my age of magic

Chapter 55 56. Anecdotes from the Countryside (2)

At this time, people from the caravan's camp had come out one after another, and they seemed to be rushing to the town.I could find the aristocratic dandies of the Starry Adventure Group among those crowds from afar, and they walked towards the town together with a group of gorgeously dressed dancers, which made me feel that sometimes this The caravan is really small.No matter what you do, you will inevitably encounter it.

When we stopped by the well to talk, the group of aristocratic dandies passed by us, sneering at our weird foursome, and even a few young aristocrats came over curiously and exaggeratedly looked at Katerina and me , and made a throat-cutting gesture to me, with an obvious provocative taste.Mingqian's face was gloomy, and he deliberately raised his head proudly when he passed by us, while Dai stopped in front of Qige with a short-haired glamorous dancer in a beautiful short leather skirt. The beautiful dancer saw Qige When he was looking at Qige, he seemed a little surprised, his expression seemed a little unnaturally smiling, his big eyes seemed to be able to speak, when he looked at Qige, he seemed to say: Hey, what a coincidence, you are here too!
There was a sense of lightness between her bright eyes and white teeth. Qige was also a little surprised, but she didn't say anything. She just nodded to the short-haired beautiful dancer lightly. After all, the moment of passing by was short. The line of sight has been staggered, each go their own way.Dai seemed to have not seen Katerina, and walked over with a blank expression.

I couldn't help being curious about the identity of this dancer, so I turned around and asked Qige who she was.

Qige glanced at me, and said with a little deep meaning: "Her? Wu Niang of the dance troupe."

Hey, she's actually a big girl in a dance troupe. I didn't expect that this person would also be in the mood to go shopping, and even get so close to noble dudes like Dayi.This kind of big names in the dance troupe are not something I can provoke casually. I just need to stay away when I meet them in the future. Anyway, a child like me is easily forgotten by others.

Then we also left the well and walked into this dilapidated town with blue-white and earth-yellow as the main colors. The buildings on both sides of the street were painted with blue-white lime. There are many orcs with huge packages on their backs. Most of them carry longbows and short spears with hunting knives on their waists. Kurz told me that most of these people are hunters, and the large packages on their backs should contain some leather and precious bones. , They kept coming and going in and out of the shops along the street, some came out empty-handed with joy on their faces, and some with helplessness on their faces, carrying a big package on their backs and continuing to open the curtain of the next shop.Some simply set up small stalls on the side of the street, placing some goods and waiting for someone to come forward to buy them.

When I looked at this town from a distance, I didn’t think it was so lively, but I realized it was really lively here when I was in it. I haven’t been to the Central Market yet, but just walking on the main street, I saw a variety of shops along the street. Eat There are everything you can wear and use.Bundles of leather and magic antelope horns, wheat flour, and salt are the most popular commodities here. Many merchants are very willing to buy these short-selling goods. Some orcs even squeezed over from the crowd to ask us if there is any wheat flour. Or salt want to sell, after getting our definite answer, they left with a disappointed look, and went to find the next target.

Most of the orcs who set up street stalls on the street are selling some strange animal bones, homemade dried meat, tendons that can be used to make bowstrings, some even horns of wild animals, messy herbs and some coarse grains of various colors.The goods on the stalls on both sides of the street are mixed. Most of them are spread on the ground with pieces of broken cowhide, and the goods are placed in front of the stalls. Most of these items are raw materials, and there are everything. I even saw it on a carpet. A very well-preserved elementary magic herb, ground cloud grass, but unfortunately there is only one.

We stopped in front of a grocery stall with some broken herbs and a pile of rotten stones. The main reason was that Qige squatted in front of it and refused to go any further. He used a small stick to poke the stone debris in the stone pile. I was also curious. I stretched my head to look, and saw that the herbs on the booth were some common hemostatic herbs, but the methods of collection were too crude, and the roots and leaves of the herbs had obvious bruises, which would affect the medicinal properties of these herbs Maybe it is because the owner of the pharmacy refused to accept it, so the stall owner put them on the ground for sale. I saw that none of the herbs in the pile were intact, and I thought that maybe the good ones had been taken away by others. Pick it up.Instead, there is a pile of sharp-edged stones next to it, which look like stone fragments knocked off a large stone wall. The big ones are about as big as a plate, and the small ones are as big as my fist, because of this There are only these rotten grass and rotten stones on the stall, and almost no one stopped in front of the stall. The four of us stopped in front of the stall. It was a strange combination, a child of the human race and a half-grown child of the orc race shoulder to shoulder. Standing together, followed by two tender young girls of the human race, it looks like they are wandering in the market.

