Guild Boss's Ambition

Hearing this, I was stunned at first, then I smiled.

"Perhaps I should let the seven of you hold a public auction for this special contract?"

Helena smiled and said, "The presidents of our seven guilds have gone to the outer border to work together. Therefore, if you want to hold this public auction, you must spend a lot of time contacting the temporary leaders of each guild. Unfortunately, the Morning Star Formula spreads very quickly, and without the support of the big guilds, your authorization statement will not sell many copies in the small guild circle."

"..."

Helena hit our weak spots exactly and had information we didn't know.

I was at a loss for a moment and didn't know what to do. This situation was beyond our plan.

"Hmm? It's a bit itchy!"

At this moment, Xiao Lan stepped on my foot under the table, allowing me to quietly recover from my panic.

Yes, even if the situation is beyond our expectations, it does not mean that we will suffer any losses. The goal of selling Morningstar this time is to raise temporary funds, and the focus is still on Helena's bid.

"So, what can you give us?"

Helena glanced at me with a hint of surprise and said with a smile, "Two hundred and fifty gold coins."

We originally expected that the seven major guilds would buy the formula for around fifty gold coins, which would total three hundred and fifty gold coins. But now Helena's offer is a full one hundred gold coins less...

I opened my mouth and wanted to bargain for 400 gold coins, but Xiao Lan suddenly secretly put her hand on my thigh and quickly wrote a number with her fingertips: "Impossible, 250 gold coins are too little, at least 700 gold coins."

I couldn't help but be shocked by my own bid. As long as I get these 700 gold coins, plus a month's profit, our guild's debt can be paid off in one go! But Helena probably won't accept such an absurd price, right?

"make a deal!"

What? Aunt Helena? What did you say?

Are we really going to get rich?

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29. Start-up capital (small blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

That night, twelve o'clock in the evening.

In the meeting room of the stone house, Sister Meng'er was counting the gold coins on the table, looking horrible.

"Four hundred and sixty-six, four hundred and sixty-seven, four hundred and sixty-eight, four hundred and sixty-nine..."

She counted the gold coins one by one, and let out strange laughs from time to time. At the same time, she wiped the gold coins with clean water, and then arranged them neatly into tall towers, as if she was possessed.

She looked very happy, but I had to remind her of a fact: "Sister Meng'er, even if you make sparks from the gold coins, they will still have to be used to repay debts in the end. I advise you to take it lightly, okay?"

"Do not……"

Hearing this, Sister Menger looked at her gold coins with deep eyes and murmured, "Xiao Lan, you don't understand. The relationship between me and them doesn't care about eternity, I only care about having them once. This is eternal love!"

"So, are you going to endorse watches?" I complained.

"What watch?" she was confused.

"A time-keeping device that is smaller than a large clock and is worn on the wrist," I explained.

"Is there such a thing?" she asked.

"Is there no such thing?" I was shocked and asked.

She thought seriously for a while and concluded: "Maybe it's a new invention of the goblins?"

I quickly agreed with her inference to end this unpleasant topic as soon as possible: "Maybe it really is a new invention of the goblins."

If I admit now that I don't have amnesia, the consequences will be very bad.

However, I still underestimated Sister Meng'er's curiosity.

"That thing should be able to be sold for money. How about I go ask a goblin tomorrow?"

I immediately helped her to stop herself from going astray and reminded her, "Wait a minute, why is Sister Meng'er studying clocks? Our family should be running an adventurer's guild, right? It's better for you not to steal the goblins' business."

"but……"

She showed no sign of giving up, but at this moment, Hai Lao pushed the door open and came in.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long." The old man hung his coat on the hanger and sat down at the table.

"No, how did you do it?"

Seeing Hai Lao's appearance, Sister Meng'er temporarily put aside her thoughts on the watch. During this promotion of the Morning Star formula, she gradually let go of her wrong prejudice against Hai Lao, and the tone of her daily conversations finally became a little better.

