It's a bit funny to say that Claude has been the supervisor of the Norman Forest Farm for more than two months, but he has not received a salary. When Lady Maria returned to the capital, in order to help Claude stay in
The forest farm not only wrote a letter to Mr. Morsan, but also left a gold ticket worth ten gold crowns.
This is a gold ticket issued by the National Bank of the town. It means that there is an account in the bank with ten gold crowns stored. You can use this gold ticket to withdraw ten gold crowns, or you can withdraw money in pieces many times. You just need to
Just exchange this golden ticket into an account book.
The golden ticket that Mrs. Maria left to Mr. Morsand means that Claude will be the supervisor of her family's forest farm, and his monthly salary will be drawn from the account of this golden ticket.
Lord's father, from this golden ticket it can be seen that Lady Maria valued Claude, so that he would not prevent Claude from becoming a forestry supervisor.
Ten gold crowns is a huge sum of money to the common people of White Deer Town, but to Madam Maria, it is just a small amount of money. Use this small amount of money to do Claude a big favor, allowing him to leave home and be free in the forest farm
Madam Maria is still very happy to practice meditation, learn magic, and learn pharmacy at the same time.
Especially after Claude gave all the magic array structure diagrams of his five rare basic spells to Madam Maria, Madam Maria felt that she owed Claude a big favor, so she got her.
Before leaving, he went to the town hall and wrote a letter to Mr. Morsan to hire Claude as the forest farm supervisor. He left this golden ticket to force Mr. Morsan to agree. Because if Mr. Morsan refused, it would mean that
He offended Lady Maria.
This is also the reason why Claude became the director of the Forestry Farm in Normandy before he turned eighteen. Many people in the town envied Claude for his good luck.
It was a job with a good salary that was comparable to that of his father, Mr. Morsant. However, Claude had money around him at that time and never thought of asking for a salary from his father.
It's just that Claude didn't expect that doing alchemy magic experiments would cost so much money. Not to mention the expenses he spent on decorating his small study, just buying the raw materials for the experiments and the medicinal ingredients for the primary healing potion cost him almost all the money around him.
Now there is less than one silver tale left, which makes Claude suddenly feel like a pauper.
There were results, including more than forty crystal potion tubes and twenty bottles of perfect quality primary healing potions. In addition, he also put the captured daggers and hunting crossbows into the alchemy magic talisman array and practiced it again, but he still didn't know how.
There was no mention in Master Landers's diary about enchanting it, so he just enhanced the strength of the dagger and hunting crossbow and changed their original appearance. There was also a gain, that is, he understood how to alchemize magic talismans.
Exercise metal objects in the array.
If Claude wants to continue his experiments with alchemical magic, the first thing he has to solve is the funding problem of materials. He still has nine Sullivan gold coins in his hand, but if he takes them to Julian's shop to exchange them, Claude
I feel a bit disadvantaged. After all, the underground magic market uses Sullivan gold coins as the standard trading gold coins. Claude doesn't know whether he will go there to buy any combat spells or magic materials in the future, so these nine Sullivan gold coins
It's better to keep it.
Master Landers also mentioned in his diary how to create a Sullivan gold coin in the alchemy magic spell array. He said that when he was promoted to a second-level rune mage, he made Sullivan's gold coins in the magic tower for a period of time.
Gold coins. He can make up to seven Sullivan gold coins a day, for which he was awarded a commendation by the master of the magic tower, the Seventh Ring Master of Lornk. Because other magicians can only make five Sullivan gold coins a day, Rand
Master Si received his first Sullivan gold coin as a reward.
Claude is only a first-level rune mage and cannot yet make Sullivan gold coins in the alchemy magic spell array. Moreover, making a Sullivan gold coin is not that simple and requires the assistance of four other magic materials. Among them is a kind of magic.
The material, lapis lazuli powder, has disappeared on the continent of Farea. It is only produced on the island of Shigros where the evil magician is entrenched. So I want to melt two or three gold crowns to make a Sullivan gold coin and exchange it to make a fortune.
Dreams are impossible to achieve.
On the way home just now, Claude suddenly thought of his salary. Three silver thalers a month, so there are six silver thalers in two months. This is enough for him to buy the cheapest raw materials to make some alchemical magic.
Experiment. For example, I have thought about it before, I can try to make a barrel and other accessories in the alchemical magic talisman to see if I can make a flintlock gun. Anyway, metal ore is very cheap.
Maybe with more experiments I can invent a revolver...
Mr. Morsan raised his head in surprise and looked at Claude: "No money? I remember that after you sold your Niros crocodile, you got five silver thalers. How did you spend all the money?"
Already?"
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Father, this happened a year ago. I had already spent all the money I received at that time. Now I am learning pharmacy knowledge, and I have to do many experiments myself to understand it. Buy those
The medicinal materials and test equipment materials will cost a lot of money..."
Not to mention five silver thalers, if Mr. Morsan knew that Claude actually spent fifteen gold crowns this year, he would have a heart attack or become furious. Money is hard to earn but not spent, no matter what
This is a truth no matter what the world is.
Claude once asked Boker to sell a Sullivan gold coin for a high price of fifteen gold crowns. At that time, he had not yet met Madam Maria, and he did not know that Sullivan gold coins could be exchanged for two gold coins in the underground magic market.
