Chapter 72: Let’s talk about business
Pobo does big business, such as selling slaves and high-end equipment, but he only comes to this remote town to look for good things and doesn't bother doing business with the poor people in the mountains.
The dwarf merchant is different. He makes a lot of small sales and fast-moving consumer goods and specializes in making small money from the townspeople. Of course, he also sells pepper and silk to the rich.
Robb was a little surprised when the two merchants arrived simultaneously. "Please come in and sit down," he said with a smile.
Pobo and the dwarf merchant obviously knew each other with no real competition between each other. They were both friendly and rich, and they both grinned and happily walked into the yard and sat on the stone bench opposite Robb.
Lillian hurriedly placed three glasses of coke on the stone table.
Pobo picked it up and drank it with a wonderful expression on his face, but he had no intention of selling it. He smiled and said to the traveling merchant next to him, "I’m sure you had an idea about this drink."
The traveling merchant chuckled and said, "Yes, that's what I'm here to talk to Mr. Robb about."
Pobo said, "is it easy to make money on consumer goods?"
The traveling merchant smiled, "Not any harder than your stuff."
Seeing that the two merchants were about to talk endlessly, Robb quickly interrupted them and asked with a smile, "doesn't it take both of you months to come to Westwind Town? Why are both of you back so soon? "
Pobo immediately said with a smile, “Of course, it’s because Mr. Robb’s in town. I came back this time to ask if you have any new products.”
“Did it sell fast?” said Robb.
"Yes!” Pobo said, “The flying dragon leather armor immediately attracted the attention of two nobles. They fought over the skin for several days. To buy it, one of them agreed to buy all my goods, so I sold him the armor, slaves, and some precious stones from Stone Canyon. I had no need to go to the Capital of Saints. I came back to restock.”
The traveling merchant said, "it's about the same on my side. When I got to the Bright Road and traded pepper with a nobleman, I poured him a glass of Coca-Cola and gave him a taste of it. Unexpectedly, he immediately asked to buy my bucket of coke. I said it was just a sample, and I wanted to give it to other customers, so I couldn't sell it. He said that if I was willing to sell him the whole bucket of samples, he would buy all my peppers. Because of that, I had to come back to restock."
Robb laughed, “These nobles are so boring. Can’t they spend it on anything else?”
Pobo smiled and said, "That's right! These nobles are rich but don't know where to spend it."
Robb made money with Lillian for nothing. After a while, Lillian brought up two large bags of pepper and buckets of coke from the warehouse. And a few pieces of equipment that Robb made when he was bored in the warehouse.
Both merchants got the goods, and Robb earned hundreds of gold coins for nothing. Everyone was happy.
"Mr. Dwarf." Robb smiled and said, "Look at the stockings on my maid's feet. How does it look?"
The merchant, till now, had all his attention on Robb and didn’t look much at his surroundings. So hearing what he said, he looked at Lillian's leg. Without comprehending or understanding it, he was startled, "Oh, these stockings. This thing will definitely be welcomed by nobles. "
"What do you think? Do you want to buy some goods?” Robb smiled, "I will probably keep making these socks here in the future."
"Of course! we have to restock." The traveling merchant hurriedly said, "I'm sure it's a thing that can be sold out in the blink of an eye."
"But I don't have much of this either." Robb said with a smile, "it's too slow and hard for my little maid to do it alone. I don't want her to be exhausted. So I need Mr. Pobo to help."
Pobo immediately understood, "do you need more slaves?"
"Exactly!" Robb said with a smile, "No men, only women about the same age as Lillian."
"This is a trivial matter. Please leave it to me." Pobo said with a smile, "I will go around the poorest and most remote villages and towns nearby as soon as possible. I will buy you a lot of female slaves and ensure that they are all beautiful and pure virgins. As you know, I only do high-end goods. I don't sell those worthless junk maids."
Robb retorted, "You dare say a maid worth 5 gold is high-end? I'm waiting for you to find me a good product with a reasonable price of 100 gold coins."
Pobo said, "Mr. Robb, please don't embarrass me. 100 gold coins are worth at least the daughter of a noble family of an enemy country. This kind that was caught in the war is so rare."
Robb tilted his head, "You can buy the daughter of a noble for a hundred gold coins? I just need the flying dragon leather armor! Then what’s the price of the princess? I’m a little interested."
Pobo said, “This… a kingdom has to be destroyed before their princesses can be sold as slaves. In the last ten years, there has been no large-scale war, and no kingdom destroyed."
“Haha, I was just saying.” Robb said, "I am a good person. I do not seek disaster and watch kingdoms destroyed just to buy a princess. I won’t order her to do something shameful and finally force her to turn eighteen." (solemn face)
The two merchants thought, “I believe you are a very bad priest.”
At this point, Gorda, Jike, and Xuelu returned.
With smiles on their faces, the three apparently successfully completed their mission of rescuing the herbalists attacked by goblins.
Gorda still has some green blood on his armor, which should be the goblin's blood. He frowned as he wiped the blood with his hands. This armor is from Robb. It is so high-end that he is reluctant to get dirty.
On the other hand, Xuelu held a strange thing in her hand.
As soon as she saw Robb, Xuelu waved, smiled, and said, "Mr. Robb, Jike found something good in the mountain. Oh, look!"
Before Robb could get close to it, the traveling merchant suddenly jumped up and said, "Ah! It’s a beehive. I smell honey. It’s truly great."