my age of magic

Chapter 58 59. Anecdotes from the Countryside (5)

The town's free market is built at the cross-shaped intersection, which is the intersection of the town's two main streets and the center of the town.It was originally planned to build a square here, but with the continuous development of the town, more and more free traders poured into the town, setting up stalls everywhere in the town to sell their products.At the beginning, some big names in the shops in the small town were worried that these peddlers would steal their business, and always wanted to drive them out. Later, with the development of the town, they discovered that the prosperity of the town was closely related to the small traders from outside. There is also an inseparable connection, they are like the living water injected into the town, revitalizing the original lifeless state of the town, attracting more and more traders and buyers, many of them travel dozens of miles away In the wasteland, people come here to buy the food and salt they usually need, and also sell some animal skins and dried meat.Later, the people in the small town automatically gave up the square, forming the pattern of today's free market.

In the free market in this small town, I even saw Master Leipas leading his attendants among the crowd. My hearing has become very sharp. Master Ipas said to his attendants: "Why, the biggest grain merchant here has never heard of vermicelli?"

"They did say that they have never seen the vermicelli I described, or even heard of it." An attendant replied.

"Oh, go ahead and ask around, ask more questions, you don't have to find out where it's made, as long as they can get it, you can sell it to us, tell them we'll exchange it for refined wrought iron ingots!"

"Yes, sir."

"The old Kuru told him that we want to buy some vermicelli and send them back to the imperial capital on a fast horse, so as to warm up the market in advance. It seems that the secrets of this thing are probably held by the orcs of the Gludin tribe. If this is the case, it's really hard to handle! Just running this business alone can eat us to death, we have to let the wind out, we want to pay a high price, and then let them fight for themselves, as long as they don't There are also some orc tribes, so the price will not have their meaning."

The group of them talked less and less, and the people walked further and further away.I thought to myself: Master Leipas is really tight-lipped. He never showed how much he attached importance to vermicelli when he was in the caravan. Definitely see the huge business opportunity that vermicelli brings.It's just that he was worried that the old Kuru would see his thoughts and deliberately hoard vermicelli to raise the price, so he didn't show his thoughts all the time. The thoughts are really hidden.

The magic pharmacy is actually not that big. It is just on the left side of a beef and beer hotel in the northwest corner of the free market. It is a small shop with only a dozen square meters. Standing outside the shop, you can see There are pots of herbs planted by the owner. Although they are some of the most common low-level herbs, but they are planted in flower pots by the owner, and the herbs are planted as potted flowers. It seems that the owner must be a proficient in low-level herbs. The herbalist who studied, just such a simple small arrangement will make some herb pickers think carefully about whether there are any fake herbs in their medicine baskets that can be fooled. Do you want to do business in the future?
Walking into this magic pharmacy, you can see that the entire first floor is occupied by a long wooden counter. Behind the counter, there are rows of shelves against the wall. There are not only various herbs, but also various ores and I don’t know much about the materials of monsters. I don’t know what to add to those stones, but I have seen the tender horns of the monster antelope on the shelf. I didn’t expect this thing to be placed on the medicine shelf. superior.There is a copper balance on the wooden counter. You can tell that it is an old guy by looking at the green patina on the base of the balance.However, the weighing pan of the balance is worn like two mirrors because of frequent use, and is connected to the scale beam by three fine chains.In the wooden box next to the balance was a row of silver weights, each delicately made.A middle-aged orc was standing behind the counter, carefully grinding some three-leaf golden clover. He raised his head to see a few of us walking in, then stopped what he was doing, and asked us calmly: "What do you want?" What to buy?"

In fact, I wanted to sell the wound medicine in my hand, but Qige had already stepped forward and said to the middle-aged orc uncle in a robe with a smile: "Do you have topaz powder, abrasives, lava? Hound spit?"

"You want to refine the Emperor Amethyst?" The middle-aged orc pharmacist's voice was hoarse from overexcitement, like a traveler who hasn't drunk water for a long time in the desert.His hands also pressed on the wooden counter, making a loud noise because of excessive force, which startled us all.

Qige's calm eyes, her clear eyes like lake water will always convey her thoughts, just like the way she looks at the middle-aged orc uncle in front of her at this moment, as if to say: What do you think, old man? Do I dare to take out the Imperial Amethyst here?The old orc seemed to understand Qige's expression, and looked away in disappointment. He felt a little teased by the overly beautiful girl in front of him, which made the middle-aged orc uncle a little annoyed. He stared at Qige coldly and said, "Huang Jing There are powders and abrasives, the saliva of the Cerberus can’t be stored for a long time, and it has no other effect except to dissolve the ore, why are you buying it?”

Qige put his hand into Katerina's backpack with a smile, took out a piece of raw whetstone from it, put it on the wooden table and said: "These whetstones are all associated ores in the ruby ​​mine, look The color of these raw whetstones and the traces of purple grit on the surface, I feel..."

The middle-aged orc took the whetstone, took out a magnifying glass from his pocket, and carefully examined the fragments of the whetstone.After hearing what Qige said, he looked more carefully.Before Qige could finish speaking, she followed her words and said excitedly: "The emperor amethyst was born in those ruby ​​mines, it must be! In which mine was this stone dug?"