Ten gold crowns.
At that time, Claude thought that these fifteen gold crowns were enough for him to spend for several years, so he always spent a lot of money. Anyway, he thought he would buy some delicious food for his younger brothers and sisters, some new clothes, some good meals with his friends, and some books.
A new book doesn't cost much, and I don't go looking for women or gamble, so I can't treat myself badly now that I have money.
In fact, the cost is really not that much, only about two gold crowns a year. But Claude himself did not expect that after meeting Madam Maria, he would learn about Julian, the fat old man's underground purchasing point.
News, and the magic materials that set up all the configurations of the alchemical magic array were also found there.
So now his wallet couldn't be closed, and his savings flowed out like water. The alchemy magic talisman array still cost Sullivan gold coins, but there were two more gold crowns. But with the alchemy magic talisman array,
He had to decorate the room and buy furniture, and also spend money to buy raw materials and medicinal materials for alchemy magic experiments. These alone cost nearly ten gold crowns. Among other things, raw crystal ore was very expensive, and Claude spent a lot of money on it.
After purchasing more than twenty silver talers, only more than forty crystal potion tubes were made...
Mr. Morsant stopped talking. He knocked the pipe in his hand into an iron ashtray on the table, stood up, and said to Claude: "Follow me."
Claude followed his father to the study room on the second floor. Mr. Morsan sat down behind the desk, took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, found a small copper key, opened the desk drawer, and took out a green cover
A small book with the gold National Bank emblem on it lies on the table:
"This is the account book of ten gold crowns that Madam Maria opened for you. Originally, she entrusted me to pay you a salary every month. But you have grown up and you will be an adult after this year, so I
I leave this account book to you, and you can draw your own salary from it in the future. I am very busy and have no time, so I often forget to pay you a salary, so you are responsible for it. In addition, I hope you have self-control.
Don’t withdraw money that doesn’t belong to you yet, do you understand what I mean?”
Claude nodded, but in his mind he was thinking about going to the bank to withdraw more money, so that he could buy more materials for experiments.
Mr. Morsan sighed and pushed the green National Bank account book on the table to Claude.
Claude took a step forward and picked up the account book: "Thank you, father."
"Claude, you are a smart child. The older you get, the more sensible you become. Maybe we, the Field family, will look after you in the future. You should take more care of your younger brothers and sisters in the future and don't make your mother angry..." Mr. Morsan's face
He smiled reluctantly.
There seemed to be something wrong. Claude always felt that the atmosphere at home was very strange, especially that his father would say such a thing. This was really strange.
"Father, are you okay?" Claude looked at Mr. Morsan.
Mr. Morsan waved his hand and picked up his pipe again: "It's okay. You can go out first. I have something to deal with here."
Claude went downstairs and saw that his sister Angelina had come home from school and was helping her mother wash kohlrabi. Claude walked over and asked her if something happened at home...
My sister quietly told Claude that there was another banquet held at home the night before yesterday. However, the atmosphere of this banquet was not good. There were fierce quarrels, and some guests fought, and finally broke up. My father and several friends
She stayed in the study until midnight, not knowing what was being discussed. Since she had not left her bedroom, she only heard the sounds of quarreling and fighting, and had no idea what was going on.
However, the atmosphere at home has been very depressed these past two days. My father has not been to the town hall for these two days, and my mother is not in a good mood. My younger brother, Booker, once clamored for something delicious, but was beaten by his mother.
We had a quarrel with our mother and are still in a cold war without speaking to each other. As for Albert, he was very sensible and didn't want to be caught between his parents and become a punching bag, so he just didn't go home, and he didn't know where he went.
…
It turned out that his father and mother had a quarrel. No wonder the atmosphere at home was so weird. Claude was relieved that he could not get involved in his parents' family conflicts. They would naturally reconcile in a few days. There was no need to worry about it. It was already five years ago.
It was too late, and the National Bank had already closed. It seemed that we would not be able to withdraw money to buy materials until tomorrow. Claude's mind turned to the experiment of alchemy magic again.
After having a pretty good dinner, Claude went up to the attic to pack the clothes he wanted to take away. He played with his brother and the little snow dog for a long time, touched his sister's hair, said goodbye to his mother and father, and drove the carriage to prepare.
Return to the forest farm.
Next, do some alchemy experiments on metal forging and refining. Tomorrow, after going to the bank to withdraw money, go to the Big Hammer Blacksmith Shop in Zhennan to buy some metal minerals. If you buy a little, it shouldn’t cost a lot of money, but metal
To forge the alchemy magic talisman, you need to purchase some supporting magic materials. For example, I have almost used the white root powder myself, and I still need to buy a box...
While driving the carriage, Claude was calculating how much testing materials he needed to buy, and suddenly he remembered, yes, if you want to make a gun barrel, you can go to Ericson and borrow his matchlock blunderbuss. After all,
The effective range of my alchemy magic talisman array is only one meter, and the barrel of my matchlock gun is one meter and two meters long. It is not that easy to make a barrel of the same length.
If you try to make a short blunderbuss barrel first, you will save a lot of materials, or you can also make a short blunderbuss flintlock gun first, and then change your matchlock gun to a flintlock gun after making sure it works. This is a good idea.
, just do it.
Claude pulled the horse's reins and turned the carriage around, heading towards the Ericson family's private dock.