Chapter 16 - Fair trade
Living in the Jurassic for eighty years, Manda forgot most of the rules of human society, and he almost said everything he saw.
Seeing Bruto’s tears of excitement, Manda swallowed the words back, not out of sympathy, but out of reason.
His natal **** did not speak too clearly. He believed that he had the ability to judge the value of items and also judged the value of smokestone, but maybe it was just a coincidence, or a different understanding of value.
In the eyes of others, perhaps the real golden apple is worth forty gold coins, but for the full-rank believers of Ladon, the value of golden apples is far from being measurable by gold coins.
Even if the golden apple is fake, how should Manda explain his judgment? He didn’t want to expose his divine power, and the illegitimate son of a baron would never have seen a high-class product like a golden apple.
Even if he can find a suitable reason, who can guarantee that Pluto will not lose control on the spot and directly kill him.
There are some things, it’s no good to say it right, and it’s no good to say it wrong. It’s better to rot in your stomach and never say it.
After lunch, Pluto had to guard his golden apple every step of the way. Leon was going to indulge in the tavern. Quinta had to stay with Pluto because of his special appearance. Sphinx took Manda with him. Went to the bazaar, which was their only pastime before leaving the city of Artex.
Tieshan Town also has a bazaar, but its scale is far from comparable to that of Artex City. Hundreds of vendors gather in the spacious and noisy streets, and Manda is surging with overwhelming merchandise.
He really doesn’t know why he is surging, and he is not someone who has never seen the world. No matter how prosperous the market in Drawing City is, it is not as good as the supermarkets in the previous life. Moreover, he does not have such a strong shopping demand, nor is he so. Strong consumption power.
More than half of the merchants in the bazaar are selling cotton yarn. This is a special product of Artex City. It is quite famous throughout the continent. Sphinx spent a full 60 silver coins on cotton yarn until their carriage was almost out of place. , I put away my purse with unfinished talent.
Seeing that Manda helped him carry all the cotton yarn, Sphinx gave two silver coins as a reward for this trip. What a vicious woman, she has two hundred silver coins.
Manda strolled around the market. From food to clothes, from pottery to ironware, there was nothing worthy of him to look at. Until he saw a boy of his age, Manda finally stopped.
The boy’s feet are covered with a piece of sheepskin, on which is a short bow, several arrowheads and a dagger.
A stall like this is too shabby, it can hardly attract anyone’s attention, but it attracts Manda’s attention.
He squatted in front of the stall and smelled a tempting smell. It’s definitely not a mutton smell, it’s more tempting than that. He picked up the short bow and touched it, then looked at the pile of arrowheads, and finally stopped his sight on the dagger.
“How much does this knife cost?”
The boy has black curly hair and small eyes on his dirty face. The bridge of the nose is high, the lips are thin, and they are always pressed together, which makes you can see the cramps and tension in his heart at a glance. .
“As long as… eleven copper coins.”
The boy’s asking price was not high, but the Sphinx came up instinctively and slashed.
“Such a knife is worth eleven copper coins? You can buy a dagger for fifteen copper coins!”
The boy lowered his head, his face flushed, as if he had been wronged, and he seemed to have done something wrong.
“Ten, ten copper coins are fine.”
“Seven copper coins, I will give you seven!” Seeing the boy give in easily, the lion woman decided to cut it harder.
“Seven, seven…” The boy was a little unwilling. The price was too low, but he hesitated again and again, he nodded.
Manda always felt that something was wrong. He stretched out an index finger to turn himself into cross-eyed eyes, stared at the knife and almost didn’t sit on the ground.
A small pile of gold coins appeared next to the knife. A careful count turned out to be 43. This knife was worth more than the golden apple!
Not only this knife, more than 20 gold coins appeared next to the short bow, and even dozens of silver coins appeared next to each arrowhead.
Manda bit his finger hard, and after recovering his supernatural power, he smiled at the little boy: “Is it really seven copper coins?”
The little boy lowered his head and said: “No, no more, no more…”
Manda smiled triumphantly: “You are lucky today.”
He took out a handful of brass from his pocket, and just counted seven, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head.
“Fair trade, do you understand?” The voice of the **** of life echoed in my ears.
Manda responded loudly in his heart: He was willing to sell it to me!
“You can have no conscience, but you must understand the rules, do you understand?”
Manda can find a hundred reasons to explain the rationality of this transaction, but his natal **** is not in the mood to argue with him, he grasps Manda’s brain and keeps kneading it.
In the severe pain, Manda took out a silver coin.
I will take out half of my wealth, this is always okay!
“You know how much this knife is worth, let me show you a little sincerity!”
Manda took out both silver coins, and the headache finally disappeared.
“Give it to you, give it to you,” Manda took a deep breath, “I want this knife.”
The boy looked at Manda in surprise. He didn’t earn a silver coin in a month. He took two steps back, shook his head and said: “Don’t tease me, I don’t know you, and I haven’t offended you.”
