Chapter 50: Buying grain
On the third day after departure, the extremely backward mode of transportation made Gu Mi realize the irrationality of his arrangements.
Food shortages in their territories are imminent.
However, when they finished catching the griffins, they went to find other territories to buy food, which would take too long. I'm afraid that the territories would have to run out of food before they could buy food.
So she made a decisive decision and informed Avery: "Go buy food first."
"Yes, Lord Lord." Avery naturally would not refute Lord Lord's decision. , the top priority is to solve the food crisis in the territory.
It is not easy to find other territories.
The Ekra Great Forest is too vast. Because the environment inside is too dangerous, there are not many territories, at least it is more sparse than other places outside.
The distance between territories is also very long, and there is often little communication between them, which leads to many territories not only inconvenient to communicate with each other, but also do not know the exact location of each other.
Fortunately, Gu Mi went out to practice alone for half a month before, and it was not for nothing.
In addition to intentionally hunting high-level monsters to improve her strength, she also paid attention to the location of other territories, and successfully found two other territories that were slightly farther away from their territory.
One is the territory of the Orcs, and the other is the territory of the Humans.
Both of these territories are high-level villages. Because Gu Mi once passed by, their locations were automatically recorded by the system and marked on the map.
After deciding to buy food first, Gu Mi directly expanded the system map to find the locations of the two territories.
According to the principle of proximity, her first target selected the territory of the orcs.
Exactly, rushing over from their current position at full speed, they will reach their destination in about a day or so.
Just before sunset the next day, Gu Mi and Avery came to this orcs territory.
The reason why she called this territory the Orc Territory, rather than a specific orc gathering place, was because there were more than one kind of Orcs living in it.
That's right, this is a multi-racial orc mixed territory.
Among them, Rabbit Orcs, Leopard Orcs, and Deer Orcs are the main ones. Territorial leaders are the most powerful Leopard Orcs. Other Orcs are born on the basis of Leopard Orcs.
"Wait."
Gu Mi stopped Avery, who was about to walk into other people's territory, and reminded him: "You put on all the equipment of the earth black bear first."
Although Avery didn't know why, he was still obedient. Do as you please.
Gu Mi did the same, she put on the bunny suit.
"Lord Lord, I don't understand, why are we doing this?" Avery trailed half a step, followed behind Gu Mi in a standard subordinate attitude, and asked suspiciously while following her into the territory of the orcs.
"You haven't been to those pure orc territories before, so you don't know. In fact, orcs are a somewhat exclusive race. Of course, it's not that they are unfriendly to other high-intelligence races. It's just that in terms of attitude, facing the same race is better than facing other races. There is a difference, you should understand, right?" Gu Mi explained casually.
Avery understood.
Just as people in some areas with traditional xenophobia face the difference between locals and non-locals, compared to non-locals, people will be more friendly to locals, and even give more discounts when selling things to locals.
It's not really a good comment.
Although it may occasionally make people feel a little resentful, but people have that attitude, they don't specifically target anyone, and they don't intentionally hurt anyone, so there's nothing you can do about it.
As soon as Gu Mi stepped into the territory of the orcs, a virtual screen popped up in front of her, reminding her that she needed to pay a toll of 15 copper coins to enter the territory, and she could only stay in the territory for one day.
15 copper coins can buy a one-day stay, which is 15 times more expensive than the toll in her territory!
Gu Miluo felt a little distressed, but he honestly paid the toll for two people.
A total of 30 copper coins.
Suddenly I felt that I was indeed a generous and generous lord. I didn't say anything about the thresholds for territorial access. I was afraid that people would not have money.
Even though the welfare policies are so favorable, their territory still lacks people.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is not well-known.
It's a pity that there is no place to advertise in the survival game for the time being. Otherwise, she will use a loudspeaker to shout on the World Channel, and the territory must not be breached by those survivors who are eager for asylum.
"Sister, where is the place to sell food in your territory?" Relying on the bunny suit on his body, Gu Mi pretended to be a bunny orc without any pressure.
She stopped a Rabbit girl who seemed to be more talkative and asked the other party for directions.
Suddenly being stopped by someone to ask for directions, the Rabbit girl was stunned for a moment. She found out that the person asking for directions was an unfamiliar girl who looked young and was a Rabbit orc. One finger.
"You keep walking along this street, about two or three hundred meters, and you can see food stalls. There are all kinds of food stalls. I recommend the carrot cake from Aunt Rabbit's house. It's delicious."
"Okay. Yes, thank you sister."
Gu Mi politely thanked the person, and then took Avery to the place where the food was sold and followed the other party's instructions.
Hot knowledge, there is a high probability that there is a grain and oil store near the place that sells food.
This is what Gu Mi concluded after visiting many territories in his previous life.
Except for some territories that have specially invited professionals to do urban planning, the lords of many territories may be for the convenience of management, and they like to group buildings with similar functions together, such as a pile of food and a pile of use.
