In fact, there is usually nothing going on in the forest farm and it is usually very leisurely.
In addition to coming back from school every day to check with the Scioris, Claude would also stay in the pharmacy laboratory and read a book if nothing happened. Sometimes he would go up the mountain to collect some herbs and come back to do some practice in processing the herbs. For dinner, he would usually make do with something by himself.
Yes, I occasionally team up with Mr. and Mrs. Xioli to cook a few dishes for everyone to try.
The Sioli couple are also very busy, but they are not busy with the work of forest guards, but with their own private work. For example, the two of them opened five or six acres of mountain fields on the hillside, planting some potatoes, rye and other things, and also
Dozens of chickens are raised in a large circle in the forest, and they lay twenty or thirty eggs every day...
However, the Xioli couple also obtained the permission of Mrs. Maria to do these private work. Speaking of which, the Xioli couple can be regarded as members of the Normanli family. The couple has a son and a daughter, both of whom are adults, and signed a contract with the Normanli family.
After signing a domestic servant agreement, they worked as servants in the Viscount's Mansion in Normandy, the royal capital. The elder brother was the Viscount's personal servant, and the sister was the Viscount's personal maid. The Sioli couple were just looking for a pensioner when they worked as foresters at the forest farm.
place.
The forest farm in White Deer Town has only two uses for the Normanry family. First, it is the origin of the family. Baron Alpheus was born here. Although he was a shoemaker in White Deer Town, his father was from this forest farm.
ranger.
The second is to use it for vacation. Madam Maria likes the purity here very much, and even specially built a pharmaceutical laboratory. She comes to this forest farm every year to spend a leisurely time. Here she can just do experiments instead of in the royal capital.
I often have to interrupt the experiment to greet patients who come to seek medical treatment...
The area of this forest farm is about 73 hectares. In the Kingdom of Overas, one hectare is one hundred acres. The three hills near the manor villa are privately owned by the Normanry family. In the past fifty years, there has been no forest farm.
Timber felling and production have resulted in dense forests and overgrown weeds, showing signs of development into virgin forests.
Such a large-scale forest farm is only guarded by two forest guards, Mr. and Mrs. Sioli. Their biggest responsibility is to patrol the entire forest farm along the mountain road at intervals. As long as no one is found to cut down trees, everything will be fine. Now there are more
One Claude served as the forest farm supervisor, so the inspection task was handed over to Claude.
For Claude, patrolling the forest farm is a very simple task. He only needs to carry a matchlock and ride the black horse Jamie along the mountain road. It will not take an hour. Unless he sees pheasants, rabbits, etc.
Prey or picking some medicinal herbs. Besides, he doesn't need to patrol every day. He can just go to the top of the mountain every two or three days and look down. It's clear at a glance whether there are any trees that have been cut down illegally, and even if someone comes to cut down illegally, he will not follow them.
They can't move out on the mountain road...
When the Sioli couple visited the forest farm, they would bring a big rattan basket and pick some mushrooms and other wild products along the mountain road, dry them and sell them in the open-air market to get some pocket money for themselves. Claude didn't have this need.
, he spends most of his time in the pharmaceutical laboratory reading or processing medicinal materials.
I go to school during the day and come back to inspect the forest farm after school. Occasionally, I go home to chat with my parents, play with my younger siblings and the snow dog for a while, and then go back to the forest farm. At night, I spend time in the pharmacy laboratory reading books and learning pharmacy knowledge by myself.
When he had free time, he would go to the forest farm and nearby mountains to pick herbs and process them. Claude lived a simple and fulfilling life.
Knowing that he was now engaged in business, the three friends rarely came to see him at the forest farm. Bockaar was busy learning business from his father, and worked as a clerk in his own business every day after school. While Erikson and Wei
Ricklo hung out with him, either fishing or sailing on Lake Beringa in a small fishing boat and casting nets. Occasionally when the harvest was good, he would bring a few fish to Claude for a meal in the forest farm before going back.
