my age of magic

Chapter 95

The tauren tribe belongs to a very rare tribal population in the wasteland. They are also a branch of the orcs, but they are more suitable to live in warmer places. The cold wind in winter on the Pai Plateau makes these tauren miserable. The purest tauren are still vegetarians, so the Pai Plateau, which is barren and does not produce food, is considered a barren land for them.Old Kuru told us that there are no more than 3 tauren on the Pai Plateau. They don't have such a strong stomach as a werewolf. When a werewolf is hungry, they can eat bark, grass roots and even boiled leather, but the tauren The worst thing is that they can only eat sweet potatoes, and they are tall. Adult tauren rarely weigh less than one ton, and a meal needs at least twenty or thirty catties of food. In this way, food will affect the tauren tribe The greatest barrier to reproduction.

The tribal tauren are born experts in collecting herbs. They are naturally sensitive to herbs. Adult tauren will leave their hometown with a medicine basket on their backs, and they can travel to every remote corner of the wasteland.

Qige said that this tall and gentle tauren actually gave up the silver leaf grass all over the ground.

Just because of Qige's very polite words, he wanted to exchange other herbs in his backpack with Qige for silver leaf grass, which shows how simple and honest his temperament is, even a little silly!

At that time, Qige shook his head to express his refusal, and said to the tauren with a smile: There are flowering silver-leaf grasses all over the place, here, it is absolutely nothing if I give you some silver-leaf grass, but if I exchange it with you Herbal medicine, that is taking advantage of you.

The tauren was also very confused about Qige's refusal, but after hearing Qige's explanation, he laughed heartily. He simply opened his herbal medicine bag, showed the herbs inside to Qige, and turned his head to see Qige's side. There was also a Yagui beast that was grazing, so I asked Qige: Smart human girl, you must have brought a lot of daily necessities with you when traveling in this wasteland with Yagui beast!So, do you have any salt?

The tauren offered to exchange salt and wheat cakes for herbs, which was accepted by Qige without hesitation, because she took a fancy to the wood vanilla and salvia in the tauren's herbal medicine bag, these two magic herbs are used to make moonlight ink Although the amount of auxiliary materials is very small, it is not easy to come across these two kinds of herbs if you want to buy them. If you want to buy them, you have to go to a large magic herbal medicine store in a big city. There are two kinds of auxiliary materials. Originally, when she still wanted to configure the magic ink, could she cut corners, just like the last time when the Ningshen flower was missing, I also made the scroll, didn't I?

When Qige said this, I asked her strangely: "Miss Qi, didn't you tell the tauren that there is a saltwater pond not far from here?"

Sitting next to me, Qige put out the herbs in the herb bag that were used to make moonlight ink one by one in proportion, and then said to me aggrieved, "Why didn't I say that? I told him that there is a pond not far away. There must be a halite mine nearby, and you can pick a piece of it and take it with you. But he told me that this kind of salt mine is very common in the wasteland, but only big animals dare to drink this kind of salt water. Tell me those halite mines are poisonous, and tell me to be careful not to drink the salt water from those ponds by mistake!"

I was a little dumbfounded after hearing this, and I asked Kuz, who was fishing for meat from the haggis soup pot, "Az, you said that there is a shortage of salt on the Pai Plateau, and half of the salt comes from the well salt transported from the dwarf kingdom." , the other half is sea salt shipped from the human kingdom, the reason why you don’t produce salt on the Pai Plateau is..."

Kurtz swallowed the offal in his mouth, raised his head and said to me: "The halite mines all over the Pai Plateau are poisonous!"

I remember the last time I bought table salt in Yemen Town, the price of a catty of salt was about [-] silver, and then I asked Qige, "What is the price of salt in Green Emperor Capital?"

"Fine salt is about two silver a catty, and coarse salt is fifty coppers! However, selling salt privately is a felony, and you will be sent to the gallows or guillotine. If you want to transport salt to the Pai Plateau, you need a trade certificate. There is also a need to pay high tariffs. Usually, after these things are done, a catty of salt will rise to about ten silver. In addition to the high shipping costs and losses, the price of salt dealers transporting salt to the Gludin tribe is about Around fifteen silver! Is it a little orc?" Qige said to me while counting with his fingers.

Her eyes were fixed on the various colors of magic grass smoke on the ground, and she was very focused on subdividing the types. It seemed that she was going to configure moonlight ink today.

I asked Kurz: "I mean, since salt is so expensive, have the magic pharmacists in your orc tribe never thought about how to use it to store mineral salt?"

"Why not? I don't know how many sages have always wanted to extract better-quality table salt by magical means. There are many successful examples, but the cost is higher than that bought from humans. Various catalysts and fusion agents and A lot of charcoal, these things alone can be exchanged for how much salt. Before the luxury goods in the human world entered the wasteland, there were too many good things in our tribe. Just take out a bundle of magic herbs and you can exchange a jar of salt. No one has ever worried about salt! It’s just that the poorer and poorer I am in the past few years, I gradually realize that I can’t even afford salt, let alone make my own salt!”

