Chapter 829 No Money
Shi Lei, who has the home court advantage, naturally has the confidence to fight the opponent, but the coach Liang Jun on the opposite side obviously also has his own plans. For a while, the two sides were also trapped. Stalemate.
At the same time, the wood elves are obviously not aware of the war that broke out on the other side of the Zhou Dynasty.
After waiting for the spring season, the wood elves are all a little impatient to start shopping for the new year.
But as the leader of the clan, Locke felt a little melancholy at the 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 quite abundant...
Thinking of this, Locke His expression was stunned, and he probably realized where the money was spent.
Not to mention the big purchases before winter, this winter they are extremely dependent on anthracite. After installing heaters in every house in the village, the consumption of anthracite is huge.
What they bought before was not enough, so they had to run out to make purchases midway.
After contacting Xiao Li, he said that he could provide door-to-door service. As long as he paid a transportation fee, he could deliver the goods directly to his door, so that they did not have to make a special trip.
When the wood elves heard this, they thought this was great and saved trouble and effort, so they bought more diligently.
After such a winter, the entire expenditure far exceeded their expectations.
Aware of this, Locke quickly called his clansmen over to discuss the issue.
While several tribesmen were counting their balances one by one, one of the wood elves raised his hand and came up with a bold idea.
"How about we see what else is for sale in the forest?"
"..."
Hearing this, Locke's hand holding the staff tightened suddenly, almost I just want to pick up the staff and give this evil obstacle a stick!
Although they did trade with Dazhou before, selling the mineral veins in the forest and earning 100,000 silver coins, as the leader of the clan, Locke knew that this was by no means a long-term solution.
Not to mention that Da Zhou doesn’t want everything. Their forest is big or small, how can there be so many valuable things for sale?
In the end, although Locke didn't take any action, he still had to give him a scolding.
While talking here, the wood elves who were busy counting money on the other side also counted the silver coins in their hands.
“There are more than six thousand three hundred 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 entire population of the previous village seemed a bit underwhelming.
“Furniture can be used for a long time. If all these more than 6,000 silver coins are used to buy daily necessities, we don’t seem that poor...”
As soon as this sentence was uttered, many wood elves immediately responded.
"It seems so. Just be careful when spending money in the future."
"If you save a little on spending, it shouldn't be a big problem."
"... "
Listening to those words, Locke's mood relaxed a little.
Do you really think too much?
As the tribesmen said, the biggest expenses in their village have been spent, such as furniture and clothing, which are not disposable items. All the remaining money is used to purchase necessary items. In terms of daily necessities, it seems to be very abundant.
Taking a deep breath and adjusting his emotions, Locke quickly had a new idea.
"Well, the first step to save money is that we will no longer go to Xishan City to purchase, but go to Green Forest City instead."
Green Forest City is not far from them, even if they move quickly, You can go back and forth in one day.
But in contrast, as a border city, the internal development of Green Forest City is not as good as that of Xishan City, which is an inland city. Many things that Xishan City has, Green Forest City may not have.
This caused some wood elves who only wanted to go to Manxiang Tower to listen to books and eat hot pot to express their objections, but were ruthlessly rejected by Locke.
Compared with before, he is no longer the Locke who didn't understand anything.
Now, even if he goes to Dazhou by himself, he can still complete the purchasing work independently. At the same time, from the perspective of saving money, Locke added another one.
"And the purchasing group will be reduced to five people from now on."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a cry of mourning.
But Locke was unmoved. At this moment, he completely showed his majesty as the patriarch and rejected all objections.
He finally saw that even if these guys went shopping, they would mainly focus on eating, drinking and having fun. For work like transportation and handling, they would still have to spend money to hire people.
Anyway, it won’t help much anyway, so it’s better not to go at all. Locke made a rough estimate in his mind, this can save a lot of money.
Of course, in the end, Locke still could not withstand the persistence of the tribesmen, and relaxed the number of purchasers to ten people on the premise that everyone must help with the work.
Compared with the previous battles where twenty or thirty people used to eat, drink and have fun, this is much better.
The person responsible for receiving him is still Xiao Li from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
They were completely acquainted with Xiao Li. After meeting him, Locke directly stated 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 running out of money! ’
He saw how arrogantly the wood elves spent their money.
But even so, Xiao Li still felt incredible about this.
[Good guy, that’s one hundred thousand silver coins! One hundred thousand! ! Almost all spent? ! 】
At this time, Xiao Li even felt unreal.
However, Xiao Li always agreed directly to their requests.
When they arrived at Green Forest City, Locke asked Xiao Li if there was a cheaper dormitory room to live in.
Of course this is true.
When we first hosted the wood elves, we gave them dormitories for four people to a room. That was for comfort. In fact, there are dormitories for six people to a room and even eight people to a room.
Xiao Li is quite moral and recommended that they rent a four-person room and a six-person room, which is exactly ten people.
During this period, the accompanying wood elves couldn’t help but ask Xiao Li, ‘Where is the best restaurant in Green Forest City? ’, ‘Is there any hot pot? ’ and other questions.
After hearing this, Locke couldn't help but glare at them.
When the wood elves saw this, they immediately looked like they were pleading.
"Just one meal, just one meal, it doesn't cost much. We haven't had hot pot for a long time."
Locke was quite moved by these words.
Mainly because he is also greedy...
[Hot pot, I haven’t had it for a long time. 】
“Remind you, just one meal!”
When the wood elves saw this, they all looked happy and nodded in agreement.
Compared with Xishan City, the decoration of the restaurant here is roughly the same. There are also storytellers in the lobby, but the food here is cheaper than that in Xishan City. Quite a few.
This is mainly affected by local income. In border cities, due to the relatively average development and the relatively low income level of the people, your food is too expensive, and there are not many tables of customers at the end of the day, so you cannot make money. For money, the restaurant will lose money.
As the price of food becomes cheaper, the cost of your food will naturally go down as well.
Of course, you have to save on those expensive ingredients and seasonings that need to be transported from other places.
For the wood elves who were accustomed to good wine and good food in Manxiang Tower, they immediately felt the difference after one mouthful, and they couldn't help but complain.
But because I haven’t had hot pot for a long time, everyone still ate everything.
(End of this chapter)