Chapter 210 Store Opening
In an instant, everyone gathered around, because they had countless questions in their minds at this moment, and something that concerned them and made them more curious than ice cream.
"Is what you just said true? Golden wine? Is there any other alcohol in the world besides beer?"
"My lords, ladies and gentlemen, in the name of God, I swear that every word I say is true. You have tasted the ice cream last time, and you should all know how delicious it is! And this time we have brought a kind of golden wine that you have never tasted before, and it tastes many times better than beer! The ice cream and golden wine were created by our Lord of Storm Territory, the great Baron Gervis himself. You can come into the store and take a look!"
With the experience of setting up a stall last time, and his lord being in the store, Yura was very confident. Facing the onlookers and the questions from the crowd, he was not at all flustered and answered their questions neatly and clearly.
"Then let's go in and take a look!"
After hearing what Yura said, some of the people had actually tasted the delicious ice cream, so they walked towards the store with doubt. Although they found it hard to believe, even if it was fake, they would not lose anything by just going in to take a look!
When everyone came to the store, they immediately smelled a sweet smell that made people salivate, but the smell was different from beer, so everyone was just a little confused. What was the source of this fragrance, or was it a kind of incense they had never smelled before? No one thought it was the smell of alcohol.
Smelling the fragrant aroma, everyone began to look around the store, only to see that the store was filled with wine jugs, wine jars and wine barrels. It really looked like a store selling wine!
While everyone was looking around the store, Yura followed closely behind them and quickly entered the store, going straight to the center of the store, where there was a counter, and on the counter were five transparent crystal cups, which were filled with purple-red transparent liquid, which was golden wine.
The five crystal glasses were borrowed by Gerves from Rose Castle. Pat knew that Gerves would open in the afternoon, so he reminded Gerves when the motorcade arrived. Rose Castle had several crystal glasses, which could be used to display the golden wine. After all, the dark wine in the wine jug could not be seen by customers at all.
And because wine is scarce, Gervais does not plan to let people taste it for free before buying it like he does with ice cream, so using crystal glasses to showcase wine is the limit of what Gervais can do.
In fact, Gervis had no hope of selling the golden wine on the first day of opening. He estimated that it would take at least three to five days to sell the first bottle of wine.
Because the five nobles who bought wine last night will definitely show off when they go back. As long as others know that there is really golden wine in addition to beer, and it is extremely delicious, then people will immediately think of his newly opened store.
The aristocratic circle is said to be big, but it is not that big actually. Any disturbance will spread throughout the aristocratic circle immediately, especially in Winterfell, where all the nobles live together. Gervis is now waiting for the reputation of the five nobles for brewing wine. That is when the golden wine will become popular.
"My dear ladies and gentlemen, this is our store's most precious golden wine. It has a sweet taste and a noble purple-red color. It is even more alcoholic. It is absolutely a delicacy!"
Yura spoke clearly with a smile on his face. He half-raised one hand and pointed at five crystal glasses, introducing them to everyone.
Everyone was looking around, but after hearing Yura's words, they looked at the five crystal cups beside Yura. After seeing the crystal cups, everyone was secretly amazed.
I thought to myself that the owner of this shop was really amazing, he even had crystal cups. Although crystal was not a particularly rare item, to make a crystal cup that was 10 cm high and six or seven cm in diameter, a very large piece of crystal would be needed. Such a large crystal must be hard to come by, and this shop could even take out five at a time.
What surprised them even more was that the girl actually said that the crystal glass contained the golden wine!
"There's clearly a drink in your glass, and there's not even any bubbles. How could it be wine?"
"Yes, isn't it true that the more bubbles a wine has, the better its quality? I can't even see a single bubble in this wine of yours. Are you kidding me?"
Everyone's knowledge of alcohol comes from beer, so of course they use the standards of beer to identify other alcoholic beverages. If it weren't for the fact that this shop was not so confident, someone would have come up and overturned the table.
"My dear lords and ladies! Wine doesn't have to have bubbles. Every word I say is absolutely true. If any lord doesn't believe me, you can buy a bottle and check it out. If it's fake, I'll pay you ten times the price!"
Faced with everyone's doubts, Yura began to get a little anxious. The situation now was different from last time, so Yura turned her head slightly to glance at Gervis beside her, but saw that Gervis was not prepared to speak, and encouraged her with a smile. Yura could only suppress the nervousness in her heart.
Gervis had long anticipated that someone would question the authenticity of the golden wine, so the statement of "ten times the compensation if the wine is fake" was prepared for this moment.
"How much is a jug of your golden wine?"
When everyone saw Yura's solemn promise, they were actually a little shaken in their hearts. After hearing that he would compensate ten times the amount for fake goods, they became even more eager to make a move.
No matter which nobleman opened this store, he would never go back on his word in public, otherwise he would be laughed at by all the nobles, and the store would never be able to do business again.
When he heard everyone asking about the price, Yura didn't feel relieved, but became even more nervous. However, his performance this time was directly related to his future status in front of his master, so he mustered up the courage to say to everyone: "My lords, because golden wine is rare, each person is limited to buying five jugs, and the price is one gold coin per jug!"
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Suddenly, there was a sound of people gasping in the store, and everyone looked at Yura with disbelief, feeling as if they had been tricked.
Of course, as Alice said, although the nobles were stingy towards serfs and commoners, their wealth should not be underestimated.
Several of the nobles were not scared by the price. On the contrary, having tasted the ice cream before and heard the promise of ten times compensation for fake goods, they still had 60% faith in it.
However, these six points were only six points. It was impossible to get them to pay this gold coin with this six points of trust. So one of the noble men said, "I was there when you sold ice cream last time, and it was free for people to taste. If people can buy your golden wine after tasting it, I will definitely buy a pot."
"Yes, is the steward you met last time here? Talk to him and let us taste it. If it is really wine and as delicious as you said, we will buy a pot!"
Suddenly, many people present spoke up in agreement.
"My lords, I'm sorry. The steward last time was actually the steward of Storm Territory's castle. This time, I'm in charge of all the goods. Since the golden wine is too rare, I can't let you taste it! Please understand."
"Forget it, I'll just buy ice cream! Where's your ice cream, boss?"
"That's right! Who knows if it's real wine, and if it's that delicious!"
The few people who actually had the intention to buy didn't say anything, but some onlookers in the crowd started to make a noise.
Seeing this situation, Gervis was sure that Yura could no longer handle the situation that was about to happen, so he prepared to step forward himself.
"My Lord Earl!"
"My Lord Earl!"
Just as Gervis stood up, greetings came one after another from outside the shop. The moment they heard the greetings, everyone in the shop couldn't help but look outside the door.
"Alice? Why is she here?"
Gervis was also extremely surprised. He didn't expect Alice to come to his shop. Gervis had never told Alice the address of his shop.
(End of this chapter)
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