The grocer bought from the wilderness, with animal skins and herbs being the main inputs, and they did not sell them in Canaan, but to traveling merchants in other cities—a clever move to avoid competition among the city's merchants, which was the fundamental reason for the store's survival and rapid growth.

The way of trading is basically bartering, and there are many kinds of goods sold to the natives of the wilderness, such as iron and bronze utensils, grain, wine, salt, cloth and other daily necessities, in a word, as long as there is no material in the wilderness, they sell.

It's not that there are no smart people who have thought about trading with the natives in the wilderness before, but the mages don't look down on this little profit, mortals don't have the support behind the mage, and they can't do it for a long time, I heard that the owner of this shop has a mage guard, and it is also an official mage, so their little fight is not too much in the eyes of the big family.

In a two-story small building in the wealthy area of the south of the city, in the study on the second floor, a young man with a long body and a handsome appearance is reading at the desk, and outside the study, an old mage with a kind face is sitting on a recliner, swaying leisurely, his eyes slightly closed, as if he is asleep.

Unlike most of the rich children of Canaan, judging from the furnishings of the study, no one would think of it as the study of a girl under the age of twenty without seeing the owner—in addition to a large number of books, there were bows and arrows hanging on the walls, knights' swords, and cavalry spears in the corners.

Most of the children of the aristocracy have a sickly fairness on their faces, but this young man's complexion is wheat-colored, full of healthy youthful vitality, with a heroic spirit, giving people a completely different feeling.

I don't know how long later, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and a middle-aged man dressed as a shopkeeper trotted in all the way, nodding to the old mage at the door, but he was standing outside the door of the study, speaking very fast,

"Young master, the convoy escorted to the outside of the city was seized by the city army at the city gate, on the grounds that prohibited substances are not allowed to be transported abroad, I have been reasoning with them for a long time, and the benefits have been given, and good things have been said, but they have no effect, I hereby inform the young master, please forgive the villain for being incompetent!"

The young man's brows were slightly raised, but he immediately calmed down again, and just asked indifferently, "This is the fourth seizure in half a month, right?"

The shopkeeper nodded again and again: "Yes, ten days ago, the grain that was deducted, the cloth that was deducted eight days ago, the groceries that were deducted three days ago, and this time today, young master, I see that the actions of the city defense army are becoming more and more frequent and urgent, I am afraid that they are deliberately targeting us, the falcon grocery store is the same as the materials we trafficked, I don't see that they have not checked, young master, if you don't dredge up the relationship, I am afraid that this business will be difficult to do......"

The young man was unusually calm, "I know, you go down first, it's just that the business has become bigger, and it has affected the interests of some people!"

The shopkeeper was helpless, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start, he looked at the old mage, and he had no choice but to retreat, for mortals, the circle of mages in the upper echelons of Canaan City, that is the real nobles, it is a taboo that they dare not touch, there is no place to give gifts, and besides, their so-called heavy gifts. It is not worth anything in the eyes of the mage.

Waiting for the shopkeeper to retreat, the young man looked at the old mage, "Master Emon......"

The old mage shook his head and sighed, "Canaan, I told you when you started this business three years ago, trouble is sooner or later, there is an old face like me in the early stage, and the business is also very limited, so no one will take care of your affairs, but if the business is big enough to a certain extent, how can you hide from the dumping among your peers?"

Although you have never sold goods in Canaan, but business is business, and how can you completely do it without affecting others? You sell goods to traveling merchants at a fair price, and those peers can only sell less, or not at all. Those who have yin energy behind them are all backed by the Canaan City mage family, and there are many mages in the clan, my old face, I can't eat it in front of them!"

Canaan didn't have much anger or reluctance, "Master Emon, don't blame yourself, you have done a lot for Canaan, Canaan knows it, and Canaan also knows that there will come a day when the big families in the city will not allow me to continue doing business." Hehe, I just want to know where their bottom line is!"

Xiao Lao nodded, "It's good that you know, the bottom line, it's not immutable, if an ordinary mortal does this, within a month, the family will be ruined, and ordinary nobles will not last a year if they do this, and you have the support of an out-of-gas official mage like me, three years is the limit, but you don't have to worry about the safety of your life......"

Canaan smiled slightly, "Master Emon, what if the teacher comes?"

Master Emmon smiled, "If the Lord is here, you can probably continue to do it, the three most powerful third-level mages in Canaan City are on the same level as Lord Major, and the communication between them is much more effective than me using a hot face against a cold ass......

Canaan pursed his lips, "The mage world is really realistic, but I used to think that magicians are so high, but in essence, they are not much different from mortals...... Mage Aemon, what if a more powerful mage supported our grocery store, such as the Grand Mage?"

Master Aemon looked left and right to see that there was no one, and it was also a human being, and there were no taboos, and quipped:

"If you have the support of the great magicians, you want those mages to drive the horses, and they must be happy to do so......"

An old man and a young laughed, there are jokes, there are also sadness, many things in life, don't do it, don't experience it, you don't know what is difficult, Canaan City seems to be calm, orderly, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but how can ordinary people dare to touch the darkness behind it?

Canaan was not short of money, and Merlin left the family with a huge fortune before leaving, enough for them to live a carefree life for several lifetimes, but these riches could not fill empty thoughts.

Brother Piva, three years ago went back to the wilderness alone, with his ability to make a name for himself in the tribe, played a status, a year ago, completely firm, ready to get married Piva took his mother back to the tribe, of course, with the little three and four, this is the biggest wish of a woman's life, born in the wilderness, died in the wilderness, and finally buried next to relatives, this kind of thing, no one can stop it.

Fortunately, they had landed well in the south of the country, partly because of the rivalry of Piva, and partly because Merlin's aftermath was still looming over the wilderness village, and no one dared to provoke it.

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