Chapter 7: Kevin's Puzzle
"Alan, you are the relative of our mother and son, and it is also Harvey's obligation to help you, and Harvey is right, he is a mercenary, and it is dangerous everywhere, let him go, you are together, I am more relieved. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Isha hesitated for a moment when she saw Harvey looking at her for help, but finally stood up and offered to intercede with Alan on his behalf.
"Okay, but before that, you need to improve your strength, and if your strength is not up to the level of a high-level swordsman, don't follow and die. ”
Alan looked at Isha and confirmed that she was serious, nodded and agreed, but he didn't say anything to death, because then he was going to use the spring of life to improve the strength of several people, if their strength could reach the threshold of high-level swordsmen to enter the Kulun Mountains, otherwise even if they went, they would be sent to death.
"High-level swordsman?"
Harvey grows his mouth:
"Uncle, you might as well reject me directly. ”
He has just become an intermediate swordsman not long now, and he doesn't know how long he has to practice before he is a senior swordsman, many intermediate swordsmen can't break through to a high-level swordsman in their lifetime, but they obviously can't wait that long to go to the Kulen Mountains, so Harvey thinks it's just an excuse for Alan not to let him go.
"Harvey, you come over tomorrow, I will teach you some ways to increase your power, if your potential is good enough, maybe you can break through to the high-level swordsman in half a year, so that tomorrow spring, when the weather warms up, it will be when we go up to the Kulen Mountains. ”
Allen had just calmed down a few teenagers when a servant from outside came in to report that Kevin Borg had come to see him. Kevin also has some connections in the ancient city of Ogu, and as soon as Alan appeared at the castle in the morning, he immediately got the news and rushed over in the rain.
Alan hurriedly handed over the little girl to Isha to take care of, and went outside to personally welcome Kevin Borg in, although the two used to be an employment relationship, and later upgraded to business partners, but they have already established a deep friendship over the years, and Kevin is also one of the few people that Allen can trust unreservedly on this continent.
"Alan, I've been sweating a lot since you've been away, but I'm so proud of you when I heard that you wiped out the Bolthma bandits in a snap of a finger. ”
When Kevin saw Alan, he shook the rain off his body first, and then excitedly came up to hug him, and unabashedly expressed his respect and praise for Alan. Because of his close relationship with Steven, he was one of the few people who knew that Alan was on a mission to eradicate the Bolsma bandits.
"Kevin, it's a real pleasure to meet you. Looking at the way you look like the spring breeze, life should be very comfortable, how about it, the timber business has made you a lot of money, right?"
After hugging, Alan smiled and spoke, and asked Kevin to go inside, although it was raining in the sky, but with Alan here, the rain would not fall on them.
"Well, everything else is going well now, except for the timber business, which gives me a lot of headaches. ”
Kevin sighed and said with a wry smile. He rushed over this time, on the one hand, he wanted to meet Alan and reminisce about the past, and on the other hand, it was for the sake of the timber of the Elven Forest, and now the agent of the Hepburn family still hasn't let go, the price is bitten to death, and he doesn't want to give a penny more, so he is ready to discuss with Steven to make a move, and it is better to lose less than lose all your money. However, for Steven, this loss may be a small matter, but for him it is a disaster, he has just regained some prestige in his family will be gone, and in order to make more money, he also borrowed some gold coins from the family when he bought wood, which is also a burden, and can only be repaid slowly by his share of the magic weapons store.
"What's going on with wood?"
Alan took Kevin to the living room and sat down, looked at the frowning Kevin, and then asked, he was full of curiosity about this matter, after all, in his heart Kevin is a good hand in business, and Kevin's performance in business has been invincible since the two met, but looking at Kevin's current bitter gourd face, it is estimated that he has suffered a lot of losses.
"Brother-in-law, you were very busy last time you came back, so I didn't talk to you in detail. ”
Steven also accompanied Alan to come out to pick up Kevin, and when he saw Alan asking about business, he took the initiative to take over the topic and said:
"The batch of wood from the Elven Forest that we bought was originally profitable by selling it to the agents of the Hepburn family, but we were not satisfied, and planned to make a lot of money by making potions ourselves, but we didn't think that the difficulty of refining the potions was far beyond our imagination, and we spent a lot of money to hire a pharmacist to come over, but we still couldn't solve the problem, so we fell into a dilemma. Now Kevin is negotiating with the agent of the Hepburn family to resell the wood, but the agent of the Hepburn family is also an old fox, and the price given is only half of the previous one, and Kevin is worried about this. ”
Steven took the initiative to put the responsibility on the two people, but in fact he was only responsible for the money, and all the operations were made by Kevin himself, and the decision-making mistakes had nothing to do with him.
"Yes! The agent of the Hepburn family is well aware of our predicament, and although he has some connections, and Steven has talked to him, he still insists on not budging. Alas, I didn't expect that I spent so much energy, and in the end, the Hepburns made all the cheap. ”
Kevin first glanced at Steven gratefully, thanking him for taking half of his responsibilities, otherwise Allen would have lost tens of thousands of gold coins in this year of money earned through magic weapons, and it would be really difficult for him to explain to Allen.
"The Hepburns were also in the lumber business?"
Alan didn't feel Kevin and Steven's mind at all.
"They are mainly engaged in potion manufacturing, and many of the potions used in the area ruled by the Holy See are provided by them, and because the plants of the Elven Forest are the best materials for extracting potions, they have stepped in. ”
Kevin explained.
"What's wrong with the potion you extracted?"
Hearing the word Holy See, Alan not only frowned.
"The same medicine, the same dose, the effect of the medicine we make is only less than one-tenth of that of the Hepburn family, no one wants to buy it at all, and if it is sold at a reduced price, it is almost a loss for one. ”
"Is it just a matter of not being effective enough?"
Alan asked.
"Yes, everything else has been resolved. ”
"If that's the case, you don't have to worry, let alone ask the Hepburn family's agent, maybe I have a way to solve the problem of insufficient efficacy. ”
After Alan heard that Kevin's plan to make a fortune failed because of the efficacy of the drug, he pondered for a while, and then asked Kevin a few questions, until he confirmed that Kevin did not produce the drug that was completely wrong, and then vaguely guessed where the cause of the problem was, if this was the case, he might be able to help Kevin get through this hurdle.