Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 12 Old Munch Grocery Shop

The old street is said to be the earliest and oldest street in Bailu Town. The people who lived here because of the white deer started a road leading to Bailinga Lake and built the Hukou Wharf. Later, people built houses on both sides of the road and opened shops, so this road became the first street in the town.

The time has passed, and now Bailu Town is no longer the small village before the millennium. The expansion of the town has caused the town center to continue to migrate eastward, and the area where the old street is located has now become a mixed quayside with a mixed environment.

The local passer-by has never been here. In the memory, the former owner of the body, Crowder, seems to have come twice. Once he went to the lake to fish and walked along the lakeshore to the public dock in the slum. Another time was to sneak a black horse called Bocker from the postal office of Old Benz. The dark horse was a little scared to run on the old street and ran to the front of the pier without a road before he lived. He took Eric on the horse. Sen was scared to death, and the three Crowders who were chasing after him were running exhausted...

However, these two times were rushed through, and nothing happened, and there was no impression of this area. It’s just that parents have told the children not to go here because it is a dangerous area in White Hart.

It seems that there is no danger here? Looking at the dilapidated houses and the shacks built on both sides of the street, as well as the occasional pedestrians on the road, Crowder thought.

"It looks calm..." Eriksson around seems to know what Claude is thinking.

Crowder nodded. "My father said that the law and order here is not very good. Let us have nothing to do here, but I don't think there is any difference between it and other cities..."

Eriksson said very seriously: "Your father is right. This is indeed the worst area of ​​the most chaotic security in Bailu Town. Don't look at the peace now, it is because it is noon, it is the big day. If you If you come at night, you will know why."

“Oh...” Bokal laughed. “Ike, you forgot to say that this is the most lively place in Bailu Town at night. In the evening, this street is full of people, mostly women, here too The favorite places for sailors in the evening..."

Claude understood that he didn't want to continue this topic: "Where is the old Munch grocery store?"

"No, still in front, this street is coming to the end, next to the pier, saw it, the two floors of the gray stone is the old Munch grocery store." Eriksson replied with a finger in front.

The two floors of the limestone are actually five townhouses connected together, but the first floor is a storefront.

Claude did not see the signboard of the old Munch grocery store, only saw a brand new wooden signboard with the old Munch fishing gear and the shipping supplies franchise.

The three leftmost rooms of the five storefronts have been opened for sale. There is a roll of hemp rope, a bundle of wind canvas and a wooden barrel of different sizes. The two storefronts on the far right look very shabby and have scaffolding on the outside. This is a renovation, which seems to be the same style as the three storefronts.

"The two old stores are the old Munch grocery stores." Eriksson said to Claude: "The three next to them are also their homes, but they rented a small restaurant, water supply, fisherman and The docker ate. After the death of the old Pichak at the end of last year, his son did not want to open the grocery store, he took the small restaurant back and prepared to open the fishing gear and the ship's supplies business."

Eriksson pointed to the brand new wooden signboard.

"Are you sure you will buy the two skins here?" Claude had some doubts.

"Of course, I am Eriksson, the lesser ship of the Red Sea shark. My father is the famous Captain Otuluni. Most of the sailors here know me. I don't need any three days in the dock area to know..."

Eriksson said proudly, it looks very proud: "I have already known about the fact that Wakuri is ready to open this fishing gear and shipyard store. I know what he sells and what he buys..."

"Well, as long as the eyes are clear, everyone knows." Bocker said, using his fingers to point to the two large planks hanging beside the store.

The large wooden board reads the various items and prices that are sold in the store. The small wooden board reads the information on the shopping items, but there is no price at the back.

"Wakuri has been to the Gilpo store recently, hoping to buy a batch of fur from there, and reached a long-term cooperation agreement, but was rejected by the Gilpo store. So now he competes with the Gilpo store. Relationship, Vero's two leathers, his purchase price is definitely higher than the Gilpo store." Bok Al-Ah said.

"Uncle Wakuri, Uncle Vakuri, isn't there?" Eriksson has already screamed into the empty shop.

"Who?" Someone answered behind the store. A 40-year-old thin middle-aged man appeared in front of everyone, and his mouth was still chewing.

Well, I almost forgot that it was noon now, and Wakuri had to have lunch.

"Oh, it’s Little Ike, what do you have?" The middle-aged man said vaguely.

But Eriksson doesn't care if he is disturbing Wakuri's lunch time.

"This is the case, Uncle Vakuri, my classmates brought two skins to go to the Gilpo store for sale today. I think that you are also buying fur, so I will pull him here. I told him here. The purchase price must be higher than the Gilp store, you have to make a good price and don't let me lose face in front of my classmates."

"Oh, what is the skin?" Wakuri quickly tried to swallow the contents of his mouth: "I will first look at it. If the skin is good, I will definitely get a good price."

