Chapter 196 Shop and Favor
Early the next morning, Levitra was very rare not to take his troops out of the city to hunt the enemy. Instead, he asked about buying and selling houses through the local Tiemu, a native of Blackstone Fort.
Although Tiemu himself didn't know much about these, there were people in his clan who understood them. Soon he ran back to his own Wild Clan and brought back a snow-white hair and a wrinkle on his face. He didn't seem to know that the old dwarf who had lived for hundreds of years was said to be an elder in charge of the Wild Clan.
After listening to Levitra’s request, the elder did not say anything, and did not even say his own name. He only told Levitra to bargain for a while, and then quickly took Levitra into a shop, which was very close to the place where the dwarves who served as quarantine officers of Tiexu were staying before, and fully met Levitra’s transportation and other requirements.
After entering the store, Levi was surprised to find that there were several humans in the store, and even one of the middle-aged men looked like a nobleman.
It seemed that they were alarmed by the actions of Levice and others. They looked over at the same time, but after seeing Levice, they were also a little surprised that humans would appear here. However, when they saw the old dwarf, they all had bitter faces. Only the middle-aged man dressed in a nobleman could barely squeeze out a smile from his face and said in a nagging manner: "Ah, elder, you are here, do you want something to drink? Today."
Before he could finish his words, the old dwarf glared at him angrily: "Okay, human, stop talking nonsense anymore. You have always said that you were bankrupt, so you can't compensate me for my losses. You will only have money unless you sell this store. Now I have brought you this opportunity!"
Speaking of this, the old dwarf pushed Levith and signaled that he was this opportunity. Then the old dwarf himself stood aside and kept silent because there was no need for him to speak for the next thing.
The middle-aged man looked at Levi's in surprise again, but he quickly adjusted his emotions. After all, in this dwarf's hometown, it was not easy to find someone to take over his shop. His reputation was already bad here, and the humans in front of him were undoubtedly outsiders, and he had to seize this opportunity.
"Ahh, this handsome warrior, don't know where you are from?"
The strange tone of the middle-aged man made Levitra affirm the other party’s identity. He was undoubtedly a nobleman, and there was a high probability that he came from the nobles of the empire. Because all the nobles in the Knight Kingdom were knights, their personalities were destined to never speak like this.
"I am the God-Choose Hero Leviz. Leave no gossip. I want your store, so you can open a price."
The decoration of this store looks good, with an area of at least 200 square meters, and it occupies a good geographical location. To be honest, Levitra thinks that the other party should be very profitable, but he has not seen any products in the store now. The old dwarf told him to bargain hard, which was obviously because the other party had obvious shortcomings and weaknesses that Levitra did not know.
Levitra knew that the old dwarves would never cheat him. Either the middle-aged man had business problems or he had problems with his human nature. But no matter what, he was definitely on the dwarves' blacklist, otherwise there would be no explanation.
The middle-aged man rubbed his hands: "Ahh, okay, then I'll get to the point. I need capital turnover, so I'll endure the pain and transfer this store to you at a price of 300 gold coins!"
To be honest, this price seems quite fair to Levitra, because he has already learned about the housing prices in Blackstone Fort.
Blackstone Fort was built by hollowing out a whole mountain, but this does not mean that they did not expand underground. It can even be said that only about one-third of the territory of the entire Blackstone Fort is on the ground, and the remaining two-thirds of the area are underground.
After all, dwarves are the race that is the best at and also likes forging and mining, and they also prefer to live underground. In addition to farmland, pastures, many ranger posts, military camps, city walls, etc., most important buildings, including residential areas, commercial areas, armories, and the most important entertainment venues of dwarves, are distributed underground.
The area where this store is located happens to be a prime underground area. No matter what you do, you can say that you can make a profit without losing money. Levitra really doesn't understand why the other party is so urgent and wants to sell it with such a little money. What's even more surprising is that no dwarf is willing to buy it until now!
However, thinking about the old dwarf elder's previous advice, and Levitra didn't have that much money, he shook his head calmly on the surface: "No, that's too much, I can only pay 50 gold coins at most."
"What?!"
The middle-aged man jumped up like he was bitten by a dog. His triangular eyes also showed fierce lights. He pointed at Levitra with one hand and said angrily: "You are too much. I originally wanted to give you some advantage in order to be human, but you are really too few!"
Li Weiss suddenly narrowed his eyes. He originally wanted to suppress the price. The two sides talked to each other again. He could accept almost 100 gold coins, but he didn't expect that the other party would get angry all of a sudden.
But in his opinion, the other party's performance was too exaggerated. It might be successful to deceive those solid dwarves, but it doesn't work on him. Moreover, he doesn't like the other party's attitude. Looking at his triangle eyes, you will know that he is definitely not a good person.
"I can only pay 50 gold coins. If you don't want to, just forget it. You can wait for the next person who is willing to bid." After Levitra finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave without any nostalgia.
