Greece brings evildoers

Chapter 468 Your daughter is in my hands!

Half an hour later, in the cabin.

Hela and Holo each held their red and swollen buttocks and stood side by side miserably, like two primary school students in training.

Lorne sat on a chair, tapping the cane in his hand and asking coldly:

"Tell me, whose idea was it?"

"Holo!"

Hela raised her hand and pointed to the culprit on the side without hesitation.

Being stabbed in the back by an accomplice, Holo couldn't help but angrily reprimanded:

"Are you selling me out now? You have no loyalty!"

"The teacher asked me, of course I would say it."

Hela answered simply, with a matter-of-fact expression.

Hearing these very rude words, Holo touched her wolf ears unconfidently, muttering in her heart.

After all, who is the canine?

Besides, this is my home, and that’s my dad. If I want to be the dog’s leg, I should be the first to do it!

"The hand that pulls the sea!"

Holo unceremoniously chose to report on Hela, taking the initiative to confess Hela's crimes, while not forgetting to excuse herself.

"It's all because she wanted to find a dwarf to make a sword, and we helped her out of kindness!"

"Is this how you help? Kidnap someone's daughter back and stuff her in the cellar, and then force her to work for you?"

Lorne scolded with a dark face, and once again itched his hand and picked up the "Filial Whip for Sons and Daughters" beside him.

When Holo saw this, she quickly defended herself at the top of her lungs:

"Are we that stupid? If we want to redeem his daughter, just pay some money!"

Lorne was angry: "Isn't this just kidnapping? You used the money to blackmail the dwarves to make swords for the dwarves. It's really yours, Holo!"

Seeing that the cane in her old father's hand was about to fall on her again, Holo immediately shrank behind Hela, dodging while defending herself:

"Transaction, that's a normal transaction! We didn't do anything bad!"

"You kidnapped people here and said it was a normal transaction?"

"Yes, we said we were treating, but we didn't say we were paying! She lives here, eats and drinks from us, is the charge wrong?"

“…”

Hearing this confident rhetorical question, Lorne was speechless for a moment and fell into deep thought.

It seems to make sense...

What a ghost!

Lorne scolded Holo's nonsense with a dark face:

"You are kidnapping an underage dwarf girl!"

"She is thirty years old, older than us and Hela combined. She came willingly, is it our fault?"

"What about forced buying and selling?"

"Who told you not to give us money!"

Holo felt even more aggrieved and recounted her experience full of resentment.

"You don't know that the craftsmen in the dwarf country are not big and have big appetites. They just make two swords and they dare to die for the labor fees!"

When Lorne heard this, his anger subsided, and he hummed and asked:

"How many?"

"twenty…"

"Twenty gold coins are too expensive for you? How expensive is it?"

Lorne's voice rose, and he couldn't help but glare at Holo.

"Isn't it enough that you usually drink less mead and buy less apples?"

Holo's face turned dark and she added angrily:

"It's not a coin, it's a car!"

“…”

In silence, Lorne's facial muscles twitched, and then he pretended to be calm and replied,

"It's not much, I can still get enough by saving up."

"Are you coming?"

“…”

Lorne coughed dryly, his eyes flickering.

"What did you just say? Oh, yes, your new friend's name is Eden, right?"

"Stop pretending to be confused!"

Holo looked at her old father with disdain and snorted angrily,

"You've stolen the village's annual harvest festival donation. It's been so long and we haven't seen a single hair!"

"Nonsense! Didn't I give you pocket money?"

Lorne's eyes widened and he stiffened his neck to retort.

Hearing this, Holo became even more angry.

"Only those mosquito legs are not enough to buy apples and mead every month. You use all kinds of excuses to cheat. How can we make a sword for Hela?"

Faced with the accusation from his adopted daughter, Lorne coughed with some guilt:

"There's nothing we can do about it. The humans in Zhongting have just started. Compared with other ethnic groups in the nine kingdoms, there is still a big gap in civilization. Money is needed everywhere. I only handled those donations and didn't put them in my pocket. inside."

