our family is gone

Chapter 163 Rat Street
"You see, when the time comes, you will say that the shop assistants deliberately treated customers badly, and did not maintain the firearms, which caused the goods in your shop to be unsold and rusted and scrapped in large numbers."

"Don't worry, I will report back to the college. Anyway, many students have already been dismissed, and he is not a bad one."

The store manager agreed with all his heart. At this time, he was also a little excited. He usually sells a little bit. Now that the business is completed, although he has to manage it up and down, the profit is worth his one-year salary.

Lance and the store manager talked casually and decided a person's future.

He is such a big man, he should be responsible for his actions~
"Eliminate the students? Did something happen?"

After the transaction was over, Lance did not leave in a hurry, but asked the store manager.

Sure enough, the store manager couldn't help complaining when he heard this.

"I heard that the college's funding was cut. I don't know the specific reason. Anyway, the fact is that the scale of the workshop has been reduced. Many students have been dismissed, and the remaining students, just like the one just now, need to undertake work.

This kid should have good grades to get such an easy job. More students are entering the workshop, because some craftsmen have also been fired. Fortunately, our firearms side is okay, mainly the people on the cannon casting side. "

Lance understood something when he heard this. No wonder this guy looked down on people so much. He turned out to be a college student. He would be able to get a good job no matter whether he entered the army or relied on his academic qualifications. He would naturally be psychologically higher than ordinary people. It seems to have entered the upper circle.

But now he is forced to suspend his studies. If he wants to come here to look at the store, it's no wonder he looks like someone owes him.

However, Lance saw deeper information. That battle should have been concealed, at least ordinary people didn't know they were defeated.

Originally used as a test, the Gunnery Corps, which used the best equipment, did not perform well in actual combat, so feedback to the upper echelons of the eastern provinces must reduce related funds.

Factional struggles exist no matter when and where, and the military expenditure is only so much. The increase in funding for your emerging guns and artillery units over the years must have touched some other traditional interest groups.

Now the unlucky nature is to go up and bite, and take back that piece of cake.

It can be said that the artillery and the academy will definitely be attacked, and the reduction in funding reflects the shrinking of related industries that were originally thriving in a short period of time.

Those students and craftsmen are nothing more than floating dust under the political game of big shots.

But he was interested in these floating dust.

Lance asked the store manager about the craftsmen on the grounds that he needed someone to help repair the weapon.

It's just a pity that he didn't know, and he didn't usually have any contact with those craftsmen, but he still left a place for Lance.

It's not a craftsman's association, but a tavern that craftsmen love to go to.

【Stove Tavern】

Founded by a blacksmith who likes to drink, it was originally just a gathering of friends, but slowly developed into a gathering place for craftsmen.

After confirming the password with the store manager, Lance left here, but he didn't go directly to the tavern to inquire.

Now is not the time, it will be lively at night, so that he can find useful clues.

Now he is going to a very special place in Barton's mouth - [Rat Street]

Before the second expansion of Totnes, the central city was actually the outer city of the year, and the environment at that time was naturally not as it is today.

Prosperous business activities inevitably spawn dark side sales channels, commonly known as the black market.

Because of its special nature, those people are not very visible, so they are called sewers, and most of the people who enter and exit are also called rat people.

Until the expansion of the urban reform later, the authorities did not crack down on it. On the contrary, they made certain reservations. One can imagine who is standing behind it?
Anyway, it has gradually developed into a rather special place in Midtown.

A semi-open black market with no sheriff, but very stable.

Barton said that one of the five legends of Totnes is [Treasure of Rat Street], because some good things often flow out, and extraordinary items are not uncommon, and some people reach the sky in one step.

This legendary place certainly attracts many curious, or people with unrealistic fantasies.

The same is true for Lance today, wanting to visit Duobao Street in this Western fantasy novel.

Entering it, those buildings are basically not much different from the surrounding ones, only a mouse sign hangs on the street to indicate that he has entered the range.

The flow of people on the street is more than that in the business district. Not only are the locals, Lance also found many obvious foreigners in it, and there are great differences in clothing, skin color and appearance.

I am afraid that this scene of fusion can only be seen here in the entire continent.

There are all kinds of stalls on both sides of the street, a piece of red cloth is spread on the ground, and the shopkeeper squats aside, asking the price of the people passing by.

If you approach it casually, you can see that the things displayed on the red cloth are more and more bluffing, as well as some antiques with unknown meanings.

"Look, this is here... It's quite exquisite and beautiful. As for this kind of antique, he can't make it by counterfeiting. He can make this shape, but he can't make this rust."

"I don't want more from you." The uncle gestured to the guest, and asked the price seriously: "Eighty thousand!"

The stall owner was making up a story while picking up something for a customer, while a man pretending to be a customer opened his mouth to echo.

"This is a good thing! If it's sold for less than [-] yuan, it's a pity that I don't have enough money. Brother, why don't we get it together and go to the auction house..."

With the joint efforts of the boss and Tuozi, those who don't know may be fooled.

But you have to know that Lance has a background in archaeology, and he can probably understand that the stuff is at most last week at most, not as old as the red cloth.

Not to mention the goosebumps from the top of the head to the heels after listening to those words, and he was too embarrassed to stand up.

A lot of fake and shoddy products are used to deceive tourists and ordinary people with dreams of getting rich.

Originally, he had a sense of novelty about Mouse Street, but he wiped it out in an instant.

Isn't this a fucking scam of fake antiques at street stalls?
What about the mysterious black market in another world?
Return my fantasy of another world~
Lance didn't say what to wear, but left silently. Smart people won't be fooled, and even if an idiot points out the problem, he will only think that he is also interested, and will cause trouble instead.

Not interested in these, I turned to look at the shops on both sides of the street, and found that there are various pawn shops here.

And these paved ones can't run around like those street stalls, so they are a lot more restrained, and most of the shelves and cabinets are genuine.

(End of this chapter)