031: Accidents in the transaction

The number of caravans is about a dozen people, and there are four horses and camels carrying goods, although this is a caravan to trade, but except for a few merchants who carry the burden, the rest are basically lightly armed and bladed personnel, even if they are far away, Deng Shifeng can also see from their steady steps that these people are quite steady, and they can be identified at a glance as some practitioners; As for why there are people practicing martial arts in the caravan...... Everyone understands. Seeing this team, anyone understands that in order to win the jackpot, the picky merchant that Qin Er took last time specially contacted a stronger businessman to come to trade and sell favors. In addition to these picky merchants and the caravan guards, there is also a figure that is the middle-aged man riding a donkey and wearing a dark coat, and it seems that he is the biggest merchant in this transaction.

As it was the first time to trade, both sides had exercised the necessary care and good will, and the villagers on the hill stood up and fired arrows before the caravan could arrive, and the caravan stopped at a distance and sent two pickers to visit the door. After the two pickers confirmed that it was Qin Er, Qin Er asked everyone to come down from the ridge, and the caravan came to a clearing at the foot of the mountain with the goods.

Mutual reporting of the family, name and a series of introductions, although this process is a bit verbose, but it is very important for both parties to do business for the first time, Deng Shifeng, who pretends to be the second master, has not been very silent, everything is communicated by Qin Er, through the introduction of both parties, Deng Shifeng probably understood the identity and background of the other party.

Needless to say, the focus of everyone's attention is the identity and strength of this horse caravan, through the introduction, the other party is not a merchant or caravan in Liucheng County in everyone's imagination, but a travel caravan of a commercial house in Liuzhou Prefecture. This identity made Deng Shifeng's heart skip a beat, it is said that on the boundary of Liucheng County, those picky merchants should be the businessmen of Liucheng County, right, why did the businessmen of Liuzhou Mansion appear here? And what made Deng Shifeng even more suspicious was that the caravan leader in front of him was ...... from his physical appearance and accent No matter how you look at it, they are not local to Guangxi or people who have lived in Guangxi for a long time...... Deng Shifeng, who was interested in this middle-aged man all at once, couldn't help but keep his eyes on him.

"This is a two-headed person, seeing that the two-headed person seems to have some special hopes for Huang, I don't know if the two-headed person has seen it?"

When going out to do business, it is natural to be exquisite, and he has been pulling the relationship with Qin Er, sending samples, and the middle-aged man who is close to him noticed that a gaze is always looking at him, and the person in charge surnamed Huang is very polite after finding the owner of this gaze, and a mouthful of official words mixed with Cantonese accent pierced Deng Shifeng's eardrum.

Seeing that the other party was aware of himself, Deng Shifeng could no longer pretend to be a two-headed man who did not say anything and only posed to death, and he didn't want to speak before because although his face was smeared with ash to hide his age, his voice couldn't be faked, and the young man's crisp voice would expose how young this two-headed man was and how easy to be designed, but the whole sales process Qin Er needed to give his advice from time to time, so the two agreed that Deng Shifeng would not be silent, and Qin Er would communicate in the transaction, and he would give a little signal with his own support. But unexpectedly, due to Deng Shifeng's own inattention, he accidentally let the other party pay attention to himself...... Seeing the other party's sharp gaze stabbing at him, Deng Shifeng originally planned to continue to fool the past with a language barrier, but the other party's thick Cantonese accent was like a bolt of lightning, which brought a burst of thunder in Deng Shifeng's mind and flashed a bright light.

"Huang Zhangshi has traveled south and north to experience people, and his demeanor and speech are naturally different, my small villagers in the mountains and fields are very curious at first sight, if you offend, please ...... Haihan" Deng Shifeng's brain turned rapidly, and the next moment he did not choose to continue to act dumbly and let Qin Er come over to relieve the siege, but picked up a vernacular with a slight accent of Guangxi Guidong in later generations and went back.

Deng Shifeng's vernacular Cantonese with a little accent but quite fluent immediately made the other party freeze in place, in fact, not only the middle-aged man surnamed Huang, but even the several guards behind looked at it with surprise on their faces, and they all said that the hometown accent was the most intimate and pleasant, in the ancient era of low population circulation, these people who were far away from home could suddenly hear the hometown accent in other places, this kind of intimacy is difficult for modern people to experience...... (Note: This modern person refers to the younger generation of the new century, and the older generation, especially those who studied abroad at the end of the twentieth century, still have feelings, people who suddenly hear the accent of their hometown in a world full of blonde and blue-eyed people...... Even if it is not the same county and township, as long as it is from the same province, it feels very cordial)

The next moment, the middle-aged man's body surnamed Huang trembled slightly for a few times, then pressed his beating heart, clasped his fists and said, "Dare to ask where is Brother Xianxiang?!" ”

As soon as he heard the word Xianxiang, Deng Shifeng knew that his vernacular Cantonese played a due shocking role, the word Xianxiang is an honorific, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he exposed his youth, but the other party's older person used the honorific for his elders...... The answer is either that the other party was temporarily shocked, or that the acting skills were transcendent and profound, and what was being covered......

