Chapter 41 - Difficult business experience
With a beautiful vision for the future, Manda slept until noon the next day.
Opening a tavern was originally not an early business. When he was not too hungry, Manda even planned to sleep until dusk, but he was awakened by the scolding outside the door.
Who is cursing the street? There are no other people nearby, and the curse is likely to be directed at the tavern.
When the tavern just opened, someone came to ask for trouble? Manda wanted to go out and teach them a lesson, but couldn’t bear the heat in the bed.
Scold it, just as he scolds the air, it doesn’t hurt to scold it anyway, Manda didn’t want to pay attention to it, but found that the near-missing pendant on his chest was getting hotter and hotter.
dangerous? What do they want? Do you want to burn the house?
Manda put on his clothes, took a stick and went to the door, only to find that the situation was more serious than he thought.
There were two soldiers standing at the door. They were not scolding the air, they were scolding Worm.
This bug flew back so quickly? Didn’t the count invite him to dinner?
Worm looked at the two people blankly. He didn’t like quarreling, but he was not good at enduring.
Judging from the smell and posture, these two soldiers are pure blind ducks. As long as Worm takes action, the probability of them surviving is very slim.
But they are soldiers, or guards of a certain nobleman, it would be really troublesome to kill such a person.
Seeing Manda holding a wooden stick, a soldier drew out a long sword: “Hillboy, I guess you haven’t seen blood.”
Manda threw the stick into the firepit: “Two guests, please sit inside, and I will make a fire for you.”
“Who is your guest? Who will come to a ghost place like you? We are the retainers of Viscount Gessack to collect taxes.”
Worm said with a dull look: “Let me look at your documents first, at least let me see the clan emblem of the Viscount of Gessack.”
A soldier came forward and spit on Worm’s clothes: “Did you see it? This is the clan emblem I rewarded you. It’s quite suitable for you.”
Worm looked at the saliva on his body, and licked his lips inadvertently.
The soldier smiled and said, “Do you want to taste it?”
Manda was surprised, this is Worm’s habitual movement, he is about to do it.
“Two masters,” Manda hurriedly stood in front of Worm, “Since I’m here to collect taxes, please give me a number first.”
The soldier said: “Have you never done business? The tavern has to pay 25 silver coins every month. I don’t understand this rule?”
Twenty-five silver coins a month, three gold coins a year, Manda was still complaining about the guild fee of thirty silver coins per year, and today the two soldiers let him learn the power of taxes.
It is obviously unwise to confront the government. It is only natural to do business and pay taxes. Manda took out 25 silver coins, one soldier received the silver coins, and another soldier smashed the wooden pole on the door with a sword. .
“I warn you in the name of Master Viscount, next time I dare to run wild, I will chop off your head!”
The two soldiers left. Manda wrapped the two pieces of wooden poles together with rags and reinserted them on the door. After all, this is the signboard of the tavern. At this time, the wooden poles with leaves are too hard to find.
“Why did you give them the money?” Worm was very dissatisfied with what happened just now, “They don’t look like the noble’s retainers! Twenty-five silver coins are too much!”
What can be doubted about this? Who would dare to cheat under the banner of the Viscount? Manda was too lazy to explain to him, and asked, “Why did you come back so early? What did the count tell you?”
“The count said a lot, but I can’t tell you.”
This guy is still annoying as always, Manda stretched out and said, “It’s open for business.”
“Wait a minute, you have to worship the gods first.” Worm returned to the bedroom and found that the tablecloth had been changed at a glance. Fortunately, Manda prepared an excuse.
“I also made a sacrifice last night, hoping to get more business, but I accidentally burned the tablecloth.”
“You set the altar yourself?”
“Yes, isn’t it just seven candles?”
“You don’t know how to arrange the altar at all, and you dare to do such stupid things!” Worm was very angry, “If you provoke some unknown power, you will die, and you will also get involved in the tavern!”
It seems that Worm cares about this tavern very much, and Manda spread his hands and said, “Well, I will never touch the altar again.”
“Twenty-five silver coins a month, this is simply a robbery, how can this business be done!” After completing the sacrifice, Worm is still chattering. In Manda’s impression, he has never said so much, and it has never been like now. So care about money.
