Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Shi Lei, who had the home court advantage, naturally had the confidence to fight the opponent, but the coach Liang Jun, the opponent, obviously had his own plans, and for a while, the two sides were in a stalemate.

At the same time, the wood elves were obviously not aware of the war that broke out on the other side of the Great Zhou border.

After waiting for the spring season, the wood elves are all a little impatient to start shopping for the new year.

But as the clan leader, Locke felt a little melancholy at the moment.

Looking at the remaining silver coins in the box, he suddenly realized that they seemed to be running out of money...

Obviously before winter comes, the remaining silver coins are quite abundant...

Thinking of this, Locke's expression was stunned, and he probably realized where the money was spent.

Not to mention the big purchases before winter, this winter they are extremely dependent on anthracite. After installing heaters in every house in the village, the consumption of anthracite is huge.

What they bought before was not enough, so they had to run out to make purchases midway.

After contacting Xiao Li, he said that he could provide door-to-door service. As long as he paid a transportation fee, he could deliver it directly to his door, so that they didn't have to make a special trip.

When the wood elves heard this, they thought this was great and saved trouble and effort, so they bought more diligently.

After such a winter, the entire expenditure was far beyond their expectations.

Locke, realizing this, quickly called the tribesmen over to discuss the issue.

While several tribesmen on the side were counting the balances one by one, one of the wood elves raised his hand and came up with a bold idea.

"How about we see what else is for sale in the woods?"

"..."

Hearing this, Locke's hand holding the staff tightened immediately, and he almost wanted to pick up the staff and give this evil obstacle a club!

Although they did trade with Dazhou before, selling the mineral veins in the forest and earning 100,000 silver coins, as the leader of the clan, Locke knew that this was by no means a long-term solution.

Not to mention that Dazhou doesn’t want everything. Their forest is big or small, so how can there be so many valuable things for sale?

In the end, although Locke didn't take any action, he still had to give him a scolding.

While they were talking, the wood elves who were busy counting money on the other side also counted the silver coins in their hands.

"There are more than six thousand three hundred silver coins left."

For a few people, this is definitely a huge sum of money, but considering the consumption level of the wood elves and the population of an entire village, it seems a bit insufficient.

"The furniture you buy will last for a long time. If all these more than 6,000 silver coins are used to buy daily necessities, we don't seem that poor..."

As soon as this sentence was uttered, many wood elves immediately responded.

"It seems so. Just be careful when spending money in the future."

"If you save a little money, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"..."

Listening to those words, Locke's mood relaxed a little.

Do you really think too much?

As the tribesmen said, the biggest expenses in their village have been spent, such as furniture and clothing, which are not disposable items. All the remaining money is used to purchase necessary daily necessities. It seems very abundant.

Taking a deep breath and adjusting his emotions, Locke quickly had a new idea.

"Well, the first step to save money is that we will no longer go to Xishan City for purchasing, but go to Green Forest City instead."

Green Forest City is not far away from them. If they move quickly, they can get back and forth in one day.

But in contrast, as a border city, the internal development of Green Forest City is not as good as that of Xishan City, which is an inland city. Many things that Xishan City has, Green Forest City may not have.

This caused some wood elves who only wanted to go to Manxiang Tower to listen to books and eat hot pot to express their objections, but were ruthlessly rejected by Locke.

Compared with before, he was no longer the ignorant Locke.

Now, even if he goes to Dazhou by himself, he can complete the procurement work independently.

At the same time, from the perspective of saving money, Locke added another one.

"And the purchasing team will be reduced to five people from now on."

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an instant wailing.

But Locke was unmoved. At this moment, he completely showed his majesty as the patriarch and rejected all objections.

He finally figured out that even if these guys went shopping, they would mainly focus on eating, drinking and having fun. For work like transportation and handling, they would still have to spend money to hire people.

Anyway, going there won't help much, so it's better not to go at all. Locke made a rough estimate in his mind, and he could save a lot of money this way.

Of course, in the end, Locke still couldn't withstand the insistence of the tribesmen, and relaxed the number of purchasers to ten people on the premise that everyone must help with the work.

Compared with the previous battle where twenty or thirty people used to eat, drink and have fun, this is much better.

The one responsible for receiving him was still Xiao Li from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

They were completely acquainted with Xiao Li. After meeting him, Locke directly stated that they would not go to Xishan City this time, but to Green Forest City.

The moment he heard this, Xiao Li's first reaction was, 'They are almost running out of money! ’

He saw how arrogantly the wood elves spent their money.

But even so, Xiao Li still felt incredible about this.

[Good guy, that’s one hundred thousand silver coins! One hundred thousand! ! It’s almost all spent? ! 】

At this time, Xiao Li even felt unreal.

However, Xiao Li always agreed to their requests directly.

When they arrived in Green Forest City, Locke asked Xiao Li if there were cheaper dormitories to live in.

Of course, there were.

When they entertained the wood elves, they were given dormitories with four people in a room, which was for comfort. In fact, there were dormitories with six people in a room, or even eight people in a room.

Xiao Li was relatively moral and recommended that they rent a four-person room and a six-person room, which was exactly ten people.

During this period, the accompanying wood elves couldn't help asking Xiao Li questions like "Where is the best restaurant in Green Forest City?" and "Is there a hot pot?".

Locke couldn't help but glare at them fiercely after hearing this.

Seeing this, the wood elves immediately made a pleading look.

"Just one meal, just one meal, it won't cost much, we haven't eaten hot pot for a long time."

Locke was quite moved by these words.

Mainly, he was also greedy...

[Hot pot, it's really been a long time since I last had it. 】

"Remind you, it's just one meal!"

The wood elves were delighted when they saw this and nodded in agreement.

Compared with Xishan City, the decoration of the restaurant here is roughly the same. At the same time, there are also storytellers in the lobby, but the food here is much cheaper than that in Xishan City.

This is mainly affected by local income. Border cities are relatively ordinary in development and the income level of the people is relatively low. If you make the dishes too expensive, there will be only a few tables of guests in a day, and you can't make money, so the restaurant will lose money.

And if the price of food is cheap, the cost of your food will naturally be reduced.

Those expensive ingredients and seasonings that need to be transported from other places must be saved.

For the wood elves who are used to eating good wine and good food in Manxianglou, they immediately tasted the difference after taking a bite, and couldn't help complaining.

But because they haven't eaten hot pot for too long, they still ate it all up.