Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

Huo An was defeated by Lin Xia's shamelessness and didn't want to recall the failed scene of asking for a price. At this moment, he was still very excited and pulled Lin Xia and said, "You are still far-sighted and saw the deep value of my oil-paper umbrella. It's worth selling it to you at a bargain price. Now that so many people are interested in oil-paper umbrellas, it shows that this umbrella has a great market prospect~" As he said this, he fell into fantasy and couldn't extricate himself~

Lin Xia speechlessly pulled her hand back from Huo An's. Could it be that this lecherous old man wanted to take advantage of her?

Huo An ignored Lin Xia's gaze and continued, "I have called my nephew and asked him to buy me more umbrellas. I will sell them to the residents in the town. Our flower growers have a wide variety of umbrellas, which will surely dazzle them. After all, there are more than seventy processes involved, so they are not ordinary products~"

"Wait~" Lin Xia was puzzled, "Didn't you say there were eighty-one processes last time? How come it has become more than seventy now?"

Huo An looked down on me: "The last one was a Qinfeng Hanyue oil-paper umbrella, which was made using an ancient method that has been passed down for thousands of years. The process is complicated and takes a long time. If it hadn't been with me for so long, I wouldn't have given it to you at such a low price! This time I asked my nephew to bring me a Luzhou oil-paper umbrella. This kind of oil-paper umbrella has a special production process, and the umbrellas produced can truly function as rain gear, combining beauty with practicality. That umbrella is really durable, finely crafted, diverse in variety, and beautiful in pattern..."

Lin Xia immediately interrupted Huo An's boasting and told him to continue, who can afford this umbrella?

"Uncle Huo~ No, Brother Huo." Lin Xia immediately changed her words in front of Huo An's murderous eyes, "Don't just buy these artistic umbrellas. You should also take care of us working people and buy some cost-effective rain gear. The key is to have good quality and low price. They should be things that are actually used, not just for show, okay? And don't forget the raincoats, rain capes, rain boots and so on that I told you about last time!"

Huo An: "I know~ I've never seen a girl like you who doesn't have artistic talent. Go play somewhere else. I'm going to watch the stall!"

He said this with disgust and pushed Lin Xia aside. He was about to lie back in the rocking chair, but Lin Xia immediately grabbed Huo An.

"What?" Huo An glared at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia: "Brother Huo, you are about to make a fortune, so why don't you show any expression?"

Lin——Xia asked shamelessly.

Huo An...

"You are more of a profiteer than I am~"

Lin Xia: So you know your own attributes!

Huo An: "How about this, don't say I don't take care of you. Let me play a game with you. Guess the apple. If you guess correctly 10 times in a row, I will give you a 'Beauty Under the Moon'. If you collect 10 of them, you can exchange them for a 'Goddess Flower' from the goddess. If you sell the Goddess Flower to me, I will pay 100 million for each one. No bargaining. How about that?"

Lin Xia was shocked. It was so valuable!

"And it doesn't matter even if you haven't collected 10 flowers to exchange for the Goddess Flower. If you sell the Moonlit Beauty to me, I will give you a good price, no lower than the last time for the wine. I'm being nice to you, right?" Huo An said generously.

It was so good that Lin Xia almost didn’t recognize Huo — the profiteer — An.

Lin Xia: "Play! Let's start!"

As they spoke, the two of them set up their positions. Huo An took out three pink apples, which looked the same as the apples he gave to Lin Xia last time. Not to mention, these pink apples were very different from the apples Lin Xia had seen before. The colors of those ordinary apples were definitely not as uniform as these. They were either red with green, green with red, or red and green. Anyway, the colors were very irregular.

Huo An's apples are completely pink and exactly the same size, and they cannot be distinguished from each other by appearance.

Huo An put three apples of exactly the same appearance in a row and said, "The one on the left is Apple S, the one in the middle is Apple H, and the one on the right is Apple A. I will keep switching the apples around, so just guess which apple is on which side. Now I'm going to start, watch carefully!"

As he spoke, he began to constantly change the position of the apple. After 40 seconds of non-stop movement, Huo An finally stopped and asked with a smile: "So... where is the S apple?"

Lin Xia???

I was dizzy, wasn't I? At first, I could still remember it, but after more than 3 times, Lin Xia couldn't care about the 3 apples anymore and could only focus on the position of one of the H apples. But at the end, Huo An announced the position of the apple he wanted to know. How could he guess it?

Lin Xia eliminated the already known H apple (in the middle) and prepared to choose one of the two. Finally, she took a gamble. Since the position of the H apple had not changed, the other two apples would also be in their original positions, so she chose the left one.

Huo An smiled and said, "That's right! Keep going. Now the one on the left is Apple S, the one in the middle is Apple H, and the one on the right is Apple A. I'm starting to change."

Huo An's movements this time were a little faster than the first time, and Lin Xia still couldn't adapt. She could only stare at the S apple and try to use her peripheral vision to focus on the H apple in the middle, but in the end she found that she couldn't remember it. Lin Xia could only remember the final position of the S apple.

Huo An: "So, tell me where the H apple is this time?"

Lin Xia could only continue to choose one of the two, but this time the god of luck did not favor Lin Xia.

Huo An: "I guessed wrong, this is your level!"

Lin Xia is angry.

Huo An: "But at least you answered it right once, even though it was a guess. But I'm not a stingy person. I'll give this to you to play with." He handed Lin Xia a piece of paper.

Lin Xia took it and looked at it. It turned out to be a lottery ticket. She looked at Huo An in confusion and asked with her eyes.

Huo An: "See that slot machine in the corner over there? It spins numbers. If you spin 3 identical numbers, you'll win a big prize. If you spin 2 identical numbers, you'll win a small prize. Go ahead." After saying that, he waved his hand and lay down on his rocking chair.

Lin Xia took the lottery ticket to the slot machine and inserted the lottery ticket. Three grids appeared on the slot machine screen, and each grid had numbers 3-0 quickly passing by. Isn't this completely based on luck? Lin Xia closed her eyes and pressed the button three times, and then the numbers 9 stopped one after another. Game over!

Lin Xia walked back and continued to stare at Huo An with a sad look. Huo An felt uncomfortable being stared at, so he said, "Do you want to continue the challenge of guessing the apple? 100G each time."

Lin Xia...

Lin Xia gave up. She really couldn’t keep up with Huo An’s hand speed. It would be fine if she could play for free, but she had to spend money. She would talk about it later!