The Merchant and the Great Detective
There were almost no tall trees to obstruct the view, and Pelelot knew that he had finally made it through the forest, but it was a little incomprehensible that there was a wide passage from Karmamat to Lake Forgeti in the middle of the forest, and from the opposite side of Lake Forget, there were three man-made paths, which were not wide enough for him to drive the guide transporter.
Why do you want to pave these three roads instead of one wider one, and after passing through the forest, the three roads lead to three different places?
Pellelot didn't go through all three of these strange trails, he didn't have the time to spare. He chose the leftmost of the three trails.
After passing through the forest, he could see the forest behind him.
The edge of the forest is surrounded by an arc as if something is wrapped, and it is estimated that no matter which of the three roads is taken, it is actually the same......
The view in front of you is endless, so you can see the distant scenery clearly. At the farthest point of view, you can see a village, and judging by the size of the houses, there should be a lot of people living there.
His instincts as a businessman made Pelelot feel a business opportunity.
These roads built in the forest may have been laid by some merchants, but it is really incomprehensible to pave such roads in such a remote and remote land, and merchants do not do anything loss-making. Building this road for tens of kilometers is not an easy task and it costs money.
As for the reason, Pelelot was going to ask after he went to that village.
Maybe there will be any big business to come across, and Pelelot is looking forward to it.
If the village has not yet interacted with the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce, it means that all the goods can be negotiated and priced by themselves and the villagers, which is a big piece of fat.
In recent years, the prices of those suppliers have been high and high, and it is because of the competition between businessmen, there will be a leap every six months or a year. Even the purchase price may be several times higher than the previous year. The profits are getting smaller and smaller.
However, the biggest advantage of the Traveling Merchants is that they don't have a set pick-up and delivery time, so they can explore more places and dig up some of the big fat sheep that have not yet been discovered by other merchants.
Just like the last city where Pelelot went, when drinking at the hotel opened by the Chamber of Commerce, Pelelot heard from some old merchants that the merchant who first went to the vineyard to buy the wine was called Roport, he was not famous in the merchant world at that time, and few people had heard of his name, but it was this little-known traveling merchant who seized the opportunity to change his life, and everyone else went to the vineyard to order grapes, but he found something that other traveling merchants who went to the vineyard did not find out, The old men liked to drink wine, but it was all new, and it was not worth a few dollars, and other merchants knew about it, and they also asked for some to taste it. However, the taste is very light, and it is not particularly mellow, and anyone who knows how to drink alcohol can taste it, and this taste is not as good as those inferior wines, and even if they buy it at a very low price, no one will want to drink such a wine that is inferior to inferior wine, so they are not very interested in these wines.
But Robert enjoyed drinking those wines and chatting with those old men, and in the process of chatting, Robert knew what kind of wine these old people drank, because of their old age and physical condition, their children had long forbade them to drink.
So what these old men drink every day is actually a glass of boiled water, and in order to understand the addiction to alcohol, they add a few drops of wine to the boiled water.
At that time, Robert was shocked, what kind of wine, with so many drops added to boiled water, tastes similar to inferior wine? And this color ......
Later, Robert learned that the wine was actually left by their father's generation, and their children and grandchildren felt that it was because they often drank the expired wine that they had caused a problem, and they had to throw the wine away, but these old men were reluctant to put it in the cellar as a souvenir...... The cellar was locked up by the children of the old men to prevent them from stealing the expired wine in the middle of the night to drink, but fortunately one of the old men still had half a gourd in his hand, so they drank water every day. Because there are fewer and fewer expired wines in the gourd, now each person can only rotate one drop per day.
If it weren't for the kindness of Robert, they would have been reluctant to take it out for Robert to drink.
Maybe it's because they haven't drunk the original wine for too long, or maybe it's because they're old and their memory is failing, or maybe it's because they drink light and tasteless plain water with a drop of wine every day, which makes them think that the cocktail brought out by Robert is a delicacy in the world.
Robert stayed until the evening, then returned to the city overnight, and set out before dawn to return to the vineyards, for traveling merchants, time was their precious money, and once the news got out and other merchants intervened, it would not go so smoothly.
That morning, Robert made a deal with the old men of the vineyard and their children.
It only took hundreds of thousands of Jewel Coins worth of supplies to exchange all the expired wines in the vineyard.
As a businessman, Roporter saw very accurately the needs of the children of those old men, as well as the needs of those old men, and both sides of this transaction cooperated very happily. The children also wished they had all the wine thrown away so that the cellar could be freed up for food.
The children of the old men thought that the wine that had been left out for a long time was expired wine that would make people sick and unhealthy, so they never drank it.
Maybe after drinking it once, they'll change their minds.
In fact, there is no condition in the body of the old man, but now the tens of millions of bottles of imperial wine on the star are called three glasses of pouring, the old man is also old, and all aspects of the body are naturally not as good as before, once it was possible that three or four cups were not poured has become the past when he was young, just like when he was young, he sprinted a hundred meters and sprinkled water, and now he shouts them to rush out, and the bones are scattered for you.
Drink half a cup, and you can't bear it......
At this time, I have to sigh:
Time is a pig-killing knife, purple grapes, black fungus, and soft bananas.
The years are a whetstone, leveling the peaks, castrating cucumbers, and crippling chrysanthemums.
The experience was to open a mine, dig hills, damage drill bits, and black ditches.
