my age of magic

Chapter 56 57. Anecdotes from the Countryside (3)

Not far ahead, there is a very luxurious weapons shop. On the street in front of the weapon shop, there are not even any merchants with street stalls. There are a row of guns, swords and flying spears hanging on the wall outside the shop. Kuz and I saw After that, his eyes lit up. When he came out this time, Kurz was still carrying the long-handled mountain axe, thinking that if he was lucky enough to sell it, he should be able to exchange it for some money.Unexpectedly, bartering is still popular here.Originally, I still had a bit of a guilty conscience, whether the silver coin in the purse on my waist was enough to buy a neti bow, but now I don't have to worry about it.

So Qige squatted on the grocery stall and picked up some strange shaped sharpening stones. Every time he thought it was not bad, he put the stone in front of him.I thought to myself that twenty silver pennies are a whetstone, and the four of us pooled our money to buy one. You squatted here and picked a bunch, didn't you still only buy one in the end?My understanding of ores is very limited, and I can only barely understand magic crystals, and I call everything else stones.But it seems that Qige is much more professional and patient, squatting in front of the grocery stall can stay for a long time.

Naturally, I was not in the mood to watch them pick stones, and we didn't understand these things, so I greeted Qige and said that we were waiting for them in the weapon shop in front.A few steps forward, there is a shop selling weapons. It is a two-story building. When you get closer, you find that the stone house is much more finely built than the surrounding stone houses. The whole stone house is built with strip stones. The white lime has uniform gaps, and the leather cover of the door is printed with a black crossed sword pattern, which looks very large-scale.

Kuz and I opened the door curtain and walked in. The stone house was not as dark as imagined, and there was no heavy wooden counter as imagined. If I hadn’t seen the knives and swords hanging on the signboard, I would have thought Entering a restaurant, there are more than a dozen wooden tables in the hall, and each table is equipped with four elegant chairs. These tables and chairs are made of precious iron wood. You must know that iron wood is used to make hard bows. The material is very good. A longbow made of iron and wood sells for about fifteen silver coins in the market. Such a wooden square table is made of at least twenty iron and wood longbows, that is to say, a single The cost of the table was three ducats.What does three gold coins mean?Means the equivalent of an adult's annual income.

Seeing such a big battle, Kurz couldn't help but want to back off a little. He stopped involuntarily, touched the mountain ax on his back with a guilty conscience, and wanted to grab me, but I had already stepped forward. A young orc The waiter came up to me and said, "Is there anything I can do for you, guest."

I saw that the waiter didn't despise me because of my young age, so I felt a little less, so I said: "I have an ax that I want to sell. I don't know if you are buying it?"

"This shop not only sells all kinds of weapons, but also buys some high-quality weapons, but we will do some relative discounts. Of course, we will ask professional weapon appraisal masters to make a preliminary valuation of the weapons you sell, and then based on the current market price in Make a discount." The waiter brought us to the front of the square table, asked us to sit down, and served us two cups of tea made from unknown leaves. I don't think Kutz drank it, and I didn't dare to drink it.

The waiter sat down on the chair opposite us, and then I realized that this weapon shop sells goods in this way. It's a bit like the house and car sales in my previous world. I didn't expect that this knife seller could also open a shop It's so atmospheric.I couldn't help admiring it, and I was looking around when I heard the waiter opposite us ask: "I wonder what kind of ax the two customers are selling?"

Kurtz quickly stood up and untied the ax behind his back. The ax weighing several tens of kilograms was placed on the iron and wood table, making a dull sound.

I pointed to this mountain-breaking ax inlaid with copper pattern carvings, and asked the waiter grandly: "This is it, when will your weapon appraiser arrive?"

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

He pointed to the ax blade and introduced that I could only see the slight difference in the eyes from the side of the ax blade. I didn't expect that the waiter could see it so clearly just by sweeping it.Then I heard him say: "The workmanship of this mountain ax is still very fine, and the long handle carved with copper patterns is polished so smooth, which shows that the owner usually likes to use it. This is a big guy. I don't have the strength to swing it. But judging by the degree of wear and tear on the blade of this axe, this can only be regarded as a new six-layer mountain-opening axe."

