Chapter 924: The Rival (Page 1/1)

"What person?" Alfie looked back in shock, and as soon as he swore that there was no one nearby, such a person suddenly appeared, this is a naked, naked slap in the face!

"The small one is a cart puller!" A stout middle-aged man in shabby clothes behind him nodded and smiled, afraid that the two would not believe it, and specifically pointed to a rickshaw on the corner not far away.

"How do you know we're going to hire a car?" asked Alfie, skeptical, every word like a half-year pickle in the water of suspicion. He carefully looked at the coachman in front of him, and found that he was not very old, but due to the long-term exposure to the wind and sun, he looked a little more vicissitudes than his actual age.

"Listening to the accents of the two, they are not from the imperial capital, and judging by the dress of this lord, he should be a respected priest, right?" the coachman put on a flattering smile on his face, "This priest must be going to the branch of the Holy See, right?

"You're really a man of heart!" Alfie glanced at the coachman with a deep look, and at the same time raised his guard in the bottom of his heart.

"Don't dare to be it, this uncle, you have won the award. We just rely on this strength to eat, if we don't have a little eye, the whole family will starve to death. The coachman seemed to sense something, and said without a trace.

"I wonder who else is in this big brother's family?" Alfie asked casually.

"An old lady, a blind girl. The coachman glanced at Alfie with a blazing eye.

"Blind girl?" said Alfie, thoughtfully.

"Jason, haven't you always fed your own family and not been hungry?When did an old lady and sister pop up?" Alfie was about to continue asking something, but was interrupted by the voice of another male duck.

Alfie looked up at the sound of the voice, and saw that at some point a two-man carriage pulled by an old horse had stopped in front of him, and a thin and withered man jumped out of the carriage and saluted them in a decent manner.

"Jill, are you stealing my business again?" the rickshaw driver known as Jason glared at the man.

"What is robbery? Is this fair competition?" After Jill finished saluting Alfie and Selent, he turned around and looked at Jason without flinching: "Any guest with a little vision knows how to choose. ”

As Jill finished speaking, his eyes wandered back and forth between his carriage and Jason's rickshaw. His two-horse carriage, though also quite dilapidated, had at least one part that could barely be called a carriage, and although this carriage only had a small window in the front, it looked like a sealed box, but Jason's rickshaw was even more shabby, to put it mildly, it was almost a bench and two wheels patchwork, and if it weren't for the thick bluestone slabs paved with thick bluestone slabs in the imperial capital, and replaced by a rugged country road, this car would have been torn apart.

"You!" Jason shouted with little confidence, and then pitifully set his eyes on Alfie.

"What are you? Don't you know that business is the most important thing to be honest?How can a person like you who is full of lies be trusted by customers?" Jill rebuked Jason, then turned to Alfie and said, "Uncle, I'm right?"

As soon as Alfie looked at the expressions of the two, he knew that they must have had a similar argument more than once, and the outcome of the argument was obvious.

"I wonder how much it will cost to hire you from here to visit the Holy See Branch?" Alfie asked.

Jason looked at the size of the two of them in embarrassment, and then replied hesitantly: "Twenty, not fifteen copper coins!"

"It's pretty cheap. Alfie nodded thoughtfully, but he didn't know exactly what the price was.

"Great, sir, all you need to hire me is a silver coin. Needless to say, you know that a carriage is much more comfortable and faster than a rickshaw!" Seeing the signs that Alfie was intent on moving, Jill quickly interjected.

"Jill, you're really a magic lion! You must know that even a luxurious magic carriage is only three silver coins from here to the Holy See branch, and you dare to ask for a silver coin in this broken car, you really want money!" Jason said in shock.

"What do you know??," Jill widened, "This carriage of mine is already the best carriage that can be hired near the North Gate, and the price of a silver coin is absolutely fair!"

"Wait. Seeing that the two had a tendency to continue arguing, Alfie stopped them with a headache, "You just mentioned the magic carriage?"

"Uncle, don't you know?" Hearing Alfie's question, the surprised expression on Gil's face flashed, and the two small eyes rolled a few times before continuing: "The magic carriage is inspired by the mechanical carriage created by the Grand Duke of Bavaria by magicians, and some magic arrays powered by magic stones are added to ordinary carriages, which can make the carriage more comfortable. Currently, only the nobility is eligible. ”

"You mentioned just now that you can hire ......" Alfie didn't understand why the magic carriage that only nobles could use could be hired by ordinary people, and even the price was public.

"Ahem-" Jill looked around for a while, and saw that no one noticed this, so he lowered his voice and whispered: "Uncle, you don't know, although the nobles are extremely beautiful on the surface, there are many backward guys in the family road who have swollen faces and fat people, and if they don't use the magic carriage, they will acquiesce to their coachman to drive the magic carriage out to earn some extra money, as long as the family crest on the carriage is removed." Everyone turned a blind eye to this. ”

"I see. Alfie showed a clear expression, and quietly exchanged a look with Celent, it seemed that the nobles of the imperial capital were not living as well as they wanted.

"You mentioned earlier that the magic carriage was inspired by the Grand Duke of Bavaria, why didn't I see those mechanical carriages?" said Alfie, with an intriguing expression. When he was in the small town of Flosaken, Bishop Olufei rode in a mechanical chariot, but Alfie was in a humble position at the time, and he had no chance to get close, let alone research.

"Well...... Jill showed an embarrassed expression on his face, his fingers rubbed unconsciously, and Alfie immediately took out a silver coin and stuffed it into Jill's hand, "We've decided to hire your carriage!"

Jill's eyes lit up when he received the silver coin, and after weighing the amount in his hand, he carefully put it in his pocket. Then he said with a smile on his face: "After the cataclysm, the power supply of the mechanical carriage has been affected, and almost all of them have been scrapped because there is no power source. Uncle, please get in the car, we will talk as we walk......"

After saying that, he gave Jason a smug look, and the latter spat on the ground with an ugly face, and pulled his broken car away.

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