Chapter 3036 Contact
In Tivian during the day, the sky was covered with thick clouds. The whole city was under dark and gloomy clouds, and the drizzle had just stopped.
On a street somewhere in Dongcheng District, the road surface is still wet after the rain. A small number of pedestrians are still holding closed umbrellas in their hands. Only a few horse-drawn carriages are moving forward on the cold road. The damp and cold wind has discouraged many citizens from traveling. The originally bustling street has become unusually deserted.
In a high-end restaurant on the street, in a window seat overlooking the street outside, Maxi, a man in his fifties wearing a well-fitting brown suit and with a long beard, was sitting with a serious expression.
In front of Maxi there was a sumptuous meal on the table. Steak, roast chicken, sausage, cake, fine wine...all kinds of delicious food were placed in front of Maxi, but he was not moved at all. His eyes were staring straight ahead, staring at the figure of another man across the table.
The man, who looked to be in his early thirties, was wearing a windbreaker, had a pale complexion, a high nose and deep eyes, and put the hat on his head aside politely. Unlike the serious-looking Marcosi, he looked relaxed as he ate the delicacies on the table, occasionally sipping a sip of fine wine, and enjoying a piece of tender meat. After eating another piece of biscuit, he shifted his gaze to Marcosi and spoke.
"Mr. Marcosi, you don't need to be so serious. Let's eat first."
Listening to the man's words, Marcosi paused slightly, then took a breath and leaned back, then responded to the man across the table.
"Let's put the meal on hold for now, sir. I think we should talk about business first. You said you wanted to buy my goods?" Marcosi said to the man in front of him, and the man nodded in affirmative agreement.
"Yes, a total of forty-five boxes of high-quality tobacco produced on the northern banks of the continent are now on their way to Tivian by sea. I want to buy it now." Facing Marcosi, the man repeated what he had said not long ago. After listening to the man's words, Marcosi, as a businessman, looked at him strangely and then spoke.
"How do you know I have cargo at sea?"
"Don't worry about that. Since I know about it, I must have my own channels."
"If you want to buy my goods, I have them ready-made. You don't have to wait for the shipment from overseas."
"No, I don't need ready-made ones. What I want is the batch that is being shipped here. Mr. Marcosi, just give me a price." The man said this to Marcosi. Hearing the man's unusual words, Marcosi, as a businessman, became alert and continued to speak.
"To be honest, sir, you don't look like a businessman. Although I am a businessman, I don't do all kinds of business. I'm sorry... Your behavior may make it difficult for me to trust you. For me, business that cannot be trusted is accompanied by risks..."
Marcosi said seriously to the man in front of him that the other party's behavior of specifying to buy a batch of goods was a bit excessive and suspicious, which made Marcosi directly doubt the other party's motives. However, the man's expression did not fluctuate at all after hearing these words. He interrupted Marcosi softly.
"500 pounds..."
"What?"
"I said I would buy your goods for 500 pounds, Mr. Marcusi. Is that enough?"
The man spoke softly to Maxi, who had an expression of disbelief on his face. The reason was that, according to the current market conditions in Tivian, even if all of his goods were sold, the maximum they would fetch would be around three or four hundred pounds.
The price offered by the man in front of him made Marcosi, a businessman, excited. He couldn't sell his batch of goods at this price even at the best market price.
"500 pounds... are you serious?" Marcosi said this. At this moment, he still had some doubts in his heart about the strange thing in front of him. Seeing Marcosi's doubts, the man did not say much, but silently took out real British pounds from his pocket and placed them on his table.
It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits. In front of the Pound, all of Marcosi's worries almost disappeared. His originally cautious expression suddenly revealed a bright smile. With this smile, the rest of the meal became pleasant.
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At this moment, far away from this restaurant, there was an ordinary horse-drawn carriage parked on the street somewhere. Dorothy, sitting on the seat in the carriage, was feeling the scene coming from the corpse in the distance. She breathed a sigh of relief, then looked out of the window and murmured.
"It's settled. It's just an ordinary businessman. As long as there's money and position, everything will be fine."
Dorothy said this softly. The merchant named Marcosi was none other than the owner of the batch of tobacco that Dorothy used to swap spirits in the warehouse on the mainland. Dorothy learned the owner's information from the label, and then used the information to find Marcosi and conduct the transaction.
Now, the cargo with tobacco labels, sealed wooden hooves and dozens of spirits is being carried across the ocean by the Endeavour towards Tivian. It will reach its destination soon. Dorothy needs to officially become the owner of this batch of "tobacco" so that she can wait for this batch of goods to arrive at the port and then transport it away naturally. After all, these are more than forty large boxes, and they cannot be picked up and taken away casually, so becoming the legal owner of this batch of goods is the best choice.
"More than 40 boxes of top-quality tobacco... In the end, I bought it for five thousand pounds. The original market price was only about three thousand pounds, which is only about one ton of money. It turns out that investing money in extraordinary things is a bottomless pit..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart. This kind of transaction would definitely arouse suspicion. In order to dispel Maxi's suspicion, she chose to buy it directly at a 50% premium. Now Dorothy only had 1,850 pounds in cash.
"Hiss... I originally thought I was just helping Kapak get the kid, but I didn't expect that I would invest so many resources in it. If I can't extort more from Ming Guan this time, it will be a huge loss."
Dorothy continued to mutter that in order to help Capac escape, she used three Life-Eating Talismans, which cost her three "cups", and controlled the living puppet Tom for quite a while, which cost her two "cups".
In addition, Dorothy had offended the Order of the Underworld this time. After discovering that the things had been swapped, the other party immediately used divination to find out. They divined Dorothy three times in total, and after three times without any results, they felt that they had met a tough opponent. In order to save spiritual energy, they did not continue divination, but Dorothy also consumed three points of "Shadow" for this.
5 points of "Cup", 3 points of "Shadow", plus 500 pounds in cash. Dorothy has already invested a lot of resources in this matter. Now she is thinking about how to use the Order of the Coffin to make more resources.
"It's been three days since the cargo was shipped. If those guys really wanted to trade, they should have contacted us by now. I'll go check with Beverly later..."
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