Currently, apart from practicing meditation, Claude spends the rest of his time researching primary healing potions. He basically collects a batch of medicinal materials and conducts an experiment to refine and synthesize the potion. What makes him regretful is that the refining and synthesis of primary healing potions
It's not that easy either. After more than a dozen experiments, only three tubes of the medicine were successfully extracted and synthesized, and there is no guarantee whether it has therapeutic effect.
Claude is going to set some more serial traps in the weeds and bushes deep in the forest farm, and catch a few live pheasants, mountain rabbits, etc. to test the medicine. To see if the primary treatment medicine he refined and synthesized has any effect.
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The book said that high-quality primary healing potions can be distinguished by their color, which is clear and greenish. But when Claude looked at the three tubes of potions he had refined and synthesized, he always felt that the color was a bit turbid. This was why he did not dare to use a knife.
The main reason for the efficacy of these three tubes of medicine that I extracted and synthesized by cutting a slit on my arm was tested.
The next day, Claude got his wish and caught three fat rabbits and two pheasants in the place where he placed the trap. It seems that there are few people coming and going in the Norman Forest Farm, and there are a lot of these small prey, so he can catch them a few more times.
It was approaching the end of October and winter was coming. These mountain rabbits and pheasants looked very fat. Claude felt that it was a pity to use them for chemical testing.
Claude, who returned to the pharmaceutical laboratory, picked up a fat rabbit and made a large wound on it with a knife. Blood spurted out. He pulled out the pine plug on the glass tube, poured the medicine on the wound, and then applied it to the wound.
Throw the rabbit in the cage and watch it struggle.
Half an hour later, Claude found that the wound on the rabbit's body was no longer bleeding, but the rabbit was also hard and out of breath. It was obvious that the three tubes of primary treatment potions he refined and synthesized were not up to standard. No wonder Madam Maria always
He warned that when doing pharmaceutical testing, one must do every step carefully and meticulously, otherwise it would be a trivial matter to refine and synthesize the pharmaceutical to be ineffective. The biggest fear is that it will turn into poison, which will not cure people but harm them.
Perhaps it is a problem with the processing of medicinal materials, insufficient separation or filtering problems? It has to be said that the steps for processing medicinal materials with those instruments are too complicated. Claude remembered that Master Landes also recorded detailed elementary instructions in his diary.
Regarding the steps for making a healing potion, he said that this is the simplest alchemical experiment. In the alchemical magic talisman array, a rune mage can easily refine a perfect quality primary healing potion...
Claude remembered the address that Madam Maria gave him before she left. This was the underground magic market's underground purchasing point in White Deer Town. It was still early, so he should go shopping to see if there was any suitable magic.
Items are for sale. If you are lucky, you may be able to purchase the magic materials to set up the alchemy magic array.
Claude felt that the biggest difference between himself and Madam Maria was that Madam Maria regarded herself as a pharmacist and did not care much about her identity as a magician. But Claude regarded magic as his first choice.
He believed that there was absolutely no need for him to conduct potion experiments without magic like Madam Maria.
As long as an alchemy magic talisman array is purchased, then whether it is a potion test or any other experiment, Claude can completely conduct it in the alchemy magic talisman array, instead of having to deal with medicinal materials as troublesome as it is now, and all the efforts will be wasted if not careful.
He did what he thought of. Claude picked up a fat rabbit and threw it to Sioli, telling him that he was going down the mountain to his mother's house for dinner. Then he pulled the black horse Jamie out of the stable and got into the carriage, and then threw a pheasant on the carriage.
He and a rabbit set off in a carriage.
When I got home, the time was just right, and my mother was just about to start cooking dinner. A fat rabbit and pheasant that Claude brought became the extra dishes. The fat rabbit was braised and the pheasant was stewed. Claude was busy killing the chicken for a long time.
Rabbit, after finishing it, he was pestered by his brother Little Booker to play with the little snow dog for a long time, and soon it was dinner time.
