They talked even more until eventually, the kids' parents told them to sleep. By the way, Dan and Fayrette dozed too, looking for the work tomorrow.
The next day, they decided to go to the nearby town market, where the new year market festival is going on. Dan took Willams in his horse cart. It takes an hour minutes to reach the town. The town's name is Brittleston. They have to cross a river, through a stone bridge, then they have to cross another river. The river's frozen, but they better choose the stone bridge. The bridge was so big that it had turns just like roads have. They turned right as directed by Willams, where they found some markets. There was the festival. It was surrounded by bare trees and mud-brown dried grass. There are lots of empty stalls where you could set up your shop. Williams took out all the items. He had sweaters, jackets, belts, and robes made from animal pelt, scents and potions, lotions, soaps, spices, and some wood.
They set up a stall within an hour. Then the festival started. Williams has decided to do some trading, which means he would get back any other useful item.
The festival started at 10 in the morning. They would come home only at 10 in the night!
Dan and Fayrette had also brought some of their trading goods. They brought marbles, locks and keys, barley, wheat and some steel bars.
"Mr Williams, we would get a good profit for the upcoming new year. We could enjoy parties and feasting," said Dan.
"You're right."
Soon, a lot of people arrived at the market. Around them were bakeries, toy shops, book stores, confectioneries and meat shops. The three traders' trading started. A wood merchant came. He asked for the logs and some steel. Williams gave him them and received a large basket full of vegetables. Then, 10 out of the 100 marbles sold out and they got a small bottle of pickle, 3 sweaters and a jacket sold for a can of gasoline, spices for two salmon, 3 bottles of lotion and potion for wool and berries and so on and on. Around 1 pm, all of their items were sold out, thus gaining food items like fruits and vegetables, spices, pickles, sugar, flour grains like wheat, barley, sorghum, rice and rye, oil cans from sunflower, rapeseed, soya and olives, some coffee and tea, milk and maize. They also got back household items like carpets, wool and cotton, gasoline cans, small twigs of birch, some ink bottles and a few blocks of wood. They got more than they had sold!
They packed up the food items and the smaller household items in separate bags. By this time, Dan mounted one out of the two horses pulling the cart and went for home. The reason? Williams had a truck which is of typical size to carry almost all of his goods, anyways it was roomy enough. The reason he didn't use the truck for six months is that he didn't have gasoline. Now he has 10 cans, along with 10 more which he had just bought by selling the woodblocks (each 5 litres), lasts for 6 hours of travel). Dan went much faster than the horse cart would have taken - around 40 minutes. Dan poured the full can of gasoline, loaded the horse inside and gave it a small heave of hay, stored safely in a closed "animal pantry" under the house. He knows driving, but legally he shouldn't drive only for the next four months, as he would turn 18 on April 16. Anyways, it's Fanatalasia and he drove within half an hour.
They all packed their earnings in the truck. Then, they had their lunch in a nearby restaurant. They had flat, round bread, with Meatball gravy and some fish fries (obviously the pickle!), and had some orange juice. Now they've decided to buy some cash. Cash differs from kingdom to kingdom and region to region, here they use basil (not the real thing), a coin worth a US dollar in today's rate. They decided to sell their unwanted goods, get the cash, and buy other things. They had got two barrels of whole maize, and they decided to sell one barrel. They also chose to sell the dragonfruits and grapefruits, along with half the cotton they'd got.
They didn't keep a stall. They chose their truck to use as the stall.
"What's our plan", asked Dan.
"We would sell the items, get the cash, buy the items needed for our reinforcements at home. You can get half the cash."
"That's a good deal"
It was indeed, they sold everything and bought some concrete, bricks, gravel, sand, and some tools. Their work was finished faster than expected.
They loaded everything into the truck by 6.30 pm. Then, they left for home.
"Tomorrow," Fayrette began, "We could go for a roundabout around the village"
"Yes, we could have fun", told Dan.
"I would've liked to come along, but I have to do the reinforcements for our house. You can go without me.", told Willams."
"Speaking of reinforcements, I remember to ask you that...what are those reinforcements?", questioned Dan.
"I have to dig a canal, smoothed with concrete, for the crops. I decided to build a wall around the house to prevent wolverines and bears from entering the house. The scraps will be used for other repairs to the accommodation."
"I see....."
While speaking, they have arrived at their house. It's seven, half an hour to dinner. They kept the building ingredients inside the truck and took the food items, kept in the pantry, and others in the underground basement mentioned earlier.
They all were hungry. The kids hugged them and welcomed their friends with pets they didn't tell about yesterday. They introduced Emerald, a parrot, and Obsidian, a Husky dog.