go ahead.”
Those words immediately reminded Haozi of the scene earlier, when that elder sister had shattered a table into pieces with a single slap.
He instinctively shrank his neck.
He was afraid of dying!
He was extremely afraid of dying!
Meanwhile, Mu Xi returned home without making a sound, having already removed her disguise along the way.
“Now I won’t have to worry about not having enough money and coupons after I reach the countryside.”
Looking at the money and coupons inside the space, Mu Xi finally felt reassured.
Brother Mang had been quite thoughtful. The three hundred yuan’s worth of coupons included all kinds of grain coupons, cloth coupons, sugar coupons, industrial coupons, and so on.
There were simply no coupons for major purchases. Still, Mu Xi was very satisfied. After all, coupons for major items, such as bicycle coupons, were worth dozens of yuan each. If she had exchanged for those, she would only have received a few.
Besides, she had no use for them.
After putting away the money and coupons, Mu Xi once again entered cultivation mode.