Chapter 1137 Do You Want to Steal Our Goods?
Although the blind girl couldn't hear Nagris's muttering clearly, she knew it wasn't Yaya because he didn't respond to her immediately, and she retreated back into the pit with some disappointment.
Anger kept walking over, his mind swept around, including the girl's body. After sweeping over, Anger suddenly stopped and tilted his head towards the girl.
Nagris asked: "What's wrong?"
"It's not a person." After Anger finished speaking, he continued to look for it with his head down. Instead, Nagris stopped and curiously approached the pit to see why it was 'not a person'.
The pit was very simple, with some sundries neatly piled on the left. The right should be the work area, with a basin of water and some fantasy rock debris.
The girl was sitting by the basin, holding a wooden stick, dipping it in water, and then dipping it in a little fantasy rock debris, rubbing the fantasy rock in her hand repeatedly. There were some ropes at her feet. Looking at the fantasy rock debris stuck on it, it was obviously using the same principle to rub the fantasy rock.
"It turned out to be the bow jade technique. I was wondering why she could carve fantasy rocks, but I didn't expect the bow jade technique." Nagris suddenly realized.
Anthony also came over, looked at the thing in the girl's hand, and asked curiously: "What is the bow jade technique?" This term is too professional, and Anthony doesn't know much.
The girl was a little scared because of their approach, but after hearing Nagris's voice, she relaxed and turned around and asked: "Are you here to collect fantasy rocks?"
This is a worthless abyss plane. The only valuable thing is these fantasy rocks. Those who stay here are the industrial chain built around the fantasy rocks. For example, this girl is a sculptor who specializes in sculpting fantasy rocks.
In addition to the practitioners of the fantasy rock industry chain, the only people who come here are the merchants who collect fantasy rocks. There have been merchants who came to watch her work before, so the girl naturally thought that Nagris and others were also merchants.
Anthony said kindly: "I guess so. Hello, what are you doing? It's very beautiful. Are you selling it? How much is one?"
"Is it beautiful?" The girl showed a very happy smile, with a kind of pride of being affirmed, and held the Fantasy Rock statue in her palm to show it: "One gold coin, okay? It takes me a month to carve one."
Anthony was stunned for a moment, feeling something was wrong, and said: "Wait a minute."
Then he asked in silver coins: "Do you know Fantasy Rock? How much does a Fantasy Rock statue usually cost? How much is one about ten centimeters high? Starting from fifty magic crystals? OK, I got it."
After asking for the information he wanted, Anthony turned back and asked kindly: "Have you eaten? Are you hungry?"
"No..." The girl swallowed subconsciously, and when she was about to say she was not hungry, her stomach betrayed her and made a "gulp" sound.
Anthony laughed heartily, and enthusiastically took out some dried meat and pastries, stuffed them into the girl's hands, and asked: "You only earn one gold coin a month, can you eat enough normally?"
The girl was a little flustered holding the food Anthony stuffed in, and shook her head shyly: "Eat less, anyway I won't starve to death, thank you, but I can't have these things, they are too fragrant, I can tell they are expensive as soon as I smell them."
"Eat, I still have something to ask you after you are full, eat first, and talk while eating, I will be embarrassed to ask you questions if you are hungry." Anthony pretended to be unhappy, the simple girl was no match for Anthony, and after a few moral kidnappings, she obediently nibbled on the dried meat.
Nagris took the opportunity to ask in a low voice: "One gold coin a month, isn't that a lot? Many farmers can't earn one gold coin a year, why can't they eat enough?"
Anthony whispered: "There is no grain here, and the grain is shipped in. The price must be very high. If the Fantasy Rock products are very cheap, it's fine. Silver coins say that this thing starts at fifty magic crystals, which is at least 500 gold coins. They make so much money and deliberately don't let people eat enough. These damn profiteers."
This is the difference between having experience and having empty theories. Anthony knew it was wrong as soon as he heard it, but Nagris would simply measure it with the face value.
"Yes, if there is no grain, the food should be very expensive, but what does it mean to deliberately not let people eat enough? Deliberate?" Nagris asked puzzled.
"If you earn ten months' worth of money in one month, will you still insist on working? Under what circumstances will you work hard?"
"Is it because the money is just enough for you to spend, and you will have no food to eat if you don't work next month, and it's best to have a loan, and you have to pay back the money as soon as you open your eyes every day, when the motivation to work is the most sufficient? They deliberately lowered the purchase price so that she must work very hard to avoid starving to death." Anthony said.
Nagris widened his eyes, unbelievable: "So black-hearted? Profligate business!"
Far away in the Rio Courtyard, because he was too busy and didn't follow the silver coin, he sneezed three times in a row, then rubbed his nose and muttered: "It must be Lord Naig scolding me again."
One gold coin is just enough for one person, but not for two people. The girl looks very thin, with cracks all over her hands and barbs all over her nails and skin, which is obviously caused by a lack of certain nutrients.
Despite this, the girl stopped after a few bites and carefully put away the remaining food.
"I'm full, sir, do you want to ask something? But can you tell me first, what is the bow jade technique?" The girl said.
"Oh, this is a method of cutting stone with a bow-shaped tool. Bend a stick and tie a rope to the two ends. The stick will naturally straighten the rope, like a bow."
"Wet the rope, stick it with gravel, and go back and forth, and you can cut stones like jade, just like you are doing now, so it is called bow jade technique. There is a proverb: stones on other mountains can be bowed into jade, which refers to bow jade technique." Negris explained.
The girl suddenly realized: "So this is what it means. The method of grinding stones with ropes that I have used since I was a child actually has a name. You are really amazing. You must be a wise man."
"Hehe, hehe..." Negris' tail was up, and he smiled foolishly.
The girl turned to Anthony and said: "My lord, what do you want to ask?"
"What's your name?" Anthony asked.
The girl said: "My name is Ktikaluti."
"I have a question and I don't know if it's offensive. Are you a human?" Anthony asked.
"Ah!" Ktikaluti's whole body tensed up instantly.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I just feel that your breath is special, so I just ask casually. There is no malice. If you don't want to answer, forget it." Anthony hurriedly comforted.
Nagris couldn't help curling his lips and cursed in his heart: You feel like a ghost, it was clearly Ange who told you, you dead charlatan.
Maybe Anthony's voice was more sincere, Ktikaluti relaxed a little, hesitating: "I... I... I..."
Ktikaluti didn't say anything, but Anthony already knew the answer, and smiled and changed the subject: "Your fantasy rock is very beautifully carved, can you sell it to me?"
"Okay, of course, it's almost finished, one gold coin, okay?" Ktikaluti asked cautiously, fearing that her price was too high.
"Of course..." Anthony was about to pay, and suddenly there was a shout from the direction of the pioneer camp: "What are you doing!? Do you want to rob our goods? Didn't anyone tell you that this is the territory of our Black Fuse Mercenary Group?!"