Chapter 206: West Street
Jacques stayed at the "Flowers of the Heart" bar for two days at his father's request, helping with Lily every day to take care of the bar and listening to the mercenaries boast about their adventures.
Jacques could understand his father's intentions, and out of prudence, it was not appropriate for Kane to go out at will until he left Yorktown, after all, he was a major weakness of his father.
Two days later, Jacques and Lily return to Marianne's house to reunite with their friends, only to learn that during their mission, Alyssa and the others had received a windfall that was several times their earnings from their hard work.
It turned out that Alixia, Fabian, and Natasha had lent Mr. Joseph and the innkeeper Ms. Sandra 20,000 silver coins in Athabas to pay the usury that had been forced to pay the debt, which was to be returned after Mr. Joseph had cleared the goods.
Later, in order to save Martin and the others, they had to leave Athabas as soon as possible, and before leaving, Mr. Joseph could not come up with the money to return them for the time being, so Jacques casually said that he would take 20,000 silver coins as shares in Joseph's caravan.
After Mr. Joseph returned to Yorktown, he immediately went to the business house with which the Natasha family had business dealings to inquire about their situation, and it happened that the business house knew that Natasha and the others were living in Marianne West's house, so Joseph found them with the principal and earnings.
At first, Alyssa couldn't see the widow Sandra being bullied, so she acted righteously, but she was a little surprised by the reward she received, Joseph sent a ticket of more than 60,000 silver coins!
With a windfall, the girls naturally thought of buying, buying, buying, and just as Lily and Jacques also returned, everyone went to the largest beast and spirit plant trading market in the entire New World, West Street, at Marianne's suggestion.
With the exception of Graves, who is obsessed with research, everyone takes another collective action, riding the West's blue-painted steam car to the West Street Market.
West Street Market, in the north of Yorktown, is an old-fashioned complex of buildings, most of which are wooden houses built by the first generation of New World immigrants, before the popularity of brick-fired at that time.
Most of these old houses have experienced more than 70 years of ups and downs, and they were originally just underground markets formed by the first generation of immigrants in exchange for their adventures, and later gradually became a fixed trading center for exotic beasts and spirits due to their fame.
Some discerning people bought houses on the street, started the business of buying materials, and sold the collected materials to merchants from the Empire, who eventually came to the Empire to fill the Empire's bottomless pit.
Later, craftsmen and pharmacists who immigrated to the New World also gathered in West Street, where they purchased materials nearby, processed them into finished products and sold them for adventurers, bringing more popularity to the West Street Market.
When seven people and one cat came to West Street, it was just in time for the weekend, and the whole street was crowded.
Jacques was very planned, and before he arrived, he thought about his needs and bought some auxiliary materials to use to build Mithril armor. The armor that he had made for himself was destroyed by the alien beast bat in Kundo Town in the central region, and he failed to trick a set of fish scale armor from the lake god, so he had to rebuild it for himself.
Of course, by the way, he also has to build one for Lily, as for the others, the armor made for them when he participated in the Misty Forest Challenge is still there, and Marianne and fish scale armor don't need to worry about him.
However, he still promised everyone that if anyone found good materials, they could buy them and give them to him to customize weapons or armor.
Everyone agrees on Jacques's Mithril forging skills, and the long knife at his waist is the best proof of this.
It's just that when you go out on the street with girls, what often happens is that they are easily distracted by other things, and then turn around to other stores, completely forgetting the important purpose.
No, now seven people are in an antique shop, facing a blind variety of items, trying to find some useful "treasures" among them.
The owner is a mixed-race girl who always keeps a smile and delicate facial features, maybe there are no customers in the store, maybe it is rare to see a group of peers, so he accompanies everyone in the store "treasure hunt", at any time to explain the origin and use of various items.
"Beautiful young lady, this is said to be the priest of the Golden Kingdom wearing a mask, which is an important prop ......in their sacrificial rituals, and it can communicate with the gods!
The little girl opened the little notebook in her hand, rummaged through it, and said to Natasha, "My grandfather collected it fifty years ago, and it is worth 1,300 silver coins!"
Marianne took the mask and weighed it, examined it carefully, and said, "It's gold, but by weight, that's thirty silver coins, and one thousand three is too expensive!
The little girl was still smiling and said, "Miss, this mask has a special meaning and efficacy, of course, it cannot be calculated according to its weight. ”
Natasha put down her mask and said, "It's too expensive, it's too expensive, I'll take a look." ”
Jacques picked up a small wood carving from the shelf, very much like a fat orange, the wood was about to be played with a lot, the surface was smooth and oily, and asked the shopkeeper for the price.
The smiling little girl looked through the small book and said: "This is a wood carving toy, the times are not examinable, this store has been collecting it for 30 years! ”
Jacques handed the wood carving to Lily behind her, who looked closely at it and found that it did look like a fat orange.
So Jacques didn't make a counteroffer and bought it directly.
A deal was sold, although the amount was not large, but the little girl was still very happy and smiled even brighter.
Natasha found another finger guard, an object in the shape of a ring carved from the horns of an unknown animal, pulled Fabian over, and put the finger guard over his thumb, the right size.
The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Sure enough, sir, this is made of the horns of strange beasts, and the people who bring it have a hundred arrows and arrows, and if there is divine help, it is very effective!
Fabian took off his finger guard, rubbed it in his hand, and used the source energy to probe and feel whether the material was really a foreign beast material, and the source energy could be retained in it, although it was very small left, but it could indeed prove that it was made of foreign beast material.
Although I like its shape, sixty-five silver coins are a bit expensive, and everyone knows that it is just a gimmick. After some haggling, it was sold for forty-eight silver coins.
After everyone walked around for a while, Marianne fell in love with a clay pot and spent 200 silver coins, but she didn't even pay back the price.
Alyssa also picked an old-fashioned snuff box for fifteen silver coins.
After a long walk, he was about to leave the team, when Fat Orange came out of nowhere, holding a simple ring in his mouth, put it in front of Jacques, and meowed.
Jacques and Lily's eyes lit up when they saw the ring, and Jacques said quietly: "Oh, it seems that Fat Orange likes this ring very much, how much does it cost?"
The little girl rummaged through the little notebook several times, went to the shelves and rummaged around carefully, and said to Jacques embarrassedly: "Sorry, guest, I don't know its price. Otherwise, I'll call my father and ask him. ”
Then he shouted at the back door, "Father, please come and take a look." ”
There was a sound at the back door, and after a while, a one-eyed middle-aged man walked out, asked about the situation, he picked up the ring and looked at it, and said to her daughter: "This, I received it a few days ago, and I didn't have time to register." ”
Then he turned to Jacques and said with the same smile on his face: "If the guest likes it, it will be yours for only three hundred and fifty silver coins, and my purchase price will be three hundred and fifty silver coins! ”
Jacques pretended to have a discussion with Lily, tried to wear it for her, and finally decided to buy it, and the group happily left the antique shop.
When they walked away, the one-eyed shopkeeper chuckled: "Hehe, in three days, the rings collected from ten silver coins were sold for three hundred and five, the old man who sold the rings didn't know the goods, and the kid who bought the rings didn't know how to do it, haha! Daughter, let's eat beef tonight!"
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