Chapter 161: Porcelain
When I returned to the inn, I saw two more merchants' carriages outside. It seems that there were some merchants who came in time for the fishing festival. The puppets could tell from their empty carriage that they had already sold their goods to a local trading house, and now they didn't know if they wanted to do business with a familiar workshop owner, or if they were going to buy something directly from the trading house. Anyway, the inn is a little more popular now.
Walking in, John saw several people surrounding the innkeeper, as if arguing about something, while the innkeeper held something to his chest and shook his head constantly.
A guy saw John coming back, and walked over smartly, and greeted him politely: "Sir, are you back?, how is your harvest today?" This movement of the guy attracted the attention of the shopkeeper inside, and when he saw that it was John, he hurriedly held the thing in his arms with one hand, and pushed the surrounding people away with the other hand: "Sir, sir, you are finally back!"
??? John had a question mark on his face. Seeing that the innkeeper hurriedly ran over and handed the fish plate he was holding in his arms to John: "Sir, the plate you asked us to help you clean has been washed, please take it back." "What is this going on, John took the plate with a puzzled face, a little confused.
Those who were originally surrounding the innkeeper saw John take the plate, and their eyes lit up: it seems that it is really someone else's thing, and they have not found the right direction when they looked for the innkeeper before. One of them reacted quickly, walked over a few steps first, left the others behind and walked to the door to look at John: "Hello, I am a member of the La Millasia Chamber of Commerce, and this time I have come to Sines to buy fish." He reached out to shake John's hand.
When the people in the back saw the businessman's movements, they stepped forward and stretched out their hands to introduce themselves. These actions, combined with the jumble of introductions around him, made John even more confused. The boss also seems to see John's predicament, and in his heart he has regarded John as a noble child who travels, although he doesn't seem to have a temper, it doesn't mean that he will be happy to be surrounded like this. Now that the plate is no longer in his hand, the innkeeper has calmed down, and these people are also old customers, familiar with each other, so they can naturally speak more casually: "What are you doing, surrounding others like this at the door is not a way to do business!
These rewards are also a caravan, just arrived at the Chamber of Commerce to empty their goods and then made an appointment to this inn to rest, but I didn't expect to see the plate in the innkeeper's hand as soon as I entered the door. This plate is as white as jade, and it is a little heavy in your hand, but it is extremely smooth to the touch. It was not a metal vessel, and the merchant could tell it the moment he got it, but unlike all the stone tools he knew now, it was as smooth as a mirror, and there were some patterns of unknown meaning on it, and although no one could understand what these patterns were, he always felt that it was beautiful just by looking at them. This plate, silver ingots are rare, right?
For a merchant, what does a beautiful and rare thing represent? It means that it can be sold for a good price! Originally, I thought it was something that the innkeeper had, but everyone wanted to take it for themselves, even if the innkeeper said that it was someone else's, they thought it was just a pretext. But I didn't expect that this was still true, and the real owner of this plate actually appeared!
If you want to talk about human spirits, probably businessmen can be counted in it. As a professional businessman, it is essential to have a keen intuition and flexible responses. Don't look at the fact that just John appeared, many businessmen have already made a lot of judgments. First of all, this person lives in the inn, and the traveler should be a businessman, and no matter what it is, it is necessary to make money, so this business should be discussed; second, from the point of view that he handed the plate to the innkeeper, he should not attach too much importance to this plate, or rather, he may not have seen the value of this plate at all, and the boss said that if it is cleaned, this person may really use it as an ordinary plate.
The merchants watched as John, who was still a little confused, followed the boss's guidance to a table by the window in the hall and sat down, and everyone knew that this man must not have figured out the situation yet. If you can finalize the business while this person is still confused, it is naturally the best - compared to a clear-headed opponent, it is still much more delicious than a confused and fat opponent. Thinking of this, everyone also scrambled to go over there, wanting to sit in the seat close to John.
John, who sat down, casually put the plate on the table, making a "bumper" sound, and watched the fat on the merchant's face continue to shake up and down. It's still distressing, such a good thing, if it is scratched, the appearance will drop a lot, and the price will also drop. However, it can also be seen from this action that this person wants the store to not know the value of this plate, or he doesn't care if the plate depreciates. All in all, this should be good news.
John looked at the people around him, and then at the plate on the table, "I think about it, do you want to buy this plate?" said the gentleman, ...... a merchant with a beard, "I have some questions that I would like to ask. Seeing John looking at him, he bowed his head slightly, and said with a nonsense: "Sir, can you introduce to us the characteristics of this plate, its advantages and disadvantages, and of course, its price." ”
John was somewhat sober. It can be seen that these people see business opportunities from this plate, but they don't quite understand the characteristics of this thing, so they can't make a bid, so they want to get to the bottom.
A smile hung on the corner of John's mouth, and he gently tapped it on the plate with his hand: "This is called porcelain, and you can also see that its material is not gold and silver, so naturally there will be no hot hand situation common to gold and silverware, and at the same time, its material is not stone and wood, even if it is used by nobles, it will not feel ashamed." At the same time, the pattern on it is also hand-painted, and even the pattern can be customized as long as the price is right. In addition, it is easy to clean, and can be cleaned with only clean water, and there is no oxidation of silverware...... You should think that it will not be dull like silverware, and it will be the same as when it was first made, no matter how long it takes. John looked at the plate on the table and touched his chin: "As for the price you said, of course the highest price wins." However, I will give a reserve price, at least the same weight of silver, below this price, there is no need to speak. ”