At present, Gu Mi's territory actually follows this method.
After all, it is really easy to manage by functional sub-regions.
So Gu Mi only needs to find out where there is food in this territory, and basically he can determine where the grain and oil stores in the territory are.
This trick doesn't say a hundred trials and a hundred spirits, but nine times out of ten you won't go wrong.
A distance of two or three hundred meters, depending on the distance between Gu Mi and Avery, even if they walked slowly, it would take two or three minutes to arrive.
After the two arrived here, it was no accident that they found that they came to the commercial street of this territory. Along the street were built a row of stone houses with rough and primitive styles. Many houses had a big 'facade' on the side facing the street. There are a lot of goods inside.
In front of the store, there are densely packed small stalls occupying both sides of the street, and everyone is busy selling their own things, so it is not noisy.
I haven't seen such a lively scene in a long time.
Gu Mi suddenly felt a sense of alienation for a while.
Think about it carefully, isn't it just a lifetime apart?
"Lord Lord." Avery reminded Gu Mi in a low voice: "There seems to be a food store over there."
Gu Mi looked up when she heard the sound, and she saw a big orc character 'food' hanging in front of a storefront. It was also filled with bags of food, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Let's go and have a look."
She quickly walked over and found that the owner of the grain store was a young brother with a slender neck.
Her gaze subconsciously swept over the pair of round antlers and the dark yellow deer ears on the top of the shopkeeper's brother's head. Gu Mi was secretly surprised. She only knew that there were deer orcs in this territory, but she didn't know that the deer was a giraffe. Kind of novel.
"The two of you are here to buy food?"
Noticing that there were guests coming, the giraffe brother who was paralyzed on the back of the bamboo chair in a bored daze quickly got up and greeted the guests: "What kind of food do you want? My family has all kinds of fine grains and coarse grains. There are also ground flour and soybean flour, you can choose."
"What are the types of coarse grains? What are the types of fine grains? What is the price of each? If I buy more at one time, will it be cheaper for you? Yes Does it match the grain bags of the same size?"
Gu Mi asked familiarly.
As soon as he heard her words, Little Giraffe knew that this was a big customer who knew how to do it. He was busy and took a correct attitude, and carefully introduced them one by one: "Coarse grains include wheat beans, miscellaneous beans, and corn, and the price is 1, 2 per kilogram, 3 copper coins, fine grains are only white rice, 6 copper coins per kilogram, flour is a little more expensive, 7 copper coins per kilogram."
One kilogram is equal to two catties.
The amount of food an adult eats in a day is about this number. If you only eat wheat beans, you may not need it. After all, this stuff is very filling.
Gu Mi himself could only eat at most two wheat bean breads a day, adding up to a pound.
But she must not buy less food.
So she simply counted more.
At present, the population of the territory is 183 people, rounding up to 200. If one person eats two catties of grain a day, a total of 12,000 catties of grain are needed in a month, which is 6,000 kilograms of grain.
After mentally calculating the result, Gu Mi directly reported: "I want 10,000 kilograms of wheat beans, 2,000 kilograms of corn, and 500 kilograms of white rice."
Those who bought more were just in case.
She was afraid that she would be able to bring people back to the territory. When the population increased, the originally calculated food territory would be in short supply. In this case, it is better to buy more from the beginning. Anyway, of course, the more food you have, the better. .
"This..." As soon as Gu Mi opened his mouth to ask for tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, the giraffe brother was overjoyed at first, then he didn't know what to think, and his face suddenly became embarrassed.
"What? Not enough food?"
Gu Mi knew what was going on just by looking at his expression.
"Sorry, guest, my family can only sell you 5,000 kilograms of wheat beans and 1,000 kilograms of corn at most, but white rice can be sold to you as much. Do you think this is okay?"
" Okay." All the grain stocks, but Gu Mi had no intention of entanglement, and nodded in agreement.
When it comes to doing business, what matters is your own wishes.
People don't want to sell too much food to them, and the big deal is to go to the next territory to buy it.
It's just that it can't be done in one step, and it's a bit troublesome to have to make another trip.
"Since I can't sell it all to me, but for the sake of buying so much food from your family at one time, should I give more discounts?" I understand it, and Gu Mi will never let go of the necessary bargaining.
You came and I went back and forth for a long time, you asked the price all over the sky, I sat on the ground to pay the money, and Avery, who was next to him, was stunned by the fierce battle of words, completely unaware that his lord actually had such a side.
In the end, the little giraffe was tired from grinding by Gu Mi, and Songkou promised to give them a 5% discount on the total price, and included a grain bag of the same size that was enough to hold all the grain.
That's right, originally this kind of grain bag that can be directly put into the card book and stacked with the grid needs to be paid separately.
It was Gu Mi who was hard on the giraffe brother and gave them a free gift.