[Chapter 151: The Caravan from the Capital]
Diogo was very puzzled. Why did he see the sign but not the shadow of Winter Town? Could it be that the town had disappeared? It was not
until he walked a long way and finally saw the busy Winter Town in the distance, which looked like a construction site, that he realized that he was wrong.
“Why would they put up a sign so far away?”
“I don’t know.”
The two young men couldn’t figure out why they did this. If they wanted to remind the newcomers that there was Winter Town ahead, wouldn’t it be better to put up a sign in this place? At least they could see the town in sight as soon as they looked up, and know where the Winter Town on the sign was.
With doubts, the two young men continued to move forward with the caravan, and finally arrived at the Winter Town they had been thinking about.
“This is Winter Town…” Diogo looked left and right. To be honest, he was a little disappointed with this famous Winter Town. It didn’t look much different from his hometown village.
“Yeah, we’re finally here.” Marty’s expression didn’t change much. He was still calm and seemed to have no interest in anything.
But his bright eyes still revealed his true thoughts.
“You two, come and help move things.” A manager of the caravan next to him instructed the two young men to start working.
“Hey, come on!” When Diogo agreed, he pulled Marty by the way: “Do the job well first, if you are lucky, you can get some reward money.”
With the reward money, plus the extra money they have saved, they can ask someone to help build a small house, and maybe they can have some money left to buy some seeds or something?
I just don’t know if there is any spare money to rent farm tools for land reclamation, and how to earn money for food?
Winter Town looks like this, it doesn’t look like there are many jobs that can make money.
While thinking about this, he and Marty took out a few of each commodity according to their previous habit, preparing to use them as samples for the people of Winter Town to visit.
Unexpectedly, the leader of the caravan suddenly came over and reminded the two young men: “Take all the goods off this carriage.”
“Take them all off?”
He turned around and asked uncertainly, and only started to move the goods after getting a positive answer.
After a while, the two men finally moved all the goods off the carriage. When they were resting, they found that many people had come to the caravan.
Through the words of some people around him, Diogo knew that the handsome young man in the lead was the legendary Baron of Glamorgan, the extremely lucky one, the lord and mayor of Winter Town.
“What are these goods?”
“Respected Lord Baron of Glamorgan, these are medicinal herbs.”
“Medicinal herbs…” David looked at the merchant in front of him with a strange expression. The other party’s bright smile looked quite festive, but he always felt that he was being calculated.
“However, it can be regarded as solving my most urgent need at the moment.” David glanced at Cordell next to him. After receiving the instructions from the lord, the pharmacist immediately stepped forward to check the types and quality of the medicinal herbs.
Soon, Cordell walked back to David’s side and nodded to the lord: “They are all top-grade medicinal herbs, and they are also the ones that are not easy to buy.”
“I want all of these medicinal herbs.” “
Thank you for your patronage.” The merchant smiled even more happily and signaled to the helpers beside him to move all the medicinal herbs to the place designated by the baron. There
was no need to trouble the baron of Glamorgan to deal with these things. Cordell, who had obtained a large amount of medicinal herbs, instructed the helpers to move the medicinal herbs to the designated place.
Some of the medicinal herbs that were not so demanding in storage conditions were placed in the warehouse; while those that were demanding in storage conditions and had to be processed as soon as possible were directly transported to the wooden house where they lived.
Diogo and Marty, two young men, were among the helpers who helped carry the medicinal materials. After seeing the warehouse and the wooden house where the pharmacist lived, the two young men whispered to each other: “Maybe we can find a job with this pharmacist, even if we don’t get paid, as long as we get food.”
Marty also agreed with Diogo’s suggestion, and then Diogo decided to find an opportunity later to say hello to the pharmacist in advance.
He was afraid that if they were slow, the job would be taken away by others in Winter Town.
No one knew that the two young men were working hard for their future jobs, and David was still chatting with the caravan leader named Waldo.
The leader of the caravan named Waldo came to Winter Town from the capital to do business, mainly because he got the advice from Earl Sutton-Stewart.
The merchant originally planned to go to the northern plains, but before he set off, Earl Sutton-Stewart sent someone to find him.
Being invited by an earl, Waldo certainly did not dare to neglect it, and rushed over immediately, so he also got a task to help the earl deliver goods, and the destination was the most remote Winter Town on the northern plains.