"We don't have much salt. We thought that two catties of table salt would be enough in this wasteland, but the tauren finally offered to exchange a plant of ice grass for one catty of salt!" Qige said a little embarrassedly. , the ice grass is no longer a primary magic herb, and it can be regarded as special among the intermediate magic herbs, mainly because in the area of ​​the Green Empire, there is no place where the ice grass grows at all, except for the barbarians in the northernmost region. This kind of plant grows on the ice and snow tundra where they live. In addition, the ice grass will only appear in the depths of the Daxue Mountain in the Pai Plateau of the Orcs and the depths of the New Siakis Mountains in the Dwarf Kingdom. In the Grimm Empire, this plant is almost worth a coin. gold.It must be said that Qige has taken advantage of it, but I am afraid that the salt we brought will also be declared exhausted.

"At most... At most, when we make food in the future, we will try to put as little salt as possible, and eating more meat can also save salt!" Qige has already begun to think about how to save salt.

I kicked Kuzi, who was still eating meat in the soup pot, and asked him to take back the magic antelope skin we cooked. During the cooking process of the magic antelope leather, a special magic potion should be applied, otherwise it would be difficult to boil. During the process, the magic storage in the magic leather will be greatly reduced.

Well, now that we are talking about this, I have to talk about the difference between ordinary leather and magic leather?
right!It is magic storage. Magic leather does not mean that the defense ability must be stronger than ordinary leather. For example, the hard cowhide of the one-horned bison in the wasteland is more durable than the magic antelope leather, but the difference is that the bison leather cannot store magic power. Magicians You can use a carving knife to draw magic circles on the leather of the magic antelope. These leathers that have successfully drawn magic circles are magic scrolls. These magic scrolls can be stored for a long time without losing their effectiveness. Teachers can also draw the magic pattern circle on the bison leather, but the magic pattern circle drawn on the bison leather will completely evaporate in half a day, leaving only an empty cowhide scroll full of knife marks.

Katerina was squatting behind Qige at this time, grinding the secondary moonstone with a grinder. I took out a bottle of magic stabilizer in Qige's pocket, and waited for Kurz to retrieve the half-dried moonstone. Magic antelope skin, use a small brush to apply the stabilizer evenly on the magic antelope skin. I really hate the spicy taste of this stabilizer. This is the smell of Pueraria sap. He smiled and said to Kurz : "Brother, I thought of another way to make money. When you take over the management of the Gludin tribe, brother, write me a letter when you become a master, and I will tell you how to lead your tribe to become rich. Brother, I definitely have a brilliant idea in this regard."

Kuz curled his lips and smiled innocently, raised his thick eyebrows and said with joy: "I have six brothers above me, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for your coup to get rich in this life. Chief, not only do my six brothers have to be killed in battle, but they also need to have no offspring, but my eldest brother’s eldest son, Kubandi, is the same age as me, and he is extremely brave, and he is considered very powerful in our tribe.”

"Is that as good as you?" I asked him curiously,
"Haha, if it comes to hunting, I'm definitely not as good as me. If it's a fight, it's hard for me to beat him. My advantage is the whole wasteland. For a hunter like me who can survive in any environment, the whole northern foot wasteland This is my home!" Kurz spread the magic antelope skin in his arms on the grass, and cooperated with me to paint the magic paint on the sheep skin.

Katerina saw that we were arranging three pieces of magic antelope skins that were one meter square. She was probably worried that I was too tired. I had spent most of the day hunting by the pond during the day, and I had to stay up late at night to draw magic scrolls, so she asked worriedly: "How many scrolls are you going to make today?"

"Do as much as possible. I don't know what will happen in the future. The conditions in the wasteland are not good, and the life of the orc hunters is also very difficult. I think most people who can adapt to the environment here have to drink raw water and eat raw meat. , Maybe you won’t be able to eat salt for a long time, and you’ll get sick after a long time, so let’s help these people as much as we can!” I didn’t do this out of a sudden whim and out of kindness, I just wanted to help the orcs get through the difficulties in front of them , and the simple orcs care more about equal exchanges, they don't like to accept gifts from others, maybe helping others in this way will bring us greater gains.

Seeing that Qige was a little ashamed at this time, it occurred to me that she has always cared about whether we can eat salt in the future, and she must also blame herself for her selfish behavior.I turned my head and blinked at her and said, "Don't worry, I've seen a very practical and simple method of making salt in an ancient orc magic sheepskin scroll. I can guarantee that at least in the wasteland we will Too much salt to eat. Don't worry, I'm here!"

Qige's face was slightly red, and she gave me an angry look and said, "Are you sure you can do it all night?"

"Miss Qi, can we not become fat in one go?" I asked her with a bitter face.

(End of this chapter)