Chapter 145 The Imperial City is not easy to mess with!
Chapter 145
Ten gold coins, for Li Ruotong, was simply unimaginable. After so many years of hard work and frugality, he had never been so luxurious.
However, although the prices in the Imperial City are expensive, there is obviously an element of being taken advantage of. Recently, many people have come outside the Imperial City, and these are all fat sheep! Since they can be slaughtered, why not slaughter them?
When eating here, the payment depends on the person. Luo Chen is dressed in common clothes, Li Ruotong is also wearing ordinary clothes, and Yin Yin is dressed well, but overall, in the eyes of the people in the imperial city, he is still a bumpkin. Anyone who encounters this
Customers will deliberately raise prices. They have no background anyway, so they don’t dare to cause trouble!
This is an unspoken rule, not only in this inn, but also in many nearby shops.
Luo Chen didn't know this, otherwise, he would have made a fuss like the young man before.
After eating, the three of them went to find a store that was about to close down. After some questioning, they found that such an ordinary store charged a thousand gold coins a month!
After hearing this price, even Li Ruotong was a little annoyed. He really thought they were fools! Calculating it this way, just paying for the appearance would cost 12,000 gold coins in vain. And according to their situation,
You have to rent here for at least three years. In total, that's thirty-six thousand gold coins! And that's not counting anything else.
Since it is a facade, it is naturally impossible to just open it in such a shabby state. It obviously still needs to be renovated. In addition, some simple furniture still needs to be prepared, and it is only a room like this, not counting the ones in the back room, not even the one in the back room.
There is no place to sleep or wash up.
They don't have many gold coins on hand, and the owner of this shop is very persistent and doesn't even have room for negotiation.
"Forget it, Sister Ruotong, with such a shabby storefront, even if it is rented, the business will probably not start. Otherwise, there will be no need to close down. A thousand gold coins a month, just this shabby shop? Yes
Are you planning to grab the coffin money for yourself?"
There are many shops in the market, but there is no suitable one on this street. Just find another one. But the little old man's tone made him very unhappy. So what if his attitude is obviously to bully you?
"Young man, what are you talking about? Am I alone when you bully a little old man? Humph!"
The little old man was confident and confident. After saying this, he walked out of the shop casually, squatted on the ground and blew the dust, and then lay down directly on the ground and started splashing."
"Oh, you're bullying someone, you're going to kill them! Come on, people! People from the outer city are bullying our old people in the imperial city, buying and selling them by force! I only have a shop like this, old man! They've all been smashed.
It’s over!”
While shouting like this, a group of people trotted up not far away. They entered the shop and started smashing it. After they finished smashing, they surrounded Luo Chen and the other three.
At this time, many people came around one after another, pointing and pointing.
Luo Chen raised his eyebrows, looked at the little old man lying on the ground and said, "What do you mean?"
"Hey, shop, the previous price was one thousand gold coins per month, not much, you can make up your own mind."
This little old man is obviously also a strong soul fighting master, and his star level seems to be not low. He used rumors to force his voice into two sound lines, which were passed into the ears of Luo Chen and Li Ruotong respectively, and not only
It was discovered that it was indeed an imperial city, and there were indeed many hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
"Young people, old man, I am not afraid of causing trouble, but you, old man, if I read it correctly, are you here to sign up for the martial arts academy's freshmen recruitment competition? According to the laws of the imperial city, anyone who causes trouble in the imperial city must at least be detained. Go in for a few days.
Old man, I don’t care. Anyway, I don’t go in once or twice. It feels exactly like going home. But you, hehe, if you delay the entrance examination because of this, you will lose more than you gain."
After the sound transmission was over, the old man continued to make a fuss, grinning with big yellow teeth and an emerald denture embedded in the teeth. It was like occupying a leek leaf. It was disgusting to death.
Li Ruotong was so angry that smoke was almost coming out of his head. He was obviously playing rogue.
"Okay! One thousand gold coins is one thousand gold coins."
Luo Chen narrowed his eyes, and Li Ruotong frowned, but didn't say anything more. He just sighed and said, forget it, at most it will cost you a thousand gold coins to stay for a month. After the college entrance examination is over, you can withdraw directly next month. That’s it.
"Hey, young people have fun doing things! I really like the old man."
The little old man got up from the ground in one fell swoop, took out the pre-prepared contract from his arms, and handed it to Luo Chen.
"How's it going? Old man, I won't bully you too much. It's just a one-month contract. After one month, it will be bridge to bridge. We don't know each other. Young people, settling in the imperial city is far from what you think. It’s so simple, old man, I’ve taught you a lesson, hehe..."
"One month is too little. I want to change it to a three-year contract."
After a brief glance, Luo Chen threw it directly to the old man again. Li Ruotong was anxious. This was obviously blackmail. What kind of trouble could this guy do again?
"Sister Ruotong, believe me, it won't cost you a single gold coin."
