To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

Chapter 9: Chapter 9: The Suffering

Translator: 549690339

With a touch of frustration, Lu Yuan turned his back on the Four Directions Trading House behind him.

Walking on the street with an empty bamboo basket on his back, the pelts he had just sold were all gone. The heavy pressure instantly dissipated, making his steps lighter.

He turned his attention to a shop on the street and, with the five hundred cents he had just received, Lu Yuan bought ten pounds of coarse salt.

Due to its location deep inland and in a mountainous area, Dayu County had high salt prices because bringing in salt from other places was a long journey.

He had once heard from merchants at the tea stand that in prefectures and counties with salt farms along the coast, a pound of salt could be purchased for just over a dozen cents.

Compared to the fifty cents per pound here, their salt was basically given away for free.

“And yet they sell this coarse salt full of impurities, so full you can even see rocks. With such poor quality and so much fakes mixed in, how dare they charge this much?”

Lu Yuan looked at the coarse salt in the jar. The salt was both black and yellow and looked like large pieces of uneven sand.

It was really hard to imagine that a person who ate this kind of salt year after year wouldn’t suffer health issues.

However, thinking that this was ancient times where the average lifespan was probably only about thirty to forty years.

“With such a short lifespan, even if there were health issues from eating this, a person might die before they actually manifested,” he thought.

Having figured this out, Lu Yuan felt a bit relieved.

However, he had made up his mind that once back home, he would certainly filter these coarse salts again.

Whatever others did with their salt, he himself was an immortal, capable of living as long as heaven itself, and he was not one of those short-lived ordinary people.

If he died of disease caused by eating salt after having eternal life, it would be truly ridiculous.

What he set his mind to, he did.

In order to safeguard his life, Lu Yuan bought some filtering pottery and gauze in the market, as well as some axes, chisels, and hammers for craftsmen along the way.

Although he had been in this world for two months and had lived in the cave in the mountains for quite a while, he had to admit that it was truly unbearable to live in such a draughty, broken cave.

The former owner of his body was a wild child who grew up in the mountains and lived like a savage, eating raw meat and drinking blood, so he might not have felt anything wrong with living such a hard life in the cave.

It took two years to save eight silver taels.

Thinking of his predecessor’s hard life in order to save money, Lu Yuan felt a pang of sympathy in his heart.

The life of a hunter was too hard.

The former Lu, in order to save money, even lived like a wild man, eating and dressing minimally. This wasn’t because he enjoyed being close to nature or had a high level of spiritual cultivation.

All of this behavior was based on a simple logic – save enough money, then buy a wife.

The occupation of a hunter was too dangerous, and one could be killed by a wild beast in the mountains at any time. Their average lifespan was quite short.

Moreover, because they did not have a registered status, they were unregistered residents, and there were very few channels to get an income.

For those with a proper status, even if they were laborers in the city, they could earn one or two silver taels a month. If they were frugal, they could save five or six taels a year.

But for a hunter, a steady income of half a silver tael a month was already a lot. Even if they were frugal all year round, they could at most save three or four taels.

With these conditions, naturally good families’ daughters would not look at them.

So wanting to find a wife for a hunter was just wishful thinking.

The idea of passing on the family lineage is deeply rooted in the genes of every living being and is an instinct.

Not to mention the influence of culture.

So the original Lu, in order to marry a wife, began preparing two years ago.

Since he couldn’t court a good family’s daughter and he wanted to find a wife, the only way was to buy one.

According to the current market situation, the purchase of a wife would cost at least sixty taels of silver. If it was a little more, over a hundred taels was not impossible.

Given the original saving speed of four taels a year, it would take at least fifteen years to save enough money to buy a wife.

By then, Lu would already be twenty-nine, fast approaching thirty.

In these times of low life expectancy, by the time one reached thirty, they might even be a grandfather already.

“Working hard for a whole lifetime, only to take a wife at the age of becoming a grandfather,” he said.

Remembering the life plan of his original body’s owner, a complex feeling welled up in Lu Yuan’s heart, and he didn’t know how to describe it. In the end, he just sighed and said, “How bitter.”

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