Lord Highlander

   Chapter 628 617. Value

   night falls

  There is still a thick layer of snow on the roof of Bena City. Looking across the window, the snow is divided by the criss-crossing streets in the city, forming a well-defined square.

  Pedestrians on the street walked quickly in the cold wind, the temperature dropped rapidly, and no one wanted to stand and chat on the street.

  The three of them sat side by side on the sofa, holding hot tea in the caravan, looking at the city of Bena outside the window, no one spoke, just sitting so quietly, watching the darkness spread like a tide...

   There were no candles lit, and the light in the room gradually dimmed.

  In the dimness, Hathaway's eyes were bright.

She was listening to Suldak talking about returning from the Maca plane and buying a group of kobold slaves in the city of Bena, and the slave trader Daxijin dumped a whole boat of kobold slaves at the airport pier in Hailansa city In the end, these unwanted kobold slaves could only be transported back to Wall Village, and a sulfur mine was opened in the territory, where a large number of kobold slaves were mining every day.

   Beatrice put her head on Suldak's shoulder and said to Suldak: "I really want to go to Wall Village to have a look at the big dam, maybe I don't have to come back again."

   Beatrice was in a depressed mood. She drank some wine and her face turned slightly red.

"Sorry, I haven't been able to convince your father yet." Suldak lowered his head, looked at this passionate round-faced beauty, and felt that she probably wanted to escape the city, just like her and Hathaway as originally planned.

  Suldak does not agree with such an approach. How can the most important thing in life be without the blessing of his family?

  He put his hands on Beatrice's soft waist and squeezed harder.

   "Did you fall ill because of me?" Beatrice rolled her big eyes and looked up at his profile.

Suldak hesitated for a moment, didn't mention the matter of colonizing the keel, and just smiled slightly: "It has nothing to do with this matter, even if there is a little bit, I am willing to do something for you, thank Goddess of Luck for letting me Meet you."

   "Neither Beatrice nor I want to see you sick." Hathaway sat on the other side and said charmingly.

Suldak could feel that his body was slowly recovering, and the sunset outside the window was only a smear of dark red. He said: "It will get better, but it's just a serious impact here, but the good news is that I haven't completely become stupid. And I should be able to recover, this sickness reminds me of many things from the past."

Hathaway turned around, curled up and leaned on the sofa, supported her head with one hand and said to Suldak: "I remember when I first saw you, you were an infantry captain. Face, I am so angry that I really want to stand behind you and kick you hard."

   "Haha, you can kick it if you want now, it's a rare opportunity..." After finishing speaking, he hooked Hathaway's delicate neck with one hand and kissed her forehead.

  Hathaway's blue eyes narrowed into a line, she transformed into an octopus and entangled Suldak, leaning over him and muttering softly: "For the sake of your illness, I will let you go."

  The room seemed too quiet, the housekeeper and two maids waited anxiously outside the door, and he anxiously wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although Baron Suldak's marriage proposal was successful, he was afraid that the young people in the house would stick together and make some outrageous actions. For the old-fashioned Luthor family, certain rules cannot be easily surpassed. The face of Marquis Luther was involved. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, he bravely went up and knocked on the door, leaning against the wooden door, and reminded the inside: "Miss, we should go..."

   It wasn't long before the sound of footsteps came from the room.

  After the wooden door opened, Hathaway and Beatrice came out of the room. Although their pretty faces were a little reddish, and the long skirts on their bodies were wrinkled, the middle-aged housekeeper still breathed a sigh of relief.

  This style of long skirt is very complicated to wear. It takes only half an hour for the waist and petticoat to be worn on the body.

  They walked out of the room so quickly, although they definitely wouldn't just be chatting, but they wouldn't act too outrageously.

  Hathaway and Beatrice walked down the stairs of the hotel, and the complexion on their faces had already recovered. Following the middle-aged butler, they returned to the Marquis Luther's mansion in a magic caravan.

