Lord Highlander

  Chapter 735 724. Small town trading firm

  Some women's clothes and sheets are hanging on the clothesline on the terrace of the small building.

   A breeze blew, and the sheets swayed on the clothesline.

  The afterglow of the setting sun shines through a row of street trees, and the long shadows cover the entire small courtyard.

  Suldak was leading the horse and standing at the gate of the courtyard. He raised his head, just in time to see the slender figure standing on the terrace of the small building.

  Selena put down the wooden basin in her hand, dried her wet hands, reached out and brushed her hair behind her ears, and stood beside the balcony railing and smiled softly at Suldak.

   "Ah! Duck, you're back!"

  Signa rushed out of the house, hugged one of Surdak's big legs, and hung on his legs with hands and feet, like a koala.

Nika stood obediently at the door of the room. She was wearing a clean and fitted linen dress, her light brown hair was combed into a ponytail, and she suddenly became much more beautiful. There are no previous dishes.

  Selina came down from upstairs and asked Suldak who was tying the horse in the yard:

   "Why did it take so long this time?"

  Suldak turned around, washed his hands in the sink, wiped his face, and said:

   "The situation in the Forest of Warcraft is a bit complicated, but at present, at least there is still some time for us to prepare."

Nika carried a bucket of clean water and put it in front of the horse, dragged a wooden trough from the corner, poured some fodder in it, stood beside the horse and unfastened the buckle of the saddle, took off the saddle seat, and used a wooden Started to scrape off the horse sweat from the horse.

  The temperature difference between day and night on the Bailin plane is a bit large, and it will get cold soon after the sun goes down. If the horse sweat is not cleaned up in time, the war horse will easily get sick.

   "Will there really be a beast tide?" Selina took the towel in Suldak's hand and asked after him.

  Suldak walked into the small building, untied the salamander leather armor on his body, hung it on the wooden frame at the door, and said, "Well, it should be a large group of ghost-striped red ants."

  The entire small building was cleaned up by Selina, and the floors and stairs were polished to a shine. He grabbed Selina's hand and asked her:

   "How have you been these days?"

  Selena blushed slightly, and she could feel the heat in Suldak's eyes.

   Pursing her bright red lips, she carefully looked outside the room, and pulled her hand back a little embarrassedly.

  She said to Suldak: "Very good, the life in the small town is really good, and the people here are very enthusiastic. Have you had dinner? There are still some fried meatloaf in the kitchen."

  Suldak touched his stomach, and then he felt his stomach growling.

  Sit down at the dining table, drink a glass of water, and feel your stomach growling even more.

  Selena brought the dinner, and it looked like it wasn't leftover food, but more like it was specially reserved for Suldak. The oily meatloaf was still warm.

   "How do you know I'm coming today?" Suldak tore off a piece of baked wheat cake, put a little patty on it, stuffed it into his mouth, and asked vaguely.

At this time, Signa also came to the dining table, resting her chin on both hands, resting her elbows on the table, staring at Suldak without blinking and saying: "We prepare dinner for you every day, If you don't come, these will be breakfast tomorrow morning."

   Selena heated up some vegetable soup, put it on the dining table, and sat down opposite Suldak.

  Suldak asked while eating: "How is the town recently? Is there any conflict between immigrants and aborigines?"

Selena held a water glass in both hands, and said to Suldak: "Everything is fine, I didn't expect that Mrs. Luna is also a person with some tricks. She punished a group of immigrants in the town a few days ago, so that They became more honest, not only maintaining the law and order of the town, but also appeasing the emotions of many aborigines in the town."

  Suldak did not expect Mrs. Luna to have some management skills, and said in surprise:

"At the beginning, I only thought that she could stabilize the situation in Dodan Town, and it would be fine until the new mayor came to Dodan Town. I didn't expect that she would manage Dodan Town well. What I need is a relatively stable town."

   Then he asked again:

   "I asked you to pay attention to the trading house, how about it? What have you found these days?"

