my age of magic

Chapter 439 235. Business
The coming of the rainy season means that the Benma River will start to rise slowly, and the river flowing down from the Pai Plateau will fill the entire Xinghu Grassland. When the entire Xinghu Grassland is saturated with water, the excess water will flow along the Benma River. Going downstream, there is a dyke winding nearly 700 kilometers on the south bank of the Benma River, which belongs to the territory of the Green Empire, but the north bank that belongs to the territory of the barbarian tribe is a vast grassland and wetland.

Sufficient rainwater saturates the soil. Barbarians hate walking on wetlands. They hardly have the habit of wearing shoes. If they stay in the wetlands for too long, their feet will be completely soaked, so summer is in the north, barbarians The tribes will continue to migrate north, and they will escape the rainy season of the Benma River.

For El City, this summer is full of vitality.

The caravans coming down from the Pai Plateau have injected new vitality into the city of El. The huge wealth they brought will be shared by the merchants of the city of El, and it will also bring some new business opportunities to the city of El. At the same time, it means that the civilians living in El City have more employment opportunities.In such a prosperous summer, as long as the industrious people will not starve to death in the city of Ayr, of course, it is a different matter if they are foreigners, at least they have to do the hardest work.

This year's summer seems to be extraordinarily long. Standing in the shade of trees, you can feel the heat wave from the hot stone slabs on the street scorched by the scorching sun.

The five stalls of Si Pei's ice shop were crowded with people buying red bean smoothies. I didn't expect that the business of red bean ice would be so good.A month ago, Spei just opened up a small corner in the grocery store. Later, because I realized the skill of 'Ice Wall', Marvin also rented the backyard of the grocery store and rebuilt the empty room there Into a simple ice storage, the most valuable thing in the ice storage is the four ice gathering scrolls, these four scrolls gather water and freeze in the ice storage day and night.

If Instructor Heidi knew that the reason why I learned to draw ice gathering scrolls was to open an ice shop, I wonder if he would freeze me into an ice sculpture angrily and place it at the door of her office.

With sufficient ice sources and the huge business opportunities that followed, Marvin sold the shop next door to the grocery store. After simple decoration, it became the leading ice shop in the small market outside Zhanzheng College.Today, Si Pei, who is in charge of the operation, already has [-] employees under him, but he is still very busy.The red bean ice here is good and cheap. You can buy a small cup of fruity cup for only one copper coin, and you can buy a large cup for three copper coins. In addition, red bean paste is piled on top of the shaved ice, and a tablespoon of honey is poured over it. .

In the hot summer, some college students would rather not have lunch at noon, but rush over to eat a bowl of red bean ice to relieve the heat.

Considering that it is uncomfortable to stand in the sun on the street in such a hot summer, Si Pei built a pergola outside his stall, and set up some benches and square tables for people to rest under the pergola. A simple idea made the ice shop's business better by three points.

Near the end of the term, many students in the academy began to prepare supplies for summer field training, and the scroll of Gathering Fire has been the best-selling scroll in the grocery store recently.

Si Pei put a bowl of red bean smoothie in front of me, and glanced at Ma Wen, which meant to ask him: You see Ji Jia has eaten it, don't you want a bowl?

Marvin pointed to the owner of the ice shop who was waiting anxiously outside, and said to her, "He has been waiting for you for a long time, go and get ice for him."

Seeing Si Pei, who was industrious, almost kept his feet on the ground, his rosy face was covered with a layer of crystal sweat, and he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water. Ma Wen said enviously: "Seeing how happy you are now, I'm really envious."

Ma Wen looked at me disdainfully, waved his hand and said, "Come on, I really envy you. Before that, Ying Li was too low-key in our class, and everyone looked away. Now everyone cares about each other." I'm familiar with her, even if I can't confirm her identity, at least I know that she must be a rich and noble daughter, Jia, you can tell me, are the girlfriends around Ying Li her personal maids?"

