Mercenaries and Adventurers

"The God of Agriculture asked me to concentrate on rescuing the believers and villagers of Changmai Village, and the matter of Bolisifa City, um." Priest Batar sighed: "He told me not to get involved."

"Why? Compared with the dozens of believers and hundreds of villagers in Changmai Village, the big city as a local parish is relatively more important, right? Is this the reason?"

Kyle asked suspiciously.

"I think so too, but the God of Saturn has his own arrangements for this, and he said that it is like a swamp, which is easy to sink into and impossible to escape." When Priest Batar said this, he looked helpless, his hands clenched and loosened Open, loosen and tighten.

At this time, Kiel comforted Priest Batar: "Don't think too much, since your **** has arranged it this way, then let's do it. You must know that sometimes people in the mountains cannot see the road ahead and the surrounding situation clearly. Because of the height of the location itself, and the view of the people in the mountain is blocked by the woods and the mountain itself. Only when you climb to the top of the mountain can you see the situation clearly."

Shrugging his shoulders, Keir said, "Needless to say, gods see things more clearly than us mere mortals. Since you are His priest, you have to believe in your gods unconditionally, don't you?"

Priest Batar was silent for a moment, and muttered in a low voice: "Balisfa, my hometown, hey..."

The priest covered his face with his palms and did not speak for a long time.

Seeing that the priest fell silent, Keir stood up and said loudly: "The morning after tomorrow, let's continue on the road, direction. Well, walking in the direction of Changmai Village, we won't be close to the city of Bolisifa."

The priest didn't respond, and Bloodfang shrugged: "I listen to Keel."

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In the evening of the same day, the tent grocery store brought over more simple tents.

Keel was very curious about how the other party could make so many new camps in such a short period of time. Although it is a simple tent, which saves many necessary and unnecessary processes and components, it is still not easy to make enough tents for hundreds of people.

And in the same afternoon, rain gear was also delivered in large quantities, which made Mr. Barford so busy that he flew up alone, and Keel had to help, which made the shop assistant who delivered the goods not wait for a long time.

Afterwards, Keir found the rescued businessmen, hoping they could help.

The old businessman was willing to help, but he was too old and physically unable to keep up, and the torture he suffered in the bandit's lair made him exhausted and helpless. The other young or middle-aged businessmen were not seriously injured, and some injuries from the abuse had gradually healed during the days of being rescued.

But the spirit of these people is completely broken.

Kiel asked them for help in the past, and he agreed happily, and they all nodded yes, but when Kiel left, these people were still sitting around the fire, staring in a daze at the iron pot cooking porridge.

This made Keir angry and unable to vent his anger. The spirits of these people were finished. He asked Blood Fang to help inquire and have a chat. Only then did he realize that these people were completely mired in personal business failures ,Inextricable.

They talked about the debts owed by their families after this business failure, or the land or house property that was destined to be confiscated, and they calculated the interest and doomed interest on every loan during the days when they were captured by bandits. Outstanding arrears.

The few people were a little nervous and calculated the interest of the interest payable on the loan to each other, and if they hadn't been robbed and captured by bandits at that time, what would have happened to them at this time.

A few of them sometimes even quarreled over whether the buddies and friends who came out with them should pay compensation when they died, because if the money was not counted, there might be a glimmer of hope for a few people with less debts. And if you have to pay the compensation and pensions of the buddies and friends who died under the machete and axe of the robbers, then they owe even more money.

Hearing what Xueyaster told him at night, Kiel was also quite speechless.

Presumably, before these people fully realize their failure and cheer up, these businessmen are useless at all.

It's also strange, they are all in the same situation, but Mr. Barford cheered up very quickly. Almost on the night of being rescued, he began to help Kiel with various affairs on the people, such as distributing supplies and carrying things for everyone. Types and weights, or organizing people to do what Keir told them to do, and so on.

This one quickly cheered up, as if the previous failure was just an accident and had nothing to do with his own ability. If you are unlucky and fall down, just get up and look for opportunities to move forward.

"If only everyone else was like this." Kiel sighed.

"What are you thinking about? Keir. Not everyone can cheer up so quickly. Most people, oh, most people will completely lose their self-confidence and motivation as soon as they fail once, including myself."

Bloodyaster and Kiel were sitting by the fire, stirring several kinds of beans floating in the small iron pot in their hands. Yesterday, everyone got a large amount of beans sponsored by Ms. Feneya for nothing. Mix the beans with plump wheat grains and cook them into a fragrant bean porridge.

"In the first few years when I was a caravan guard, I saved a sum of money, and I wanted to learn from the merchants and run merchants on the few trade routes that I was familiar with as a guard. You know, it is to calculate the common The price of the goods, and then transport the low-priced goods in one place to another high-priced place.”

Keel has monster jerky, so there's not much need for extra food, especially if there are several steaks at noon. He fiddled with the logs of the fire to make the flames steadier and burn longer: "Sounds easy. So, how did you mess it up?"

