The manager rushed to the boss and covered his neck, which had just oozed blood. He said with a face full of grief and indignation, "Boss, you can't blame me. They came in and wanted to buy this and that, but when they finally paid the bill, they complained that the price was too high and said that we were running a scam."
The boss glanced at Lin Li and the rest, and turned to reprimand the manager. "Didn't you tell the customers that the herbs here are supplied to pharmacists?"
Upon hearing the boss's words, the manager calmed down. If they really wanted to ask him about the prices of the herbs, it would mean that he was going to be held accountable. However, if the herbs were supplied to pharmacists, then the problem of the price would be on the pharmacists. Looking at these people, it didn't seem like they would be able to get a pharmacist to confront them.
The manager hurriedly said, "I saw that they were foreigners, so I kindly reminded them that the medicinal herbs here were only used by pharmacists. But not only did they not listen to me, they even used their viciousness to attack me. Cucumber, look at my neck … If you had come a second later, I might not have been able to see you again …" As he said that, he removed the hand that was covering his neck and let the boss see the bleeding wound on his neck with grievance.
Seven Leaf Grass had been operating in Roland City for so many years. Be it the professional guilds, the mercenary regiments, or the families that had thousands of years of history, all of them had given it some face. But now, looking at the wound on the manager's neck, the boss's face became gloomier. Although the wound was not serious, the behavior of the other party was equivalent to slapping his face.
However, the boss was also a person of status, and naturally couldn't scold without scruples like the manager. Glancing at the four shabbily dressed mages, the boss turned his head back and reprimanded the manager, "How many times have I told you? Even though most of our customers are noble pharmacists, it is inevitable that they will come into contact with people from all walks of life. You will make a mistake sooner or later if you keep using the language of the nobles."
"Yes, yes, Boss, I was thoughtless," the manager quickly responded. In fact, the bleeding on his neck had already stopped, but for the sake of his pitiful appearance, he still used his hand to strangle his neck.
"Alright, remember this lesson. If you make such a mistake again, I'll kick you out of Seven Leaf Grass before anyone else does anything," the boss said sternly.
The boss and manager of Seven Leaf Grass echoed each other, and even a fool could tell what they were trying to say. Wilkinson was so infuriated that he was about to explode. Motherf * cker, that manager was cursing like a shrew just now, and he was actually using the language of the nobles? What kind of kingdom's nobleman would speak like that?
Wilkinson wanted to flare up and reveal his identity as a pharmacist, but he suddenly realized something when he saw Lin Li's calm expression. Yeah, I'm a senior pharmacist. Why should I be calculative with these businessmen? Even if I reveal my identity, what can I do? At most, I'll just have to apologize and make myself seem petty.
After the boss of Seven Leaf Grass reprimanded his manager, he turned around, and said to Lin Li and the rest, "Mr Mages, I'm really sorry. We run a medicinal herb business here, and we usually come into contact with more pharmacists than mages. Perhaps Manager Larry didn't make things clear to you, and thus caused you to misunderstand and think that he offended you. However, since you've already punished him, can you listen to me calmly now? "
Although the boss of Seven Leaf Grass sounded polite, everyone could understand what he meant. We serve noble pharmacists here. Don't think that you're so great just because you're a mage. You're nothing in Seven Leaf Grass. You don't get respect because you don't know your place.
"Yes, boss. This is indeed my fault. I only thought that I couldn't let the customer spend his money in vain. After all, 20,000 gold coins might be all the savings of the customer, but I didn't consider the customer's face. I deserve to be misunderstood as an intentional offense." The manager followed the boss's words and sincerely reflected on his mistake.
"Mr Mages, you've heard it. I did have good intentions. After all, not everyone can use these medicinal herbs. A 20,000 gold coin business is not essential to us, but we'll feel bad if we let our customers use all their savings to buy some useless medicinal herbs. Hence, if we've offended you in any way, please forgive us. " The boss of Seven Leaf Grass said, "Please forgive me," but he raised his chin high with an expression that said, "You should thank us."
Looking at the performance of the boss and the manager, Lin Li didn't feel the slightest bit angry because of their arrogance and contempt. Ever since he came to the Breezy Plains, he had experienced many battles in the Legendary-realm, and it had not only brought about a leap in strength, but also an improvement in his mental state.
