In the center of the square outside the castle there is a circular pool made of bluestone, the center of the pool is stacked with gray rockery, and at the top of the strange stone there is a magic fountain constantly spitting out clear spring water, and the splashing mist forms a colorful rainbow in the dazzling sunlight.The apple trees on the edge of the pool have already spit out new shoots, and each apple tree looks tender and green, and if you look closely, you can see the bunches of stamens waiting to be released on the treetops.Kig and I walked aimlessly around the square, and we would always meet some young orcs who came out for a walk, dressed in fine leather armor and with delicate swords at their waists, and greeted Kig with a smile and a smile.I don't think they're really in the mood for a walk, they just want to take the opportunity to meet Qige and say a few words.At lunchtime, Kut sent a letter back, saying that it was a matter of appointing Kuz as the leader of the edge of the Death Swamp, and the presbyterian council had unanimously approved it, and the letter of appointment would be reissued after Kuz attended the coming-of-age ceremony, and the territory of Kutz's territory was north of the entire Death Swamp, and the edge of the swamp was deep to the north, thirty kilometers wide, and five hundred kilometers long from east to west, west to the Baipu Cliff at the confluence of the western mountains of the Pai Plateau and the Urutu River, and east to the southern section of the Yelian Mountains.Now that the matter has been decided, we need to make some preparations before we go.Originally, we wanted to cut a few pieces of the magic antelope skins we caught into palm-sized squares and turn them into magic parchment paper to make scrolls.However, Caterina was inspired and reminded by a quote from Catalina, who said when I was about to cut the whole Antelope skins: What a shame that such a complete sheepskin is cut into pieces!
It occurred to me that when we first made the scrolls, we had all scraped useless skins from Uncle Fred, which cost almost nothing.We have enough Antelope skins right now, but that's not a waste!
So, we thought again of selling these demon antelope skins, and the most common merchants in Gurudin's town were those who sold leather and herbs.Although the price of the Devil's Antelope skin drops a little bit every day during the spring hunt, there is no shortage of buyers in Gurudin.We asked Kidd about a workshop on the east side of town that specialized in making magical parchment.So we decided to try our luck there, and the magic parchment paper we made was usually an unconventional one-foot square white paper, and the value of each magic antelope skin was carefully measured by the pricekeepers with a tape measure.Looking at how many pieces of magic parchment can be produced per magic antelope skin, because there is a huge difference in the size of the magic antelope skin, how many pieces of parchment can be produced per magic antelope skin has become the standard for the constant value of the magic antelope skin.After cutting the magic parchment paper in this way, the remaining magic antelope skin leftovers.It will be sold to leather shops cheaply by paper makers, and some leather makers like to use the leftovers of the magic antelope to piece together and sew some magic antelope skin light armor, which is made of scraps of scraps, although it is inferior to the light armor made of complete leather in terms of defense, but it is better than the price of money.In this way, we wanted to go to the Magic Parchment Workshop and find out if the offcuts of the parchment were worth anything.We want to sell these whole Antelope skins and buy some leftovers.The seventy-six pieces of demon antelope skins stored in the warehouse were rolled into two large rolls with a diameter of one meter.It's very heavy.In the afternoon, Kuz brought a mule, and we tied two large rolls of demon antelope skins with rope and tied them to the mule's back, and Kuz led the mule slowly out of the castle gate.As I walked out of the castle gates, I met the young orc who had sat across from me at dinner yesterday, and when he saw Kig standing side by side with me, his swarthy face immediately turned purple again, and he stood there helplessly, watching us walk by.He woke up when he saw Kuz leading a mule with two rolls of devil's skin out of the gate.He trotted forward a few steps to keep up with Kuz, and asked Kuzi on the other side through the mule: "Uncle Seven, didn't you say it yesterday."
Did you catch only three demon antelopes on the edge of the saltwater pond?
How can there be so many skins?
Oh my God, have you caught a small herd of demon antelopes?
”"I caught these sheepskins with the orcs of the Laytu tribe I met on the way, would you like to come with us to the workshop to the east where magic parchment is made?"
Kuz turned to the young orc nephew in a beautiful yellow sheepskin coat and asked.When the young orc heard that he was going to the magic parchment workshop, he shook his head and said, "Oh my God!
I don't want to go there, it stinks.Even flies can't survive there, Uncle Seven, I think you should let Kidd Steward invite that master to us, how good it would be to talk here!
”Kuzi smiled and said, "I'd like to see their workshop, maybe I'll open one in my territory in the future!"