"So, let me share your worries and find a way to get some money to make swords for Hela. But it turned out that you were lucky. One of them sold us, and the other picked up the cane and beat him up. It's really a good wolf that doesn't get rewarded..."

Holo looked at the two people in front of her with resentment, looking like she was about to cry, as if she was heartbroken.

However, after waiting for a long time, the tears still did not flow down.

Lorne was silent for a moment and quietly reminded:

"You can use Houttuynia cordata to make some eye drops and bring it with you. I'll try it next time."

Upon hearing this clever idea, Holo immediately put down her hands and took out a small notebook to write down in surprise.

Hela took a glance and found that it was filled with densely packed notes.

Almost all of them are the essence of the words and deeds of a certain **** of trickery...

Well, now she understood why the father and daughter were so similar.

Immediately, Hela withdrew her gaze, frowned, and brought the somewhat off-track topic back on track:

"What should Eden do now? Send him back?"

"Send him back for what? Let his biological father redeem him! Pay for meals and pay debts. This is a matter of course. Odin must do the same when he comes!"

Lorne looked righteous.

Holo immediately beamed, flipping through her account book, and began to calculate Eden's expenses during this period.

One superior bed, eight hundred gold coins;

Two plates of specialty dried fruits, seven hundred gold coins;

A pot of honey water, two hundred gold coins:

As a sacrifice, some meat from monsters and three thousand gold coins...

Hela just glanced at it, and her little heart was shocked.

Black, so dark!

In a human market, these things together might not be able to be sold for a hundred gold coins.

As a result, Holo added a few adjectives with just a few strokes, and the price more than doubled.

And Lorne couldn't help but frowned when he looked at the bill that was quickly forming in Holo's hand:

"Didn't she just come here? Did she eat so much?"

"Of course! Coming all the way from the dwarf country, not to mention her, even Hela and I were so hungry that we could eat a cow."

Holo spoke with a smile, and then added with a sly look on her face,

"So, I arranged her in a cellar full of food and wine, so that she could eat and drink well."

Fishing law enforcement?

Lorne suddenly understood, and then coughed slightly:

"When I went there, she broke a bottle of wine."

"Three hundred! No, three thousand gold coins!"

Hearing this, Holo excitedly made a few notes on the paper, piling up the total compensation to a height of 10,000.

However, as soon as this inflated quotation came out, Lorne looked over faintly and frowned.

When Holo saw this, she immediately shrank her neck, quickly crossed out the next two zeros, and changed her words with a dry smile:

"I remember wrongly, it should be thirty-one jars, worthless goods."

"nonsense!"

Lorne stood up from his chair, furious;

"That's the Asgardian fairy brew given to me by Odin! The ingredients include the fountain of wisdom in Jotunheim, the Fountain of Urd in Asgard, and the wheat from Heather Island's first sacrifice to the gods... It's very precious! The entire Nine This is the only jar in a big country, and I’m not willing to drink it myself. Thirty gold bricks are not even enough for the cost. The market price is less than thirty cars. This is still a friendly price, no discount!”

Listening to the passionate declaration, Hela opened her mouth.

If I remember correctly, she and Holo should have brewed the jar of wine together. Because it was sour, no one drank it, so it was piled in the corner.

However, unlike the more upright Hela, the more agile Holo heard the implication and quickly changed her words:

"Yes, yes, we remembered wrongly. The friendly price is thirty carloads of gold coins per jar, no discount!"

But when it came time to write, she still hesitated.

It’s not that I have an attack of conscience, but I wonder if those stingy dwarves would believe such an outrageous price?

Seeing this, Lorne asked playfully:

"Holo, do you know what is the most important thing if you want to sell an item at a high price?"

"Control quality and control channels?"

Hearing the questioning tone, Holo subconsciously gave a more traditional answer.

But Lorne shook his head and spoke meaningfully:

"No, you have to learn to tell stories first. Only when something has a good story can it be sold at a premium that far exceeds its cost."

The unexpected answer stunned Holo for a moment, but then she suddenly realized it.

That’s right!

A jar of sour wine is indeed worthless based on normal value. What if this jar of wine is proof of the friendship between God King Odin and his blood alliance brother Loki?

