There is still a thick layer of snow on the roofs of Bena City. Looking across the window, the snow is divided by the criss-crossing streets in the city, forming a clear-cut square.
Pedestrians walked quickly on the street in the cold wind, the temperature dropped quickly, and no one wanted to stand on the street chatting.
The three of them sat side by side on the sofa, holding hot tea in the caravan, looking out the window at Bena City. No one said anything, they just sat quietly, watching the darkness spread like a tide...
No candles were lit, and the light in the room slowly became dim.
In the dim light, Hathaway's eyes were very bright.
She was listening to Suldak's story about returning from the Maca plane and buying a group of kobold slaves in the city of Bena. The slave trader Daxi Jin abandoned a whole ship of kobold slaves at the airport terminal in the city of Helensa.
In the end, they could only transport these unwanted kobold slaves back to Wall Village, and opened a sulfur mine in the territory. A large number of kobold slaves mined there every day.
Beatrice rested her head on Suldak's shoulder and said to Surdak: "I really want to go to Wall Village to take a look at the big dam. Maybe I won't have to come back."
Beatrice felt a little depressed. She drank some wine and her face turned red.
"Sorry, I haven't been able to convince your father yet." Suldak lowered his head and looked at this passionate and round-faced beauty. He felt that she probably wanted to escape from the city, just like she and Hathaway.
As originally planned.
Suldak did not agree with this approach. How could the most important thing in life be done without the blessing of family members?
He put his hands on Beatrice's soft waist and hugged her harder.
"Did you fall ill because of me?" Beatrice rolled her big eyes and looked up at his profile.
Surdak hesitated for a moment and did not say anything about colonizing the dragon bones. He just smiled and said: "It has nothing to do with this matter. Even if it is just a little bit, I am willing to do something for you. I am grateful to the goddess of luck for letting me
Meet you."
"Beatrice and I don't want to see you sick," Hathaway said coquettishly, sitting on the other side.
Surdak could feel that his body was slowly recovering, and there was only a hint of dark red in the sunset outside the window. He said: "It will get better, but it was severely impacted here, but the good news is that I have not completely become stupid.
And I should be able to recover. Being sick this time reminds me of many things from the past."
Hathaway turned around, curled up and leaned on the sofa, supported her head with one hand and said to Suldak: "I remember the first time I met you, you were an infantry captain.
Your face is so angry that I want to stand behind you and kick you hard."
"Haha, you can kick it now if you want. It's a rare opportunity..." After saying that, he hooked Hathaway's delicate neck with one hand and kissed her on the forehead.
Hathaway's green eyes narrowed into a thin line, transformed into an octopus and entangled Suldak, leaned over him and whispered softly: "For the sake of your illness, I will let you go."
The room seemed too quiet. The butler and two maids were waiting uneasily outside the door. He anxiously wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Although Baron Suldak's proposal was successful, he was afraid that the young people in the house would stick together and make some extraordinary moves. For the Luther family, which is conservative in thinking, certain rules cannot be easily exceeded. This
Marquis Luther's face was involved. When he saw that the sky was getting dark, he walked up and knocked on the door. He pressed against the wooden door and reminded inside: "Miss, we should go..."
It was not long before footsteps came from inside the room.
After the wooden door opened, Hathaway and Beatrice walked out of the room. Although their pretty faces were slightly red and their long skirts had many wrinkles, the middle-aged housekeeper still breathed a sigh of relief.
This style of long skirt is very complicated to put on. It takes less than half an hour to put on the waistband and petticoat alone.
They walked out of the room so quickly. Although they definitely weren't just chatting, they didn't do anything too outrageous.
Hathaway and Beatrice walked down the stairs of the hotel, their faces recovered, and followed the middle-aged butler back to the Marquis Luther's Mansion in the magic caravan.
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Sander participated in an auction of magic materials held at the auction house yesterday. He knew that crystallized meat was very expensive, but he did not expect that crystallized salamander meat would be pushed to such a high price by the bidders. When that
The auctioneer cut open a piece of crystallized salamander meat and used a knife blade to scrape off the fire element crystals on it. Those fire element crystals burst into flames on the stand, and the entire auction site was boiling.
