Leaving the orphanage, Ted bought some Muggle stuff as a gift for his wizarding friends and returned to the Leaky Cauldron.

"Old Tom, see what good things I've brought you?" Ted held up a delicate porcelain wine bottle.

"Hmm~ This is ......" Old Tom asked himself if he had tasted wine for decades, but he really didn't know what kind of wine it was.

Ted shook the porcelain vase in his hand, "Celestial Empire specialty, Lao Baigan~"

Ted has also lived in the wizarding world for more than a year, especially his part-time job experience in Diagon Alley, which has given him a deep sense of prices.

A lot of things in the wizarding world are more expensive than in the Muggle world, if not a lot more expensive.

It's not hard to understand – it's caused by differences in productivity.

It's like brewing wine, although wizards can use magic aids, there are many links that are indispensable.

Where can they compare to a modern distillery in their family-style brewery?

People produce tons of wine! Naturally, the price is much cheaper.

Of course, Ted doesn't just give gifts to friends for cheap, but mostly for freshness!

More than seventy percent of wizards have little contact with the Muggle world.

They don't even know the process of buying a ticket for the bus or taking the subway, and a ticket gate is estimated to take them two hours. So they didn't know anything about Muggle products.

Like Ron, who eats all sorts of candy that Ted bought from Muggle candy stores, and the sweetness is so sweet that he swallows his tongue!

……

In the evening, Ted returned to his room, and instead of opening the book to study, he leaned back on the head of the bed and began to think.

He came up with an idea last year - to build a second-hand trading platform in Diagon Alley!

It's not a second-hand store, it's a salted fish-like platform.

This line feels very interesting~

In the wizarding world, many second-hand items are very valuable.

Because magic doesn't depreciate quickly in a few years, a dozen years.

Therefore, magic items will not depreciate in value for a short time.

It has long-lasting value.

However, it doesn't necessarily last long.

For example, there is an automatic weeding machine at home.

As a result, there is no lawn at home now, and it has been converted into a vegetable garden.

You said you lost it, it's too wasteful. If you keep it, you won't need it for many years, and it will still take up space.

If you sell second-hand goods, the price reduction of second-hand stores is very serious. Sometimes you can't even give a tenth of the price of an item.

The reason why there are many second-hand stores is because of the great profits.

Of course, this kind of shop is not open by everyone.

You're like the boss of the Weasleys, Bill. He was working as a spell solver at Gringotts in Egypt.

What is the position of a spell breaker?

It is a wizard who specializes in cracking magic and curses, and the requirements are very high, and there is even a lot of risk.

That's just Gringotts' spell breakers, like those dangerous magical item recovery shops, like the Borgin Burke shop in Tumbledown Alley, where the magic items are dangerous, and they belong to the kind of person who accidentally kills himself.

I didn't have any skills, and I died tragically in the store within two months.

Moreover, the population of the British wizarding community is probably less than 30,000, and it is difficult to form a prosperous and healthy society. Many wizards are also withdrawn and eccentric, living in a shallow way, and difficult to contact.

This leads to difficulties between transactions and transactions.

Ted discovered this business opportunity last year, and if he could get a reliable trading platform, it would be very promising.

It can even be said that he usurped part of the authority of the Ministry of Magic.

But any idea to put into practice requires "capital".

Kim Gallon is one thing, ability is one thing, power is one thing, influence is another.

Of course, Ted didn't want to do that now, he just wanted to take advantage of this holiday to upgrade his identification skills.

Now it seems that the identification technique has entered a bottleneck, and no matter how Ted uses it, it is difficult to improve.

Ted felt that he would either have to level up his Psychic Warlock and rely on the enhancement of his psychic abilities to enhance his abilities, or he would need some extra stimulation, such as identifying something high-end and unusual.

In fact, there is a shortcut, and that is to identify Dumbledore!

Ted had already secretly tried identification on several professors, and had gotten a lot of information.

But the headmaster really didn't dare to cross the thunder pool by half a step, he had never used it, for fear of attracting the attention of the greatest white wizard of this century, the legendary wizard Dumbledore.

However, at the end of the Philosopher's Stone level, Ted had identified Voldemort in the crippled state, and although he didn't get any information, the improvement in his identification skills was obvious! It is equivalent to the harvest of twenty or thirty professors!

If Dumbledore is identified in his full state, it will definitely take the identification to the next level.

The problem is that Ted doesn't dare~

So he came up with a way to organize second-hand transactions to improve his identification skills, and by the way, he could collect more data to measure the level of the wizarding world.

Instructors have said that there is no voice without in-depth investigation.

What he pays most attention to is in-depth investigation and a true understanding of a certain environment and field in all aspects. If Ted wants to do something in the future, this link must not be omitted.

There are a number of points that need to be resolved in this matter, and the first thing that needs to be enlisted is the support of Mr. Giggs.

……

"You mean, you want to set up a stall at the door?"

"That's not a problem. The question is what are you going to do? Selling something? Or fortune telling for wizards? ”

Mr. Giggs's expression was wonderful, and he had the feeling of seeing a fortune teller set up in front of a five-star hotel.

After all, he is a wizard and his business perspective is not broad enough.

