Shopkeeper Wu shook his head and said: "You also know that it is difficult for Qian's grain to be transported to Qin's territory. I pay you the price of one stone of grain, and it is enough to buy two stones of grain when I get to Qian's place. Speaking of which, I
I still suffered a loss..."
In this space, food is similar to nuclear weapons in the outside world. They are strategic materials and are usually only allowed to circulate on the territory of each clan. According to this statement, the price given by Shopkeeper Wu is quite generous.
However, Qin Feng knew that these business people had their own channels. Since he dared to exchange with Qin Feng, he must have a way to transport the grain out of Qian's family.
"Okay, Shopkeeper Wu, one stone is worth one stone."
Qin Feng thought for a moment, waved to Shopkeeper Wu, and said, "I have something else. I wonder if Shopkeeper Wu is interested in it?"
"Oh? What is it?"
Shopkeeper Wu leaned over and said, "As long as it's a good product, I'll definitely give you a satisfactory price. Everyone in this town knows that I, Old Wu, am an innocent businessman..."
"I think you are a traitor and not a businessman, right?" Qin Feng was very angry at Shopkeeper Wu. He had just stolen a stone's worth of food from him, but in the blink of an eye, he dared to say that he was an innocent child?
"Thank you for the compliment, thank you for the compliment!" After hearing Qin Feng's words, shopkeeper Wu's eyes almost narrowed with laughter, and he repeatedly raised his hands to Qin Feng.
"Damn, he actually thanked me after scolding me? Is there anything wrong with him?"
Qin Feng was a little confused by Shopkeeper Wu's attitude. He shook his head and said no more nonsense. He took out the package from under the table, opened a gap and said, "Shopkeeper Wu, look at how much this item is worth.
money?"
"Fine...fine steel?"
Shopkeeper Wu suddenly became excited when he saw the contents of the package. He grabbed the package and said, "Friend, are you...is this really fine steel?"
To make iron into steel, a lot of dross needs to be removed. Therefore, the price of steel here is much higher than that of iron. Shopkeeper Wu recognized it at a glance. The quality of the object in Qin Feng's package must be higher than that of iron.
Ironware is already very rare here, and if it is made of fine steel, it will be even more expensive.
Moreover, it is impossible for these things to be circulated among the people. Most of them are looted by people from the five major clans and made into weapons to enrich their bodyguards.
"Yes, it's stainless steel..." Qin Feng nodded, put the package on the table, and said with a half-smile: "Shopkeeper Wu, can you give me a price?"
"This...all of these?" Shopkeeper Wu's breathing became rapid.
"Yes!" Qin Feng pointed to the package and said, "It weighs forty-two kilograms in total. Can you eat Shopkeeper Wu's?"
The steel block in Qin Feng's package was actually the steel plate that Zhang Hu brought out from the mountains. Qin Feng folded it together and put it into the package.
"Yes! Of course I can."
Shopkeeper Wu was afraid that Qin Feng would not buy the steel block for him, so he patted his chest and said: "In this Ping'an Town, who else can afford this thing except me, Old Wu?"
"Okay, shopkeeper Wu. Please make an offer!"
Qin Feng said that when he was in Qian's territory, he could still use some of the food stamps accumulated by Uncle Zhang in exchange for food, but when he arrived in Qin, those food stamps were no longer useful, which was why Qin Feng wanted to sell the steel blocks.
"How about five... five stones of grain?" Shopkeeper Wu thought for a moment, stretched out five fingers and said, "How about five stones of good grain in exchange for this steel block?"
"Five stones?"
After hearing what Shopkeeper Wu said, Qin Feng and Uncle Zhang who were sitting next to him looked at each other and said: "Shopkeeper Wu is quite kind. Just five stones. You can use the food stamps that are common in Qin. This thing
It’s yours…”
Qin Feng and Zhang Xiaotian had discussed before that this piece of fine steel should be sold for about six stones. Shopkeeper Wu offered a price of five stones, and Qin Feng was too lazy to bargain.
