Poor at home, wealthy on the road.
Xu Qing brought offerings worth millions to the Capital to take the imperial exam. Recently topping the heavens' list, he escaped a five-hundred-year calamity.
Now returning to Linjiang, he naturally couldn't go back empty-handed.
As the saying goes, "When leaving home, don't go empty-handed; when returning home, don't go with an empty basket."
After catching a few Spirit Fish and preparing some peculiar scales that seemed perfect for soup, Xu Qing still felt something was missing.
He came to the streets of Linjiang, and watching the street vendors hawking their wares, Xu Qing suddenly had an idea.
Luojing is the place where the nation's fortune gathers. Even if the current fortune of the Dayong Dynasty isn't as strong as before, it's still a place where oddities and eccentrics converge.
Although Xu Qing went to Luojing to 'take the exam', he never actually entered the Capital. He was unfamiliar with that place and didn't care to go.