Chapter 241: Where is the Bathroom?
"Are there really wild men beyond the Endless Wall?" asked Hayska. "What does a wild man look like?"
"Here's how it goes in the book - Wildlings and orcs were driven north of the Great Wall by humans, into the Endless Forest. I've been to the Endless Forest once, and I didn't see wildlings, but I saw something even stranger...... Thirty-five thousand silver coins. As Peake and Haysja spoke, they turned to Baron Hydgwick and offered another price. Then he turned his head back to Hasja, "Leave them alone, what do you think I've seen?"
"What's even more strange? Tell me, is it an orc? Do orcs have the head of a beast, a human body, and can they still speak human language?"
"Uh...... I haven't seen any orcs, but I've seen timberwolves that are more powerful than orcs...... Forty-one thousand silver coins!" Peake said, turning his head and quoting a price.
At the other end of the long table, Dosol gripped the knife in his hand tightly, and a drop of sweat slipped down his forehead. The little duke whispered beside him: "Mr. Dosol, there is no profit to be made after more than forty thousand silver coins. The half-cooked rabbit meat slipped off his knife and landed on the plate.
Jeweler Jaang was sucking the marrow inside a dog bone opposite, and when he put the bone down, he licked his finger. "Mr. Dosol, if you don't have enough funds, I'm willing to help you share some of the pressure, and I can still get 120,000 silver coins!" he ate meat in his mouth, his words slurred, and his eyes often glanced at the noble lady beside him.
"No," Dosol rejected the jeweler's offer, and took a deep look at Pique, who was talking to Hasgar about the world of the forest, before turning to Baron Hygivi and saying, "Forty-five thousand silver coins, this is my last bid, Lord Baron, if anyone continues to shout, I will have to give up." He spoke slowly, as if he was deliberately emphasizing the last two sentences for everyone present.
Sure enough, this sentence had an obvious effect, and I saw that Pique and Haysjia laughed at the same time, laughing forward and backward, but they did not raise the price again.
"Yes! Forty-five thousand silver coins are enough to show the sincerity of Mr. Dosol. Baron Hydgwick raised his cup, "I wish Mr. Dosol more and more prosperity in his carpenter's career." ”
"Wolf King, did you save the Wolf King?" Hayska's eyes widened, and the cherries she had just eaten in her mouth were stuffed between her teeth, dyeing her two little tiger teeth a lovely pink. "And how did you come back alive?" Listening to the story, she whetted her appetite and picked up another plum that was so purple and shiny.
Pique doesn't want to lie to Hayska, so he tells her the truth directly. "The Wolf King is my human friend, oh no, to be precise, the Wolf King can become my human friend, the hunter Orr I just told you about, do you remember him? ”
"Humans have become? This ...... It's a myth!" Hasjia looked incredulous, the plum kernel in her mouth propped up her face into a large bag, and Peake wanted to reach out and poke her face.
"I didn't believe it at first," Pique's gaze seemed to reveal the wonder of the time. "Guess...... Thirty thousand silver coins!" Suddenly, he turned his head and quoted a price.
Suddenly, the little duke stood up from the chair at the other end of the long table. "You ......"
Peake turned his head in confusion, took the note out of his pocket again, and shook it twice in midair.