There was no business on the day, until the next day at night, finally there were customers. A middle-aged man in a blue robe was followed by five soldiers. As soon as they entered the door, they took out the badge and taxation documents of Viscount Gessack.
“My name is Rolando, the vassal of Viscount Gessack. We have received news from Dunison that there is a tavern here. According to the law of the Viscount, a tax of twenty-five silver coins must be paid every month.” The attitude of the middle-aged person is very friendly.
Manda also responded with a friendly smile, which seemed to grow on his face until late at night.
fraud! The two soldiers before turned out to be liars! These two shameless scammers defrauded twenty-five silver coins and interrupted the sign of the tavern!
I have lived two whole lives, and I was cheated of 25 silver coins by such a clumsy liar!
shame! madness! Manda was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a stone to knock Worm to death.
Warm sighed: “I have reminded you so many times, but still can’t stop your stupidity. Such stupid behavior will arouse the disgust of the gods, and the business of the tavern will get worse and worse!”
Worm really got it right. There was no visitor in the next three days. In the afternoon of the fourth day, a jewelry merchant came. Manda was surprised. Jewelry, true and false, is the most test of eyesight. Big business is here.
The businessman is about thirty-six or seventeen years old, tall and tall, with a visual height of more than 1.8 meters, long blond hair, a very piercing nose, and a pair of dark blue eyes. He is very attractive as a mature man. .
He is wearing a yellow-green robe and a purple pointed hat. The hat is embroidered with a lion, which should be the emblem of a certain family, and he is surrounded by two servants. It seems that his identity is very unusual.
The servant put the large and small jewellery on the table, and the merchant drank a glass of wine in one gulp: “I came here mainly to visit the Earl of Gessack and do some business by the way, those two necklaces, the pair of earrings, the two A bracelet and the hair crown. These are all gifts for the earl. You can’t move. You can choose other things. By the way, I would like to remind you that the cheapest ring requires two gold coins. You can’t control this kind of thing. Yes, call your father.”
“The one who can be the master, the one who can be the master!” Manda laughed again and again, and quickly added a glass of wine to him and his servants, then opened his eyes and examined the jewelry one by one.
According to the price offered by the dealer, the cheapest one is also two gold coins. It seems that the profit margin is not large. You have to spend more time looking for it. Maybe you can buy one or two items that are worth the money…
Manda was stunned, and the businessman drank the wine in the glass again~www.mtlnovel.com~ wiped his mouth and said, “How about it, have you chosen?”
“Ah,” Manda muran nodded, “A glass of wine is fifteen copper coins, you drank five cups, a total of seventy-five copper coins.”
“What’s the hurry, the wine is not bad, let’s have another glass!”
“No,” Manda shook his head, “Check out a cup.”
“Where is there such a business?” The merchant pointed to the jewelry on the table, “Tell me which one I chose. I will give you a cheaper one. It is too much trouble to save it.”
“I’m not afraid of trouble. I will settle the wine and money first,” Manda moved his shoulders and said with a stern expression, “Take out your wallet and move faster.”
There is a whole table of jewelry, no one is true, and the most expensive one does not exceed twenty copper coins.
The businessman frowned and sneered: “I said you can’t afford it, so why waste my time.”
After finishing speaking, he patted a silver coin on the table, packed up the jewelry on the table, and turned around with the two servants.
Manda took a look at the “silver coin”. The jewelry is fake, and the silver coin is naturally not real. This “silver coin” is made of iron and is worth two copper coins (mainly for handwork).
“This guest, please wait a moment.”
“No need to look for it, just a few copper coins, I think you are lucky today.” The jeweler walked like flying, and was about to walk to the door. Suddenly Manda closed the door first and gritted his teeth:
“My luck is not too good, and my mood is not too good. Seventy-five copper coins are not too many. If you can’t get it out, I will stuff you into a jar and marinate you into bacon!”
The jeweler pulled out a short knife, licked the back of the knife, and smiled grinningly: “Seeing you are a child, I don’t want to care about you. If you want to live and die, don’t blame me for being cruel!”