Thousands of years of time accumulation, the love of life and death, plus so many precious materials...

What's wrong with thirty carts of gold? It’s really just the cost price!

Or, the other side wants to say that the friendship between Odin and Loki is not worth the price? As she thought more deeply, Holo felt as if a door to a whole new world had opened in her mind, and she looked at her scheming old father with admiration.

Dad is indeed a dad, he has a lot of bad ideas!

Lorne enjoyed the admiration from his adopted daughter and felt quite contented.

Times are advancing, and new marketing and packaging thinking is a dimensionality-reducing blow to the ancient traditional business model.

"Cross out the rest and let those dwarves pay for the drinks."

Hearing her father's reminder, Holo complied with understanding.

Compared with thirty carts of gold and a jar of wine, the rest of these trivial charging items are not worth mentioning. Writing them in will easily lower their identity and status, making it really seem like they are extorting money.

"Now?"

"Call your dwarf friend up. We still have to face things that need to be faced."

Lorne replied in a deep voice, his face full of helplessness.

When the critical moment was approaching, Holo took a sip and felt a little embarrassed:

"Isn't this a bit too much? She is a good friend we have just made, and she even helped us point the way..."

"Thirty percent..."

"make a deal!"

Holo agreed without any pause in her tone.

After all, that’s 9 cars of gold!

As the common currency of the nine countries, and with its superior magical properties, this golden thing is loved by almost everyone.

If she hesitates for a second longer, she is disrespecting gold and the market!

Soon, Eden was called up from the cellar.

Looking at the two little friends who were beaten so badly in the cabin, the little Loli felt a sudden thought in her heart, and then she mustered up the courage to plead weakly to Lorn, who was sitting in the seat with a sullen face:

"I came here, can I not punish them?"

"I beat them not because they wanted to entertain friends, but because they actually led people into my wine cellar and destroyed my treasured mead!"

Lorne explained the reason with a cold hum, looking distressed.

When the kind-hearted little Loli heard this, she immediately took on the responsibility:

"I did it, I'll pay for it! It has nothing to do with them!"

"Farewell, Eden, you can't afford it."

Holo on the side waved her hands dejectedly, and then tried her best to smile a tragic smile at her new friend,

"The worst thing is, we'll get a few beatings."

"How can that be okay! You are so kind to me, play with me, and treat me to a lot of delicious food. How could I let you be punished for my own reasons!"

The little loli, who had been completely deceived and was lame, puffed up her chest and stepped forward bravely.

"How much does that jar of wine cost? I'll make up for it!"

"Not much, just thirty carts of gold."

Lorne snorted in reply, and his tone towards Eden was not as friendly as before, as if he was worried about the damage caused by the wine.

When he heard this outrageous offer, Eden was dumbfounded, and his little hand holding his purse trembled slightly.

Thirty cartloads of gold?

What drink is so precious and worth so much!

Seemingly sensing Eden's doubts, Holo tearfully told the story of the jar of wine, adding some of her own artistic touches.

After hearing this, Eden opened his mouth and was speechless.

Well, as proof of the blood alliance between God King Odin and Fire God Loki, this wine is indeed not expensive for thirty cartloads of gold.

"It doesn't matter. The best dad can do is beat us to death."

Holo continued to play nice, looking like she was going to hurt her friend.

The simple dwarf little loli could withstand this kind of deception. Her head felt hot and she spoke loudly:

"Thirty carts of gold, I'll give it!"

"You have that much money?" Lorne expressed doubt.

Eden answered honestly: "I don't have one, but my father and uncles might be able to scrape it together."

Lorne nodded and waved slightly:

"Well, contact them and ask your family members to come here to talk."

Hearing this, Eden felt as if he had been granted amnesty, and hurriedly came to the open space outside the house to construct a resonance technique for exchanging news with his father.

Seeing her father's actions of lifting up and lowering down gently, Holo belatedly realized that he had been deceived.

No, his purpose is not to ask for money, but to use asking for money as an excuse to trick the dwarves into forging swords for Hela!

