Judging from the distance on the map, judging from the navigation level of the Roland Empire that Chen Daolin asked Luo Daer for advice in the past two days, I am afraid that it is only three or four days of sailing distance.
"But I'm very strange, on that map of yours," said Lodel, at the end, added: "What is the farthest coordinate on your map, just east of Half Moon Island, I remember that I have seen several nautical charts of the province of Newhofen, the pearl industry in this sea area is very developed, I have memorized the nautical charts here a long time ago, but the coordinates on your map, as if I have never seen the vicinity of Half Moon Island and Pearl Island, I remember that there is no big island, and the place marked on your map, What a place" "Well, no," Chen Daolin was stunned.
"I can't be mistaken."
Rodelle nodded affirmatively.
Chen Daolin took out the map and unfolded it, and Luo Daer pointed to the destination of the last treasure and said: "This is it, I remember that I have seen many nautical charts of the nearby seas, but there is no mark of this place."
It's strange, is there an island here that has not been developed by people, but this makes no sense at all, this is also the area of the province of Neuhoven, how can there be a desert island that has not been discovered by humans" Chen Daolin thought to himself: That's right if you don't.
The treasure left by Du Wei must be very secretive, how can it be easily discovered that maybe it is some kind of effect made under the prohibition of magic.
"In any case, the destination of our trip is the East China Sea.
First go to the coast, then find a boat to go to sea, go to Newhoven, well, you said that there are already human cities on Half Moon Island near this sea, right, then we will go here" Chen Daolin immediately made a decision.
A group of young men made their way east, and their destination was Port Dean, a famous port city on the eastern coast of the Rowland Empire.
Port Dean is the largest port in the north of the Roland Empire, just a hundred years ago in the era of war, it was also a military port, stationed in the naval fleet of the Roland Empire, and this fleet can directly transport troops to the northern front to land in times of war.
Of course, in a hundred years of peacetime, the military use of Port Dean has gradually weakened, with the development of the East China Sea, the establishment of the province of Newhoven, Port Dean has become a prosperous trading port, and with the length of the era of peace, the original naval fleet stationed here has also been repeatedly reduced, and now a few warships stationed in the port can only be used for patrolling the coastal waters, and most of the docks that originally belonged to the military port have been zoned for civilian use.
By the time the young men arrived, eight days had already taken place on the road.
In the past eight days, Chen Daolin was still worried at first, for fear that the pursuers of the Liszt family would not know when they would appear in front of him.
But along the way, it was quite calm, but along the way, Luo Daer, the excited little girl, probably ran away from home for the first time, everything was fresh, and there were a lot of troubles along the way, but fortunately, it was not too big.
For example, passing by the village and town and seeing the windmill erected in the farm, the eldest lady who has never been to the countryside is very curious, and she runs to have a play, and she doesn't know how to tinker with it, so she breaks the windmill in the village.
Another example is to see a waterwheel erected by a farm in the roadside canal, the eldest lady will happily run to step on it, but it is not enough, she even took out a small hammer to knock on it, and I don't know how to unload the waterwheel of others.
In the face of the angry local farmers, Chen Daolin's actions were also very direct, directly opening the way with money, and if he encountered any trouble, he would spill out a lot of gold coins Anyway, the eldest lady of the Liszt family is by her side, this chick is a standard rich woman, carrying a lot of golden tickets of the Roland Empire, with this kind of injustice by his side, Chen Daolin has the mentality of not spending in vain, and the food and clothing of the group are all covered by Luo Daer.
Just two days ago, I passed by a town famous for winemaking, Miss Rodelle was in high spirits, in the tavern in the town, she was full of pride, sprinkled money, invited the whole store to drink, and emptied the wine cellar of the tavern, and drank to herself, very imagelessly carrying a wine glass and pulling those drunkards to laugh and scold, but because the money was exposed, she was targeted by several villains in the town, and robbed halfway, Chen Daolin had no choice but to take care of those villains, bundle them up and throw them in the grass on the side of the road and let them fend for themselves.
What made Chen Daolin most depressed was that this girl passed by a village last night, and it happened that there was a veterinarian in the village who was delivering a foal to a mare, and this girl was interested again, so she had to run to see the excitement, but she made a noise next to her, and almost quarreled with the veterinarian, and finally after the mare gave birth to a foal, this girl also whimsically asked to buy the foal as a pet, and this bastard was able to offer a sky-high price of 100 gold coins A hundred gold coins can buy ten horses Fortunately, along the way, there were more than ten troubles caused by the eldest lady, large and small, so that Chen Daolin had already gotten used to it, so he directly picked up this girl and left, and threw it directly into the carriage, letting her scold inside, Chen Daolin just locked the car door and ignored her.
On the second day, the eldest lady ran over as if nothing had happened, and took the initiative to laugh with Chen Daolin.
Chen Daolin has completely lost his temper with Luo Deer.
