When he arrived at the grocery store, Zhang Tie had already put what had just happened to Doug out of his mind. Tomorrow, Doug's incident would definitely become a joke among the Airplane Brotherhood. Who knew that Doug was so unlucky? I wonder if this guy can wash away this stain in his lifetime.
When Zhang Tie came, Tang De was greeting the customers in the shop. Zhang Tie stood aside and watched. After the customers left, Zhang Tie walked into the counter, picked up the broom, wiped the basin, and tidied the shop. , after finishing this, he started to calculate again, flipped through the account books, and sorted out the accounts of the past few days in the store. Ever since Zhang Tie came to the grocery store, he found that the owner of the grocery store, Tang De, was getting lazier and lazier. It took almost an hour every time he came to do these things, and it was the same today.
Seeing Zhang Tie busy in the shop, Tang De lay down on his recliner again and closed his eyes leisurely.
Thinking of the pieces of something called tea leaves that Barry held in his hand today, Zhang Tie's heart moved and he started chatting with Tang De.
"Boss, do you know what tea is?"
"Tea!" Hearing this question, Tang De turned his head strangely and glanced at Zhang Tie, "That is a very precious and rare drink. Those who are rich and powerful but want to be arty and pretend to be themselves Gentlemen with great style and taste love to use this kind of thing to show off their status!"
"No, that doesn't seem to be a drink. I saw someone put it directly into their mouths and sucked the saliva?"
"Idiot, tea leaves are brewed with water, there are a lot of things to pay attention to!" Tang De scolded, "Put the tea leaves in your mouth, that's how some nouveau riche people use it to freshen their breath!"
"Oh, you said this thing is very expensive!"
"It's not very expensive, it's very expensive. It's the lowest level. In Black Flame City, a pound of goods shipped from outside costs this amount!" Tang De stretched out a slap in the face. "As for higher-end goods, don't even think about it in your life!"
"Five silver coins!" In Zhang Tie's opinion, this was already an exaggeration.
"Five silver coins..." Tang De sneered disdainfully, "I can only let you smell it. It's five gold coins, and sometimes it's even more expensive!"
Zhang Tie was horrified, thinking that no wonder there were only a few broken leaves, which were so ugly. The guy from Barry also carefully wrapped them layer by layer with paper. It turned out that this thing was expensive and not something that ordinary people could afford. .
"It's so expensive. It would be great if Black Flame City could grow it!"
"It's not your turn to do it. That thing is only found in the Eastern Continent and can't be grown anywhere else. The only people who can do this kind of business are big business groups and chambers of commerce with the background!"
"Eastern Continent, I heard that there are many human countries there. There are many powerful countries. Some countries have thousands of cities like Black Flame City. The teacher told me in school...!"
"Country bumpkin, Black Flame City is nothing. There are cities dozens of times larger than Black Flame City. You will know when you have a chance to travel to the Eastern Continent. There are ethnic groups in the Eastern Continent that are mainly composed of Chinese people. Human country, I remember when I was young..." Tang De's face showed a look of longing and reminiscence, and then he began to talk endlessly. Zhang Tie listened carefully. It should be true that Tang De visited the Eastern Continent when he was young. Yes, some of the information I heard was quite reliable. As for other things, I made a blood alliance with the powerful human warriors from the Eastern Continent and became brothers according to the custom there. Together, they killed the aliens who wanted to wipe out humans on the battlefield until they left their armor and armor behind. Then he discovered valuable ruins with some pioneers, went underground with a lot of beauties, and was almost killed by a group of beauties. He saw a lot of diamonds as big as heads and gold nuggets as big as houses. It can be concluded that he basically belongs to the knights. The badly written content in the novel was automatically filtered out by Zhang Tie.
Here Tang De was chatting nonsense, and when he was talking about the large number of beauties who went underground with him to explore and cried and wanted to marry him, two customers came to the shop over there, both of whom were in their thirties. Years old, with a weathered face, unshaven beard, cowhide boots, copper buckle belt, rivet half-armor, a long sword hanging on the waist, a steel crossbow box on the back, and a windproof hooded cloak on the shoulder of the rivet half-armor. They looked like pioneers. During the year in the grocery store, Zhang Tie's eyesight was also sharpened. Although these two people were pioneers, they probably didn't pioneer for a long time. , just look at the quality of the equipment on the two of them. Those newbies who have been in the industry for a year or two all look like this. They are afraid that others will not know that they are pioneers, and their equipment is made to look like a regular army. The land was bought as a package.
"You two, do you need anything?" Zhang Tie asked very professionally and politely.
The two men first looked at Zhang Tie, then looked around the store and nodded to each other. The taller man came over, lowered his body, lowered his voice, and asked, "Is the boss here? We want to negotiate a business deal with him!”
We often meet such customers. Tang De's grocery store not only sells things, but also collects them. Seeing the cautious looks of these two pioneers and wanting to talk directly to the boss, Tang De climbed out of the recliner. He stood up, rubbed his hands, bent his waist, and walked over.
