"Fifty German copper coins for one cup?"
"What is this? Isn't the price a bit too high?"
After Remheb had a large stall set up, many people immediately gathered around.
They were very curious about this cocoa drink they had never heard of before.
"Yeah, could it be that this cocoa drink has some other effects?"
"This can buy several loaves of bread!"
"But Lord Remheb said that each person can only buy one cup and cannot buy more."
"Look, those merchants have already lined up long ago."
"Anyone who has purchased cocoa will have a mark drawn on their wrist."
"I heard that the mark will disappear after a day."
“So, once you buy it, you can’t buy it again.”
People gathered around the stall, talking to each other, sharing the information they had learned with each other.
Apparently, although they had no idea what the cocoa drink was, some of them had already lined up behind the merchant.
The merchants' eyes were focused on the ceramic cups on the stall in front.
They looked at the foamy cocoa drinks with their eyes wide open, and even had silly smiles on their faces.
"The cocoa drink of Holy Egypt... The cocoa drink of Holy Egypt..."
"I'll find a way to raise more funds, and next month, I must buy these [cocoa beans]..."
Many businessmen looked ahead and began to mutter to themselves, which made the people behind them even more curious about the cocoa drink.
Sure enough, after the first cup of cocoa was handed to the merchant in the front, he took a sip first.
"Delicious! Delicious!"
“That’s the taste!”
He drank the cocoa in just a few gulps, but his wrist was marked with a black horizontal line.
That meant he couldn't buy it anymore.
But he just ran up to a stranger who was walking around the market and put his lips close to the other's ear.
This gave the other party a big scare.
"What are you doing!?"
The merchant simply stuffed about 200 deben copper coins into his hand.
"Listen, go stand in line over there and buy me another cocoa drink, and the rest of the money is yours."
"Do you want to do it?"
When the man heard that there was such a good job, he immediately agreed.
"Okay, okay! Then you just wait here, and if I buy it, I'll give it to you."
Soon, similar situations became more and more serious, and more and more people knew about the cocoa drink.
The price of cocoa was pushed up higher and higher, almost reaching 1 Deben silver coin.
Not only that, there were even people who were surrounded by a group of merchants just after they bought cocoa.
"I want 800 German copper coins to buy this cocoa drink in your hand. Do you want to sell it?"
"800 German copper coins? Wishful thinking! I'll give you 900 copper coins!"
"Get out of my way, one silver coin! One silver coin for one cup!"
But the holy Egyptian holding the cocoa drink only held it carefully in his hands and told the other party.
"I'm sorry, guys. I bought this to share with my family. I'm not selling it."
The three businessmen felt anxious when they saw this.
They knew very well that this limited supply of cocoa drink would be sold out in half a day.
Now, whoever buys the cocoa can easily sell it.
After all, there are many wealthy businessmen here. The Atlantis merchant alone has bought three cups of cocoa.
That cost him nearly 2 deben silver coins, but he didn't seem to care about it and just kept offering high prices to buy it.
So, seeing the business opportunity, these businessmen began to find ways to buy cocoa from other people.
But when they heard that this shabby-dressed man was unwilling to sell the cocoa in his hand, the merchants just felt strange.
"How many days' wages does one silver coin provide for you?!"
"You don't want it?!"
And the citizen of Holy Egypt just shook his head gently again.
"You have so much money, but you can only buy from me."
"And the reason why I can buy this cocoa drink... is all because of our great Holy Pharaoh!"
"This may be some kind of commodity to you, but to me, it is a gift from His Majesty the Holy Pharaoh!"
"It is precisely because of the purchase restriction order issued by His Majesty Saint Pharaoh that I can drink something like this."
"Now, the money I earn every day is enough to support my whole family."
"So, let alone 1 silver coin, even if you give me 1 gold coin, I won't sell it to you."
“I don’t need that much money.”
"I just want to share the gift of His Majesty the Holy Pharaoh with my family."
After saying this, he came to his wife and children with a cup of cocoa.
He passed the cocoa to his children and wife, letting them each take a sip. Finally, he drank up the remaining juice at the bottom of the cocoa.
That shocked the businessmen, but they did not give up. Instead, they focused their attention on the outsiders.
Kamul, who was watching this scene on the city wall, felt a mix of emotions.
"Your Majesty the Holy Pharaoh, your people are not even willing to sell cocoa to those merchants."
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