At this time, Hai Lao seemed very tired, and his old eyes were a little dazed.

He said calmly, "Unfortunately, I have only visited two-thirds of the fifty-four guilds. In addition, due to some special reasons, we can no longer sell the wine recipes to the remaining eighteen. In short, these gold coins are the total income of the entire promotion. Next, please help check the receipts."

He threw out nine cloth bags and a briefcase, each of which contained at least hundreds of gold coins.

Sister Meng'er and I were not in a hurry to count the gold coins. Compared to the wealth that was so close to us, we were more eager to confirm our guesses. We reached out to the briefcases at the same time, picked up two contracts and looked at them. Sure enough, these contracts were almost identical to the ones we signed with the Tree of Life this morning!

Moreover, Hai Lao's method is obviously more sophisticated than ours. Many of the 36 contracts in the briefcase have duplicated targets. If the Morning Star Wine Recipe can be sold for an average of 20 gold coins in these small guilds, then the attached conditions for stopping the sale of targets have an additional value of about 5 to 10 gold coins...

And because the objects of suspension of sale between contracts sometimes overlap, for every additional overlap, we can gain a profit of 5 to 10 gold coins without increasing costs. As a result, Ebi took full advantage of information inequality in this transaction, allowing many guilds to buy unnecessary subsidiary treaties with huge sums of money!

"A total of 1085 gold coins!"

Sister Meng'er added the contract amount on the receipt and screamed with happiness that she almost fainted.

Seeing so many gold coins, I feel very happy, as they are the results of our work.

After a while, Sister Menger happily reported her calculation results: "After deducting the 820 gold debt, we still have a surplus of 1111 gold coins! Thousands of gold coins! I have never seen so many gold coins in my life, Xiaolan! What do you think we should do with it?"

I thought about it seriously and turned to look at Ebi.

Hai Lao smiled and said leisurely: "A thousand gold coins may sound like a lot, but it will take a while to spend them."

He raised a finger and said, "First of all, our stone house hasn't been renovated for a long time. It looks so shabby and dilapidated that it won't attract those big customers who value etiquette. The cost of this will be at least four or five hundred gold coins!"

He raised his second finger. "Secondly, taking care of adventurers' food, clothing, housing and transportation is the foundation of a guild, and bartending can only be regarded as a luxury. Now that we suddenly have a lot of quick money, we should make good use of it to consolidate the foundation. The most urgent task is the food supply. To be honest, in the past six months, I have almost always ordered takeout for three meals a day."

Hai Lao was right, the food at the stone house was indeed unpalatable to his mother...

Even Sister Meng'er, the boss, couldn't help but nod her head repeatedly.

In just a moment, the three of us had reached a silent understanding on this link. Seeing this, Hai Lao also raised his third finger and said, "The third point is also the most important one. I have been busy all day today. I won't talk about my outstanding achievements, but please, Miss, at least help me reimburse this expense list."

As he spoke, Hai Lao handed a note to Sister Meng'er.

Sister Meng'er lowered her head to look.

"Breakfast 15 silver..."

"The tobacco costs ninety silvers..."

Sister Menger immediately noticed something was wrong: "Wait! Why did you want to buy a whole gold worth of tobacco?"

Hai Lao has his own opinion: "It is common sense to smoke one or two cigarettes when discussing business, right?"

I'm sure the shrimp ate it all by itself.

But Sister Meng Er still nodded: "Okay, this is justified, I will reimburse you for the time being."

Then she continued reading the following text.

"Thirty silver for lunch..."

"Lunch forty silver..."

"Thirty-five silver coins for lunch..."

"Twenty silver for lunch!"

Seeing this pile of repetitive items, Sister Meng Er immediately couldn't sit still. She gritted her teeth and questioned: "Mr. Hai, you are already old, is it necessary to eat four lunches a day? Eating too much will upset your stomach!"

