75. Harvest Festival Celebration 2
After the Harvest Festival, the coming-of-age ceremony that every young man and woman must go through when they are sixteen years old.
Some people say that children who have not participated in the adult ceremony will never be able to mature their minds. They are incomplete in their lives. Even if they live until they are old, some of the things they do will be like children.
The night of the adult festival every year is the night for young people. Young people wear exquisite clothes that only festival celebrations wear. Everyone walks to the streets singing and dancing. There are dances held for young people in each square. Here, all young people are the protagonists. You don’t even need to spend money to taste some free food, sweet wine and other kinds of drinks, and you can also dance in the square.
At this time last year, I attended a grand adult ceremony, which may be the most unforgettable thing in my life.
As for this year, what was placed in front of me was a whole box of primary magic herbs unloaded from the magic caravan. Most of these magic herbs were booked by Ma Wen to two magic herbs in the Imperial Capital. The price these two traders paid in advance was to pay nearly a year's advance payment.
Last night, a magic airship that arrived at the airport town from the Gurudin town on the Pai Plateau brought back a large number of primary magic herbs, lunch meat, meat floss bricks, magic antelope skins and tinder oil. Recently, there are airships sailing towards the Gurudin town on the Pai Plateau almost every week. Magic airships also fly from there to the airport town every week. This trade route has been completely opened by Ma Wen, and the orc tribe is working together to resist the undead army in the death forest, and the orcs also need a large amount of military supplies.
For example, the light marching tents produced by the Green Empire. Although the orcs like to sleep in the wilderness in the wilderness, at best, they carry a bundle of simple raw cowhide rolls on their backs, it is now autumn. The winter of the Pai Plateau is earlier than most parts of the Green Empire. Once it snows, even the orc warriors with strong physiques cannot sleep on the snow. Orc warriors also need a yurt to avoid the cold. The emergence of convenient military supplies such as marching tents has greatly improved the military life of orc warriors in the wild.
For example, the various magical items produced by the Green Empire have been rising. As the prices of originally cheap corpse tincture oil tanks continue to rise, the orcs can no longer continue to use this material as cheap fuel in the wild. Now the orcs have also learned to apply tincture oil on stone balls, and then throw these burning stone balls into the enemy camp with a trencher, or ignite a fire wall in battle to block the skeleton army outside. Therefore, life-like magic items such as fire gathering rune boards and water gathering rune boards are quite popular with orcs. In contrast, the two rune boards, miniature tornado and continuous frost, are not favored by orcs.
Many lords in the private territories of the Green Empire would have large areas of land that were reclaimed into large farms. The imperialists were good at growing two crops: barley and wheat. Now orcs seem to have become accustomed to wheat cakes with broth, or barbecue with oatmeal porridge. Eating raw jerky in the wilderness has gradually become a kind of nostalgia and ritual among the orcs. Therefore, as long as there is any space in the airship flying to the Pai Plateau, it will fill bags of black whole wheat flour.
The Chig Trading Company has been extremely busy recently. The original four magic airships all traveled between the Airport Town and the Gurudin Town. At the same time, Marvin temporarily hired four magic airships.
In addition, Ma Wen also customized two magic airships from the largest magic airship manufacturing workshop in the imperial capital, called Jiejie. Each of these two magic airships costs up to 5,000 magic crystals. From manufacturing to delivery, the two magic airships require at least 12,000 magic crystals. Even if they are paid in batches, they have to pay 3,000 magic crystals to Jiejie Airship Manufacturing Workshop every month. This is almost the profit produced by the Qige Trading Company in the past year. Customizing the two magic airships is almost impossible to afford now. However, Ma Wen relied on a large order of magic herbal medicine to raise the huge sum of money.
I promised that Zach's friends would not only provide them with a large number of magical giant crossbow arrows, but also gather some magic herbs and marching rations. These supplies are in short supply in the magic market of the imperial capital.
Especially magical herbs and marching rations, the former is an indispensable medical item in battle, while the latter has almost become a belief among the Imperial Warriors. Most Imperial Warriors firmly believe that lunch meat and meat floss bricks can bring them victory.
There was noisy music outside, and a group of young people gathered in the lobby of this restaurant to have dinner. They not only brought instruments such as accordion and recorder, but also sang in the restaurant together. The cheerful singing came through the roof to the private room on the third floor. There were more than a dozen young nobles sitting on the sofa in the private room. At this time, their eyes were on the carpet in the center of the room. There were several large magic boxes on the carpet, containing bundles of silver leaf clover and concentrating grass. These were the main materials for making secondary healing potions. These magic herbs filled the seven magic boxes.
Even all the herb shops in the trading hall on the first floor of the Tower of Arrogance could not get so many primary magic herbs. Zach leaned lazily on the sofa, Ernestine sat on the armrest of the sofa next to him. The two of them looked at the young nobles with a little dull look around. Zach coughed gently and said, "Last winter, the situation in the Jero plane deteriorated to the extreme. Angelos City, Thunder City, and Blood Ring City were successively captured by the Nebru Spiderman, and the outer cities of Gula Bash City and Tanton City were razed into ruins, and the inner cities were almost captured by the Nebru Spiderman."
Zach sat up and picked up a glass of ale from the table and took a big sip, continuing: "Our legion has been supported until this spring. The Nebru Spider-men are at the city of Pereira, and the main war faction in Durva Province decided to organize a counterattack."
The nobles around were listening to Zach's inside story about the battle on the plane of Jero.
Zach reached out and pressed my shoulder, and said to everyone with infinite emotion: "At that time, many lords did not dare to put the last bit of chips into the counterattack battle. Ernestine and I ran to the imperial capital to ask for help. Unfortunately, everyone was not very optimistic about the situation in the plane of the Jero at that time, and no one was willing to help us. Almost everyone who was seated again today helped me at that time. The plane war in the Green Empire spread widely. I know that many families may not agree to lend me the Knights. Even those supplies were probably lent to me secretly under the pressure of the family. I am very grateful to everyone no matter what."
