Volume 7 Chapter 41: You’re Poor? What About Us?
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 7 Chapter 41: You''re Poor? What About Us?
<span style="font-weight:400">"Dalen, can I get cement and other stones as well?" Keith asked. Besides cleaning up the ind, the next thing he needed was materials.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you building something big?" Dalen blinked. If he needed to use cement, whatever he was building was huge.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m nning to make a pathway. So I must make a t base first to work with it." Before cing anything down, you needed a t base to level the area.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Do you need any help with it?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s fine. I got enough people on the ind to help me with this." The pathway was going to be a project with everyone.
<span style="font-weight:400">"But I will need help with the other things. Can I see what kind of stones you have?" The stone was going to make up most of the pathway.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Sure. We have a lot of different stones you can use." Dalenughed as there were a variety of stones before them.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you." Keith turned to Scarlet and Alfia, "Go ahead and choose something you like."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you sure?" Keith asked them toe with him. However, they didn''t think he would ask them to choose something like this.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Just pick a few that you guys like. I will choose something from the end of it." Keith wanted to see what they could work with.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Well, I don''t know anything about colors, so I''m out!" Herrick and Melor quickly walked away from there! What they were going to do was search for weapons. Leona followed after the lion-man.
<span style="font-weight:400">"We don''t really care so much about this," Gabriel and the others watched. It didn''t matter to them what it was.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Alright," Scarlet didn''t mind as she started to choose.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Woah, there''s a lot of different types here." Alfia and the others saw the samples that were shown. And there were rows around them!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmmm, there''s a lot." Keith nodded. He was surprised by the selection as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">"How about this?" Scarlet picked out a ck stone with red streaks on it.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I chose this one." Sarah also picked one out; it was a white stone.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Here''s mine." A green one from Alfia.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I was thinking about something like this." Faelyn picked a light grey stone.
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." Keith wanted tough, "You guys all have a different one you like." There were really no two ways about it. Each one was different from the other.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You told us to pick out the ones we like. What do you expect?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I know; that''s why I''m happy." That was what he wanted from the girls.
<span style="font-weight:400">"So, which one are you going to use?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"For starters, ck isn''t a good color for the pathway."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"It will make the ind hotter than it should be on a sunny day." The color ck absorbs heat.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Aww."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Green isn''t a viable color as well."
<span style="font-weight:400">"...Green is a good color."
<span style="font-weight:400">"It is. But too much green is going to kill it." They already had green with the grass. There was no need to add more.
<span style="font-weight:400">"White is a little too bright." If ck was the ultimate heat absorber, white was the opposite. It would be too bright when it''s hit with sunlight.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then what should we do?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m thinking about having all three of thembined."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Keith looked around before choosing a stone, "How about this one? It has all of your stones together." A slightly darker white as the base. Through the stone, streaks of ck and green mixed with it.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Pretty." The three stared at the stone.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What about mine?" Faelyn didn''t hear anything about Keith about her choice.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, I was thinking about having yours as the railing." It was easy to pair up with the other colors.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Okay." Faelyn was content.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Keith, are you sure you want that one?" Dalen blinked before slowly questioning his choice.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yes."
<span style="font-weight:400">"You understand it''s expensive, right? Like a square meter of that is more than 2 gold coins." Dalen exined. That caused everyone''s eyes to widen!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, sure." Keith handed some mithril coins over to him. He already figured out how much he needed. When they saw that, the others were just dumbfounded,
<span style="font-weight:400">"Keith, are you serious about this?" Gabriel couldn''t help but question.
<span style="font-weight:400">"There''s no need to spend so much!" Alfia and Scarlet were more direct. He just spent an enormous sum of coins!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh? It''s fine. I have more than enough to pay for it?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"How many coins do you have?!" The others knew about Keith being rich. He didn''t get his coins from anyone. He earned almost everything by himself.
<span style="font-weight:400">But it seemed they only scratched the surface!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Kinda lost count when I earned around 4 tinum a day." The average for one bakery was about 4 tinum a day. That was ounting for costs and taxes. And he opened more than 30 stores. So, he kinda didn''t know anymore. He stuffed all of it into a bank.
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." The others were speechless. You were that rich?!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, don''t forget about the cement and that stone, Dalen."
<span style="font-weight:400">Dalen chuckled, "Don''t worry. I know. You don''t have to worry about anything." How could he forget when he was such a rich patron.
<span style="font-weight:400">"But I need time to procure all of it."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Understood." Like that, they left the store.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...I can''t believe it. You wasted so many coins in a day." Everyone was still processing how much he had used.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What? Do you guys not use that much?" Keith blinked.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Of course not! Have you gone mad?!" Even Herrick and Melor had to retort!
<span style="font-weight:400">"But you guys are princes and princesses. Shouldn''t you guys be able to?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"That doesn''t mean we can use so many coins on the fly!"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"If my dad learned that I used so many coins, he would throw me out of the window!" Herrick didn''t need to guess; this was an absolute.
<span style="font-weight:400">"When my dad tried to use a mithril coin to buy something, my mother beat the snot out of him," Alfia added.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…Should you guys really be saying all of this?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Anyways, we''re not done. We need to get some wood as well!" Keith pumped his fist.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Say what?" You want to buy more?
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Of course. We need to build a farmhouse to put chickens and cows in. Also, we might need a ce for the smoker and such."
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." Everyone could only stare at him as he headed to another store.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...I feel so poor in front of him," Scarlet muttered.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You''re poor? What about us?" You guys are royalty, while we are only barons!