Digging a pit is like making wine, the longer the fermentation time, the happier the people who are struggling in the pit will be.

Charles could see that Saarinen was not interested in the cost of the project, after all, the construction team was basically bidding for the project, and the stupid father of Party A, who had no experience in the project, could only pay obediently.

So Saarinen was just polite to Charles, and there were a lot of hints of sponsorship in his words.

Charles was equally polite, and then said goodbye to Saarinen and left the Forge Seminary.

It's just that Charles didn't expect that the next time he met Saarinen, a master architect, the master's fate would be a bit miserable.

Charles arrived in the business district, and at about ten o'clock in the morning, he had about six hours to wander.

The business district is deserted, there are no customers on the street, most of the shops on the restaurant street are closed, and the few that are not closed only half of the doors are open, and many bosses have moved chairs to gather on the roadside to chat.

The hottest topic at the moment is the burning of the granary last night, and all kinds of roadside news are flying all over the sky.

In the sushi restaurant, the white grouper looked at the guests in the seats speechlessly. He was chatting with the bosses around him, but was pulled back to the store by Charles.

"Where are the ingredients for sushi now? The white grouper said to Charles angrily.

Charles said: "I don't care if I do what I have. ”

The white grouper said helplessly: "Only I have prepared the dumplings for lunch, do you want to have some?"

"Here's a copy. Charles lined up some money on the table.

The white grouper took the money, and not long after arriving in the back kitchen, he cooked a plate of dumplings and served them to Charles.

Charles was slightly surprised when he looked at the plate of boiled dumplings and a plate of vinegar in front of him, then raised his head and looked at the white grouper with a smile, and then chatted with the slightly depressed white grouper while eating.

"Have you heard of the Slime Basin?" Charles asked.

The white grouper said, "I've heard people mention it, what's wrong?"

Charles ate a dumpling and said, "I have a letter to send to the president of Slime Basin, but I can't leave. ”

"I see that the boss is quite idle now, why don't you help me deliver a letter, I will pay you well." ”

The white grouper glanced at the guy who used to work in his shop, and said, "Do you have so much money, and how do you ask me to get out of here and swim to the other side?" ”

Charles said, "I recently made some money to have the dragon send you to the Slime Basin and back, what do you think?"

The white grouper thought for a while and said, "Okay, you can pay for the journey and the meal, and then just give some expenses, and you can treat it as a tour." ”

Charles smiled and said, "That's it's decided, I'll come to you tomorrow." ”

Charles, who had finished the task of delivering the letter, happily chatted with the white grouper about the customs and customs on the south bank of the river, and left after eating the dumplings.

Leaving the sushi restaurant, Charles made his way to his shop on the island.

The door of the shop was open, but there were no customers, only a salesman girl was watching the store on the first floor.

Charles went upstairs to his office, only to hear Chassi's heavy breathing from behind the wooden door of the office.

Pushing open the wooden door and walking in, I saw that the curtains were closed in the office, it was a little dark, and there was a blanket spread on the open space, and Chasi, who was wearing a small tank top, was lying on it sweating profusely and exercising.

Charles closed the office door, found a chair and sat down, and then said to the girl in motion, "You go on, I'm in no hurry." ”

Chasi nodded silently and continued to finish a set of flat dumbbell birds in earnest.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Two dumbbells, each weighing an estimated thirty kilograms, were gently placed on the floor by Chasi.

Charles picked up a cotton towel hanging from the back of a chair and threw it to Chasy to wipe the sweat off her body.

Chasi took the towel and handed it to Charles, saying, "Master, do you want to wipe it for me?"

Charles glanced at her and said, "I only know Aunt Pomegranate's wiping method, do you want to try it." ”

Chasi giggled, and Charles complained from a young age that Aunt Pomegranate was the same as washing winter melon when they helped wipe their bodies after bathing.

She wiped the sweat from her body and said, "The master has grown up and knows that he is shy." ”

Charles pouted, then asked, "Have you ever beaten a bear girl now?"

Chasi replied: "The old lady once told me that you should be reasonable, and don't always use your fists instead of reasoning, and I don't beat people much now." ”

Charles let out an "oh" and handed her the glass of water on the desk with the hand of a mage.

Chasi drank a little water and asked, "Why is the master free to look for me today?"

Charles said: "I'm here to see you, by the way, the granary was burned down last night, do you have any news here?"

Chasi replied: "Now that the grain depot has been blocked, the reliable information before that is that the fire suddenly started from the rice pile. ”

"Based on this, it was someone who hid the arson in a rice bag and then lit it regularly. ”

Charles frowned and asked, "Can you find out where the rice came from?"

Chasi shook his head and said, "There is no way to inquire, before that, grain from all over the world entered the granary every day, and when it was put into storage, it was piled up according to type. If grain from two places arrives together, the two adjacent bales of grain are likely to come from thousands of kilometers apart. ”

Charles nodded slightly, this matter is very difficult to investigate, if someone sneaks into the cargo ship halfway and stuffs the ignition device into the rice bag, then there is no way to find out, unless the person with the protagonist's aura accidentally hears that the mastermind and the participants who have been kicked in the brain by a donkey actively expose information while chatting.

"Keep asking for news. "Be careful, and go to the South Sea Farm as soon as you notice something wrong." ”

"I fear that this fire is the beginning of a conspiracy, and that the island may be unstable in the future. ”

Chasi nodded, and she asked, "So what are we going to do next?"

Charles thought for a moment and said, "Go with the flow, see what the others do, and if there is no problem, we will follow." We don't have much food in our warehouse, and others can't say anything about us. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Otherwise, tomorrow we will sell all the maple syrup in the warehouse at half the price lower than before the earthquake, and each person will be limited to five bottles." ”

"Let's just say that it can be stored for a long time and can provide a little energy to the body when necessary. ”

Chasi said with some concern: "Will anyone gossip about this?"

"Don't be afraid. Charles squinted and said, "If someone gossips, you don't care, just write it down." ”

Chasi said, "I see, sir, this is going fishing?"

Charles shook his head and said, "I'm just going to stir the water and see if the fish jumps out or hides." ”

"No matter how we choose the fish, it doesn't matter how we choose. ”

Chasi said: "I'm going to go to the Daily Chronicle and ask them to change our ad in the newspaper tomorrow morning." ”

Charles, who was thinking about it, said again: "Forget it, if you want to play, you can play a big one, and tomorrow all the goods in the store such as maple syrup wine, medicines, and food preservatives will also be processed at half price." ”

Chasi nodded, although this will lose a lot of money, but this is the master's instructions, and the master is not afraid of losing her, a working girl, and he is not afraid.

Charles continued: "In the days that followed, you went around the places that sold groceries and food to see what gossip was about. ”

Chasi then asked, "What if someone barters?"

"I guess some businessmen who haven't had time to leave will have some goods in their hands, and ours has hype value, I guess they will fight with such ideas. ”

Charles thought for a moment and said, "Then let's make friends, as long as we have enough goods, their goods will be calculated at the normal price before the earthquake, and our goods will be calculated according to the price just mentioned." ”

Chassi had no objection to this, and she repeated all the work that Charles had arranged after he had finished speaking.

Then she did a few chest expansion exercises and said, "Master, just now you said that you want to play big, how about we play together first?"

Charles sneered and said, "Just play, I'm still afraid that you won't make it?!"

So Chasi picked up a pair of 40-kilogram dumbbells in the corner and handed them to Charles.