Chapter 31: Complexity
After moving to Berry Street, it used to be a little farther away from the fishing tackle shop in Thornborne.
Eula left with her front foot, Li Qiuzhi also tied the scimitar around her waist with her back foot and went out, the arrows of the hunting bow were almost scrapped, and they didn't need to be carried for the time being when they were commissioned to clean up the monsters in the wild.
Today, the weather is not good.
Li Qiuzhi, who was walking between the streets and alleys, looked up at the sky, it was hazy, there were no dark clouds and no sun.
In order to be in a hurry, Li Qiuzhi trotted up and overtook a carriage carrying goods moving slowly, attracting the curious attention of the groom wearing a hat.
Li Qiuzhi smiled politely back, and then ran faster.
After about ten minutes, his body had just warmed up and the fishing tackle shop arrived, and the gray-haired Sanborn was cleaning the store with a broom.
It seems that he didn't see Li Qiuzhi's arrival.
"Hi, Mr. Sanborne." Li Qiuzhi shouted behind him in a calm tone.
Thornborn turned around with a broom at the sound of a voice, and said with a slight light in his eyes, "Oh, here you are, young adventurer of Liyue. ”
"Yes, I promised to take your commission yesterday evening, hehe."
Li Qiuzhi said with a smile.
"Alas," Sanborn sighed again at the mention of yesterday's events, and he placed his broom on the wall in the doorway and leaned against it, "Please come in, and I will tell you more about it." ”
The two came to the counter of the store, and Sanborn walked inside to ask Li Qiuzhi to wait for a while.
Sanborn pulled out a stack of paper papers from a drawer under the counter, and he opened the silver metal clip to remove the top two sheets.
He handed it to Li Qiuzhi and said, "You take a look first." ”
Li Qiuzhi reached out to take it suspiciously, a little unsure of what was going on, he stood and looked carefully at the words recorded on the paper.
Fruit stuffed bait: 30 catties, 50,000 mola;
Tarn brand simple fishing nets: five, 45,000 Mora;
Tarn brand hard bamboo fishing rod: ten pairs, 30,000 mola;
......
In addition to the above information, there are many other such as fish baskets, hats to protect from the rain, raincoats, etc., which is a purchase document with a total value of 550,000 mora.
At first glance, there doesn't seem anything strange about it.
Li Qiuzhi looked at the second document, which was also a similar goods, but the price had risen by nearly 20 percent, for example, 30 catties of fruit stuffed bait had changed from 50,000 morals to 60,000 mora.
The total cargo volume has increased from 550,000 Mora to 700,000 Mora.
The two receipts show that the two purchase dates are less than two weeks old.
The fishing industry in Mondstadt, especially in Mondstadt, is not at all prosperous compared to Liyue and Inazuma, after all, the fruit wine lake is large but limited.
Therefore, generally speaking, the price of related fishing gear supplies will be relatively stable, and it should not rise so much in a short period of time.
"Could it be that someone is profiting from this?" Li Qiuzhi asked in surprise.
"I want to... Yes. There was some silence in Sanborn's words, and then he moved the remaining stack of purchase documents to him, pointed to the top one, and said, "This is the original price." ”
Li Qiuzhi couldn't help but glance at the same number of goods, but the total cost of the goods was only about 400,000 Mora.
"Could it be that old friend of Mr. Sanborn?"
Li Qiuzhi remembered the object of Sanborn's sigh yesterday evening.
Sanborn put the slip away and said as if recalling:
"At that time, I had just retired, and seeing that I had nothing to do, my son proposed that I open a fishing tackle shop, and I happily agreed.
"But my son is too busy, and I am responsible for all the preparations, so it's okay, but I enjoy being busy again.
"My good friend Lucar was one of the sales executives at the Tarn Tackle Factory, and our friendship was built over the course of more than a decade."
It's really a pretty good old friend, after all, they've known each other for more than ten years. Li Qiuzhi thought silently in his heart.
"When I first raised the price, I asked him what was going on, and he said that the raw materials of the factory were robbed by monsters during transportation, and the price increase was only temporary due to the lack of materials."
Sanborn continues:
"Although his words were flickering at the time, I didn't care, believing him after all, he was my old friend.
"The second time I felt a little strange, I couldn't have been robbed by monsters twice in a row, didn't they know how to ask a few powerful adventurers to protect them with a lesson?
"I was suspicious and asked the employees at the Tarn factory, and they said that there was no news of the price increase recently, and then I knew that the problem was with my old friend Lucar."
After listening to this, Li Qiuzhi nodded and asked with a simple guess:
"So Mr. Sanborn wants me to find evidence of Lucar's violation?"
I saw Sanborn pat his head full of gray hair, and said softly:
"No, of course not. With so many years of friendship, I know very well that Lucar must not be such a despicable villain, he must have encountered a hurdle in his life that cannot be overcome.
"I don't want to make my old friend lose face by question, young adventurer, all you need to do is help me find out what happened to him lately, please help him if you can, and I will pay you satisfactorily."
Li Qiuzhi was a little surprised, he thought it was a simple script to find evidence to arrest people, but he didn't expect it to be quite complicated.
A cool breeze blew in, and the tips of Li Qiuzhi's hair moved lightly on his forehead, since his emotions were all set here, of course he had no reason to refuse.
"I see, leave this matter to me, Mr. Sanborn, and I'll try to help you find out."
Li Qiuzhi had a smile on his face, patting his heart and agreeing.
"Well, then please, I really don't want any accidents on Lucar, he lives at 86 Dandelion Street, if you can't find it, you can go to the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory to look for it."
Thornborne said the matter, apparently much more relaxed, and his brows no longer wrinkled.
As he left Sanborn's fishing tackle shop, Li Qiuzhi glanced at the clock in the shop, a quarter past nine in the morning.
He didn't go directly to 86 Dandelion Street, after all, at this time of year, Lucar probably needs to go to work, after all, he is the sales supervisor of the Tarn fishing tackle factory.
Alas... This was followed by another twenty minutes of walking.
The only vehicles in Mondstadt are horse-drawn carriages, and the other is Wind Wings, but a flight certificate is required to use Wind Wings in public areas.
Obtaining a flight certificate is not easy, and it is generally only in high demand for adventurers.
Li Qiuzhi felt that he needed to get the flight certificate as soon as possible, otherwise it would be too troublesome to hurry, although the Wind Wings could only glide, he had to go to a relatively high building before flying.
But there's no denying its practicality.
Within a few days of becoming an adventurer, Li Qiuzhi felt the pain of not being able to use the teleportation anchor.