Facing this question, Hai Lao blinked his eyes innocently and replied sullenly: "Miss, I ate so much today that I almost vomited. But you have to understand that the relationship between people is always formed through food. When I found them, it happened to be their lunch time, so of course I had to sit down and treat them to a meal first..."

Hai Lao's expression was so lifelike that for a moment I couldn't tell whether it was real or fake.

Of course, Sister Meng Er couldn't tell the difference, so she could only nod again: "Okay, I'll settle this for you too!"

So she lowered her head and looked at the lower half of the list.

"Two gold coins for the full day's transportation..."

"A visit gift, apples, bananas, oranges and other fruits worth one gold in total?"

"Paper, pens, ink and other miscellaneous expenses are thirty silver coins..."

"Reference books, seventy silver coins..."

Sister Meng'er frowned, looking up and asking sternly, "Mr. Hai, besides cigarettes, you also need reference books for door-to-door sales? What kind of reference books can you bring out so that Xiaolan and I can study together?"

Hai Lao smiled slyly and asked, "Are you sure you want the little girl to learn those things?"

Those? Oh! Those are them!

To be honest, I am quite interested in those.

Reference books and the like are just men’s romance!

However, Sister Meng'er's face darkened, immediately dispelling my expectations: "Don't take them out. I won't help you pay for those reference books for even a dime. And you'd better behave yourself and stop corrupting our poster girl!"

"That's such a pity." Hai Lao said, touching his chin.

"That's such a pity," I kept agreeing in my heart.

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30. Their review meeting (Xiao Lan)

(Ulu-Lannon)

Thursday, June 5, 6:14 p.m.

Because of my age, Berlani had assigned me to the early shift, so at that moment, I was standing in front of the big clock in the locker room with my junior Gu Shan, silently waiting for 6:15 to arrive.

I said nostalgically, “If there is any fun in work, it must be the moment when get off work ends!”

Gu Shan nodded with a smile and added: "But the happiest day is when the salary is paid!"

"Yeah, the salary will be paid tomorrow, Gu Shan, what are you going to do with it?"

Gu Shan sighed and murmured, "What can I plan for? I have so many children at home. After I take my salary home, I will probably only have money left for my living expenses. Wow wow wow... I recently fell in love with a pair of shoes. I really want them!"

"What shoes? Are they expensive?" I asked curiously.

"The normal price is around sixty silver coins." Gu Shan said with a troubled look on his face.

Although it was only sixty silver coins, it was Gu Shan’s salary for several days.

Looking at this good child who saves money and helps her family, I can't help but feel warm in my heart, and I want to reward her for her understanding.

"Gu Shan, if you want that pair of shoes so badly, I can buy them for you tomorrow."

But Gu Shan was the kind of little fool who didn't like to take advantage of others, and he immediately shook his head and refused: "It's just a pair of shoes, not a necessity, why would Senior Xiao Lan need to spend money on it?"

"Actually, even if I get my salary, I have nowhere to spend it." Because I have been supporting my younger sister in the past, I am as frugal as Gu Shan in my daily life. Gradually, frugality has become my habit. Unless it is a necessity in daily life, I rarely spend money to buy it. The worst thing is that Bai Ye has given me a lot of clothes a while ago.

Looking back, I really have money but nowhere to spend it...

Feeling a bit shameless...

"So, Gu Shan! Please don't reject my kindness. You are the only reason why I work so hard to make money now!"

I stared at the ancient mountain with unwavering eyes.

"Only... the only meaning?" Gu Shan asked in surprise.

"Yes, that's the only meaning!" I answered affirmatively.

"That...that..."

While Gu Shan was still hesitating, I immediately made the deal: "It's settled. As soon as we get paid tomorrow, we'll go shopping together after work and buy you that pair of beautiful shoes! See you tomorrow!"

Without leaving any room for Gu Shan to refuse, when the clock showed 6:15, I ran out of the locker room door first, then quickly walked up the stairs leading to the second floor, perfectly getting rid of Gu Shan.

"Haha, she went in the wrong direction!"