Chapter 57, Holidays in Italica (Part 2)
"...Ten rolls of lake-blue grass-leaf pattern brocade...Does anyone want to buy them?"
"...I want it, I want it! I will give you thirty Singer gold coins!"
"...I will offer thirty-two Singer gold coins!"
"...I will offer thirty-five Singer gold coins!"
——Similar to the situation over at Arnus Hill, at the auction in Italica City, colorful printed silks are also the most popular earth goods. The charming luster and smooth touch are unmatched by any known textile on the Falmat continent. Whether it is brocade with bright colors, thin and translucent gauze, or taffeta with strong tension, they are all equally popular. After using such top-notch beautiful fabrics and making skirts and robes by skilled tailors, local women wearing silk skirts generally feel that their beauty has been improved by several levels, and even their temperament has been highlighted. They couldn't help but have their eyes brightening and flocking towards him.
Under the coquettishness and pleading of their wives and daughters at home, and looking at their longing eyes, the men had no choice but to grit their teeth and give generously.
"...Sir, Master Levi! I have got you the pterosaur you wanted last time! There are two of them! Although they are relatively small and only hatched from the egg for four months, as long as they are fed well , you will be able to ride it in about two years... Master Li Wei, these pterosaurs are difficult to obtain and not cheap! In order to get them, I used a lot of connections and connections..." A fat businessman He rushed forward and shouted eagerly.
"...Very good! These ten rolls of brocade are yours! Well, the next auction item, twenty silk gauze scarves, are also yours!"
After looking at the two small pterosaurs in the cage, Levi nodded with satisfaction, "...We have always been very generous to our friends!"
Looking at the fat businessman who came with two small pterosaurs, he happily asked his servants to use a trolley to pull the silk and satin back home. The other businessmen who were qualified to enter the auction couldn't help but sigh with regret. But he quickly cheered up and started paying attention to the next batch of items to be auctioned.
"...The next shipment is fifty boxes of chive-flavored compressed biscuits..."
"...I want this! Four Singer gold coins!"
"...I'll give you five!"
——Although not many modern Chinese people are willing to chew compressed biscuits, they think this stuff is so hard that it can give people nightmares. But for the indigenous residents of the Falmat continent, this kind of "grain brick" that is nutritious, durable and easy to carry is much more expensive than the hard-as-a-stone that most civilians in the city usually eat. Black bread that can be split with an ax and can be used by housewives to kill thieves may even taste better! At least it is not mixed with sawdust, grass bran and chalk soil, nor is it baked with dried cow dung (in order to save more expensive firewood)...
In fact, the compressed biscuits that Levi and the others sold several times in the past have been sold to surrounding countries through the caravans of these rush buyers. Otherwise, with the poor consumption power of a small and medium-sized city like Italica, I am afraid that it would not be possible at all. I couldn't eat the seemingly small amount of goods that Levi and the others brought out. Well, in addition, the thin iron boxes used by outsiders to store biscuits (military compressed biscuits are packed in iron boxes) were also dismantled by indigenous merchants and sold individually, and the sales were quite good - in this world With such a technical level, how could an ordinary blacksmith knock out something like this with his craftsmanship?
"...The next batch of goods, sixty boxes of comprehensive fruit candies..."
——Although they seem to have no technical content, in fact, these seemingly ordinary fruit candies are treasures that the indigenous people of Falmat continent cannot produce themselves and can only be purchased from outsiders, let alone such as Tropical fruits like pineapples and mangoes don’t seem to exist on this continent. In addition, just like the previous case of compressed biscuits, the profiteers in Italica also sold the fruit candies themselves and the colorful small iron box outside separately, robbing customers of two portions of money...
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"...The next batch of goods, eighty white cotton T-shirts..."
In fact, Levi was a little surprised that T-shirts, a simple thing that seemed to have no style and did not conform to the clothing style of the indigenous people of Falmat continent, were actually selling well. Later I learned that the aborigines were not going to wear T-shirts to go shopping in the summer, but to wear them as underwear when the weather was cold. Because cotton T-shirts have strong elasticity and good sweat absorption, they are more comfortable to wear than their linen shirts and petticoats.
As for the appearance being too simple and not in line with the aesthetics, anyway, it is worn at the bottom, and generally no one can see it...
