Chapter 103 The number one salted fish seller

Author: Director Wei

Chapter 103 The number one salted fish seller

Leaving from the orphanage, Ted bought some Muggle items as a gift for his wizard friends and returned to the Broken Cauldron Bar.

"Old Tom, see what good things I have brought to you?" Ted held up an exquisite porcelain wine bottle.

"Well~ This is..." Old Tom asked himself about his wine tasting for decades, but he really didn't know what wine it was.

Ted shook the porcelain bottle in his hand, "Chen Dynasty specialty, Lao Baigan~"

Ted has lived in the magic world for more than a year, especially his working experience in Diagon Alley, which gave him a deep feeling about prices.

Many things in the magic world are more expensive than those in the Muggle world, or even much more expensive.

This is not difficult to understand - the difference in productivity.

It’s like making wine. Although wizards can use magic assistance, many aspects are indispensable.

How can their family-style wineries be compared to modern wineries?

People produce wine in tons! The price is naturally much cheaper.

Of course, Ted’s gifts to friends are not just for the sake of cheapness, but mainly for the sake of freshness!

More than 70% of wizards have hardly ever been exposed to the Muggle world.

They don’t even know the process of buying tickets on the bus or taking the subway. A ticket gate will probably be blocked by two hours. So they don’t know anything about the products of the Muggle World.

Like Ron, eating the variety of candies Ted bought from the Muggle Candy Store, so sweet that he has to swallow his tongue!

...

In the evening, Ted returned to his room and did not open the book to study, but leaned against the head of the bed to start thinking.

He had an idea last year - to set up a second-hand trading platform in Diagon Alley!

It is not the kind of second-hand store, but a platform similar to salted fish.

This industry feels very interesting ~

Many second-hand items in the magic world are very valuable.

Because magic will not depreciate rapidly in a few years or more.

Therefore, magic items will not depreciate for a short time.

It has long-term value.

However, it may not be useful for a long time.

For example, there is an automatic weeder at home.

As a result, the house has no lawn now, and it has been converted into a vegetable garden.

You said you lost it, it was too wasteful. If you kept it, it would not be necessary for many years and it would take up space.

If you sell second-hand goods, the price reduction in second-hand stores is very serious. Sometimes you can’t even pay one-tenth of the price of the item.

The reason why there are many second-hand stores is because they have great benefits.

Of course, not everyone can open such a store.

You are like the boss of the Weasley family, Bill. He is a spell solver in Gringot, Egypt.

What is the position of a curse solver?

It is a wizard who specializes in cracking magic and curses. It has very high requirements and even has considerable risks.

That was just the curse solvers of the Gringott, such as those dangerous magic item recycling stores, such as the Bojin Boke store in the Overturned Alley. The magic items collected there are very dangerous, and they are the kind of people who accidentally kill themselves.

Without some ability, he died in the store in less than two months.

Moreover, the population of the British magic circle is less than 30,000, making it difficult to form a prosperous and sound society. Many wizards are still indifferent and strange, easy to understand, and difficult to contact.

This leads to difficulties between transactions.

Ted discovered this business opportunity last year. If he could build a reliable trading platform, it would be promising.

It can even be said that it usurped part of the Ministry of Magic's power.

But any idea needs "cost" to be put into practice.

Jin Jialong is one aspect, ability is one aspect, strength is one aspect, influence is another aspect.

Of course, Ted never thought about doing that unrealistic thing now. He just wanted to take advantage of this holiday to upgrade his appraisal skills.

Now the identification technique seems to have reached a bottleneck, and no matter how Ted is used, it is difficult to improve.

Ted felt that either he would upgrade his psychic level and rely on the enhancement of his psychic power to enhance his abilities, or he would need some extra stimulation - such as identifying some high-end and unusual things.

In fact, there is a shortcut, that is, to identify Dumbledore!

Ted has secretly tried identification on several professors and has obtained a lot of information.

But the principal really dared not go beyond the line, and he never used it, worried that he would attract the attention of the greatest white wizard of this century and the legendary wizard Dumbledore.

However, at the end of the Magic Stone, Ted identified Voldemort in the remnant state. Although he had not obtained much information, the improvement of the identification technique was obvious! It was equivalent to identifying the gains of twenty or thirty professors!

