my age of magic

Chapter 586 84. Distressed Wine Merchant

It was already ten minutes past midnight, and the tavern gradually became deserted. There were only three or two drinkers hiding in a remote corner, and three or two people sat around a table, drinking ale quietly.

Yerkes and I sat near the bar and watched the barkeep split the bottle of golden cider in two.

In the eyes of the tavernkeeper, there seemed to be a kind of enthusiasm for good wine. He carefully poured out half of the golden cider in the glass bottle with round neck and round belly, and the golden liquid flowed along the glass of the decanter. The wall slowly flowed into the bottom of the glass, watching the golden cider in the decanter keep rising, the fat on the tavern owner's face was shaking constantly, and he said to the Yerkes scholar with a painful face: "Enough is enough!" , Enough is enough, such a good wine should be tasted slowly, but not like ale, so much is enough, enough!"

The Yerkes scholar shook his head stubbornly. The hair on his head was a bit messy. He took out a charcoal pencil from his pocket and drew a black line on the outside of the decanter, clearly indicating that the wine must be filled to the full. .

The tavern owner had a bitter face, and poured most of the bottle of golden cider into the decanter as requested by the Yerkes scholar. But he didn't take it seriously, and reached out to help the tavern owner hold the funnel, put the remaining wine into three ordinary glass wine bottles, and put on the corks.Then the tavern owner waved to Eve and asked her to put the three bottles of wine into the wine cellar in the basement.

A bottle of vintage wine is more precious than gold in the eyes of an alcoholic. The tavern owner is undoubtedly an old alcoholic. Although he is better at brewing ale, he has no resistance to other types of good wine .

He turned the flask upside down and poured the remaining wine in the bottle into a wine glass. The tavern owner drank half of the glass of golden cider in one gulp, and a wonderful look burst out in his hazy drunken eyes. He licked his lips, reminiscing the taste of the remaining wine in his mouth, and then sighed to the Yerkes scholar: "If you just want to find that kind of aged golden cider, you can still buy it in the Imperial City Wine Store. However, there are not many high-end products such as this kind of high-end wine with exquisite brewing technology and cellar storage. The supply and marketing channels of those wine products are controlled by a few big nobles. Among the upper-class nobles, as for us commoners, we can only drink ordinary ale or middle-quality golden cider."

The Yerkes scholar seemed very interested and asked, "Is this wine really that good?"

The tavern owner nodded without hesitation.

For the study of wine, the Yerkes scholar is obviously a layman. Although he usually goes to the tavern for a drink in his spare time, he likes the combination of barbecue and ale. Maybe he has stayed in El City for too long. I thought there was nothing special about golden cider, but I didn't expect that for the tavern owner, a bottle of fine golden cider was also very precious.

Yerkes was obviously a little drunk, otherwise he would not be willing to talk about other topics other than the magic pattern construction. He took a sip from his wine glass with a red face, supported the table with both hands, looked up at the tavern owner and said: "Since you are so I like to drink this kind of golden cider, so I never thought of going to El City to have a look, if it is over there, this kind of good wine is probably not too difficult to find!"

The tavern owner gently rubbed his temple with the thumb of his right hand, probably because he had calculated some mathematical problems, his expression was a bit painful, then he straightened his tongue and said slowly to the Yerkes scholar: "Not It is said that there are only two times a month between the imperial capital and El City, how inconvenient it is to travel. The airship round-trip ticket alone costs two gold coins, plus the cost of board and lodging. The cost of a trip to El City, how many barrels of wine do you think I need to buy, and transport it back to the imperial capital to earn back the cost?"

Obviously, what the tavern owner said is very true. Only those wine merchants will organize large caravans to transport hundreds of thousands of barrels of golden cider out of the city of El. It is absolutely impossible for the boss, who is a small business owner, to go to El City to buy wine in person.It is precisely because of this reason that the wine channel is firmly controlled in the hands of some commercial firms, and behind these commercial firms there are often figures of great nobles.

