My Magic Age

Chapter 56 57. Rural Anecdotes (3)

Not far ahead there was a weapons shop with a very luxurious appearance. There were not even merchants setting up stalls on the street in front of the weapons shop. A row of guns, swords and flying spears were hung on the wall outside the shop. Kurtz and I saw Then his eyes lit up. When he came out this time, Kurtz was still carrying the long-handled mountain ax, thinking that if he was lucky enough to sell it, he should be able to get some money. Unexpectedly, bartering is actually popular here. I was still a bit worried about whether the silver in the purse around my waist would be enough to buy a neti bow, but now it seems I don’t have to worry.

Qi Ge squatted at the grocery stall and picked out some strange-shaped whetstones. Every time he thought they were good, he would put the stone in front of him. I thought in my heart that a whetstone cost twenty silver coins. The four of us pooled our money to buy one. You squatted here and picked through a bunch of them, but in the end, couldn't you just buy one? My knowledge of ores is very limited, and I can only barely recognize magic crystals. I call everything else stones. But it seems that Qige is much more professional and very patient. She can stay squatting in front of the grocery stall for a long time.

Naturally, I was not in the mood to watch them pick rocks, and we didn’t understand these things, so I said hello to Qige and said we would wait for them at the weapons shop in front. A few steps ahead, there is a shop selling weapons. It is a two-story building. When I got closer, I realized that this stone house was much more delicately built than the surrounding stone houses. The entire stone house was built with strips of stone, using White plaster outlines even gaps, and the leather cover at the door is printed with a black cross-sword pattern, which looks very large-scale.

Kurtz and I lifted the door curtain and walked in. The stone house was not as dark as we imagined, nor was there as long a wooden counter as we imagined. If we hadn't seen the knives and swords hanging on the sign, I would have even thought that Entering a restaurant, there are about a dozen wooden tables in the entire hall, each table is equipped with four styles. Exquisite chairs, these tables and chairs are made of precious ironwood. You must know that ironwood is a very good material for making hard bows. A longbow made of ironwood sells for about fifteen silver coins in the market. , such a wooden square table is made of at least twenty ironwood longbows, which means that the cost of building a table alone is worth three gold coins. What does three gold coins mean? It means the equivalent of an adult’s annual income.

Seeing such a big battle, Kuz couldn't help but want to retreat. He stopped involuntarily and touched the mountain ax on his back with a guilty conscience. He wanted to grab me again, but I had already stepped forward. A young orc The waiter came up to me and said, "How can I help you? Guest."

Seeing that the waiter didn't look down on me because of my young age, I felt a little relieved and said, "I have an ax that I want to sell. Don't you know that you are buying it?"

"Our store not only sells various weapons, but also buys some high-quality weapons, but we will do some relative discounts. Of course, we will ask a professional weapons appraiser to make a preliminary valuation of the weapons you are selling, and then based on the current market price, Deal with it at a discount." The waiter brought us to the square table, asked us to sit down, and served us two cups of tea made from unknown leaves. I saw that Kuz didn't drink it, and I didn't dare to drink it.

The waiter sat down on the chair opposite us, and I realized that this is how this weapons store sells goods. It's a bit like the people who sold buildings and cars in my previous world. I didn't expect that this knife seller could also open a store. It has to be so atmospheric. I couldn't help but be a little impressed. As I was looking around, I heard the waiter opposite ask us: "I wonder what kind of axes the two customers are selling?"

Kurtz quickly stood up and unhooked the ax from his back. The dozens of kilogram ax was placed on the iron-wood table, making a dull sound.

I pointed at this mountain ax inlaid with copper patterns and carvings, and grandly asked the waiter: "This is it. When will your weapons appraiser arrive?"

"Well, if I only have this one, I can appraise the price of the weapon on the spot." The waiter glanced at the mountain ax on the wooden table and said confidently: "This is a carved copper-patterned weapon from the dwarves. Forged long-handled mountain axe, the entire ax handle and ax body are forged as a whole, using the It is green iron produced from the refined iron veins in the mountains at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau. The ax blade uses a clamping technology to inlay about one kilogram of tungsten steel blade on the ax blade. This ax is polished quite finely, but It looks like it has been polished many times, and half of the tungsten steel on the cutting edge has been used.”

He pointed at the ax blade and introduced it. I could only clearly see the slightly different look in the eyes from the side of the ax blade. I didn't expect that the waiter could see it so clearly with just one glance. Then I heard him say: "The workmanship of this mountain ax is very fine. The long handle with carved copper patterns is polished so smooth, which shows that the owner likes to use it. This is a big guy. If you don't have the strength, you can't even think of swinging it." . But judging from the wear and tear on the blade, this can only be regarded as a six-layer new mountain axe."

