Chapter 10 Procurement
A night passed, and the book would not be repeated.
When Charles woke up, the sun was already rising. Last night, he told Hongye that the story of himself and Mira had been gone all night, and he fell asleep.
Charles, who opened his eyes, found that the morning sun shone through the window on Hongye's body beside him. The actual age of Hongye could not be seen from the outside, because the part above her neck was younger than her actual age, and the part below her neck exceeded her actual age.
At this time, Hongye leaned against the edge of the bed, playing with Charles' mask. Her tail was shaking and accidentally swept Charles' face several times.
While taking a shower last night, Charles' mask was ordered to take it off by the strange aunt who had checked him.
After one night, Charles roughly learned about the difference between subhuman orcs and humans.
This can only be said to be a joke from the Creator.
Most of their body structures are the same as humans, with only their limbs, tails and partial facial features that maintain some similar characteristics to animals.
For example, Hongye and his mother have a layer of short hair that is as red as their hair on the back of their shoulders and their legs are the same. Their nails are much harder than humans, and they hurt particularly when pinching them.
As for the tail, they didn't feel anything special after being caught.
Seeing that Charles was awake, Hongye touched his head and said, "Get up, wash up and go for breakfast."
Charles nodded, got up and put on his clothes, and then reached out to ask Hongye for a mask.
"Don't wear it at home." Hongye pinched Charles' face, "I heard that there are many ways to recover, don't be sad."
Charles nodded.
My own home, this is the first person Charles said to him after his disaster.
Without family, even the rebuilt Meccaden Manor is just a beautiful house.
Aunt Cilantro prepared breakfast for the two of them before going out early in the morning, and a pot of corn porridge with dried meat was added.
During breakfast, Hongye asked Charles: "Your mask can change the appearance, right?"
Charles nodded.
"Then you change it, at least reveal your eyes." Hongye said with a bitter face, "When I met you yesterday, I felt like I looked at you, but I couldn't see your eyes, which made people feel a little creepy."
"Because the wind and sand were strong when we entered the city, we closed our eyes." Charles made an excuse, "It can be seen anyway."
"It's really useful." Hongye sighed, "This mask can play a very good role in the wild and fighting."
After washing the pots and dishes after breakfast, Charles put on the mask with his eyes open and went out with Hongye.
While locking the door, Charles found that the blackboard beside the door read "North of the grassland, heavy rain turns to cloudy, south wind, slightly cool."
First, I went back to the hotel where the caravan was staying to find Aubrey to report. After learning that he was still free today, Charles, led by Hongye, purchased the equipment and supplies needed for the next journey.
Although Hongye was only fourteen years old, after accidentally discovering the skills of a beast trainer at the age of nine, she followed the herders to the grassland to look for available cubs.
But there was no cub that suited Hongye's wishes. Last night, she originally planned to buy the two cubs to practice, and then sell them to merchants in the south after training, but a time traveler emerged halfway.
Hongye, who has experience in outdoor travel and is familiar with Corn City, did not take Charles to those shops, but directly took him to the workshops of various craftsmen to buy them directly.
Since many children have gone north to graze with their families since childhood, equipment suitable for Charles' figure is not difficult to buy.
Storage rings are high-end luxury goods, and they can't get a few of them when they sold Harkara at the price last night. Moreover, because of the difficulty in making and the production is limited, they are generally priceless. The great nobles all rely on their family accumulation to store one or several. Except for Charles, only Elizabeth and Aubrey in the caravan. Richard still understands the truth that wealth is not exposed, so he bought a leather backpack to pack some daily necessities and commonly used clothes.
In addition, he also bought two pairs of leather boots and two dozen over-knee stockings.
Well, that's right, that kind of stockings.
In the wild, a pair of sturdy stockings can prevent blood-sucking bugs from getting into the legs of their pants to suck blood.
However, the silk of these stockings is made of spider silk. Hongye said that some animal trainers will train a special spider. The daily task of those spiders is to eat full and then produce silk. The yield of these spider silk is higher than that of silk, but the diameter, weight, color and softness are still incomparable to silk.
There was no middlemen making a difference, and the morning purchase left Charles with a lot of money.
At noon, the two who completed the procurement task were having lunch at a roadside stall.
The beets in the north have not been bred and have not high sugar content. They are generally only eaten as sweet vegetables.