In fact, this is also a cognitive issue.
In the space where Qin Feng lives, steel is widely used in life and can be seen everywhere. Qin Feng has never regarded these things as food. Even in this space, it is difficult for him to change his mind.
"Okay, my friend, please move to the store..." Shopkeeper Wu looked around and said, "There are many people in this place, let's talk somewhere else..."
"By the way, I still don't know your surname, guest?" Shopkeeper Wu slapped his head. Only now did he remember that he had not asked Qin Feng's name.
"My surname is Qin, and my last name is Feng!"
When he came to Qin's territory, Qin Feng didn't need to deliberately hide his name. Anyway, no one in this space knew who he was.
"It turns out he is a descendant of the Qin family. Wu is disrespectful..." When Qin Feng announced his name, shopkeeper Wu was stunned for a moment, with a strange look in his eyes.
"Shopkeeper Wu, what's wrong?" Qin Feng asked a little strangely, and he naturally saw the change in shopkeeper Wu's face.
"It's nothing. Brother Qin, just come with me..."
Shopkeeper Wu shook his head and said: "Brother Qin ordered me to deliver the food directly. I also have a bottle of fine wine there. I will get drunk with Brother Qin today..."
Qin Feng's surname is Qin, and he can produce this fine steel. In Shopkeeper Wu's opinion, Qin Feng must be a direct descendant of the Qin family, and he stole the family's treasures to sell them. This kind of thing is not uncommon, Shopkeeper Wu
I've encountered it before.
"Okay, then I'll bother shopkeeper Wu!" Qin Feng laughed, and after saying hello to Uncle Zhang, the four of them followed shopkeeper Wu downstairs.
Shopkeeper Wu was very good at being a good person. He settled Qin Feng's account first, and then asked the waiter to add a few more dishes and have them delivered to his shop.
However, Qin Feng and others did not notice that when they left the restaurant, the two people wearing cloaks who were sitting in a corner on the second floor also paid their bills and followed behind.
After arriving at the store, shopkeeper Wu carefully inspected the piece of fine steel, then asked a waiter to greet Qin Feng and others to eat and drink, while he got busy himself.
"Uncle Zhang, I said before that shopkeeper Wu is neither a traitor nor a businessman. Why is he so happy?" Qin Feng asked the accompanying boy after he asked him to go out.
"Why are you unhappy?" Uncle Zhang looked at Qin Feng strangely and said, "This word is meant to praise businessmen."
"Praising a businessman?" Qin Feng was stunned when he heard this. Uncle Zhang's words simply overturned his understanding of this idiom.
"of course."
Uncle Zhang nodded and said: "When we buy rice here, we use a liter bucket as a measuring instrument. A conscientious businessman will put some rice into the rice basket and add it to the rice bucket, so that the surface of the smoothed rice will be bulging.
It’s like a bunch of sharp ends, so there’s no point in talking about anything…”
"Is there still such a thing?"
Qin Feng was dumbfounded when he heard it. Only now did he realize that the idiom "dare to love" was not a derogatory term at first, but it has changed its nature since it was spread to this day.
"Qin Feng, do you really want to sell this treasure?"
After explaining the origin of Wu Jian Bu Shan, Uncle Zhang looked at the package containing steel blocks on the table with some distress, his eyes were like a beggar looking at a bag of gold from the outside world.
"Uncle Zhang, this thing is of no use. It's still a burden if you keep it. It would be great to sell it and exchange it for something useful."
Looking at Uncle Zhang's reluctance, Qin Feng couldn't help but laugh. If he hadn't persuaded Zhang Hu when he came out of the mountain, Zhang Hu might have brought out the steel bearing as well.
"Okay, I listen to you, let's have a drink..." After these few months of getting along, Uncle Zhang knew that Qin Feng was very determined, so he said no more at the moment.
After almost an hour, I returned to the store and placed a stack of food stamps of varying amounts on the table.
"The six-stone food stamps are all here. Please take a look at it, Brother Qin..." Shopkeeper Wu looked a little tired, but he was in good spirits. He was obviously very satisfied with this business.
