Chapter 190: The Citizens of Thunder City Have Never Been So Crazy

Almost at the same time that Mr. Kelin became famous, the name "Nest of Shadow Weaving" also became famous in the Queen District of Thunder City.

Because Mr. Kelin's pickiness about life quality had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, coupled with his status as an Imperial noble, no one felt that he was pretentious.

On the contrary, the residents of Queen Street only felt that the life they lived before was simply on the same level as the pigs on the farm.

This is of course an exaggerated metaphor, but it basically reflects their subconscious reaction after catching a glimpse of what "true high society" lives like.

Of course.

The main reason is that the citizens of Thunder City do have the financial resources to pursue higher life quality.

Although the income of the vast majority of people in this city is below 20 silver coins, the wealth held by the upper class far exceeds the imagination of ordinary people.

If the same drama was staged in Silver Pine Town, it would definitely not have so many people to support it, but this is the Queen District, the richest place in the entire Thunder City.

The hotel that Andor spent less than twenty thousand gold coins to build was sold for fifty thousand gold coins, and he is not considered the richest person in this city.

If it weren't for the fact that precious metal currency has a deflationary attribute, the gold coins in the pockets of the tycoons in the same class as him would have to add another 0.

You know, the military expenses of Grand Duke Campbell are not contributed by those poor ghosts with a monthly income of less than 20 silver coins.

The latter is mainly responsible for sacrificing their lives for their ideals.

Just like now, they are mainly responsible for contributing saliva and volume for Mr. Kelin's story.

Just like that, the name "Nest of Shadow Weaving" became the second topic of conversation for the citizens of Thunder City after Mr. Kelin.

Viral marketing spread through the streets and alleys of Thunder City, and all this was superimposed with rumors about the Kelin family's huge wealth and fief.

Lunch break, tea house near the wharf, porters working at the nearby wharf gathered under the sign at the door.

Here, they provide hot black tea for 3 copper coins a cup and smoked meat sausage for 12 copper coins. For them, whose income is relatively considerable, it is a good choice to replenish physical strength. The only drawback is that the storefront of this shop is too small and there are no seats, so all guests have to eat standing up.

Looking at the purple moon flag drifting in the distance, almost everyone couldn't suppress their raised eyebrows, as if they saw the beautiful future of Thunder City.

As if that beautiful future had a lot to do with them.

"... If the Kelin family intends to open their market to the port of Thunder City, the economy of Thunder City will definitely be able to rise to another level!"

A young man who was tall and thin was full of pride, talking eloquently to his fellow workers around him.

Those slightly narrowed eyes were full of the optimism and stubbornness unique to young people, and his hands full of scratches and calluses were the only things on his whole body that were different from his age.

The slightly older porter beside him took a sip of black tea, his eyes also slightly narrowed, but there was more fatigue and vicissitudes engraved on the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes.

"But why would he do this? That gentleman is a noble of the Empire, doesn't the Aus Empire have ports?"

That gentleman had almost become a synonym for Mr. Kelin; not long ago, only the Andes family had this treatment.

The young man smiled and said.

"The Empire is no longer short of colonies, the market there has long been saturated. On the contrary, the Lain Kingdom doesn't have a single colony, and the Campbell Principality is even more so. They are the New World to us, and we are also the New World to them!"

When saying this, he paused for a moment, drank the hot tea in the cup in one breath, and said energetically.

"Not to mention that we have a huge and cheap labor force! There are a lot of people outside the city waiting to enter the city, not only refugees from the Twilight Province, but also the farmland of those lords!"

The hot tea turned into a warm current in his stomach, warming his whole body, making him feel that his whole body was full of endless power.

Although it didn't take long for that warm current to turn into an urge to urinate, shivering that endless power out of his body again.

The lunch break ended soon.

The guests at the entrance of the tea house scattered like seagulls, went to the various cargo ships parked beside the wharf on time, and got busy under the shouting of the foremen.

