Chapter 12: Selled at a good price ()

Whether it was cold and contempt or fear, these strange eyes did not cause any trouble to Leon. He walked across the long street calmly and arrived at the center of the town.

The center of the town is a small square. Interestingly, the square is full of street stalls of all sizes, forming a lively market.

Many mercenary adventurers chose what they needed at different stalls, including human warriors, swordsmen, archers, barbarians and dwarves. They even had magicians wearing robes and holding staffs, and were extremely popular.

Leon noticed that around the square, there were also fully armed patrols patrolling, and they were undoubtedly the force to maintain the security of the town.

Unlike the shops on the street, the things sold on street stalls are all kinds of, including animal skins, bones, herbs, ores, and strange weapons and jewelry. There are almost no civilians involved in the transaction.

This is probably the characteristic of Black Stone Town? Leon calmly entered the street stall area and asked some stall owners for a quote.

Most of the stall owners of these street stalls have a sharp eye. Judging from Leon's appearance, you can tell that he is not a person who can afford the price. He is often ignorant or very impatient.

Leon didn't care, and maintained a honest smile, acting like a stupid guy coming into the city from the countryside, asking around.

After walking around the street stall area, Leon, who was in a good mood, left the town center square with empty hands and walked back to the street and walked into a grain shop.

The grain shop is not very big. The limited site is piled with bags of grain according to different varieties, and they are marked with names and prices, which are obvious at a glance.

Leon took a look and found that the three main grains sold in the store include oats, rye and grey wheat. Oats are the most expensive, with a price of half a silver coin per pound, rye is eight copper coins, and the cheapest grey wheat is only three copper coins.

Maybe it was because it was almost noon, there were no customers in the grain shop.

The owner of the grain shop is a thin middle-aged man. His business quality is undoubtedly much better than the stalls in the market. He doesn't care about Leon's identity and outfit, and greets him with a smile: "Dear guest, do you have any needs?"

Dear guest - it makes people feel comfortable! Leon smiled, reached out to a pocket full of rye, and lifted up a handful of black and shiny wheat grains.

Among the three staple foods, oats are the best, but the price is too high, but the consumption of rich people is only for the rich. The cheap gray wheat has dark color and grayish color, with thin particles and more slags, which makes people feel disgusted when they see it. In comparison, rye with moderate prices and good quality is undoubtedly the best choice for Leon.

"Boss, I want to buy a batch of rye, which requires a lot of quantity. How much discount can you give?"

The owner of the grain shop was shocked. He had never dealt with the barbarians, either being rude or being stupid. Seeing Leon's behavior and speaking, he looked like a veteran who was used to doing business.

"For rye, well, if a customer buys more than 500 pounds at a time, the minimum is seven copper coins!"

"Boss, your price is not very kind..." Lei Ang shook his head and said, "You are all old grains? When the new grain is on the market in a few days, the price will be much lower. To be honest, I am not waiting to buy food, and it is not only yours to choose."

Is this still a barbarian? The owner of the grain shop couldn't help but open his eyes wide, revealing a little astonishment, and was stunned.

Leon took back his palm and patted the boss on the shoulder: "I need at least three thousand pounds of food, and this is the first batch!"

His hands are quite strong, and the thin boss is shaking and rolling his eyes.

But when the number "three thousand pounds" was heard, the grain shop owner suddenly felt like a god possessed, straightening his thin chest and shouting: "Six-5 copper coins, if the customer buys three thousand pounds, this is the lowest price!"

For this grain shop in the town, three thousand pounds of grain is definitely a big business. Leon's shrewdness made him understand that if he wanted to start this business, it would definitely not work without giving up some blood.

This enlightenment made the boss feel a urge to cry - the world is changing so fast that even the barbarians have become masters of bargaining and negotiating transactions.

"A pound of 5.5 copper coins, I can guarantee to buy you more than 10,000 pounds of rye!" Leon said calmly.

In stores like this, the prices of grain in towns are generally relatively stable, and merchants do not have much profit. The discount for a copper coin is already very rare, but Leon also has the dark heart of a merchant.

Five-five copper coins! The boss's face was crossed. He never expected that Leon would be so difficult and bargaining so fiercely, but the transaction of 10,000 pounds of grain made him feel like a cat's claws scratching his heart, and itchy to the point of being unable to give up.

"Six copper coins, if you lower them, you can find another family!" He shouted loudly with a blood-wrenching heart, as if someone had snatched away his beloved child.