However, seeing that he had arrived at Port Dean, Chen Daolin still pulled her and carefully admonished her.
"I'll put up with all the nonsense you make on the road.
But we're about to enter Port Dean, this is a big city, there are many people, if you mess around again, you leak your identity here, and provoke your family's pursuers, don't blame me for not being righteous, I'll just leave you and run away by yourself."
Luo Deer glanced at Chen Daolin, but after all, she also knew the severity, and honestly closed her mouth.
The port city of Port Dean, with three walls facing the sea, but with the development of trade in the East China Sea, the original old city has long been insufficient, and the rapid inflow of foreign population in the past few decades has already crowded the old town of Port Dean, and the city wall has not had time to expand, and later outsiders simply built houses outside the city to live, which caused the pattern of the outer city and the inner city in Port Dean.
The new district, built along the outer city walls, is a cliché and has a variety of buildings, but it is extremely prosperous.
By the time Chen Daolin arrived in the carriage to the outer city of Port Dean, it was still morning, and the streets had already begun to become crowded.
The houses and shops built on both sides of the road, as well as the various seafood markets, fill the air with a salty smell.
On both sides of the street, almost every shop has a sign selling pearls in front of it.
However, Chen Daolin heard Luo Daer say that most of the pearls sold here are inferior goods, and the real high-grade goods have long been fully covered by several large business groups.
However, these inferior pearls are very popular with the ordinary people on the Roland continent, and with the daze of the Roland Empire on marine resources, pearls are gradually becoming popular in the empire as decorations.
The aristocracy sought after the high-quality pearls, while the common people could not afford to sell the high-quality pearls, but they also liked to follow the trend and buy some ordinary low-grade pearls as decorations.
As the largest port in the north of the empire, Port Dean relies on the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, and I don't know how many people who do pearl business come here every year, and the pearl industry is naturally very developed.
Chen Daolin knew that Port Deen itself does not produce pearls, the pearls here are all from the sea, and the good goods are all contracted by the big chamber of commerce.
However, for girls, all kinds of gems and pearls have always been resistless, knowing that the shops on the street here sell low-grade goods, and can only deceive the wronged people who don't know how to do it, but Luo Dale still jumped out of the carriage, jumping along the street one by one to see that the street is crowded anyway, the carriage can't drive fast, and can only move forward slowly little by little in the traffic.
Even Barossa, although she didn't say anything, watched Rodelle pick up pearls and play with them in those shops or stalls on the side of the road, and the elf girl's eyes showed envy.
"If you like it, go check it out."
Chen Daolin touched Barossa's hair dotingly, and said softly: "If you like it, don't talk about it first, let Xia Xia ask the price, that girl is a big girl on the street, with her, she will never be cheated." ” Barossa's eyes lit up, she glanced at Chen Daolin with a charming look, and pulled the little maid Xia Xia to jump out of the carriage.
"Master, if I have a fancy for it" Xia Xia blinked his eyes and looked at Chen Daolin.
"If you like it, buy it."
Chen Daolin waved his hand.
Xia Xia screamed in surprise and ran to the side of the street with Barossa.
Chen Daolin sat in the carriage and looked at the various pearl shops on both sides of the carriage, and couldn't help but feel a faint joy in his heart.
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After a while, Barossa and Xia Xia bought several handfuls of pearls.
Barossa ran back excitedly and showed Chen Daolin a string of pearls he bought, Chen Daolin only glanced at it, and couldn't help but smile.
This girl is really a layman, although the string of beads she bought seems to be very large, and each one is very round, but the problem is that Chen Daolin can see at a glance that this thing is a fake.
You must know that most of the natural pearls are oval, and the pearls in Barossa's hand are so round and round in shape, and they are extremely regular, you can know at a glance that they are artificially made and such a large pearl, if it is genuine, and the quality is so round, it can definitely be regarded as a first-class product.
Chen Daolin glanced at it and knew in his heart that this thing was only a fake pearl that was ground out of shell powder and then poured out with a mold.
But anyway, the girl just bought a new one, and it didn't cost much money, and Chen Daolin didn't want to break Barossa's good mood.
But Luo Dale, after all, is from a wealthy family, for all kinds of pearls and gems since childhood is seen too much, this kind of fake is naturally a glance can see through, this girl walked for a while, hugged a handful of large and small loose beads back, although the quality is not very good, but at least are some real natural pearls.
This Nizi is also very eye-catching, she saw through Barossa and bought a fake and didn't say anything, she still laughed and laughed at Barossa.
At this time, a few girls sprinkled money everywhere, but it attracted people.
A man with a nervous look squeezed to the side of the carriage, walked briskly, followed the carriage, stretched his neck and said loudly to Laudel and Barossa in the carriage: "Miss, two eldest ladies, do you want to buy good things, I have high-grade pearls here, absolutely high-quality goods."