Qige stood proudly in front of the middle-aged orc and said: "I bought these stones from a stall in the market. I want to grind these ores into ore powder, and then use topaz powder and hellhound saliva to grind the ore powder into powder." Dissolved, the finely divided particles of the emperor amethyst will be attached to the yellow crystal powder and preserved, maybe a little can be collected..."

"Amethyst Powder!"

"Amethyst Powder!"

The two blurted out at the same time.Natural ametrine powder cannot be compared with ametrine at all. The former is just spar powder that stores magic power, but the latter is indeed a precious gemstone that can be inlaid on a magic wand, but ametrine is the main ingredient for making advanced magic ink One, it is precisely because the various materials of high-level magic ink are extremely rare that this high-level ink has been in a state of scarcity in the market. For special reasons, it is necessary to make high-grade magic ink, and even buy expensive imperial amethyst directly at a high price, and directly grind the spar into powder.

"Is this ore for sale?" The middle-aged orc uncle finally couldn't hold back his desire for high-grade materials and asked Qige.

This is often the case. If you take the initiative to talk to the shopkeeper about the sale, it will make the shopkeeper think that these goods are eager to sell and become confident. Under such subjective initiative, it is very difficult to sell any item at a high price. Sometimes things get even worse, and that's when the shopkeeper would rather give up than buy at a lower price.The way to reverse this situation is to increase the other party's desire to buy, just like the middle-aged orc uncle in the magic pharmacy at this time, he only has these imperial amethyst powders in his eyes, no matter how low the content of the ore is, at this moment he will not buy it. Want to buy it.

Qige said hesitantly: "Look, I'm just guessing, after all, these are just whetstones with faint purple spots. Although these whetstones are all associated mines of ruby ​​from the outside, but I don't have much confidence in how many Emperor Purple Crystals I will collect, why don't I melt them together first and see the content of the Emperor Purple Crystals in the stone?"

The middle-aged orc uncle blinked his eyes like black beans. He just wanted to tell Qige that we should first melt a stone and see how many grams of amethyst particles can be collected in a stone, so that everyone can talk about the price and so on. of.But Qige didn't say whether to sell it or not. It seemed that he was more worried that he would sell it cheaply, so he took the initiative to find out the content of Huangzijing particles.In this way, it was the middle-aged orc uncle who hesitated.

Things are relative. To be safe, everyone melts a stone together to find out the content of the emperor amethyst particles.In this case, it is equivalent to clearly marking the price. I have almost this many imperial amethyst particles in one stone, so okay!Let's calculate it according to the general price in the market, excluding the material cost and labor cost used in refining, then the rest is the price of a whetstone like mine, huh?Don't buy it, okay!Originally, I just wanted to buy some solvents and abrasives to go back and collect them myself. It doesn't matter whether I buy them or not!

But if such a stone has never detected the content of emperor amethyst particles, then fine!Now this ore is gambleable, everyone can make a mental estimate of this ore, give this ore an evaluation based on experience and guessing, how many amethyst particles it can collect, and how much money it can bring income.All right!A magic pharmacy can have one or two high-level magic materials as the treasure of the store, and sometimes the effect far exceeds its own value.

After struggling for a while, the middle-aged orc uncle finally said to Qige with a bitter face: "My guest, look..."

Oh, just from this tone of voice, I know that the middle-aged orc uncle is a bear. Thinking about the tragic scene where Kurtz and I were brutally slaughtered in the weapon shop just now, I feel ashamed to die at this moment, Bai I have lived for so many years!
When Qige smiled, her eyes were squinted and she looked very slender. She made various expressions under that delicate and beautiful face, and sometimes even reflected the double-faced nature of Qige’s heart better than her words. It seems that Qige is also hesitating between selling and not selling.But in the end, after much discussion, it was still decided to sell them all.

From the beginning to the end, Kurz and I were like loyal audiences of a film, standing by and watching without saying a word.And Katerina is a super dragon, under Qige's command, she keeps taking out the ore in the backpack and taking it out again.In the end, the two parties agreed that the raw ore of these whetstones should be sold at twenty silver coins per kilogram. Yes, this time it was calculated in terms of kilograms. Naturally, the price of such expensive raw ore cannot be calculated according to the quantity, because the size is uneven.

If you don’t connect this series of conversations, first talk about what is in the ore—whether you sell it—how much it is in—bet or not—until you finally gamble, how can this ore be sold?If Qige just entered the magic pharmacy, he would pour these ores in front of the pharmacy owner, and then say: Hey, uncle, how much do these stones of mine cost?Or put it this way: Hey, uncle, can you buy my whetstone raw ore twenty silver pennies per kilogram?
The middle-aged uncle will definitely say: Why don't you grab it?Do you sell your whetstone for gold?

But now, the facts are in front of us. Qige has sold a whole 96 pieces of whetstone raw ore to the owner of the magic pharmacy at a price of 21 silver per kilogram. One hundred and six kilograms, in this case, [-] gold coins were sold at once. Kuz and I widened our eyes and looked at each other, as if we were saying to each other: What old Kuru said is absolutely right!Knowledge is what it is, wealth.

(End of this chapter)