In the past half month or so, the troops arriving at the forest camp have gradually made the somewhat bleak temporary market outside the camp gradually become more and more lively.
Many caravans keenly sensed the business opportunities and gathered from all directions to the foot of the mountain with lush water and grass.
The erected white tents are like mushrooms after the rain, popping up from the hillside one after another.
He Boqiang returned to businessman Larkin's campsite, and just as he was about to get into the tent, he saw the curly-haired boy Gabi sticking his head out of another tent and winking at He Boqiang with a silly smile.
He Boqiang walked over and looked at Gabi quietly.
The curly-haired boy looked at the Warcraft leather armor on He Boqiang with envy, and said with a smile:
"Little Duck, your leather armor is so handsome."
He Boqiang sat on the grass in front of Gabi's tent, and looked at Ganda Earle Mountain in the distance with Gabi.
On the other side of the sea of clouds, a golden sun is about to set over the mountains.
The curly-haired boy lay on the grass and said to He Boqiang:
"Will you go into the mountains with Surdak and the others tomorrow?"
He Boqiang nodded.
"Be careful on the road." The curly-haired boy had some light freckles on his face. When he smiled, his eyes narrowed into slits. He reached into the tent, took out an iron can, and placed it on He Boqiang.
In front of him, he said:
"I thought you might need this..."
He Boqiang took it and felt heavy in his hand.
This thin subway box looks a bit like...
The curly-haired boy said very proudly: "This is canned meat. Larkin invited me and Ulysses to eat it once. It tasted great."
Unexpectedly, there are canned food in this world. He Boqiang felt that no matter how it tasted, it was worth trying.
"It's a bit expensive. I can't buy a few boxes with my monthly salary, but it's very convenient to carry around. Do you want to buy a few boxes?" Gabby said.
He Boqiang nodded, gestured with his hands, and asked the price of this thing.
Gabby's eyes widened, with a hint of joy and disbelief on his face, and asked He Boqiang: "Do you really want to buy it? Actually... I think wheat cakes and dried meat are more economical."
He Boqiang repeatedly expressed his certainty.
Gabicai crawled into the tent like a mouse, took out a few more cans, handed them to He Boqiang, and added:
"Well, actually you don't have to worry about logistical supplies. There will be caravans organizing transport teams to deliver grain and grass supplies into the mountains."
He Boqiang patted the curly-haired boy on the shoulder, saying that he didn't care about it. Then he took off his money bag from his waist, counted out the full amount of silver coins and handed it to Gabi's hand.
These goods were all sold by the boss. Gabby usually set up a street stall to sell them. Gabby counted the silver coins carefully. He had never learned arithmetic, so he could only line up the canned meat in a row, and put enough money in front of each can.
After the silver coins on his forehead were full, he took away the silver coins, while He Boqiang took away the cans.
He Boqiang put six boxes of cans into his backpack and pushed the remaining one in front of the curly-haired boy Gabby.
"Are you going to give it to me?"
He Boqiang nodded.
"Oh, no, no, no, I can't accept your gift..."
He Boqiang did not force it on the curly-haired boy. Instead, he pulled out the dagger from his calf, cut open the lid of the can, and found that there was a whole piece of cooked beef stuffed inside. He tried to cut off a piece with a knife and put it in his mouth.
The beef is very crispy and full of flavor, but the spices are a little special.
Then he handed the opened can and the dagger to Gabi. Gabi's eyes widened, she took it in her hand with a cheer, cut out a large piece and stuffed it into her mouth, and said to He Boqiang: "I think this thing is the same as roasted food."
Oatmeal cakes are a perfect match.”
"I really can't figure out how the orcs put such a large piece of beef into an iron box, and how it can be stored for a long time."
"Now I am particularly envious of the orcs on the Pai Plateau. I heard that when they wandered the wasteland with their cattle, their luggage was full of these things. They ate canned meat just like we eat baked wheat cakes. It's really
I envy the life of those orcs!"