"Well, there are so many loose stamps?" Qin Feng took a cursory glance and found that in this stack of food stamps, except for two one-stone stamps, the others were all smaller-amount loose stamps.
"To tell you the truth, Brother Qin, Mr. Wu even gave away his daughter's dowry." Shopkeeper Wu smiled bitterly and said, "If the shop hadn't also stocked up some ready grain, it really wouldn't have been able to produce so much grain.
Tickets come..."
Shopkeeper Wu didn't lie. In order to buy Qin Feng's piece of fine steel, he even mortgaged a piece of jade dragon pendant that he loved very much to the pawnshop. Only then did he scrape together six shi of food stamps.
However, Shopkeeper Wu will not engage in loss-making business. This fine steel is not only rare among the people, but also rare among the five major clans. Many direct descendants only wear weapons made of iron.
It's not that these direct descendants have no money, but that fine steel is so rare that Shopkeeper Wu can make a lot of money if he buys this piece of fine steel and finds the right buyer.
"I'm afraid Shopkeeper Wu won't do a loss-making business, right?" Qin Feng smiled, collected the food stamps, and said, "I have something else I want to ask Shopkeeper Wu about."
"What's the matter with Brother Qin?" Shopkeeper Wu slapped his chest and said, "As long as I, Old Wu, know about it, I can tell you everything!"
Qin Feng stared into Shopkeeper Wu's eyes and said, "Shopkeeper Wu, I would like to ask, is the Qin Capital still there?"
"Qin...Qin's capital?"
Hearing these two words from Qin Feng's mouth, shopkeeper Wu's expression suddenly changed. After looking around, he turned around and closed the door of the house, and said carefully: "Brother Qin, why did you mention the capital of Qin? This is taboo!"
As he spoke, shopkeeper Wu's eyes showed doubts. As a member of the Qin family, why didn't Qin Feng know that after the incident that year, the capital of Qin was burned to ashes?
Moreover, Qindu became a taboo topic among the five major clans, and it was strictly forbidden to mention these two words among the people, otherwise it would be punished as rebellion.
"Ahem, Shopkeeper Wu, my branch used to live in the mountains. Now there are only a few of us left in the family. We had no choice but to leave the mountains. Otherwise, I would not have sold this family heirloom!"
Qin Feng coughed a few times and gave an explanation, which made shopkeeper Wu's face look a little better. The place where they live is mountainous. Indeed, some families have been hiding for hundreds of years and have little contact with the outside world.
.
"So this is ah?"
Shopkeeper Wu thought for a moment and asked: "Brother Qin, you should also know that the royal family in Qindu is no longer here. What's wrong with you where you are going?"
Qin Feng smiled bitterly when he heard this, made a helpless look, and said: "I used to hear from the elders of the family that Qindu is the place where my Qin family originated, so I wanted to take a look. Who knew I could ask this question?
No one told me..."
Uncle Zhang had never left the Qian family's territory in his life, and he didn't know where the Qin capital was. However, when Qin Feng inquired about the Qin capital in the Qian family's territory, he got into a lot of trouble, and then he used the business to ask Wu
The shopkeeper inquired.
"It would have been great if I didn't arrest you."
Shopkeeper Wu shook his head and said: "Three hundred kilometers east from here is the capital of Qin, but it has long been in ruins, so don't go there."
Shopkeeper Wu still has a good impression of Qin Feng. People who live under the rule of the Qin family are most disgusted by the current people in power of the Qin family.
Because the current Qin family, who is also a descendant of the Qin family, has united with outsiders to eradicate the royal family that is the core of his family name. This is an act of bullying the master and destroying the ancestors in the eyes of outsiders.
"We just went to pay our respects..."
After receiving the news from Qindu, Qin Feng stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, Shopkeeper Wu, for informing me. We will meet again later..."
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ps: I have something to do these days, so I will resume two updates on the 8th. Alas, I can’t code quietly. I hope I can calm down after this busy period. (To be continued...)