"Perhaps we should talk to another place, Lord Baron. "The little duke finally couldn't sit still, there are still a lot of property management rights to talk about, if that annoying guy has been raising the price in the middle, he has mortgaged the casino is not enough for him to lose, and he still has to get the right to operate the territory of Haijivi, this is the family order to him, but also a test for him, if he can't get enough profits for the family at this time, then there is no need to fight for the family inheritance with several other brothers in the future. Moreover, he had already given up the lucrative jewelry trade and the carpenter's trade, which had a steady income, and he must not let anyone else cut the cake in front of him at this time!"I will definitely come up with the price you want!" the little duke gritted his teeth, looking at Hajvi with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
Across the table, the jeweler Jaon ate from ear to ear, his face looked like a damp devouring cave, and he scoffed at the little duke's performance. Scolding in my heart, little bastard, now I start to know that I beg for mercy, why wasn't this tone when I was stirring up trouble just now. Of course, he couldn't say these words. "Little Duke," his food-filled cave opened and closed, "I think it's our honor that Lord Baron has called us here, and you should let Lord Baron change places and talk about it now, so why don't Lord Barons go back to the two territories of Mokan City and Kivelus City to find more powerful merchants, at least they are also two medium-sized cities, and merchants who are richer than me Jaon abound, Little Duke, have you thought about this?"
When the jeweler Jaang threw out these two sentences, the little duke was immediately stunned, and at this moment, he suddenly understood why Jaang did not hesitate to spend money to contract the management of the jewelry industry.
In fact, what they didn't know was that Baron Haijvi would only be back for a week, and after that he would have to return to the Endless Wall to report to work. At this time, Baron Haijvi, who was sitting on the throne, suddenly had a good impression of the fat man beside him, originally, as a nobleman, he disdained to lie to these merchants, and at this time, the words of the fat man Jaang really went to his heart. With the assistance of the fat man, he didn't need the little duke who wanted to buy the management rights at a low price, at this time, he just had to pretend to be stupid silently.
Under the illumination of the lamp, the little duke's face changed more than once, and I saw him standing there, muttering for a long time, and finally sitting down with an ugly face, and he said: "Your Excellency, I can only give 35,000 gold coins for the contract price for the management rights of the textile industry. "That's the truth, that's the bottom line.
This sentence is obviously learned by the carpenter Dosol, and the meaning is obvious, if you increase the price, I will not follow.
"Hahahaha!" I heard a small sound like a silver bell at the end of the long table.
"My dear daughter, have you forgotten your aristocratic manners?" said Baron Jarkel, who was already slightly drunk, with half a barrel of rum, "and ask Mr. Peake next to you if he has any interest in the textile industry. He took another sip of his wine.
"Lord Duke, I am a little carpenter, and where can I be interested in the textile industry? Without waiting for Haysjia to ask, Zhu Tian directly took over the conversation.
How can it be said to be rude? If you have to say that it is rude, then please be more rude. Baron Hydwick suddenly felt that the mood of the day was extraordinarily cheerful, and he glanced at his wife, and the meaning in his eyes seemed to say: "You have really invited the God of Wealth." ”
"Write it down," said Baron Hydgvi to his retinue behind him, "and draw up all the notes, and let the little Duke, Tran Satz, sign them." Well...... What are the next things we haven't talked about?" Near the long table, the baron drank the most, and only his eyes were the most misty. As for the others, shouting the number of tens of thousands of silver coins in their mouths, where did they dare to touch the wine glass in their hands again.
"Why did Orr take off his pants, did ...... Is there hair all under his body?" Hayser couldn't think of that image in his mind.
"Yes, he is covered with hair all over his body!" Zhu Tian said without exaggeration, "Have you ever seen an orangutan, an orangutan hanging from a tree in the forest, except for the fact that there is no hair on his face, there is no difference between Orangutans and orangutans in other places." ”
"Huh, it's no different from an orangutan," Hasgar's eyes widened, swallowing the flesh in her mouth, "and he's just proving to you that he's the wounded wolf king?" Doesn't the wolf king know shame?"
With a look of remembrance on his face, Peake groaned for a moment and said, "He should have been wearing panties at that time...... I kind of forgot, anyway, he's the same with or without panties, it's all hair!" Peake told Hasja about the secret he had buried in his heart for a long time, "Do you know why he came to Peace Town?"
"Coming to you?"
"No! he's a companion who came to him. Peake's face was full of mystery and whispered to Haysjia.
"Ah............h In my dream, I was killed by a timber wolf the size of a house, do you know who saved me in the end?"
