Niujiao Town, whose name is "dirt and dregs", sounds more earthy than Tieshan Town, but this is a real town, much larger than Tieshan town and slightly larger than rich Yanshi town.

Niujiao town is located in the main traffic road. The Lord is Viscount gassack. The gassack family has operated here for five generations. There are city walls and sentry soldiers outside the town. There are more than 4000 leading people living in the town, just like a small city.

After paying the poll tax, he entered the town. It was afternoon when he found Denison\'s residence. He is the guild president of the wine merchants in Niujiao town. If you find him, you will find your business license.

Denison is a small man of about 40 years old. According to visual inspection, his height is no more than 1.5 meters. He has dark red curly hair, full cheeks and beard, and a pair of light brown eyes, showing the merchant\'s unique worldly sophistication and cunning.

After reading the count\'s letter, Denison showed an unpredictable smile on his face. He first looked at worm and asked, "are you Remus?"

Worm didn\'t respond. His eyes were looking elsewhere. As long as he got to a crowded place, worm became gloomy and irritable.

Donison didn\'t care about worm\'s attitude. Instead, he asked Manda, "your name is nidali?"

Manda nodded, pointed to worm and said, "he\'s my father."

Remus and nidali are pseudonyms given to them by the count. Their nominal relationship is father and son.

Donison read the letter again, shook his head and said, "do you want to run a tavern? This is not a good idea. Look at your father\'s face, there will be no guests. It\'s better to sell animals."

This is also a pertinent suggestion. The cattle market in Niujiao town is very famous. Farmers in surrounding villages and towns come here to buy and sell cattle, and many nobles also come here to do animal business. The mainstream business market is clear, and Manda really plans to change careers.

But worm suddenly said, "we\'re going to open a tavern."

The gloomy tone seemed irresistible. Denison shrugged and took out a deed.

"There is an old shop in the west of the town. It has been doing the business of the tavern for decades. The owner moved to Jinguang city last year. Because he left in a hurry, he handed over the tavern to me. The price is easy to discuss. Only 25 gold coins. If you like, I\'ll take you to the tavern now."

Twenty five gold coins? Are you kidding? In Tieshan Town, twenty gold coins are enough to buy a manor.

Manda was about to make a counter-offer, but saw worm take out his money bag, count out twenty-five gold coins and hand them to Denison.

This frightened Denison: "you haven\'t seen the tavern yet..."

"Yes," cried Manda, "at least look at it and give me the money!"

Worm touched Manda\'s head and said, "listen to Dad."

……

The tavern was far from Denison\'s residence, and it was dusk. Judging from the scale of the building alone, the 25 gold coins are worth it. The four buildings form a spacious courtyard. On the front is a three-story building. The first floor is a hall, the second floor is a single room, and the third floor is a guest room. Obviously, this is the main part of the tavern.

On the left of the yard is the barn and forage room, on the right is the warehouse, and behind it is a two-story building where the shopkeeper lives.

The whole area of the tavern is almost the same as that of viscount Claude Sai\'s castle. Of course, the construction quality can not be compared. The castle is made of large flat stones, and these buildings are similar to the farmer\'s long house. The wood is made into a frame, and the clay and stone are built into a wall. Several small holes are opened in the wall, which is barely counted as windows.

It\'s a big place, but it\'s too remote. Standing on the third floor, you can\'t see ten families. There are broken bricks and stones everywhere, like the wreckage of a large building.

Manda squinted at Denison: "can you do business in such a place?"

Donison sighed: "this used to be a good place. If you spent 70 gold coins five years ago, you might not be able to buy this tavern,

See that pile of stones? It used to be the temple of Ares. The soldiers who come here to sacrifice every year are enough to fill the tavern every day. The wine in the tavern is not even enough for their sacrifice,

Until the temple was demolished, many soldiers secretly came to offer sacrifices. Soldiers are always a little stubborn,

Later, they were discovered by the divine Punisher. You should know what the consequences are. There are still many burning columns there. Moreover, not only the soldiers but also the civilians living around them were burned by the divine Punisher. After more than a year of blood washing, no one dared to live here. "

Looking at the sunset, Manda nodded solemnly: "what a sad memory, but what does it have to do with me? There\'s no business here!"

Denison spread out his hands: "I can change a place for you, but if you want to think clearly, when you get to the most prosperous street in the town, 50 gold coins may not be able to buy a tavern, and it\'s not half as big as here."

"What\'s the matter with a small point? It\'s only suitable for being a cemetery!"

Manda turned to go downstairs, but worm accepted Denison\'s deed.

"We\'ll choose here."

"What are you doing here..."

"Listen to Dad." worm touched Manda\'s head again.