I seem to be able to imagine how difficult Zach and Ernestine went through. The lords staying in the imperial capital were all speculators. They would never let their legions go to death. Only when they were sure that victory was in hand, would they start planning a war that could harvest the fruits of victory.
Katerina and Betty stood behind me, and I looked back at them, with a bright smile in Betty's eyes.
In today's transaction, Alia specially asked me to bring Betty with me, who had the list of materials for this transaction.
Zach pointed to the demon-sealing box in the room and said proudly: "The magic herbs are all here. As for the marching rations that are temporarily in the truck downstairs, you are planning to purchase them separately, or to buy them together. There is a question of share. For the former, you must discuss the share that each other needs in advance, while for the latter, you can buy it yourself."
The young nobles had originally thought of a way to deal with me, but they didn't expect that Zach came forward and looked at each other. Everyone didn't know me, but they all knew what Zach had. He had a rough personality and a violent temper that could explode at a glance. Especially recently, he became the heir of the Duke of Durva Province, whose status rose like a Rocket, and now it's even harder to offend him openly.
So one of these nobles who had inherited the inheritance quickly stood up and expressed his opinion: "I won't say much about how in short supply these materials in the imperial capital recently. No matter who has left this thing, we will definitely not be too much. Since we want to form a support army, we will connect our future together. We can go back and discuss the distribution of these materials. Since Marquis Jijia has taken out so many scarce materials as agreed, we will purchase them in a unified manner in the simplest procurement method."
The other young nobles also expressed the specific distribution of materials. Let's go back and do it in private, so there is no need to discuss this now.
Zach glanced at me, and I understood what he meant and asked Betty to take out the list of supplies in his hand.
Zach handed the list to the noble lord and said to him: "This is a list of goods. You will need to send someone to hand over the goods to me later. In addition, if you can't eat so much of a kind of goods, you can tell us the specific purchase quantity."
The noble lord took the list in his hand, looked carefully at the materials and amounts on it, and then passed the list to other young nobles.
"Zach, you're really joking. Whoever thinks these supplies are too much?" He said with his hands crossed, "Not only do we not think too much, but we will also pay gold coins at the highest transaction price in the magic market this month. Come and carry the boxes we have prepared in."
Almost within a while, heavy and messy footsteps came from outside the room, and then knocked on the door. After obtaining permission, the entourage outside carried more than a dozen heavy boxes in. At the instructor of the noble lord, the entourages uncovered the box lid and kicked the shiny boots onto the box at will. Several entourages immediately pushed the box, and a whole box of yellow and orange gold coins spilled all over the floor. After confirming that the box was filled with imperial gold coins, the entourages put the gold coins back into the box again.
At this time, Betty walked up and began to continue the transaction with the butlers of the noble lords. Each material needs to be verified, and then counted the number, etc., and there are many tedious things.
The noble lord sat down again and said with envy: "Zach, I didn't expect you to have such resources in your hands. It seems that there are many factors that we cannot see in the victory of the Jero plane. The Jero plane's counterattack battle was written in the Imperial Capital Magic Newspaper for more than half a month, but there are still details that we don't know. I remember that it was reported that Duke Jingyue of Sloyd Province sent ten components of the North Wind Legion, and there were some lords who were willing to put the chips on you later. The pressure on our homes is not that great."
Ernestine glanced at Zach and took over the topic and said:
"When talking about this, I still have to thank Jijia. When the Dulva Legion was defeated in the city of Anglos in the plane of the Jero, a large number of heavily armored infantry regiments needed to retreat to the city of Pereira. Our organization Knights were responsible for the breaking of the rear. Unexpectedly, they were bitten by the Nebru Spider-Man warriors. The only thing we could do at that time was to retreat while fighting. Zach and I were seriously injured in that battle. Later, Zach and I were sent to the imperial capital for treatment. At that time, he was wrapped in bandages like a mummy. Lord Sora found Jijia, who was in the magic academy, and they snatched Zach and me from the god of death."
As she said that, she unbuttoned the leather jacket two, revealing her throat, part of the skin above the cleavage, showing a scar like a centipede with countless stitches. Ernestine continued:
"This spring, Zach and I went to the imperial capital to ask for help. Unfortunately, there was no progress in the imperial capital. Before returning to Durva, I went to the Royal Magic Academy to visit Jijia. I heard that he had also treated Duke Jingyue from Sloyd Province. This grand duke controlled the North Wind Legion, so we asked Jijia to try to write a letter to Duke Jingyue, asking Duke Jingyue to send troops to support Durva. Unexpectedly, Duke Jingyue really agreed to send troops, and immediately sent ten structural knights to Durva. I think the victory of the Jero plane war is so fast, which has a great relationship with Duke Jingyue's ten structural knights."
Zach narrowed his eyes and suddenly leaned over and placed his sword on the coffee table in front of him. His light green face turned a little cold, and he said in a deep voice:
"I have said so much to Ernestine. I'm telling you something. Marquis Giga is my friend and Ernestine. He is studying at the Royal Magic Academy in the Imperial Capital alone, and he also opens a runeboard workshop in the Imperial Capital. He also wants to manage this trading company on behalf of His Highness Qige. In the Imperial Capital, he will inevitably offend some people. But I hope everyone can understand the friendship between us. Everyone is my friend. In the future, if there is anything against him in the Imperial Capital, it is best that you can say hello. It doesn't matter if you don't say it, but I hope you don't participate in it, otherwise we will be enemies. Whether it is Durva or Salta, all the doors will be closed to the enemy."
Chapter completed!