Chapter 473: Buying and Selling
The tavern that Amu said can no longer be described as a tavern, it is a very luxurious hotel, entering the imposing stone carved gate, first a beautiful garden, a square foundation, semi-circular roof, often with huge stone pillars and colonnades to support the ornate buildings, hidden in the garden, you will faintly see the delicate figures and animal carvings on the stone wall. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Outside is a chaotic metropolis, but once you enter, it seems like a completely different world, a very quiet atmosphere, where elegant gentlemen come and go, and some young and beautiful maids dressed in maid costumes will give them the gentlest and most charming smiles when they see each guest. Compared to the outside, this is paradise.
"Hey, Amu, which honored guest have you brought to our master?"
A man who looked like a steward greeted him with a smile, he actually knew Amu, he greeted Amu, but he had already bowed respectfully to Guo Jia, and he could see at a glance that the person in front of him was the middle-earth merchant brought by Amu.
Amu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and the two of them said a few words affectionately, Amu turned to Guo Jia and said happily: "Master, he is the steward here, I told him, you are an honored guest from Dunhuang, and you have brought the most popular beautiful silk, tea and porcelain here, and he said that their Lord Terrance is about to have a birthday, and he is going to have a big banquet, and he needs these things just in need, and he will see you in person." ”
Amu smiled: "The most important holiday for the people there is birthday, although the lord is the first time to come back here to do business, he is very lucky but very good, do you think we will meet Lord Truss first?"
Guo Jia nodded inexorably, and after a while, a tall and stout man strode out, and said with a smile: "I was about to send someone to buy, I heard that someone transported goods from the East to my hotel?" Amu, who was busy, hurriedly ran over to introduce Guo Jia. Truns looked at Guo Jia, nodded arrogantly, and said in a tone of voice: "Great, I'm going to hold a grand banquet soon, banquet all the leading people in the city, need some beautiful silk, fine porcelain and fine tea, come, take me to see if your goods are worth my money!"
Guo Jia didn't understand the language he said, Amu immediately translated the meaning of Trus to Guo Jia, and before he finished speaking, Trus had left Guo Jia, walked to Guo Jia's camel caravan, and said arrogantly: "Move the goods down, tell me to see it first!"
Amu immediately translated this sentence to Guo Jia, Guo Jia nodded to Xing Tian, and several people moved boxes of goods down with the help of some sturdy servants in the hotel. Since Ximen Chuixue has already helped Guo Jia, he has not been stingy with the goods, and the goods transferred to him are the most exquisite and expensive products, and Truns inspected them one by one, nodding frequently, and the smile on his face gradually became happy.
Amu said to Guo Jia in Chinese: "Don't be angry with him for his impoliteness, the people there are like this, in addition to their own people, for foreigners, their courtesy and respect are generally determined according to the distance of the region, the closer to them are foreigners, the more respectful they are, and the farther away they are, the less they care." ”
He looked at Trunce, who was bending over and looking at Guo Jia's goods with great interest, lowered his voice again, and said to Guo Jia: "However, they are the people who like to use exotic items the most, the farther away they are, the more they like to ask for them, as long as they hear about them, they will try their best to buy them, therefore, as long as he likes it, then the price is definitely not a problem, my lord, it looks like you are going to get rich!"
Guo Jia asked blankly, "Where is he from?"
Amu shrugged his shoulders and asked rhetorically, "Besides Persia, has the lord heard of such strange people anywhere?"
When he woke up early in the morning, Guo Jia felt dizzy, and the strength of the wine seemed to have not subsided. He groaned, went to the table, grabbed a water bottle, and drank it with a clatter, and poured half a bottle of cold boiled water into his stomach, which quenched his thirst a little.
Yesterday, Truss was very pleased with his goods, so he graciously invited him to the banquet hall to discuss, where there were many merchants from the Western Regions who were talking loudly, and naturally there was no shortage of fine wine and beautiful women. For the Persians, wine and beauty always go hand in hand.
They drank all the best wines, Guo Jia's goods were settled, and his heart relaxed, and he could show his head less, so it would naturally be safer. Before Simon Blowing Snow's caravan returned home, it would be safest if he could hide in the hotel in Trus all the time. With this thought, Guo Jia began to fully interpret his new identity.
These big businessmen are both good wine and lustful, and Guo Jia naturally can't be out of place if he wants to fit in, so he also did the same, sipping on the chilled grape wine, and he also chose a seductive Persian dancer to serve the wine. The girl has jet-black hair, charming, blue, dreamy big eyes, and a light veil on her face that is always difficult to see, but the vague outline of her facial features is definitely very delicate and gorgeous.
Her eyes are fascinating, but what is even more fascinating is her navel eyes. A sturdy and flexible little waist, a snow-white round belly, and a sexy navel eye...... , it was because of her enchanting belly dance that Guo Jia paid attention to her. He just stared at her little waist and glanced at her twice, and the empathetic Amu ran over and said a few words to the girl who had just finished dancing.
