Without mentioning a few people's thoughts, Li You Ran was about to leave after seeing the normal development here when Airington drove his horse-drawn carriage back. When he arrived in front of Li You Ran, Li You Ran almost didn't recognize him.
This guy is loaded with gold and silver accessories! He's wearing a golden headpiece, and his whole person looks like he's covered in crap! The aura of a nouveau riche hits you right in the face.
"Hahaha! Dear Master Fa! Nice to see you again! What an honor! Do you know how much our store has earned? Look! Look!" Ellington spun a full 360 degrees in front of Li You Ran, completely shameless.
"Alright! Afraid others won't come to rob you, huh? Are you still a knight? A guy whose soul has been corrupted by money." Li You Ran cursed with a smile.
"Oh! The Dragon God is above! I am absolutely a brave knight! But when it comes to choosing between being corrupted by money myself or the weak being corrupted by money, I chose to be corrupted myself without hesitation! Absolutely helping the weak! It's completely in line with my knight's creed!"
"Alright! Brave knight sir! How much did we make?" Li You Ran asked, looking at the carriage behind them with wheels deeply pressed into the ground.
"Oh! This is exactly what I wanted to say! You absolutely can't imagine how obsessed the people in the city are with your bread, the black market price has even soared to one gold coin per piece! Of course, as a knight, I am a man of integrity! So I only sell it for five silver coins each! I'm really too kind." As if selling a loaf of bread for five silver coins was an act of great benevolence.
"Tsk tsk tsk! I need to correct you a bit, buddy! It's not my bread! It's our bread! There's your share inside too." Li You Ran shook her head and reminded him.
This reminder was also what Ailington was willing to hear, to be honest he was afraid that Li You Ran would abandon him and go solo! If that were the case, then it would be troublesome.
"Yes! Ah! Ours! I swear you shall be my most noble friend, Ellington! We shall be together forever and fight side by side." Ellington was so excited that he couldn't calm down. After experiencing the charm of money, it seemed that he also couldn't put down his chivalrous virtues. Could virtues give me exquisite armor and weapons? Could they give me a handsome and powerful steed? Could they give me fearless warriors who would never yield?"
Can't they? What's the use of virtue then? When I'm almost starving to death, am I supposed to rely on virtue to save my own people? Of course, Arlington absolutely doesn't think he has abandoned virtue; he just hides it in his heart and will remember it when needed.
"Come see! Buddy! What did I bring for you?" Ellington's infatuated smile made Li You Ran also somewhat expectant about what was in the carriage.
"Let's get stunned! The wonderful feeling from gold!" Ellington pulled the curtain open like a big teapot, and in an instant, yellow light illuminated the surroundings of the carriage, Li You Ran felt that his eyes were about to go blind!
Trembling with both hands, Li You Ran grasped a handful of gold coins and then slowly released them, watching as they fell into the pile of gold coins, listening to the pleasant sound. Li You Ran was drunk! The four hundred million in the bank had only excited him for a moment! Then it was more resentment, the impact far less than this carriage full of gold.
"Is all this earned from selling bread?" Li You Ran's voice was trembling! This was really too shocking, it was hard to believe what kind of appetite people in this world had! It was just bread! If they were to bring over the various cuisines from ****, wouldn't they go crazy?
"Ah! Of course! It's all because of the bread, just not all of it was sold." At this time, a hint of embarrassment appeared on Arlington's face.
Li You Ran noticed keenly and asked: "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"It's actually no big deal, it's just that the viscount has a reward in there, so it will be a little more." Elington immediately explained, seeing Li You Ran's suspicious gaze.
"Is it really just a gift? Why for no reason at all? Speak!" Li You Ran put away his shock towards the gold.
"Actually, Viscount is making a small request! Of course, it's a small request for the Law Master."
"Speak up, what are your demands." Li You Ran leaned against the carriage, leisurely tossing out gold coins one by one.
"This, actually, is Viscount wanting to join forces to sell bread together, so these gold coins are actually used as a deposit." Ellington stuttered and finished speaking, Li You Ran's face also turned black.
"This is going to snatch one's own business! Li You Ran frowned and said: "How did you talk to him? Didn't you tell him that you are already inside, and there is another me?"
"Fine, how could I not have said it! If it weren't for your mage identity, I would've been swallowed up already. What am I? I'm just a knight under his command, and even my fiefdom was given by him. My business is being taken over by him at any moment." Ellington complained with a bitter face.
"What use are you to me? I can work with the viscount on my own, anyway. His authority is greater and represents his greater ability, which means he can earn more gold coins."
A single sentence from Li You Ran thoroughly sent Airington into the abyss, and Airington, who had just experienced the life of a rich man, did not want to lose all of this.
"Oh no! You can't be serious! I...I think I'm absolutely more suited than Viscount." Ellington hastily explained.
"Speak up! What makes you more suitable?" At this moment, Li You Ran had an expression similar to that of Huang Shi Ren when he was forcing Yang Bai to pay his debts.
"First of all! First of all, that's right! Although I'm just a knight and don't have the same rights as a viscount, it's precisely because my power is not great that I won't dilute your profits! Moreover, if it were a viscount, he wouldn't spend so much money buying raw materials from you, and he would take the lion's share of the profit. You definitely wouldn't make as much, and once things develop to a certain scale, he would definitely cut ties with you, and very likely try to take you down for his own huge gain! I'm different, you can control me more easily! You're a wizard and I'm just a small knight! You can deal with me anytime!"
In an emergency, Ailington thought of a good reason and actually Li You Ran didn't mean to replace him, saying so was just to knock some sense into him, letting him dare not to randomly agree to people's conditions.
Li You Ran nodded after hearing Arlington's words and said: "Not bad! What you said makes sense! But do you think I'm afraid of that viscount?"
"You're certainly not afraid, but it's better to have one less trouble, isn't it?" Ellington also calmed down at this time and began to compromise.
"Exactly! So what do you think we should do now? How are we going to resolve the viscount's desire to invest?" Someone asked Erlington, also testing him.