Claude spent more than an hour in the spring pool not far from the ruins to wash himself clean. Fortunately, he also brought another set of clothes, underwear and socks in his backpack, which he originally prepared
I changed it when I entered the water. Although it was the end of May and the lake was still a bit cold, Claude was more thoughtful and brought the prepared clothes just in case. No one could say whether it would be possible to take a boat to Bailuzhou.
Get off the boat and go swimming…
Simply rinse the dirty clothes with spring water to wash away the mud stuck on them. As for the stains on the clothes, you can take them home and let your mother find a washerwoman to wash them. There is no need to wash them in the wilderness.
Clean and dry the ridge by yourself.
After Claude cleaned himself up and changed into clothes, Vericro, Bockaar, and Ericson had already skinned and cramped the big python, and tied the python skin and tendons together.
Went back to the campsite and hung it up to let the sea breeze blow all night.
The remaining python meat was cut into a large piece from the back according to Claude's request and prepared for dinner. The rest of the python meat was selected by Viricault and cut into long strips, spread with salt, and hung in the same place.
There were snake gallbladders and a pair of snake eyes on the wooden shelf ready for bacon at night. Viricero carefully picked them off and put them into empty bottles. He said these were valuable medicinal materials, and the pharmacy would be happy to buy them at a high price.
Bockaar and Erikson didn't work in vain. They asked Verricro to pull out the two sharp fangs from the python's mouth. After cleaning them, they divided them up one by one. The old man of Bailu Town
It is said that wearing the teeth of venomous snakes can effectively resist the plague. Although this is a folk rumor, Boker and Erikson now firmly believe it.
There are stars on the dark blue night.
At night, four teenagers were eating a feast of python meat around a red bonfire.
"I never knew that python meat could be so delicious and tender..." Bock'ar's mouth was full of oil after eating: "It's so delicious, Claude, you fried it really well..."
"I forgot one thing." Claude said, then he came to the backpack he brought and took out two bottles of kale from the backpack: "Actually, I should pour some wine on it when frying, it will be more fragrant.
It tastes better.”
"Ha...ganlan wine?" Bock'al couldn't help but said, "Did you bring it? This is really an unexpected surprise..."
"Well," Claude nodded: "My father gave me a riaso. I thought there was nothing to buy, so I bought two bottles of kale and brought it over for you to try. But be careful when drinking this.
, it’s easy to get a headache if you drink too much.”
In fact, after Claude took one silver thaler and one riaso given by his father, he originally wanted to hand them over to Boquear to pay off his debt. But when he realized that the debt was one silver thaler and three riaso, he paid the money himself.
I still owed two riaso, but I felt a little embarrassed. It would be better to wait until I have gained something after going to Bailuzhou and pay it all off at once. So Claude didn't pay back the money. Thinking about this
The three friends originally wanted to buy kale wine, but later they borrowed money and ran out of money to buy wine, so they simply bought two bottles and took them there to entertain them.
We didn’t bring cups, so everyone had a wooden plate as cutlery, so the four of us took a sip from the bottle and passed it to the next person.
"By the way, Ike, I forgot to mention something." Claude found the matchlock blunderbuss and handed it to Ericson: "I'm sorry, your blunderbuss was bitten by a python when fighting with the python.
It’s a hole, you see, this is it. If you need to repair it when you get back, please tell me how much it will cost and let me pay for it.”
Erikson's eyes went straight: "Here, why is there a hole here? Claude, how on earth did you kill this big python..."
"It's all thanks to your short gun..." Claude sighed: "At that time, the python had already entangled me. I fell into the mud and couldn't catch the python. It was all covered with blood.
The mud was too slippery. When I saw the python opening its big mouth and rushing towards me, I had to use this blunderbuss to block my eyes. Unexpectedly, the python bit the blunderbuss in one bite.
...Fortunately, it bit the blunderbuss. It was only later that I found out that it had bitten a hole in the butt of the gun, and the blunderbuss was stuck in its mouth. I held on to the blunderbuss desperately, and it shook it desperately.