"...The next batch of goods, one hundred colored melamine plastic bowls..."
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While the merchants were noisily bidding to buy all kinds of otherworldly goods, a little further around the courtyard, the maids of the Earl of Formal's mansion and some of the female knights of the Order of the Rose were also looking at the past with interest. This group of outsiders led by Li Wei.
As we all know, human beings have always had a tradition of worshiping and imitating the strong. This is an instinct that is almost engraved in the bone marrow. Therefore, after passing the initial fear and avoidance stage, Mr. Levi and the small group of alien soldiers who stayed in the city became the most watched figures in Italica. And because of the trade fair, those of them living in the Earl's Mansion had more opportunities to interact with people from other worlds.
Some of the young orc maids were looking at the strange colorful clothes of the alien soldiers - for children of their age, anything new is very attractive. But no matter how long they looked at it, they still couldn't figure out why those soldiers from another world used so many small square blocks to form strange shapes on their clothes. Is it because they thought it looked good? Or does it have any special meaning? For example, could those patterns be special religious symbols from another world?
Other older and shrewd maids are thinking about how to take advantage of the outsiders. After all, there are so many good things around them - silk, candy, colored porcelain, plastic products, small items, etc. Jewelry... Moreover, some of them have taken advantage of various opportunities to get some benefits from people from other worlds. Although it is only a few pieces of candy or one or two trinkets, it is enough to make them who have not seen much feel very happy. .
If it weren't for these alien soldiers who always left before the sun went down and never stayed overnight in the Earl's Mansion, some of them might have offered themselves pillow seats to these generous alien soldiers... There were also some maids who tried to Looking for opportunities to flirt with them, but unfortunately those alien soldiers seem to be quite dull, and have not received any response so far, let alone sent love letters, which makes the maids itchy with hatred...
All in all, with everyone watching in the Earl's Mansion, all the earth products that Levi took out this time were quickly sold out. However, this time the transaction was not completely over, because there was still another step to purchase goods - the merchants who came with the goods lined up in a long line under the scolding of the aliens' green-clad soldiers, and entered Li Wei one by one. Offer the things that he had publicly shown in advance and claimed to be ready to buy at high prices: seeds of crops and flowers, various live wild or domestic animals, samples of minerals, rough gemstones, and books they collected from various sources, etc. wait.
Due to the vastly different values between the two parties regarding different items, the acquisition became a heartbeat game similar to jade gambling. Some people brought heirlooms, but they were evaluated as worthless by outsiders and rejected outright. Some people randomly collected some sundries from the bottom of the box, but sold them at incredibly high prices... However, no one dared to blackmail or play tricks, and the entire transaction process was quite orderly.
Even the maids working in the mansion lined up at the end of the queue with the private goods they had bought from all over the city and suburbs during their free time, hoping to catch a chance of good luck and sell them at a good price... However, Bartholomew, the old butler of the Earl's mansion, a man who appears to be sanctimonious but actually In fact, the bad old man who is greedy for money, lustful and a gambler has already gone one step further and secretly hooked up with Li Wei in private. For the price of thirty rolls of silk and a large box of jewelry, he carried everything in the Earl's mansion. He stole and sold out all the hundreds of private books in the old count's study.
What's worse is that even the diary of the late old earl and countess was accidentally sold to the people on earth. It is used by many humanities scholars on the earth to study the daily life and debauchery of the aristocratic class in other worlds. Provided quite detailed first-hand information... On the earth in the future, At least more than ten fantasy novels, a cartoon and a mini-series are based on it, and through various exaggerated artistic renderings, the former Count Fomar has become similar to the French Marquis de Sade in the eyes of the people on earth. The image of the "great love saint" who is particularly good at playing...
By noon, the trade fair finally came to a successful conclusion. However, just when Li Wei and others were packing their things and preparing to leave, the nominal owner of the city, the eleven-year-old Countess Miu of Formal, shyly came up to her and invited Li Wei and others to join them in the mansion. Lunch.
Glancing at White Rose Captain Pei Nizhu who was hiding behind to help, Levi suddenly realized: It is probably that this little girl has finally come to her senses and wants to sit down and have a meal together to ease the relationship and express their feelings for each other. I apologized for the previous challenges...so I nodded my head and agreed.
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