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161. To be alive is to drink wine


Hundreds of slave girls stepped out of the caravan and were asked to line up in a long line on the side of the road, dressed in rudimentary linen and wearing slave collars made of bright magical copper around their necks, with the slave's origin marked on them, but they had not yet had time to change the name of their masters.Little Ella has been calming the emotions of these half-orc slave girls, who are very quiet.Betty divided the seven hundred slaves into twenty groups, each of which elected a temporary captain, who temporarily managed the orc slave girls.More than thirty dwarven slaves sat around, and they looked a little out of place with more than six hundred orc female slaves.The dwarven slave girls had worried eyes in their eyes, and sat around the four old dwarf slaves, who sat quietly on the stone slabs by the side of the road, carefully surveying each of us and silently observing their surroundings.Several dwarven slave girls with short legs and thick waists even picked up some wood on the construction site, and took advantage of the rest to tie up four stretchers and place several old dwarven slaves on the stretchers.Betty led the slaves into the unfinished workshop, through the tall arches supported by wooden shelves, and into the quiet and gloomy courtyard, where the canopy of several Taylor trees almost covered the entire courtyard, and the courtyard was paved with bluestone slabs, although some of the bluestone slabs had been broken, and a few grasses were drilled out of the cracks in the stones, but the busy scene of the past could be vaguely seen.Two awnings were erected in the courtyard, and the canopies were filled with wooden shelves of cheap linen of primary color, which looked like gray walls.Standing next to the canopy, Arya reached out and touched the linen on the shelves, and said to me: "This was originally a linen textile workshop, the previous owner was not well managed and the linen market was sluggish in recent years, after the outbreak of the plane war, the supply of linen raw materials was interrupted, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing the workshop to be forced to close. ”I asked Arya, "Are there many workshops that have collapsed due to the plane war in the Imperial Capital?"

”Arya gently stroked the hair hanging from her ear and said, "If you have time to wander around the seventh block during the day, you will know how depressed it really is, and almost half of the workshops are closed.The oil mill, which is only across the street from us, is not because the olives on the Rocky plane cannot be supplied, and three batches of workers have been dismissed in the past half month. ”I sighed and said, "It seems that the impact of the dimensional war on the imperial capital is still quite large.But fortunately, prices in the imperial capital are quite stable. ”Arya pursed her sexy lips and said to me: "You stay in the magic academy all day, where will you pay attention to these, food, meat, cloth, leather, steel, gold and silverware, magic herbs are all crazy rising, only the exchange rate of magic crystals and gold coins has been falling, and it has fallen by one to seven in the past few days, if there is good news from the Kenda plane, I am afraid that the magic crystal will continue to depreciate." ”I was surprised and said, "Is the situation in the imperial capital actually like this?"

”Arya looked at me and didn't speak."

This linen, yours too?"

I asked, pointing to the mountains of linen on the shelves."

That's right, what?

Want to make some coarse linen clothes for your slaves?

”Arya's eyes fell on the group of half-orc female slaves who were not covered and asked me with a smile."

Yes!""

Do you need me to find a tailor for you to make these fabrics into clothes?"

She asked again with a smile.I said to her, "Of course that's better." ”She patted the linen on the shelves, a sly smile on her face, and said to me, "Give it all to you, but you will find a way to transport them out of the imperial capital." ”I stood under the tree and said to Arya, "Yes!