“It’s just a fair deal. What are you talking about teasing and offending?” Manda stuffed two silver coins into the boy’s hand, and then took the knife from the sheepskin. Before the boy recovered, Manda was already Go far.
Sphinx hurriedly caught up with Manda, grabbed his arm and said, “Are you crazy? You spent two silver coins for such a knife?”
Manda looked at the Lion Girl helplessly. He didn’t know how to explain it. Not far away, an elderly vendor crouched in the corner and shouted: “Young man, I have good things here, just for you. “
Manda turned her head and saw the old man in tattered clothes. He had a very special appearance. His head was large, the upper part was wide and the lower part was narrow, his forehead was high, and he had two swollen bags. , The nose is big, the lips protrude forward, and a goatee grows on the pointy chin.
This goatee fits him too well, and the old man looks like a refined goat.
There is also a shabby stall in front of him, which is even more shabby than the boy’s stall.
On a piece of linen, there are a mess of small things, a dirty puppet, a rusty little iron man, a top almost the same color as the earth, a twelve-line chess with a few pieces missing, and a dozen more. A palm-sized stone statue with green moss.
what is this? Inferior second-hand toys? Sphinx covered his nose and said, “Dare to sell this kind of thing?”
The old man raised his dark face, gritted his teeth darker than his face, and smiled: “Only people who know the goods know their value, boy, are you right?”
Manda squatted on the ground and nodded. The moment he turned on his divine power, the gold coins in front of him almost swamped it.
There are at least one hundred gold coins around that puppet, and each little iron man has forty gold coins. The top may exceed two hundred gold coins. The value of the twelve-line chess is at least twice that of the top…
The most terrifying thing is the dozens of small stone elephants. He can’t count the gold coins around the stone statues. The place where the stone statues are placed has become a hill of dozens of gold coins.
What is the situation? Why is this pile of tatters so valuable?
Manda got up and sighed, pretending to be old-fashioned and said, “Things are good things, but I can’t afford them.”
The old man stroked his beard and grinned with a mouthful of yellow teeth: “The price can be negotiated, how about a gold coin, these things only need a gold coin.”
“Do you know what you are talking about? Have you seen the look of gold coins?” The Lion Girl snorted, “Change these things into a crock pot and save them for begging.”
After she finished speaking, she picked up Manda and turned to leave. The voice of the **** of life appeared in Manda’s mind again.
“Why not buy such a good thing at such a low price?”
What kind of stuff is this?
Manda resisted the irritation and replied cautiously in his heart: I really can’t afford it.
“It’s just a gold coin.”
I can’t get a gold coin.
“Think of a way.”
What can I do? Besides, this is not fair. You said that you have to trade fairly.
“Don’t confront me!”
The gods grabbed Manda’s brain again. Manda rolled his eyes, foamed at the mouth, and broke free from the sphinx’s arms.
Let you have a million reasons, he has a tight tie. Manda lay on the ground and hugged the lion woman’s thighs and pleaded loudly: “Give me a gold coin, please, I will double it back to you!”
The Lion Girl squinted at Manda. Under the sunset, her silhouette became so clear that Manda felt her hair slowly stand up.
Manda gave up the extravagant hope of asking for gold coins. He was thinking about whether to run away or beg for mercy, but unexpectedly saw the Lion Girl emptied her purse.
“Sixty-two silver coins, there are only so many, the remaining money is divided among them.”
Manda took the silver coin, UU read www.uukanshu. com looked at the old man, and the old man shook his head and said, “I only need one gold coin. You should know how much advantage you have taken.”
Damn old guy, can’t you be a little more pristine like that kid?
Manda looked at the lion woman again, and the lion woman sighed and took off her earrings.
The old man took the silver coin and earrings, shrugged the middle part of his upper lip, exposing two front teeth, and said strangely: “Just as you owe me, and what you owe me will be returned to me after all.”
Is there still Wang Fa? Spent a gold coin to buy a pile of tatters, and I still have to owe him!
Manda carried the pile of dirty tatters on his back and walked cautiously behind the lion woman. When she was about to get on the carriage, she suddenly heard the lion woman viciously say: “On the way back, you can only eat black bread. Don’t even want to drink a drop of broth. After you reach the valley, you will clean my room for a year!”
Manda smiled awkwardly, and suddenly heard someone yelling behind him: “Please wait!”
Manda turned her head and saw the little boy who had sold him the dagger chasing him up. He was holding the dirty sheepskin in his arms, with a short bow and arrowhead in it.
“Let me go, no matter what price you pay, I can’t afford it, and I don’t want to buy it anymore, please don’t be embarrassed…”
The boy stuffed the sheepskin into Manda’s arms: “These are all for you, and this…”
The boy took out a long brass brace from his rucksack and tucked it into Manda’s hand: “It may be a little bigger, and it will be available in a few years.”
“Thank you for your kindness, but I really…”
The boy turned around and ran away before he finished speaking. Manda waited nervously for the instructions of the gods.
He gave it to me, I really have no money…
“Remember today’s kindness, remember what you owe him.”