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Chapter 047 : Tanghulu

After saying this, the two girls went out of the shop and disappeared in the crowd.

He Jin grasped onto his chopsticks and thought: Those two girls still want to eat, really mighty ah…

After eating until they were “full”, Fire and Ah Jin walked out of the shop with a satisfied feeling. Fire asked whether He Jin wanted to try something else. He Jin took a look at his blood, and said in his heart: eating cost money, so if it’s only for the sake of testing the food, there is no use to do that.

He said: “My blood bar is full, forget it.”

Fire: “Just think of it as experiencing the taste, pick something else?”

Just then, a man holding a tanghulu tree happened to pass by them. He Jin said: “Then I want a string of tanghulu.”

Fire called the hawker, this time He Jin insisted to pay (although his money was also given by Fire, hehe). But unexpectedly this tanghulu costed 10 gold a string. Although 10 gold coins were nothing when converted to RMB, but compared with the price of dalu noodles it was still so damn expensive!

After accepting two strings of tanghulu from the hawker, He Jin gave one to Fire. Fire took a taste and suddenly widened his eyes. He Jin also took a taste and felt a strong cool and sugary Hawthorn taste which instantly spread in his tongue. It was sweet and sour, the taste filling his whole mouth with sweetness. Once eaten, it made their body feel so refreshed, like their whole cells were being activated. This is so cool!

He Jin saw something was added to his status and realized that this tanghulu could be used to increase player’s enjoyment! Different from the blood-supplement foods, a sugar ball could make the players feel “cool” for 10 minutes and improved all their status by 1%!

Well, this is really worth the money…

The two men held onto their tanghulus as they walked along the way. He Jin suddenly heard a sweet flute sound in the depths of the streets. Out of curiosity, he pulled Fire to the direction of the sound. They stopped at the intersection between Changle Street and Wen Temple Lane. There were a few ancient-clothed beauties sitting in the Heavenly Music Stage at the lane, playing an unknown music. The music was melodious, sometimes crisp and sometimes sharp, flowing like water in a river. It was fascinating.

After listening for a while, He Jin was unwilling to go. Seeing his longing face, Fire asked: “Like it? There are flutes on sale here.”

He waved his hand: “I can’t play the flute.”

Fire laughed:” This is in the game, you are not really blowing on it. You’ll have to learn the skill from the skill roll.”

Ah Jin’s eyes turned bright. He hurriedly walked over to the NPC and asked: “How much is this flute?”

NPC: “One bamboo flute is 200 Gold, and one Jade Flute is 1000 gold.”

He Jin: What! It’s so expensive!

Fire noticed the hesitation in Ah Jin’s face. Regardless of whether Ah Jin accepted it or not, he chose a jade flute and bought a “primary flute skill roll” along with it, before giving it all to him.

He Jin felt too embarrassed to accept it, but not accepting would seem hypocritical. He ended up standing still for a long time before finally saying: “Buying a bamboo flute is enough.”

Fire: “I know you are reluctant because you think this is too expensive. But you’ll only buy one of it, since you want it, why not just by the best?”

He Jin: “…” Ah, Fire was so good toward him, he almost forgot that he had just been killed by this guy multiple times. (=_=)

While holding the jade flute, He Jin learned from the NPC musician that players could learn different “music scores” to play a variety of music. The flute skills would increase gradually according to the number of times the player practiced it. As for the music scores, they would drop occasionally from fighting monsters, or the players could also buy them in the game shop. In addition, there was a chance of boosting the status of friends around the player playing the flute. The chance of stimulating that boost effect was higher for jade flute than bamboo flute, but the specific effect of the boost depended on the properties of the player playing the music.

Fire: “Learn the skill quickly, then play for me. I want to hear it.”

He Jin read the skill book, and when he picked up the flute and put it to his mouth, he could naturally blow out a simple minor! He never learned any musical instruments. At this moment, he was holding the flute like a kid holding a new toy. He couldn’t put it down, and kept on playing basic minors back and forth without stopping.

After a while, he was worried that Fire would feel bored and had to reluctantly put the flute into his inventory. However, putting the flute into his inventory didn’t make it disappear, instead it appeared on his character image – on Ah Jin’s waist, a jade flute was now hanging.

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