Chapter 437. The scale of business and conscience (3) It is a one-time business anyway.
And it was a trick created by a low-end merchant.
After all, the main business of the season was salt smuggling.
If you want other products, you can use those from other merchants.
After all, if you seduce them with the right amount of money, they'll get caught again.
“Put your unsold eyes away, even by the river. Whether it melts or not... Um, what is it?”
As he gave the order in moderation, he noticed that the merchant who had come to report hadn't finished talking yet, and asked back.
“What do you still have left?”
“That's... Actually, what the sales of snow gave me wasn't just a drop in demand.”
“?...”
What?”
Say what you're talking about right now.
The merchant who came up to report to him, who was glaring at him as if he was going to eat him, broke into a cold sweat and confessed the truth.
“Actually, there is someone who recently started selling strange things.”
“Something strange?”
“Yes.”
The merchant reported about it with a dark face.
Upon hearing this, his complexion also turned white as snow.
A small shop that suddenly appeared in the middle of the city.
It was there that they started selling strange goods.
“Why don’t you try something colder and softer than snow?”
A clerk hired by the store exclaims and recommends new products to tourists.
What they put out is finely ground white, cold particles on a bowl.
“...Isn't this the snow snack sold over there?”
A tourist who came up with something similar asked.
Then the clerk shook his head.
“No, these are not eyes. look. Isn't it whiter and softer than snow?
Saying so, when the clerk introduced it, the tourists gathered in surprise and curiosity.
“It’s milk, not snow.”
“milk? Ah… you mean cow’s milk.”
A person who knew about milk agreed and said.
“When it comes to sheep’s milk, I ate it when I was young. It's cow's milk...
However, most tourists were somewhat unfamiliar with milk.
This is because milk itself is a product that cannot be easily handled in the first place.
Not only is it not easy to raise a cow, but people like and dislike the milk.
Even those who ate it hated that it had a very fishy smell.
Still, curiosity about that new product is different.
They showed interest at first.
“Then is that milk made this way?”
“yes? If you freeze milk and grind it finely, it becomes whiter than snow like this. Isn’t it whiter and clearer than real snow?”
“Hmm… I heard it and saw it.”
“In addition, the milk that becomes this material is squeezed from cows specially raised in Kelia, not traded in general places.”
“Kelia? In the country of those different races?”
Tourists were quite surprised.
They, too, have never visited Kelly.
Not to mention the materials that were traded there.
Recently, thanks to the train, rare goods have arrived here and there, but I never thought the ingredients would flow from there.
“The milk that was squeezed there…
Hearing that, it seemed like something special.
I didn't hear anything special about it, but it still seemed different.
It was a moment when the perspective of looking at new products changed slightly.
And when curiosity arises, there is a desire to actually eat it.
“Give me one!”
Even if it feels like being deceived at least once.
Most of the people who come here are tourists, and they were willing to pay at least once.
And the price of that shaved ice is also not that expensive.
At least it was slightly cheaper than the food using snow sold at the store over there.
So, once in a while, you will be tempted to try it out of curiosity.
“Yes, thank you?.”
The clerk happily served the shaved ice as ordered.
After freezing the pure white ice and chocolate on a transparent bowl, sprinkle the finely chopped powder and sprinkle something pure white on top.
Already at this point, it looked different from the snow cookies sold at Budell's.
There is no need to compare which one looks appetizing.
“Exceeding expectations... The tourists who received the finished shaved ice burst into admiration.
And I ate it on the spot.
Because it's cold food, you know it melts quickly.
When they received a spoon made of the same material as the bowl and ate it, they burst into admiration.
As expected, the first impression was an unbelievable cool texture.
It is a feeling that is especially felt by tourists who have traveled here and there.
And what captivates them is the taste.
“Ohh.... It's so sweet that it can't be compared to anything over there.”
“It has such a soft taste.”
If it's simply a sweet thing, you can feel the sweetness because the snow snack over there also adds honey.
However, the shaved ice here was completely different.
Because milk is frozen instead of water, the unique savory and soft aftertaste remains.
It was on a different level from the crude food over there.
“I thought it would be fishy because it's cow's milk, but it's not.”
Even those who did not expect much were surprised to think of the time when they ate goat's milk.
“The milk here is the milk of cows specially improved by magic in Kelia. There is no fishy smell peculiar to animals.”
“I see… then is this white liquid milk?”
They pointed to a sweet white one.
It was really cumbersome to ask each and every question, but the clerk explained without showing any signs.
“It is also made from processed milk. It is condensed milk.”
“Ah... that's right.”
While listening to the explanation, they are busy tasting the shaved ice.
