Knock. Knock. The guards knock the door carefully.
"Come in!" Someone was speaking from the inside of the room. The guards open the door and let Rey come to the room.
Rey entered the room and notice a fat man with heavy clothes that resembled the merchant he saw on the book, the merchant in the medieval times. This man was the president of Merchant Ji Trading Company, Ji Xia.
"Oh, you bring something in those buckets, little boy?"
"Yes, I want to make a trade with you."
"Have a seat."
Merchant Ji stare at Rey for several second before continued. "If I guess correctly, you should not be a villager, right."
"Indeed, I was not a villager. I came here with Luo village's caravan."
"And, who are you."
"I am Rey Harry, a noble from the west."
'I see.' The Merchant Ji nodded. "So, what do you want to trade, Mr. Harry?"
"This." Rey put the bucket on the table and took off the leaves.
Merchant Ji's eyes lit up. Looking at the bags of salt Ji Xia become exited. "How much?"
Merchant Ji directly asked.
"I will let you decide." Old Chief had told Rey that Merchant Ji was a trustworthy trading company. They would always give the villager a reasonable price, so Rey let Merchant Ji to decide the price.
"5 no, 6 gold each bag, what do you think?"
"Deal." The two were smiling. Rey handed the salt while the merchant handed the gold.
The two was smiled to each other for several seconds before Rey suddenly asked. "Do you want a stable source, Mr. Ji?"
The merchant Ji's smile become brighter and brighter. "How do you want to trade, brother Rey."
'Brother?' Rey was speechless. 'A merchant, indeed.' "But I have a condition." Rey added.
"What is it?"
"I want you to continue trading directly, in the villages."
Ji Xia was in a deep silence. He is sighed. "You knew the reason I stopped that, right brother."
"Yes, what I mean is that you continue trading with some villages that was safe. I mean those who would never try to rob you."
"I see your point, brother. It seems that you had some relationship with Luo Village." He pondered for a bit and then nodded. Merchant Ji know that Rey do this to protect Luo Village. If other forces come to know that Luo Village has such a high grade salt, it would bring nothing except disaster for the village.
"How much could I buy from you?" Ji Xia continued.
"At least hundreds of his amount." Rey replied while pointing to the bucket of salt.
"Alright, I will do as you say, brother."
Luo Village was just ordinary village. They may a level 3 warrior which is rare to find in a little village, but it was not enough. If the news of high grade salt could be mass produced in Luo Village leaked, there would be a lot of forces who would come to the village for a cup of 'tea'. Old Chief, the only level 3 in the village would never dare offending any of them.
As for Merchant Ji, their force is strong enough to protect the salt production. Maybe, a lot of forces are not afraid of Merchant Ji, but they would not dare to attack.
"Brother, if I may ask, if there any ginseng in your warehouse?"
Ji Xia was smiled for the fact that Rey stated called him brother. He smiled and laughed. "Hhahha. Of course. Although ginseng is hard to find in the west, but here is Blue Town. Lots of ginseng could be found easily here."
Rey's eyes lit up. 'Thanks God, with this that Mr. V should not come to my house for a cup of tea, right?' "I wanna buy it. One 1000 years old ginseng, how much is it?"
"Brother, it is just a 1000 years old ginseng, there nothing for you to worry about the price. Take it as a gift from your big brother to you." Fatty Ji laughed cunningly.
The two has concluded the trade. Merchant Ji has agreed to Rey suggestion and would come to the Luo village as well as any other villages that guaranteed would never attack the Merchant. The merchant would come once a week. The villagers that received the news could not help but become happy for the news. As for those village that would not be visited by Merchant Ji, they were frowned and some of them has their own plan.
Merchant Ji gave Rey a 1000 years old ginseng and a 900 years old ginseng. Rey was quite happy for this and his smile become larger. Rey also ordered several weapons and armors for the villager so that the villager will become more powerful and reducing their casualties when hunting the beast in the forest.
Looking at the 60 shinny things in his bag. Rey shouted in his heart. 'I am rich baby.' He laughed a little and continue strolling in the Blue Town. He visited several stores too look at what they are selling. He gathered lots of information. He strolled for an hour before going back to the caravan.
After the strolling, Rey has some general idea about this town. Blue town is quite big. This city occupying more than 500 km of land with more than 500.000 residents. The town main business was selling and buying beast's body part that were hunted by the adventures and villagers around the town.
Rey also found out that this town has one iron mine in the east that controlled by the city manor so the prices of iron in this town is cheaper than most of the cities in the Kingdom of Zhu. 'This is great.' Rey thought to himself.
Rey went to where the villagers of Luo Village rested.
"You have concluded your trade, Mr. Harry?" Luo Fu noticed Rey and asked.
"Yes, when will we come back to the village?"
"Alright."
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5 hours later, Luo Village.
The three carriages arrived in the Luo Village. The trip was faster than before because the fact that the carriages has been emptied. The villagers exchange the animal skin for 30 bottles of medicine and several iron swords. The medicine was a healing potion, a lesser healing potion.
This kind of potion was very popular in the Blue Town because the price was simply cheap, (20 silver each) so the villager would buy it for the future use. A lesser healing potion could be used to heal a deep wound but for the hidden injuries this potion would be useless.
This potion could heal a deep wound in three days for a level one and two warriors. As for the stronger warrior, the potion naturally has less effect. Without the potion, normally a level one warrior needs a month to heal their own wound buy themselves while the level two warrior would need 20 days. As for the Old Chief, he needs 15 days to heal himself and these potions was less effective for him because a level three warrior have more resistance toward this potion.
The villager along brings several iron swords. These swords were used to change the hunters' sword because some of the swords has been broken while the broken swords will be handed to the Old Chief. Old Chief would use this sword to practice the future hunter of the village.
Old Chief lead 10 of them to the dinning-room, the food has been served and the villager eat heartedly. Rey eat four plates of meat today. He feels that he would become the same as these monsters, soon.
Rey was deadly tired after the trip. So, after the feast he went straight to his wooden house placed his gold and the ginseng on the table. He takes a shower in the village because he knew that it already night on earth. It would be a bad idea to take a shower in the hotel.
Rey take the ginseng with him and went back to the hotel. He picks his phone and noticed several missed calls from his mother. He assured her that he was fine before threw himself to the bed.
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Rey wakes up in the morning. He placed his uniform in his bag. Looking at the ginseng Rey was in daze for a moment. 'I might as well give this ginseng to him.' Rey left the hotel.
In front of Z building Rey walks straight to the building. One of big guys who kidnap Rey noticed him and bring Rey to Mr. V's room. Rey followed the big guy and enter the room while the big guy standing in front of the door.
Rey enter the room and notice Mr. V talking to a young lady with long black hair. Rey noticed this lady, he was shocked. "I Iona? Goddess Iona? Why was she here?' Iona also shocked looking at the Rey. 'This guy, why was this guy comes here, in my father room?' The two stared each other for a while.
Mr. V also has noticed that Rey has entered the room. He was stunned by the two, his daughter and this ginseng boy. 'What happens?' Mr. V also in daze for a moment so that the room was awkwardly quite for several seconds.
"Iona, get out!" Mr. V suddenly commanded which stunned Iona for a moment.
"Fa father?"