SWNOVELXO Chapter 20: Supplying Quan Wei Xuan
Lin Fan suppressed his excitement to try out his newfound strength further.
He had more business to attend to.
Selling the fire deer to Quan Wei Xuan.
If he was lucky, the fire deer might be enough to earn him the Qing Feng sect's entrance fee.
Without wasting any time, Lin Fan gathered his axe, bow, and arrows.
He then carried the fire deer's body on his back.
This time, he didn't even go back to the village.
He headed straight for Feng Shou town.
Previously, it had taken him and Ho Fu, empty-handed, an hour's journey to reach Feng Shou town.
This time, despite carrying the fire deer's body, it only took him half an hour to reach Feng Shou town.
When he reached Quan Wei Xuan, it was bustling with guests as usual.
"Welcome. Let me lead you to your seat..." The waiter recognized Lin Fan and stopped when he saw the deer's body on Lin Fan's back.
"I'm not here for lunch today. I'm here to sell this," Lin Fan turned his head and pointed with his chin to the deer's head beside him.
"Great! Come with me."
The waiter then led Lin Fan through the alley by the side of the building.
At the back were the kitchen and where all the fresh produce suppliers were queuing up to sell their produce.
"Just wait in the queue for your turn. Pardon me as I need to get back to the dining hall."
The waiter bid farewell and walked back toward the front of Quan Wei Xuan.
Lin Fan followed his instructions and joined the queue.
In the queue, there were suppliers with all sorts of produce.
Vegetables, poultry, beef, rabbits, and hunters with deer like him.
Initially, everything was going smoothly; suppliers weighed their produce and got their copper coins.
When it was the turn of the person in front of Lin Fan, a commotion ensued.
The person selling beef had just finished weighing it and had carried it over to let the kitchen staff inspect it.
The kitchen staff looked at it, squinted his eyes, then put his nose closer and smelled it.
"How dare you!" the kitchen staff from Quan Wei Xuan banged on the table and stood up.
He then picked up the cleaver by his side, sliced the piece of beef in half, and threw it onto the floor.
Maggots were crawling inside the piece of beef.
When the person selling the beef saw this, he quickly knelt down and pleaded, "Forgive me! It was unintentional. The beef must have gone bad during the journey here."
The kitchen staff wasn't having any of this; he looked at the guard beside him.
The guard took his cue, gave the beef seller a beating, and then dragged him away.
"Stupid fool. Now he will be barred for life and taken to the yamen for cheating."
"The magistrate? I heard they will beat you until you confess."
"Yeah. I've never seen anyone come out unscathed from the yamen."
"My neighbor had to borrow and beg to come up with three taels of silver to get his father out alive."
The other suppliers chatted among themselves about what this beef seller would face.
"Next," the kitchen staff shouted, and Lin Fan stepped forward.
"Put the deer onto that scale over there," the kitchen staff instructed.
Lin Fan obliged and put it there.
The helpers at the scale looked at the result and froze for a moment.
They shook their heads and reweighed the deer again.
"What's taking you so long?" the kitchen staff wasn't happy.
"We are not sure..."
"What are you not sure about?" the kitchen staff fumed.
"It's saying 400 lbs, but the heaviest we have seen is 200 lbs."
The kitchen staff walked over to confirm.
When he reweighed it, he got the same result.
The kitchen staff subsequently tried to lift the deer but couldn't do so.
"Come help me."
One helper came, no dice.
The next one joined in, same result.
Finally, they were able to move it with four people.
"400 lbs? Impossible."
"That young man carried 400 lbs without breaking a sweat?"
"Maybe he is one of those with natural Qi foundation?"
"People like that would be snatched up by the sects long ago. He doesn't look like a sect disciple."
All the suppliers marveled at Lin Fan's strength and chatted excitedly.
While they chatted, the kitchen staff carefully inspected the body of the deer.
After a few moments, his eyes opened wide, and he looked at Lin Fan.
"You..." he pointed to Lin Fan but couldn't get the rest of his words out.
The suppliers all held their breath.
Had this young man tried to sell a rotting carcass to Quan Wei Xuan too?
Or had he stuffed things inside the deer to make it heavier?
What a waste of a young life.
All of them thought about what could happen to Lin Fan.
"You... wait..." the kitchen staff stammered and ran inside the kitchen calling for the innkeeper.
Lin Fan wasn't sure what the kitchen staff wanted, so he put his hand on the handle of his axe and stayed on high alert.
"There he is!" the kitchen staff's voice boomed a few moments later.
This time, the kitchen staff came back with two more people: the innkeeper and the woman cultivator Lin Fan had seen before.
"Cultivator?"
"What has this young man done?"
"I definitely don't want to be a part of this."
The suppliers, when they saw the woman cultivator, stepped back from where they stood, getting further away for fear of becoming collateral damage.
What they expected, however, didn't happen.
The woman cultivator walked over to the deer and inspected it.
"You are right. It's a fire deer," the woman cultivator's face was pleased when she finished. She proceeded to say, "Whose deer is this? I would offer two taels of silver for it."
"Fire deer? Isn't that a Demonic Beast?"
"Forget about the beast part, did I hear two taels of silver?"
"Yes, you heard it correctly, it's two taels of silver."