Chapter 107: Pinch Trading
Strictly speaking, Beiquanshan Town is not so much a town as it is a military fort, and there are hardly any entertainment facilities to be found in the entire Beiquanshan Town, such as green houses, teahouses, and theaters...... There are no facilities that should have been in these ancient cities.
The only thing that can be considered an entertainment building is the Wang Family Wine Shop, which is the only tavern in Beiquanshan Town.
In the Wang family's wine shop, a drunken middle-aged man was lying on the table and snoring.
The middle-aged man was wearing a brown and gray jacket with a coarse hole knitted soft fabric shirt with wide, long cuffs and a pair of shorts of unknown color.
As Chen Bu's doppelganger, Yu Jue took the lead in walking in front of the drunken middle-aged man after receiving Chen Bushi's instructions.
"Knock knock."
Hajue tapped his knuckles twice on the table, trying to wake him up in this way.
"Purr...... Purr ......"
The drunken man didn't react, and still slept there.
Yu Jue glanced back at Chen Bu with an embarrassed expression......
"I'll do it."
Chen Bu shook his head, he walked directly to the drunken man, "Hey, I have some captives here, do you know where to find the captives?" ”
The man, who was still drunk just now, sat up at once, stared at Chen Bu, his eyes lit up: "Haha, you got to the point, this kind of thing, it's the most appropriate thing to ask me!" I'm a businessman! ”
Yu Jue looked around him and didn't find anything related to the goods, so he asked strangely, "A merchant doing business?" But why don't you have any goods? Can't bring your goods into the liquor store? ”
As a doppelganger, Yu Jue is not like Chen See's body, he is omniscient about everything in the game, and when Chen See's body is not controlling him, Yu Jue behaves more like a normal player.
The man's face turned red from drinking, he didn't answer Yu Jue's question directly, but rubbed his nose, and glanced at Chen Bu and Yu Jue again: "The two of you are together, right?" ”
"Yes." Yu Jue replied.
Chen Bufu nodded.
The man scratched his ears, and his expression seemed to be a little tangled: "Of course I'm a merchant, but my goods are a little special, they are all alive, and they have to be fed twice a day, and they will slip away if they are not careful, so they can't be brought into this store, and ...... I'm still out of stock. ”
Yu Jue: "Livestock merchant? ”
Chen Bu chuckled: "I see, Your Excellency is a tooth dealer." ”
"Hehe, it's pretty much the same, my last name is Mengmingla, and some people call me Mengzi, but I prefer to call myself the person who makes every workshop work. You must know that now the Ming Dynasty has opened new workshops in various places, but there is no labor in the workshop, otherwise no matter how good the workshop is, it can only be parked......"
Tooth traders: A special kind of merchant who walked the continent in the sixteenth century, their goods were not only livestock, but also people, from long-term laborers and servants contracted by large families, to slaves working as coolies in workshops and ships, they never cared about the 'source of goods', only the quality of 'goods'.
The red-faced man laughed, stretched out his hand to the side of the wine jug, shook it for a while, and ran out of wine.
A man named Mengla put down the wine jug, smiled and said to Chen Bu and Yu Jue: "That's what I do, that's why I said, you have found the right person." ”
"I'm going to take in the homeless, and I'm going to buy the prisoners who have been sentenced, and some prisoners of war who need to be dealt with privately, of course...... I'll buy some from adventurers like you too. ”
Yu Jue: "Oh? So, you also buy prisoners? ”
"Of course, you adventurers in the wilderness will always meet some people or animals, and then fight, and if you win, then ...... Why not earn a little more from the enemy? ”
"Capture your enemies alive and ...... them with blunt weapons Or they, stunned, tied with a captive rope, and brought to me, and I'll pay for every 'cargo'!" ”
"I can't be a wolf or a gangster, or something else, even if it's a giant, as long as you can catch it, I'll take it all, rest assured, I won't ask about their past, and I won't reveal where the source of goods comes from, whether it's people or livestock, it doesn't matter to me, I only look good and bad, hehe......"
A man named Mongla yawned: "Okay, two, I've said so much, I don't know if you have 'new goods'?" I've been in this town for a long time, and it hasn't opened yet. ”
Chen didn't see Yu Jue gave Yu Jue a look, and Yu Jue stepped forward: "I should have the ...... 'goods' you need here." ”
"Oh?"
Meng La's eyes lit up, as if he saw a dancing gold coin, and immediately shifted his attention from Chen Wu's body to Yu Jue's body: "Haha, I knew that we would definitely be able to make friends, and you would make a lot of money!" Let me take a look at your 'cargo'. ”
Prisoners were not allowed in the liquor store, so Chen Bu and Yu Jue's prisoners were stored in the stables in the backyard of the store.
Soon, Meng La and Chen Bubu came to the backyard stable of the Wang family's wine store.
"Yes, yes, an elite-level wolf, with a lot of strength, can grind, and is a good hand at work. Some curious nobles will also use them to pull carts, which can be sold for a good price. ”
Mongla smiled lewdly: "Come, friend, reach over your hand and put it under the hem of my right hand, I won't let you suffer......"
If someone only hears Monla's words, it is estimated that a bad chill will rise from the back of the spine and reach the back of the head.
Please don't think about it.
Of course, Mongla didn't want to do anything evil that should not be described, he did it for the sake of trading...... Well, it's not that kind of transaction, but a way of trading under the placket, which is also called pinching the price in the sleeve.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, when a tooth like Mongla is doing some transactions that are not suitable for being carried out in public, he does not use words to negotiate the price when trading with the other party, so as not to be heard by others, and mainly 'pinching the price' in his sleeve.
Chips are used as chips in the shape of squares, elongations, or sticks, and chips are passed to each other in the sleeves to indicate the range price.
Of course, in addition to using chips, more often than not, gestures are used, within five are represented by fingers, and numbers above six are represented by thumbs to represent five, and then with specific combinations of other fingers: six, seven, eight, nine.
Therefore, the blouse with wide cuffs on Monla's body played an important role, so that he did not have to shout when trading with others, but only leaned on the inside of the cuffs, in the placket of the shirt to see and touch.
Soon, Yu Jue's deal with Mongla was successfully completed.
In the whole transaction process, Meng La relied on his sleeve pinching experience, while Yu Jue relied on the system's pinching assistance function to complete the transaction in such a short time.
It is worth mentioning that the pinch assistance function of this system is free only for the first ten times, and if you want to use it again in the future, you need to pay five silver coins each time.
What the? You can't afford to pay for the feature?
Sorry, you'll have to trade with NPCs based on experience.