These radishes were purchased by Ella from various villages along the way. These villages are not the production areas of radishes like the village of Brizania. There are only small-scale cultivation by some farmers for their own consumption. Therefore, Ella spent a lot of money.
It took a lot of effort to successfully buy these three sacks of radishes.
"I'm not the kind of wasteful woman who only knows how to spend money! If I just think about spending money, no matter how much money I have, I will spend it all. But if I use money to buy goods and trade, I can use money to make money!
"
"We all understand the truth, but why did we choose radish as the cargo...?"
"Because radish may replace gold and silver as currency - eh? Why is my radish so damaged?"
Only then did Ella notice the miserable condition of the radishes she had worked so hard to buy.
"My money... all the money I brought with me was used to buy radishes!" Ella jumped up and shouted at the invisible carriage: "Fray Aveney is
Right? You and I are at odds with each other!"
Gottfried and Gregory looked at each other, and finally came to a common conclusion: the girl had either broken her head, or there was something wrong with her head.
A dirty man hurriedly passed by the three of them with his head lowered. When he passed the pile of radishes, he slipped and fell. But he didn't say anything, just got up and continued to move forward.
.
Ella grabbed him and said with an expression as if she was about to swallow him: "Give me back the carrot you just stole!"
"Carrot? What carrot?" The man wanted to pretend to be stupid, but when he turned around and saw Gottfried, he shouted excitedly: "Gottfried? Why are you here in Hamburg?"
Gottfried saw the man's face clearly and shouted excitedly: "Master? Why are you here in Hamburg?"
The man whom Gottfried called master pushed the two radishes that had just escaped into Ella's hand, and then ran over and grabbed Gottfried's hand. These two dirty people
One called "Master" and the other called "Disciple", but neither of them disliked the other.
Ella grabbed the two radishes and stood there in a daze: "Master, master? This thief is Mr. Gottfried's master? Then...should I call him master?"
Gregory coughed, stepped forward and said, "Who is Master Gottfried's master? How should I call you?"
"Habiba." The man announced his name, and then cast his eyes on Gregory. He saw Gregory's tattered clothes at a glance, and immediately pressed Gottfried's head.
, leaned into his ear and asked: "Who is this poor guy?"
"Teacher," Gottfried explained to Habiba, "this is a man I met in the village of Brezania. He wants to learn Kabbalah from you."
"Kabala? Didn't I tell you that this skill can only be passed on to people in our twelve tribes?" Habiba cursed in a low voice, "Who asked you to bring him to me?"
Gottfried had no choice but to tell everything that had happened. After hearing that Gregory offered 40,000 nomis horses to let the bandits free them the next day, Habiba's attitude suddenly changed.
Changed.
"Gregory? My apprentice said you are very hungry for knowledge, which is good! I will accept you as my apprentice!"
Gottfried reminded in a low voice: "Teacher, you just said that Kabbalah can only be passed on to people in our twelve tribes..."
"That was a tradition hundreds of years ago? Others come all the way to learn from it, how can I get rid of it? Let's go, Master, I'm hungry, let's find a place to eat first!"
Habiba, as if afraid that Gregory would escape, grabbed Gregory's arm tightly and dragged him into a tavern. As soon as he sat down, he slapped the table and shouted: "Come here
A whole roasted chicken! Come again..."
Speaking of this, Habiba suddenly paused and looked at the tattered clothes on Gregory's body again for a while.
"...You have money to treat us to dinner, right?"
Seeing Gregory nodding, Habiba became so angry that he slammed the table again and shouted: "One roast chicken is not enough, give me another one... no, two more!"
Gottfried hurriedly poured water for Habiba: "Master, you have been studying Kabbalah in Ditmarschen. Why are you suddenly coming to Bremen now? This saves us the trouble of finding someone."
"Kabbalah? That is already a thing of the past. In the past few years, I have studied alchemy instead!"
"Alchemy?" Ella, who was following, suddenly became interested and pricked up her ears.
Habiba drank the water in the cup in one gulp, then raised one foot on the chair, looked around mysteriously, and then deliberately lowered his voice and said: "Have you heard of "
"Jade Record"?"
Gottfried and Gregory shook their heads, while Ella nodded. However, Habiba ignored Ella and said to himself: "That is the general outline of alchemy, but it has been lost for hundreds of years.
As a result, today’s alchemists have no idea how to transmute metal. But not only did I get a manuscript of the Jade Record, I also deciphered it and understood the starting materials for making philosophers!”
Ella swallowed and asked: "What is the starting material for making the philosopher's stone?"
"There is a saying in "The Record of Jade": The supreme comes from the inferior, the inferior originates from the supreme, and the creation of miracles originates from one. Do you understand?"
In fact, in the original text of "Jade Record" that Ella saw in the Wang Family Library, this sentence should be "The superior comes from the lower world, and the lower comes from the upper world. The creation of miracles comes from one." Considering that Haha
What Biba received was a handwritten copy, and it may have gone through multiple language translations. It is normal for such differences to occur. This difference is within the acceptable range.
But just from this sentence, Ella couldn't tell anything, so she had to ask, "What do you understand?"
"Really, not smart at all!" Habiba scolded Ella, and then explained triumphantly, "The supreme, of course, refers to gold! The supreme comes from the inferior, that is to say, to make
For gold, you must choose the most humble thing as the starting material! What is the most humble thing?"
"...What is it?"
"Do you even need to think about it? Of course it's feces! I've been researching how to turn feces into gold for more than five years!"
——This little difference in the text leads to such a terrifying result.
Ella laughed awkwardly, mentally considering whether to tell Habiba the original text of "Jade Record". At this time, Gregory asked coldly from the side: "So, was it successful?"
Upon hearing Gregory's question, Habiba hurriedly changed the subject: "This... this is the ultimate secret of alchemy. It is easy to be eavesdropped here, so let's talk about something else! Gottfried,
Do you have anything else to ask...?"
"Master, you haven't answered me yet. What are you doing in Hamburg this time?"
"Why, haven't you heard? There will be a large-scale auction here recently, and wealthy businessmen from all over the country will come here after hearing the news. And the list of items for the auction..."
Speaking of this, Habiba lowered his voice again. He looked around seriously, and after confirming that there was really no one around, he continued in a small and almost inaudible voice:
"...There is "The Technique of Chariot Climbing to the Sky""