Although the old dwarf elder who led the way was a little surprised by Levitra's decisiveness, he didn't say anything. This was the other party's choice. He was just doing Xiao Temu a favor. Although he wanted to solve his little trouble by the way, it was definitely just by the way.
The middle-aged man didn't expect that Levitra was so decisive. Seeing the other party walking out with great strides, he finally gritted his teeth: "Wait, wait, please wait!" Finally, he couldn't help but shout.
Levitra smiled slightly and stopped, but did not change his head, so as not to let the other party notice his expression. He just said in a cold voice: "Is there anything else?"
"I, I agree, 50 gold coins, but I want to trade it now!"
The middle-aged man said with a bit of gritting teeth. He had no choice but to agree, because what he had done before was completely stinking in the dwarf's castle. Although he tried countless methods later, except for spending a lot of money, he did not bring back any benefits. Still, no dwarf was willing to come to him to buy things.
In the end, he had to spend all his money and even decided to sell the store so that he could make up for the travel expenses to return to his hometown. However, after selling for three months, there was not even a single price question. Should these damn shorts be so vengeful?
Although 50 gold coins were very few, so small that they were even far less than one-tenth of his investment, he really had no better choice. At least these gold coins were enough to hire some warriors in the tavern, and then follow the caravan to safely return to the empire border city of Hemgart, which is his hometown.
He doesn't want to wait any longer, otherwise who would know what unexpected situation would happen? He is already unlucky enough during this period?
Levitra never expected things to go so smoothly. He was still a little dizzy after paying the payment and signing the letters. After the system prompted him that the store belonged to him, he was still a little dizzy. Is this too smooth?
Then he saw the middle-aged man who got the money, pointing out two gold coins from it and handing it to the old dwarf elder, and then rushed out of the store without looking back. Levith's expression suddenly became a little strange. Could this be the introduction fee? The dwarf would do this?
But before he could ask questions, a man and a woman suddenly heard the shouts of a man and a woman in the shop: "Wait, sir, don't leave us behind. You agreed to take us back to Rick's collar!"
Rick is one of the territory of the Empire near the Gray Mountains and Blackstone Fort. It is also the province where the Imperial Capital Aldolph Imperial City is located. The imperial border city of Hemgart is also part of the Rick Province.
The middle-aged man didn't even look back, but ran faster: "Stop dreaming, I won't take you two burdens back together. You can stay here for the rest of your life and revive your family here, hahaha!"
Perhaps because he got the money, he was in a much better mood than before, but the laughter was connected with what he said, making him very much like a villain.
Levitra couldn't help but look at the old dwarf elder, thinking to himself, do you want to say something?
The old dwarf put away two gold coins and nodded slightly at Levice: "Levice, I heard Tiexu and Xiao Tiemu say that you are a very good human being. Now I know. Thanks to you, I can recover this compensation fee. After he was discovered selling fake goods, I thought his store would never be sold. Since the matter here is over now, I won't stay longer."
It turned out to be a compensation fee, but it was only a compensation fee of 2 gold coins. As for you, an elder who seems to be of great strength and status, come to chase him personally...
Levitra had a further understanding of the dwarf's character, but he still politely sent the other party away, and secretly wrote down that he could not owe anyone money he owed in the future.
When he came back, he found that the man and woman were still standing there, looking at him with a little fear and pitiful look.
Levitra looked up and down and found that they were not too old. The man looked a little older than him, but he should be less than 25 years old, while the woman was about the same age as him. They all looked a little temperamental, not like ordinary farmers or warriors.
Levitra couldn't figure out whether they were husband and wife or brother and sister, but if they were the middle-aged man who had just run away, Levitra could also slightly guess their experience, but he still wanted the other party to say it in person.
"Why are you still here?"
"Sir, please take us in. Lord Lord abandoned us. If we leave this shop, we will have no place to go." The young man spoke first, his tone was very low, while the young woman continued to look at him pitifully.
"Lord, is that guy just now?"
Levitra dragged a chair and sat down, "Well, I think we can talk a little about this Lord, this shop, and you guys."
To be honest, he did not intend to drive the couple in front of him out directly, because when he just sent the old dwarf elder out, the other party said a few words to him, saying that these two people were not bad, and might be able to be Levith's assistants and manage the store.
After hearing Levitra's words, the man and woman were immediately happy, and then they hurriedly told everything they knew.
It turned out that they were a brother and sister, both from Hemgart, the border city of the empire. They were once rich. A baron appeared in the family. When they were told that when their father's generation, they not only had several manors, but also had a village as a fief.
But their luck was really not good. In a green-skinned raid, the village and manor were burned, and only the two of them who happened to go out to study in the imperial capital at that time. The entire family completely declined.
Although the brother and sister were heartbroken, they still mustered up the courage to revitalize their family. Even if they were in a downturn, they were descendants of the nobles, and had more education than ordinary farmers, and could still have a certain position in other noble families.