During the meal, Mr. Morsant asked about the forest farm as usual and asked Claude to do a good job and not betray Baroness Maria's trust.
Albert sat aside and just ate and drank. After eating, he went out and walked away without saying a single hello. Claude thought to himself that the rabbits and pheasants he brought were the most edible, but they were not as good at chewing bones as the little snow dogs.
Wagging his tail at himself, he is really worse than a dog...
The mother asked Claude if he would go back after eating. Claude shook his head and said that he still wanted to buy some things for potion experiments. Mr. Morsan reminded him not to spend money indiscriminately and go back early.
Claude did not drive a carriage. The address given by Madam Maria was in the slums. It was not very safe to go there at night. Claude did not want his identity to be exposed. It would be easier to escape alone if something unexpected happened.
It is already dark, and most of the shops on the street have closed. Only the candlelight from the windows of the houses next to the road can barely illuminate the ground. The closer to the slums, the fewer the windows with candlelight, and the pedestrians on the street.
Most people were walking in a hurry, but the old street was bustling with people and brightly lit.
Claude put on a black burqa, which was used to prevent rain. The style was somewhat similar to the raincoat in his previous life. He then wrapped a gray linen scarf around his face, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. This kind of dressing might look good in the daytime.
It's very eye-catching, but here, four or five out of ten pedestrians are dressed like this. Whether they are going to the old streets to have fun or have other purposes, such dressing can best hide their true appearance and appearance.
identity.
Claude once heard Erikson and Bockard say that the old street has now become the romantic place of White Deer Town. Claude used to pass by the old Monk fishing gear and boat supplies store in Valkuri during the day.
When I arrived, I just felt that the old street was desolate. The dilapidated houses made of wood and stone on both sides of the road were closed, and there were only a few pedestrians.
I didn’t expect that the old street would become so lively at night. Almost all the doors on both sides of the street were open. In front of the door stood or sat people who were half-dressed or dressed up in very few clothes.
There are all kinds of women, young, old, fat, beautiful, ugly, and there are even women waving their hands from the upper windows of some two-story houses to solicit business.
Many pedestrians on the street looked back every step of the way, and some approached the woman he was attracted to and discussed the price in a low voice. Either he was pulled into the house by the woman, or the price could not be agreed upon, or he regretted it, causing the woman to curse and the man to yell.
They fled in a hurry. Some women stood boldly in the street soliciting customers, and the pedestrians were not surprised. Instead, they took the opportunity to touch their bodies, causing a burst of teasing and scolding...
Claude looked up at the sky. It wasn't even eight o'clock yet and there were so many people so busy. He thought it was relatively early and there was no one here...
As soon as he avoided the pull of a woman with white powder on her face, Claude heard a somewhat familiar voice. When he looked forward, he saw that it was Albert standing under the eaves not far away with a woman.
They are bargaining. The woman is very aggressive and has a loud voice, meaning don't come if you don't have money. There is no credit for this matter. I won't agree to accompany you for even one penny less...
Claude wanted to laugh, but he immediately remembered that he was also on the old street now. Fortunately, he was wearing a burqa to cover his body and a linen scarf, so even acquaintances would not be able to recognize him. So he acted openly
I walked past Albert and watched him being ridiculed and ridiculed by a group of women.
No. 17 Huashi Lane, Old Street. This was the address written on the note Mrs. Maria gave him.
This Huashi Alley is not big, just big enough to accommodate a transport carriage passing by. The alley is dark without a trace of light, and it is completely different from the candlelight with people coming and going on the old street outside.
Claude noticed that there were four arrogant men standing not far from the entrance of Huashi Alley on the old street. They should be the maintainers of order on this old street. The strange thing is that those four men were very
It was obvious that he was lingering at the alley and was out of tune with the pedestrians on the street, but they only looked at him a few times and did not come to question him. It seemed that the alley had no boundary with them.
Claude thought for a moment, then turned around and entered the alley...