Chapter 149 Shopping (1)
Chapter 149 Shopping (1)
The capital is a large city with a mixed population, and people of all races can be found here.
There are many small vendors on the streets selling things, mostly specialties of various ethnic groups, amulets, or miscellaneous snacks.
There are also many small vendors selling armor or swords.
Those are weapons and equipment without any supernatural elements, so it doesn't matter even if they are sold.
Any silver-level professional can break them apart with bare hands, so these things are not within the jurisdiction of Ornn. Only some novice adventurers will come to buy such things, but there are also good goods among them.
People always have some fantasies.
Caesar squatted in front of a roadside stall and casually picked up a weapon on the stall and waved it around.
It was a dark golden dagger with a vine-like pattern on the hilt. The shiny sword body covered by dust revealed mysterious metal lines. It seemed that it took quite magical forging techniques to produce such a pattern.
Xi Ze had seen this kind of metal pattern in books in the school library. It was the method used by the dwarves who were enslaved by the dragons in the past. They used the high temperature of dragon fire to melt various metals and mixed them in certain proportions to create this kind of water wave-like pattern.
It looks very old, and the dust has been washed away by time.
Caesar weighed it and found the weight distribution was quite good and it fits the hand very well.
"Boss, how much is this?" he asked.
The owner of the stall was a dwarf, dressed like an adventurer. His stall was full of things like these, and they looked very old.
The basket was filled with all kinds of weapons, some of which were still covered with fresh mud, making them look like they had just been dug out from somewhere.
"What do you like about these? The one in your hand? Did you take it from this basket?" The stall owner pointed at the basket with his thick fingers and said, "It's hard for me to price these things. They are all old."
A sly look flashed in his eyes. "This is what our adventure team dug up from the ruins of Sita, east of the capital. They might be antiques, and we don't understand them. It's not cost-effective to hire an appraiser for so many things, so we brought them here to sell."
"Don't talk so much nonsense. How much is this sword?" Caesar said impatiently.
"Oh, don't be impatient, young man." The dwarf boss scratched his shaggy beard and said, "It took us a lot of effort to get these things. We might even lose our lives if we're not careful."
"How about this? I won't cheat you. I'll give you two gold coins for one set! How about that? Two gold coins for one set!"
Nellie stood behind him without saying a word, watching him communicate with the stall owner. After he told her the price, she said in surprise, "Two gold coins? How dare you sell this broken iron sword for so much?!"
"Boss, don't think we can't see that these things were dug out from the ruins of Xita?" Caesar waved the sword twice: "I think they were made from the tower workshop, right?"
"Young man, don't say that. Our team worked hard to bring this out. Don't slander it even if you don't want to buy it, okay?" said the dwarf boss, looking indignant.
"We sell weapons. Can we sell you a broken sword and stick?"
Originally, I saw these two people wandering aimlessly on the street. They were both dressed very nicely, and the girl was very fair-skinned. An ordinary family would not be able to maintain such delicate skin.
I thought they were two fat sheep, but I didn't expect them to see through me.
"How about this, I'll make an offer, two silver coins, how about that?" Nellie said.
Of course the boss would not agree to reduce the amount from two gold coins to two silver coins all at once.
This time it hit the aorta.
He reached out and took the dagger back from Caesar's hand.
"I won't sell it anymore. How can you bargain like this?" The dwarf waved his hands again and again. "How can you do that? I can sell this sword for more than two silver coins if I take it to a blacksmith's shop and sell it as scrap metal."
"The seller of scrap iron needs to recover the furnace fee, so how can we get two silver coins from it?" said Caesar.
"Look, there are real water ripples here. Do you understand what this is?" The dwarf boss tapped the sword with his thumb nail, making a crisp sound.
He was right, there were indeed real water ripples on it, which was why Caesar wanted this sword.
But this sword was indeed made in the workshop, and it has not been there longer than last week.
The dwarf could see that Caesar was interested in buying it, so he handed the dagger back to Caesar and continued to persuade him.
Nelly was behind him haggling over the price.
"Four silvers, no more." Nellie's attitude was firm.
"Oh, you look like a young lady, right? How about adding some more, eight silver?" The boss looked very distressed.
"Okay, it's not easy for you to do business, so I'll give you another silver, making it five silvers." Nelly said.
"This is too little, this..."
"Cize, let's go." Nellie grabbed Caesar's collar from behind and tried to pull him away.
"Okay." Caesar threw the dagger in his hand back into the basket and stood up to leave.
"Five...four...three..." Nellie counted down in her mind.
The two walked decisively, without any intention of looking back.
“Wait, wait, wait!” Finally, the dwarf boss couldn’t hold his breath anymore and shouted, “Come back, come back. Five silver is five silver!”
When they heard the boss's call, they stopped and looked at each other, with a smile on their lips at the same time.
"Nice handicrafts, boss. Where did you get these from?" Xize asked as he took money out of his pocket.
"I told you, I dug it out from the ruins of Sita, believe it or not." The business was done, and the boss no longer pretended. He could see that the two were not the kind of people who knew nothing, and he no longer tried to be polite as if he was trying to deceive Xiao Bai.
Caesar searched his stall but found nothing like it.
“If you’re really interested, go to Feishu Road and ask yourself. I don’t have it here.” Finally, the boss gave a hint.
"Okay." Caesar nodded.
After leaving the stall, Caesar raised his hand towards Nellie, who understood what he meant and stretched out her own hand to high-five Caesar.
"Yeah!" Since Caesar was a head taller than Nellie, the latter had to jump up slightly to high-five him.
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"Not bad, not bad, the tacit understanding is still there." Caesar praised with a smile.
“Hehe.” Nellie wrinkled her cute little nose, looking like she was going to compliment me.
Perhaps because frugality is also a virtue in the teachings of the Vatican, Nelly likes to bargain when buying things. Not only does she bargain when buying things for herself, she also bargains when buying things for others.
This is the method most commonly used by Nellie and Caesar, one plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop. If Caesar wants to buy something, then Nellie will be responsible for bargaining.
If you don’t agree, then use the ultimate move at the end.
She just pretended that it was too expensive and wanted to leave. Nellie pulled Caesar away, and Caesar showed his willingness.
Generally, I can successfully bargain down to a price that I think is suitable.
Although both of them have enough money, there is no need to spend it recklessly.
Frugality is also an attitude.
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