If Dumbledore is identified in full condition, it will definitely take the appraisal to a higher level.

The problem is Ted dares not ~

So he thought of a way - organize second-hand transactions to improve identification techniques, and by the way, he could collect more data to facilitate the measurement of the level of the magic world.

The instructor said that without in-depth investigation, there is no right to speak.

What he pays most attention to is to conduct in-depth investigations and fully understand a certain environment and field. If Ted wants to do something in the future, this link must not be omitted.

There are many points that need to be solved in this matter, and we must first obtain the support of Mr. Giggs.

...

"Do you mean, want to set up a stall at the door?"

"This is not a problem. The question is what are you going to do? Sell things? Or tell fortunes to wizards?"

Mr. Giggs' expression was wonderful, and he felt like he was setting up a fortune telling stall at the entrance of a five-star hotel.

After all, he is a wizard and his business perspective is not broad enough.

So Ted explained to him: "It's like that. I solved a magic puzzle on a wall in the school library and got the magic left by an unknown senior before. It seemed to inspire some talent to identify the attributes and information of the items."

Of course this is nonsense, half true and half false. The magic he obtained in the library was the "magical paper crane messenger".

"So I want to provide you with some convenience, so that they can hand over the things they want to take to me for identification, and then write them on the blackboard so that those who are interested can see it, which can be more convenient for trading. Or bartering..."

After listening to Ted's explanation, Mr. Giggs felt more interesting and interesting as he thought about it!

But there is a big premise...

"Ted, this is not a joke. Identifying magic items requires a lot of knowledge and vision. It would be fine if the identification is wrong. At most, you can pay some money. Don't encounter any dangerous magic items and lose your life!"

After all, he was born in Ravenclaw and was very cautious.

Ted smiled brightly: "Mr. Giggs, can you test me!"

Mr. Giggs took out three things from his collection and placed them on the table.

"Good boy, let me see your skills! I told you that these three things are not simple, so you can try it!"

Mr. Giggs wanted to see this overly proud boy's aggression and kill him!

Ted looked up and saw that the first item was a small statue, about twenty-five centimeters, a humanoid creature that was not a human being. He was very obese, with two heads with one horns, one with one eye and the other with two eyes. He was standing with sharp teeth and holding a big stick...

Isn't this a two-headed ogre?

Ted launched the identification technique. Mr. Giggs, who had been observing carefully, felt that Ted's eyes suddenly seemed to have lit up a lot, but he did not notice any magic fluctuations.

Hiss~ Strange, what kind of ability is this?!

"This is a two-headed ogre statue, made of bronze. It injects magic power when casting, not something from this world. Around this statue, it will increase strength and slowly recover its physical strength... Am I right?"

Mr. Giggs clapped his hands: "Ted, you really have the talent to identify items?! It's amazing! It's not bad at all, even more than I know."

In fact, Ted got more detailed information, for example, the range of action is eight meters, the effect is +2 power, and the statue needs to be baked with flames every month, otherwise the magic will not be maintained in a few years.

The second item is a gray stone. At first glance, it is ordinary, but when you look closely, you will find that it is a crystal. It just looks like gray fog inside, so it is gray.

"The Magic Crystal Mine of Uruguay, a natural rare companion mine, will only appear in the mining area of ​​the Magic Vein Hub. As for its function, I can only see magical items created..."

"Yes, yes! When I bought it, the man said it was Uruguay's magic crystal. It seemed that I was not good at it." Mr. Giggs was very happy.

The last thing is a fruit, the dark red one is like mangosteen with a hard shell, I don’t know what it looks like inside.

"I can't see much information about this thing, I only know it is a plant with medicinal value... Mr. Giggs, where did you get it?" Ted said.

"Ha! Don't you know? I tell you, I don't know either~~~" Mr. Giggs looked proud.

"When I received the medicinal materials last year, I accidentally discovered it. It should be some kind of magical plant fruit from another world, but no one has yet to research it."

Ted breathed a sigh of strength in his heart. Fortunately, he knew how to keep a low profile and did not tell the Luoya fruit in the gap between the old man, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.
To be continued...