Chapter 4: Rich and capricious
"Little thing, change quickly!"
The little fox whimpered lowly, and was lifted up in the air without moving. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The stall owner glanced at one of his men on the side, who nodded, took something out of his suitcase and fiddled with it, and the collar around the fox's neck emitted a slight electric current, which made it cry out.
"Change!"
The little guy was even more tearful, so he had to obediently use his magic power to turn into a human form in the eyes of everyone, and the snow-white little fox turned into a thin and white girl who was more than one meter and five tall in the blink of an eye, with a piece of cloth hanging on her body, covering her chest with her arms, and the two fluffy ears on her head drooped in fear, and a fluffy tail dragged behind her.
So cute! Rhodes breathed a little, the little fox girl's big eyes were bright, the corners of her immature and slender eyes had a hint of natural charm, although her body was thin, her chest had been slightly raised, and her two thin arms could not block her body, exposing the pink shoulders, neck, and belly skin, and under the cover of her arms, she vaguely squeezed out a delicate snow-white groove.
The young man's heart was pounding, and although he *****, he suddenly understood why the fox man was the most valuable.
"Hmph. Roy snorted a little dissatisfied, not knowing whether he was dissatisfied with the stall owner in the field who forced the fox man to deform with electric shocks, or if he was annoyed by the admirers around him who kept accosting him.
"No one has touched it since it was caught, and the goods are as they are!" After a few seconds of display, the merchant interrupted everyone's discussion: "Which adult or prince has taken a fancy to it?"
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"I'm going to buy it. Rod said categorically.
"Why did you buy it?" Roy glanced at him.
"How pathetic she is!"
"The wolf next to you, the tiger, or something, why don't you say that they are pitiful, and they are not the most beautiful foxes?"
Rod was debunked by his sister, and couldn't help blushing: "Is it wrong to like good-looking, if you are not good-looking, who will like you, what else will you do except study and study!"
"I'll still use to beat people!" Luo Yi raised his eyebrows: "If you can afford it, you can buy it, and suddenly it comes to me to do something, and I didn't stop it." ā
"Twenty Mild!"
"Twenty-five!" In the circle, someone has already started bidding...... The owner of the goods was shrewd, and he set up his stall on the main road near the aristocratic quarter, right between the academy and the aristocratic ghetto, and he picked the right time to get out of school. As long as one of the two nobles starts to bid the price, it can often be sold for a higher price than if it is sent directly to the gold caves.
Rhodes still saved some pocket money in the past, and he estimated it in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Thirty!"
"Forty!"
Kyle the Great unified the monetary system within the empire and minted new coins, one mild is a new gold coin, which is the highest value of the continent for the time being, enough to cover the expenses of a well-to-do family of three in the civilian area of the imperial capital for an entire month.
The boy didn't think about it, and shouted forty-five directly. The scene was a little quieter, to be honest, anyone who could join in the fun in this place could get a hundred and eighty gold coins, but there were still a few places in the city where fox people provided services, and it was worth spending so much money to buy a dry little fox that had not yet matured?
"Ha, the Foster boy has bid forty-five milds, is there more?" the stall owner often wandered around, and could recognize the young man: "If no one raises the price, it will be his." ā
The talk is back, but no one continues to raise prices.
"Forty-six!" shouted a handsome young man in a brocade robe, who looked slightly worse than Rhodo's, but looked more mature and sophisticated...... It was Bruzzi, son of the Earl of Janelon. Anyone who knows knows that under that good skin is the heart of a wild bee and butterfly, and there are often rumors that he flirts and seduces and even forcibly occupies people's daughters. Once, he was drunk and bold enough to harass Roy on the street, but before the flower messenger could jump out, he was broken by the delicate-looking "Flower of the Imperial Capital". Not only did he lie on the street for a long time, but afterwards his father nervously ran to the Duke of Foster's palace to apologize, and lost all his face.
But this incident made him a little different from the others, and Brouzzi, who had his nose broken by Roy, was no longer infatuated with the flamboyant Duchess - at least on the surface, he no longer looked like a nymphomaniac when he saw him on the street. Rod guessed he was just trying to use this difference to get his sister's attention: "Everybody likes you, I don't care about you, you have to look at me differently" - a common bloody plot in novels, but Roy clearly doesn't like it.
"Fifty. "Rod actually doesn't know how much money he has, his pocket money is not much among the children of the nobility, but because there are very few opportunities to go out and wave, he should have saved some.
"Fifty-one. ā
"He raised the bar with you, and told him that he didn't want more, and see if he dared to continue to add. The girl watched her brother messing around with money, and couldn't help but remind him.
"Fifty-five!"
For Rod, the things of the world can be roughly divided into two categories: those bought with silver coins and those bought with gold coins, and goods with less than one silver coin fall into the former category. Theoretically, there is a third category: those he can't afford. Something that "he can't afford" must exist, but something that "he wants but can't afford" has never come across, which leads him to have no idea about price at all.
"Fifty-six. ā
"Sixty, one more you can take home. "The sister and brother don't deal with each other very well and always quarrel back and forth, but the relationship is not bad. Although he bothered her to take care of it, Rod admitted that Roy had a better brain than himself...... Listening to her must be right, it's a fact, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
"......" Sure enough, after hearing the young man's words, Jian Long on the other side immediately fell silent. He can get sixty mild, but this money is enough for him to go to all the big and small foxes in the city, and he will have to trouble raising them when he buys them back.
"Then, sixty will be given to the Foster Son. The stall owner laughed so much that his beard was cocked, the slightly older fox man was worth this price, but the little fox man was caught running blindly and bumping into them, and the windfall that fell from the sky became the most valuable of all his goods, and at once he brought him dozens of gold coins out of thin air, and this single order alone was enough for him to recover all the expenses of the toll, hiring guards, carriages, horses, and staying in the store all the way to Wenwei. With a smile on his face, he stuffed the little orc who turned back into a fox back into the cage, and patted it through the steel bar: "You little thing, this time you have hit a big luck, Young Master Foster is handsome, handsome and good-tempered, at this moment, I don't know how many noble ladies are eager to get into the cage for you and enter his house." ā
The little fox was unmoved, looked up at each other slightly, wagged his tail and lay down in the cage in frustration. Even if there is a slight difference in aesthetics, she has to admit that the young man in front of her is indeed very good-looking, but unfortunately this does not change her fate of becoming a human slave.
"Childe, do you want to make a slave mark?" asked the slave trader's helper, leaning over and earnestly.
"What imprint?"
The interrogator pouted at a brazier next to him: "Whether it's a brand or a pattern, it's okay." ā
"Well, no. Rod hurriedly waved his hand and rejected the other party's proposal, whether it was in fox form or human form, he didn't want to leave such a mark on the little fox man: "Wait for me, I'll go home and get the money." ā
"It's easy to say, but just wait for half an hour, Childe will go and come back quickly. The stall owner pinched his beard and nodded repeatedly, it was impossible for the children of such a big aristocratic family to rely on these dozens of gold coins and never return, he was not worried at all.
"Take a look at it for me, I'll go back and get the money. Rod said with a grin to the girl beside him.
"Hmph, now beg me, what do you call me?"
"Sister, good sister, help me take a look at the fox here!"
The girl narrowed her eyes, and was extremely relieved by this rightful title: "It's pretty much the same, hurry up." ā
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