Liu Feng carelessly put the two things to the side, and said calmly, "Then let's check the goods and settle the price."
"Okay!" Carter nodded and immediately called a middle-aged man, his butler. His butler was a shrewd man.
"Butler, help us estimate the cost."
"Yes!" The butler replied respectfully.
Liu Feng lifted a box onto the table, opened the box, and took out five glass bottles from inside the box. The glass bottles were the kind of bottles that costs about a dozen bucks each in the supermarket.
"Hiss..." Carter, Fez, and the butler all sucked in a mouthful of cold air, their eyes staring at the glass cups in Liu Feng's hands. They hurriedly went forward with two hands in front of them, carefully taking the glass cups.
"This is a crystal glass cup! I had been fortunate enough to see one at a Duke's Mansion, but it wasn't pure and gorgeous as these ones." Carter exclaimed, his eyes full of greed.
Fez's breathing sped up and he held the glass cups tightly with his hands, and he wanted nothing but to claim the glass cups as his own.
"How many gold coins do you three think these three crystal glass cups are worth?" Liu Feng directly made the price of the glass cups on the level of gold coins.
The currency of this world is divided into three levels: copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins.
1 gold coin is equal to 100 silver coins, and 1 silver coin is equal to 1000 copper coins.
According to Liu Feng's one month of investigation, 1 copper coin has the same purchasing power as 1 dollar on Earth.
Carter took a deep breath and carefully placed the glass cup on the table, and said with a smile, "My friend, I will give five gold coins for one crystal glass cup.
The value of the item is too high for a butler to estimate.¹
Liu Feng silently looked at the glass cups. He never thought that one glass was worth five gold coins. He thought that two gold coins would would be ridiculous enough.
One gold coin, if converted into Earth's money, would be about $10,000. One glass cup only costed about a dozen bucks. The profit was scary.
Carter saw that Liu Feng was silent for a long time, and he quickly added, "Of course, these crystal glass cups are of very high quality, so I can add another gold coin."
"Uh..." Hearing that, Liu Feng knew that the other party misunderstood. He sighed, "Ai!² I received these 5 crystal glass cups from a desolate nobleman. At that time, I used 5 gold coins and 20 silver coins to buy 1 crystal glass cup. Now that I'm selling you these cups for 6 gold coins each, I'm making a loss!"
"Ha ha ha..." Carter laughed mysteriously. "Baron Liu Feng, my friend, I won't let you take a loss. There's a gift for you later."
"Oh?" Liu Feng raised his eyebrows and gritted his teeth. "Okay, I'll sell it for 6 gold coins each."
"Ha ha ha..." Fez laughed excitedly and quickly took the five glass cups and ut them in his arms like they were some treasure.
"5 glass... cough cough... 5 crystal glass cups costs a total of 30 gold coins, which is just enough to pay for the territory, so we are even."³ Liu Feng said, his mouth twitching.
"Correct!"⁴
Carter nodded, his eyes fixed on the two boxes. He calmly said, "Baron Liu Feng, can you let this old man look at your other goods? If I am satisfied, we will buy a few.
The words made Liu Feng's heart shiver. He knew that the other party got greedy. If there really were items that the other party liked, they would most likely kill him and take the goods.
"Of course!"
Liu Feng put his hand on the box for a short time before quietly opening the box, revealing some clothes and a few ceramic products.
Disappointment flashed across Carter's eyes when he saw the items. He forced a smiled and said, "Are these exquisite ceramic plates the same as the ones you sold to me last time?"
"Yeah! Only these things are left. After all, these goods were transported from the Far East and took a long time. A lot of them were broken on the way." Liu Feng made an excuse that he had used before.
He had just put the mirror and a few items back in his storage space. He was afraid to let the other party know about the existence of mirrors and baijiu⁵ since just a single glass cup was worth so much money.
In the past, he sold salt, polished rice, ceramic products, wooden combs, and other similar stuff. This was the first time he brought out things like glass.
There were no glass in this era, only a few naturally made glass.⁶ Fortunately, he had discovered this loophole⁷ in time⁸.
Carter had brought several ceramic plates from Liu Feng before. He had even complimented that these ceramic plates were better than some that were used in high noble families.
"What a pity," Carter said, sighing. No one knows whether he was sighing about there not being other high value items or sighing about other things."My friend, sell all of these ceramic plates to me!"
"Sure. There's a total of 12 plates, 1 silver coin for 1 plate, a total of 12 silver coins." Liu Feng rapidly calculated the cost.
Carter nodded, and the butler quickly waled forward and handed 12 silver coin to Liu Feng, and carefully took the ceramic plates.
"Then Baron Liu Feng, please come with me, I'll introduce you to the residents," Carter stood up and said.
"Okay!" Liu Feng got up and followed Carter.
"Dong dong dong..."
Before they got outside, they heard a bell ringing a few times. Carter explained that it was a signal to gather the residents.
¹ I'm guessing that it means that the butler can only estimate the value of items that costs less than a certain amount of money.
² 唉. Sighing sound.
³ 两清了. Literally, two cleared. It means that no one owes each other anymore, like if Person A helps Person B, Person B would owe Person A a favor, and then Person B helps Person A, so no one owes each other anymore, and they are two cleared. I put even because two cleared doesn't sound nice in the context.
⁴ It's actually yes in the raws but it didn't sound right here so I put correct. I also thought about putting yep but Carter is a noble and yep just sounded too informal and not something a noble would say.
⁵ 白酒. Literally, white wine, but for some reason it's called baijiu and not white wine in English.
⁶ Ehhh.... That's what the raws said, I'm guessing that the author meant man-made glass in the first part of the sentence.
⁷ 错误. Mistake or error. Loophole sounds so much better in this context.
⁸ Probably refers to being able to find the loophole before Carter sold him the city.
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