That's a word. ”The orc slave girls sat on the floor in the courtyard, where a well was found under a large tyro tree in the center of the courtyard, and the rocks around the well had been worn to the edges, and several orc slave girls were drawing water from the well.A large cauldron was set up next to the well, and a fire-gathering magic scroll had already been placed underneath, and two half-orc female slaves added water to the pot, and a large wooden box was placed on the stone floor beside it, which was filled with square meat floss bricks and butter square bricks wrapped in oiled paper, and these meat floss and butter butter would immediately turn into a large pot of soup as long as they were thrown into the pot of boiling water.Before the water could boil, Nick and Brennan used a magic caravan to return with the breadsticks in the bakery, which were the daily food of the civilians of the seventh block, each breadstick was about a meter long and thick as an adult's arm, and the whole breadstick looked so hard that it felt as if it could kill someone if it was held.Each breadstick is carefully baked in the bakery, full of the wheat aroma of baked wheat flour, the shell looks very hard, as long as the hard shell is cut with a knife, the bread inside is unusually soft, in the imperial capital civilian area, usually a family of three, can eat such a breadstick every day.Nick returned with a cart full of these breadsticks, followed by a bakery magic caravan full of breadsticks.Nick and Brennan each walked into the courtyard with a bundle of breadsticks on their shoulders and said to me with a smile, "Boss, the bread has been bought!"

”Brennan approached Arya and excitedly told her, "We've bought all the breadsticks from two bakeries, and now they're rushing to make breadsticks for tomorrow morning." ”With a faint smile on her face, Arya said to Nick and Brennan: "You two have worked hard!

Later, Arya instructed Betty to lead the orc slave girl to divide the breadsticks.As Lady Arya's personal maid, Betty is Lady Arya's most powerful assistant, and almost without Lady Arya's orders, she can immediately take out two gold coins and two silver coins from her money bag and hand them to Nick, before Nick can refuse, the yellow, orange, orange and white silver coins have been stuffed into the palm of his hand.Then, twisting her slender waist, Betty led a group of orc slaves to remove all the breadsticks from the magic caravan and pile them next to the large iron cauldron, piling them up in a high pile.The boiling water in the big iron pot has become boiling, and these things are not for slaves to eat in the imperial capital, and the half-orc female slave girl who is responsible for cooking the soup does not know how to tear open the oil paper packet, thinking that it is okay to throw the butter bricks directly into the soup pot, but fortunately, Caterina saw it, and hurriedly rushed over to open the oil paper packet, and threw two pieces of butter into the soup pot, and a thick layer of oil flowers immediately floated in the soup pot, and the smell of butter was released at once, making the yard full of the fragrance of broth.Seeing Caterina throw a whole piece of meat floss bricks into the soup pot, Nick was surprised to find that these were actually meat floss from the Pai Plateau, and asked me with big eyes in disbelief, "Boss, you actually took out the meat floss from the Pai Plateau and gave these slaves broth?"

”"These meat floss was originally the dry food prepared by the orcs of the tribe for hunting in the wasteland, but it was only in the Grimm Empire that this thing became a foreign product and became a less common thing on people's tables, so it was considered by the people of the imperial capital that it was a delicacy on the table."

I took out a piece of meat pine brick from my magic waist bag, swiped it in my hand, and said with emotion.Suddenly, the tide of memories poured into the sea of spirits, and in the golden sea in my mind, countless beautiful images of the Pai Plateau emerged.While lamenting that time was gone, he said to Nick, "The original intention of these meat floss bricks was just to replace those unpalatable raw jerky, oh yes, have you ever tasted raw jerky?"

”Both Nick and Brennan shook their heads blankly and said, "No."

