It’s been a month, and Emberstone Farm still hasn’t reappeared.
Lady Yuying and her consort remain unruffled on the outside, but I’m sure they must be worried, too.
Scholars have pointed out that all gods and demigods left our world millennia ago. Some of them dared to speculate that perhaps Emberstone Farm has now ascended to a higher plane of existence.
I don’t think so, but now I have to handle all the merchants who are trying to take advantage of the uncertainty of the future of the Emberstone Farm products.
Wild speculation has driven prices up to incredible heights. Merchants are hoarding seeds in the hope that the supply source never reappears, which would render their current stock priceless. Worse, traders are speculating on the price of future harvests, buying crops that haven’t even been sown yet. Entire fortunes are changing hands over nothing more than rumors and wishful thinking.
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This is insane! I had offers of up to twelve times the current market value of my stock of tea. I’m tempted to take the money; however, that would legitimize the panic and feed the market frenzy.
I’m already dreading the inevitable fallout of ruined fortunes when prices crash.
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Emberstone Farm has reappeared, and with it, sanity has prevailed. Many of the merchants who bought products at twelve times the normal price are now going to court and demanding that the sellers refund them their money.
What a mess!
I’m so glad I stayed out of the worst of it, but I still got in trouble.
A few merchants are suing me, saying I was at fault for not releasing a statement that the farm would reappear and that I was in cahoots with the sellers. I wanted to storm their houses and challenge them to a duel, but my subordinates convinced me that they were just nuisance cases and to I should let the lawyers take care of it.
I’m furious because the cost of this court case will greatly eat into our administrative budget.
Our year-end bonuses are in trouble!
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Author's Note:
- Crazy market speculation has been the ruin of many a person, but in the famous Tulip Mania of history, people simply refused to honor the crazy contract prices -
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