There were many inconveniences with a temporary identity. For example, he had to pay a toll every time he entered the city, and the fee to enter the primeval forest was also higher than others. If he encountered a powerful restriction, he might not be able to enter the city with his temporary identity.
"You want to get a permanent identity? That's not difficult."
Since Lin Nujiao could get a permanent identity in Southern City for herself, she naturally had a way to get one for Du Feng as well. In order to get a permanent identity in Southern City, one had to contribute enough to the city. What did it mean by contribution? Of course, it meant paying more taxes.
Lin Nujiao had been running a shop in Southern City for a long time and paid enough taxes, so she got a permanent identity. As one of the partners of the shop, Du Feng got 90% of the profits from the new batch of weapons, so he naturally had to pay a lot of taxes.
"Alright, let's expand our business and get a permanent identity as soon as possible."
For the next few months, Du Feng stayed in the backyard of the shop. Apart from forging weapons, he practiced martial arts and rarely went back to his residence. Firstly, it was to save time, and secondly, it was to ensure his safety. Fortunately, Hong Waner led the quadruplets to observe the situation inside and outside the shop at all times. If they found any suspicious people, they would go up and interrogate them, and they would quickly give themselves away.
After a few times, the tactic of using the refugees from the Lower Realm to stir up trouble was no longer effective. Each time they came, they would be taken away by the city's defense department. Sooner or later, the city's defense department would find out the source. As expected, the Guigu family did not dare to send any more refugees here for the time being.
Because Du Feng often forged, the warehouse was full of new weapons, and the shop's shelves were also full. He and Lin Nujiao could only temporarily store the extra goods in the storage ring. Now that they were familiar with each other and trusted each other, there was no need to worry about anyone being greedy.
With a large number of high-quality and reasonable goods on the shelves, the shop's business was getting better and better. Seeing that the money was getting more and more, Lin Nujiao was in a good mood. In the past, when she ran the shop herself, it was too slow to make money. Compared to the situation after Du Feng came, it was completely incomparable.
According to the current customer flow, the shop was a little small. Many martial artists came all the way from other cities, but in the end, they could not get in the queue. Moreover, there were also some small shops that came over to purchase weapons and sold them at a higher price.
One day, when Lin Nujiao was discussing with Du Feng about opening another branch, they heard someone outside the door. It was none other than a captain of the City Defense Department whose surname was Xu. The saber hanging on his waist was also made by Du Feng. Right now, many of the city guards were using weapons from this shop. Because it was sturdy, durable, and inexpensive, it had almost become the standard weapon of the city guards.
"Mr. Du, congratulations."
Captain Xu came to congratulate him as soon as he understood the situation. Du Feng didn't ask, but he could already guess what was going on. Captain Xu was usually in charge of the security of this area. There were also some miscellaneous matters that he had to deal with in passing. Since he came so early today, he was most likely here for the identity card.
As expected, while Captain Xu congratulated him, he took out a token that represented his permanent identity. Because of Du Feng's excellent performance in Southern City, the City Defense Department was specially appointed to give him this identity card after the City Lord's Mansion approved it.
"Xiao Hong, tea!"
Du Feng took the identity card and immediately ordered Hong Waner to serve tea. In fact, things like serving tea could have been done by the shop assistant. Why did Hong Waner have to do it? Of course, Du Feng did this for a reason. While Hong Waner was serving tea, he had secretly slipped the reward money under the tea tray to Captain Xu.
"Mr. Du is too polite. Feel free to look for me if you need anything in the future."
After receiving the reward, Captain Xu's face bloomed into a smile. Because this time, Mr. Du was too generous. He actually gave him a black crystal card with a limit of fifty thousand. Just this black crystal card alone was enough for his salary for several years. As a City Defense Captain, although the treatment was good, it was only better than ordinary martial artists. It couldn't be compared to those big families.
In Southern City, most of the shops were run by family members. They didn't care about a small official like him. If Captain Xu wanted to get some benefits, he had to listen to the other party. Now that Mr. Du had given him fifty thousand black crystals as a reward, he was extremely excited. He immediately patted his chest and said that he could look for him if there was any trouble.
"I do have something that I need to trouble Brother Xu with."
Hearing this, Captain Xu was stunned. He felt that he had boasted a little too much. With such a large reward money, Mr. Du couldn't be thinking of killing someone and asking him to cover it up for him, right? Or was it that someone had been caught by the City Defense Department and he wanted to fish that person out? These two things were not easy and were indeed worth the price. It mainly depended on the identity of the person he wanted to kill or the crime he wanted to fish out.
Du Feng wasn't stupid. If there was nothing, he wouldn't have given Captain Xu so much money. His matter was very simple. He didn't want to kill anyone or fish anyone out. He just wanted to get a new shop. He wasn't going to rent it. He wanted to buy it. It had to be in a good location and a large area. Moreover, it had to be a permanent sale.
"Hey, I thought it was no big deal. I'll leave it to Brother Xu."
Hearing this, Captain Xu was finally relieved. If he really wanted to kill someone or fish someone out, he would have to bear a lot of responsibility. He was really afraid that he would be involved. Buying a shop was a normal transaction. It wasn't a robbery. It might be difficult for an outsider like Du Feng, but it was a piece of cake for him.
He didn't need to discuss it with anyone. The City Defense Department obviously had a lot of shops in good locations. Usually, they were rented out. He just needed to discuss with the Chief Captain and sell one to Mr. Du. He believed that with Mr. Du's character, he would not let the chief captain suffer a loss.
"Okay, it's settled then."
Du Feng knew that Captain Xu was a reliable person. The most important thing was that the fifty thousand black crystals had really worked. If he could give fifty thousand black crystals as a reward for a captain, the Chief Captain would definitely get a lot. It was precisely because of this that Captain Xu dared to stop this matter.
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