6. Larkin Business
The merchant Larkin led He Boqiang to the door of a canvas tent, and when he lifted the tent, it looked like a huge warehouse.
Large wooden boxes are stacked together, and many wooden boxes have labels with different characters on their sides.
There was a wooden box without a lid at the door, He Boqiang glanced inside, and saw a large leg bone lying on the bottom of the box, and the leg bones were covered with black magic patterns, those black magic patterns seemed to have some kind of vitality, slowly squirming on the leg bones, He Boqiang felt dizzy just by looking at it.
"This is a temporary warehouse for low-level magic materials, and I'll have someone put a wooden bed here."
Businessman Larkin said to He Boqiang.
"You will live here in the future, temporarily help me guard the warehouse here, and what you have to do every day is to count the materials that have been collected, and from time to time there will be carriages to transport these materials to Handanar County."
He Boqiang nodded.
The internal space of this tent is much larger than it looks from the outside, and there is a faint smell of grease wafting in the tent, He Boqiang crossed the wooden boxes piled together, and walked to the end of the tent only to find that it was full of swords and shields, which were almost all standard weapons in the barracks, but he didn't expect that such a small caravan would store so many military supplies.
He Boqiang couldn't help but pick up a knight's shield from the weapon rack and hold it on his chest. He struck with his hand, making a dull sound.
There is a row of heavy round-handled Roman swords on the weapon rack, and some quaint patterns are engraved on the bronze handles, but these patterns should be decorations, He Boqiang can't feel the kind of dizziness on the black pattern demon skin on the ornament, the blade of the Roman sword is only less than three feet, but it is unusually heavy.
He Boqiang stretched out his hand to hold the heavy Roman sword and took it off the weapon rack, He Boqiang felt that his movements were extremely smooth, especially at the moment when he held the hilt, he seemed to have a long-lost feeling, and skillfully played the sword flower with his hand, and effortlessly inserted the Roman sword back into the weapon rack.
"You like these weapons?" Larkin stared at He Boqiang and asked, as if he had found a treasure, and his eyes became very bright.
He Boqiang nodded.
Then his gaze fell on the other weapon racks, in addition to a row of Roman swords, there were several daggers with dark blades, the handles of which were made of brown leather, which were sure to be comfortable to hold, and near the main pillar in the middle of the tent, there were more than a dozen Paglio spears, which were all-metal spears that only hoplites would use.
Larkin seemed to trust Surdak and was not worried that He Boqiang would steal from himself in the tent full of weapons and magical materials.
Larkin then asked, "Do you know how to take care of these weapons?" It is to take them out and wipe them regularly and apply some animal fat to the cutting edge. ”
As he spoke, he took out an oily rag and wiped it vigorously on a Roman sword, as if he was demonstrating to He Boqiang.
He Boqiang took the oily rag, and instead of wiping the Roman sword like Larkin, he picked up a strip-shaped whetstone from the tray of the weapon rack, first skillfully rubbed it on the edge, and then carefully wiped it on the blade with the tarpaulin.
Larkin glanced at He Boqiang with satisfaction, patted him on the shoulder vigorously and said, "Very good, you will be responsible for the maintenance of weapons in the future." ”
The warehouse was filled with the musty smell of rotting bones, and Larkin didn't want to stay in it too long, so he walked out of the tent with He Boqiang, and said at the door of the tent:
"Oh, by the way, we have two meals a day, you can choose to take the food back here to eat, or you can eat with everyone, as for the salary, it will be settled according to the fifteenth silver pound per week, if you perform well, I will give you a proper raise, if you want to do it, try it first."
Obviously, Larkin is looking at Surdak's face, and he is not so mean to He Boqiang.
The weekly salary of fifteen silver is considered to be the upper middle salary level of the civilian class in the Green Empire, but for a war zone like Handanar County, this salary is still low, this should be He Boqiang's salary in the probationary stage, and there should be a slight increase in the future.
After explaining this, Larkin joined the flow of people on the shopping street, and struck up a conversation with the two chainmail-clad warriors very familiarly.
And He Boqiang squatted down at the door of this tent, looking at the bustling crowd in the simple street market, full of confusion about the future.
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In front of the stall in the camp there was a knight's light shield, two daggers, three Roman swords and a Paglio spear, Gabi squatted behind the stall and yawned boredly, holding two copper plates in his hand and constantly throwing them up and down, even if there were soldiers passing in front of Gabi, Gabi would not sell the goods in front of the stall to those soldiers, just waiting for someone to take the initiative to stop.
The standard armament in the barracks is Mondstadt. Count Goss's property, even if some weapons and equipment are damaged in battle, the warriors can go to the logistics office to change it, but only if there is a valid reason.
However, there is a gap between the standard weapons and these excellent quality weapons, if you feel that the standard saber is too light, the Roman sword shaped like a mallet is a good choice, and no one came up to ask the price after looking at it for a long time, Larkin doesn't seem to care much about the business of the stall, and Gabi who is guarding the front of the stall is also a casual look.
He Boqiang felt that Larkin didn't seem to expect any money from the stall.
The strong man Ulysses looked very honest after suffering a loss at the hands of He Boqiang, and went into the tent to sleep without a sound.
The curly-haired boy Gabi turned around and beckoned to He Boqiang, He Boqiang walked to the side of the stall, and squatted behind the stall in Gabi's posture, in addition to weapons, there were also some whetstones and other things on the stall, and near Gabi's side, there were two black striped rubbing skins the size of children's palms and a few dark oval stones.
He Boqiang picked up a black stone the size of an egg.
"These are the cores."
Gabi pointed to his head, and said with a strange smile on his face: "It was dug out of the brains of evil spirits, but this kind of size is a bit small, they don't believe that there are magic crystals in it, in fact, only those who hide magic crystals are valuable, in fact, buying magic cores is like gambling, if you can open magic crystals from it, you will make money, otherwise, you will buy a worthless rotten stone." ”
Gabi scratched his hay-like curls, then pointed to the smaller pile of cores on the stall, and said, "This one here costs fifty silver hammers each." ”
He pointed to another pile of fist-sized demon cores, and said, "The ones here are more expensive, about a gold coin, and many people in the barracks like to bet on this." ”
Hearing Gabi say this, He Boqiang felt that buying a magic core should be similar to betting on jadeite.
Gabby didn't know where to find a piece of beef jerky like a magic trick, stuffed it into He Boqiang's hand, threw a piece of jerky into his mouth, and said to He Boqiang: "I hope you don't mind what happened just now, Ulysses doesn't have bad intentions, he just likes to wrestle with people." ”
He simply sat behind the stall and introduced to He Boqiang, "Actually, our daily work is very simple, I am responsible for watching the stalls, and Ulysses has to keep vigil at night. ”
Gabi had a few brown freckles on his cheekbones, a very high nose bridge, just a little thin, and he, like Larkin, was about to stop chattering: "I don't think you're a Bednar, do you......?"