If it weren't for the fact that the person sitting across from him had a connection to his own family, Charles would have thrown the parchment roll on the table in his face.

He took a deep breath, calmed down, and picked up the futures contract on the table again and looked at it again.

After putting down the contract, Charles looked at the gray-haired, wrinkled old man sitting across from him, and couldn't help but sigh again.

"Is the day of the Harvest Temple so sad?" Charles asked helplessly.

The old man nodded bitterly, "Yes, this is the crystal purchased with the last savings of our church, of course, if it is done properly, we can still complete the contract transaction." ”

"Why is it ......," Charles sighed again.

Then he said, "Bishop John, you must know my relationship with the Temple of the Harvest. ”

Before the butler brought the bishop in, he improvised some historical knowledge to Charles.

Bishop John nodded.

Charles said to Aunt Aalto, who was standing behind him, "Give him a high price." ”

Aunt Aalto took out a bag of not small gold coins, and then respectfully placed it in front of Bishop John. Although he is very down, he is also a priest.

"Thank you for your kindness. "Our church is on the shore thirty kilometers downstream, and we look forward to your visit when you have time." ”

After a few polite sentences, Bishop John hurriedly took the money bag and left.

Charles sat there, picking up a crystal from the table and playing with it as he pondered. As he walked away from home, the more he realized that something was wrong, because along the way, there were very few churches at the base of the Forging Temple, and even fewer churches in the Harvest Temple.

It stands to reason that in this predominantly agrarian society, the temple of harvest should be extremely prosperous.

Although the God of Forging and the God of Harvest have gone to engage in the development of the western region for more than three hundred years, the Forging Temple has been doing well with its technical background, and there is no reason for the Harvest Temple to be so miserable.

After burying this question deep in his heart, Charles continued to look at the futures contract in front of him. Ten pieces of 10-centimeter premium dream crystals with a five-day period are three times the price of the current one. He didn't even know what to say about it, Bishop John was so honest that he wanted to hit someone, which was the lowest of any futures contract he had seen today.

The ships that now deliver the crystals come ashore every four or five days and unload the barrels of crystals in wooden barrels. Most of these barrels are made up of fine crushed crystals that can only be used as pigments, and those that can be used to make jewelry are mixed in.

No one knows how much paint is in a barrel and how many third-class crystals can be hyped up, but that doesn't stop the red-eyed merchants from coming up with all sorts of tricks.

At noon, Charles gets a chance to go out and show his mask, but he just pretends to be low-key.

As the carriage carrying Charles and the others passed through the port area, Charles saw through the curtain that many people were buying barrels and barrels of crystals from the newly arrived cargo ship.

Not far from the cargo ship, there is a special place for these people to sift the crystals in the barrels. A row of one-meter-square sieves was prepared there, and the person who bought the crystal barrel poured the crystal from the barrel into it, and after sifting out the crystals that could only be used as pigments, there were enough large and good quality crystals left on the sieve. Crystals, which could only be used as pigments, were purchased at very low prices by the porcelain workshops.

At Lorenzo's request, Charles asked Mordred to take the money and go to ten draws, and then got several special pieces.

"You and Artoria share this. Charles said to Mordred, who had returned to the carriage with a few crystals.

Just as they were about to go to their next destination, there was a "poof" sound, and the people around them said with some sadness that another bankrupt person had committed suicide by jumping into the water, and then continued to "gamble on the bucket" with his money bag.

On the way, Charles suddenly senses someone watching him. Through the curtains of the car window, he saw a pair of "Mount Everest" that he had seen before.

Aunt Lef, who had hidden her horns, smiled at Charles in the carriage, then turned and disappeared into the crowd on the side of the road.

Charles looked confused, is this going to make big news?

The carriage drove all the way to the edge of the city's central square, where every city's standard theater is located.

When he got out of the car, the butler said to Charles, "Sir, there will be an auction here tonight, and now it is the stage of product display, you can go and see if there is anything you are interested in." ”

Then the butler said in a very low voice, "You have a quota of one thousand ores tonight, be sure to use it up." ”

Charles nodded habitually, isn't it just pretending to be a coin to let people know that their economic strength is awesome, what a big deal.

However, this scattering of coins is also exquisite.

Only buy the expensive ones, not the right ones, that's what only the nouveau riche do, and if Charles dares to do this, he will be looked down upon by other old families.

When you see the right one, you can't just throw coins and buy it, and this kind of practice of not knowing how to advance or retreat is also detrimental to the image.

Generally speaking, people who only buy the right ones and do what they can are good boys.

So......

"It's a nice dress!" Charles said to Mordred in a very low voice, "how about buying it for your mother?"

Mordred tilted her head, scrutinizing the white silk evening dress worn by the wooden model in front of her. It was the first time she had seen such a beautiful dress, and she unconsciously imagined Artoria wearing it.

"Hmm. Mordred finally nodded.

Charles Sharp also had the first target in mind for this auction.

As for how to take the skirt away, isn't it still Kassandra to help, I don't believe that she, a field agent of the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau, dared to swallow the skirt of the former Supreme Prosecutor General.

Today is the day they meet, and even the matter of their meeting has been arranged on Lorenzo's side, and now one of Charles's characters is a child who is interested in divination by the [REDACTED] watermelon-breasted soothsayer.

Since many people need to invest money in crystals, in order to increase their cash, they take many of the less important collectibles to auction and cash out.

As a result, there are a lot more items in tonight's auction than ever before. A retired court tailor hung up several sets of exquisite evening dresses at once, in addition to various collectibles hung up by others, such as the landscape paintings created by Lady Verry in her early years, the exquisite weapons produced by the Forging Holy Land, the exquisite porcelain vase with the three demon characters of "hand sanitizer" that Ju Shuo retrieved from the demon territory hundreds of years ago, carvings with divine powers, white dragon scales, second-generation resident ID cards, jewelry produced by elves, and a cloth bag that could not be opened.