At this time, a loud whistle broke the silence of the port, and an ocean-going cargo ship docked under the gaze of countless eyes.

At first, people just gave it a salute subconsciously and didn't pay much attention to it, until mattresses that looked familiar were dragged off the deck, which made them completely stunned in place, unable to move their surprised eyes.

These "rare goods" were quickly unloaded and moved to the vicinity of the warehouse, and quickly attracted the attention of people with active minds.

A shopkeeper who looked about forty years old and dressed decently walked to the entrance of the warehouse and curiously talked to the man unloading the goods.

"Friend, is it convenient to ask? Where are you from?"

The man responsible for unloading was very dull, didn't pay attention to his words, and turned and walked away without even looking at him, so that the copper coins he held in his hand had no chance to bribe.

Just when the shopkeeper was puzzled, a young man walked over.

The man's skin was tanned, about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, and he looked like he was in his early thirties, and it could be seen that he had experienced a lot of wind and sun.

"Who are you? What are you doing at the entrance of our warehouse?"

Being shouted by that voice, the shopkeeper's waist stiffened, he smiled guiltily, and said embarrassedly.

"My name is Hardin, I am the owner of a nearby tailor shop, just curious to come and see... I don't know what to call you, boss?"

While saying this, Hardin handed out a cigar.

Looking at the cigar handed over, the man who was originally aggressive suddenly beamed with joy, accepted it silently, and then continued.

"Beaumont, I'm not the boss here, our boss is someone else. As for Kelin, we did come from the Kelin family's fief, but we are not that master's people, he can't look down on our small business."

"Business?" The shopkeeper Hardin's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Have you found buyers for these mattresses?"

The tanned man lit the cigar and said casually.

"The nobles of the Lain Kingdom ordered a batch, and we will handle the rest locally."

In order to prevent losses in ocean trade, generally, such cargo ships will carry more on the ship and sell them nearby after arriving at the local port.

This is also the only channel for good things that only royal families can use to flow into the folk.

Hardin's eyes suddenly became fiery, releasing a scorching light, as if he saw piles of gold.

Almost subconsciously, he blurted out.

"How much?! I can buy it!"

The tanned man didn't be ambiguous, opened five fingers and said.

"Ten gold coins."

"Ten gold coins?!"

"That's right, ten gold coins each, don't think it's expensive, the springs inside are not removed from the machine tool, but polished by craftsmen by hand!"

Looking at the guy talking eloquently in front of him, Hardin widened his eyes and blurted out, "Why don't you go rob?!"

To tell the truth, this guy's face does look a bit like a pirate, so much so that he was a bit scared in his heart.

The tanned man grinned, exhaled a smoke ring, and said dashingly.

"If you can't afford it, stay on the side, it wasn't meant for you anyway."

Hardin gritted his teeth and turned and left silently.

However, he didn't really leave, and didn't even leave the port, but went straight to the Port District Bank without even turning.

He didn't bring that much cash on him!

And just at this time, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him, making him stop and look back subconsciously.

That person is none other than.

It is his peer, Jode, the owner of Rebecca Boutique!

I saw the old man open his throat, his eyes looked like they were spitting out, and he shouted with full momentum.

"How much are these mattresses?! I want them all!!"

Not every spring mattress comes from the "Nest of Shadow Weaving," but this does not prevent the citizens of Thunder City from chasing these novel things.

The mattresses that cost ten gold coins each were quickly sold out, and those who didn't grab them stood on the wharf in disappointment, sighing and annoyed.

Those sighs were not all because they didn't become the second person to eat crabs, but more because they missed the opportunity to make a fortune.

Because it didn't take long for the price of these novel things to double and appear in several of the most famous high-end tailor shops in Thunder City.

Including the Rebecca Boutique operated by Jode, it is the largest distributor among them.

Although the excited Mr. Jode failed to buy all the goods, he still made up his mind to buy a full one hundred pieces and hired people to carefully carry them back to the store!

For this, he even spared no effort to borrow a huge sum of 1000 gold coins from the Andes family's bank.