"If I could take out some high-end wine, I don't know how many taverns like yours would be willing to pay for it... You see, I am also from a commoner family. I don't mean to belittle the commoners, I just prefer Knowing this large group, I know that it is difficult for many civilian families to afford such expensive wines, and no one wants to drink with a heavy purse. Is this wine a bit too expensive for ordinary people?"

"Of course, even an alcoholic can't get drunk every day. A bottle of this kind of wine is worth about ten silver coins in the imperial capital. Of course..." The tavern owner picked up the glass on the table with his hand He squinted his eyes and continued: "...It is impossible for every drinker to drink a whole bottle of wine, and you can also buy it by glass. Such a bottle of wine can fill six wine glasses, so the price of a glass of wine is If it can be sold for two silver coins, even a commoner like me will have no problem drinking a glass or two of wine... Uh, that...that...you just said... Do you still have this high-end wine in your hand?"

"Yes, I still have some wine like this here." I reached into my magic pocket again and took out a bottle of golden cider in a thin-neck and round-bellied bottle, and then explained: "In El City , me and another classmate of mine... You may not know that my classmate Marvin and I both graduated from the El City Academy of War Magic. The two of us jointly opened a small Grocery store, there are many types of goods in the store, including some high-quality golden cider, just before coming to the imperial capital, I brought these golden cider to the imperial capital."

"I know that too, but I thought that the store had gone bankrupt, but I didn't expect that it seems to be managed very well by you!" Yerkes proved that what I said was true, and with Yerkes' With these words, the tension on the tavern owner's face gradually eased.

The face of the tavern owner is full of smiles, his eyes can't help but glance at another bottle of golden cider in my hand, and then he said very politely: "It's a great honor to meet you tonight, and I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate !"

"Of course!" I said to the bar owner with a smile, "About fine wine."

"Golden cider! Of course, if you want some high-quality and cheap fresh barley wine, you can also tell me." The bar owner stretched out a big hand covered with thick hair on the back, and shook me friendly. His palms were warm and rough, but powerful, and then he said his name, his name was Zhuoka Ke.

I never thought that these golden ciders would suddenly become so valuable in the imperial capital. In El City, the price of such a bottle of aged golden cider would never exceed two silver coins, otherwise No matter how good golden cider is, no one will buy it, because it is too expensive. Almost all noble families in El City have their own golden apple orchards and wine cellars. The wine outside tastes beyond good.

Those wine merchants, in Ayr City, keep the purchase price of golden cider to the lowest price, and they will grade each barrel of wine. Different grades and different vintages have different prices. I hate those philistines wine merchants, so I never deal with them.

Soon, I signed a magic contract with Zhuokek, the so-called contract. In the Grimm Empire, the magic contract has supreme authority.

The purchasing power of the tavernkeeper, Drokk, is very limited. Although I have lowered the wholesale price of golden cider again and again, it is still difficult for him to eat a large barrel of golden cider.A large oak barrel can usually fill nearly two hundred round-necked round-bellied bottles. Such round-necked round-bellied bottles can have a capacity of about one liter, which means that the total capacity of a barrel of wine is about 200 liters. According to For the price of wine in the imperial capital, the wholesale price of such a bottle of golden cider should be eight silver coins, so a barrel of wine costs about sixteen gold coins. Although I lowered the price of a barrel of wine to forty gold coins, this Still beyond Zhuoka Ke's purchasing power.

Zhuoka Ke rubbed his hands and asked Eve to move out his cash box hidden under the bed. Unfortunately, even if he piled up all the silver coins in it, after counting them all, all of Zhuo Keke's savings There are only more than 20 gold coins, and after all, he still needs some working capital to run this tavern. It is impossible to take out all his property just to buy such a barrel of expensive high-end gold cider. Fu also looked at Zhuoka Ke with some worry, and secretly pulled the corner of Razhukak's clothes. Although she didn't speak out to dissuade him, there was also some worry in her eyes.

I rubbed my scalp lightly. I didn't expect that a tavern that can produce such high-end food actually doesn't have much working capital. Obviously, even the tavern owner won't eat such expensive delicacies often. Maybe There is only such a delicious food in the magic sealing box of the back kitchen.

