Chapter 43: The Hobbit
ps: It's a new year, and I made a new cover, will it look better? I like the dark style of gothic, but it doesn't match the book......
Guro is a hobbit from the southern hills.
The Hobbits are one of the three Dwarves, along with the Grey Dwarves and the Mountain Giants. The Grey Dwarves are a species of blacksmith with tall noses and large beards, while the Hobbits have large feet that do not fit their proportions, they do not like to wear shoes, and live in caves.
If you think that hobbits are like wild men, you are very wrong. The hobbits' homes, the caves are very well built, with clean kitchens and warm bedrooms, and even the caves are well ventilated and lit, and their lives are simply nobles among the dwarves.
So hobbits' biggest hobby is to snuggle up in their own homes, drinking hot tea, and they are content with the status quo.
The other mountain giants are even more distinguishable, although they belong to the dwarf race, they are not short, adult mountain giants can grow up to three meters tall, and their skin is as hard as stone, so they are called mountain giants.
With the hobbit-like stature and the habit of not wearing shoes, Guro sits next to an iron cage, crosses his legs, and moves his hairy toes from time to time.
If he could, Gu Luo would definitely not want to go away to the human kingdom, the hobbit love plot is too serious, Gu Luo made a mistake in his hometown, and had to leave his hometown. Even if it is to beg for a living, the city of chaos is the best choice, but Gu Luo can no longer live in the city of chaos, he has little strength, and it is impossible for him to go to the frozen forest to hunt demonic beasts, he has no skills, he likes to be comfortable, to be precise, lazy.
Desperate, Gu Luo decided to run to the human realm.
Gu Luo, who had not learned human etiquette, suffered a great loss, and the rejection of aliens by humans made him unable to find any job, so he tried to work as a boy in a tavern, or as an apprentice in a grocery store, or even learn a trade from an old tailor in the street, but in the end no one took him in.
The only way to make a fortune was through the slave trade.
Gu Luo wandered around the slave market all day and became a local snake. He used to be a thief, but because the hobbit was so conspicuous, he was caught and his left little finger was cut off.
However, Gu Luo still did not starve to death. The slave market in the royal capital gathers traders from all over the world every day, and most of these outsiders are unfamiliar with the land and need a local snake to introduce them to help them bargain with the slave traders, so Gu Luo's business days are good, he can get a silver coin a day, and his income depends on the generosity of his master.
Gu Luo can't learn the treacherous minds of human beings, but he also knows how to befriend the rich guys, and if he says a few more good words, his income will be richer. After accumulating a lot of savings, Guro finally fulfilled his dream and became a slave trader.
Unable to get human slaves, and capturing elves and the like is even more whimsical, Gurro begins to deal with all kinds of people, and he befriends a mercenary group that has been adventuring on the continent all year round, and they escort caravans and bring a group of goblin captives. Hoping to push the envelope, Guro bought the goblin slaves.
To his surprise, no one wanted to buy a goblin.
Goblins have underdeveloped minds and have their own unique language, so they can't be tamed at all, and even if they can, what can goblins do? Goblins can't do anything but mess around and dig holes!
What's more, there are still a small number of old, weak, sick and disabled people in this group of goblins.
Just as Guro was about to despair, he saw a man and a woman.
This man is richly dressed and personable, and he must be a great nobleman! It's a fat sheep! The strange woman next to him almost made Gu Luo laugh out loud, he had never seen an adult who was only two heads taller than him, and the black hair he had never seen before was even more funny in Gu Luo's eyes.
But whatever, as long as there is money to be made.
Gu Luo's vision is good, he can find out which are fat sheep in the crowd at a glance, such as the man and woman in front of him, he can see that they are not a couple, but this noble man is pursuing a woman, because he is close to the woman intentionally or unintentionally, staring at the woman's chest from time to time.
The woman was obviously visiting the slave market for the first time, and looked around, and the aristocratic man next to her was still babbling about it.
"This lord, and the beautiful young lady!"
Gu Luo stood up, brushed his clothes, and greeted respectfully.
"You're here to buy slaves, aren't you? Come and see my goblins, they have been tamed, they are very obedient, you can take them home and help you with anything, and they have less to eat, a few bones, or porridge made of oatmeal, you can feed them, which is equivalent to getting twenty helpers at no cost, isn't it a good deal? ”
Gu Luo opened his eyes and said nonsense, if these goblins were tamed, they would not be in an iron cage.
