366. Fair Dealing
Spinel is a common magic gemstone, and elves like to use this magic gemstone to make some beautiful jewelry.
The mages grind some low-grade spinels into powder, which can be added to the sheepskin magic scrolls, or they can make magic dyes that can be used when drawing magic runes, which will increase the magic power of the runes.
High-grade spinels are more precious, and are almost always sold by the block in magic shops, spinels can be set on various magic devices, and can also be set on the top of the staff, when the magicians hold the staff to cast spells, it can increase the power of the spell.
Spinel and spinel mines, although they only have an extra suffix on the name, but the price is very different.
No one can guarantee that every spinel mine will produce high-quality spinel, and even the most astute jeweler would dare not make a promise.
Now these pockets in front of Roy are all polished spinels, and looking at the color of these spinels, you know that all of them are high-grade spinels......
Roy glanced at the gray dwarf Dasher, who was followed by two grey dwarves, who looked younger, had less long beards, and had a pickaxe and stone hammer around their waists, and looked as strong as bulls.
They looked behind the Darkmoon Elves, their eyes full of deep fear, and it seemed that they should have suffered from the Darkmoon Elves in the first place.
Roy pointed to the linen pockets and asked Darscher, "Is that the only one?" ”
Dasher hammered his chest a few times with his fist, and then said confidently, "If it's not enough...... There are still some in the mine, and we don't have barrels in our hands, so we can only bring some more. ”
Roy nodded.
By this time, the Dark Moon Elf had unloaded a barrel of rum from the wheelbarrow and placed it in front of the three dwarves.
You don't even need to open the cork to smell the faint aroma of wine.
Roy waved his hand behind him, and a group of Darkmoon Elves brought a large bath barrel and an empty wine barrel from behind.
After the Darkmoon Elves laid the large tub flat, they began to pour buckets of water into the tub without waiting for Roy's command......
The three gray dwarves were suddenly a little confused, could it be that before the transaction, everyone still had to bathe and change clothes?
The Darkmoon Elves waited until the large tub was filled with water, and when the water in the barrel was about to overflow from the rim of the bucket, the Darkmoon Elves stopped......
The Darkmoon Elves then scooped the water from the tub into the empty barrel until it was filled with water.
Roy then explained to the three dwarves:
"Now...... All we have to do is put the spinel in a large tub, and the water that fills the tub is about to overflow, which means that the spinel is just enough to fill a keg. ”
The three dwarves didn't expect to measure the volume of spinel like this, and they wanted to defend a few words, but they really couldn't find anything wrong for a while.
Then I watched as the Darkmoon Elves poured bags of spinels into the tub, and when the water in the tub was about to overflow, they began to fish out all the spinels in the tub.
After tossing and turning twenty times, and scraping together twenty barrels of high-grade spinel, the Darkmoon Elves handed over the barrel of rum to the three gray dwarves.
In the process of picking, since these spinels have been washed once, some cracked, flawed spinels with impermeable color are picked out by the Darkmoon Elves.
These spinels can only be classified as low-grade spinels and placed in a large wooden box.
"Do you want to exchange these inferior spinels for ale?" Roy asked the three gray dwarves.
After saying that, he asked the Dark Moon Elf to fill three glasses of ale and handed them to the three gray dwarves of Dasher, Marandor and Magdi, and the three gray dwarves took the ale excitedly, and drank it directly into their stomachs without thinking about it.
After drinking the ale, he shook the wooden wine glass vigorously, and then he laughed heartily.
Dasher rolled his eyes and asked Roy, "Is it the inferior spinel that you picked out later...... Can you also get ale? ”
"Of course, but it's best not to mix these low-grade spinels in the high-grade spinels, and it's better to be able to pack them separately." Roy said casually, and then said, "I've given you the entire northern part of the mine, so you can go there and mine spinel with confidence." ”
After speaking, he beckoned the Darkmoon Elf to load all the spinels on the wheelbarrow, and handed a few salted fish and breadfruit to the three gray dwarves, and said:
"I wish our next deal so well!"
Dasher was even more overjoyed when he saw that Roy had prepared some additional gifts, and got salted fish and breadfruit, and hurriedly said:
"I'll be here tomorrow waiting for you ......"
Only the brothers Marandow and Magdie muttered with some disappointment:
“…… It's a pity that there is no stinky cheese and pork liver pie. ”
Dasher hurriedly asked the two grey dwarf brothers to lift the barrel, and the three dwarves left happily......
……
The boom at the edge of the mine creaked and rattled, and although Roy had made some targeted reinforcements, the boom was still not good.
Twenty barrels of spinel were shipped back to the surface in two separate shipments, and the old boom was still in danger of a strike at any moment.
Mu Lin didn't follow Roy down to the mine this time, and waited until Roy came out of the mine, then he came to the side of the mine, looked at the spinel in his pocket, and asked with some surprise:
"And you asked those gray dwarves to help you polish the gem ore into spinel?"
"I guess these spinels are probably their stock, and they didn't dare to go out to mine ore overnight last night."
Holding the edge of the well with both hands, Roy stepped out of the wooden box and said to Mu Lin.
Mu Lin let out a snort and said to Roy, "These spinels should be very valuable in the Elven Continent, right?" ”
"It should be, but I haven't paid attention to the market of magic gems before, so I don't know the specific value." Roy replied.
At this time, the head of Kepler came from the gate, heard the words of Roy and Mullin, took out a spinel the size of a fingernail from his pocket, and said to them:
"Just such a big piece is enough to get back a barrel of rum!"
Then Kepler said to Roy:
"Tomorrow, the logistics team from the valley camp will arrive at our second mine, and the materials brought this time will be in addition to rum, ale, and wheat flour, as well as the iron ingots and wood you applied for, and there will also be craftsmen who will follow the logistics team."
"Great, the elven craftsman has come to repair this boom, and at least you won't have to worry about riding the crane in the future......" Roy said.
Roy was about to count the spinels into storage, and the head of Kepler and Mullin were on hand to help.
Fortunately, tomorrow the logistics regiment will arrive at the second mine, and when the time comes, the logistics team can transport the spinels back to the mine camp.
"Roy, I'm a little confused. Those gray dwarves have been locked up in the mine for so long, don't they have the idea of escaping? Mullene whispered to Roy.
Roy thought for a moment before saying, "Probably scared by the plateau headhunters on the ground." ”
The head of Kepler next to him shook his head and said:
"Perhaps, we often deal with gray dwarf pirates on the Queen Ivanie Islands, they can be said to be the most insidious and cunning pirates, even if we use the Silver Pegasus Warband, we still haven't been able to wipe them all out after so many years, and instead of purging them, the number of these gray dwarf pirates is even increasing year by year."
"I think those plateau headhunters on the ground are a reason, and these gray dwarves are also very afraid of the Dark Moon Elves, so they hide in the depths of the mine and usually don't dare to come out."
Roy said.
(End of chapter)