And this investment also quickly paid off.

Almost at the same time that the batch of mattresses was moved into the store, the servant of Baron Guss in Silver Pine Town stepped into his store.

Since yesterday, this guy had been sent by his own master, ordering him to spare no effort to get a set of bedding back that was the same as Prince Kelin.

This is not just for showing off at the banquet, but more importantly, to entertain the Princess who is about to arrive at the Baron's fief!

In order not to let the master be disappointed in himself, this poor servant had been searching on the street for a while, and now he finally saw the hope of finishing the job!

Although these mattresses are not the brand "Nest of Shadow Weaving," they don't look bad, and they are imported from Mr. Kelin's fief anyway!

Just like that, the mattress that Jode bought for ten gold coins was sold to the first buyer for twenty gold coins.

Nearly 100% profit made the shopkeepers at the port of Thunder City crazy, and they didn't hesitate to pay a higher price to buy goods from the shelves of their peers, and then move them to their own shelves to resell.

The asymmetry of supply and demand generated huge profits.

Seeing the broad business opportunities, smart craftsmen soon thought of imitation, but although their ideas were good, the craftsmanship in them made them helpless.

In fact, it's not just craftsmanship, without the spring steel produced by the Great Cemetery, they couldn't restore it even if they mastered the production craftsmanship.

The technical gap between the two sides is no longer at the craftsmanship level, but at the material level, so much so that Jode, who gritted his teeth and dismantled a mattress to study carefully, couldn't help but gasp after touching the springs inside—

This is simply paving the bed with gold!

If these springs were really handmade, then the purchase price of ten gold coins is indeed not expensive, he even felt it was too cheap!

At the same time, on the street of Queen Street, Sokdo, who happened to pass by, looked at the mattresses being snatched up, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Especially when he saw the label hanging on the back of the display cabinet, he was stunned and speechless.

"Crazy... really crazy!" He muttered in his mouth, and it took a long time to recover from the shock.

There are two main reasons for his shock.

One is that he didn't expect the people in this city to be richer than he imagined. It's fine to spend five gold coins to buy a watch, but they are willing to spend four times the price of a watch on a mattress that can't be shown off!

As for the other reason that shocked him, it was that he seemed to have seen the thing somewhere.

He recalled carefully before he suddenly remembered that in the hotel in Beifeng City at that time, there seemed to be similar mattresses on the bed he slept in?!

It's just that because there were too many things that shocked his eyes at that time, he subconsciously ignored that most inconspicuous feature.

"A mattress for 20 gold coins... where did they get so much money." The apprentice standing beside him couldn't help but mutter.

"This is Queen Street, the richest place in Thunder City... We should have come here to open the market, it was really careless!" Sokdo's face was half jealousy and half emotion.

He thought he was very business-minded, but after this comparison, he found that his pattern was not high enough.

And at the same time, another question couldn't help but arise in his heart—who is this Mr. Kelin?

Why did the specialties of Beifeng City appear in the fleet of Imperial nobles.

Or, are the things he sold actually not specialties of Beifeng City, and the Demon King in the labyrinth is also imitating the products of the Empire?

He hadn't been to an Imperial city for more than ten years, so he didn't know what it looked like now, and he had no impression of the nobles there.

And when he thought of this, another confusion arose in his heart unconsciously—

Even he, a merchant who often travels north and south, doesn't know what fresh things the Empire has come up with recently, why does that Demon King know?

Sokdo would never have thought that Mr. Kelin and the Demon King were actually the same person, and he didn't think in that direction at all.

After all, the Demon King appeared in Thunder City in a big way. No matter how you say it, it's too incredible. People with normal brains wouldn't think so.

What's more, the ship parked in the port is not fake.

Reading the original text!

All signs indicate that Mr. Kelin does come from a distant colony, and is a noble with a huge fief and strong strength.

Sokdo was puzzled, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the "Dawn's Embrace" hotel that was in the limelight in the distance.