However, the stall owner seemed to have not been approached for a long time, and his eyes lit up when he saw someone stop in front of his stall.But I definitely didn't mean to say hello to him. Seeing that his hard cowhide short jacket has been worn out, he looks really poor, and the things on the booth are also some tattered. Buy?

The stall owner is a middle-aged orc tauren dressed as a herb picker. Just looking at the rusty nose ring on his big nose, it is not difficult to guess how miserable he is. There is a big basket behind him , There is also a broken medicine hoe in the basket.He looked at us with eyes as big as copper bells, and found that we didn't look at the herbs at all, only two girls were squatting in front of the stone pile, so he asked in a low voice, "Do you want to buy a whetstone?"

"How do you sell this thing?" Qige asked casually, throwing the fist-sized gray stone back and forth.

The stall owner scratched his head with his thick hands, and spit out four words from his thick lips: "Twenty yuan each." He didn't want to say more.

"Hey, do you have any money?"

Qige actually held me behind me, I was a little at a loss, and I said to myself: Going to the market without money and a hammer?So he nodded and said, "I brought some, I'm going to buy a bow for Kurtz, but I don't know if it's enough."

"How much did you bring?" Qige asked me curiously.

I shook the cloth bag tied around my waist in my hand, and said, "Thirteen silver coins, the spoils we killed those dwarves last time, didn't you two collect it for us, Sister Guoguo?"

Qige said: "Um, I didn't confiscate the money bag. I don't know how much you have collected. But it's just a little bit! Discuss with you two. I usually like to collect stones. I didn't expect to meet them here. , I’ve been looking for this thing for a long time but I can’t find it, I forgot to bring money when I went out today, why don’t you lend me the money!”

"Row."

"No."

Kurz and I said it at the same time, and I naturally disagree. Kurz has been planning to buy a bow for a long time, and the two of us have been working hard for it. Today, we came to this free market just to buy a better bow. , so as to make some gains in the next wilderness hunt.Where is there any other spare money to lend Qige to buy stones.

But I didn't expect Kurtz to agree generously, gave him a strange look, and signaled with his eyes that we only have such a small amount of money, what should we do if we lend it out?But Kurz stood in front of me sincerely, patted my shoulder and took the money bag in my hand, and then said to me: "Your friend, we have not had time to express our thanks for taking care of you so well these days." Well, now they need help, as friends, don't we rush to the forefront at this time?"

"But we still need to buy bows." I said somewhat reluctantly, thinking to myself how could Qiniang of Tangtang Dance Troupe have no money, maybe she forgot to bring her money bag when she came out this time, can't those broken stones be bought anytime soon? ?

Instead, Kuz patted the mountain ax on his back and comforted me, saying, "What's the matter? Let's exchange this ax for a bow."

I just nodded in agreement, and said to Qige apologetically: "This is all our belongings, that's all, it may not be enough."

"It's not enough, oops! Forget it, I don't take advantage of you, this time you buy the stones, you count as shares, and the thirteen silver coins count as your four shares. Linna, you also contribute a little, let's join together to buy Stone." Qige turned to lobby Katerina again.

How could Katerina dare to go against Qige's intention, and hurriedly took out her money bag, which looked deflated, and there was not much money in it, Qige took the money bag playfully with a smile and opened it directly I'm short, so I can't see how much money is in the money bag. I just watched Qige pick out seven silver coins from it, and then threw the money bag to Katerina and said, "Forget it!" Just buy two shares, and the remaining four shares are mine. We have a total of ten shares. When I buy stones and make money, I will share them with you later!"

I asked a little strangely: "Are these whetstones sold at the imperial capital?"

Qige looked at me contemptuously, with a naked expression on his face, and then said: It's terrible to be uneducated.

I thought to myself that I'm just a little kid who hasn't even seen the emperor, what else do you think of me.The money bag is gone, so naturally there is no way to choose a Neti bow. Right now, he has to find a way to find a weapon shop and sell the mountain axe, so that he may be able to exchange for a bow.So I said indifferently: "You can do whatever you want."

Kuz and I also started to look around the shops on one side. Most of the orcs were still bartering. It was not until the human merchants opened up trade routes to the Pai Plateau that the orcs also learned to use Coins, but the more remote border towns still retain the habit of bartering.

(End of this chapter)