I shook my head and tried to take the short blunderbuss out of its mouth. At that time, the snake's head was only an arm's length away from me, and it was shaking and shaking. If I hadn't put my finger in the trigger button and squeezed it tightly, I would have said
Maybe this short blunderbuss has been released long ago.
At the critical moment, I saw a torch stuck on the branches of the bush next to me, so I reached out desperately to get it. When I got it, I pressed the torch on the short blunderbuss. With the blessing of the God of War, the match rope on the short blunderbuss was finally lit.
As soon as I saw that the match rope had reached the medicine box, I pressed the trigger, and with a bang, the python struggled for a while and finally stopped moving. I got out of my body, pulled out the short blunderbuss from the snake's fang, and climbed up the rope ladder until I climbed out.
The underground entrance finally took a breather, then reloaded the gun and fired in the air to report the news to you, and then you came back..."
After listening to Claude's story about his life-and-death struggle with a python, the friends were speechless. They could imagine how dangerous the scene was at that moment, and if there was even the slightest mistake, they might never see Claude again.
.
"Actually, it's all my fault..." Viricero finally said after a while: "I was too careless. Because my father and I came twice in winter, I thought there was no danger at all in this ruins.
It's okay for Lord to stay here alone. I forgot that it's the time of spring and summer. The python needs to hibernate in winter and cannot come out, but now is its active period. If Claude didn't kill it, then
Maybe we will be attacked by it tonight. This ruins is actually its hunting ground..."
"You mean this site is actually the territory of this big python?" Bockaar asked.
"Yes, in fact, if we were careful when we came here, we should have found some signs. For example, there were no snakes, insects, rats, or birds in this ruins. All we could see were a few seabirds landing on the pile of rubble over there.
On. This site is so large but not a single seabird has settled there, which is very suspicious. But I still have the impression of winter in my mind, when it was covered with snow and lifeless, so I took it for granted that it would be like that now...
"Vericro replied with some annoyance.
"I don't blame you." Claude laughed: "The matter is over, the boa constrictor is dead, I was not injured, but we got a very good harvest. I only blame Boa for insisting on me
Just because you drank that bottle of antidote and said that your body was not injured does not mean that you are not poisoned, and that drinking it for prevention is also good. Do you know how unpleasant that antidote is? The taste is so weird, bitter, spicy and astringent.
My tongue is numb."
"Drinking the safety point, Boa did the right thing." Erikson said. He took out the python fang he was assigned and inserted it into the hole in the butt of the short gun, and whistled: "Cool.
That's great, Claude, I don't need you to pay any repair fees. In fact, having these fangs is enough compensation. You see, this fang is inserted into the gun stock so securely. I will tell others this when I go back.
The hole in the gun was made by these teeth, let’s see if any of them dare to believe it.”
Viricero took a look and said: "You and Boa, it's best to throw those two teeth into the pot and boil them for about an hour. Although you have washed them with clean water, no one can guarantee that there are
It's not poisonous. It's safer to boil it in water. Otherwise, if you accidentally scratch the skin and get poisoned when you hold it in your hand, you're really asking for trouble."
What Vericro said was very reasonable, and Bockar and Erikson followed suit and immediately started cooking the two python fangs.
After the two of them finished their work and sat down, Claude and Viricault were already smoking and roasting the python meat.
"By the way, Boa, I have something to ask you." Claude said: "When you saw the Sullivan gold coin in the afternoon, you said that it was a pity that it was not a magic Sullivan gold coin. What did that mean? Gold coins still have magic or not.
Difference?"
Bokoal nodded: "Do you know how the earliest gold coins appeared? Who made them?"
"I don't know..." Claude originally thought that it should be made by casting method. In his previous life, he had seen a video on the computer that said that in ancient times, gold coins were made by first making a mold with clay, then pouring the molten gold solution into the mold, and so on.