"Trade!" Leon smiled. This should be the other party's bottom line.

The owner of the grain shop exhaled a long sigh and looked at Leon with a hint of reluctance after suffering losses: "When will we trade? I need to prepare three thousand pounds of grain, what do you use to transport it away?"

"No hurry, I still have a little trouble right now." Leon said: "I don't have money now..."

"No money..." The owner of the grain shop had his eyes bulged and suddenly became passionate. He ignored the gap in strength between the two sides and roared angryly: "What are you talking to me if you don't have money?"

"Don't be excited..." Leon patted his backpack and said, "I brought something that can be exchanged for money, but I don't know which store in the town buys things like animal skin magic cores. It's best to have fair prices and good reputations. In this way, the more money I exchange, the more food I buy."

This is the trick to discuss business. As an outsider, Leon plays the role of a barbarian. If he rashly uses the magic core animal skin at hand to find a store to ask for the price, it would be strange not to be slaughtered by someone, and it would not even rule out that he would be plotted against.

Now he bought grain first and drew a big pie for the grain shop owner. In order to complete the transaction, he believed that the other party would disclose the information he needed.

These experiences were learned to master when he started alone and went through many hard tests.

"Beast-skin magic core? Go to the Forest Fox Trading Company in front to find Old Jace. His bid is more reasonable!"

Sure enough, the owner of the grain shop who had been brought back from hell to heaven immediately gave him guidance.

The Forest Fox Trading Company is located next to the town center square. The store decorated with mahogany is simple and elegant, but the huge store does not place any goods. Except for the counter next to it, most of the places are tables and chairs, which look more like a teahouse.

If it weren't for the sign at the door of the store or the lifelike forest fox emblem on the door, Leon would have doubted whether he had found the wrong place.

Unlike the grain shop, there are two powerful guards standing at the door of the trader.

Old Jace was not the boss of this business, but a manager. After seeing the fangs of the leader Porcupine that Leon took out, he immediately invited Leon to the inner room for details.

"These two golden fangs are good, and the second-level monster-level leader Porcupine is not easy to find. Plus the animal skin..." The manager of the business bank said bluntly: "You offer a price, and I will buy it if it is right!"

His directness made Leon feel a little difficult. The old guy in front of him was obviously an extremely smart character. From his wrinkled face, he could not see any joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

If it were someone else who didn't understand the market, he would probably be shocked all of a sudden, but who is Leon, how could he be easily frightened by the other party?

Despite the deep hiddenness of the other party, Leon still saw that the other party seemed to be very interested in the golden fangs, which had a meaning of determination to win.

"In addition to fangs and animal skin, I have a magic core on hand..." Leon did not make a offer, but took out the magic core hidden in his pocket and placed it on the table.

The magic core is a crystal core condensed in the body of the monster. It usually contains pure elemental energy and is also one of the sources of power of the monster.

Magic cores are extremely important magic materials, and are indispensable items for making magic wands, magic weapons, magic jewelry, magic arrays, etc. Although some of them can be replaced by ore magic crystals, compared with quality, purpose and effectiveness, magic crystals are still far inferior to magic cores.

Not all monsters can condense crystal nuclei, and the probability of hunting monsters to obtain intact magic cores is not high, because monsters will consume the energy of the magic core in battle, and even die together by self-destructing the magic core. Therefore, the magic core is expensive, and a high-level magic core can even buy a rich territory.

The chief porcupine magic core placed on the table is about the size of a pigeon egg. It is round and golden in color, and reflects a soft and charming light under the indoor light.

Since the leader Porcupine was killed by Leon's thunder and stabbing the chrysanthemum with a blow, the magic core in its body was preserved very well. When Leon held it in his hand, he could feel the strange power contained in the magic core.

He noticed keenly that when Old Jace saw this magic core, his eyes flashed.

"Please all price, as long as it is appropriate, I will sell it!"

Using his own way to give him the other person is also a trick to discuss business. Old Jace immediately realized the mood of the grain shop owner just now.

He looked at Leon deeply, pondered for a moment and said decisively: "One price, all one hundred and fifty gold coins!"

On the Glow Continent, one gold is equivalent to ten silvers, one silver is equivalent to one hundred copper coins, and one hundred fifty gold coins are 150,000 copper coins, which is enough to buy 26,000 pounds of rye.

The money was a lot, exceeding Leon's expectations.
Chapter completed!