I don't think there are too many people who can choose to have a big meal here. It's no wonder that the beautiful woman Eve, who still looks charming, will take advantage of the Yerkes scholar and take the opportunity of the demonstration to taste the food on the table. Food, but apparently the Yerkes scholars didn't care about it at all, but they were very generous.

Looking at Zhuoka Ke with a distressed face, an idea came to his mind, and he suddenly thought of a marketing model about wine in his previous life. I only know a little bit about it, but it is enough to deal with the problem in front of me .

I thought: Since in the Grimm Empire, everyone respects magic contracts very much, then I can change my thinking, so I gently tapped the wooden tabletop with the hand holding the magic engraving pen, and there was a "dangdang" sound on the tabletop, making the trapped The pensive Chokak came back to his senses.

I organized the language in my mind, thinking about how to say it, so that the tavern owner Zhuoka Ke could understand it, and even more willing to accept it.

"In this case, I'm really sorry, I can't afford that much money to buy a whole barrel of golden cider, if I can, I think I can buy fifty bottles, oh, a hundred bottles is actually not impossible... ..." The bar owner thought about the pile of gold coins in front of him, hesitated for a long time before saying tactfully, and Eve, who was standing by, was slightly relieved when he heard what Zhuokek said.

I think before that, he probably didn't think that a barrel of wine could fill two hundred flasks, and his mathematics was indeed a bit bad.

I waved my hand, then quickly picked up the magic engraving pen, wrote a line of text on the contract scroll, and put the contract in front of the tavern owner Zhuo Keke, and said to him: "I want the contract to be like this." It might be more appropriate to write."

Zhuoka Ke looked sad at first, but when he saw the last line of the magic contract, he widened his eyes and read it again carefully, confirming that
In fact, I just changed the transaction form on the magic contract to the "consignment model", that is to say, after signing a magic contract, I put a barrel of golden cider in Drokak's tavern for free, and asked him to help I sell it as a consignment, and then collect wine fees according to the sales volume of golden cider every month. Of course, if Zhuoka Ke fails to sell the specified amount of golden cider within the specified period, the contract will be automatically canceled at the end of the month. Zhuo Keke needs Return all my remaining golden cider.

This is just an ordinary consignment contract, but in Zhuo Kake's seriousness, it is of great significance. If this is the case, it will directly solve the embarrassing situation of insufficient working capital in his hands.

"You are such a generous magician." Zhuoka Ke said to me with emotion after signing the magic contract.

Although this transaction is nothing more than a bucket of golden cider, it gave me a new idea, maybe I can open a trading firm in the imperial capital that specializes in golden cider, and look for these street taverns in the imperial capital. , sign an agreement with them, maybe this should be a business route, for this imperial city of the Green Empire with a total population of more than [-] million, I think the demand for these high-end wines should be an astronomical figure, and if this is the case, it can also avoid The business forces that run those noble and wealthy families can be regarded as a good self-protection.

Regarding the golden cider stored in the underground cave, I never thought that it would be a huge fortune worth millions of gold coins to me.

Seeing that Zhuoka Ke was very happy and wanted to drag Yerkes to continue drinking to celebrate, Yerkes waved his hand and said that he would go home and sleep after eating these delicacies. After all, it was very late, and I still have classes tomorrow morning.

It wasn't until the end of the meal that Yerkes patted his forehead and remembered the purpose of the trip. Although we came here to drink to celebrate the successful production of the magic pattern construction of the windsurfing leather boots, there are also other things.

Then the Yerkes scholar took out a cloth bag made of magicweave cloth from his magic pouch, which was full of a small half of the bag, and it made a rustling sound when it was thrown on the wooden table.

I reached out and touched the pocket in doubt, only to find that there were some small round particles inside. I opened my eyes and looked at the Yerkes scholar in surprise, and then barely suppressed the joy in my heart, and forced myself not to laugh. Speak up and ask the Yerkes scholar softly: "Yerkes, this is the seed of a magic plant."

The Yerkes scholar nodded slightly, with a drunken blush on his face.

(End of this chapter)