Peake touched his nose and said, "Is it me?"
"That's not right...... It wasn't a dream! I felt like it was real! I ......."
"Eighty thousand silver coins!" Peake interrupted Haysjia abruptly and turned to look at the little duke.
It was about the right to run the transport business, which was not very important to the little duke, but after Pique had finished shouting, the little duke smiled playfully and sat there silent.
Baron Hygiviaker, next to him, raised an eyebrow and glanced at the jeweler Jaang as he raised his glass.
What do you mean by that? The jeweler, Jaang, put down the mustard-stained sturgeon strips in his hand and swallowed a mouthful of spit. "Forgive me for interrupting, Lord Duke," his merchant's mind raced, "does this transportation industry also have something to do with our jewelry business?"
"Of course it does, the transportation industry is related to almost all industries. Baron Jarkel pondered for a moment, and then said slowly: "Take the simplest jewelry industry as an example, you think, Mokan City and Kivelus City don't produce jewels out of thin air, so where do your jewels come from? Who's going to do it? It's not the transporter, it's not the transporter who has to pay for the cost of hiring a wandering samurai or mercenary. If you don't have the right to run the transportation industry, the guards of Mokan and Kivelus are in a position to seize your jewelry, and it's normal to say that your jewelry is from an illegal source. Not only the jewelry industry, but also the carpenter industry and the knitting industry need to be regulated by the transportation industry, and if you don't have the right to operate the transportation industry, the city guards are qualified to seize your timber, your cloth, and your goods.
"Ahh The jeweler Jaang frowned as if he had made up his mind, "Then I will take out all the money of my family today, ninety thousand silver coins, Lord Baron, you will hand over the management of the transportation business to me!"
"Hmm......" Baron Aker said, holding his wine glass, with a thoughtful look on his face, "Ninety thousand silver coins is not impossible...... As long as everyone here agrees. ”
"One hundred thousand silver coins!" On the other side, the little duke's delicate and thin face was no longer bloodless. The 100,000 silver coins were shouted out by him through gritted teeth.
As if he was afraid that the little duke would regret it, Baron Haijvi immediately asked the entourage behind him to take the note and handed it to the little duke.
Belch...... As if realizing something, the little duke looked at the note in front of him and suddenly frowned. He looked at the jeweler Jia Ang on the other side, but the other party's face was full of regret, "Little Duke, you have obtained the right to operate the transportation industry, but you want to make it convenient for me, but don't seize my jewelry!"
Secretly, the jeweler Jaang slowly blocked the smile on the corner of his mouth with the lamb chops in his hand......
The quill pen in the little duke's hand was about to sign, but it was ...... Suddenly stunned.
That's not right!
The little duke's face hesitated. To put it bluntly, the transportation industry is a group of bodyguards and bodyguards composed of a group of wandering samurai and mercenaries, and if you recruit a few people at will, you can turn them into a transporter, and where does this transporter need any right to operate? The guards seized timber, cloth, and goods? Yes, they said so, but ...... Who would dare to touch the interests of the wandering samurai and mercenary groups so easily!
This transportation industry is obviously just a decoration, okay!
Even if he took the right to run the transportation industry, could he still take the jobs of other wandering samurai and mercenaries who made a living by transporting goods? That would be a death-hunting!
He found that when he realized this problem, he was already riding a tiger!
At this time, there is no benefit at all in signing, but it's not the same thing if you don't sign, I have obviously shouted it out just now...... Unconsciously, he glanced at Baron Hygivi slowly, only to find that the other party was just drinking to himself......
"Ahem!" but at this time, Pique at the end of the long table coughed.
The little duke felt that a big stone in his heart had been coughed up by that cough. So at this time, he looked at Peake with expectant eyes.
I saw that the other party touched the blue hat, and said to the noble lady with a smile: "Dear lady, may I ask, where is the bathroom?"