100 Purple Gold Coins = 10,000 Gold Coins...
Shi Tou swallowed the drool that was about to spill, and answered without hesitation, "Okay! But let's make it clear first, it's cash on delivery!"
Huo Xiaoxiao nodded readily, then quickly took out a light purple silk pouch embroidered with exquisite patterns from her spatial bracelet: "Here you go, this is the deposit for 10 Blazing Rocket Launchers. You can give it to me anytime you finish forging them!"
Wow, they've even prepared the deposits, and for 10 at a time!
Shi Tou held the silk pouch and smiled brightly. Having been in the capital for some time now, and being particularly sensitive to money, she naturally understood the meaning behind the silk pouch.
The golden silk pouch indicates that it contains gold coins. There are only two sizes: a small one containing 10 gold coins and a large one containing 100 gold coins.
The purple silk pouch indicates that it contains purple gold coins, but there are three tiers: a small one contains 10 purple gold coins, a medium one contains 100 coins, and a slightly larger one that is light purple in color and embroidered with exquisite patterns contains 1000 coins.
$$_$$
"Okay, I'll get it for you as soon as I make a copy!" With the purple gold coin in hand, Stone immediately forgot about his previous bottom line of not letting children play with dangerous items.
By the way, what's the lower limit? Is it edible?
☆, Chapter 145 The Birth of the Divine Alarm Clock
"Gaga, Master is a money-grubber, a money-grubber~~~" Inside the ring space, Stone was researching how to forge a low-quality disposable explosive rocket launcher faster, while Baozi was dancing its self-created Baozi belly dance, happily jumping around and humming.
The stone rolled its eyes at it and went about its business.
Actually, it wouldn't be difficult to mass-produce divine artifacts using the mechanical equipment in the ring space, but Stone is also a person with aspirations. How so? Although the production speed of divine artifacts in the ring space is extremely fast, Stone encountered a very significant problem.
Damn it, she has no way to ship the mass-produced artifacts out!
Gold coins and purple gold coins may be incredibly dazzling, but what's more important than one's life? Stone isn't the kind of person who would risk her life for money. In her view, money is good, but you need to be alive to enjoy it, right?
Therefore, even though there were countless inferior artifacts in the ring space, and with the generous support of Grandpa Huo, they even managed to produce quite a few genuine artifacts, such as the Blazing Rocket Launcher and Stone.
But without a good excuse, could she really take these things out?! Would she dare?
As a result, Stone became deeply depressed.
Faced with a large number of finished artifacts in the space, which could be exchanged for a lot of gold coins and purple gold coins, Stone simply couldn't take them out to exchange for money!
It's so incredibly irritating!
/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~
However, people can always find a solution. So, Shi Tou began to study the mechanical devices in the space. Although her science skills weren't great, at least there was a finished product in front of her, which she could understand.
"Gaga. Master is a stupid idiot, a fool, a stinky old man~~~" Baozi's humming kept changing lyrics, knowing that Shitou had recently fallen into money-grubbing ways and had no time to deal with it.
After struggling for a while, Shi Tou realized her limitations. She knew very well that with the little bit of physics knowledge she had learned in her previous life, it was impossible to completely replicate this entire set of mechanical equipment outside, at least in the short term.
But it's okay!
Without hesitation, Stone disassembled a complete Flame Rocket Launcher. It's important to understand that Flame Rocket Launchers produced by mechanical equipment are assembled from these kinds of parts. They simply undergo an extra coat of paint in the final manufacturing process.
What Stone is doing now is taking it apart into individual parts and then reassembling them.
"Gaga, Master has gone mad and gone crazy, wahahahaha~~~" Baozi was still making noise, but after several days of torment, Shitou had become very numb and could do his own thing.
With a clanging sound of metal objects striking each other, Stone finally managed to dismantle a complete, low-quality artifact into pieces after an hour of work.
"Tsk tsk, looks like my skills aren't bad!" Stone looked at the scattered parts in front of him with considerable satisfaction. He nodded approvingly.
"Thump!" That was the sound of Baozi falling down. "Giggle. Master, have you really gone mad?"
Stone really didn't want to pay attention to it, and just focused on putting the pile of parts back in their places. She planned to try to reassemble them later, and if she could succeed, then her next money-making plan could be implemented.
Assembling the parts wasn't too difficult. You see, Stone was quite the mischievous kid in his past life, often taking apart alarm clocks and toys. However, after assembling for a while, Stone sighed deeply, "Life without instructions is truly unbearable!"
That's right! It only takes ten minutes to produce a shoddy gadget in a machine, but it takes her an hour to disassemble it, and just thinking about assembling it all is a hassle!