Cut the beets into a pot, simmer with water until boiling, and sprinkle a pinch of salt. This is the beet soup commonly eaten by ordinary people in the Corian City. If you add a few small copper, you can see some minced pork in the soup. If you give a copper, the boss will add an egg to you.
Charles and Hongye and ordinary diners each ordered a bowl of beet soup and a piece of black bread without wood chips. They broke the black bread hard and put it in the soup to soak it softly before eating it slowly.
The caravan had to stay here for a few days to purchase goods, so Aubrey had a family here after Charles had family, so he spent the holiday with his family and just came to sign up every morning.
Later, Charles learned that this was a caravan’s routine. Caravans sometimes stayed at the team members’ hometowns or where the team members’ lovers were. At this time, the caravans would give these people a holiday.
Therefore, Charles asked Hongye during dinner what activities there were in the afternoon.
"Let's go to the court to check it out, and the morning verdict will be announced in the afternoon." Hongye didn't say that, Charles almost forgot about this.
"Then let's go to the trading ground to check it out." Hongye continued, "Although it's off-season, there are still many good things there occasionally."
Hongye got a lot of money through the two young wolves last night. She was thinking about whether she wanted to buy something for her brother to defend herself.
Charles wondered if he would buy something for Aunt Hongye and Cilantro to commemorate him.
The courts of Sumi City are located in the administrative district north of the city and are one of the rare stone buildings. In other words, the buildings in the administrative districts that are the last line of defense in the city are all made of stone.
The court building has no characteristics, just a square three-story building. If the door is not inlaid with balance stone carvings representing the law, it will be no different from the tax bureau next door.
Start with the words of local residents, as long as it can be used, it is enough.
The lawsuit this morning seemed to have been going on for a long time. When Charles and Hongye came to the court, they saw Aunt Coriander with a tired face and Harkala, who was still slapped in her chest, walked out of the gate.
Charles waved to the two, "Auntie Coriander, Harkala, you'll win the lawsuit."
At this time, Harkala suddenly hugged Aunt Cilantro beside her and cried, "Wuwuwu... If there wasn't an aunt here, I would have been sold..."
Charles and Red Leaf have a black line. Harkara is ten times older than Coriander. Is this really okay?
At this time, several more elves walked out of the court.
Because the case involved elves, Elizabeth brought several elves from the caravan guards to listen.
Elizabeth walked over and gave Harkala and Charles one by one, his head broke down, "You two are not very capable, they have a big trouble. They will deal with you when they go back."
After thanking Cilantro, Elizabeth left.
Coriander also went back to rest with a tired look on her face.
I learned from Harkara that Yadunis is still a little capable.
At the beginning, Charles and Hongye grabbed the two wolf cubs and raised the price ten times as a result of Charles being deliberately defrauding. However, Coriander solved this one without cause and effect in the two transactions.
Then Yadunis insisted that Charles knew that Harkala would not follow him, but still accepted his magic crystal. As a result, Harkala said that she and Charles had known each other for less than ten days, and Coriander said that Charles was not familiar with Harkala, and this one was not true.
In the end, Yadonis thought that Charles made up his life experience and Halkara called Master Charles misleading him. Then Halkara "hehe" his face and called the boss's younger brother Master, what's strange about it? Coriander said that Charles' sister Mira was studying at the Theological Seminary of Light, and that place spent money like flowing water.
Then, there was nothing. Because the most basic point in this case was that Yadunis wanted to force Harkala to be his slave. No matter how he broke it, the slave contract magic came out at that time, and the hotel staff who arrived first could take charge.
In this era, the judge's judgment was largely subjective judgment, so the judge believed that Yadunis's refutations were not the reason for him to force Harkala to become a slave, so he fell into trouble.
Yadunis was dissatisfied and shouted to appeal.
Then he was punished by the feudal iron fist. The court dragged him to deal with the fine despite his just a ten-year-old child.
When Harkara finished the trial process, the three of them walked around the tax bureau next to them and came out.
Since the judgment was made, the transaction last night was established. Such a large amount of transactions naturally had to be paid tax. As a result, when the tax bureau staff saw that it was Earl of Madgarden who came in person, they told him that everyone from the Meccaden family was exempt from tax on the prairie. Usually, even the fortune telling shop of Cilantro is exempt from tax, let alone the Earl himself.
Chapter completed!