In the early morning, when the sky is overcast and the breeze is refreshing, the market in Elroy City is bustling with vendors, hurrying to transport goods in preparation for the rest of the day.

Huntington Williams sat in a humble horse-drawn carriage and drove slowly, snorting, unable to stand the rotten smell of seafood, meat, and fruits in the market, his eyes carefully swept over everyone who passed him, and when he saw those who acted sneakily, he raised his whip as a warning.

He was a book transporter, who specialized in buying goods from publishers at a lower price, and then reselling them to other bookstores to earn the difference in price.

Generally speaking, bookstores that are not directly affiliated with the publishing house will buy at a 6% discount, and the book carrier can buy at a 5% discount or lower, and then resell them to the bookstore, which is a salesman belonging to a third party. It is not an exaggeration to say that a keen sense of business and the ability to read the text is required, and if Huntington buys a large number of books from publishers that no bookstore is willing to buy, then it will be left in the hands of the booksellers themselves, or they will be sold at very low prices and barely recouped.

In general, a book-transporter is a high-risk, rewarding profession that does not require travelling between several cities like a trader.

With the development of the times, there are a lot fewer book carriers in Elroy City, because the risk is too great, and secondly, many regular publishing houses have set up departments to contact bookstores, and will take the initiative to contact major bookstores before publication.

Huntington Williams was also a seasoned book carrier, having been in the book industry for at least two decades, and at the peak of his life, he even bought a beautiful house in the city center. However, Lady Luck did not always favor him, and he lost almost all of his fortune in a gamble related to the books he was now shipping, when he received an inside message from Leonard Publishing that he had pre-purchased a large amount of Wild Roses by Kathy, the second son of the Elroy family.

Huntington knew that it would be Cathy who would win that call, and it was no surprise that Leonard would be championing Wild Rose.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if "Wild Rose" is of poor quality and mediocre content, the authorship and the publisher's intentions alone are destined to make this work a bestseller in the city of Elroy, and Huntington himself has seen it and thinks that it is not badly written, but the gamble that should have won made Huntington lose even the house he bought with ten years of hard work.

Huntington had a great appetite and bought a large inventory of Wild Roses, which did sell well at first, but at that time he was greedy enough to swallow elephants, and wanted to continue to sell them at a higher price for a period of time, and treated the room where Wild Rose was stored as if it were full of gold and silver.

Half a month later, when he smelled something bad, it was too late, Leonard Press declared bankruptcy overnight, and "Wild Rose" was reduced to a book that no one cared about, and he ran from place to place, and finally managed to sell it at half the purchase price.

The house he had worked so hard to buy for more than ten years was gone, and he had fallen from a decent man to a poor class, and he had to live in a dilapidated old house, all of which was to blame Harvey Adrian, the author of the books he was now shipping, and the Count of Monte Cristo.

Huntington was not dissatisfied, he was convinced that the bookseller or the merchant was essentially a gamble that required skill, and he was blinded by profit at that time and could not tolerate any work other than "Wild Rose", until he opened "The Count of Monte Cristo" again and watched the phantom of "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the square, and all the complaints in his heart disappeared.

He had many opportunities to turn back, but not once.

Now, Huntington is betting everything on Harvey, and the books pulled by this carriage are the "Frozen" picture book comics, a book of drawings that he bought with his life savings and borrowed money? Or one? Huntington doesn't know how to define these commodities, but there's certainly a lot of room for experimentation, and with the same risks.

"The purchase price is five baluns a copy!? This is crazy! No way! Definitely not! Who would want to spend eight barrons on a book, oh my! This is not a necessity of life, can it make people go without food or drink for a week!? After listening to Huntington's offer, the bookstore owner looked at him like an idiot, spitting, and waved him impatiently to get out of the way.

Huntington nodded with a smile on his face, and drove the transport carriage to find a second bookstore, and the bookstore was the last thing the book carrier could offend.

As the bookstore owner said, although Harvey's fame is very great among young people today, who would want to spend eight baluns on a book except for the aristocracy? It is ridiculously expensive, several times or even ten times the price of ordinary books. Huntington bought four barrons of money from Puran Press at the time when his companions wondered if he had a water in his head that made him so mad.

The stakes are too high! It is so high that the average book carrier can't bear it, and if you win, you can make a lot of money, and if you lose, it is likely to mean that you are bankrupt.

Huntington drove the carriage around the city of Elroy all day, and the horses were tired and did not want to go any longer after being fed some hay and carrots, so he had no choice but to pull the ropes and drive the horses back. At the end of the day, most bookstore owners were very excited when they heard that it was Harvey Adrian's new book, and then when they saw that the title of the book was Frozen, and then saw the high price, they were defeated, and asked him to leave with a cold face.

Frozen? Isn't it just a fairy tale that was circulated a few days ago? What can a story for children sell? What's more, "Frozen" has already been spread badly, and you can buy a copy at a price dozens of times lower from the bookseller, so why buy a hardcover version if you know the content?

Huntington got out of the carriage, his wrinkled old face was not very good-looking, he sat in the carriage in a daze for a long time before he sighed, slowly moved the books behind the shelves into the room, and after nearly an hour of busy work, he collapsed on the ground and rested, all the books were wrapped in oiled paper, and there was no need to worry about the books getting damp or something.

These are just the parts he dragged out to sell, and there is still a lot of stock in his room.

Huntington traveled all over the city of Elroy and asked more than half of the bookstores, but none of them were willing to buy them.

Was his decision really wrong?

"No bookstore wants to buy from me, is I old and has walked into a dead end? All the experience I have accumulated and the savings of my life have been lost because of my own impulse. ”

Huntington was confused, sat in front of the oil lamp and took a copy of the "Frozen" picture book comic and looked at it, the paper is very peculiar, the touch is smooth and greasy like oil paper, and each picture is color, it is a work of art from the hand of the artist.

With more than 200 beautiful illustrations in one book, the Frozen picture book comic book is definitely worth the price from Huntington's point of view, and it can only be said that it shouldn't be here, in a city with a large number of residents who can fill their stomachs.