Chapter 59: Checking for the mucus monster at the swamp

Author: Yuan Zhen’s Fish

Chapter 59, Swamp side - Check for the mucus monster

The corpses of the slime monsters arranged in rows looked spectacular. Zhao Ji leaned against a tree and told others about his harvest last night. There were a total of 64 slime monsters, plus the two slime monsters he hunted two days ago. He hunted 66 slime monsters, which far exceeded the number of gamblers.

Zhao Ji looked at the blacksmith apprentice Moore with his hands in his chest, and smiled and said to everyone: "Now please be careful to open the leaf ball and check if it is really a slime monster inside."

A group of people walked forward one after another and opened several leaf balls casually. It was indeed covered with mucus monsters that died after being pierced. Several drinkers were excited to open the leaves balls one by one to watch. While watching, they commented on the mucus monster inside. They turned around and praised Kiel's bravery and so on.

Zhao Ji was very happy to hear it, thinking in his heart that he hoped they would praise more good things.

The blacksmith apprentice Moore followed the others to see a few casually and gave up because what he saw had exceeded the number of gambling wins. Moore walked to Todd, said something to Todd, and then walked over.

Looking at Kiel who was proud, Moore felt that he had to explain clearly to him: "Keel, you know, I have lost the bet. I just told Todd that he would announce your victory when he returned to the tavern. Just ask him for the silver coin."

Zhao Ji nodded and said that he knew. Seeing Moore was a little disappointed, Zhao Ji patted his shoulder and said to him, "Okay, I understand. I told you that I don't want to stay in the craftsman area all day. I want to do something different. Thank you for your kindness. You should think of a way to chop firewood for various workshops. This job is also a lot of money, and there are always people who do it."

"Hey, I understand. I still have a job, so I will go back to the city first. If you have time, come to play with us. Everyone likes the stories you tell." After saying that, Moore also patted Zhao Ji on the shoulder and returned to the city alone.

Zhao Ji watched Moore walk away, sighed, and walked towards Todd.

Todd was excitedly following several other drinkers to disassemble the leaf dumplings. Every time he opened a person, he would fiddle with the dead mucus monster. He was excited to brag about each other, saying that he could also hit dozens of mucus monsters alone.

Zhao Ji patted Todd's arm excitedly, pulled him out of the fantasy of flying cows, squeezed his eyes at him, and pointed at the Punika Craftsman and his two apprentices.

Todd patted his head suddenly and made a clear expression with Zhao Ji. The two of them came over together.

The Punika craftsman was directing his two apprentices to sort out the corpses of the mucus monster. They were dealing with the leaves dumplings opened by the drinkers. The two apprentices reached into it and took out the mucus monster. They held the mucus monster in their hands and showed it to the Punika craftsman.

The Punika craftsman was holding a book made of coarse paper. While observing the slime monster held by the apprentice, he used a fine charcoal pen to record the size and damage of each slime monster, and even the color of each slime monster.

Zhao Ji and Todd walked behind the Punika craftsman, stretched their heads left and right to look at the craftsman's records of the slime monster. Zhao Ji was not very familiar with the common local texts, so he could only read them roughly. Todd's literacy level is a little better than Zhao Ji.

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By the way, people here have little demands on whether to let their children know literacy. Many farmers are illiterate, and the guards can recognize hundreds of commonly used vocabulary, and even fewer stewards in the Chamber of Commerce, and they can only know what the vocabulary they often transport goods.

Strangely, the difficulty of literacy is not very high, at least Zhao Ji felt so. There were many velvet and chipped notices on the notice board at the gate of the city, including official notices from the Baron's mansion, some reward notices from the next county, and obituaries from someone's death.

When I was a short-term worker, Zhao Ji liked to recognize words in the past, and the commonly used words were included in it. Moreover, the signs of each store were written with words, and some shops had some business history and the names of operators of all generations at the door.

When he was working in a short-term worker in the craftsman's workshop, he often asked the apprentices about the vocabulary of various tools and raw materials.

In general, there is actually no resistance to learning texts locally. It may be just a lack of specialized teachers that leads to the current situation. Many people’s local cultural knowledge is taught by family teachers. Parents teach their sons and daughters, and parents can do as much as their parents can do, and generally speaking, their children can do as much as their children can.

As for the equality of men and women, Zhao Ji himself observed. Among the ordinary people, men are valued because they have to use physical labor to get remuneration. For higher classes, such as the Chamber of Commerce, the number of women in the women in the Chamber of Commerce has increased significantly. In the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, almost all permanent managers on the second floor are women, and only those managers who often go out to lead the team to transport goods are all men.

Many apprentices in the workshops in the Craftsman District are women, and among the higher classes in the city, such as the pastors and priests in various temples, Zhao Ji heard that they are basically half-divided. Among the local aristocratic class, there is a knight who is a woman, and the baron's number one heir is the eldest daughter of the baron. The nobles here seem to be both male and female, and they can be used as both strong abilities.

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Punika craftsmen carefully recorded the situation of each slime monster, and later marked the estimation of this slime monster.

Zhao Ji calculated that it was basically a big mucus monster that was valuable, a little damaged mucus monster that was valuable, a strange-colored mucus monster that was valuable, and a mucus monster that was not damaged was valuable, only these four requirements.

He regretted that he shouldn't have tied some mucus monsters into sieves at the beginning. It would be enough to kill them, which would make him more money.

Zhao Ji also noticed that the colors of several slime monsters in these slime monsters are different, and their value is higher than that of other slime monsters. Zhao Ji asked Punika's craftsman for the reason.

The Punika Craftsman did not answer directly, but called an apprentice who came to him to answer the question. Todd whispered to Zhao Ji that the young apprentice in his twenties was the chief apprentice of the Punika Craftsman, basically the kind who had to take the craftsman's class.

The young apprentice in his twenties had a big beard like his master, explaining the reasons to Zhao Ji and Todd in a calm and reliable voice.

It turns out that there are many kinds of slime monsters, and what's interesting is that according to the recipe factors of slime monsters, slime monsters will also undergo different changes. Take the slime monster that Zhao Ji brought to the skin making shop for the first time. The slime monster feeds on human excrement, so it is ugly, but it is huge in size. Most of the slime monsters recorded now feed on animals in the swamp, so they are moderate in size and smooth in color. As for the rare slime monsters, they feed on other things, so they are smaller in size and weird in color. However, this slime monster can be processed separately, which is more cost-effective than simply making a wrap.

As for what has changed because of eating, I don’t know. After all, the mucus monster crept in the swampy mud during the day, but it was difficult to observe at night.
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