Listening to the curly-haired boy Gabby's continuous sighs, He Boqiang got up and returned to his tent.
Larkin has been bringing in a lot of goods recently, which makes the tent seem more crowded, and even there are some oil paper packages under the bed.
He Boqiang sat on the bed and poured out all the coins from his money bag. Amidst the jingling sound, there was a large pile of silver coins mixed with copper plates, gold coins, and three dove egg-sized magic crystals. This was He Boqiang's entire property.
.
Tomorrow I have to pay the blacksmith to renovate the Roman sword, and more than eighty silver coins will be missing by a dozen.
He Boqiang picked out four gold coins from the pile of money. The money was distributed to He Boqiang after the second team sold the loot.
According to Red Stockings, the money can cover most of his military pay for more than half a year. Since gold coins have larger denominations, silver coins and scattered copper plates are the main currencies in circulation.
Thinking that he was about to leave the forest farm camp, He Boqiang suddenly wanted to go shopping in the market again.
He put the coins into his money bag again by category. When he shook them in his hand, they would make a series of crisp sounds, and he would feel much more at ease in his heart.
After walking out of the tent again, the big man Ulysses had woken up and was sitting on the wooden frame outside the tent holding an iron rod in his hand. His main task every day was to keep vigil at night to prevent the vagrants and thieves here from stealing Larkin.
goods stolen.
He Boqiang and Ulysses waved their hands.
Ulysses said to He Boqiang in a honest voice: "Little Duck, where are you going so late?"
He Boqiang pointed to the market outside and walked straight out.
The sky gradually darkened, and stars appeared one by one in the night sky.
The soldiers in the military camp returned to the camp one after another, making this street deserted.
Some rosin torches were lit in the market, and colorful magic street lamps were set up in front of some stalls. He Boqiang walked along the market stalls one by one, and when he saw some magic cores on the stalls, he would stop and look through them.
The stall owners chatted with him, only to find that this young man who gambled on magic cores didn't say a word. If he had the chosen magic core, he would basically buy it as long as the price was not ridiculously expensive.
However, the stall owners did not see him. They opened any magic core and usually put it into their wallets and left silently.
After walking around in the market, He Boqiang did not expect that he had unknowingly bought eight first-level magic beast cores.
Not only did he take out the eighty silver coins in the purse, he even spent all the four gold coins in the bag.
I saw a small file selling at a stall at the street corner, so I spent five silver coins to buy one. When I returned to the tent, I found that there were only a dozen copper plates, gold coins and a few coins left in my money bag.
The silver coins all turned into eight small magic cores.
He Boqiang was sitting at the entrance of the tent, using the weak street light outside, taking the small file in his hand and filing open the hard skin of the magic core in his hand.
Layers were peeled off.
After filing it for dozens of times, I was shocked to see crystals like broken diamonds appearing inside the magic core.
As the magic core was opened, those fine crystal stones the size of rice grains were scattered in He Boqiang's hands...
He Boqiang was a little dumbfounded. He looked at the finely divided magic crystal in his hand. Unexpectedly, the first one turned out to be a pile of not very valuable magic crystal fragments.
These magic crystal fragments are too broken to be sold for much money, so they can only be ground into powder and used as ingredients for magic ink.
The next five first-level magic cores only produced magic crystal fragments. Four of them were as finely broken as gravel, and only two were distributed in flakes. Only the value of these magic crystal fragments is high.
Slightly larger.
Each of the eight magic crystals can feel a touch of magic.
After grinding it out, He Boqiang discovered that not all magic cores that emit magic power contained magic crystals, and more magic cores only contained some tiny fragments of magic crystals.
He Boqiang was speechless as he opened the hard surface of the last two slightly larger magic cores. Looking at the magic crystals inside that looked like dragon eyes and grapes, He Boqiang breathed a sigh of relief.
This time, I can only say that I did not lose money by betting on the first six magic crystals, and I only made a small profit on the last two...