  …

Sander participated in a magic material auction held at the auction house yesterday. He knew that crystallized meat was expensive, but he did not expect that crystallized salamander meat would be pushed to such a high price by bidders. The auctioneer cut up a piece of crystallized salamander meat on the spot, and scraped off the fire element grains on it with a knife blade. Those fire element grains burst into flames on the booth, and the entire auction site was boiling.

   Several rounds of bidding pushed the crystallized salamander meat to a height that crystallized meat with other attributes could not match.

Then the two boxes of crystallized salamander meat were auctioned off at a very high price. In order to have a chance to cooperate in the future, the auction house even offered to lower the commission by one point, and it was the first time to hand over the bidding money to the auction house. To Sander.

  The butcher shop owner Shan De lay on a wooden bed with a bag of magic crystals in his arms, and didn't sleep well all night.

Early on, I got up from the bed with dark circles under my eyes, and considered whether I should go to the city hall of Bena City and store this large sum of money there. Although I have to pay a part of the storage fee, it is at least safer there .

He got up from the bed, washed his face, then pushed open the wooden door of the butcher's shop, took down the partition from the window, took out a magic sealing box, put the magic antelope meat inside on the meat case, and The frozen Mora fish was hung on the wooden rack. After finishing these tasks, he sat on the chair at the door of the wooden house to rest.

At this time, the door of the wooden house of the shop next door was pushed open, and a street girl wrapped in a thick woolen cloak came out. She was wearing leather boots, showing a section of snow-white calf in the cold weather. She took big strides and walked out quickly. In the magic free market, there was not much time. A naked-chested brawny man walked out of the room. This guy had a thick layer of chest hair on his chest, a beard on his face, and his body was like a strong big stupid bear.

  Sander stared at the strong man twice, and asked him with a smile: "How does this long leg taste?"

The strong man came over, and he was not polite, shaved a piece of raw meat from the ice blue deer's leg with a knife, stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "That's it... I haven't seen you in business for the past two days, I'm going to do something else of?"

   "Besides being able to cut meat, what else can I do?" Sander cut another large piece of venison leg and handed it to the neighbor.

The strong man was not polite either, he took it with a knife and put it into his mouth, and then said: "There are always some magicians coming to you these two days, probably because of the salamander you brought back last time." Meat, be careful recently..."

The strong man patted Shande's shoulder, then stretched his strong arms, grabbed a handful of snow from the eaves, and rubbed his hands and face with the snow vigorously, until his skin was flushed red, before taking a step Walk back to the cabin.

  Sander stood up and tidied up the frozen meat on the meat table, and was about to turn up the small stove in the wooden house, order less boiling water, and fill his stomach with scones.

  Feeling someone behind him, he turned his head suddenly, and saw Suerdak standing at the door, holding on to the door frame, his face looking a little pale.

  Since yesterday, Sander has been looking forward to Suldak's appearance soon, and now he is surprised to see his weak appearance.

  But he knew what he should ask and what he should not ask, so he said, "Master Suldak, why did you come today? You missed yesterday's auction."

   "Sell all those crystallized salamander meat?" Suldak sat down on the stool by the door and asked Sander.

"It's a pity that you missed yesterday's auction. Those salamander meats are very popular. Oh, this is the record of each transaction and the breakdown of commissions in the auction house. Let's take a look first. These are the salamander meat auctions. All proceeds."

Suldak looked at it carefully for a while, and was going to look for any miscalculations in the account book. He didn't care about the little money, he just wanted to let Sander know that he could understand the sheepskin Schedule on paper. However, Sander calculated every transaction very clearly, and Suldak couldn't find any problems for a while.

It was the heavy pocket that surprised him. According to Suerdak's estimation, even if there was a premium for the crystallized salamander meat at the auction house, it would not exceed 20% of the value of the salamander meat itself. That is to say, the proceeds from this auction should not exceed three hundred magic crystals.

  But he took the money bag in his hand, only to find that his estimate was very different from the actual income.

Turning to the last page of the account book details, Suldak saw the words 531 magic crystals written on it. Such a crystallized salamander can be changed into three sets of magic pattern structures. No wonder there are So many adventure groups went deep into the mountains where monsters roamed, risking their lives to hunt down those valuable monsters.

