Chapter 19: Wyatt
"No problem, Venerable Master Mage!"
The man sneered and rubbed his hands, cleared his throat and introduced:
"Those natives of the south are much darker than us, they are very short, they have little strength, but they have a lot of stamina, they are good at using short bows, and a few can also use herbs to make poisons, basically the price of men and women is about thirty silver mar.
However, some of them are warriors blessed by the mysterious witch doctor, with strong bodies and some mysterious abilities, and such high-level slaves cost more than ten gold lundes.
The Sains to the east look similar to us, some of them speak our language, but their women have more delicate skin and are the best bedmates.
The price of the men of the Sain is about fifty silver mar, and the price of women is basically between eighty silver mar and one hundred and twenty silver mar, and a small number of women of the nobility of the Sain kingdom are divided into medium slaves, and their value will rise to four or five gold lundes.
The Christians of the north looked much like us, and many of them spoke our words, and most of them were men who could farm, and women who could weave linen, so this kind of slave was most popular with the lords of the manor.
It's just that most of these disciples have a stench that can't be washed off, so the price of their men is about fifty silver mar, and the price of women is about sixty silver mar. The kind of good goods that don't have body odor will probably add twenty or thirty silver mar.
The Prius people in the west have the same skin color as the sand of their country, they do not know how to farm, but they are very good at dealing with livestock, and they are preferred by the owners of the estates who need to raise cows, horses, and sheep, but the language barrier is a big problem.
As for the half-elves and subhumans further west...... Hehe, they are all very good-looking, and they are all said to be warriors captured by the Kingdom of Prius in the war with the Kingdom of Canaan.
The captives are skilled in killing and are said to be close to the knights, so don't think about them if you don't have enough skills. As for the price, this batch of goods is the first batch in the imperial capital for decades, and I estimate that it is about fifteen gold lunts or more! ”
"Well, it seems that you know this market very well, I will hire you next, and this silver mar is your reward today!"
Xia Lin listened to the market guide's detailed explanation, and had a general understanding of the origin of the slaves in the slave market, he nodded with satisfaction, took out a silver mar and handed it to the man:
"I want to buy two sturdy and obedient slaves and a slave who can read and do arithmetic, and take me to the right seller!"
"Yes, Master Mage! I'm Moore Redson, you can call me an ear mouse! ”
Moore took the silver mar and said with a smile.
Guides like them, who depended on the slave market to survive, sometimes received large amounts of tips, but on average they earned only a few dozen copper pesas a day, and one silver coin was already a good income for him.
Slavery always had a certain market in ancient times when the productive forces were underdeveloped, and even in the feudal society that developed to the extreme, there was a personal dependency relationship similar to slavery.
Xia Lin followed Mohr, looking at the slaves on both sides of the road who were caged like beasts in a zoo for the buyers to pick and choose.
Even the slums of the imperial capital had their own basic human rights, and these slaves were commodities that were thoroughly commodified in the laws of the empire, looking at these slaves who were covered in scars and looked numb and cringe, Xia Lin once again realized the real gap between the two worlds.
Under the leadership of Moore, Xia Lin came to a slave chamber of commerce named Brooke, and after some selection, he took a fancy to a Sein and a northerner slave, but the northerner slave's body odor was indeed very strong, for the sake of his nose, Xia Lin thought about replacing him with a slightly thinner Sain.
These slaves had been brutally trained, and their eyes showed no color other than numbness and calm, and they did not look like human beings, but like cattle and horses used to plow the land.
The two slaves spent a total of one gold and thirteen silver mar, which was much cheaper than Xia Lin had expected.
However, the price of a young slave with a basic knowledge of literacy and arithmetic is extremely expensive, and these people are usually high-ranking captives on the battlefield or a high-ranking valet who has made a mistake and angered his master, the former is basically a nobleman from another country, most of them have a language barrier, and the latter is difficult to guarantee morality.
Xia Lin first eliminated those slaves with language barriers, and after picking among the rest for a long time, he still did not find a suitable candidate.
"Your Excellency, if you need someone who can read and do arithmetic to help you, why don't you choose me!"
Seeing Xia Lin hesitating outside the cages of several high-ranking slaves, in the cage not far away, a boy with a yellowish complexion and wearing a white linen skirt approached the cage and grabbed the thick wood and shouted to him.
He was about the same age as Xia Lin, and his facial features were very different from those of the Empire, and he looked very delicate and delicate, with neat black short hair that reached his ears.
If it weren't for the Adam's apple around his neck, Xia Lin wouldn't have recognized him as a boy.
"You? I want someone who can write imperial writing and arithmetic, and you can write imperial writing? ”
It was the first time that Xia Lin had seen these slaves offer to be bought, and he walked over curiously, recognized the boy as a native of the Kingdom of Prius, and asked suspiciously.
The price of a high-level slave is at least around ten gold lundes, Xia Lin is not a visual creature, nor does he have any special fetishes, this boy's delicate appearance is at most to add some impression points to him, and he will not buy him because of this.
"I won't, but Your Excellency, I won't lose anything if you buy me. My name is Wyatt Jaais, the second son of a thousand camel chieftains in the kingdom of Prius, and I have been a master of animal husbandry, horsemanship, arithmetic, history, geography, astronomy, and I have also sought out oases in the desert.
If it weren't for being drugged by my eldest brother and kidnapped and sold to the port of North Gaza in his sleep, I would have been a chief with a hundred camels right now!
Your Excellency, you must believe me, I have a very good talent for languages, and although I can't write the Sasson Empire yet, I have learned your language in only two months after I arrived in the Sasson Empire.
If you don't believe me, you can ask the guards when I'm here, but please don't reveal my identity, or you may have to pay a higher price to buy me, they don't know my identity yet, and they sell me as a nobleman's attendant! ”
Seeing Xia Lin walk in front of him, Wyatt Jaais lowered his voice and explained in a hurried tone.
Seeing that his language was clear and his hands and feet did not seem to have any traces of labor, Xia Lin believed his words a little.
The so-called aristocratic attendants are naturally the crotch of those dissolute nobles with strange XP, and it is no wonder that the son of the chief of the Kingdom of Prius would gamble and shout at himself when he came over.
After all, it is probably not a strange thing to work under a mage who needs to be a slave with writing and arithmetic skills, but it is not necessarily necessary to be sold as a waiter to those nobles or merchants.
"Okay, I'll buy you! I need someone to take care of my business in the future, and I don't have that peculiar fetish, as long as you pay your loyalty, you can live well under me. ”
"Thank you so much, Master Mage!"
In Wyatt's relieved and happy eyes, Xia Lin found the steward of the Chamber of Commerce and asked Wyatt about his worth. Thirteen gold and twenty-seven silver mars! It's almost as much as the cost of your own redemption!
It seems that those ghost nobles and businessmen still like such a cute boy with an exotic style, Xia Lin shook his head and stopped thinking about this uncomfortable thing, quickly paid the money and received the slave contract of the three people, and walked out of the market with the three of them.