Looking at the fire of gossip burning in his eyes, I really don't understand how he usually maintains a serious look.

Seeing that I didn't answer, he was not discouraged, and continued to question me: "I heard that some rich and noble women in the big aristocrats are very reserved before they get married, and they have to take the honor of the family into consideration. Some old aristocratic families have very strict rules. , have you ever kissed her?"

Impatiently, I tapped the plate containing the red bean ice with a silver spoon. Marvin smiled and waved to me to say that the matter would not be mentioned.

He carefully inspected the stack of fire-focusing scrolls, making sure that the magic circle inside each scroll was functioning normally, and then re-tied the scrolls with straw ropes made of Ma Lian leaves, and then carefully packed them one by one. In the exquisite strip-shaped cardboard box, this is the inner room of the grocery store, where Marvin usually rests, and there is a set of women's light armor hanging on the hanger in the corner, which should be Spei's training uniform in the academy.

Seeing that I was almost done eating, Marvin turned to the topic and said to me: "The three magic rune tablets on the counter were bought by the fat boss of the magic shop on the corner yesterday, Jia, our rune boards The price of the plate seems to be set a bit low, you don’t know how wretched he was when he wanted to laugh but didn’t dare to laugh. I went to other shops to observe, and the price of those blank red copper-plated metal plates was about It can be sold for fifty silver coins, but we only sell seventy silver coins, are you sure there is a profit?"

Not only is it profitable, such a one-foot-square iron plate only needs five silver coins to buy it from a blacksmith's shop. Take it to the alchemist's workshop and let the alchemist thinly plate it on it. A layer of magic red copper is only the price of [-] silver. Such a copper-plated metal plate can be sold for [-] silver in magic shops. There are many reasons for this. In short, this business itself is huge profits. The underground world provided us with a large amount of magic red copper, which reduced our cost of making rune metal plates by a large margin.

"There is still a lot of surplus." I explained the reason to Marvin, and casually shared some knowledge about the magic rune board.

The magic rune board is a new thing for Marvin. Many magicians don't deliberately understand this kind of thing, let alone Marvin who has just become a magic apprentice for less than four months.

Magic rune plates are a product of the mixture of inscriptions and magic metalology. Magic rune plates usually only appear in magic item workshops or inscription masters' studios. It can be said that its market is very small. , Its use is only used to make some magic utensils, such as magic caravans, or magic lamps, or magic doors, etc., such magic utensils can use rune metal plates.

When Scholar Yerkes brought me into contact with the rune metal plate, it was to modify his magic puppet. At that time, he used a lot of magic metal, so many special magic runes could be drawn on the skeleton of the magic puppet. It is used to improve the performance of the magic puppet. Later, the real drawing of the rune metal plate was because of the magic pet of the magic apprentice Teresa. Yerkes had a whim and wanted to make a combined magic puppet for Rock Golem. Then we worked day and night for nearly a month, and finally made a combined shoulder pad. The effect is also very good, but due to the high cost, we were forced to stop the experiment.

Later, although I brought back a large amount of magic red copper from Xinliu Valley, unfortunately, until the Yerkes scholar left El City, I couldn't complete the remaining magic pattern construction.

Originally, Yerkes scholars wanted to take those rune metal plates to the imperial capital, but considering the long distance, they gave up.Some belonged to the academy, so naturally they were left to the academy, and others belonged to us personally, so Yerkes left those rune tablets to me.

I also had no place to dispose of these metal plates painted with magic runes, so I simply took them to the grocery store and tried to sell them. Unexpectedly, a week later, the metal plates with runes in the corner of the counter were actually sold. went.

"His family makes magic phonographs. What's the use of the three metal plates of the anti-gravity magic circle?" I asked Marvin a little puzzled.

Marvin shrugged his shoulders, expressing that he couldn't understand it, and then said casually, "Maybe it's because it's cheap?"

