Juliana’s workshop Chapter 2: Captain Rock and commodity trading
Rock has a home, and he is also a captain—at least he thinks so. On the west side of this dark sea, he has a strong "home".
Many years ago, he committed an incident in a northern city and fled south. With a few of his subordinates, he found a good place on the seashore, one with a deep draft and allowing up to two paddle boats to enter and exit. Small bay. This place is surrounded by the sea on three sides and is very concealed. If the ships passing by the sea are not too close, you will not be able to find a settlement here. Here, you only need to reinforce the fortifications in one direction, and spend all the effort used on the other three sides in one place, then it will be solid and difficult to break. Even an army of several hundred people, he is confident that he can stop it for a while, if it can't stop it, he can also go to sea for refuge.
After settled down in this place, Rock never really left here. Although in this place where the birds do not shit, you can only see the endless sea and the forests, and there are still terrifying unclean things in the depths of the forests. In the depths of the sea, it is said that there is a huge sea. Strange activities, a little bit of movement turned the river over.
He is not a terrific character, just a brute force, he has the strength of the black iron class, coupled with a stout body and a fierce scar face, can deal with people who are weaker than himself, and then use With some gentle methods, it is not difficult to win some of your subordinates. But it's just that. He knew that between the forest and the sea, he was just an insignificant person. Except for those who are weaker than himself, no one would hear his voice, and even if he did, he probably wouldn't bother it.
So, he is a person who likes to speak in front of people who are weaker than himself. If someone dared not listen carefully, he would split him in half with his beloved big axe. It doesn't matter if that person is his subordinate or someone who was snatched back by him when he went out to "do business".
He hasn't been out to sea recently. It's a fishing moratorium now, and it's not a good time to go out to sea for hunting. If the fishing is too frequent, there will soon be no fish to catch. Moreover, because it is too remote, he has to sail north or south for a period of time every time he goes out to sea to find a place to fish. Although it took a lot of time, it also prevented some troublesome guys from chasing and killing them. Regardless of the northern countries or the Crescent Empire, there would be no kindness to people like him.
because he catches fish, not real fish.
At this time of noon, he was fishing somewhere in the cove to kill time, yawning from time to time, looking rather boring. When he was about to be overwhelmed by boredom, some news came that he would not normally hear.
His hand came down to report that someone had brought goods over to start business.
"Someone in this shabby place will take the initiative to come to do business?" Rock said to his men, and spit aside. Although there is a lot of seawater in this ghost place, fresh water is very scarce. Only a simple well dug in the nearby forest can get clean water. In the case of inferior wine, he, a person who often goes out to sea, pays great attention to the reserve, which also prevents people in his place from dying of thirst due to lack of water.
Although this place is safe, the environment is so bad, so Rock is surprised that someone will come to do business? This is not the southern part of the Forest of the Dead. Although it is not as dangerous as the north, it is not something ordinary people can do to come here. A slightly smarter businessman would not use this neighborhood as an alternative route to the north. , They will choose to go north by sea, or go west directly in the northern part of the sea of darkness, to the western empire.
Now, there are merchants who come here to do business? Rock didn't think that the seaside here had become such a friendly place.
While Rox was thinking about it, his men continued to say, "Said it’s here to do business, but there are only a few people and a few horses. I don’t see the carriage, and it doesn’t look like it’s carrying valuables. Looks like.” It seems that this subordinate has already evaluated the visitor from start to finish, so as to see whether the other party really has money and valuable things. As for what action needs to be taken after the observation, it is by Rock came to decide.
"Who are these?" Rock asked.
"Two adult men, one of them is an old man. There are also two young men who don’t seem to be stunned to go out at all." At this point, Rock’s men paused before continuing. "The old man said that he was doing a'fresh business' and he was anxious to get out of his hands. He happened to see our place, so he came over and asked about it."
Rock's brows moved. Fresh business, this is not a word that ordinary people can understand. Does the other party also do this?
"Let the boys get ready and take the guests to the place where they usually walk their dogs." Rock said to his opponent. His subordinates didn't say anything, and just stepped back.
Rock put the fishing rod aside and turned to leave. Although he was surprised that business came to the door at this time, but the visitor was a guest, or a guest who came to talk about business, so he still had to make a welcome gesture. If it is really a business talk, then he is naturally very welcome. If not... His large axe hasn't been bloodied for a long time, and it's about to rust.
The place for walking the dog referred to by is a space surrounded by wooden stakes, two front and rear entrances, close to the fortifications facing the land, if you can overlook it from the air, it is an arc and an oval. Pasted together. On the surrounding wall of wooden piles built high on the periphery, there is a simple platform for guards, which can be seen clearly from the outside to the inside. This is a very careful design. With a double door, many unexpected accidents can be avoided.
As it is now, these uninvited guests stood at this so-called dog walk and did not get the chance to pass through the second door. Even if they suddenly wanted to attack this place from the inside, waiting for them would be the second closed door, and the arrow from above.
It's not someone else who is standing here, it's Lulunaka and others.
After was put in, each of them looked different. Lulunaka looked around with interest, as if she didn't care about her situation at all. Olga and Padin looked composure, ignoring the alert and suspicious, very direct and explicit sight from above. Only Julius was very nervous, holding the cross sword wrapped in cloth in both hands, staring at the front, his hands trembling slightly. If Olga and Padin ignored the line of sight from above because they didn't care, then Julius didn't dare to look up because of nervousness. His nervousness comes not only from the pressure of his sight, but also from what Lulunaka said to him earlier.
Rock didn't let these guests wait too long. He appeared on the platform above the second door. Standing here, he could overlook Olga and others, which made him feel very good. His big axe is set aside, just where he can reach with his hands, as long as he wants to ~ IndoMTL.com~ he can pick up his big axe and swing it at any time.
Rock’s people are above, Lulunaka and others are below. Here, there is a sharp contrast between the host and the guest.
Lulunaka looked up at Rock, and when the two of them met, Lulunaka smiled at him. This makes Rock feel obedient. When the woman saw him, no one was crying like a madman, or pleading with a dead face. Recalling the past, he found that he hadn't seen such a bright smile from a woman in a long time-even if there were smiling faces from women, they were all flattering smiles.
A strange little girl. Rock judged like this in his heart.
"Gentlemen...and that young lady, I heard that you have business and want to do business with us." Rock said loudly below, "Although I welcome people who do business with kindness, but don’t care. No matter how you look at it, none of you seem to be carrying goods."
For Rock, the composition of the following group is equally strange. A Crescent Empire from Yilan, a Westerner, and two little kids who may not have grown hair yet. Are these people going to do business with him, or is it a new business? Rock felt that he might have been fooled, and his mood quickly showed on his face.
Julius glanced up secretly, then lowered his head. The fat and fierce guy above had a terrible look and look in his eyes, which made him feel very bad and even more nervous.
"I told your subordinates, what I want to do is fresh business." Olga responded to Roque with the same volume.
"I don't think you seem to be carrying goods." Rock said.
"No, we have the goods." Olga pointed to Lulunaka, "This is the goods."