The hobbit smiled very sincerely, his smile was very scheming, showing eight teeth, his clothes were clean, his teeth were white, he cared about his appearance, because he knew how to do it, and in this business, the nobles preferred to deal with clean people.
Because of Pipiru's connections, Xia Yi wanted to buy the goblins, but she had no place to place them.
In the cage there is a bloated goblin in the cage, holding a small goblin in her hand, who looks like a toddler who has just been able to walk, he is sucking his mother's lotion, but because of the lack of food, the goblin mother cannot provide sweet milk at all, but because it is dirty, it produces dirt.
"Shay, have you ever seen a goblin? Look at these poor little ones, they stink, why don't we go ahead and have a look? ”
The Marquis suggested that goblins were disgusting creatures, that they were often drooling and snotty, that they were mentally retarded, that they did not know how to bathe in clothes, and that their lower bodies were surrounded by a sackcloth that they had picked up from the middle of nowhere, and that they were used to protect themselves from the cold.
This was the first time Chen had seen a goblin, and he didn't have a good impression, so he urged Xia Yi to go.
"Wait, I'm curious about them, maybe I should buy them."
Xia Yi tinkered with the leather bag for a while, and the Encyclopedia of Alien Races and some small bottles did not find anything that could be traded. The leather bag makes Shay look like a girl from the countryside, but it was given to her by Mondo, and Shay likes to carry it with her.
The Marquis picked up a stick and stabbed the female goblin in the stomach, and the mother goblin screamed in fright and fell back, and the other goblins surrounded him and angrily opened their teeth and claws at the marquis, but unfortunately they were locked in a cage, and it was to no avail.
"Hahaha!"
Amused by the funny goblin, Morning continues to poke the goblin's bare skin with a stick.
"Stop! Did Lord Marquis think it would be fun to tease a bunch of unarmed goblins? If you think this expresses your cultivation as a marquis, go for it! ”
Xia Yi knocked off Chen's stick, and she had begun to dislike this sanctimonious marquis. Shay was eager to ask him, is the nobility of the nobility manifested by insulting other disadvantaged races?
The Marquis was confused by Shay's inexplicable anger, not to mention the subhuman race of goblins, that is, elves, who became slaves, and that was also the pleasure of the nobles, and they could dispose of it as they wanted.
"Oh, Yi, you misunderstood me, by the way, didn't you want to buy the goblins?"
Chen's city mansion would not let him show his anger, and no one had ever been able to speak to him in such a tone! Not to mention a woman, the marquis is secretly ruthless, when you are happy under my crotch, I will let you know what a woman's upbringing is, and how stupid it is to point fingers at men!
The marquis was not in a hurry at all, he never forced, Chen considered himself a gentleman, and what he liked most was that women surrendered to his charm and willingly offered their bodies to him.
Gu Luo could conclude that the young nobleman wanted to pursue this young lady, and judging by her clothes, she should only be a commoner. Gu Luo didn't want his customers to quarrel, it would ruin his business.
"Pretty young lady, you have misunderstood this gentleman! He wants to make you happy, and it is worth it for a beautiful person like you to make you smile with the life of a goblin! Otherwise, how could he, as an adult, accompany you to this messy slave market? ”
The Marquis glanced at Gu Luo appreciatively, but he was not necessarily very happy, the dignified Marquis, did he need the help of a slave trader?
"Hobbit, tell me, what can your goblin slaves do?"
"Sir, you have a real eye."
Xia Yi glanced at Gu Luo, this hobbit really doesn't look like an honest dwarf, it's just a bastard, she has learned everything like sycophants, but she doesn't care, it's all for a bite to eat.
"We hobbits are the most honest, and to tell you the truth, if you buy labor, Miss, my goblins are not for you, and the barbarians and prisoners of the battlefield from the north have the strength to do the work! Not only rough work, the steppe barbarians also raise horses, are good at taking care of livestock, and their horses are notoriously durable, if you have a pasture at home, keep it for a good harvest! ”
Shay was a little curious, this hobbit was really flexible, and in order to win the trust of his customers, he first praised the other slaves to make his goods special.
Sure enough, Gu Luo took a turn and said: "But if you want to talk about those slaves, the biggest shortcoming is that they are wild, they are short-tempered, difficult to discipline, raised in the pasture, who knows when they will escape, and they are extremely fierce, they are all outlaws!" ”
"This guy is such a natural businessman!"
Xia Yixin said that maybe Gu Luo's method seems lame, but it is indeed a good sales method. Complimenting other people's goods, and then attacking them with shortcomings and beating them to death with a stick, Chailly also had to admire the thinking of this hobbit.