"Maybe!" I said absently. "Those rune metal plates are slightly modified, and if a magic crystal groove is embedded in the core, it can be installed on the magic caravan. The current large magic caravan is too heavy, and there is no 'anti-gravity field' and 'lightness technique. 'It is difficult for ordinary horses to pull such a magic circle."

"Maybe we should hire an alchemist..." Marvin suggested.

I suggested to Marvin: "You have the final say on this, but why don't we hire a potionist? We still have so many low-level magic herbs in the warehouse?"

He was a little embarrassed and said: "Jia, I want to try to learn magic pharmacy. Although I know that my talent is a little short, if you want to open a potion shop, potion masters will occupy a large part of it." Profit, instead of sharing those profits with outsiders, it is better for us to learn how to prepare magic potions..."

Until I walked out of the magic grocery store, my mind was still full of Marvin's thoughts, and I was thinking: This guy is born to be an excellent businessman.

Marvin also told me what happened in the academy today. It is said that a group of warrior apprentices severely injured a fourth-year student named Abel in the academy. This fourth-year student is said to be a newly promoted As an outstanding student who is an official soldier, the college is seriously dealing with this matter, but the specific situation has not been disclosed publicly. It is said that the guard battalion has stepped forward and formally brought Abel back to the guard camp.

In addition, last night, a group of commoner students actually broke through the manor of the former city lord, and fought with the attendants of the noble students inside.Some of these civilian students who broke into the noble manor without permission were caught by the knight masters of the Knights of the Guard Battalion, while others fled in the chaos.Now the whole of El City is arresting those students who escaped in the chaos.

Things became very complicated overnight.

At the beginning, many citizens felt that the honor of nobles was inviolable, and those commoner students who trespassed on the noble manors needed to be severely punished, and they should all be sent to the border towns to repair the city walls.But things seem to have a turning point. Some people say that it was a trap set by noble teenagers. Outstanding students from the top joined these aristocratic families and became the servants of these aristocratic youths.

The key person among them was Abel, the organizer of the event, but Abel denied adding hallucinogens to the golden cider and giving it to these civilian students.

However, the professional magic pharmacists in the guard camp found hallucinogens in the remaining golden cider, and the owner of the tavern denied that these hallucinogens came from the tavern. Cider was even more expensive, and there was no reason for taverns to lose money.

All the signs point to the noble boys in the manor, and the prestige of the nobles in El City has dropped to the lowest point in history.

The parents of the civilian students who committed crimes were still running around in the morning, planning to ask a certain noble lord to take their sons as followers, so as to avoid the punishment of being sent to a small border town to repair the city walls, but they heard All this is a farce written and performed by the nobles themselves, in order to make the outstanding students of common people become the followers of the nobles.

Many spineless civilians expressed that they would rather go to Puli to build the city wall than serve such nobles as followers.Some students who successfully escaped from the manor spontaneously went to the guard camp to plead guilty, and asked the guard camp to send them to Puli to build the city wall.

Originally, in the morning, the guard battalion needed to mobilize a large number of troops to search for escaped students in the city of El. In the afternoon, these knight masters returned to their original posts with nothing to do.

On this dramatic day, civilian students were severely punished, but their reputation was not damaged, but what reputation do civilians want?Those aristocratic teenagers who lifted stones and shot themselves in the foot were severely reprimanded by the family. Although the aristocrats and civilians struggled in the academy, the aristocratic students won the victory, but this victory tarnished the reputation of the aristocrats. It is a stain that nobles will bear all their lives.

Many people said that this group of noble children did a stupid thing, but before the incident subsides, another big incident happened in the city of El...

When I went home at night, I found a lot of knights from the guard battalion knights gathered on the central street in the distance. They were all on horseback and ready to go out of the city. I happened to see Bin also standing at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the cavalry in the distance. The team was talking to themselves: This is where the war is going again...

(End of this chapter)