"The villagers in the mountains and wilderness live here, but when they were young, they were fortunate to travel with their elders, see and learn one or two thin arts, and see a smile and a smile......

Deng Shifeng gently waved his hand to let Qin Er, who was also stunned, stop talking, and he quietly covered up his origins, the other party is also a well-informed person, seeing Deng Shifeng's rounded words, he naturally understood that the other party didn't want to say anything more in his identity, so he revealed each other with a haha. Due to the appearance of Deng Shifeng, a "fake fellow", the relationship on the scene is more harmonious than before, and the picky merchant who is responsible for the introduction is so good that he can't close his mouth when he sees such a good atmosphere, you must know that they are the mediators in the middle, and they can share such a little of the transaction income between the caravan and the village, and a good relationship represents a larger market, can this not make them happy......

After the previous politeness, it was finally time to get to the point, the caravan and the picky merchants put out their goods and prepared to barter, the caravan did not bring much, because it was the first transaction, the other party did not know what the village lacked, and could only carry needles, threads, threads, cloth, ropes, and some iron and salt according to previous experience. It's just that what makes the people on the caravan's side very strange is that these mountain people on the opposite side don't seem to have put out all kinds of animal skins, mountain goods and medicinal materials as before, only a small package is placed in the field, which makes them extremely curious, it is difficult for the other party to exchange what treasures for supplies? Or did you not want to trade at all, and planned to kill people and steal goods? Thinking of this, the hands of the guards unconsciously leaned towards the hilt of the sword. But the next moment, when the package was opened, dozens of shiny knives appeared in front of these guards, and these people's eyes were immediately attracted by these small things and could not take them off.

Although the handle and blade of those knives are relatively crude, it does not prevent them from recognizing the excellent quality of the knives themselves at a glance, and these people often walk around, they understand very well that although the large arc of the blade and the wide blade body seem to be not good in terms of attack power, they have extraordinary practical ability in terms of practicality.

The appearance of these survival knives immediately attracted the attention of the other party, and after obtaining permission, Huang Zhangshi and the two guards picked up a few knives at random and carefully tasted them, the thick blade, the shiny knife surface and the tough hardness all made several knowledgeable old rivers and lakes understand their value. There was even a guard, some of whom couldn't wait to pull out their steel knives and vigorously gnaw at each other to verify their hardness, and the result of the test was that there were slight notches on the edge of the steel knives, and what about the survival knives...... Unscathed!

"I can't think of it, I can't think of it......"

The results of the test said everything, the caravan's Huang Zhangshi shook his head slightly, his eyes lit up, and his mouth couldn't help but express his surprise, he originally wanted to exchange the ironware for the other party's trading goods, but the quality of the knife taken out by the other party was better than that made by the big blacksmith master in the city, and the iron tools he brought with him were simply unscrupulous and could not be taken at all, this kind of accident did surprise and surprise him. And as an excellent businessman, he and Deng Shifeng can also see the market potential of this survival knife, and they have to understand one of the advantages better than the other party, the profit of a survival knife is about the same as a kitchen knife, but its volume and weight are much lower than that of a kitchen knife, in this era when road transportation capacity is not developed, light weight and volume means that more goods can be carried in a trafficking process! Who is more profitable with ten kitchen knives and a hundred knives...... You can imagine it with your ass!

Huang Zhangshi wanted to learn the origin of these knives with the same logo from Deng Shifeng, but Deng Shifeng smiled and said nothing, so that Huang Zhangshi understood that the other party did not want to disclose the source of the goods, although Huang Zhangshi regretted it, but also understood that this was human nature, so he no longer asked about the source of the goods but began to discuss the basis of the transaction. For this kind of barter transaction, Deng Shifeng is a layman, and Qin Er, the real leader, once again became the protagonist, exchanging spit stars with the Huang shopkeeper......

Taking advantage of this time, Deng Shifeng took a careful look at the goods brought by the other party with great interest, and he wanted to guess the market situation of the entire market through the quality and price of these goods, and find new business opportunities and new flagship products from them.

The things brought by the picky merchants and caravans are very miscellaneous, from needles and threads to cloth ropes, which is very in line with the actual situation of bringing more samples to explore the way in the first transaction process, but the quality of these things is uneven, and you can see the deep traces of the handicraft workshop at a glance from the quality of workmanship, which is the mark of the whole era; And the finer the unit price, the more expensive it is, after all, labor costs and time-consuming are the main ones that increase costs.

When Qin Er and Huang Zhangshi basically negotiated the unit price and total amount of the transaction, Deng Shifeng also happened to finish reading all kinds of goods, and Deng Shifeng, a traverser, had no concept and right to speak on the price, judging from the smile on Qin Er's face, it is estimated that these survival knives were indeed sold at a good price......

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