A few rounds of bidding pushed the crystallized salamander meat to a height that other attribute crystallized meats could not reach.
Subsequently, two boxes of crystallized salamander meat were successfully auctioned off at high prices. In order to have a chance to cooperate in the future, the auction house even offered to lower the commission by one point and paid the bidding money as soon as possible.
Gave it to Xander.
Butcher shop owner Sander was lying on the wooden bed holding a bag of magic crystals and didn't sleep well all night.
Early in the morning, I got up from bed with dark circles under my eyes, thinking about whether to go to the city hall of Bena City and store this large amount of money there. Although I had to pay a part of the storage fee, it was at least safer there.
.
He got up from the bed, washed his face, pushed open the wooden door of the butcher shop, took down the partition from the window, took out a magic sealing box, placed the magic antelope meat inside on the butcher table, and put the magic antelope meat on the butcher table.
The frozen mola fish was hung on the wooden frame. After finishing these things, he sat on the chair at the door of the wooden house to rest.
At this time, the door of the wooden house next door was pushed open, and a street girl wrapped in a thick woolen cloak came out. She was wearing leather boots, revealing a section of her snow-white calves in the cold weather. She took big steps and walked out quickly.
It was not long in the Magic Free Market. A shirtless strong man walked out of the room. This guy had a thick layer of chest hair on his chest, a beard, and his body was like a strong big stupid bear.
Sander stared at the strong man, smiled at him and asked: "How do these long legs taste?"
The strong man came over and was not polite. He shaved a piece of raw meat from the ice blue deer's leg with a knife and stuffed it into his mouth. He said vaguely: "That's it... Why haven't I seen you open in the past two days? I'm going to do something."
Anything else?"
"Besides cutting meat, what else can I do?" Sande cut another large piece of deer leg and handed it to his neighbor.
The strong man was not polite. He took it and cut it into slices with a knife and put it in his mouth. Then he said: "There are always some magicians coming to you in the past two days, probably because of the salamander you got back last time."
Meat, be careful lately..."
The strong man patted Xander on the shoulder, then stretched his strong arms, grabbed a handful of snow from the eaves, rubbed the snow hard on his hands and face, until his skin turned red, and then took a step forward
Walk back to the cabin.
Sander stood up and sorted out the frozen meat on the meat table, preparing to turn up the small stove in the wooden house, add a little boiling water, and fill his stomach with scones.
Feeling someone behind him, he turned his head suddenly and saw Suldak standing at the door, holding on to the door frame, his face looking a little pale.
Since yesterday, Sander had been looking forward to Suldak appearing soon, and now he was surprised to see his weak appearance.
However, he knew what he should ask and what he should not ask, so he said: "Sir Suldak, why did you come here today? You missed yesterday's auction."
"Sold all the crystallized salamander meat?" Surdak sat down on the stool by the door and asked Sander.
"It's a pity that you missed yesterday's auction. Those salamander meats are very popular. Oh, here are the auction house's records and commission details for each transaction. Take a look first. These are the salamander meat auctions.
All proceeds from above.”
Suldak looked at it carefully for a while, preparing to look for any miscalculations in the account book. He didn't really care about the small amount of money. He just wanted Sander to know that he could understand this sheepskin.
A detailed list on paper. However, Xander calculated every transaction very clearly, and Suldak could not find any problems for a while.
However, the heavy bag surprised him. According to Surdak's estimation, even if there is a premium for the crystallized salamander meat at the auction house, it will not be more than 20% of the value of the salamander meat itself.
This means that the proceeds from this auction should not exceed 300 magic crystals.
But when he took the money bag in his hand, he realized that his estimate was very different from the actual income.
Turning to the last page of the account details, Surdak saw the words "five hundred and thirty-one magic crystals" written on it. Such a crystallized salamander can actually be exchanged for three sets of magic pattern structures. No wonder there are
So many adventure groups go deep into the mountains where monsters roam, risking their lives to hunt down those valuable monsters.