”Walking east along the bluestone brick streets, through three streets, in the outermost ring of the town, we find the magical parchment workshop.The workshop for making imitation parchment paper covers an acre of land and is surrounded by adobe walls, and we saw the heat steaming inside outside the yard, and a sour smell spread from the inside, which was mixed with other strange smells and irritated my throat a little.A few of us covered our faces with scarves and came to the outside of the workshop, and at that moment, a human craftsman in cowhide bib trousers ran out of the workshop, about forty years old, one hundred and eighty centimeters tall, with a bald head, and a pair of black tortoiseshell glasses.He held a ruler in one hand and a paper cutter in the other, and said to Kuz, who was leading the mule, with an excited expression on his face: "Didn't you say that it would be at least a little more than a week?"
How did you send it back so quickly. ”"Ahem!"
Kig covered his mouth and nose and coughed lightly, signaling that the guy had asked the wrong person.However, it seems that this craftsman knows how to read people very well, and when he saw that the person asking the question squeaked and couldn't speak, he knew that he had found the wrong person, and he followed Kuzi's gaze to find Qige behind him, he opened his mouth the most in surprise, and immediately realized the gaffe, and quickly closed his mouth and said: "You also came here from the Green Empire to pan for gold?"
I'm sorry, you're so beautiful, I lost my temper for a moment.Is there anything we can do to help?
”"Do you take these demon antelope skins here?"
Kig rolled his eyes to the side and fanned the stinky mist that filled the area with his small hand.Asked nonchalantly."
These demon antelope skins, you don't plan to ship them back to Grimm to sell?"
The craftsman asked in surprise.Qige waved his hand impatiently and asked, "Are you the shopkeeper?"
”"AhhAre you a magician?
With all due respect!
I'm the owner of this magical parchment workshop, and I've been running it here for five years," maybe because the owner hadn't spoken to anyone in a long time, or maybe he was a natural chatter.Anyway, as soon as he opens his mouth, he wants to keep talking endlessly.However, this guy still has a little bit of eyes, and when he saw the black and white striped style of the dedication magic suit and trousers on Qige's body, he quickly reacted that the girl in front of him should be a magician.From time to time, his eyes drifted to the two bundles of demon antelope skins on the mule beside him.Start explaining.How did I order a batch of demon antelope skins at the beginning of the month, but the batch of demon antelope skins has not been delivered so far, and if it is two days late, the workshop will be suspended.But the door of the leather merchant was closed, and it was said that the owner had gone to the depths of the moor with his work to buy the skins of the devil antelope, and the message left for the shopkeeper was that; I'll send the Antelope skin over in a few days.That's why the owner of the workshop mistook us for someone who delivered goods for that firm.However, to the delight of the shopkeeper, we also came to sell the skins of the Devil's Antelope, and we did not sell the Devil's Antelope skins to the leather dealer, but to him.This made the shopkeeper of the workshop very happy, and then he gave us a long story about the current form of the leather market, and it can be said that any individual who came to Gurudin's town to sell leather would be firmly watched by countless leather merchants when they first entered Gurudin, and they would not stop convincing those people to buy their leather.The Grey Antelope Skins can only be purchased in the Leather Dealers in the Gurudin Town and the Magic Parchment Workshop.Our appearance just solved the problem of the owner of the workshop running out of raw materials for the magic antelope skin.We sold it to the owner of the workshop very smoothly for an average of sixty-six silver pieces per Oryx skin.Then we brought it up and asked us to buy some leftovers from the magic parchment, and the owner of the workshop readily agreed.Soon let an orc guy take all the leftovers from the paper cutting room to the reception room.Looking at the mountains of magic paper scraps, Kuz and I really saw magic parchment for the first time.In fact, the magic parchment is very different from the magic antelope skin.First of all, the flatness has been carefully processed, and even the offcuts of the magic parchment paper are very uniform in thickness.The second is more flexibility and softness.According to the workshop owner, the parchment also has some preservatives added to it, which will allow the magic parchment to sit for a long time without rotting.Last but not least, the magic parchment was soaked in the juice of the white-ringed vine, which repaired the subtle wounds caused by the skinning knife to the leather during the skin-making process.Usually, there are many reasons why a magic scroll fails to be made for the Mingshi, including the lack of stability of the ink, the poor magic perception of the Mingshi, the complex structure of the magic pattern circle, the unstable mana control of the Mingshi's mana, and the excessive number of broken lines on the magic parchment.Among them, the broken grain refers to the fact that during the leather making process, the peeling knife hurts the texture inside the magic parchment, causing partial breakage.This kind of accident is the most difficult for the Ming masters to accept.As a result, many potions began to look for potions that could repair parchment breaks, many magic potions had this effect, but they were very expensive, and then slowly found several economical ones in these magic potions, one of which was the juice of the white-ringed vine.Looking at the parchment scraps scattered on the floor of the room, Kuz and I looked at each other, it turned out that we used to use semi-finished products, and those things were not parchment for making scrolls at all, but some magic antelope skin trimmings.Qige picked up a palm-wide, one-foot-long parchment trim from the ground and asked the workshop owner, "How do you sell these scraps?"