Although the destination was a bit remote, it was originally a small matter, and Waldo naturally had no reason to refuse.
What’s more, the earl also gave him a little advice and asked him to prepare more goods. He guaranteed that all these things could be sold as long as they were transported to Winter Town.
In fact, even if Earl Stewart did not promise any benefits, Waldo was willing to help the earl a little. He didn’t even ask for any reward. As long as the earl could remember him as a businessman and let him help buy something in the future, he would be very happy.
In addition, the Earl’s request is: If someone or a force wants to stop or even dissuade his team from going to Winter Town. Ignore it. When necessary, you can directly show the name of Earl Stewart and say that you are working for the Earl.
Of course, if someone is really stubborn and does not want to let Waldo’s caravan go, there is no need to risk your life. Just write down the other party’s identity and come back to tell Earl Stewart.
Hearing that there might be danger, for a moment, Waldo wanted to give up.
But he quickly reacted. The Earl, the younger brother of the current Queen of the Kingdom of Tilan, specially invited you to deliver the goods, and you dared to refuse! Do you still want to mix in the Kingdom of Tilan in the future?
So he patted his chest and said that he would definitely complete the Earl’s instructions and deliver the things he helped to transport to Winter Town safely and intact.
Therefore, Waldo’s caravan became the only caravan to arrive at Winter Town. On the way, they met several caravans heading to the northern plains, but the goods they brought to the north were all bought out by the surrounding new villages and towns, so there was no need to continue to go to Winter Town.
After handing over the goods and letters that the Earl asked him to transport to Baron Glamorgan, Waldo then sold his own goods to Baron, which were the goods that the Earl asked him to prepare extra, including those medicinal herbs.
“Respected Baron Glamorgan, would you like to see other goods?”
David nodded. The other party was obviously “well prepared”. It was estimated that the things left until now were what he needed. He simply said: “What else do you have in your team? Take it out and let me see it!”
“Okay, sir.”
Seeing Baron Glamorgan so happy, Waldo smiled even more brightly, and then showed the ore, cloth and silk rolls, various processed leathers and other things left in the car.
In addition, there are some more high-end items, such as wine, spices, and even the inferior version of the cleaning beads and aromatherapy beads that Earl Stewart gave to David (the number of times they can be used is much less, generally no more than ten times).
“Very good, these are all the things I need here.” David said very ‘wisely’, and he wanted all the remaining things in the caravan.
“Lord Baron Glamorgan is really an extremely generous lord. I believe that under your wise leadership, Winter Town will definitely become the most dazzling pearl in the north of the Kingdom of Tiran.”
After completing the Earl’s instructions and clearing out all the goods, Waldo was in a very good mood. He flattered David wildly, regardless of whether the people around him believed what he said, anyway, he believed it first.
David smiled and accepted all kinds of praise from the other party. He had spent his money, so it was normal to enjoy some flattery.
As for paying the bill? He didn’t worry about not having money, because what Earl Stewart asked Waldo to send was a batch of coins and jewelry.
Through the attached letter, David knew that the money was not given to David for nothing, but that Earl Stewart had developed a new market through the gifts David left for him.
He himself made a lot of money in the capital of Tiran, so he sent some of his share to David.
In addition to money and jewelry, he also brought some extra “samples”, and hoped that David would point out the shortcomings after looking at the samples, and it would be better to give some new guidance and suggestions…
He had not yet decided how to respond to Earl Stewart’s requests for advice. When it was confirmed that the caravan would rest in Winter Town for two days and would set off to return to the capital on the morning of the third day if there were no special circumstances, David expressed the hope that Waldo would help him deliver a letter to Earl Sutton-Stewart.
“Leave it to me.”
Waldo agreed very happily. Of course, he would not let go of the opportunity to meet Lord Earl Stewart again.
“I’m sorry, but my territory has not yet completed the construction of various facilities, so I can’t provide a comfortable resting place for the caravan.” David pointed to a construction site not far away and said, “However, Winter Town has some pretty good specialties, I hope you will like them.”
After saying this, David handed the task of entertaining these merchants to the old hunter Adis. As a native of the Kingdom of Tiran, Adis knew best what was suitable for entertaining guests and would not arouse their suspicion.
(End of this chapter)