Third Day

Chapter 33 Third Day

The third day of sales, every day we managed to sell more than the previous day. Almost half of the population has bought this drug, although I can't be sure they didn't bought it more than once. I heard from several guards who often patrol the town that there are some people who buy it more expensive from others, most of them are people who have a lot of money and did not got a chance to buy this medicine when waiting in line and can not wait until the next day, even some of them from the start did not want to queue and choose to buy from others.

"Selvi, is there another friend from the orphanage who currently unemployed? I want to recruit them to help prepare this medicine so we can sell more today. I want to finish selling it tomorrow because I have other business that I have to finish quickly."

"There are some people who are currently unemployed because their place of work was closed. Many businesses have closed because of this epidemic and the owner does not have money anymore, so they have lost their jobs."

"Can you recruit them to start working today, after all of this is done I plan to open more businesses and I will hire them as permanent employees."

"Alright Nine, I'll call them now. I am sure they will not refuse your offer because they need a job to be independent."

"If there are children who have entered the working age, you can invite them. You can start training them because I will need many new workers when I expand my business later."

"Nine, most of them are men. Is that okay?" Selvi asks after remembered something.

"That's not a problem, I'll buy a warehouse later. They can work in there if there are no more places, and if they can drive horse carriage they can work as porter to distribute the goods from warehouse to all the store."

"Alright then, I'll invite them here. I will also choose some children who can work and train them."

"Thank you."

Shortly after she left, Selvi returned with more than 10 people of the same age and 4 children aged around 14 to 15 years. I put 5 of them in Le Réseau and 5 in Spider Crypt. I leave it to Selvi and Depa to train the children because this is they first time working. With their help we can prepare more medicine than yesterday and we will finish it tomorrow.

After everything went smoothly, I returned to my room to read the report sent by Adelia after I asked her help to find some information yesterday.

The contents of this report are some information similar to what I heard from Selvi before. Many businesses in this town are closed due to the lack of customer during this outbreak, in addition there are several business owners whose money is all gone because of the treatment and fraud they experienced. They chose to sell their shop to pay off their debt, just like what Argus did before.

There are many choices of property with great locations, I have no trouble finding a suitable place for me to open a tavern and restaurant. Other than that, I also chose a building near the orphanage and I will turn it into a dojo for the children to practice. I can ask Mott and others to train them when I can't.

After that I went to the guild to ask for their help to convey my offer to buy some of those buildings to the owner. Apart from the building near the orphanage and the warehouse near the western gate, I bought several other property scattered in several places except in the aristocrat residential area, because I had not received any information about the property in there.

'If many businesses go bankrupt right now, I'm sure there are some property owned by rich people located in that area that are currently being sold, I should ask Adelia. If there is it will be a perfect place to open elite club that I planned before.'

"Adelia, are you busy right now?"

"Oh Mr. Nine, I'm not busy. Just prepare for a break, is there a problem with the report I gave you?"

"No, I just want to bother you a little bit more. Can you find me some information again about properties that are being sold in the aristocrat residential area, or that are close to that area."

"Alright, Mr. Nine, I'll look for it later." Adelia said while smiling.

'I have to give some gifts to Adelia later as a token of thanks, I've often asked for her help. Because I'm not very familiar with other employees, I just feel comfortable asking for help from her.'

"Thank you, I'll see you later this evening. You don't have to send it again."

I returned to Le Réseau to help Selvi and the others, today we managed to sell it to more than 1000 people. Based on estimates there are only about 1,000 people left who haven't bought this medicine, although I'm sure there will be more than that number. But I can't force them to buy it if they really don't want to, the longer I sell this drug I will only sell it to the same person. I'd better look for it myself later if there are people who still sick and give them medicine, especially those who don't have money.

In the afternoon I returned to the merchants' guild, I brought a bottle of vanilla perfume, roses and jasmine to Adelia as a token of gratitude

"Adelia, this is a gift for you. I have often bothered you, So I gave this gift as a token of thanks."

"Mr. Nine, you don't need to give me anything, this is my responsibility to help the guild members."

Even though she refused, I forced her to accept this perfume. I saw many Adelia's coworkers staring at her with envious eyes.

Then Adelia gave me the information i asked, after that i toured that area to see the properties in the information I got. There are 2 buildings that are being sold, the first building is a bit old and is in the middle of the settlement so it is not suitable for business. Meanwhile the second building is in a suitable place for business because it is a bit far so that it does not disturb the neighbors and the building is not too big. Apart from that, the building is close to the main road so it will make the delivery of logistics more easy, I just need to renovate it a little bit to make it suitable for business.

After that I checked the mansion given by Count Llyne, the building was not very big but the architecture was very luxurious. I feel uncomfortable to live there and it would be very strange to live in very large house alone.