But they had no experience but met bad people. They happened to meet the Lord named Tras who had just run away, recruiting people, saying that they wanted to organize people to go to the Dwarves' Blackstone Fort to make a fortune, and promised them a very bright future. They said that when dwarves marry their wives, they used pure gold of equal amounts as dowry, and they would definitely make a lot of money.
The brother and sister were immediately moved. Although they felt that the dwarf dowry that Lord Tras said was too exaggerated, the border city they were in was less than a hundred miles away from the Dwarf's Blackstone Castle. They had more or less heard of the rumors about the dwarf, so they finally gritted their teeth and came to the Blackstone Castle in order to revitalize the family.
It was quite smooth at the beginning and made money for several days, but unfortunate things soon happened. After seeing the wealth of the dwarf, Lord Tras began to have a bad idea, and he was short of all kinds of things, using inferior products as good ones.
Unfortunately, he was not the reason for doing this, and he was soon discovered by the dwarves. Although the dwarves are generous, they are not fools. Of course, they will not tolerate such things. However, because of the friendship between humans and dwarves, ordinary dwarves reluctantly convinced themselves that they should not come next time.
But Lord Tras didn't know what disease he had committed, and he became more and more serious until he got into trouble with a group of dwarf butchers.
You should know that in the dwarf society, only those craziest and eager to die will become butchers, because they abandon all their defensive equipment and have nothing important to them except the weapons in their hands. They even shave their hair into a cockscomb and dye it with a very eye-catching bright yellow. Some butchers even rushed to the battlefield with their shirtlessness, which looked absolutely furious.
Usually, even ordinary dwarves dare not provoke them, but now they have been deceived by humans. How can they bear it? They immediately smashed the store and then left.
Lord Tras, who suffered heavy losses, immediately burst into tears. At this time, he found the guards of Blackstone Castle, wanting to make the other party pursue the responsibilities of the butchers, but the butchers were on the verge of committing death every day and had no deposits at all. Moreover, Blackstone Castle was also very dissatisfied with what Lord Tras had done before. He had deceived many dwarves before, and it was good that he had not caused trouble for him.
In the end, the matter was left unresolved. Lord Tras didn't get a penny, but instead paid a lot of money to repair the store.
After the repair, Lord Tras found that after what had happened before, no dwarf was willing to come to his shop, because his affairs had been spread throughout the Black Stone Castle by the big-mouthed dwarf.
Lord Tras was immediately in trouble, and at this time something worsened happened, that was, he had been following Lord Tras's guards and rebelled. Under the leadership of a great swordsman named Turner, they ran away with Lord Tras's remaining property.
Lord Tras finally felt fear, because the environment outside has become worse and worse recently, and a large number of beastmen and green skins are openly wandering around. With his small body, it will become a lunch for each other in less than ten minutes. It will be difficult for him to go back to his hometown!
He wanted to sell the shop and hired people to escort him back to the empire, but he found in despair that his reputation in Blackstone Castle was too embarrassing, and no dwarf was willing to buy his shop, and he didn't even take a look. Even if he sold it at a discount, the dwarfs would rather not take advantage of it!
It is precisely because of this series of reasons that Levitra was able to buy this great value store at such a low price. You should know that Lord Tras spent hundreds of gold coins to buy this store, not to mention the subsequent decorations!
As for why Lord Tras still owed the dwarf elder of the Wildhammer clan two gold coins, they didn't know the details, but Levith was not in the mood to inquire. He only knew that he owed the dwarf elder and the Wildhammer clan a favor. It was because of them that he took such a big advantage.
In a good mood, Levitra took in the brother and sister in front of him because his shop was in need of manpower. The brother and sister in front of him, a housekeeper and a maid, were all rare soldiers of the second level. They served Lord Tras for a long time here. Originally, they had people with younger sisters under their command, so there was absolutely no problem in managing this shop.
Of course, he also received a task, which was to avenge the other party and kill some green skins. After success, they would follow themselves forever, and loyalty could be expected. They no longer had any idea of revitalizing their family, and they just wanted to find someone with rich and powerful to join, such as Levitra.
"Sir, what products do we have to focus on operating next?"
After officially defecting to Levitra and becoming his subordinate, Dick, the brother of the brother and sister, immediately turned into a terrible appearance, and his sister Kate also looked over with concern, because this was very important to them.
The reputation left by Lord Tras was too bad. It has been a long time since dwarves visited here, and even dwarves at extreme points. They would rather take a detour than pass the street in front of the store, which shows how revenge is.
Levitra thought for a moment: "Well, although the owner has been changed here, the impression of the dwarves may not be changed for a while. But I have a good idea, that is, we don't need to trade with ordinary dwarves here, our goal is those heroes of God."
"Heroes of God?" The brother and sister were surprised because in their opinion, the heroes of God were all high-ranking and rare big names. Will they really come here?
"Yes, and I can expect that there may be some bleakness at the beginning, but soon the business will be extremely hot."
Chapter completed!