   "Wilkes Trading Company has almost monopolized most of the large transactions in the town." Selina paused after speaking, and then asked Suldak: "Didn't it say that nobles can be exempted from taxes?"

Suldak ate up the food on the plate in front of him, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said casually: "That is the land tax and population tax in the territory. Large-scale commercial transactions still need to pay taxes. I will see you tomorrow." See Manager Anthony of the Trading House."

   There is a very nice marble bathtub in the bathroom of the small building, and Surdak is lying in the bathtub filled with hot water.

  He rested his head on the edge of the bathtub, the warm water rippled slightly, his body relaxed, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

   When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a big soft bed, covered with a dry quilt.

Selena next to him was resting on his arm, her long blond hair spread out, covering her charming face, her breathing was light, her body was curled up, holding one of his arms like a cat.

  The curtains were drawn in the room, and there was the sound of owls cooing outside the window.

  Suldak closed his eyes again and immersed himself in the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness. The magic perception touched the magic elements in the surrounding air. As the perception spread a little bit, he seemed to be able to clearly feel some of the furnishings in the room.

  As the perception spreads outward, the wonderful feeling continues to spread.

  He could even feel a vase half filled with water on the coffee table in the empty living room, and a golden sunflower in the vase.

  Signa was lying on the bed in the next room, but she didn't seem to be covered with the quilt, and one calf was exposed.

  Nika lives in the attic. She doesn't seem to be asleep yet. She sits on the bed with her arms around her knees and looks up at the stars in the night sky through the attic window.

He continued to spread his perception outwards, wanting to understand the world outside the house, but felt that the spiritual force in the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness could not sustain this kind of perception diffusion. After a burst of dizziness, Suldak fell into a deep sleep again past.

   At the moment when he fell asleep, the night was like a gentle big hand wrapping him and Selena.

   The spiritual power that had been exhausted was quickly nourished at this moment.

  …

  Suldak felt like he had a long, long dream. In the dream, he seemed to be in a sea of ​​silence.

  The sun shines through the sea and turns into beams of light shining into the sea.

  He has no five senses, but in this strange environment, he doesn't feel the slightest fear...

  By the time Suldak woke up from his dream, the sky was completely bright, a ray of sunlight came in through the gap in the curtains, and the Yiren beside the pillow was no longer there.

  There was a neat stack of clothes on the bed, Suerdak grabbed his hair and sat up from the bed energetically.

He jumped out of the bed with bare feet, looked at his hands, let the power of the holy light condense two flames in the palm of his hands, closed his eyes and focused on letting the perception spread outwards, at this moment, although his eyes were closed, but he suddenly I feel like the whole world has become more alive.

  …

  There is only one trading firm in the town, and this trading firm basically monopolizes all the business of Warcraft materials in the town.

   This trading firm has a very famous name - 'Wilkes Trading Firm'

  Dodan Town is a border town in the area occupied by the Grimm Empire on the White Forest Plane. To the north of the town is a vast Invercargill Warcraft Forest.

   There were originally several hotels in the town that specialized in hosting adventure groups.

  The adventure group that came to the town basically came for the rich resources of monsters in the Invercargill Monster Forest. As long as they were on the edge of the forest, it was possible to hunt some monsters.

The adventure group traveled through the planes and came to Dodan Town. Of course, they would not leave after staying here for ten and a half months. They hunted some monsters in the monster forest. The precious monster materials will be kept with them. Low-level Warcraft materials such as leather will be sold to local trading houses.

  The trading firm in Dodan town is buying these monster materials. In addition to monster materials, magic metal mines and magic herbs are also within their business scope.

   It can be said that some of the wealth brought by these adventure groups feeds the entire town of Dodan.

However, when this part of the profit was swallowed up by the only trading firm in Dodan Town, in fact, the financial revenue of Dodan Town continued to decline. In order to avoid affecting his own interests, Mayor Marko secretly contacted some slave traders , using the power in his hands to support slave traders to do some slave business.

  It is said that this trading firm has the support of Wilkes City councilors behind it. It seems that the owner of the firm is afraid that others will not know this relationship. From the name of the firm, some inside information can be clearly understood...