So, Ted explained to him, "That's right. On one of the walls of the school library, I solved a magic puzzle and obtained the magic left by an unknown senior from the previous one, as if it had inspired me to have some kind of talent for identifying the properties and information of objects. ”

Of course, this is nonsense, half true and half false, and the magic he got in the library was the "Magic Thousand Paper Crane Transmission Charm".

"So I want to provide a certain convenience for everyone, so that they can hand over the things they want to sell to me for appraisal, and then write it on the blackboard for interested people to see, so that it can be more convenient to trade. Or barter......"

Mr. Giggs listened to Ted's explanation, and the more he pondered it, the more interesting it became.

But there is one big premise......

"Ted, this is no joke. Identifying magical objects requires a great deal of knowledge and eyesight. It's just a mistake in identification, at most you will lose some money, don't encounter any dangerous magic items, and lose your life! ”

After all, he was born in Ravenclaw, so he was still very cautious.

Ted smiled brightly, "Mr. Giggs, you can test me!" ”

Mr. Giggs took three things from his collection and placed them on the table.

"Good boy, let me see what you're up to! I'll tell you, these three things are not simple, so let's try them! ”

Mr. Giggs wants to see this overly proud boy sink into the sand and kill his spirit!

Ted looked up, and the first object was a figurine, about twenty-five centimeters, a humanoid but not a human creature, very obese, with two heads and one horn, one eye and one eye. Fangs and sticks......

Isn't this a two-headed ogre?

Ted activated the identification technique, and Mr. Giggs, who had been carefully observing from the side, felt that Ted's eyes suddenly seemed to light up a lot, but he did not notice any magic fluctuations.

Hiss~ Strange, what kind of ability is this?!

"It's a two-headed ogre statue, made of bronze, infused with magic when cast, not from this world. Around this statuette, strength is increased and stamina is slowly restored...... Am I right? ”

Mr. Giggs clapped his hands: "Ted, you really have a talent for identifying objects?!" Awesome! Not bad at all, even a little more than I knew. ”

In fact, the information Ted got was more detailed, such as the range of action is a radius of eight meters, the effect is +2 strength, and the statue needs to be baked with flames every month, otherwise the magic will not be maintained after a few years.

Looking at the second item, it's a dusty stone. At first glance, it is unremarkable, but if you look closely, you will see that it is a crystal. It's just that the inside seems to have gray fog, so it's gray.

"The Magic Hedron Mine in Uruguay, a natural rare associated mine, is only found in the mining areas of the Magic Vein Nexus. As for the function, I can only see the creation of magic items......"

"Yes, yes, yes! When I bought it, the man said it was a magic crystal from Uruguay, and it seemed that I didn't look away. "Mr. Giggs was very happy.

The last thing was a fruit, dark red like mangosteen with a hard shell, and I don't know what it was inside.

"I don't see much information about this thing, except that it is a plant with medicinal properties...... Mr. Giggs, where did you get that? Ted said.

"Hah! Don't know, right? I'm telling you, I don't know ~~~" Mr. Giggs looked smug.

"I found it by accident when I was harvesting medicinal herbs last year. It was supposed to be some kind of magical plant fruit from another world, but no one has yet researched it. ”

Ted breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but fortunately he knew how to keep a low profile, and he didn't say that this was the Roa fruit in the land of the old man's ring, otherwise it would be really difficult to explain.

Some things are too much.

After all, I'm just a 12-year-old orphan little wizard, don't do anything too out of the ordinary. Most of the people who don't know how to be low-key have become cannon fodder, and they are experts in Goudao!

With Mr. Giggs's approval, this "salted fish stand" can be propped up.

Soon, the people shopping in Diagon Alley found that outside the Giggs pharmacy, a table had been set up and a board was hung with the words: Salted fish nets!

Passers-by felt that they were confused, Giggs did not sell good medicinal potions, and it also involved the field of seafood retail?

When I got closer, I found that there was still small print below:

Salted fish network undertakes the identification, listing and guarantee of second-hand magic items, and supports cash transactions, entrusted sales and barter~

Then there are a few lines of names: eighty percent new rain-proof and moisture-proof cloak, ninety percent new automatic magic copper balance, alarm crystal, Celestial Empire biting kale seeds......

These were the first goods that Mr. Giggs kindly offered, so as not to be unsightly and not to be trusted.

In fact, there is also a one-meter-and-a-half-long, arm-thick Dharma Protector tree trunk. It was acquired directly by Ted at an internal price.

This thing was obtained by Mr. Giggs last year when he was shopping for medicinal herbs, and he used a magic potion to stun a few tree guards and cut them from other people's trees. You just say it's a lot of loss, right? Demolition!

Ted saw that many people were watching nearby, and immediately shouted: "Hey~ Take a walk and take a look, walk by, don't miss it." Those who have come from the south to the north, those who have been to the United States and the port of London, those who have traveled through the south and the north, those who have swum through the mountains and played in the water, those who have studied and visited the United States, and those who have kissed on the street......"

"This salted fish network has just been launched, it has been on TV and in the newspapers, and the British Empire knows about it. If you say you haven't seen it, it proves that your information channel is not authentic~"

You don't care what you shout, it's the excitement that matters.

You see, when Ted shouted like this, those people didn't understand anything, but they all leaned over~~~

Passerby: I didn't understand what was said, but my voice was very bright!

Ted: Hey, how about salted fishnets? You listen to me blow it to you~

(End of chapter)