"Giggle, Master, this is impossible!" Baozi finally stopped its ridiculous belly dance and waddled over to the stone: "Master, what's bothering you?"
Stone casually picked up a long, thin piece and pushed the steamed bun aside. Was she being unreasonable? No, she wanted to get rich!
Looking at the hundreds of parts in front of her, Shi Tou was momentarily stumped. It wasn't that she felt she couldn't finish it, but rather…
"Damn it! Why didn't I think of that before?!" Stone raised his hand and slammed it hard on the ground, but it hit the moving Baozi right in the middle of the room. Baozi let out a scream that echoed throughout the space.
Stone, ignoring the need to comfort Baozi, quickly assembled the parts. Before long, Stone held up a half-finished product made up of about ten parts and chuckled.
Baozi shuddered when he saw the stone's creepy smile.
"Baozi! Look, what's this?!" Shi Tou suddenly turned around and placed what he was holding in front of Baozi.
Baozi stared wide-eyed, his face contorted in surprise, but he still couldn't figure out what the dark thing was: "Hehe, Baozi doesn't know!"
Shi Tou laughed even more smugly. If you were to ask her what she did most when she was little in her past life, she would definitely tell you that she took apart alarm clocks!
还真别说，石头前世小时候家里的条件很不错，但是因为是单亲家庭的缘故，妈妈总是很忙，她一个人在家也没事做，就爱上了拆闹钟这一特殊的爱好。拆了闹钟，当然也得给它装上去吧？就算妈妈再疼她，也不可能在她一天拆了一个闹钟的情况下，还不揍她。于是，不到五岁，石头不但学会了拆闹钟，更是学会了组装闹钟。
At one point, Shi Tou even thought that if she couldn't find a job in the future, she could probably still work as a watch repairman.
“Baozi, let me tell you, this is called an alarm clock!” Shi Tou proudly held up the half-finished product in his hand.
"Gaga? Zhongwa?" Baozi was clearly taken aback by Shi Tou's absurd answer and stood there dumbfounded for a moment.
Clocks do exist in other worlds; on the contrary, they symbolize status and position. The Huo family is considered a noble family in the capital, so naturally they possess clocks. Shi Tou has seen the Huo family's clock; it's placed in the reception room in the front courtyard.
It was a huge object, about the size of a millstone, and quite round overall. The clock face was exquisitely crafted, and the timekeeping was similar to that of the stone in its previous life. However, such a clock consumed a considerable amount of wealth.
Stone didn't know the workings of the bell, but she understood that it required a crystal core. A crystal core wasn't a ore, but rather an energy substance unique to high-level magical beasts. Generally, only magical beasts of three stars or higher would develop a small crystal core in their brains.
A crystal core the size of a fingernail is generally worth around 100 gold coins. However, the Huo family's bell can consume four three-star crystal cores a day.
"Giggle, it looks so weird!" Baozi finally came to its senses, but its eyes were still full of confusion. No matter how rich its imagination was, it couldn't figure out what the dark thing in the stone's hand had to do with the exquisite clock in the Huo family.
Stone looked down at the object in his hand and nodded: "This is the inside of the alarm clock. I still need to make an outer shell for it."
The most important thing about clocks and watches is, of course, their internal components; as for the exterior, that's something for the stone to worry about. But then again, the difference between mechanical clocks like these really lies in their exteriors. The most valuable part of those so-called luxury watches and gold watches from my previous life wasn't their internal components, but rather their external decorations.
"Hehe, the clock moves! Why doesn't this one move?" Baozi was somewhat accepting of Shi Tou's idea, but still instinctively voiced his opposition.
This time it was Stone's turn to be stunned.
Despite being a disposable item, the inferior explosive rocket launcher's components weren't actually of poor quality. On the contrary, upon closer inspection, Stone found its parts to be far more refined than those produced in some ordinary factories from his previous life.
The internal structure of the small alarm clock wasn't complicated, and Shi Tou quickly found the necessary components among the many parts. However, a problem arose. In her previous life, she could assemble a jumble of parts into an alarm clock, and she was even quite certain that the core of the alarm clock in her hand was useful. But the question remained: where was the battery?
Seeing the stone deep in thought with its lips tightly pursed, Baozi instinctively took a step back. Baozi's skin was thick, but it knew that going up at this moment would mean more than just getting beaten up.
"Could we use a crystal core instead?" Stone's question was more directed at herself than at Baozi. She genuinely didn't understand the battery's structure, but remembering that most things here were powered by crystal cores, she thought perhaps this could be used as a substitute.
