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Chapter 12 Noble Etiquette

"What about you... so many people believe in religion?" Alvin changed the subject.

"Hey, they promote theirs, and we pass by ours, no one will interfere with anyone." The shopkeeper replied.

Alvin nodded. He looked at the church very much like the people in these small towns. "Why is this town so lively? I always feel that it is different from those small towns I have seen before?"

The shopkeeper smiled and looked at Alvin, then turned his gaze out the window, looking at the gloomy dense forest, "Of course it's lively, and the things produced there are sold here as soon as possible."

"It's so dangerous, are there anyone going there?"

"Man is dead because of money. He always dares to go to the depths of the dense forest with bold people."

"for what?"

"Anything is OK, like some precious raw materials for magic potions, or go in and catch some living monsters." said the shopkeeper.

"Monster? Are you talking about those cat people?" Alvin thought of the slave traders he saw on the street just now.

"Catman? Catman is the lowest level, you can catch it without having to go into the forest." The shopkeeper said disdainfully.

"What else?" Alvin couldn't help asking.

"The south can only catch the cat man now?" The shopkeeper was a little surprised and happy. He obviously saw an opportunity to give Alvin science popularization.

"Then what are you catching?" Alvin asked as he said.

"In recent years, it has been a conch horse, ice and fire camel, and you can catch one or two ends in just a month." The shopkeeper opened his words with a smile on his face, "It's rare, like a double-headed Qilin, you can see one in one or two years."

When Alvin heard the strange names such as "conch horse, ice and fire camel, and two-headed unicorn", hesitated for a while, not knowing what expression to deal with, so he just nodded slightly in the end and did not show much shock. After all, he had fought with terrifying monsters such as the two-legged flying dragon and the giant ridge ice dragon, and it was difficult to pretend to make an interesting expression at this time.

Seeing Alvin's calm expression, the shopkeeper felt a little disappointed, and thought to himself: "Yes, he was a cruel man who killed monsters all the way. He said that the other party might have seen all these, maybe even killed them, and maybe even killed a lot, but he was embarrassed to refute his face at this time."

But Alvin finally gave face and asked with a smile: "Old shopkeeper, I have never heard of all this? What is this conch horse? What is an ice and fire camel? And this two-headed unicorn, why is it so rare?"

When the shopkeeper heard Alvin ask this, his face smiled again. Regardless of whether Alvin really wanted to ask, he explained happily: "Young man, let me tell you, this conch horse is very interesting. Usually, it looks like a conch shell hunched on the back of a white horse. At night, it will shrink into the shell to sleep, and it can't wake up no matter how it sounds."

"It means you can't ride at night?"

"I can't ride it normally. I have that big thing on my back. Why do I sit on it?"

"What should I buy it?" Alvin laughed.

"Take a cart. Don't be too majestic for this thing?" said the shopkeeper. "How grand would those nobles take a cart pulled by conch horse when they go out?"

After saying that, the shopkeeper squinted his eyes and looked at Alvin, "Look at me, you are also a nobleman, are you?"

"Can you tell me about my son what title he is now? Or has he not inherited his family's title yet?

"The shopkeeper had a little idea of ​​climbing along the way, "And, the girl who came with you is not small, right?"

Alvin smiled without complaining and said nothing more.

"I have never seen such a beautiful person in my life." The old shopkeeper sighed, then raised his drooping eyes and asked curiously: "That's strange. What are you doing with your noble identity in that mountain range?"

"It's a coincidence." Alvin smiled and made excuses, "Ha, why did it come to me? You haven't finished talking about it yet. What are the ice and fire camels and the two-headed unicorn?"

"Oh, the ice and fire camel, it looks similar to a camel, but its two camels are as cold as ice cubes, and the other is as hot as a soldering iron baked by fire." The old shopkeeper's interest in Alvin at this time obviously exceeded his enthusiasm for introducing these monsters to him.

"Then this thing can't be seated. Why do you hear that the monsters you caught are not very practical?" Alvin naturally knew what the shopkeeper was going to ask, so he kept talking, "Where is that kind of thing that is popular and unused, right?"

"You can't always think about using these monsters as animals," the shopkeeper murmured. He was still immersed in his guess about the identities of these two young people, a little absent-minded. "I also heard that monsters caught in some places can learn to speak."

"A parrot?" Alvin asked seriously.

"Hey, you are so fond of telling jokes," the shopkeeper was amused by Alvin. "He said he had a goat face, but he walked with two legs. Not long after he was bought by a nobleman, news came out that the monster had learned to speak human language."

