"Come on, you guys, a broken city gate, what's so funny" Ye Wenhao glanced at the ledger and said disdainfully.
"When the Knights Templar were stationed here, on the surface, people were still doing things for the Holy City, and the taxes from the city gate were to be handed over to the Holy City, and they didn't fall into their own pockets.
Ye Wenhao continued.
"That's natural, but the income of five thousand a day is too exaggerated."
Yi Shuihan patted the account book and said, "There must be some secrets that we don't know, I think, we need to figure out why people can earn so much."
Long Yu reopened the account book and looked at it carefully.
This is a very detailed bill, with systematic classification and receipts, it is the most qualified of all the tax books here, but it is also the most suspicious one that Long Yu feels, since Long Yu decided to check, Ye Wenhao didn't say anything more, the three of them huddled together, starting from the first page of the account book, and verified it according to those old accounts.
Three hours later, "How's it going, do you see what?"
was a blank sheet of paper with several names written on it, and behind that name was a series of numbers.
"What is the artifact line for, they enter and exit the city gate more than fifty times a month, an average of two or three times a day, and according to the amount of taxes, the things they transport are definitely not a small amount, why have we been here for so long, we have never seen this artifact line at all" Ye Wenhao asked curiously.
"I'm going to check out this artifact shop."
Long Yu put away the account book, nearly ninety percent of the income of five thousand gold coins came from this artifact shop, how could it be possible to say that it was fine.
Early in the morning of the second day, after the city gate was opened normally, Long Yu slipped out with Ye Wenhao, while Yi Shuihan stayed there and did some daily work.
"Artifact line, listening to this name, it doesn't seem to be a simple place."
Ye Wenhao looked at the shops on both sides of the street along the way, searching for the words of the artifact line.
"Don't look for it here, that place is in the back alley of Moonlight."
Long Yu pulled Ye Wenhao, and a whizzing car almost knocked Ye Wenhao down.
"Damn, is there any merit on the street, the car is driving so fast" Ye Wenhao turned his head and scolded, Long Yu returned angrily: "You are looking around by yourself, if you walk well, how can you be hit."
"When I buy a car, I'll be on a rampage here."
Ye Wenhao said unconvinced.
"Alright, let's go."
Long Yu walked forward, Ye Wenhao followed, the holy city is prosperous and busy every day, pedestrians and vehicles on the road are not stopping, and looking up, all kinds of flying machines and flying mounts are also shuttling.
"Moonlight Back Alley, I heard that there are some luxury goods sold there, it seems that I guessed correctly."
Ye Wenhao smacked his lips and said.
"Well, you guessed it right."
Long Yu echoed with a smile.
Half an hour later, Long Yu and Ye Wenhao finally came to the moonlight back alley, which is the alleyway between two high-rise streets, unlike the buildings outside, the floors here are not more than three floors at most, and all of them are all wooden, looking very old.
"Artifact line, it's this one" The two of them were lucky, and as soon as they entered the alleyway, they saw that the first one was the place they wanted to see.
The artifact shop is a three-story wooden building, with open-air corridors on the second and third floors, and a signboard diagonally erected on the roof of the building, on which the signboard reads "Artifact Line" with colorful paint. ” Stepping on the steps on the first floor, pushing open the wooden door with "squeak" and screaming, Ye Wenhao and Long Yu squeezed into the door, saying that it was squeezed, the door was full of people, and the lively atmosphere was fundamentally different from the pedestrians outside.
"Guests, I'm really sorry, because of some operational problems recently, the store's raw materials are difficult, so the products with the prefix of the star and the prefix of the moon are out of stock recently, I'm really sorry."
Behind the high counter stood a delicate-looking High Elf woman, the woman was dressed in meticulous work clothes, and her white collar was very clean, but in the face of so many customers, when she spoke, the woman's voice was still a little trembling.
"How is it possible that there is no goods, how can such a big spice store be out of stock, how are you doing business" There was a commotion at the bottom, "Spices" Ye Wenhao and Long Yu glanced at each other, both of them were scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, and they gave such a gimmick to the name of an artifact shop, they actually sold spices, and they thought it was selling equipment and weapons.
"Customers, I'm really sorry, in order to express our apologies, the chief spice chef of our store has temporarily configured new spices for everyone, this spice tastes similar to those two spices, I hope customers can choose."
As she spoke, the woman put bottles of packaged spices on the table.
The dissatisfaction in the crowd did not stop, the high elves standing in front picked up the new spices on the table and smelled them, and immediately wrinkled their noses one by one and scolded, saying that the first two spices could not be achieved, and the woman immediately apologized and explained, but the strength of the helpless crowd was too great, and they refused to compromise in the shouting.
"Your artifact shop is also a long-established store for many years, how can you still do such a low thing to deceive customers, a week ago, you promised that the goods would arrive, but now you have broken your promise, without this kind of spice, our whole family can't eat and sleep well, and there is no taste in anything we eat, let's be honest, do you want to increase the price, if so, I admit it, as long as you sell us the spices" A high elf old man with wrinkled skin and hair not very shiny shouted loudly.
Don't look at the old man's age, but the voice is quite loud, the room is so noisy, his voice let everyone hear clearly, the woman selling goods behind the counter is full of bitterness, most of the people in the crowd support the old man's meaning, and they all echoed: "If the price rises, it will rise, we admit it, as long as you sell the goods to us."
Others with deep pockets were even more generous, and they took out the heavy money bag directly from their arms and said, "No matter how expensive it is, I want it." ” "This is really a strange situation, there are so many spices in this spice shop, why do all the people want those two that are out of stock" Ye Wenhao looked around and asked puzzled.
Long Yu shook his head and said: OT I don't know, everyone's taste is different, they really like this spice. ” "Guests, I'm really sorry, it's not that we want to increase the price, it's really that we are short of raw materials."
The High Elf woman continued.
"Why is there a shortage, the spices have been sold for several years, and this has never been the case, okay, you don't want to increase the price, then you can give us a reasonable explanation" The doubts in the crowd continued, and they didn't take the woman's apology in their eyes at all
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