Chapter 59: The Gathering of the Merchant
When I woke up in the morning, the weather was excellent, and it was a perfect day to set off on the road.
Lu Xi stopped the guards from continuing to build the house and gave them a morning off.
Allow the guards to wander around freely and wait until the afternoon to start their journey.
There is no good scenery in Broken Tail Village, but the camp of merchants and mercenaries outside the village is a good choice.
The merchants tried to open a trade route of their own outside the Tanersi Territory, and the most they carried were all kinds of special goods from the Tanersi Territory, and even Lu Xi could not compare to them.
After all, Lu Xi's main consideration is food, clothing, housing and transportation along the way, and the various items he carries must be focused, and he can't bring everything.
- Even if they were all brought, they wouldn't be able to be distributed to each of the guards.
So after noticing that the guards in Miss Lucy's convoy had been given a half-day vacation, many nimble businessmen had quickly selected their goods and put them out.
Selling to someone isn't selling, is it?
Instead of selling to outsiders and not knowing whether it is popular or not, it is better to exchange it for some gold coins first, which has a greater ability to resist risks.
First, it reduces the burden on the caravan, in order to turn over this time, most of the caravans are overloaded with goods, reducing the goods, and it is also convenient for them to travel better.
Second, it can be regarded as having a good deal with these guards, maybe if there is danger in the future, the other party will be able to help and help.
As a result, the prices were lower than usual, and the low prices soon attracted the attention of many guards, and soon more caravans imitated them, and the goods became more abundant, and more guards were attracted to come.
Even a number of mercenaries joined the rally, some buying cheap items from the merchants, and some selling adventure items they had previously acquired to the guards.
These guards who followed Lu Xi on the road, not to mention anything else, must have full salaries.
Lu Xi knew that his trip would be long, so he gave each guard a very generous reward before the trip, allowing them to leave enough gold coins for their family to live on for two years.
However, while the guards were worried about their families, the family members were also worried about these guards, and most of them only left half of the gold coins, and the remaining half was reserved for the guards to use on the journey.
That saying is very true, "If you have money to go all over the world, you can't walk an inch without money", no matter which world it is.
Secondly, Lu Xi can't guarantee that he can survive this journey safely, let alone that no one will be injured or die, the "salaries" of the guards have been increased several times, and the "pension" has been placed in advance, which is enough for them to hand over their lives to Miss Lucy.
As a result, the guards with gold in their pockets burst out with purchasing power that surprised the merchants.
Lu Xi found out about this two hours later, and he couldn't help but be curious, wondering what the merchants had brought out and were going to sell to other places.
"Let's go check it out, too." Whether you buy it or not, shopping is a rare pastime in itself, Lu Xi looked at Xiuge.
Xiuge looked at the small cake in his hand, and then at the book in his hand where he was seeing the wonderful plot, and got up decisively, "Okay, Miss Lucy." ”
Of course, Lu Xi couldn't just go over like this, that would scare Tvas.
Upon receiving the news that Miss Lucy wanted to visit the merchants' gathering, Tevas immediately informed the group of merchants of the news.
Ordered them to put away some goods that could not be seen by Miss Lucy as soon as possible.
It's a long journey along the way, and there are always things that are not easy to put on the bright side, which will be spread privately, such as some cyan.
The guards secretly bought it, and Tevas turned a blind eye to them, but if this kind of thing dared to appear in front of Miss Lucy's eyes, then he would definitely not let these merchants go.
When the merchants received the news that Miss Lucy would come, they were very excited, and not only put away all the things that were not suitable for putting on the table, but also took out all the treasures at the bottom of the box that they had treasured for a long time.
Hoping to get Miss Lucy's favor in this way, even if Miss Lucy doesn't give money in the end, they are willing to give Miss Lucy for free, rather, they hope that Miss Lucy will not give money.
Because this represents a qualification, at least in the future, they don't need to worry about their caravan being driven out.
In addition, the existence of the mercenaries is also a danger, their members are complicated, and many of them are not even from the Tanlsi leader, and their identities cannot be confirmed, and Tvas is a little unsure whether he wants to drive this group of mercenaries away.
It's just that considering that many mercenaries do have good things in their hands, thinking that Miss Lucy might like it, Tevas still acquiesced to this group of mercenaries to stay, but in order to ensure Miss Lucy's safety, Tevas arranged a guard next to each mercenary, pretending to look at the goods, but in fact watching people.
When Lu Xi came to the merchant's camp, Anne was the first to respond, she was the one who liked to join in the fun, and she was also the first to join in the fun.
Nearly half of the women's products sold by the merchants were contracted by her alone, and Lia helped carry the large and small bags beside her.
After becoming a student of Granny Rhodia, Anne's status has been significantly improved, and in addition to Miss Lucy's monthly salary, she will also have a love from Granny Rhodia.
Granny Rhodia will give each student a different amount of living expenses, so that the student will not suddenly break the financial chain and be embarrassed to open her mouth to ask for money.
After all, Granny Rhodia also grew up from a low level, knowing that when her earning power is insufficient and there is no arrogant family behind her, sometimes a single elemental material can empty all her savings.
So she gives her students a living allowance every month, with the orc having the most personality and the mute girl Karan the least.
Because the dumb girl Karan eats, wears, lives and travels with Granny Rodia, there is no need to pay any extra money, Granny Rodia is basically stored in a crystal card, ready to wait for the end of her life, and then hand it over to the dumb girl Karan.
And the orcs have the most strength, one is that the identity of the orcs is destined to have no financial resources, and giving an extra part is also the cost of buying elemental materials, and the other reason is that the orcs are really too good to eat, and the general living expenses are not enough to eat at all.