"Baozi, shall we go and take down that clock in the Huo family's reception room?!" Shi Tou suddenly looked at Baozi with bright eyes.
Baozi was really trembling this time. Although it didn't have any good feelings towards the Huo family, it knew the significance of this bell to them: "Hehe, is Master planning to flee?"
You're the one who's on the run!
Shi Tou rolled his eyes at Baozi, then his eyes lit up: "So that everyone can have convenient, fast and accurate alarm clocks, and even watches, I've decided to steal the Huo family's clock!"
The steamed bun was sweating profusely, but unfortunately, it wasn't a normal creature and couldn't sweat, so it could only squeeze the soup out of its folds: "Hehe, Master is so shameless! He's clearly just trying to scam more gold coins for himself~~~"
That's right, we're doing this so we can scam more gold coins!
Suddenly, Shi Tou smiled broadly and hugged Baozi tightly, his eyes shining as he looked at her: "Darling, I knew it! Only you truly understand me! So, as my confidante, you'll definitely help me, right?"
Chapter 146 The Blind Date Banquet That Scams Baozi
Chapter 146 The Blind Date Banquet That Scams Baozi
As a well-rounded, morally, intellectually, physically, and aesthetically pleasing young person of the new era, Shi Tou deeply felt that stealing a clock was a highly unrealistic endeavor. Besides, regardless of anything else, she was still the second young lady of the Huo family, and the Huo family treated her very well. Furthermore, she had no experience as a thief; what if she got caught? How embarrassing would that be!
So, Shi Tou decisively set his sights on Baozi.
What's the use of steamed buns? They're for eating, drinking, relieving themselves, and even acting cute and charming.
Shi Tou felt that such a state of idleness was very wrong. So, she decisively handed over this arduous task to Bao Zi.
The Huo family's reception room was naturally cleaned by designated staff and guarded by Huo family guards. Shi Tou, a kind-hearted child, specifically chose a day when Grandpa Huo was present to avoid implicating these people. Strictly speaking, not only Grandpa Huo was present, but also Huo's father, Huo Xiaoxiao, Shi Tou, a promising young man and his parents, and a lecherous old man.
Hehe, that's right, this is a matchmaking event. A matchmaking event specifically held for Huo Xiaoxiao. However, judging from Huo Xiaoxiao's obviously purplish-blue face, Shi Tou knew that the poor talented young man was simply not Miss Huo's type!
"Xiaoxiao, who is he?" Shi Tou nudged Huo Xiaoxiao and whispered in her ear.
Huo Xiaoxiao's face was now purplish-blue, and she was twisting her fingers fiercely: "A piece of trash!"
That's an exaggeration!
Shi Tou couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, but his gaze couldn't help but drift towards the back of that talented young man.
Hehe, just now when no one was looking, Stone threw the diamond that Baozi had turned into over there. Right now, Baozi is struggling to move its body, heading towards the clock.
This brings us to the disastrous decor of the Huo family's reception room. Why is it disastrous? Because the Huo family's ancestors had truly appalling taste.
The Huo family's reception hall was at least 500 square meters. Such a large hall couldn't possibly be the kind of crowded, chair-filled auditorium Stone had seen in his previous life; it was rectangular, a very long and narrow shape! Its width couldn't exceed five meters, and its length…
Forget it, Stone never did well in math in his past life.
The group of people were currently in the very center of the reception room, while the priceless clock was placed at the far east end. The distance between them was quite far, even without considering the countless screens, display cabinets, and flower pots.
Baozi, oh baozi. I hope you can complete your mission successfully this time, otherwise...
Hehehe~~~
Baozi had no idea what Shitou was thinking. If it did, it would definitely say: "You tricked Baozi!"
That stone never imagined it wouldn't have legs. If it were a steamed bun, it could simply roll away, disregarding its appearance. But it's a tiny diamond! Such a tiny diamond, having to traverse mountains and rivers, wreaking havoc on the steamed bun!
"Xiaoyi, what do you think of that guy?" Huo Xiaoxiao asked Shi Tou in a low voice, her head lowered and teeth grinding. Anyone who didn't know her would think she was just shy! But what was the truth? Shi Tou understood perfectly well that she was afraid her ferocious face would scare him away.
Although Huo Xiaoxiao was extremely unwilling to accept this marriage, she figured that scaring the man away would only make her more depressed.
Shi Tou looked up again at the man sitting opposite him, and when he made sure that the steamed buns behind him had been moved toward the clock, he breathed a sigh of relief and a bright smile appeared on his face: "Not bad."