"I am the boss, and I have the final say in this store!"
The two pioneers turned their eyes on Tang De, looked at each other, and then nodded without any trace.
"Do you collect anything here?"
"Accept, as long as it is valuable, I will accept it no matter what. If the things you two bring are too expensive and the shop can't eat them, I can introduce you to the store. If you are satisfied, I will need an intermediary for 5 afterwards. Fee!" Tang De's old ways and bachelors immediately made the two pioneers make up their minds. After carefully looking outside the store and discovering that no one was paying attention to the small store, one of the pioneers crossed his body to block the view from outside the store, while the other one picked up the sundries from his bag. He took out a fist-sized piece of metal ore and placed it on the counter.
The surface of the ore was sparkling, a bit like gold, and it seemed to be very valuable and bluffing. Zhang Tie thought that the two men could bring out some treasure to open his eyes, but he did not expect that the two pioneers would take it. What came out was such a thing. Zhang Tie opened his mouth in surprise, said nothing, and just shook his head.
"Is this it?" Tang De gasped, looking like he had a toothache.
"That's it..." One of the pioneers looked at Tang De seriously, "Make a price. As long as the price is right, our brothers can cooperate with you for a long time in the future!"
"Five kilograms a copper!" Tang De reported the price.
"What? Say it again! Did I hear it correctly..." The two pioneers stared at Tang De angrily with their eyes wide open.
"It's the same thing if I say it ten thousand times, five kilograms is a copper!" Tang De said slowly, without caring about the blushing faces of the two pioneers. The guy who was blocking the wind had already impulsively put his hand on his waist. on the hilt of the sword.
"You two must think this is a gold mine. The color is so similar and the quality is so beautiful?" Hearing Tang De say this, the two pioneers were stunned for a moment and then nodded. The one with his hand on the hilt of his sword The guy also loosened his grip slightly.
"Haha, some gold mines do look similar to this one, but unfortunately, this is not a gold mine, but pyrite. The price of 5 kilograms of copper is very suitable for it!"
"Pyrite?" A pioneer picked up the beautiful piece of golden ore in his hand, as if he didn't believe that the piece they had finally obtained was worse than scrap metal. The other one seemed a little suspicious and didn't quite believe what Tang De said. Seeing the appearance of the two pioneers, Tang De didn't say much, but directly said to Zhang Tie, "Take out the pyrite samples from our shop!"
Zhang Tie turned around, rummaged around in a corner of the grocery store, and then brought over a torn bag full of dust. He placed the bag directly on the ground to reveal the contents. The more than ten kilograms in the bag shook out. Sure enough, it was exactly the same as the piece of ore on the counter. The two pioneers squatted down, each picked up two pieces of worthless pyrite and compared them with the piece in their hands. The expressions on their faces were colorful, and finally they looked like they were leaking. He stepped down like a deflated rubber ball.
"There is a canyon in the red highlands more than a hundred kilometers southwest of Black Flame City. You probably got this thing from there. This thing is indeed very similar to a gold mine. In the past, pioneers also regarded this thing as a gold mine. We have made some jokes, you two don’t need to pay too much attention to it, you are pioneering, you may see all kinds of strange things, no one is omniscient and omnipotent, and knows everything!”
Even the location was mentioned. Tang De's words completely shattered the last hope in the hearts of the two pioneers. The two pioneers stood up from the ground and thanked Tang De listlessly. They felt a little embarrassed and did not stay in the store any longer. , and left in despair. When he reached the door of the store, one of the pioneers remembered that he was still holding the piece of pyrite they regarded as a treasure. After swearing angrily, he said fiercely The pyrite in his hand hit the street.
"Pyrite, fool's gold, is indeed well-deserved. Two more fools have been fooled..." Watching the two people leave, Tang De shook his head and sighed, and then lay back on the recliner.
Later, a few more customers came to the grocery store and sold more than ten silver coins. When Tang De said "... I won't let you have dinner today as usual!" After he said it, Zhang Tie knew that he It's time to go.
I wonder what the two guys Doug and Barry are doing now, Zhang Tie thought as he walked out of the grocery store.
The sky began to darken, and the lamplighters ringing the bells began to light the streets of the city. After walking less than ten steps on the street, Zhang Tie suddenly stopped. With the help of the street lamp that had just been lit, he saw himself Something flickered slightly under the corner in front...
Oh, it was the pyrite that those two fools just threw away. At this moment, the pyrite was smashed to the ground and rolled to the corner of the street. It was broken into two halves. Zhang Tie continued to take two steps forward...
Oh, no, there seems to be something in the pyrite. It flashed just now. The color is different from the color of pyrite under the light. Zhang Tie's heart moved, he walked two steps over, turned his back, and pretended to borrow While squatting down to carry it, he saw that no one was paying attention around him, so he quietly picked up the two pieces of pyrite on the roadside and put them in his pocket. There was indeed something in the pyrite, and Zhang Tie's heart suddenly pounded. Jumped up with a bang...