57. Country anecdotes (3)
Not far in front of a very generous weapons shop, in front of the street there is not even a stall of merchants, the wall outside the shop hung a slip of guns, swords and flying spears, Kuzi and I saw it, after the eyes lit up, this time out, Kuzi also carried the long-handled axe, thinking that if you are lucky enough to be able to sell, you should be able to exchange it for some money. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ info I didn't expect bartering to be popular here. Originally, I was still a little weak-hearted, and the silver hammer in the money bag on my waist was not enough to buy a Naiti bow, but now it seems that I don't have to worry.
So Qige squatted on this grocery stall to pick up some strange-shaped whetstone ore, and every time he thought it was good, he put the stone in front of him. I said in my heart that twenty silver hammers are a whetstone, and the four of us can only buy one piece by pooling money, and you squat here and pick and choose a bunch of them, and in the end you can only buy one piece? I have very limited knowledge of ores, and I can only barely understand magic crystals, and I call the rest stones. However, it seems that Kige is much more professional and patient, and can stay for a long time in front of the grocery stall.
Naturally, I was not in the mood to watch them pick up stones, and we didn't understand these things, so I said hello to Kig and said that we were waiting for them in the weapons shop in front. A few steps ahead, there is a shop selling weapons, it is a two-storey building, and when I look closer, I find that this stone house is much more elaborate than the surrounding stone houses, the whole stone house is made of strip stones, and the white lime is used to outline even gaps, and the leather cover of the door is printed with a black sword cross pattern, which looks very large-scale.
Kuzi and I opened the curtain and walked in, the stone house was not as dim as I imagined, nor the long wooden counter as I imagined, if I hadn't seen the knives and swords hanging on the signboard, I would even have thought that I had entered a restaurant, there were more than a dozen wooden tables in the whole hall, each table was equipped with four chairs of exquisite style, these tables and chairs were made of precious ironwood, you must know that ironwood is a very good material for making hard bows, longbows made of ironwood are sold for about fifteen silver hammers in the market, such a wooden square table is at least twenty ironwood longbows, that is to say, the cost of a single table is worth three gold coinsγ What does three gold coins mean? It means the equivalent of an adult's income for a year.
Seeing such a big battle, Kuzi couldn't help but want to retreat a little, and his footsteps involuntarily stopped, and he touched the mountain axe on his back with a little weakness, and wanted to hold me again, but I had already stepped forward, and a young waiter of the orc tribe came up to me and said, "Is there anything you can do to help?" β
When I saw that the waiter did not despise me because of my young age, my heart was a little less, so I said, "I have an axe that I want to sell, don't you know how to buy it?"
"Our store not only sells all kinds of weapons, but also buys some high-quality weapons, but will do some relative discounting, of course, we will ask a professional weapons appraiser to make a preliminary valuation of the weapons you sell, and then discount according to the current market price. "The waiter brought us to the square table, invited the two of us to sit down, and brought us two cups of tea made from an unknown leaf, which I saw Kuz did not drink, and I did not dare to drink it.
The waiter sat down on the chair opposite us, and I realized that this weapon shop sold goods like this, which is a bit like the selling of buildings and cars in my previous world, and I didn't expect this knife seller to be able to open the shop so magnificently. I couldn't help but admire a little, and was looking around, when I heard the waiter on the other side ask us, "I wonder what kind of axes the two guests are selling?"
Kuzi hurriedly stood up and untied the axe behind his back, and dozens of pounds of axes were placed on the ironwood table, making a dull sound.
I pointed to the axe inlaid with bronze carvings, and asked the waiter, "This is it, when will your weapons appraiser arrive?"
"Well, if it's all I have, I can judge the price of the weapon on the spot. The waiter glanced at the mountain opening axe on the wooden table, and said confidently: "This is a carved copper pattern precision forging long-handled mountain axe from the dwarf race, the entire axe handle and axe body are forged as a whole, using the green iron produced by the refined iron veins in the mountains at the northern foot of our Pai Plateau, the axe blade uses the clamping technology to inlay about a kilogram of tungsten steel blade on the axe blade, this axe is still finely polished, but it seems that it has been polished many times, and half of the tungsten steel on the edge has been used." β
He pointed to the blade of the axe, and I could only see the slight difference in the color of the axe blade on the side of the blade, but I didn't expect the waiter to be able to see so thoroughly with just a sweep. Then I heard him say: "The workmanship of this axe is still very fine, and the long handle of the carved copper pattern is polished so smooth, which shows that the owner usually likes to use it, but this is a big guy, and he doesn't have the strength to wield it." However, judging by the level of wear and tear of this axe's blade, this can only be regarded as a six-layer new mountain opening axe. β
I asked straight to the point, "How much do you think this axe is worth?"