Although Anne doesn't get much for living expenses, she has little place to spend money, and she has saved quite a lot in the small treasury.
Lu Xi shook his head and smiled, looking at the past, Anne didn't buy it blindly, it seemed that whether it was Granny Rhodia, the dumb girl Karan, Lia, or even her share, Anne bought it together.
Tevas planned the route in advance, and the stalls set up by the merchants and mercenaries were roughly like a U-shape, so that Lu Xi didn't have to toss back and forth, just walk around from beginning to end.
On the left side of the road are the merchants' stalls, and on the right are the mercenaries' positions.
Merchants spend wooden planks to form wooden tables, and the goods are placed on shelves, and "awnings" are supported on them, which is professional at a glance.
On the mercenary side, those who are particular about it spread their clothes on the ground and put things on their clothes for others to see, and those who are not particular about things are placed directly on the ground and don't mind getting dirt on them.
In addition to the people of the escort team, many brave villagers also came over to join in the fun, and a few villagers with good brains took some food from the village and set up stalls.
The food is similar to some kind of dried vegetables and wild fruits after being dried, and it can be taken out by the villagers, and the taste must be passable, so there are still many people who buy it, anyway, the price of a few copper coins, even if you taste the taste.
The villagers were overjoyed, although they sold a few hundred copper coins in total, or many villagers put together these dried vegetables, and each family earned a maximum of a dozen copper coins, which was enough to catch up with their monthly expenses.
You know, those people in the city don't look down on the dried vegetables they dry at all.
Lu Xi is not very interested in the goods that the merchants take out, except for jewelry, it is some gemstone rough stones, which are precious and precious, but Lu Xi is not bad for this.
On the contrary, it is the mercenary's side, which is often more attractive, with a palm-sized white monster bone, which is carved into the appearance of this bone monster before his death, and his skills are exquisite.
Lu Xi was attracted at a glance, his beard was unshaven, and he looked at the mercenary who was forty or fifty years old, and nodded with a little respect in his perfunctory manner, "Miss Lucy." ”
Tevas frowned when he looked at it, but there was no way, he couldn't press the heads of this group of mercenaries and let them salute Miss Lucy properly.
Lu Xi didn't care too much about the other party's respect or not, and squatted down, "Is this what you carved?" ”
The mercenary uncle was holding a bone that had been cut several times and rubbing it, and there should have been a short knife and dagger in his hand, but unfortunately this group of guards said that they were worried about hurting Miss Lucy, so they forcibly let him put it away, and he could only hold the half-carved bone in his hand.
Uncle Mercenary doesn't have any opinions, if it were other nobles, he wouldn't set up a stall here, that is, seeing that this Miss Lucy is doing well, he is willing to give this face and cooperate.
"yes." The mercenary uncle replied lazily.
I don't have a carving knife in my hand, and I always feel that my hands are very itchy, and I don't feel this way when I don't usually carve things.
"It's amazing." Lu Xi picked up the bone carving and looked at it, all kinds of details were lifelike, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Then can you carve two of my demon pets?" ”
Xiao Yuan and Mao Hao are not in the village, they are catching monsters around the Broken Tail Village, and they go out early and return late every day, and they are more dedicated than going to work.
Because Lu Xi accidentally said before that the fewer monsters around, the more stable it would be for Broken Tail Village, so the two cubs grabbed the monsters harder.
Anyway, the rest of the monster meat that couldn't be eaten ended up in the stomachs of the villagers, and Lu Xi didn't stop the two of them.
"Cheng, 100 gold coins, you will be given in ten days." The mercenary uncle nodded directly, Miss Lucy's two monsters, they can often see them, but they don't need to call them over to see them.
Lu Xi didn't feel that the price was expensive, and felt that the other party had given him a lot of cheapness, after all, the monster bones themselves were rare materials, and good monster bones were worth dozens of gold coins, some of which were harder than stones, and it was extremely difficult to carve.
This mercenary uncle is an intermediate elemental warrior, and he is a relatively powerful kind, so he can carve with ease, otherwise no matter how good the technique is, it is useless to carve without moving.
Lu Xi nodded, and Tevas next to him immediately stepped out, took out fifty gold coins and handed them to the mercenary uncle, which was a deposit, and the remaining fifty would be given when it was delivered.
Lu Xi reflected on himself, how could he not even have to pay for things by himself, he had fallen.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Xi went to two more stalls with strange items to walk around, and the merchants who placed all kinds of jewelry and treasures realized that Miss Lucy likes novelty.
Also, Miss Lucy hasn't seen anything good, how can she look down on their inferior jewelry.
Hurriedly take out the rare goods, whether they are worth it or not, and just highlight one that will catch Miss Lucy's eye.
But there are some caravans, the goods are relatively simple, and there is really no way.
Lu Xi walked around very satisfied, she didn't plan to buy too many things, but the Tevas next to her paid too quickly, she was often hesitant to buy it, and the delivery had already been made.
Fallen, what a fall.
While spitting on himself, Lu Xi returned to the carriage, pulled the two maids, as well as Anne, Lia, Ferrona and other girls, and began to count his loot.
She also didn't use so many things, and it was wasted when she put them away, and in the end she gave them out to those who could use them.
The convoy set off slowly and leisurely on the road, and in the carriage, the laughter of the girls rang out.
The next thing is probably this very everyday journey story, hahaha, I don't know if I like it or not, if I don't like it, I'll speed up the next plot.
If it feels good, I'll write the story of the road slowly.