Therefore, if it is said that the accounts will be split between 30 and 70 after the fact, who knows how much I can get!

Holo's nose became sour and she looked resentfully at her cunning father.

"fraud!"

"Okay, let's take a long-term view. When things are done, I'm sure there will be benefits for you, and it will be much more than the nine carts of gold."

"real?"

"I lied to you, I'm a puppy!"

"This is what you said, and we have recorded it."

At this moment, Holo, who was just about to cry, turned around and took out a flashing rune stone with a cunning smile on her face.

Lorne's face darkened when he saw this, and just as he was about to pick up the cane to deal with this unfilial daughter, little Loli Eden ran back:

"The spell is carved."

"Then why did you come back?"

"I, I dare not say..."

The little loli opened her mouth in shock, feeling frightened and dumbfounded.

Lorne had no choice but to look at Hela on one side.

"You come on."

Since it was his own business, Hela nodded obediently, then walked to the open space outside the door, activated the resonance technique, pondered for a moment and then slowly spoke:

"Your daughter is in our hands!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of debris falling to the ground inside the resonance technique, and a rough and angry roar echoed.

"Touch my daughter? I will fight with you!"

"I advise you to calm down. You don't want to be unable to see her, right?"

Hela reminded coolly with a straight face, trying to calm the dwarf father's emotions.

The effect was immediate, and the voice on the other side suddenly turned off:

"Don't mess around. If you have something to say, I'm just a daughter."

Hela wanted to get to the point, but Lorne urgently cut off the resonance spell, scolding her face with black lines:

"I'm asking you to inform me, not to blackmail you! I won't say anything, just go and go, let's go! Holo, come on!"

Immediately, he pushed Hela away and handed over the communication task to his adopted daughter who was more tactful and shrewd.

When the spell was reconnected, Holo stepped forward confidently and asked elegantly:

"Within three days, come to the Heather Island in the Atrium as soon as possible to pick up your daughter and bring thirty carts of gold with you. Is that okay?"

"Clang~~"

A more violent collision sound came from the resonance technique, and the roar of gnashing teeth made people's eardrums hurt:

"Thirty carts of gold? Why don't you go and grab it?"

"So, how about nine carts? I'll make up the rest with forging materials and your craftsmanship."

Before Holo could continue to bargain, Lorne, whose face turned black, forcibly cut off the communication again, and kicked away the unfilial daughter who was frantically carrying private goods in front of the resonance technique.

"Get lost!"

After two consecutive operational errors, Lorne decided to take action personally and negotiate with the dwarf Evald.

But as soon as he reactivated the resonance technique, a voice of suppressed anger came from the opposite side.

"I can consider nine carts of gold, but I have to listen to my daughter's voice first, otherwise there is no need to discuss anything!"

Immediately afterwards, before Lorne could speak, the other party took the initiative to cut off contact.

Even though he tried several times, as soon as the other party heard the male voice, he hung up without giving him a chance to say more. In the end, even the communication secret text of the resonance technique was directly changed.

It gets darker and darker...

Lorne had no choice but to get out of the way and waved back weakly:

"Eden, you should explain it yourself."

"Oh, oh oh..."

Hearing the call, the cowardly and dazed little Loli shook her body, and came to the resonance technique tremblingly. After waiting for the resonance technique to light up again, she flattened her mouth and wailed in a slightly crying voice:

"Father, bring money to ransom me quickly!"

Immediately, she glanced at her two good friends who had been beaten to pieces and declared the seriousness of the problem.

"If it's too late, someone will die!"

"Bang!"

The resonance technique was destroyed by a violent force of magic.

Through the last bit of light that escaped, Lorne vaguely saw a red-bearded dwarf with all muscles, rushing out of the house with a forging hammer bigger than a mammoth's head, making friends all the way, armed to the teeth. Relatives and friends No. 100 were heading toward the Heather Island in the Atrium World with murderous intent.

"you…"

Lorne looked back at the three lolis behind him who had joined forces to give him strength, and was speechless for a moment.

Now, it's really a kidnapping.

(End of chapter)