……

Denison left. When he left, he deliberately inserted a wooden pole with leaves into the door of the tavern, which is even a sign for the tavern.

"Remember, you have to pay 30 silver coins a year!"

Thirty silver coins? This rotten place can\'t earn ten silver coins a year.

Manda came to the hall with a candle, endured the pungent dust and checked the remaining belongings in the tavern.

From dusk to dark, he searched for almost an hour. He found nothing but grass and a nest of mice.

Not even a barrel of wine was left. It seems that the former shopkeeper was quite embarrassed.

Manda calculated the supplies of the tavern. She had to buy a wine cabinet, some wine barrels and wine glasses. Even the cheapest wooden wine glasses needed two copper coins, lamp racks, candles and curtains. She almost forgot that there was a guest room upstairs, where there was no bed and bedding

They ate some bread with the well water. They slept in the hall all night. The next day, Manda went to town to buy money.

The count only gave them the capital of 30 gold coins, spent 25 gold coins on the tavern, and had to leave at least three gold coins to buy grain for the valley next month.

All things can only be bought at the cheapest price. Fortunately, Manda has good eyes. She bought back a batch of furniture and wine sets with 60 silver coins, spent 20 copper coins, hired two women workers and cleaned the tavern up and down.

The wine cabinet and barrel stood by the wall, and large and small wine glasses were placed on the counter. The tavern finally took on some shape. Manda added some firewood to the fire pond and was waiting for the guests to come, but suddenly realized a serious problem. There was no wine here.

What pubs do you open without wine? Manda was going to buy some cheap ale in town, but she saw a carriage parked at the door, and the coachman was looking into the tavern.

Manda smiled awkwardly, "we haven\'t opened yet."

"I\'m not here to drink," the coachman waved again and again. "Donison called me. He said I could come here to sell grapes."

Grape? Raw materials for brewing?

Manda lifted the curtain of the car, and the fragrance of grapes came to her nostrils.

"It\'s a good grape. It\'s a full 800 pounds. It\'s only five silver coins."

Manda made a cockfighting eye, stared at the grapes for a while, shook her head and said, "I won\'t give you more than two silver coins."

"Young master, look carefully at the quality of the grapes. If it weren\'t for Denison\'s sake, I wouldn\'t sell seven silver coins."

"If you don\'t sell it, you\'ll take it away. Please convey dunison\'s kindness to me."

Grapes are good grapes. If you ask for three silver coins, Manda will bear it, but the other party has no intention of making a counter-offer at all, and still depends on donison\'s relationship.

Isn\'t this a forced buy and sell? How can Manda suffer such a loss? He was trying to teach the coachman a lesson, but saw worm come out and directly count out five silver coins and give them to the coachman.

The coachman took the silver coin and unloaded the car happily. Manda sighed, "listen to your father, right?"

Worm nodded and said, "Dad is going to make wine. Don\'t go near the warehouse, or I\'ll mix your blood in the wine."

"What\'s good about wine making?" Manda snorted, took the candle and went back to the hall and began to sort out her notes for the past two days.

Favorable factors:

After escaping the count\'s surveillance, you can find a chance to try the sacrifice method.

Adverse factors:

I don\'t know how to arrange Hermes\'s altar.

If you don\'t have enough money to spend and can\'t make ends meet, life will be very difficult.

Short term objectives:

Try to buy a sacred object through sacrifice.

Medium term objectives:

Find ways to promote second-order believers.

Before the room was ready, Manda slept another night in the hall. The next morning, he was awakened by an animal dealer.

"Do you have any wine?"

"No!" Manda wrapped the blanket unhappily. In early winter, the residual temperature in the blanket was very precious.

"I smell it. Don\'t you want to do business?"

Taste? Manda sniffed, and a clear smell of wine inspired him.

He trotted to the yard and saw two wine barrels in front of the warehouse, emitting an irresistible mellow fragrance.

"Sell it!" worm\'s voice came from the warehouse.

"It\'s even open?" Manda seemed to see a bright future.

Worm didn\'t speak, but there was laughter from the warehouse. This was the first time Manda heard worm\'s laughter.

Manda touched the barrel, turned her eyes and said, "you can\'t rush to do business. The first glass of wine should be dedicated to the gods."

Worm came out of the warehouse and whispered, "do you want to sacrifice Typhon here?"

"If you want to sacrifice Typhon, you have to go back to the valley. Here we are businessmen," Manda smiled. "Think about it. Who is the protector of businessmen?"

Worm said, "to sacrifice Hermes? But there is no statue of him here."

"Do you want to be burned by the divine Punisher?" Manda lowered her voice to the lowest. "An altar is enough. The most important thing is piety."