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

"Most of the brand-new copper-patterned long handles in our store are sold for thirty silver, but your [-]% new ones can only be sold for around eighteen silver." The waiter pondered for a moment, then said directly.

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

"This is the most common high-quality weapon produced by dwarf workshops. Generally, the dwarf bandits in the northern mountains prefer to use them. We orc werewolf warriors prefer to have fist swords and blade claws. It is too heavy and inconvenient to carry. Tauren warriors prefer ebony long sticks or battle staffs. Although the mountain ax is heavy enough, it will appear a little short and does not fit the physique of the Tauren. Only the one-horned one in the southwest of the plateau The rhinos prefer such long-handled axes, and we will sell most of them to them. After deducting shipping costs, depreciation and our profits, in fact, we can only give you ten silver coins at most."

After finishing speaking, the waiter looked at Kurtz and me, waiting for our reply.

I didn't expect that the price would be so low. It seems that this ax is not in short supply. Kurz and I looked at each other. I thought this thing is useless to us anyway, and it is very bulky to carry. It is better to sell it. peace of mind.In the end, he could only nod helplessly and agreed to sell it. The waiter counted out ten silver coins for me without any expression on his face, asked someone to take away the mountain ax on the wooden table, and then asked me: "Guest, Is there anything else I need to do?"

I asked, "Do you sell bows here?"

The waiter was taken aback for a moment, then seemed to have finally thought of my age, and then replied, "This shop does not handle bows and crossbows, but if customers want to buy refined iron arrows, we also sell them here."

After inquiring in detail, I realized that the stores for melee weapons and long-range weapons are separate. There is the largest bow and crossbow weapon store in the town on the south side of the central square of the town. The waiter recommended that we go there and have a look. .Walking out of the weapon shop, Kurtz said to me in frustration: "Jia, why don't we just buy some stainless steel arrows and forget about it. I'll continue to use the hunter bow. If I find the right position, I can shoot the magic antelope."

I frowned and said, "We must change the bow. My role is limited. The two of us mainly rely on you, Az, so we must buy you a better bow. Let's find out if there is anyone selling magic books." Shop, see how much my magic book can sell for!"

"Your broken book has few pages. How much is it worth? Otherwise, let's sell that bottle of wound medicine!" Kurz subconsciously touched his pocket with his hand, and said with some reluctance.

That's when I really realized that even in this magical world, money is absolutely necessary. I have to come up with some money-making ideas as soon as possible, or I won't be able to even wear pants soon.I don't really want to sell the wound medicine. In a crisis, it is equivalent to an extra life, but now I can only say: "Go to the crossbow shop first and then talk about it."

"En!" Kurz was very refreshing.

After walking out of the weapon shop, I saw that Katerina was going into the weapon shop to look for us. When she saw us coming out, she asked, "Did you get 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 stones!" Katerina smiled a little strangely.

I said strangely: "Didn't you just buy a whetstone, that thing doesn't look heavy!"

The three of us squeezed through the crowd and walked back, only to see Qige still squatting in front of the grocery stall, and the tauren stall owner was saying to Qige in a low voice: "You bought all 98 stones, and... ...Is there still two pieces of whetstone missing, if... I will give you two more pieces, you can make it up, add [-] pieces to me, and make it into [-] pieces of silver."

Seeing the stones piled up like a hill in front of Qige, I finally understood why Katerina asked me and Kurtz to help move the stones. It turned out that the twenty coppers per piece that the stall owner said were twenty coppers Hey, we collected twenty silver coins and bought almost all the whetstones in his booth.Looking at the big and small stones, I thought to myself, do we really need each of us to carry a bag of these stones to the market?

"Cut, I don't want any more of your rotten stones. I just want these 98 yuan. If I buy so much, I'll count it as nineteen silver coins." Qige couldn't help but throw the nineteen silver coins in his hand. past.After the tauren stall owner foolishly caught it, he was already speechless by Qige, and he didn't even care about paying sixty copper coins less.Instead, he held the gleaming silver coin in his big hand and grinned.

(End of this chapter)