  Suldak walked into the trading house with Andrew and the two cavalry squadron leaders.

  Now that the beast tide is approaching, the trading firm seems a little depressed. There are almost no adventure groups doing business in the hall. There are only some locals standing in line in front of the food sales area.

Suldak learned from the adventure union in the morning that there is no adventure group left in the town, and even a locally formed adventure group left Dodan last week, and they will go to the Bailin plane Where to look for opportunities to make money in the South of China.

  When the waiter at the door saw Suldak coming in, he greeted him immediately, and asked his companion to inform the manager of the firm, Anthony.

The waiter didn't know Suldak, but he saw two cavalrymen wearing heavy armor behind him, and beside him was a constructed warrior with a noble badge on his chest. Think about it, and you can guess his identity.

   "Good morning, Honorable Commander!" The waiter looked polite and stood beside Suldak and asked him, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

  Suldak walked into the trading house and went directly to the area where the cloth was sold. The shelves here were full of bundles of linen cloth, as well as some thatch and felt. High-grade silk and magicweave cloth were not seen.

Suldak said to the waiter: "I need fifty felt tents, five hundred quilts and five hundred sets of thick cotton clothes. Please list the details and prices for me here. Can I get the goods before noon? ?”

  Before the waiter could speak, he heard someone greet Suldak at the stairway:

   "Commander Suldak, welcome!"

   As he spoke, Manager Anthony walked over quickly from the stairs, and two waiters followed behind him, holding the account book in their arms, showing a very busy look.

  The waiter next to him told Manager Anthony about Suldak's needs.

  Manager Anthony looked stunned, and then he seemed to have thought of something, staring at Suldak with a cloudy expression, and asked him: "Master Commander, the supplies you purchased are probably not for the soldiers of the garrison, are they?"

  Suldak still wanted to get the goods quickly, and completed the deal with three young natives of the Dakuni tribe before noon.

   Unexpectedly, Manager Anthony did not prepare these goods readily, but asked him with a straight face who he was trading with.

  Suldak frowned and asked Manager Anthony: "Is there any question?"

   "Until the final payment for the war supplies owed by the City Defense Brigade is settled, the firm will not accept the business in the town." Manager Anthony refused without thinking much.

   After finishing speaking, he smiled apologetically at Suldak.

   It's just that the smile is a little frivolous.

   "Are you talking to me?" Suldak asked with some irony.

  It is only now that he understands that the rules of conduct of the trading house in Dodan Town, even the military and political chief of the town are completely ignored.

   "What? Didn't you hear clearly? Or was your ear injured?" Manager Anthony showed a sneer on his face, and then he asked the waiter next to him: "... Could it be that I didn't speak clearly enough?"

  The two waiters shook their heads vigorously and echoed: "Every word you said is very clear, Manager Anthony."

   Manager Anthony nodded in satisfaction, turned his head and looked at Suldak without saying a word, as if he wanted to just watch him leave.

  Feeling that something is about to happen here, some mercenaries from the firm's armed group hurried over and surrounded Manager Anthony.

  Suldak touched his forehead. He didn't expect such a situation at all. He originally wanted to slowly rectify the trading houses in Dodan Town, but he didn't expect such a big problem to come out now.

His eyes turned cold, and he said to Manager Anthony and the others: "Since you told me on behalf of the trading house that you don't want to make any transactions with the garrison in Dodan Town until the debt in Dodan Town is paid off", then I have nothing to say. It can be said, but the arrears are owed by Mayor Marko, and it doesn’t matter if this lawsuit reaches Wilkes City, it will never be repaid by our garrison.”

He raised his voice a little higher and said: "But your behavior gives me reason to suspect that you deliberately hoarded supplies before the beast horde, disrupted the market in Dodan Town, and destroyed the unity of Dodan Town. The unity of Dan Town, I can officially inform you now that from now on, the Wilkes Trading Company will be closed down indefinitely."

  (end of this chapter)