I asked straight to the point: "How much do you think this ax is worth?"

"Most of the brand-new copper-patterned long-handled ones like this are sold in our store for 30 silver. Your 60% new one can only be sold for about 18 silver." The waiter pondered for a moment and then said directly.

I asked him again: "Then how much will you charge?"

"This is the most common fine weapon produced by the dwarf workshop. Generally, the dwarf bandits in the mountains on the northern foothills prefer to use them. Our orc werewolf warriors prefer fist swords and blade claws. They think that the long-handled mountain splitter is too heavy and inconvenient to carry. Tauren warriors prefer ebony long sticks or combat giant staffs. Although the mountain splitter is heavy enough, it will appear a little short and does not fit the physique of the tauren. Only the one-horned rhinoceros in the southwest of the plateau prefers such long-handled axes. Most of our axes will be sold to them. After deducting the freight depreciation and our profit, we can only give you ten silver coins at most."

After the waiter finished speaking, he looked at me and Kuz, waiting for our reply.

I didn't expect that the price would be so badly suppressed. It seems that this axe is not a hot commodity. Kuz and I looked at each other. I thought that this thing is of no use to us anyway, and it is extremely heavy to carry. It is better to sell it to save trouble. Finally, I could only nod my head helplessly and agree to sell it. The waiter counted out ten silver coins to me without any expression on his face, asked someone to take away the axe on the wooden table, and then asked me: "Guest, is there anything else I can do for you?"

I asked: "Do you sell bows here?"

The waiter was stunned, and then seemed to finally think of my age, and replied: "We don't sell bows and crossbows in our store, but if customers want to buy fine iron arrowheads, we do sell them here."

After my detailed inquiries, I finally understood that the shops for melee weapons and long-range weapons were separate. There was the largest bow and crossbow weapon shop in the town on the south side of the town's central square, and the waiter recommended that we go there to take a look. After leaving the weapon shop, Kuz said to me with some frustration: "Jia, why don't we just buy some fine steel arrowheads, I will continue to use the hunter bow, if I find the right position, I can also shoot the demon antelope to death."

I frowned and said: "We must change the bow, originally my role is limited, our combat power mainly depends on you, Azi, I must buy you a better bow. Let's find a shop that sells magic books and see how much my magic book can sell for!"

"Your broken book has only a few pages left, how much can it be worth, or let's sell the bottle of medicine!" Kuz subconsciously touched his waist bag with his hand and said reluctantly.

At this time, I really realized that even in this magic world, it is absolutely impossible to have no money. I have to come up with some ideas to make money as soon as possible, otherwise I will soon be unable to even wear pants. I don't want to sell the medicine. In times of crisis, it is equivalent to having an extra life, and now I can only say: "Let's go to the crossbow shop first."

"Yeah!" Kuz is very straightforward.

After we walked out of the weapon shop, we saw Catalina coming in to look for us. When she saw us coming out, she asked, "Did you buy the bow?"

I had no choice but to tell her about our situation, and then asked her, "Where is Miss Qi?"

"Qiniang is waiting for you to help move the rocks!" Catalina smiled a little strangely.

I said curiously, "Isn't it just a whetstone? It doesn't look heavy!"

The three of us squeezed through the crowd and walked back. Only then did we see Qige squatting in front of the grocery stall. The minotaur stall owner was saying to Qige in a muffled voice, "You've bought 98 stones, and you still... still need two more whetstones? If... no, I'll give you two more. You make it a whole and give me forty to make it twenty silver coins."

Seeing the pile of stones in front of Qige, I finally understood why Catalina wanted Kuz and me to help move the stones. It turned out that the twenty yuan per stone mentioned by the stall owner was actually twenty copper coins. We collected twenty silver coins and bought almost all the whetstones on his stall. Looking at the stones of all sizes, I thought to myself, do we really have to carry a bag of such stones to go to the market?

"Tsk, I don't want any more of these rotten stones you give me. I just want these ninety-eight pieces. I bought so many, so I'll take nineteen silver coins." Qi Ge threw the nineteen silver coins in his hand without saying anything. The minotaur stall owner stupidly caught them, but was choked by Qi Ge and couldn't speak. He didn't even care about paying sixty copper coins less. Instead, he held the glittering silver coins in his big hands and grinned.

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