Arcane Lord

Linshui Town, East Street.

After buying clothes, Mrs. Mary continued to visit shops with her daughter Jasmine. Every time she came across a shop with a digital payment logo, she would slow down and take a few more glances, which made the alert Jasmine quickly discover her mother's secret.

Soon, outside a shoe store with a digital payment logo, before Mrs. Mary could react, the sharp-eyed Jasmine was the first to shout: "Mom, Mom, that store also has a logo!"

"Yes, that store also has a logo!"

Mrs. Mary was stunned for a moment, then touched her daughter's head with pity, then held the clothes she had just bought in one hand, held her daughter's hand in the other, and walked towards the shoe store, saying:

"It's just right to buy you a few pairs of shoes. You are going to school, and you can't wear straw sandals like now!"

Hearing this, Jasmine subconsciously looked down at her shoes. They were indeed straw sandals, but they were comfortable to wear, and she was not without other shoes, such as the soft rubber shoes her father brought back for her not long ago.

Those shoes are so comfortable to wear, but in Jasmine's eyes, they are gifts from her father, and they look very delicate. She usually doesn't want to wear them. She usually wears straw shoes and wood-cut shoes.

But her mother is going to buy her leather shoes at this time. Even though she is young, Jasmine knows that leather shoes are more expensive, more expensive than rubber shoes!

So she carefully pulled her mother's hand and whispered, "There are still rubber shoes at home. I can wear rubber shoes to school. They are very comfortable!"

"Rubber shoes are not decent, leather shoes are better, just buy two pairs, you can wear them in turn!" Mrs. Mary made a decisive decision.

In fact, with their family's financial strength, they can afford both rubber shoes and leather shoes, and they can afford to buy a pair every day, but they used to be poor in the past, and now they are used to saving money.

Not to mention that Jasmine is still worried about learning magic, which makes it more difficult for Mary's family to spend recklessly.

In addition, ordinary people have a blind admiration for leather shoes, thinking that they are only for respectable people. Even though the money Mary earns now would have been considered respectable in the past, she still thinks she is not respectable enough.

But her daughter has to go to school and may become a mage in the future, which is respectable enough. In this case, how can she not have a pair of good shoes!

In fact, if you really want to talk about comfort, rubber shoes are the most comfortable. There are various styles with moderate softness and hardness to choose from, and they can even completely simulate the texture of leather shoes.

Although Mary herself has never worn the kind of rubber shoes that completely imitate leather shoes, she usually works in the rubber shoe factory in the territory in the afternoon. There is a special display area in the factory, and she has passed by there and seen it countless times.

In her opinion, the process of making rubber shoes is too easy, and it is not worthy of the identity of a mage at all. In fact, it is the identity she subconsciously thinks her daughter will have in the future.

She wants to show this identity by buying more expensive leather shoes.

But when her daughter tried on the shoes, Mary couldn't help but feel a little dazed. There were more comfortable rubber shoes at home, but she had to let her daughter wear leather shoes for face.

It is not to say that wearing leather shoes is necessarily more uncomfortable than wearing rubber shoes, but good leather shoes are more expensive, and the actual experience may not be much different from that of rubber shoes.

Thinking of this, Mary suddenly stood up and took the pair of leather shoes that had just been tried on from her daughter, and then handed them to the apprentice in the store, saying apologetically:

"Sorry, we don't buy leather shoes anymore."

If this approach was put in the past, the apprentice in the store might have cursed, but in Daxialing, buying and selling requires both parties to be willing, and as long as the transaction is not reached, it can be cancelled at any time.

Even if the product has been tried, as long as it does not affect the secondary sales, there is no need for customers to pay extra costs. Shoes and clothes are typical products that can be tried for free.

However, even if he doesn't say anything, the apprentice can't help looking at people with some displeasure. After all, this is related to his commission, and this is a rare opportunity for him to make money before he finishes his studies!

Mrs. Mary didn't dare to look at the apprentice, and walked out of the shoe store quickly with her daughter, then turned around and went to another shoe store, a store that mainly sells rubber shoes. Although there was no digital payment logo, Mary still went there.

"Boss, can I take a look at these shoes?"

"Yes, you can take a look and try them on."

There were no apprentices in the rubber shoe store. These shoes were all imported from the rubber shoe factory in the territory. The boss was actually a second-hand dealer. Although this store is selling shoes now, the boss may think that something else is more profitable tomorrow, so he may sell other things.

When Mary arrived, there were several other outsiders in the store who didn't look like they were from Daxia Territory. They were choosing rubber shoes. Mary also took her daughter to choose, but she didn't rush to pay first.

She waited until the foreign customers had finished their purchases and left before she took the pairs of new and beautiful rubber shoes that her daughter had chosen and said to the boss:

"Boss, these are not the latest models, right? Why don't you bring out the latest models?"

"Oh, Madam is an expert!"

The boss saw that Mary even knew the styles of rubber shoes, and immediately realized that this woman was no easier to fool than those foreigners, so he rolled his eyes and began to complain:

"The new models are to be exported to the Elf Country, and the new models are not easy to make and the price is higher. It is better to buy these old models. Although they are all old models, they are the best-selling in the territory. Moreover, compared with leather shoes, these shoes are not outdated at all and are more comfortable to wear!"

There is no reason for sellers not to praise their products, but the boss never imagined that Mary worked in a rubber shoe factory. Although she was not a front-line shoemaker, she was in the factory and knew some basic processes of rubber shoe production.

The factory does export rubber shoes to elven countries, but apart from the appearance, the production cost of those shoes is actually not higher than other rubber shoes. On the contrary, because they can produce enough at one time, the cost is lower!

So Mary immediately revealed her identity as a worker in the rubber shoe factory. When the boss heard this, his face suddenly stiffened, and then he squeezed out efficiency again and said:

"Doesn't the rubber shoe factory give out shoes to workers? Why do you still come to my place? Isn't this just amusement for me!"

"Don't blame me, boss. The rubber shoe factory does distribute shoes to workers, but only to the workers themselves. If my daughter is older, she can indeed wear the shoes distributed to me by the factory. They are distributed regularly and I still have something to offer." "That's a lot! But she's still young, and my shoes don't fit her. And she's going to school soon, and the regular ones from the factory don't fit, so I came to the street to have a look."

Mary's explanation was very accurate. The boss also noticed that Jasmine was still wearing homemade straw sandals on her feet. Looking at Jasmine's childish but strong expression, he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart.

"Okay, then I'll sell it to you at cost. If you think it's suitable, come to my store next time."

Then, the boss quoted a price. Mary agreed and thought it was okay. Although it was higher than the ex-factory price of new shoes she had learned about, it was impossible for the boss to buy it for her at the ex-factory price.

After all, the cost of opening a store on East Street is not small. In addition, although the styles of rubber shoes here are not the latest, they are not the oldest either. Mary feels that the boss's quotation is quite sincere. (End of chapter)