Perhaps he should go there and stay for a night.

If he can still book a room now...

Sokdo is destined to be disappointed.

As early as last night, the rooms in the Dawn's Embrace Hotel were fully booked, and even lined up to next month.

Among them, there is no lack of rural nobles like Baron Guss who live around Thunder City. In order to squeeze into high society, they don't hesitate to spend a lot of money, and it happens that their ancestors' accumulation allows them to bear that exaggerated premium.

In addition to Baron Guss, there are local tycoons in the Queen District, or middle-class people who are about to step into high society.

For example, Miss Lucy Baker, who is still unwilling to give up.

She swore to make the servant beside Mr. Kelin who made her look ugly pay the price, for example, by becoming her mistress.

And Mr. Andor also supported his ambitious daughter with both hands, not only helping her book a room, but even wishing he could sell his soul to the succubus of Hell in exchange for magic that bewitches people's hearts for his daughter.

There are many people who have the same idea as him.

And just as Luo Yan said to the hotel staff at the beginning, no one would care about this gold coin room fee at all.

From the moment he moved in, the Dawn's Embrace Hotel was no longer a hotel, but became "Mr. Kelin's Audience Hall."

Or a palace.

Even Mr. Andor, who once operated the Dawn's Embrace Hotel, felt that this ticket was too cheap!

He only wished it could be more expensive, preferably blocking all other competitors!

Regardless of how fanatical the upstarts like Andor Baker are, the families with real heritage on Queen Street are also moving.

They didn't dream of stuffing their family members into the other party's genealogy, because they knew very well that this was impossible.

A noble of the Empire with pure blood could never marry a girl from a rural noble family, and isn't the Campbell Principality just the countryside to the Empire?

The only possibility of sticking a hot face up is to become the other party's mistress, and they are not upstarts who have just become rich, so they can't afford to lose this person.

Perhaps the Campbell family has that opportunity, after all, the hero's bloodline is worth collecting, at least it won't make the other party ashamed.

And the place where these families with real strength are moving is exactly here.

They can let the Campbell family try the depth of the other party and see what kind of reaction this Mr. Kelin will have in front of the "Light of Praise."

If the Kelin family can establish a close relationship with the Campbell family, they will not lose out under the shelter of the Campbell family.

Moreover, they can take this opportunity to test and see how much color this Kelin family has.

I believe that with the vision of Princess Ailin Campbell, she won't be fooled by a guy who is swindling...

In the manor in the center of the rich area of Thunder City, in the spacious reception room.

Ailin Campbell, sitting in front of the walnut table, said with a smile.

"Mr. Andes, thank you for your gift. Last night I had the most stable and comfortable sleep in this month."

Standing not far from the fireplace, Yang Andes nodded slightly, as respectful as a servant.

"It is our honor to be favored by Princess Campbell."

"Mr. Andes is polite," Ailin nodded with a smile and continued, "Speaking of which, I am curious, what is that mattress made of? Why is it so soft."

Andes smiled faintly and said respectfully.

"That is something transported from Mr. Kelin's fief. It is said to be called a spring mattress, built by hundreds of craftsmen through hundreds of procedures, and its precision is no less than that of exquisitely designed steam engines and clocks."

Ailin was silent for a long time and let out a sigh.

"This thing is probably not cheap."

"It is indeed not cheap, but I think there is a reason for it to be expensive," Yang Andes nodded slightly, paused for a moment, and said respectfully, "Just like the brand motto of the Nest of Shadow Weaving, special people need special care."

He liked this sentence very much, so he remembered it immediately, just in time to dedicate it to the most special guest in this city.

"I am very grateful for your enthusiasm, but I think it is not just special people who need care," Ailin nodded lightly, expressed her gratitude politely, and then changed the subject and continued, "May I ask how the preparation for the evening party is going?"

"Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to your requirements."

Looking at Princess Ailin with a smile on her face, Andes paused for a moment, and then continued in a respectful tone.