Suldak thought that when he went to find Sander, he wanted to sell the crystallized salamander meat for one gold per pound. If he really sold it like that, he would really lose money to his grandma's family.
Surdak counted thirty magic crystals from his pocket and handed them to Sander. Sander held these bright and shiny crystals in his hands, his mouth widened, and he was so excited that he was speechless. Although he
Selling Warcraft ingredients in the Magic Free Market earns me twenty or thirty gold coins per month, and my annual income is about thirty or so magic crystals.
However, in one transaction, he earned as much as he had in the past year. Counting the magic crystals in his hand, Shan De was still a little excited.
He has never sold ingredients for high-level monsters. One of the reasons was not having so much capital, and the second reason was that he could not find a reliable source. He never thought that such a good thing would be his turn, but now
, with the facts before his eyes, Sande suddenly realized that he was actually lucky.
"When can we get the next batch of salamander meat?" Xander asked excitedly.
Surdak thought for a while and felt that it would not be a big problem to let Gulitem go to the lava cave to cut leeks in a few days.
Then he said: "You probably don't have to wait too long. I've been in Bena City recently. We can still trade in Bena City. I'm afraid it will be troublesome after a while. You may have to take a magic airship to Halanza City to purchase goods."
.”
Sander did not expect that Surdak actually came from Hiranza. He was not familiar with the Tarapagan area in northern Bena Province, so he repeated: "Is it the city of Hiranza?"
Surdak smiled and nodded.
After leaving the Magic Free Market, Surdak found a restaurant, ate some stew and baked wheat cakes, and then walked to the 'Char' pub.
…
The Shire Tavern is usually open in the evening. Suldak arrived a little early. Although the door of the pub was open, the tables, chairs and benches were still piled together inside, and two waiters were doing cleaning work with handles.
, several bar girls were sitting on high stools in front of the bar, looking at each other with exquisite makeup.
They were not very afraid of the cold. Even though the temperature inside the pub was very low, they still only wore black stockings and short skirts and chatted together non-stop.
When Suldak walked to the door of the tavern, he was stopped by a waiter. He said apologetically: "Sir, I'm sorry that we are not open yet. I'm afraid you have to come later!"
Surdak looked inside, then smiled at the waiter and said, "Can I sit inside for a while? I have nowhere to go at this point."
As he spoke, he took out a stack of copper plates from his pocket and put it into the waiter's hand. The waiter grabbed the pile of copper plates and said to Suldak with some embarrassment: "...This does not comply with our regulations. The manager saw it.
, I’m going to be scolded!”
"Let him in!" The bartender yawned, standing at the bar and cleaning the wine glasses.
The waiter then stepped out of the way and bowed his body to invite Suldak into the tavern.
The bartender poured a glass of ale for Suldak, and put a plate of nuts on the bar, and asked Suldak to sit down. The group of bartenders looked at Surdak with a smile, one of them was bold and had a big chest.
The bartender sat down on the high stool next to Suldak and said to him in a teasing tone: "Baron, can you buy me a drink?"
Suldak nodded and motioned to the bartender to pour her a glass of wine as well.
At this time, the ale girl took the opportunity to press most of her upper body against Suldak, blew into his ear and said, "Would you like to come sit with me?"
The bartender pushed a glass of ale over and reminded the bartender: "Hela, he is Sophia's customer. Find someone else to do business with!"
When the bartender heard what the bartender said, she curled her lips, but did not dare to refute. She turned around and left with the glass in hand.
"Wait a moment, Sophia shouldn't have gotten up yet. Just tell me what you want to drink..."
The bartender said to Suldak.
Suldak raised his glass and ordered the bartender, who nodded.
He was eating salted cat's claw nuts. This kind of nut requires a dagger to cut through the hard shell to get the crispy and sweet kernels inside. It was just a good thing to kill time.
Taking a sip of the cold, fragrant ale, his thoughts seemed to drift back to a summer in his previous life.