57 Chapter 57: Don’t you dare to fool my husband! (1)
57 Chapter 57: Don’t you dare to fool my husband! (I)
The merchants exchanged glances, and as if they could communicate with their minds, they had a tacit understanding of what to do.
Naturally, as a merchant, they wouldn’t miss the chance of getting these perfect pearls. They could sell it for triple or even quadruple the regular pearl’s price.
They could also commission jewelry from these pearls and mark up the price until only the royals could afford it.
The possibilities were endless, but they couldn’t afford this sack of best–quality pearls without breaking their savings.
Hence, they devised a plan.
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“These pearls are surely the best quality, Your Majesty. However, I don’t think it would sell for a high price,” the merchant from the Rianel Kingdom said.
“Why not?”
“Because pearls aren’t the trend right now,” the merchant from Holy Achate added. “Gemstones, especially ruby, are the current trend because they are hard to come by. Only old women would wear pearls.”
“I see,” Gale wasn’t troubled at all. He didn’t care how much gold they would earn from selling these pearls. He could always fetch some more.
Even Mako the fishmen king said they could harvest the same quality of pearls every three months to half a year.
But he wanted to make Swan happy, so he asked again, “Then, how much can I get with these pearls?”
The merchants were glad that the Beast King was easy to fool.
He might be powerful, but he was still a savage who knew nothing about the worth of
certain items.
‘Once a beast, always a beast, they thought in unison. It was obvious they could take advantage of the beast’s obliviousness to reap huge profits.
“Then, how about we pay this with the regular price from our human kingdom? One pearl should be around fifty silver coins. We will count the amount of pearls, and calculate the amount we have to pay, the merchant from Holy Achate suggested. “This is the highest price we can offer, Your Majesty.
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“Sounds fair,” Gale nodded, but before he permitted them to check on the pearls, he noticed that Swan was staring at the merchants with a burning gaze as if she was angry
at them for some reason.
He felt that she had something to say, so before he gave his permission, he asked his mate first, “What do you think, Swan? Those pearls are yours, so if you agree with their price, I will permit them to count those pearls.”
Swan said nothing, but her heart was boiling with anger right now.
She knew these merchants were lying because she had heard from the Queen Mother and Aria that one piece of round pearl would cost around one gold coin, which was roughly 100 silver coins, and those round pearls still had bumps, unlike the perfectly round pearls that Gale brought.
They were trying to trick Gale since he didn’t know anything about items that humans
valued.
She should’ve stayed quiet as well, because she wasn’t used to arguing with anyone and her nervousness might take over her eventually when they kept on making fun of her.
But seeing how these people were trying to fool Gale, HER GALE, made her so angry that she gained the courage she needed to stop them. 5
The merchants didn’t think much about the timid woman on the Beast King’s lap. She didn’t seem to be smart, and even if she was, a woman had no place to interrupt a business between men, unless she was the queen.
There was no way that the Beast King would take a feeble human as a queen, right?
Thus, they didn’t try to lower themselves in front of her.
“Is there something wrong, Your Highness?‘ the merchant from the Rianel Kingdom asked. “We are always open for negotiation regarding the price, though we already give you the best of the best offer.”
“The price of a round pearl with slight bumps is one gold coin or 100 silver coins. There is no reason for you to give us fifty silver coins for a perfectly round pearl, smooth with no bumps at all,” Swan retorted firmly while staring at the merchants with a burning gaze.
The merchants were surprised because only the nobles and the merchants knew about this information.
They exchanged glances again and had another plan in mind to tackle this nosy
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woman.
“Your Highness is correct. Normally the price would be around one gold coin for a round pearl,” the merchant from Holy Achate replied. “But that was only when pearls were in trend. Pearls aren’t in trend anymore, and not many people will buy them now, so the price naturally goes down as well.”
“It is still in trend,” Swan stated.
“And how do you know that, Your Highness?” The merchants asked with a smirk on their faces.
Swan took a deep breath as she was furious at these merchants.
No, she wasn’t angry at them for looking down at her. She was angry at them for making the fool out of Gale!
Thus she said without a pause;
“Winter celebration, Queen Anastasia of Holy Achate bought a crown made with sapphire and pearls for a hundred gold coins. Spring celebration, Princess Aria of Holy Achate and Princess Lily of Rianel wore matching pearl bracelets as a sign of their friendship, each bracelet costs twenty gold coins”
“Queen Ramiere of Rianel wore a tear–shaped pearl pendant during the same spring harvest celebration held in Holy Achate, and that pendant is thirty–five gold coins. All of these happened recently, so you must be lying when you said it’s not in trend
anymore.”
The merchant from Holy Achate was speechless because this woman recalled all of those events, the jewelry, and the price of each jewelry in perfect detail as if she was there in the first place and listened to every conversation he had with the royals.
But he had been going in and out of the Holy Achate Palace a lot of times and had never seen this woman before. Who was she, and how could she know all of this
information?
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