I picked up a dry branch under the Taylor tree, broke it off with all my might, bit it with my teeth, and then pointed to the dry branch and said to the two of them: "That taste is like this dry branch, you can't bite it at all if you have a good tooth, and the dried raw meat will become tasteless, and it tastes like chewing wax." ”Honest Nick also learned from me, put a piece of dry twig in his mouth and bit it, frowning and spitting out the wood residue in his mouth.Brennan, who was next to me, looked at the meat floss brick in my hand, a little distracted, not knowing what he was thinking at the moment.The rich fragrance wafted in the courtyard, and the half-orc slaves who sat in the courtyard to rest stared at the big iron pot, these half-orc slaves only drank a little bit of sweet potato porridge at noon, and for such a long time, it is estimated that their stomachs have already become empty, and when they saw such a large pot of broth, they could not restrain themselves from swallowing their saliva.The owner of the workshop left in a very hurry, not only leaving so much linen, but also a large number of wooden bowls on the side of the canteen, Betty took the half-orc slave girls to carry the wooden bowls out, and began to orderly let the half-orc slave girls go to the big iron pot to receive the meal, first each of them was given a wooden bowl, and then half a breadstick.Little Ella stood next to the bread stack, explaining aloud in orc language how to break breadsticks into a wooden bowl and pour a large spoonful of broth over them to make them taste the best.After these half-orc slave girls received the breadsticks, where could they continue to endure them, busily biting the breadsticks and swallowing the breadsticks into their stomachs as fast as they could, almost every half-orc slave girl had bread stuffed in their mouths before they walked to the big iron pot to get a large spoonful of broth, and walked back to their original positions while eating.It was the turn of the dwarven slave girls to receive the meal that the chaos changed.The four dwarf slave girls at the front of the line brought the broth and bread to the four old dwarf slaves, who were lying on stretchers, but they just opened their eyes and looked at the broth, but they didn't mean to drink it, so anxious that some dwarf slave girls had tears in their eyes.For these terminally ill old dwarves, once they can't eat enough food to get enough life-sustaining nutrients from food, it means that they are not too far from death.I walked over to the dwarven slaves, and Ruka the Minotaur followed me every step of the way."

Let me try!"

I stood behind the dwarf slave girl and said.The dwarven slave girl, knowing that I was their new master, bowed respectfully to me, and stepped aside with a worried face.I sat cross-legged in front of the old dwarf slaves, and I could see that they had little desire to survive as I watched them look so loveless that they had little desire to survive.

I groaned for a moment, and said to the old dwarf slaves, "If you die like this, it means that I will lose a lot of money after I buy you back, and I have not done anything." ”An old dwarf slave feebly rolled his eyes like a dead fish, but did not speak.I expertly reached out and drew the magic pattern circle of the hydrotherapy in front of me, and the moment my fingers stopped, the spell was quickly finished.Whoa!

A crisp sound sounded in the air, and a white magical glow fell on an old dwarf slave, the body of the old dwarf slave moistened by a faint water elemental breath, and the next moment, the old dwarf slave's breathing became smoother, and he looked at me in surprise.I said, "Don't always think about meeting the god of craftsmen, a real dwarf can live to be at least two hundred years old, you look very young, but you haven't drunk again for a long time, your body has lost the source of strength, maybe you need to order this" I took out a bottle of golden cider and a wine glass from my magic waist bag, and when the golden golden cider was poured into the wine glass, I noticed that the old dwarves lying on the stretcher smelled the wine almost immediately, and they shook their noses, opened their eyes and looked at me, and their Adam's apple kept stirring.I continued, "If you can still work for me in the future, I may promise you some barley and allow you to make your own ale, but before you can get well as soon as possible, and prove your worth to me." ”The old dwarf slave who had undergone a hydrotherapy treatment sat up from the stretcher with difficulty, and trembled to reach out and hold up the wine glass in front of him, his eyes showed great urgency and excitement, the golden wine continued to flow out of the glass to his hand because his hand was trembling, his eyes showed a trace of regret, but he couldn't wait to drink the wine in the cup to his stomach.The old dwarf slave had a hint of enjoyment on his face, and slowly spat out two words from his mouth: "Good wine!"

”I smiled and said to them, "To be alive is to drink!"

”After all, they did not agree to increase the supply of Adamantite Solution, and with a hint of disappointment, Nick and Brennan left the unfinished workshop.After eating this dinner, it was almost midnight, and even the lights in the sky in the floating king city were getting a lot darker.I told Arya and little Ella to go back to the rented house to rest, and when Arya left in the magic caravan, I returned to the courtyard and opened a portal under the Tyro tree by the well.Not long after, Karantso walked out of the portal with a group of orc warriors