”"What are these offcuts worth!
And only the people in the leather shop always come to me to buy, and we usually sell them in bags, and a sack of gold coins is a gold coin" When we came out of the magic parchment workshop, not only did there not be anything missing on the mule's back, but a sack of parchment was added, and we spent a total of three gold coins to buy three sacks full of parchment from the shopkeeper.The purse around my waist was filled with heavy gold coins, forty-seven in all.I didn't expect these demon antelope skins to be so valuable, Kuzi and I regretted very much that we couldn't hunt a few more demon antelopes, and only waited until the food in the tribe was sufficient, so we gave up hunting demon antelopes, it turned out that the demon antelope skins were so valuable!
Qige quietly pushed twice behind me and whispered, "These gold coins are enough to buy a small courtyard around the Grimm Imperial Capital!"
”"Jijia, let's go hunt for demon antelopes again, I don't think we should just keep our eyes on those worthless sweet potatoes!"
Kuzi's eyes were also a little straight, he had been sleeping with old Kuru all these years, and he had very little money on him, and an ordinary Neti bow only cost fifteen silver, and when we were in Yemen Town, we almost lost our pants.Until now, it is still difficult for me to regard this guy as a noble child of the most powerful Ku family in Guruding Town, and this kid is full of dirt bags from the mountains.As I walked down the street, I finally dared to take a deep breath and complained about the bad smell in the magic parchment workshop.At this time, we saw one of the chamberlains in the castle running towards us from afar, telling us that the arms merchants had arrived and were waiting in the castle, and that Kidd steward had asked Kuz, me, and Kig to hurry back as soon as possible.The arms merchant, who had been waiting for more than a day, finally came to the door when we walked out of the castle to run errands.In order to get back to the castle of the Kuz family as soon as possible, we didn't continue to let Kuz lead the way, this guy's memory of childhood is very unreliable, the squire led us through the streets continuously, the magic parchment workshop is at the easternmost edge of the town of Gurudin, this time, we returned to the castle, different from the way we came, first walked along the streets on the edge of the town, and then saw a straight road leading to the castle.Along the way, I passed by many shops, and what made a big impact on my vision was the airport that docked two kilometers away from the small town of Gurudin.It was a lighthouse-shaped building, with twelve huge stone towers standing at the east end of the town, each lighthouse was 100 meters apart, and on the left and right sides of the top of the lighthouse, a wooden suspension bridge more than 20 meters long stretched outward.There are five magic airships nearly 100 meters long docked in the airport at this moment, the huge rugby-shaped airbag at the top of the airship is sprayed with this colorful pattern, and the large wooden ship-shaped pod is hanging under the airbag, and when the airship docks at the airport, the drawbridge of the lighthouse is on the side of the ship-shaped pod.At first, like me, Kig always liked to look around curiously when she walked down the street, but as soon as we passed the airport, she began to become cautious, and her beautiful face began to look anxious, and she hurried towards the castle."
Hey, what's wrong with you?"
I hurriedly chased after him and asked with concern.Kig glanced nervously down the street before saying, "It's nothing, I just think we should speed up our progress and not continue to stall here in Gurudin, we need to rush to the Death Swamp as soon as possible." ”"But we don't even have the scroll ready!""
Tonight, no, no!
In the afternoon we started preparing, I mixed the magic ink first, this time we did a little more, and tried to be as prepared as possible. ”Kig looked nervous when he spoke, and it was the first time I had seen such an expression on Kige's face.She seemed so anxious that Kuz, who was behind, had to hand over the mule to the attendant who led the way, and he chased after us, and when he saw Kig hurrying ahead, he asked me, "Jia, how is Miss Qi today?"
”I shrugged my shoulders and said helplessly, "How do I know?"
”Turning to look at Caterina and seeing that the girl was also bowing her head in frustration, I realized that they were hiding something from me, but at the magical parchment workshop, Miss Qi was still haggling with the shopkeeper with great interest.In this short period of time, she became flustered, was it those airships in the airport?
To be continued.