Chen Daolin glanced back at the man, this person was dressed in numb clothes, the clothes were very simple, but his eyes were sneaky, he was not a good person at first glance, Chen Daolin remembered all kinds of popular deceptions in the real world, and couldn't help but smile in his heart: I didn't expect that the Roland Empire also had this kind of guy who took advantage of the way.
Xia Xia grew up on the street since she was a child, and she was most familiar with this kind of person who was cheated and abducted, so she immediately glared and shouted: "Where did you come from, get out of here" The man was not angry, accompanied the little face, and didn't pay attention to Xia Xia's scolding at all, but just spoke to Rodelle and Barossa: "I'm not a liar, Miss, I really have good things that are genuine from the fishermen at sea."
He was very experienced, and he could see at a glance that Barossa and Rodelle were the main ones in this carriage, and as for Xia Xia, he looked like a small follower.
As he spoke, this guy actually touched it from his arms, and took out a pearl, pinched it in his hand, held it high, and raised it: "Miss, please see that this is a good thing, a good thing that only those noble lords can use."
Before Barossa could speak, Rodelle couldn't help but let out a "huh" at a glance, with a curious expression on her face.
Chen Daolin couldn't help but be a little surprised.
This guy actually has a high-quality pearl in his hand This pearl is the size of a fingernail, but it is completely black, exuding a faint black polish light, and it is a very rare black pearl.
Black pearls have always been rare goods, this guy took it out, even Luo Dale was a little surprised, she didn't know how many precious treasures she had seen since she was a child, and there were dozens of strings of black pearls in her own home, but the street bastards in this kind of place could actually come up with such goods, so that Luo Daer, a curious baby, was immediately interested.
"I'll see."
She was about to stretch out her hand, but Chen Daolin had already dragged her back, and glanced at the man coldly: "Where did you come from, we don't want something from an unclean background." ” The man immediately cried out, and hurriedly said: "Alas, this old man, don't talk nonsense, my things are all from an upright background, and I went to the beach to find those fishermen to collect them."
These good things, those chambers of commerce are all collected, but some fishermen will also leave some to play, we little people always have to eat, not those chambers of commerce fingers leaked out of this little thing, we went to Taotao to pick up, and finally found one or two high-quality goods. ” Chen Daolin didn't refute, smiled lightly, and said directly: "How much?"
The man's face was a little smug, and he stretched out a finger: "A gold coin." ” Chen Daolin raised his eyebrows, the price of a gold coin is really cheap, this kind of black pearl, if it is sold on the market, it will be no problem to sell it for three or five gold coins.
But with such a low price, there must be ghosts.
Chen Daolin shook his head and said lightly: "Don't." ” But Rodelle shouted, "You don't want me." ” Without waiting for Chen Daolin's reaction, Xiao Nizi had already quickly thrown out a gold coin, the man took it, his eyes were a little excited, and he quickly took out a small bag from his sleeve, stuffed the pearl into the bag and tied it up, shook it in his hand, and said with a smile: "This young lady has good eyesight" As he spoke, he threw the bag to Rodelle, and he turned around and squeezed into the crowd, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Chen Daolin smiled secretly in his heart, and Luo Daer, who was watching, happily carried the bag and dangled it in front of him, and the little girl shouted proudly: "Aren't you very greedy for money, let me tell you, this pearl is taken out and sold, it can be worth several gold coins, if you don't pick it up, Miss Ben will pick it up." ” Chen Daolin glanced at this guy with pity, and said lightly: "You are very proud of buying a stone for a gold coin."
"Stone" Roddell was stunned and said angrily: "What stone" "Just open it and see for yourself."
Chen Daolin pouted.
Rodelle quickly untied the bag, and when she saw it, she was immediately stunned, and the black pearl in the bag was clearly a pebble of about the same size "Little fool."
Chen Daolin shook his head: "This kind of most common deception on the street is just a trick, get a real thing to show you as a bait, trick you into taking the bait, when you put it in the bag, that guy's tricks are very clever, and he has already adjusted the bag." ” Rodelle's little face turned white, and then turned red, and she stomped her feet and shouted: "I'm so angry that the hateful thief even dares to lie to me" "You are a delicate woman who has never been out, in the eyes of these liars, you are the best fat sheep, don't pit you."
Chen Daolin laughed.
It's just a gold coin, and it's not bad to make fun of this little girl who likes to get into trouble.
He only thought it was a small episode, and he didn't take it to heart.
When the carriage arrived at the city gate, the inspection of the city gate of Port Dean was very relaxed, and Chen Daolin, who claimed to be a merchant who had come to buy pearls, paid a few copper plates for the carriage and horse tax, and was let into the inner city.
A few people found a hotel to stay in, and had a beautiful meal of seafood, Chen Daolin pretended to be a merchant who bought pearls, pulled the guys in the store to talk a little, and cautiously inquired about how to go to sea.
But the result of the inquiry made Chen Daolin a little surprised: it turned out that if he wanted to go to sea from Port Dean, it was not as easy as he imagined.
To be continued: