Wandering Gods of Day and Night

Chapter 1366 - 512: Bribing the Eternal Life Sect Leader

After everyone finished their lamb soup, they each went about their own business.Li Changxun and Yun Ziliang went to the main street to inspect the changes in feng shui and air disturbances,

while Zhou Xuan drove a Mei Ken car with Little Fuzi and Mu Hua to shop in the center of Mingjiang Prefecture.

To avoid being surrounded by onlookers again, he simply used "Hundred Human Phenomena" to disguise himself as a middle-aged wealthy merchant.

"Fuzi, I’ve become quite famous now, and along with that, many people also know you. Keep your hat brim down a bit so you won’t be recognized."

"I understand, young master."

Little Fuzi immediately looked down and pressed the brim of his hat lower.

On this shopping trip, Zhou Xuan first visited several large bookstores, directly approached the owner, and wanted to buy out all the books.

"Any books that are interesting and somewhat vulgar, pack them up for me. Those that are incomprehensible, I don’t want them."

"Boss, do you want ones with adult content?" the bookstore owner asked ambiguously.

"No, no."

Zhou Xuan waved his hand, refusing the owner’s good intentions—among the five Alchemy Workers in the Ancient Soul Returning Hall, they were all fellow disciples and all male. If they indulged in adult books, things could get chaotic.

"I also want magazines and newspapers."

Zhou Xuan told the owner.

"How many?"

"A whole carload." Zhou Xuan said generously.

He already had experience from entering the ancient hall twice. After absorbing Danzi’s flesh and blood, he could enter the "Ancient Temple Space". The items in the store were still present.

So Zhou Xuan just needed to place the items he wanted to bring to the ancient hall in the store, as long as the store could hold them, he didn’t mind the quantity.

The owner felt like he hit the jackpot, just after opening not long ago, encountering such a generous customer, buying books and newspapers in bulk, immediately took off his hat, bowed, and said, "Don’t worry, boss, I’ll arrange everything perfectly for you."

Zhou Xuan nodded, reached out, and took the cloth bag handed by Little Fuzi, opened it, took out a gold ingot, and placed it on the counter: "Books, newspapers, magazines, deliver them to the entrance of Sister Cui’s Restaurant on East Market Street."

"Alright."

The owner, after receiving the gold, asked again: "Hey boss, there’s a Mr. Zhou Xuan living across Sister Cui’s Restaurant on East Market Street, do you know him?"

"Not really."

"Don’t you really know?" the owner asked again.

"I don’t know this person at all." Zhou Xuan said with a smile.

"Oh, then I was overly suspicious." The owner bowed again and said, "Boss, I’ll deliver the books, newspapers, and magazines at noon."

"Sounds good, sounds good."

Zhou Xuan immediately led Little Fuzi and Hua Zi out of the store while the owner stroked the gold ingot and said secretly: "If Mr. ordered the books and newspapers, I shouldn’t keep the money, but this boss doesn’t know Mr., so I should keep the money."

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After leaving the bookstore, half the work was done, and Zhou Xuan continued driving to Mingjiang Department Store.

These days, Mingjiang has just completed its reconstruction, and to celebrate this joyous event, there were many performances in Mingjiang Department Store.

Most of these performances were spontaneously organized, including various folk craftsmen and singers.

The mall was crowded with people, and Little Fuzi and Mu Hua were entranced by the lively scene.

Zhou Xuan knew these young lads loved watching these things, so he said, "Fuzi, take Hua Zi around, see whatever you want, eat whatever you want, don’t be stingy with spending."

He never had a shortage of money now, but Little Fuzi, being somewhat honest, tended to be frugal.

"Got it, young master."

"Enjoy yourselves, I’m going upstairs for some business."

Zhou Xuan then temporarily parted from the two and went to the second-floor "Golden Time Gramophone".

He was very familiar with this store, the gramophone in Jingyi Shop that Yun Ziliang and Li Changxun handled so much it developed a patina, was bought here.

The quality of that gramophone was jointly certified by both Yun and Li, true audio aficionados—treble sweet, midrange accurate, bass deep, in short one word, transparent.

The shop’s Boss Qiao was reading the newspaper on a long bench, seeing a customer arrive, he put down the paper.

Zhou Xuan didn’t waste words, directly asking Boss Qiao: "Do you have Victory-brand gramophones in stock?"

"It depends on which model caught your interest." Boss Qiao replied with a smile.

Zhou Xuan said: "The integrated phonograph dual-use model."

"We do have that, it’s the electric type, is your home voltage stable?"

Although Mingjiang Prefecture was economically prosperous and there were many electrified areas, some places had unstable voltage and occasional blackouts.

Zhou Xuan said: "The circuit is very stable."

"Then you can certainly get one, boss. Not to brag, but your taste is really good, this gramophone model is also used by the great Mr. in Mingjiang Prefecture, once he used it, the local celebrities also love to come here and order gramophones."

Boss Qiao spoke of Zhou Xuan’s reputation with an unmistakable smile.

"Is that so?" Zhou Xuan didn’t expect to bring any business to Boss Qiao.

"Then it must be the right choice," Boss Qiao said.

Zhou Xuan nodded and asked, "Besides the electric ones, do Victory-brand gramophones have any other power sources, like clockwork types?"

In Jing Country, besides electric gramophones, clockwork types were most common, with fully wound clockwork able to play two or three songs.

Boss Qiao shook his head and said: "Boss, we do have plenty of clockwork machines, Victory-brand included, but this phonograph dual-use model is high-end craftsmanship, doesn’t have clockwork, but there is a steam-powered model."