"What? You want to sell me a city?" Liu Feng widened his eyes and looked at the white-haired old man in front of him in disbelief.
"Yes, my friend, I will sell my territory and a city to you." Carter's old voice was full of sincerity.
"Let me think about it,"¹ Liu Feng said, frowning. He was a bit surprised. He did a lot of transactions², and this was one of the most outrageous things.
A light flashed through Carter's eyes. "My friend, what are you worried about? Is it your status?"
Without waiting for Liu Feng to answer, Carter continued to speak. "Don't worry about your status, I'll also sell you a nobleman's title."
Liu Feng's eyes narrowed slightly. The proposal made him a bit excited³, but he still cautiously said, "Carter, I don't really understand. Why would you sell your land, and even go as far as abandoning your nobleman's title?"
"I'm getting old!" Carter said, sighing. "I'm 70 years old, and I don't have much time left to live. My descendants don't live up to my expectations, so my best choice is to sell my territory and go to other big cities to develop."
Liu Feng didn't believe a single word that Carter said, but he still decided to ask, and said, "What's the price?"
"One hundred gold coins for everything!" Carter grinned, showing his black teeth and demanding an exorbitant price."⁴
"Puuu..." Liu Feng spit out the water that he just drank and glared at Carter with his eys. "Old man Carter, why don't you just go rob???"
He wasn't a newbie who just came to this world. After spending a month in this world, he knew the value of 100 gold coins.
Carter wiped the water on his face and said indifferently, "It's a territory, a city, and a nobleman's title of baron. 100 gold coins isn't expensive. In other places, the price would be several times greater... cough cough!"
Liu Feng smiled and looked at the somewhat awkward Carter. "You also know that that it's in other places. 30 gold coins, that's all I have."
"That's too little..." Carter wanted to bargain a bit more, but seeing Liu Feng packing up his stuff, he quickly said, "Okay, just 30 gold coins, deal!"
Liu Feng glanced at Carter and said, "Carter, I suspect that 30 gold coins is still a bad loss for me."
"Hahaha... my friend, it's not a loss. Starting tomorrow, you'll be a baron, a baron with a territory." Carter said, smiling and showing his large black teeth.
"I don't have 30 gold coins, only goods that worth 30 gold coins. If you're willing, then let's trade," Liu Feng said, sighing. He looked at the 2 large boxes behind him with his eyes full of reluctance.
"Of course, deal!" Carter said hurriedly.
After saying so, Carter immediately went to open the 2 boxes, but Liu Feng stopped him,and said, "Old man Carter, don't rush, you need to make me believe that what you said is true."
"Hahaha..." Katie showed his black teeth and waved his big hand. "No problem, you'll go to the territory with me right now. I will public announce you as the new city lord and pass you the title of a baron. You can move in the castle tonight."
"That works!"⁵
A smile flashed across Liu Feng's eyes. He went to the horse carriage, carried the boxes onto the carriage and drove the carriage to follow Carter.
He looked at the dozen⁶ of people in front of him. They dressed in simple clothes and behaved strangely. He felt unbelievable⁷ every time he saw it.
Liu Feng is a transmigrator, a transmigrator who can go back and forth between Earth and the Other World.⁸
One month ago, he stayed at home and was watching anime, but he unexpectedly transmigrated to this world after being electrocuted.
He then discovered that he could traverse back and forth once a day, and he also had a storage space of two cubic meters. This was his golden finger.⁹
Except for his confusion at the beginning, Liu Feng quickly became a second hand dealer between the two worlds. He brought ordinary things from Earth to this world to sell, which allowed him to accumulate a bit of wealth.
After one month of researching and prying for information, Liu Feng reached a conclusion.
This was a wonderful world, in the era of cold weapons. The level of civilization was similar to the level of civilization during Earth's seventh century, which is the time where slavery and feudalism existed.
And Carter was one of his old customers. Of course, wanting the old man to buy things generously from him was a false hoping.
Liu Feng's impression of Carter was that he was a stingy nobleman. He found it hard to believe that Carter would sell his territory and nobleman's title.
Liu Feng had thought of the possibility that it was a trap, but the other party currently hadn't taken people to rob his goods.
Liu Feng didn't care about the rest. He urgently needed a place to live and a legal identity. As for the rest, he didn't believe that he would be able to take care of some other world natives.
"Being a noble doesn't seem like a bad idea," Liu Feng said to himself, raising the corners of his mouth. "It's not comfortable having to sleep out in the wild all the time."
He decided that he would buy the city as long as it wasn't too much of a fraud.¹⁰ With his ability to travel between two worlds, being a city lord in this world seemed like a pretty good idea.
¹ 你让我缓缓. Literally, let me slow down. Kind of means like let me process it. I put think about because it made sounded better in this case than process.
² 生意. Business. I put transactions because it sounded better in this case and made more sense.
³ 心动. Heart move or heartbeat. I couldn't find a better word to fit there.
⁴ 狮子开大口. Literally, lion opens its mouth wide. Means that someone is demanding a price much more than the actual worth.
⁵ 可以. Can or could. Can doesn't make sense here so I put that works.
⁶ 十几个. This means 10 something. Like 11, 12, 13, up to 19. A way of saying there's about 11 to 19 of something when the exact number is unknown. There isn't really a word for that in English, so I just put dozen for convenience.
⁷ 不可思议. Unbelievable. The sentence sounds weird but I don't know how to word it properly.
⁸ 异界. Other world, but the author uses it as a proper noun, as the name for the other world.
⁹ 金手指. Literally, golden finger. Basically means cheat or special ability.
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