When Alvin thought of those leopards, he thought that as long as he was with them for a while, they would soon learn some human language. "People in this town go to the forest to hunt monsters from time to time. The monsters living inside should hate humans very much." Alvin thought to himself, "No wonder he could see red wine bottles inside, it should be these people who brought them in."

"Then you are so lively here because there are those merchants selling monsters waiting here?" Alvin asked again.

"That's right? In addition to the merchants coming and going, you see, the idle mercenaries on the street are waiting to make up for the shortcomings of the demon hunting team. There are also many thieves hiding in the dark, specifically targeting those merchants who bring money to buy monsters. The church people have only started to come in the past few years." The shopkeeper said.

"Are they really just here to preach?" Alvin thought that the Light Orthodox Church had been coveting those Luojings. Will these churches in the north also have such motives?

"Or what else can there be?" The shopkeeper looked at Alvin in confusion.

Alvin did not continue discussing the topic again, and got up and walked to the window, admiring the minstrel's singing, "This minstrel is quite interesting."

The group of missionaries, nuns and priests who had just fallen into confrontation had already left, and only some people were still gathered by the bards, listening to the sound of the piano and the song intoxicatedly.

"It's interesting, this guy's eyes shine when he sees a girl. Who in this town has never been teased by him?" said the old shopkeeper hatefully, "I don't have the ability to play the piano and sing music. What's the use of?"

For some reason, the old shopkeeper suddenly made a big mistake in his demeanor and kept talking slander.

Alvin glanced at the girl who was still waiting inside, thinking that this bard probably teased his daughter a lot.

At this time, Onian finally changed her skirt.

"Wow, girl, you are so beautiful!" The shopkeeper's daughter exclaimed in such amazement when she saw Onian walking out of the fitting room. She covered her mouth with her hands, not wanting her screams to look too rude.

Even though Alvin was used to Onian's thrilling charm, he still had to admire her for being able to easily control such a skirt. This is a typical country girl style. The upper body of the dress is a simple ivory white waist-closing shirt, and the two cuffs have a stacked design, which looks quite fashionable. The lower half is a dress with a ink bottom, and a layer of brown obliquely cut skirt is covered with the top of it. The overall line looks concise and bright. After Onian put it on, a fresh girlish atmosphere hits her face, and he can even imagine the scene of her dancing in the green field, dancing on the ridges of the fields.

"I didn't like it after picking it all, there were only a few sample clothes in the store." Onian said helplessly at Elvin. However, it was like this that a woman was right and wrong. She was clearly satisfied on her face, but she said another statement.

Alvin is not the kind of person who can't hold back and does not offer any exaggerated praise, but the appreciation in his eyes was clearly captured by the shrewd old shopkeeper.

"Then let this one. I feel that time has slowed down when you wait." Alvin said, then he turned around and asked the shopkeeper how much the clothes were cost in total.

"There are 320 Looneys in total." The old shopkeeper had a smile on his face.

This smile reminded Alvin of the old man who sold his staff in the "Lu Zheng" equipment store, "Why are these old guys staring at me and knocking alone? Is it bullying me for being kind or what?"

At the same time, he also complained: "Did this guy secretly turn over my purse while I was changing clothes? How did he know that I had less than four hundred Luni left on me?"

Onian noticed the dilemma that flashed across Alvin's face and guessed roughly what was going on. Onian's cheek also had a hint of shyness. It was the first time for a princess in her life. She was a princess who never had to worry about money. After she went into exile, she always had Alvin's care for her, and she didn't have to worry about this issue. But things in the world were unpredictable. Who would have thought that the two of them would be inexplicably swept to the north in the fight with the ice dragon. You should know that Alvin's boxes were still on the airboat.

But I still have to thank the black fog for not taking away Alvin's money. If that's true, it would be an unimaginable embarrassment now.

"Org..." As soon as Onian spoke, his words were blocked by Alvin's crisp payment action.

Alvin, who was supreme in aristocratic etiquette, calmly placed a stack of Looney on the counter, and didn't even pay the price.

The old shopkeeper nodded and smiled, and asked his daughter to take a look at it.

Alvin took Onian's hand and went out of the store without looking back.

"There's no money." Not long after I left the door, Alvin said in an announcing tone, as if the country's finance minister was making statements to the king.

"I know." Onian smiled heartlessly by Alvin's serious tone, as if he had forgotten his predicament just now, "What should I do?"

"What can I do?" Alvin turned his face and looked at her, "I'll find a way to earn."
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