  Suldak thought that when he was looking for Shande, he wanted to sell the crystallized salamander meat for one gold per pound. If he really sold it like that, it would be a loss to grandma's family.

Suldak counted thirty magic crystals from his pocket and handed them to Shande. Sander held these bright and shiny crystals in both hands, his mouth grew wide, and he was a little speechless with excitement, although he Selling monster ingredients in the magic free market also earns 20 to 30 gold coins per month, and the annual income is about 30 or so magic crystals.

  But in one transaction, he earned the previous year's income. Counting the magic spar in his hand, Shande was still a little excited.

He has never sold ingredients for high-level Warcraft. One of the reasons is that he does not have so much capital, and the second reason is that he cannot find a reliable source. He never thought that such a good thing could still be his turn, but now , the facts were in front of him, Shande suddenly found himself lucky.

   "When will the next batch of salamander meat be available?" Shan De asked excitedly.

  Suldak thought about it for a while, and felt that it shouldn't be a big problem to ask Gulitum to cut leeks in the lava cave in a few days.

Then he said: "Probably don't have to wait too long. I've been in Bena City recently, and we can still trade in Bena City. I'm afraid it will be troublesome after a while. You may have to take a magic airship to Hailansa City to buy goods." .”

  Sander didn’t expect Suldak to be from Hailansa. He was not familiar with the Tarapakan area in the northern part of Bena province, so he repeated: “Is it Hailansa city?”

  Suldak nodded with a smile.

  Leaving the Magic Free Market, Suldak found a restaurant, casually ate some stew and baked wheat cakes, and then walked towards the Shire tavern.

  …

The Shire tavern is usually open at night, and Suldak went there a little early. Although the door of the tavern was open, the tables, chairs, and benches inside were still piled up. Two waiters were cleaning up with twig handles. , a few liquor girls sat on the high stools in front of the bar, staring at the delicate makeup on the side.

  They were not too afraid of the cold. Although the temperature inside the tavern was very low, they still only wore black stockings and short skirts, chatting non-stop together.

  Suldak walked to the door of the tavern and was stopped by a waiter. He said apologetically, "My lord, I'm sorry we are not open here yet. I'm afraid you have to come later!"

  Suldak looked inside, then smiled at the waiter and said, "Can I sit inside for a while? I have nowhere to go at this point."

As he spoke, he took out a stack of copper plates from his pocket and stuffed them into the hands of the waiter. The waiter grabbed the stack of copper plates and said to Suldak with some embarrassment: "...This does not comply with our regulations. The manager saw it. I'm going to be scolded!"

   "Let him in!" The bartender yawned, standing inside the bar, scrubbing the glasses.

  The waiter stepped aside and bowed his body to ask Suldak to enter the tavern.

The bartender poured a glass of ale for Suldak, put a plate of nuts on the bar, and asked Suldak to sit down. The group of liquor girls looked at Suldak with a smile. The liquor girl sat down on the high stool beside Surdak and said to him provocatively, "My lord baron, can you buy me a drink?"

  Suldak nodded and motioned the bartender to pour her a glass of wine.

  The ale girl took the opportunity to stick most of her upper body on Suldak, and whispered in his ear, "Would you like to sit with me?"

  The bartender pushed a glass of ale over at this time, and reminded the liquor girl: "Hella, he is Sophia's customer, you should find someone else to solicit business!"

  The wine girl curled her lips when she heard what the bartender said, but she didn't dare to refute. She turned around and left with her glass in hand.

   "Wait a while, Sophia probably hasn't gotten up yet, just tell me what you want to drink..."

   The bartender said to Suldak.

  Suldak raised his glass, and the bartender nodded.

  He was eating salted cat's claw nuts. This kind of nut needs to be cut open with a dagger to get the crispy and sweet kernel inside. It is just a good thing to kill time.

   Taking a sip of the cold, mellow ale, his thoughts seemed to drift back to a certain summer in his previous life.

  (end of this chapter)