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Roportt also relied on those imperial wines, and became the largest merchant in the local city famous for its fine wines, with countless wineries and shops to start a business. Owning a shop of your own is the ultimate goal of most traveling merchants. This requires accumulating a large fortune, and the bigger the city, the more expensive the store, and a considerable amount of money to buy the goods, and then just wait in the shops for customers to come and exchange the goods for cash.
Because it is stated in the cooperation agreement, the supplier cannot give the merchant he cooperates with. Therefore, the merchants are not aware of each other and who the supplier is working with.
Pellelot also wants to have the same opportunity as Roport, only then can he buy the freedom of his wife and children.
Now he had something to look forward to in front of him.
Of course, he also knew that Roport's success was difficult to replicate.
Expectations may be disappointed.
But he has an advantage over other businessmen, and that is...... He's an Awakened, though not a powerful Awakener.
His Awakening attribute is......
Pelelot suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked ahead.
Someone in front of him was waving in this direction.
"Who is he?"
The man didn't look like a villager from the village in front of him, and Pelelote was also a well-informed person who had visited many villages and towns, which was a bit out of place with the villagers' dress, and the person waving his hand was wearing a black coat and a pipe in his mouth. Although it is a bit troublesome to drive to that end, if you ignore it like this, I am afraid that it will cause trouble in the future. Looking at him like this, he should also be preparing to go to the village in front.
As an awakened person, Pellelot is not afraid of such a thing as being robbed.
The premise is that the other party is an ordinary person.
But there is an incomprehensible aura on his body.
If he is an Awakened One, he must be an Awakened One who is even stronger than himself......
Pelelot had no choice but to turn the guide transporter in the direction of the waving pipe man.
After the guide transporter turned, the person who was waving his hand may have stopped waving when he noticed Pelelot walking in his direction, but he did not mean to walk towards Pellelot, it seems that he was waiting for Pellelot's car to drive in front of him. His attitude looked a little arrogant, and Pellelot did not get angry about this little thing, but began to be more and more surprised.
After slowly approaching and clearly seeing the figure of the pipe man, Pelelot was shocked, and when the two were about to talk too far away, he couldn't help but say in a voice, "Your Excellency...... Simon Riley? ”
At first, Pellelot thought: How could Simon Riley be here? It must be the wrong person.
But when he got closer, he realized that it was indeed Simon Riley, who had been in the magazine. He's quite famous, in his special capacity.
Feeling that the other party didn't hear the sentence clearly, Pellelot repeated the words just now, "Is Your Excellency Simon Riley?" ”
"I don't have to shout it so loudly, I can hear it." Simon Riley sighed and said, "It's not good for people to be famous, and it's easy to be recognized by others wherever they go." Especially in my profession, it's really not very easy for people to know who I am. ”
Simon Riley walked over after Pelelot had completely stopped the guide transporter, took off his pipe, took off his politeness, nodded politely, and then said, "Since you recognize it, there is no way, obviously a disguise." As he spoke, he tore the beard in half, indicating that it was a fake beard.
If he were to take off his beard, he would look at most twenty-five or six years old, and with a fake beard, which was somewhat out of step with his handsome appearance, it made him feel a little older, or a little more mature.
Is the so-called camouflage just a fake beard? If that's the case, his disguise is really ...... Very much a failure.
"That's right, I'm a free traveler, Simon Lally." It was as if he didn't have to be named, and everyone should know him.
"I'm Pelelot, a traveling merchant, no, no...... I was almost fooled by you, what freedom traveler, and Simon Raly? You're obviously Simon Riley, okay! It's the most famous ...... in the world."
Pellelot was stopped by Simon Riley with a forbidden boo.
"Brother, you must have recognized the wrong person, you must know that there are many people who look like each other in this world, maybe you mistook me for the great detective Simon Riley, well, you recognized the wrong person, I am not a detective." Simon Riley is serious and ready to fool around.
"Friend, I want to ask you something." Simon Riley said.
"If it was the detective's question, I might have answered, but you're a freedom traveler, and there's a village in front of you, so you can go there and ask. You know, for a traveling businessman, time is money. "Pellelot, this is trying to force the other party to admit his true identity.
However, the great detective is not fooled, "Are you really indifferent......" took out a gold coin from his pocket, "The gold coin found at the Norlando site three hundred years ago, with a market value of 10 million star coins, as long as you answer my question......" Simon Riley stopped speaking, held the gold coin in his hand, and looked at Pelelot.
If it was really the gold coin of the Norlando ruins, not to mention answering a few questions, that is, being a cow and a horse by his side for a week, Pelelot was very willing, but he was also an experienced traveling merchant, and knew that what he had just shown was not a gold coin at all, but a chocolate worth only 500 Jewels to imitate the gold Nolando coin. And Pelelot also knew that the cost price of this thing was actually only more than 200 Star Coins, and he had resold it. Purchase for 240 Jewel Coins and sell them for 350 Jewel Coins to shops in nearby cities.
"If you pinch it like that, the chocolate will melt away." Pellelot said, "But it's also a 500 Jewel at the market price, so let's just cash it out." "Just kidding, 500 Star Coins will be gone in your stomach, so it's better to be more realistic to exchange them for Star Glory Coins.
"You're really a very shrewd merchant, imitating Nolando chocolate, the merchant's purchase price is actually just over 200 Star Coins." Simon Riley said with a smile.
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