"Most of the new copper-grained long-handled mountains like this are sold for thirty silver, and your sixty percent new ones can only be sold for about eighteen silver. The waiter groaned for a moment and said directly.
I asked him again, "How much will you charge for it?"
"This is one of the most common high-quality weapons produced by the dwarf workshop, generally those dwarf robbers in the northern foothills prefer to use them, and our orc werewolf warriors prefer to have fists and swords and blade claws, and they will feel that the long-handled mountain is too heavy and inconvenient to carry. Minotaur warriors prefer ebony clubs or battle staffs, and the axe, while weighty, can be a bit too short to fit the minotaur's physique. Only the one-horned rhinoceros people in the southwest of the plateau prefer such long-handled axes, and most of our axes will be sold to them. After deducting the freight depreciation and our profits, we can only give you a maximum of ten silver coins. β
The waiter looked at me and Kuz with his eyes, waiting for our reply.
I didn't expect to be so depressed at all, it seems that this axe is not a hot commodity, Kuzi and I looked at each other, I think this thing is of little use to us, and it is extremely bulky to carry, so it is better to sell it without worry. In the end, I could only nod very helplessly and agree to sell, the waiter counted ten silver hammers to me without any expression on his face, asked someone to take the axe on the wooden table, and then asked me: "Guest, is there anything else I need to do?"
I asked, "Do you sell bows here?"
The waiter was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to finally think of my age, and then replied, "We don't buy crossbow weapons, but if you want to buy iron arrowheads, we do sell them too." β
After my detailed inquiry, I finally realized that the shops for melee weapons and ranged weapons were separated, and there was one of the largest bow and crossbow weapons shops in the town on the south side of the town's central square, and the waiter suggested that we might as well go there to have a look. Walking out of the weapon shop, Kuz said to me with some frustration: "Jia, why don't we buy some steel arrowheads, and I will continue to use the hunter's bow, if I find the right position, I can also shoot the demon antelope." β
I frowned and said, "We must change the bow, originally my role is limited, the two of us mainly rely on you Azi, we must buy you a better bow." Let's find out if there are any shops that sell magic books, and see how much my magic book can sell!"
"There are only a few pages left in your broken book, how much is it worth, otherwise we will sell that bottle of wound medicine!" Kuz subconsciously touched his waist bag with his hand, and said with some reluctance.
That's when I really realized that even in this magical world, I can't do without money, and I have to come up with some money-making ideas as soon as possible, otherwise I won't even be able to wear pants soon. I don't really want to sell the wound medicine, in a time of crisis, that's equivalent to an extra life, and now I have to say, "Let's go to the bow shop first." β
"Yes!" Kutz was very cheerful.
When we walked out of the weapons shop, we saw Caterina coming into the weapons shop to look for us, and when she saw us coming out, she asked, "Did you get a bow?"
I had to tell her about our situation and ask her, "Where's Miss Qi?"
"Qi Niang, she's waiting for you to help move the stones!" Caterina smiled a little strangely.
I said strangely, "Didn't you just buy a whetstone, and that thing doesn't look sinking!"
We squeezed through the crowd and walked back, only then we saw Kig still squatting in front of the grocery stall, and the minotaur was saying to Kig angrily, "You have bought all ninety-eight stones, and you are ...... Do you still need these two whetstones, do you want to ...... No, I'll give you two more pieces, you can make a whole piece, add forty to me, and make up twenty silver. β
Seeing the rocks piled up like a hill in front of Kige, I finally knew why Caterina wanted me and Kuz to help carry the stones, and it turned out that the stall owner had said that each piece of twenty was twenty coppers, and we had gathered twenty silver hammers and bought almost all the whetstones in his stall. Looking at the large and small stones, I thought to myself, do we really want each of us to carry a bag of these stones to the market?
"Cut, I don't want any more of these rotten stones, I want these ninety-eight pieces, I buy so much, it's good to count nineteen silver hammers. Zig couldn't help but say, and threw the nineteen silver coins in his hand. After the minotaur stall owner caught it stupidly, he was so choked that he couldn't speak, and he didn't even care about paying sixty copper less. Instead, he grinned as he grabbed the glittering silver coin in his big hand.