Compared with those guys with fat brains, Guo Jia's figure and appearance are no different, and it is easier to make people feel good, so the girl looked at Guo Jia with a smile, and walked over generously, what is her name, Guo Jia has forgotten, he only remembers that the enchanting dancer likes to stroke his chest the most, and likes to wrap around his body like a snake, so that Guo Jia is also full of sex, and wants to take her back to "rectify the law on the spot", kill a big ocean horse, and win glory for our people.
However, in the grand ballroom that resembles a bar, the merchants are very interested in him, the new little brother, and everyone will come up with a glass to talk to him and introduce himself. They are all in business, and they pay special attention to making friends with other businessmen, especially those from afar, don't look at Guo Jia's small caravan now, but if a trip is successful, the family property may increase tenfold, and next time they will be enough business partners to be on an equal footing with them.
The merchants of the Far Realm have no competition with them, but can help each other, so they are most enthusiastic about making friends, and almost every one of them drinks an astonishing amount of alcohol, and Guo Jia and every enthusiastic guest have to raise a glass to drink. In particular, when the drunken and drunken Truns announced in public that he had packed all of Guo Jia's goods, and that they were one percent higher than the market price, everyone celebrated and forced him to drink a few more large glasses of wine.
Originally, although the wine had enough stamina, it may not have had an attack at that time, but when the wine was full, music suddenly played in the side compartment, and those exotic merchants almost subconsciously writhed when they heard the music, and the Persian dancer dragged Guo Jia down the dance hall with great interest, so after a random dance, Guo Jia completely lay down, and the beauty did not eat it, and his head was still faintly painful.
Guo Jia finished washing, and when he walked out of the door, he gently stroked his forehead.
As soon as he went out, Amu flashed out diligently, like a most conscientious servant. He had been waiting patiently under the colonnade for a long time, and as soon as he saw Guo Jia coming out, he greeted him warmly: "Aha, my lord, hello, did you have a good time drinking last night?"
Guo Jia smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Happy! The head is about to open, the amount of alcohol in those guests is really amazing!"
Amu squeezed his eyes at him, and said with a smile: "Is the master regretting that he did not enjoy the gentleness of a beautiful girl? The girl here accompanies her for one night, and the price is very expensive, I see that the master is already drunk, and I am afraid that he will not be able to enjoy himself, so he is good at advocating and did not ask her to serve the master." The master is going to live here for a while, and there is a chance!"
"Haha......"
"Haha......"
The two men tacitly laughed a few times, and Guo Jia knocked on his head and said, "Oh, by the way, yesterday was not without gain." Didn't Lord Truns promise to buy all my goods? ”
Amu grinned happily: "Hahaha, my lord, you are really a straightforward person, and this matter has not been decided yet." Mistress Truss went out early in the morning, saying that he was going to invite an important person to his birthday party, and that he would talk about it when he returned. ”
Guo Jia was stunned and said, "Still undecided?" last night...... Didn't you announce it in public? I misremember?"
Amu smiled: "No, no, no, you are not mistaken. But according to their customs, when something needed to be considered and decided, they would first drink a lot of wine, get drunk, and then make a decision. But don't think that things will really be decided on this, when they wake up, they will think about it again and negotiate with you, if the idea at this time is different from the previous decision, then the previous discussion will be canceled, and it is not considered that they have broken their promise. ”
"That's ...... so"
Guo Jia suddenly said: "The decision after drinking is really inappropriate, I knew it was so, I should have negotiated a deal with him yesterday before drinking." ”
Amu shrugged and said, "It's useless, sir, if they made their decision in a sober state, they would also decide again after they were drunk, and this is the final decision!"
Guo Jia's eyes were in a daze, and he muttered, "It's really ...... What a great habit!"
Amu smiled and said, "But don't worry, master, I can see that Lord Truns is very satisfied with your goods, and I don't think it is very likely that he will change his mind." If he obviously likes it, but denies his previous decision for the sake of price reduction or some other reason, it is deception, and in their concept, the most shameful thing is to lie, followed by owing money, so it is unlikely that he will regret it. ”
Guo Jia couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "This is really a good habit, no wonder his business is so big." Although it is said that there is no business and no treachery, but a person with a small eye will be deceived and deceived by doing some small business, and if he wants to achieve such a big career, he must be honest. ”
Amu said: "Maybe, in fact, the only thing they hate is lying, the reason why they hate owing money is because they owe money to others, and in the end they will definitely lie." Master, do you want Amu to accompany you to go outside for a walk first, and choose the goods to be bought, so that as soon as Lord Truns settles, the master can buy the goods immediately and save a lot of time. ”
Guo Jia nodded and said, "Okay, call my steward, let's go together!"
The steward he said was Xing Tian, and Amu naturally knew it, so he hurriedly agreed: "Okay master, he lives next door to you and has already gotten up." ”