Xueyasite stared at the various beans in the iron pot. Some of the easy-to-cook beans had already broken away from the bean shell, exposing the bean body inside, while some sturdy and tenacious ones were only full of water at this time. , bulging: "Things are far more difficult to do than to say. When I was a guard, I watched the employer and the businessman simply do the calculations, eat and drink, and then he could sell the goods in his hand locally. And it was my turn. When I was on my own, I realized that it was far from easy.”

"I tried three times in total!"

He made a gesture of the number three and explained how he screwed up all three times: "The first time, I knew a remote place where iron tools were always in short supply and the price was higher than other places. Some, some earned. So I rented a carriage, and bought some big boxes of nails for the money."

Keir thought about it, this business should be able to do it? How did it go wrong?

"I met a bandit on the road? No, in the western provinces, is it a horse bandit?"

Blood Yaster shook his head: "It's the first time I run a business, of course I will be extra cautious on the road. In fact, the past few times, none of them failed because of things like bandits and horse bandits."

"Then I don't get it? How did you screw it up?"

Seeing Keir's curious face, Xueya slacked his shoulders, and said helplessly: "I didn't expect other people to have the same idea as me. You know, I can find out, and other businessmen can naturally find out." This matter. A chamber of commerce just signed a deal with the local people before, and a batch of iron products will be transported there every year."

He paused: "So when I detoured some dangerous sections of the commercial road and ran to the place, I found that the price of the local iron products was severely cut! My few boxes of iron nails not only did not make any money , and the purchase price is higher than the local selling price. Although the local area also welcomes me to ship a new batch of nails.”

He shook his head: "If I don't want to lose more, such as shipping back the iron nails that have been transported with great difficulty, I have no choice but to sell them locally at a loss."

Kiel smiled and said, "If you calculate inside and outside, you still lose money, right? But it's okay, it's just a small loss due to the fluctuating price, and a small loss is not considered a loss. It can be regarded as accumulating knowledge and experience."

Blood Fang grumbled, and then talked about the second failed business operation.

"A few months later, I learned from my experience this time and didn't engage in things that collided with the chamber of commerce. After all, I only have one person, the capacity is small, the quantity of goods is small, and the price does not have much advantage. So I just look at Given the opportunity, a church in a town in the north of the province wants to build a new batch of religious wall paintings around the walls. This requires a lot of colored stones and paint for the paintings, because this cannot be done in a short time. So there is no possibility of colliding with the chamber of commerce.”

"So? What went wrong?"

Blood Yaster had an ugly expression on his face: "Several barrels of paint that can be used on the wall were transported by me properly. But the problem is that the local church does not accept paint from unknown sources, and only accepts paint from other places. Paint sent by the church."

"Then didn't you just throw these things in your hands? How did you solve it in the end?"

"I stayed there for a long time. No matter what, the church refused to accept my unknown paint. I had no choice but to drive the rented car to a neighboring town to collect These paints are sold to the church in this town."

"The people here take your goods?"

"I accepted it, and the price is very fair, slightly higher than the market price."

"Didn't you make money! Why did you fail?" Keel asked suspiciously.

Xueyasite let out a sigh: "It looks like I made a profit, but in the end, I still lost money. In the extra days, the rented carriage also has to be counted, and there is also food for myself and the horses pulling the cart." Expenses, the cost of parking the carriage and the hotel I rented when the church was pestering people, these are all additional expenses. These unexpected days lead to delays, which lead to the final sale of things and the money earned Not enough to spend."

Kiel commented: "Your business is too small, and it would be troublesome to delay a little bit. It can't be done as you expected before running the business. The products you handle will not make a profit. If everything goes well, you can make a small profit." Money, but." He shrugged.

"Everyone knows that when something is out of your total control, it will go bad if it can go bad. The reason people like good luck is because it is not common. Neither good nor bad And bad things are most of the possibilities of things."

"You're right, Keel, you're right."

"What about the third one? Tell me quickly."

Seeing Kiel's face listening to the story, Xueyasite curled his lips, recalled it, and then said: "After the second failure, I was silent for half a year, mainly to tell you while working as a caravan guard. The same, looking for a business opportunity that can make a lot of money."

"Then, in the spring of the second year, my chance came. Dude, it was a chance to make a lot of money. The eastern part of the province is close to the foot of the mountain range in the central province, and there suddenly appeared monsters there. I heard it was very powerful. The local nobles and knights couldn't deal with them, so we had to delay the time, let the local people evacuate, and wait for our Lord Earl to send knights and troops to support."

"This kind of chaos is an opportunity to make a fortune! The businessman I was escorting directly gave up a deal in hand at that time, and directly invested a large sum of money to support the evacuation of the people. You know, When people are fleeing, the prices of things in the past are different, valuable things become heavy and useless, while the prices of some necessities for fleeing change every day, just like climbing a mountain, the price keeps rising.”

