Chapter 829 No Money Left

Shi Lei, who had the advantage of home court, naturally had the confidence to fight with the opponent, but the Liang army coach on the opposite side obviously had his own plans. For a while, the two sides were in a stalemate.

At the same time, the wood elves were obviously not aware of the war that broke out on the other side of the border of the Great Zhou.

After waiting for the season to start, the wood elves were all a little impatient to start the new year's purchases.

But Locke, as the patriarch, was a little melancholy at this moment.

Looking at the remaining silver coins in the box, he suddenly realized that they seemed to be running out of money...

Before winter, the remaining silver coins were still sufficient...

Thinking of this, Locke was stunned, and probably realized where the money was spent.

Not to mention the large purchases before winter, this winter, they are extremely dependent on anthracite. After installing heaters in every household in the village, the consumption of anthracite is called a lot.

What they bought before was not enough, so they had to go to purchase again in the middle of the year.

After contacting Xiao Li, he said that he could provide door-to-door delivery service. As long as they paid a transportation fee, they could deliver the goods directly to their door, so they didn't have to make a special trip.

The wood elves thought this was good, saving trouble and effort, and then they bought more diligently.

In this way, the entire expenditure for a winter was far beyond their expectations.

Realizing this, Locke hurriedly called the tribesmen to discuss the issue.

While several tribesmen were counting the balance one by one, one of the wood elves raised his hand and put forward a bold idea.

"Why don't we see what else is good to sell in the forest?"

"..."

Hearing this, Locke's hand holding the staff tightened suddenly, and he almost wanted to swing the staff and give this evil creature a stick!

Although they did trade with Da Zhou before, sold the mineral veins in the forest, and earned 100,000 silver coins, as the tribe leader, Locke knew that this was not a long-term solution.

Not to mention that Da Zhou doesn't want everything. Their forest is not big or small, how can there be so many valuable things to sell?

In the end, although Locke didn't really do it, he couldn't help but scold him.

While they were talking, the wood elves who were busy counting money on the other side also counted the silver coins on their hands.

"There are more than 6,300 silver coins left."

For a few people, this is definitely a huge sum of money, but considering the consumption level of the wood elves, plus the population of the entire village, it seems a little insufficient.

"The furniture can be used for a long time after buying. If these more than 6,000 silver coins are all used to buy daily necessities, we don't seem to be so poor..."

As soon as this sentence came out, it immediately received a lot of responses from the wood elves.

"It seems so. Just be careful when spending money in the future."

"Spend a little sparingly, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"..."

Hearing those words, Locke's mood eased a little.

Is it really that I think too much?

Just as the tribesmen said, the biggest expenses in their village have been spent. Things like furniture and clothing are not disposable items. The remaining money is all used to purchase necessary daily necessities, which seems to be very abundant.

Taking a deep breath and adjusting his mood, Locke soon had a new idea.

"Well, the first step to save money is that we will not go to Xishan City to purchase in the future, but go to Green Forest City instead."

Green Forest City is not far from them, and if they move faster, they can go back and forth in one day.

But relatively speaking, as a border city, Green Forest City's internal development is not as good as Xishan City as an inland city. Many things that Xishan City has may not be available in Green Forest City.

This made some wood elves who only wanted to go to Manxianglou to listen to books and eat hot pot express their objections, and then they were ruthlessly rejected by Locke.

Compared with the past, he is no longer the Locke who knows nothing.

Now, even if he goes to Dazhou by himself, he can complete the procurement work independently.

At the same time, from the perspective of saving money, Locke immediately added another one.

"And the purchasing team will be reduced to five people from now on."

As soon as these words came out, a wail sounded instantly.

But Locke was unmoved. At this moment, he completely demonstrated his majesty as the patriarch and rejected all objections.

He could see that even if these guys went to purchase, they would mainly eat, drink and have fun. For things like transportation and handling, they would still have to spend money to hire people.

Anyway, they couldn't help much anyway, so it's better not to go. Locke roughly estimated in his mind that this would save a lot of money.

Of course, in the end, Locke still couldn't stand the tribesmen's pestering, and relaxed the number of purchases to ten on the premise that everyone had to help with the work.

Compared with the previous 20 or 30 people eating, drinking and having fun, this is much better.

The one who was responsible for receiving him was still Xiao Li from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

They were completely familiar with Xiao Li. After seeing him, Locke directly said that they would not go to Xishan City this time, but to Green Forest City.

The moment he heard this, Xiao Li's first reaction was 'They are almost out of money! '

He saw how lavishly the wood elves spent their money.

But even so, Xiao Li still felt incredible.

[My goodness, that's 100,000 silver coins! 100,000!! They are almost out of money? ! ]

At this time, Xiao Li even felt unreal.

However, Xiao Li always agreed to their requests directly.

When they arrived in Green Forest City, Locke asked Xiao Li if there were cheaper dormitories to live in.

Of course, there were.

When they entertained the wood elves, they were given dormitories with four people in a room, which was for comfort. In fact, there were dormitories with six people in a room, or even eight people in a room.

Xiao Li was relatively moral and recommended that they rent a four-person room and a six-person room, which was exactly ten people.

During this period, the accompanying wood elves couldn't help asking Xiao Li questions like "Where is the best restaurant in Green Forest City?" and "Is there a hot pot?".

Locke couldn't help but glare at them fiercely after hearing this.

Seeing this, the wood elves immediately made a pleading look.

"Just one meal, just one meal, it won't cost much, we haven't eaten hot pot for a long time."

These words made Locke quite moved.

Mainly, he was also greedy...

[Hot pot, it's really been a long time since I last had it. 】

"Remind you, it's just one meal!"

The wood elves were delighted when they saw this and nodded in agreement.

Compared with Xishan City, the decoration of the restaurant here is roughly the same. At the same time, there are also storytellers in the lobby, but the food here is much cheaper than that in Xishan City.

This is mainly affected by local income. Border cities are relatively ordinary in development and the income level of the people is relatively low. If you make the dishes too expensive, there will be only a few tables of guests in a day, and you can't make money, so the restaurant will lose money.

And if the price of food is cheap, the cost of your food will naturally be reduced.

Those expensive ingredients and seasonings that need to be transported from other places must be saved.

For the wood elves who are used to eating good wine and good food in Manxianglou, they immediately tasted the difference after taking a bite, and couldn't help complaining.

But because they haven't eaten hot pot for too long, they still ate it all up.