After cooling, crush the clay mold, and finally trim the edges of the gold coin to complete the production of a gold coin. This is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and each gold coin is slightly different, because it is impossible for two clay molds to be made exactly the same...
But considering this is a different world, Claude honestly admitted that he didn't know.
"It is said that the earliest gold coins were made by magicians more than four thousand years ago." Boker said: "Don't look at me, this is a record in the coin collection. It is said that people at that time were used to bartering, which gave magicians
The material transaction caused a lot of trouble. Later, a magician used precious dark gold to make small round cakes as equivalents for transactions between magicians.
But dark gold is a magic material, and the output is not high, so magicians use gold and add one gram of dark gold to make gold coins. The pattern is a magician in a cloak, named after the magician who made dark gold pancakes.
To name it, this is the Magic Sullivan Gold Coin.
Because this magic Sullivan gold coin contains one gram of dark gold, many magicians who get this gold coin melt it and extract the dark gold as a material for magic experiments. As a result, this kind of magic Sullivan gold coin becomes increasingly rare.
, it is said that only the Kingdom of Hicks in the northern part of the mainland still has one, and it is regarded as a national treasure.
The earliest gold coins were all cast by magicians. They used alchemy to easily and accurately cast identical magic Sullivan gold coins. As long as they had the dark gold, they could cast as much as they wanted. Anyone could cast it.
But as magic materials became increasingly scarce, their prices began to rise, and mining of dark gold became increasingly difficult. Magicians were no longer willing to cast dark gold into gold coins. So more than two thousand years ago, there was no dark gold.
The gold coin appeared, also called the Sullivan gold coin, but without the word magic. At that time, one magic Sullivan gold coin could often be exchanged for dozens or even hundreds of Sullivan gold coins.
The emergence of Sullivan's gold coins quickly moved from the world of magicians into the trading market of ordinary people. It was initially popular among magic aristocrats, but soon spread to all parts of the mainland. Sullivan was used in almost all large transactions.
Gold coins to settle.
However, all gold coins at that time were cast by magicians through alchemy to ensure the precise gold content of each gold coin. This became an unbearable burden for magicians, who were unwilling to spend magic power and alchemy.
Materials were needed to make these gold coins for mortals. So they came up with a way, which was to make seven sets of gold coin molds and give them to seven magic nobles to specifically mint gold coins for mortals.
It was these seven sets of gold coin molds that inspired ordinary people, so silver coins and copper coins also appeared, completing the three value systems of high, medium and low for the entire market currency. However, because those seven sets of gold coin molds were awarded by magicians, in
In the dark calendar era, the gold coins circulating in the mainland only had those seven patterns. On the contrary, there were various changes and choices in the patterns of silver coins and copper coins.
According to the Encyclopedia of Coins, there were only seven kinds of gold coins at that time, but there were 143 kinds of silver coins, and there were more than 800 designs on copper coins. Basically every nobleman and merchant who owned a copper mine would cast copper coins with a pattern of his own for circulation.
In the market, it brings great difficulties to currency exchange.
It was not until the establishment of the Amslang Dynasty that the types of gold coins began to increase. Later, after the countries fought for independence and formed the current continental structure, countries gradually realized the importance of the currency market, and returned the minting power to the national treasury to regulate their respective countries.
of gold, silver and copper currencies to stabilize the order of the domestic financial market.
The seven sets of gold coin molds that the magician gave to the magic aristocrats were designed with seven kinds of plants and animals. The Sullivan gold coin became the magician's special gold coin, which was specially cast by the magician using alchemy. Among the gold coins, the Sullivan gold coin
His status is one step higher and he is called the king of gold coins.
However, after the establishment of the Armstrong Dynasty, Emperor Riggs O. Hill ordered that Sullivan's gold coins be banned in the Farea continent. All found coins would be melted and recast into other gold coins. This ban is still in effect today. In our case,
The same was true in the kingdom, so that Sullivan's gold coins became increasingly scarce.
Therefore, Claude, it is best for us to keep these Sullivan gold coins you found as a private collection rather than use them outside."