071 The joy of trading
After a brief conversation with Gareth, the Knight of the Round Table, Larry is kicked out of the room.
To be exact, it should be Larry who says he's going to prepare what he needs for the first step of the plan, and then Gareth kicks him out of the room, while Lily is left in the room by her, in the words of the knights....
"I still don't know what your identity is, so don't act with Artoria for the time being, go by yourself if you want to prepare anything, I still have to have a good chat with Artoria, you don't have an opinion, right?"
Opinion? No, why would Larry have a problem with the conversation between the sisters and sisters?
Leaving the apartment where the Knights of the Round Table were temporarily staying, Larry walked down the corridors of the royal city to the gate, where he happened to see Gawain, Lancelot, Tristan, and more than fifty knights in the back row.
This can also be regarded as a quite powerful force, and the expedition of three Knights of the Round Table plus more than fifty knights is also a team that should not be underestimated in terms of the overall strength of Britain.
Although the bleak scene in the city was seen in the early morning, the streets of the city became lively with the departure of the knights, and the people who had been sitting on the ground like dead bodies stood up together, and the crowd gradually gathered on both sides of the street, forming a "guard of honor" to see off the knights.
The maidens in the attic on the side of the street threw down their white petals to see off the knights, and at least at this time, no one showed a look of disgust for the knights, and they still trusted these mighty knights to bring back the glory of victory to Britain and bring them back to their original days.
Larry also watched the crowd for a while, the combination of white horse and knight gave courage with absolute visual experience, making the lifeless city come alive for a while, and as the gate of Camelot opened, the horses gradually accelerated, and then with the drifting smoke, the knights embarked on a journey to the south.
And with the knights gone, the city once again regained its former lifeless feel, and the hungry populace sat on both sides of the streets, groaning lowly.
Like a walk, Larry wandered around the city for a while, but never found what he was looking for, and finally ran into the guards patrolling the streets and inquired about it, and Larry found it.
【Blacksmith Shop】
The economy of Britain during the war can be regarded as depressed, and the exception to this should be a blacksmith shop, after all, the weapons used in battle, the horse's shoes, lassoes, etc. needed to be made by the craftsmen of the blacksmith shop, so compared with the usual agricultural tools, the blacksmith shop in wartime was more lively.
You don't even need to enter the blacksmith's shop, just a few dozen meters away, you can hear the sound of striking iron and shouting from inside.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Don't slow down over there, hurry up and blow the wind. ”
"Here, the fire is too big, take it out and hit it before continuing to heat it."
"Idiot! Is my tool the way you use it? ”
Larry walked to the door of the blacksmith's shop, and the scorching heat came from within, causing a lot of sweat to break out on his body.
The interior of the blacksmith is a simple structure, with a large furnace in the center, surrounded by three anvils, and presumably apprentice-like characters are crafting weapons under the reprimand of the old blacksmith.
"What's the matter? I'm busy fighting weapons here, so get out of here if it's okay! The old blacksmith looked at Larry impatiently, without even looking at him, supervising his apprentices and forging the iron sword in his hand.
Squatting beside the furnace are two apprentices, holding hollow wooden pipes and blowing air into the furnace to raise the temperature.
Larry smiled, looked at the objects hanging on the walls around him, and asked casually, "Boss, do you sell iron here?" ”
"What? Selling iron? Are you kid in the wrong place? No! Get lost. The merciless old blacksmith scolded Larry in the same tone as he reprimanded his apprentice, and I wonder if his foul temper was caused by himself.
"Don't say that, I'm an outsider, I don't know where I can buy a lot of iron here, if I can, I hope to buy some iron, of course it's a deal, and I'll pay the corresponding money."
Looking sideways and seeing that no one was paying attention to his actions, Larry reached for a knife the size of a hand from the wall and placed it in his hand.
"Outsiders just go back to your den, or are you going to let me beat you out with this hammer, old man?" Probably a little impatient, the old blacksmith directly picked up the hammer in his hand and swung it at Larry's side, to show that he was not joking.
"Hmm..... Old man, that's how you usually do business? "Even if you have a bad temper, you won't scold the customers who come to the door and drive people away, right? It always felt as if the old blacksmith had been stimulated by something.
"Where are you talking so much nonsense, the weapons you made for the king are not half of them, I don't have time to sell you any iron, I don't have enough on my side, if you want to change it, just exchange it for food, don't you see so many mouths on my side?"
The old blacksmith shook his head, lowered his head and continued to hammer his weapon, ignoring Larry.
At that moment, a gentle wind blew the old blacksmith's sparse hair, which was almost glued together, causing the grumpy old man to turn his gaze to Larry again.
I saw a small thing in Larry's hand, and the wind was blowing from the small thing that looked like a cylinder, and he turned the side joystick with one hand, and the wind spit out from his mouth underneath.
"Well, I don't have any food, but see if this tool can be used as an exchange." Larry smiled, showing the little thing in his hand to the old blacksmith.
It was the hand-cranked hair dryer he had just made with that knife, and Larry had thought of it when he saw the two apprentices blushing and blowing wind in the furnace.
The principle of this thing is also very simple, make two or three fan blades inside the hair dryer, and then rotate the remote sensing to push the fan blades to blow the air flow to generate wind, and even do not use the knowledge of modern science, just the simplest primitive hair dryer.
"I don't need anything like this small." Having said that, the old blacksmith stopped what he was doing and looked curiously at what Larry was doing.
"I can make an enlarged version of it, enough for your furnace." Larry still wears the businessman's trademark smile.
"Hmm.... Yes, but is this thing durable? How much iron are you going to trade this thing for me? ”
The attitude towards people seems to be polarized, and the old blacksmith is no longer full of swearing, but with serious eyes, he asks about the specific price that Larry wants to offer.
"Well, I won't pit you, I need iron to make this thing, why don't you take me to see how much iron you have first?"
"The iron I have here is all transported from the royal city, I can't take you to see it, so let's take this thing as an example." The old blacksmith lifted the iron sword in his hand that had not yet been made, and asked, "You need a few iron materials for this sword." ”
Larry stared at the iron sword, calculated for a moment, and then said, "About ten." ”
The same old blacksmith lowered his head for a moment, then looked at Ryry, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled, and at the same time held out their hands.
"Deal."
"Then I'll take a few pieces of iron here first, and I'll send them to you in the afternoon when I'm ready." With that, Larry took some iron artifacts down the wall.
"No problem, are you going to smelt these things again? Hmph, I can't see that you white and tender stinky boy still have some skills? The old blacksmith asked with some curiosity.
Larry just smiled back and didn't say anything.
There was no such thing as a contract in this era, so a verbal agreement was enough, and then Larry walked out of the blacksmith shop, stretched, looked at the blue sky, and asked silently in his heart.
[Da Vinci sauce, have you seen it, this is all what you taught me. 】
It was a pleasant deal to trade this hair dryer, which did not contain any technical content at all, for iron that far exceeded its value.
Larry finally understood why Leonardo da Vinci was so keen on trading that he even became a shopkeeper in Chaldea.
It's really fun to be a profiteer.