[Trade Channel]
Ethan glanced at the items he had just listed.
Aside from a few batches of materials, there were still nine copies of [Skill Book · One Saber Style (Pseudo)] and seven top-tier Dragon Bone Sabers that hadn't been rented out. Everything else had been completely cleared.
Looks like starting tomorrow, he could basically stay at home with his legs propped up, just sitting around collecting rent.
'Sigh!'
'Life as a second-generation rich man is honestly a bit too boring.'
'But Mom was right. People can't not work. If you don't work, you become useless.'
So Ethan decided that every day he'd find one person to collect rent from. That way, he'd have something to do every day.
Just as Ethan was about to close his magic book and go find the duty officer to give some instructions.
The regional channel suddenly exploded to 99+ messages.
'What happened?'
[Regional Channel]
["Does anyone have ten portions of meat, ten portions of water, and ten portions of dry grass they can lend me?"], Player No. 0101 spoke up, ["Tomorrow I can pay back an extra fifty percent in interest! Whoever can lend, hurry!"]
["You get two portions of meat per person, isn't that enough for you to eat?"], Player King_VK said in confusion, ["Why do you need so much meat? And you can't even come up with ten portions of meat right now. Who's going to believe you can pay back fifty percent more later? Aren't you just joking around?"]
["I've got my ways. Are you lending or not? If not, stop yapping!"]
["0101, you need that many materials, there's gotta be a reason, right?"], Player Mindlessreader said, ["Share it with us. If you can give a reason why you can pay it back, there should still be quite a few people who can afford to lend."]
["Caravan!"]
Player No. 0101 was pushed to the limit.
He could only explain helplessly, ["There's a caravan passing by my place. They said as long as I give them ten portions of meat, ten portions of water, and ten portions of dry grass, I can trade with them."] [T/N: Like wandering trader of Minecraft.]
["Caravan! (¯﹃¯)!"], Player Zhang Yimu said, ["What can you exchange for? If you're willing to give me half of whatever you get, I'm willing to lend you the materials interest-free."]
Player Big Dummy suggested, ["0101, you can go ask Big Boss Ethan to lend you some. Maybe you'll get it!"]
["I did ask, but Big Boss Ethan never replied,"] 0101 said angrily, ["Forget it. Seeing that I couldn't come up with the stuff for so long, the caravan already left. You people are really boring. We're all in the same region, and not even one of you would lend me the equivalent of a hundred bucks. Hmph!"]
["You actually let the caravan leave? One penny really can stump a hero,"] Player Lizrock sighed.
And Ethan, looking at the regional channel content, had a blank expression on his face.
'When did anyone ask me to lend something?'
Private messages: 99+
'Alright. So it is just that too many people have been DMing me, and I haven't noticed at all.'
But since the caravan had already left, there was no point in dwelling on it anymore. What a pity. He'd missed a chance to get rich overnight.
Just as Ethan was feeling regretful.
"Territory Lord!"
Guard Seven, who was in charge of villa security, came to report, "There's a caravan outside, at the gate of our villa. They're asking to come in and rest for one night! Territory Lord, should we let them in?"
"Caravan?"
Hearing this, Ethan's eyes immediately lit up.
'Wasn't this the caravan that Player 0101 was talking about?'
'Can these caravans fly?'
'They got here that fast?'
"Let's go. Come with me to greet them."
Ethan was also quite curious about what this so-called caravan was like, so he hurriedly brought Guard Seven with him to the villa gate.
At the entrance, there were several humans. The one in front was tall and skinny, but with his head wrapped in a turban, he looked a bit like a foreign race. Still, Ethan was certain he was definitely human.
Behind him were several merchants dressed in a very Arabian style, leading a few bone horses. Behind the bone horses was a two-wheeled wooden cart, covered with a large white canvas stained gray by sand and dust.
And there seemed to be quite a lot of goods on the wooden cart. Who knew what they were selling?
"Hello, Territory Lord. I am a merchant passing through this place,", The leading merchant bent over and saluted Ethan, "You may also call me Mr. White!"
"Hello, Mr. White," Ethan smiled, "My territory warmly welcomes you."
"That's truly wonderful."
Mr. White laughed happily, but didn't immediately enter. Instead, he continued, "We've passed through this place and feel extremely tired. We need a place to rest and recuperate."
"If Territory Lord doesn't mind…"
"Could you provide us with ten portions of meat, ten liters of clean water, and ten portions of dry grass so that we may rest? I would be deeply grateful for your kindness, Territory Lord."
'Heh! Heh!'
Hearing this, Ethan sneered inwardly.
'If I didn't know you were a preset caravan, I'd mind like hell.'
Ten portions of meat, ten portions of clean water, and ten portions of dry grass, just given away for free. Who gets their stuff blown in by the wind?
But to see what he could trade with the caravan.
Ethan still nodded and said, "Mr. White, of course that's no problem."
"Cook Four!"
Immediately, Ethan called over Cook Four, who had been watching the excitement from the side, "Go prepare ten portions of roasted snow monster meat for Mr. White, and at the same time bring over ten liters of clean water."
"Yes, Territory Lord."
Cook Four accepted the order and went straight to the kitchen to prepare.
After hearing Ethan's words, Mr. White was overjoyed, "Territory Lord is truly hospitable. My heart is greatly pleased."
"Territory Lord, you don't know…"
"Along the way here, we actually encountered quite a few people, and although they were all very enthusiastic toward us, none of them could provide us with food. It was truly disappointing."
"Please come inside and rest while we talk slowly."
Ethan had Guard Seven open the main gate and let all the merchants in.
Mr. White walked beside Ethan as everyone headed toward the cafeteria. As for the bone horses and such… Ethan had Guard Seven assign people to lead the bone horses to the pet shed.
After all, it could block the wind and provide warmth.
As for whether bone horses actually needed it, Ethan didn't care. He just needed to show that he valued the merchants.
After hearing Ethan's arrangement, Mr. White even followed along to take a look at the pet shed. To his surprise, he was quite satisfied with the environment and said, "Territory Lord, may we rest directly in the pet shed tonight?"
"Since it can block the wind and is very warm inside, that way we won't need Territory Lord to provide the extra dry grass."
"If you like it, of course there's no problem."
Ethan nodded repeatedly.
If you can save, then save. Although ten portions of dry grass weren't much, if he didn't have to give them away for nothing, that was naturally better.
Hearing Mr. White say he didn't want them, Ethan simply put the ten portions of dry grass back into the warehouse. But just as Ethan was putting away the dry grass.
Mr. White suddenly spoke up, "Wait!"
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