Luo Chen grinned at Li Ruotong, revealing a row of white teeth.
"Three years? Young man, are you trying to make fun of me?"
"I have two gold cards here. I don't have many gold coins, only four thousand, which is considered a deposit."
He took out the gold card from his arms, waved it in front of the old man, and said with a smile.
"Are you sure? Three years, that's thirty-six thousand gold coins!"
"Definitely and definitely, but...one room is not enough, we also want the back room in the shop."
Although this store is a bit old, the location is still quite good.
"This is easy to say, come with me."
The old man was hunched over, with his hands behind his back. As he said this, he walked towards the smashed shop of the western bar. Luo Chen followed closely behind him. The smashing inside the shop was very artistic, and some of it was quite valuable. Not a single thing was moved, but there were some old stools, and the table was smashed a lot. Although it looked like a mess, it was not worth much money at all.
"The smashing was very professional. Those hired from outside spent a lot of gold coins, right?"
Luo Chen said with a half-smile.
"It's not much. I'm a regular customer. It's very cheap. I can spend twenty gold coins a day."
This old man is also quite upright. It can be seen that this shop was once a tea shop. The shop is quite spacious. There are two small bedrooms in the back room, which were only separated by a curtain.
The old man tremblingly took out a piece of rice paper from a tea jar and quickly drew up two identical contracts.
"This is a three-year paper contract. Check to see if there are any problems. If there are no problems, press your fingerprint. After a while, the old man will go to the Ministry of Industry and Private Affairs to press the seal, and the contract will be effective."
"No need to look at it, but who does the stuff that was smashed before belong to?"
With that said, Luo Chen took one of the two contracts and handed it to Li Ruotong.
"If you want, old man, I can give you a new set."
They were just some worthless broken tables and chairs. Even if they could be replaced with a new set, it wouldn't cost fifty gold coins. They were just cheap items that were useless.
"Sister Ruotong, it's a bit noisy outside, please close the door."
When the old man heard this, he immediately became alert.
"Haha, there's no need to be nervous, old man. I just want to do business with you, old man."
This old guy's cultivation is not simple, and he is obviously an old gangster leader. They have just arrived and are not familiar with the place. Moreover, it is still a critical period for martial arts school enrollment, so naturally they will not choose this time to cause trouble.
Although this old man said he was vigilant, he was very calm from beginning to end.
"Boy, I have a bottle of soul-fighting liquid here. I would like you to taste some of it, old man, to see if it is worth a thousand gold coins."
With that said, Luo Chen took out a rough small jade bottle from his arms. The old man played with it carelessly for a while, then took off the cork of the jade bottle, smelled it for a moment, and said disdainfully: "Hey, it's just a third-grade soul fighting liquid.
It's a shitty thing on the street. It's very common. It's only worth fifty gold coins at most. Old man, I only like gold coins. I have no interest in these fighting soul liquids that have been mixed with water.
If you want to use this thing to trick this old man into paying your rent, there is no way."
"Fifty gold coins? More than that? Old man might as well taste it again. Also, although the jade bottle is rough, the fighting spirit liquid inside is genuine."
Fifty gold coins? Who are you kidding? Even if this thing is placed in the royal city, it is worth at least five hundred gold coins.
"Eh? What a pure fighting soul liquid! But even so, it's far more than a thousand gold coins."
"Then this Soul Fighting Liquid also has healing effects?"
"It's still not worth it! It's a good thing, but the grade is still too low. Young man, this thing is quite rare in other places, but this is the Imperial City, and ordinary fighting spirit liquids are everywhere. Don't say third-grade fighting spirit liquid.
Soul liquid, if you have money, you can go directly to the Imperial Capital, where even eighth-grade and ninth-grade fighting soul liquids are sold.
However, your third-grade fighting soul liquid is indeed very good, and it is worth three hundred gold coins."
The old man casually threw the jade bottle to Luo Chen and said with a smile: "The Imperial City is the political and economic center of the Tiandou Empire. Ordinary Soul Fighting Liquid is not attractive, but... hehe... Old man, I do have an idea, but
Well..."
Luo Chen frowned and said in a low voice, "What's your idea?"
"Hey, now is the day for the examination and competition for freshmen in the martial arts academy. These fighting soul liquids have been selling quite well recently. Old man, I have some energy here. Your fighting soul liquid is quite strange, so I can cheat.
Those foreign goods, hehe... But afterward, I want to take 50% of it!"
"Fifty percent? Why don't you die? This is impossible!"
The old man's estimated price was hard for him to accept. Not to mention him, even Li Ruotong looked a little unhappy at this time.
"Hey, young man, do you still want to sign the three-year contract?"
"I don't have any money, so why bother signing this!"
He took the paper contract from Li Ruotong and tore it into pieces on the spot. The old man didn't care, he was still young! Hehe... (To be continued)