Back at the creek.
Chen Sanshi saw Zhao Qiao and the others carrying a mountain goat. Their haul today seemed quite good.
"Brother Chen got a mountain goat too."
Zhuang Yi waved from afar.
"That's a deer, and an anomalous beast at that!"
Zhao Qiao corrected him.
"Good heavens."
Wu Da craned his neck. "How much silver would that fetch?"
"Be content with having a goat."
Zhao Qiao was quite satisfied.
The group headed down the mountain.
At the restaurant, Chen Sanshi was invited into a private VIP room to settle the accounts.
Deer blood did not keep well, so he kept five jin.
They took all the best parts of the antlers.
There was only one deer heart, so they took it.
Each type of beast had different valuable parts. For instance, a White Deer's gallbladder was comparatively worthless, so all such internal organs were sold off.
He kept the Deer Sinew as well.
Then came the venison.
If anomalous beast meat was kept too long, its effects when eaten would be greatly diminished.
Chen Sanshi kept roughly a hundred jin.
Finally, everything that could be sold was sold. The account showed two hundred and eighty taels.
Adding the sixty taels from the precious lingzhi Liang Zhan had given him, this money would have been enough for an ordinary person to live comfortably in the prefectural city.
But for a martial artist, it was merely resources for a certain stage.
More than three hundred taels of silver required a bundle just to carry.
With the heavy silver on his back, Chen Sanshi rode his white horse to the Military Camp's forge.
"These sinews?!"
Niu Gai held the white tendons and gave them a light tug. "You really got White Deer sinews? Good stuff. I'll definitely make you a bow