"So, what did you do?" Keel asked.

"I saw the opportunity and released the job of the guard at hand, even if the other party raised the price to keep me. Then I rode alone to other places where nothing happened, and took out all the money on hand, except renting a carriage. Also try to acquire large loaves of bread that will last a long time, blankets to keep out the cold, comfortable boots for long walks, and arrays of healing potions that you luckily bought at the herb dealer."

"Healing potion?" Kiel questioned when he heard this thing for the first time.

"No, don't you know?" Xuefangsite was also very surprised to see that Kiel didn't know what a healing potion was.

Keir turned his eyes and explained: "We in Kendall County are used to using healing ointment, and the church there is well spread out, and the healing magic of the priests is also common among believers. This is the first time I heard about the ointment. arrive."

Xueyasite was a little surprised by this explanation: "It seems that one place is really different from another place. The people in our western provinces live scattered, and the church is not very powerful. As for this healing potion, it is just a pretense. There are many types of herbal waters in sealed bottles, and they can be used for everything. From cheap ones for mosquito bites, to drinking ones that can quickly repair injuries, they are all called healing potions, but they are often subdivided according to their functions. "

"Then what subdivided healing potions did you buy at that time?"

"Let me think about it, I remember that the herbalist recommended me a particularly expensive damage healing potion, but all I had was one or two bottles of that stuff, and of course I didn't buy this. I bought several sets of damage healing potions. Treatment potions for mild cold and fever. There are six in a set, and the price of these potions for treating common diseases is not expensive."

"Afterwards, I hurried to the place where the accident happened with all the goods I bought in exchange for it. Finally, I was lucky this time and arrived in time and ahead of time."

Keel squinted at Bloodfang, and asked in a gloating tone, "So, how did you screw it up?"

Unexpectedly, Bloodyaster took a deep breath and looked up at the dark night sky.

Above the sky, dotted with stars, one of the two moons is rising from the shadow of the mountains, and the other is about to fall below the horizon.

The strange celestial bodies representing the gods are erratically patrolling the sky, and the gods' emblems on the surface of the celestial bodies examine every mortal who looks up at the sky.

Neither of them spoke, and Keel lay down on his new cloak, propped his head on his hands, and leaned sideways, waiting for his companion's answer. The crackling sound of firewood brought back Bloodyaster. The middle-aged former caravan guard tucked his beard with his hands, and said in a relaxed way: "I just realized one thing when I got there."

"Oh? What do you understand?"

"Well, I saw every terrified people who fled. Only then did I understand that I can't use the cheap things in my hand to exchange high prices for all the remaining wealth of those poor people."

Keir was taken aback for a moment, and then re-examined his companion who had a life-threatening friendship: "Then what have you done?"

"I drove the wagon and patrolled the roads that the refugees had to pass. Food to the hungry, blankets to those shivering from the freezing spring rain, comfortable boots to the faltering In the hands of barefoot people. And, the most valuable healing potion was personally fed to the mouths of every sick person."

"You have nothing left, Mr Sturt."

Unexpectedly, Bloodfang Stotter laughed loudly, stretched out his left hand to Kiel, and gesticulated a mottled copper ring on his finger like showing off: "No, Kiel, no."

The copper ring is mottled and old, simple in style, and even has many scratches on it.

But he is Bloodfang's treasure.

"You see, I got to know my wife's family because I cured her mother with healing potions. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com The old man was already sick because of the rain on the way, so he became a member of her family at that time. It is an important factor for people to escape behind other people in the same village."

The corner of Keir's mouth was also slightly raised, and he gave his right thumb up to Bloody Sturt: "You are a man of conscience, Mr. Sturt, and you are not without a thing."

"Ha, yes, yes. Although that was a great opportunity to make a fortune, hey, I gave up running a business to make money, but took my wife and family in a carriage, and left the knights and The battlefield where the army fought with several monsters."

"I heard that the local area was completely destroyed. The knights and the heavily damaged army killed all the powerful monsters, but those who failed to escape from the local area in time, as well as those who were lucky and did not want to give up their property, all died there. Until now, my wife's hometown has not recovered from that battle."

Keir thought for a while, and said: "To deal with monsters, the more people the better. At least in our place, knights lead a small number of elite hunters to deal with monsters, and gradually weaken them by almost entanglement and not giving the monsters a chance to recover. Warcraft, kill them in an outbreak at the end. The advantage in numbers is just a good thing for Warcraft. Because they can quickly recover their physical strength and physical injuries by preying on people whose combat power is ordinary and unable to resist and hurt them."

Hearing Kiel's words, Xueyaste sighed heavily: "It seems that your people are better at dealing with monsters. Kiel, have you ever fought against monsters?"

"Haven't I told you? Ha, quickly call Priest Batar, and I will tell you tonight how I and Knight Lanisa defeated two powerful monsters!"

Gere was excited and ready to start bragging.

It's a pity that there is no wine, which makes him a little regretful.