And when you see someone eating, others want to eat too.
One by one, customers gather and start to line up.
Even those who had finished emptying their bowls lined up again.
Meanwhile, one of those who was examining the empty bowl saw it and muttered something to himself.
“Is there a glass vessel…? hmm? It is not glass.”
Those who looked at it with admiration at the fact that they used dishes that would never be cheap soon groaned in wonder.
If you look closely, it's not glass.
It's transparent like water, but if you look closely, it looks like water.
“That, too, is a bowl directly imported from the floating city of Kelia. Since it is made of water, you don't have to return it after you've used up the bowl, so you don't have to throw it away.”
If you throw it away, the magic will be dispelled and it will return to the water and disappear.
she explained.
“Ohh… is that so? You've got some wisdom.
The man who appeared to be a peddler was admiring.
Glassware is not cheap.
If you carelessly provided cheap bowls in this way, there will be people who will think of kicking you out.
That's why when the food is served at the store over there, they just wrap it in thick paper and send it out.
It is a means that can be used because the quality of paper has gone up and is cheaper than in the past.
But they chose the wrong way.
If it was a vessel made of water, there would be no point in bringing it.
And the look is great too.
If I had used thick paper bowls like them, I wouldn't have been able to boast this level of aesthetics.
‘...That's right. What the hell is this shop...?'
Among the customers, former merchants glared at the store signboard nervously, as if they had already noticed something.
There are no special features, but they have eyes that seem to see something that others don't see.
“Aside from shaved ice, we also sell other foods. In particular, since this place deals with the chocolate shop in Pahilia, some of the products sold there are also sold on consignment.”
There is not only one thing for sale here.
The clerk shouted as if he was bragging about someone.
The sales recorded by the store on the first day of opening did not need to be organized separately.
It was all the more needless to say when I saw the clerks of the store in the immediate vicinity frowning.
* * *
“That bitch's actions are clear.”
As soon as Cherpal heard about the new store, he clenched his fists and concluded.
Keigin, who heard the story, asked again.
“You mean Elliot?”
“Yes, that year. If not, five days ago? A kid from the Roussel Company said he saw her.”
You don't even have to ask.
The fact that I came back here and the fact that I opened a store like that.
Frankly, she is arguing with herself.
It is the biggest challenge that a merchant puts out.
Perhaps it was deliberately showing his face.
“...The fact that she's there means that there's an Arnil firm behind her.”
It wasn't hard to imagine that point.
There is also a point of contact from the beginning.
And if you look at the products they handle, you can't show that skill anywhere else.
Not only the chocolates traded in Fahilia, but also the ingredients from Kelia.
Isn't it a skill that most grand ceremonies can't even dream of?
“I don’t understand… Why did the Arnil Chamber of Commerce bother to invest that much in that woman?”
“I don’t understand either.”
No matter how gigantic the Grand Prize Society was, there was no reason to reach out to a mediocre merchant.
The reason for intervening in this incident would be something they could not understand or guess.
The important thing for them is to earn and collect gold coins somehow, because they have no thoughts of arguing whether the method is right or wrong.
“...I have to step out after all.”
Keigin murmured softly.
However, the Cherpals seemed to have not heard, and only sighed.
“So what are you going to do?”
“…I need to think for a moment.”
Her return hurt the business they hoped would suck more honey for the next few months.
Even if I had to force myself to continue, I did not calculate that there would be any hope.
Even if you think about it, you can't see the odds of winning.
Elrium is second only because her back tummy was terrifying .
After all, was the person she contacted at that time a high-ranking person at Arnil Firm?
He shook his head in disgust.
“Okay, don’t give up.”
You don't have to scrape it to make a crust.
Thinking so, they decided to forget about Elium.
After all, she is also a merchant.
I didn't think that I would be conscious of this side again, just focusing on earning.
....Of course, it took less than a month to realize that it was their mistake.
They couldn't figure out what Elliot was doing when he returned here and why he didn't even show his face in the store.
The grudge of the victim is deep.
It was something they couldn't know.
“You’re like a beast bitch with no morals!!”
A month later, Cherpal slammed his fist on a table in a fit of rage.
It was only belatedly that she learned the true purpose of her return here.
Even with great losses.
After returning, Elium began to tighten transactions in the city one by one based on the subsidy he received from someone.
It wasn't just food that she touched.
Fur, minerals and even wood.
It started to touch all transactions comprehensively.
The problem is that all the transactions she touches are the routes of smuggling by smuggling low-end merchants.
That is, he was only aiming for that.
He even attracted a large number of merchants who fell into a trap at the Budell store and used it.
“Was this the intention from the beginning!”
He returned only for revenge.
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