"Mountain antelope." Eriksson signaled that Verricko opened the parcel.

Vakuri looked at the skin very carefully, and he was not a layman from the way he checked the fur.

"If you want to take these two skins to the Gilpo store, they will have up to six rias. Since I will bring you to me, I will not let him down. So, seven riasuo, Do you see it?” Vakuri finally stopped looking at the price.

"Nine Riazor, these two skins will be yours." Bargaining is a matter of bargaining.

"No, no, the price of the nine riasso is too high, no one will come out of such a high price to buy these two leathers. You see, the edge of this leather is broken, and this leather, head here Broken a big hole. If it is two new skins, it may be worth nine riasso, but these two pieces of leather have been put a little longer, and have not been preserved..."

Vakuri shook his head and put down the leather in his hand: "If you insist on this price, then you can only go to the Gilp store to try your luck, maybe they will be willing to buy with nine Riasso."

"Don't, Uncle Wakuri, you add up, I let the students drop a little, it is not easy for us to run around at noon." Eriksson hurried to round the field.

Vakuri sighed: "Well, then I will add four Sunars, which is still in the face of your little Ike."

"Eight Rialasso, a price." Bocker said: "Uncle Wakuri, you are different from the Gilpo store. They buy fur mainly for leather goods, leather hats. It is a fishing gear and shipboard supplies. The fur required is better for wild animals, mainly for keeping warm and waterproof. The size of the fur purchased does not matter.

Because the fur you need to make the biggest is just the sailor's leather vest, or the glove soft leather belt sheath. The rest of the leather can also be cut into strands and tied to the fishing line, so the fur you buy here is nothing to waste.

The father of my classmate is Kubrick Fonseca. You should have heard of his name, the best hunter in Bailu Town. If you buy these two skins with eight Riazor, then I believe that his father will not sell the leather goods to the Gilpo store. As soon as the news spread, all the hunters in the town knew where to sell the fur they had captured..."

Wakuri pondered for a while and finally nodded. "Well, you convinced me, just eight rias, but you need to ensure that if you have fur in the future, you must get me first..."

No one can guarantee this, but everyone knows that if the savvy sister of Verricko knows that the two old antelope pelts can sell the high price of eight riasau, then the fur they hunted will definitely not be I got the Gilpo store and sold it, so everyone nodded.

"Right, Uncle Vakuri, we are here today to buy something else besides selling these two skins. Are the previous groceries in your house not sold now?"

Eriksson was a bit dumbfounded. He just read the board that sold the items and found that there wasn't a lot of things to buy.

"What do you want to buy?" Wakuri handed eight rias to Vericro, and Verricko turned and handed it to Bocker.

"Gun, gunpowder, sulphur powder and lime powder, as well as insect repellent water..."

"Oh, these are in the middle, you come in and see, the outside is written in large pieces."

The inside and the outside of the shop are almost the same size, but the windows on the back wall are not big, and the wooden railings are inserted, the light is not very good. However, because it is noon, today is a sunny day, so the things on the rows of wooden lattice racks placed in the wall can still be seen clearly.

"Wow, Uncle Vauri, you put the treasure of this town store in the grocery store here!" Eriksson's eyes were attracted by a silvery short knife on the wall.

"Claude, Vero, come see, this is the ivory knife."

On the wall was a wooden box one meter long and half a meter wide. The box was covered with dark blue velvet, and a silver-yellow knife with a length of seventy centimeters was hanging in the middle.

In the memory, Claude listened to Eriksson and talked about this ivory knife. It seems that the scabbard knife is made of an ivory. The whole body is silvery yellow. The blade is said to be the famous Holyama steel plus vermiculite. Manufacturing, sheet metal cut iron is effortless, is a veritable treasure knife.

The origin of this ivory knives is very clear. The owner of the first generation grocery store, Meng Ke, saved a difficult captain at the seaside. The captain seems to be a nobleman of a kingdom in the northern part of the mainland. He is ready to return home and take care of him. This ivory knife gave Old Munch a souvenir.

When someone had ten gold coins in the past to buy this ivory knife, but was rejected by the old Munch, he passed the ivory knife as a treasure of the town shop to his son, Pachak, and now it is the turn of Vaku. in.

"How much is this ivory knife worth now?" asked Bok Al.

"Can it really cut the iron?" Verricko is concerned about the sharpness of the blade.

Crowder shrugged his shoulders. In fact, in his opinion, this ivory knives are the kind of goods that the nobles used to hold them. The shank made of ivory is definitely not practical with those tangled with numb ropes. The problem is that when the real life and death fights, the two knives strike the light and the vibration can make the ivory handle crack and fall off. Of course, if this blade can really cut iron as mud, then it is another matter.

"Which number of guns and gunpowder do you want?" Wakuri did not answer the questions of Bocker and Verricko, and did not know why he did not bother to answer or not hear.