Chapter Forty-Eight
Uli Sears Negro, who bought Lun's Dragonblood.
This person is the owner of the winery, and he is also a scholar, and it is said that he is a professional in alchemy 5, quite powerful, usually immersed in his own laboratory, and even the business is handed over to others to help take care of it.
For this reason, he also runs a shop that is very much in line with his status as a scholar.
A bookstore.
The main reason is because, according to human law, the publication of books needs to be declared to the local town hall by the bookstore, and then it can only be published after review.
Of course, it doesn't just sell books, like most bookstores, it also accepts important articles or books, and this service is more popular than books, always full of customers, and the queue can be ten meters. After all, there are still a small number of people who can learn to read and write, so many literate people will choose a well-paying job as a clerk.
Kesto was one such clerk, who worked as a clerk in the bookstore in Uli, helping the illiterate aristocracy or the military, who were wealthy but not well-educated, to write letters, articles, reports, and the like.
It's late at night, but he's still doing his last job of the day, and as I've said before, it's a very popular service, and the queue is always ten meters away.
However, the rest of his colleagues had already packed up and left, and only he and the store manager were still working, for a simple reason...... The store manager is because he still needs to settle the accounts for today, and he is because he has accepted some "volunteer work" to find something to do for himself, as he is now.
"Okay, the letter is written, you take it to the post office and deliver it, and he can receive it." Kesto smiled and handed a letter to an old lady in front of him.
The old lady's hands were as cracked as arid land, and with a wrinkled face and a grateful look, she took the letter and carefully put it away, and then took out a dozen copper plates in her shabby money bag: "Then thank you, my son has not been back for a long time, and I am illiterate...... I can only write to him, I don't know how he is doing in the capital......"
"Now the post office is almost closed, old lady, I'm afraid you can only take it tomorrow and hand it in, and it won't open until seven o'clock tomorrow morning, remember!" Caesto gave a few words, then grabbed the rusty copper coins, put them in his pocket, and watched the old lady leave the place.
Then, he began to clean up the table himself, and he could clearly see that there were piles of paper and books on the table, and he could also see half-sewn clothes and needles and threads, and his income could not support him to find a tailor for everything, unless he was making new clothes, otherwise the clothes had a small crack and had to be sewn and mended by himself.
After packing up the work paper and pens, picking up the needle and thread and continuing to sew his clothes, Caesto sighed a little, because tomorrow, the store manager will definitely complain about why he writes letters to those poor people, Caesto is the most beautiful clerk in handwriting, many nobles want to find him to write, and even some nobles who can write will come to him, because his handwriting is very chic temperament, and he is very face-saving when he writes invitations. Because of this, the store manager hated that he wasted his labor on these poor people, and he didn't make much money.
Although a dozen copper coins are not a small amount of money for these poor people, but for this bookstore, it is obviously a very small income, and it makes no difference whether Caesto collects it or not, and the reason why he insists on collecting money is only because he knows a truth, he will write letters for these people because of his soft heart, but these poor people may not be soft-hearted......
If you don't collect money, some poor people with no conscience come to ask him to write letters for free, these will definitely fill up the bookstore, then he will definitely be scolded by the store manager, he is kind, but not so kind that he is desperate for these people.
Thinking about some miscellaneous things, he continued to sew and mend clothes, the shop downstairs that sells fabrics and wool has risen in price again, and it costs fifteen copper plates to buy a bundle of cotton thread, I heard that it is because of the expedition to monsters set off by the big men above, before the price of food increased, and now it is the turn of cotton, cotton gauze and thread and other cotton fabrics have risen by more than one-third, it is really a fairy fight mortals suffer, or it will not be long before even the price of iron will rise.
Thinking about this, suddenly, he heard a knock at the door.
Kesto looked up and saw a young girl standing in front of him, covering half of her face with her hair, quite cute, short, estimated to be only twelve or thirteen years old.
Behind the girl, there was a man carrying a suitcase, wearing a low-key black coat with a good fabric and a temperament that was not found in the lower classes, either as a nobleman or as a wealthy businessman.
Kesto hadn't met him, maybe he wasn't a local, because he basically knew five or six percent of the local nobles, after all, he was a well-known clerk.
In the face of this kind of unprovoked big man, although it is past the end of work, Kesto still has a business smile: "Welcome, can I help you?" ”
"I'm looking for Uli Sears Negro, is he there?" The man stepped forward and said in a magnetic voice.
He has a calm temperament, although he is not particularly handsome, but he is quite handsome, and he can also be seen to be tall under the black coat.
To be honest, Kestow felt that he had wandered into high society, worked for many nobles, and had seen many nobles and their guards, and none of them could compare to the man in front of him.
As Kesto looked at the other, the attendant knocked on the door again, pulling him out of observation.
He quickly stood up and said, "I'm sorry, sir, the boss doesn't come here very often, only occasionally when there are books that need to be published, if you need to find the boss, I recommend that you make an appointment with him directly by messenger." ”
There is no doubt that this man is Lu En.
Lu En nodded slightly, and then said: "I know he doesn't come here often, but I also know that he is here now, so I came to look for him, please go in and inform your store manager, he should know what to do." ”
"Okay, I'll go!" Hearing this, Kesto turned around and walked towards the store manager's office.
The reason why he appeared here was because Lu En took the initiative to contact the other party before, and this alchemist also issued an urgent invitation to him, and seemed to want to see him very much.
Lu En thought it might be because of the dragon's blood, but he didn't mind it, so he came.