If it had been in the past, Lin Li would probably have caused a huge fuss if he had encountered such a situation. He might not have taken the other party's life, but he definitely wouldn't have given the other party an unforgettable lesson.
However, this time, Lin Li simply smiled calmly in the face of the other party's sarcasm, and got ready to leave with Wilkinson and the rest.
Be it the boss or the manager, they were all the same in Lin Li's eyes. They were all insignificant existences. Even when facing opponents in the Legendary-realm, he wouldn't feel anything. How could he be affected by the performance of insignificant existences?
However, at this moment, there was another sound coming from the stairs, and a figure stumbled down the stairs, almost rolling and crawling into the hall downstairs.
Lin Li glanced at the person who came down, and realized that it was none other than Sienna, the leader of the mercenary corps whom he had cooperated with when he rescued the son of the castellan of Roland City.
Back then, Sienna was just the leader of a good-for-nothing mercenary corps, and yet he dared to take on the mission of rescuing the son of the castellan from the Syer Bandits. He even brought the castellan's daughter along to take the risk. He was definitely a classic example of someone who risked his life for money. In the end, they encountered the terrifying level-17 magical beast Ice Howler before they even reached their destination. If they hadn't been lucky enough to meet Lin Li, they would have long become food for the Ice Howler.
It turned out that meeting Lin Li was definitely the luckiest thing that had happened to Sienna in his life. Compared to the experience in the ruins of Syer Town, the Ice Howler was just an appetizer. Faced with the tidal wave of Undead creatures and the Lich that summoned the Skeletal Dragon, Sienna and his 30 to 40 useless mercenaries became bystanders.
Sienna, who had rushed downstairs, got up from the ground with shock and astonishment written all over his face. He had never thought that he would meet the young mage who had left an unforgettable memory in him again after being separated for almost a year.
The boss of Seven Leaf Grass, who was about to ask Lin Li and the rest to leave, was stunned to see Sienna lose his composure. He couldn't figure out what had happened, and felt that this wasn't the Sienna he knew.
Back then, Sienna and Lin Li had escorted the castellan's son and daughter back safely. Lin Li's goal was only to obtain the almost endless food in Roland City. As for the credit of rescuing the castellan's son and daughter, he didn't mind giving it to Sienna. Furthermore, Lin Li had kindly given Sienna a suggestion, and it was this suggestion that allowed Sienna to maximize the benefits of the credit, which led to his current status in Roland City.
When he found out that he could use the name of his mercenary corps to send the castellan's son and daughter to the Castellan Mansion, Sienna had thought of using the credit in exchange for endless wealth and power. However, Lin Li's suggestion was for him to use the credit in exchange for Arathor's support for his mercenary corps.
Be it wealth or power, if he didn't have the strength to match it, it would instead become a source of disaster. This was the Breezy Plains, where the strong preyed on the weak. Even Arathor's father, the castellan of Roland City, had died mysteriously in his own home, not to mention Sienna, a mere mercenary corps leader. The truth also proved that Lin Li's suggestion was right.
The priority of various official commissions was only one of the many preferential treatment conditions. Being allowed to recruit members from the retired soldiers of Roland City was the main reason for the rapid development of the mercenary corps. If it were any other place, this probably wouldn't be considered a preferential treatment. However, the quality of the soldiers in Roland City that Arathor ran was second to none in the entire Breezy Plains.
The strength of a mercenary corps was not only measured by its high-end combat power, but also by its basic combat power. This was also the difference between mercenaries and adventurers. After all, a mercenary corps wouldn't often take on abnormally dangerous missions. Although mercenaries were a profession that lived on the edge of danger, it didn't mean that they could casually throw away their lives.
Recruiting retired soldiers into a mercenary corps was a great improvement to the quality of the entire corps. Although the individual strength of those soldiers might not be very outstanding, when hundreds or thousands of them stood together, they would definitely be a force that couldn't be underestimated.
Sienna was glad that he had made a wise choice. At the same time, it was also because of this choice that he gained Castellan Arathor's favor. The various preferential treatment that followed had actually exceeded the rewards that he had initially promised.
The current Sienna was no longer the useless leader who led 30 or 40 useless soldiers. With the various preferential treatment provided by the castellan of Roland City, the mercenary corps under him could be said to have developed at a tremendous pace. Now, in less than a year, Sienna's mercenary corps had developed into the largest mercenary corps in Roland City, with thousands of mercenaries under him.
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