"In addition, regarding your evening party, there is one thing that I would like to ask you to take action... After my repeated consideration, only you are the most suitable for this matter."

Ailin said with a smile.

"You're welcome, please speak, after all, this is for my evening party, it's me who is embarrassed to cause you trouble."

"Please don't say that, it is the honor of the Andes family to serve you, this is definitely not any trouble for me."

Andes bowed respectfully, paused for a moment, and explained the purpose of his visit.

"I think you have already heard about Mr. Kelin. At present, the entire high society of Thunder City is full of interest in this noble from the Empire. I want to ask Princess to write a letter to invite this guest from afar to attend your evening party. I think this will not only make other guests in the evening party respond more actively to your good deeds, but also enhance the friendship between the Campbell Principality and the Kelin family."

Theresa, standing on the side, frowned slightly.

This sentence sounded a bit presumptuous to her, and she didn't know the background of the so-called Kelin family. No one could be sure whether it was a real noble.

However, the noble Princess Ailin didn't care, listened to his appeal seriously, and after thinking for a long time, said.

"I actually had this plan, but I couldn't decide rashly because of my status... First of all, are you sure he is a noble of the Empire?"

Andes nodded and replied respectfully.

"His fief doesn't look fake, and according to the investigation of my servant, the port is indeed parked with an ocean-going cargo ship from the New World."

He didn't answer Princess Ailin's question directly, because he actually wasn't sure whether Mr. Kelin's title was true or false.

In fact, this is also one of the reasons why he wants Princess to send this invitation.

He hopes that this Princess can play the role of a touchstone. After all, she is a member of the royal family. Even if her management ability is limited, her vision will not be bad.

If that guy's title is fake, he will show his feet in front of the real royal family in minutes.

Andes was calculating this in his heart.

Seeing the convinced expression on the face of his brother's right-hand man, Ailin Campbell's slightly frowned eyebrows also relaxed a little.

The territory of the Empire is too vast, the rule of Emperor Peter has lasted for thousands of years, and there are countless nobles. If it is a low-key and deep-rooted family, it is normal not to have heard of it.

Just like most nobles of the Empire, if they are not keen on studying "History of Sheng Xisi Religion" or obsessed with poetry, they may not have heard that there is a Campbell Principality on the northeast coast of the Whirlpool Sea. Not everyone is keen on being exposed to the spotlight.

Sharing the glory of the Emperor is a dangerous thing.

She forgot who she heard it from, but the high society of the Empire does have such maxims circulating.

After thinking for a moment, Ailin nodded lightly.

"Since this is the case, then I will write an invitation letter to him personally."

Andes showed a happy smile on his face and said in a respectful tone.

"Thank you for considering the Campbell Principality, Grand Duke Edward will definitely appreciate your behavior if he knows."

Ailin Campbell smiled when she heard this, didn't take this sentence to heart, but felt a bit melancholy in her heart.

She actually hoped that her brother would think so, but ever since she took the sword from her father's hand, everything changed.

Not just her eldest brother.

Her second brother is the same.

The secret competition between the two sides led to the fall of several shining stars, and even caused the turmoil of the upper power of the Campbell Principality.

However, she is a person who knows the big picture, didn't write that trace of melancholy that shouldn't be on her face, just smiled and said.

"This little thing is not worth mentioning to me, a minister like you is the real pillar of the Campbell Principality."

Andes bowed humbly, but smiled noncommittally in his heart.

Pillar?

It would be more appropriate to say it's a fat sheep.

For hundreds of years, the Campbell family has never looked at them, these merchants without titles, straight, and the Grand Duke Edward who just ascended the throne is an exception.

Of course, this situation cannot last forever, just like the never-falling Brass Pass is now crumbling.

One day they will stand on the stage of history, and intuition tells him that this day probably won't take too long, perhaps it will come soon.

"Borrow your auspicious words, I hope there will be such a day."

Didn't take this polite remark to heart, Ailin said with a calm smile.

"You are too modest, I think this day has come."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 191 =====