Colmar had come to Quankelai Market today to negotiate a major deal.
A major deal involving tens of thousands of frogs.
There were not many merchants on all of Puji Island—or rather, in the entire Wizarding World—who could supply the North District Wizards with tens of thousands of lively frogs at once, let alone do so over the long term.
And most of those qualified were aquatic merchants.
After all, in the past, the largest consumers of live frogs in the Wizarding World had been the Merfolk Tribes scattered across the world. They had a habit of eating salted frogs, and many young merfolk even kept frogs as snacks or pets.
The young merfolk Iseni from the Ouroboros Hunting Team kept a little flying frog as a pet. Zheng Qing had even seen it during last year's hunting competition.
Who knew whether it was dead yet.
There was just one drawback when pets and delicacies overlapped. They were adorable when alive and delicious when dead. Heh heh.
"I only want some ordinary green-skinned frogs... yellow-skinned ones would be fine too." Colmar complained to the young wizards, pointing at an old merfolk beside her. "But it's trying to rip me off with snow frogs!"
Snow frogs were wood frogs, mainly found in the Changbai Mountains and Greater Khingan Range. Their meat was delicious, their whole bodies could be used in medicine, and their frog oil was an excellent treatment for deficiency syndromes. Zheng Qing had eaten them as a child.
"Aren't snow frogs more valuable than ordinary frogs? How is that a rip-off?" Zheng Qing asked absently, his thoughts in a mess.
"This young master is truly discerning!" Having unexpectedly gained support, the old merfolk was overjoyed and immediately began crying bloody murder. "The purchase price for those snow frogs is