Chapter 52: Jewels
Su Lun was lying on a rocking chair under the tree, clattering melon seeds, and a fierce competition was being held on the school field not far away, both sides of the competition were barbarians, but the scene looked a little weird.
The battle was completely one-sided, and this result was actually quite normal, after all, one side was a barbarian warrior who had just joined the giant bear tribe, and the level was only a second-level barbarian warrior, but his opponent was a fourth-level barbarian giant axe warrior, and the difference between the two sides was a full two levels.
"Bang!"
A figure slammed to the ground, and the winner was decided.
This gladiatorial fight was not arranged by Su Lun, in fact, this was requested by the boulder, he wanted to show Su Lun the bravery of the warriors of the giant bear tribe, originally Su Lun persuaded him not to engage in gladiatorial fighting, he believed in their bravery, but the boulder felt that Su Lun was perfunctory to him, so he strongly asked to fight with Johnson and them.
Su Lun had no choice but to agree, and what happened next made the boulder almost think that they were fighting the frost giants, and those awesome guys in his tribe were like children who had just learned to walk in front of Johnson and the others, and they were no opponents at all.
It's just a cannon of his own appointment, no, the battle of the appointment will be finished with tears. By the time the last fighter was thrown off the field, the joking battle was finally over.
Looking at the boulder that was a little lost and depressed, Su Lun also felt a little guilty, was the blow too much this time? Just wanted to comfort him, but the next second the goods pulled Johnson to eat.
The arrival of more than a hundred barbarians from the Giant Bear tribe directly doubled the number of warriors in the territory, but then the food supply became tight again. These barbarians are all big stomachs, and they eat almost two or three times as much as ordinary people in one meal.
After a long period of hunting around the territory, the prey has learned to be smart and will consciously avoid Suren's territory, which causes that in addition to the daily catch, the game is getting less and less, and the winter in the Northland Heath is very long, at least four months, so Suren must prepare enough wintering food.
If you can't find food in the wilderness, you have to go to Carthusian City to buy it. Kinnar is needed to buy food, and the territory can now be said to be poor jingle, and there is no money to buy it at all. Instead, Su Lun had to start rummaging through his family to see if there was anything he could use to exchange for money.
A box of low-quality gems, there are more than a dozen, this is the trophy obtained from the previous battle, the quality is uneven, so the value of this is at most three or four hundred jinnars, and there are some weapons and equipment, but because after all the new barbarians are all, there is not much left, and all of them can be sold for about a thousand jinnars.
In this way, there are still 1,400 gold nars after squeezing it. Go to the city of Carthusian to buy food, after deducting all kinds of taxes, these money can buy about ten carts of supplies, so many supplies were saved before, enough for them to survive the cold winter, but after adding five hundred serfs and more than one hundred and fifty barbarians, these grains can only last for a month at most.
Five thousand acres of potatoes have been planted outside the town, and it takes three or four months for these potatoes to ripen, and only then will the territory be considered to have enough food. Therefore, Suren had to prepare at least four months' worth of food in the territory. However, the current grain storage in the territory can only last for a month and a half at most, and the shortfall is as high as two and a half months.
Playing with the gems in his hand, Su Lun suddenly thought of processing these gems into jewelry, after all, the profit from selling raw materials and selling finished products is several times or even more than ten times.
Do what you want, Su Lun has seen a lot of jewelry in this world in his cheap dad before, to be honest, the jewelry in this world is really not very good, and the shape is single, and the style is even more slag, which is not comparable to the jewelry he saw in his previous life.
After finding a few craftsmen, Su Lun handed over the gems to these craftsmen for polishing, and then took out a piece of parchment paper and began to design the shape of the jewelry, because considering the limited skill level of these craftsmen, Su Lun did not dare to design too complex shapes, but only drew a few brief descriptions of some shapes in his memory.
To make the jewelry, Suren smelted all the few jinnars in his hand into gold nuggets, and then let these craftsmen make them.
The texture of gold is soft, and Su Lun asked people to add some other metals to it to increase the strength of the jewelry, of course, he will not admit that it is not enough gold...
It took a few days for Suren to design a pair of bracelets, and the best gems in the chest were a ruby and a sapphire, which were set in the pair of gemstones. The shape of the bracelet is the image of a dead bird.
Su Lun also transformed some phoenix images from his previous life, and the final bracelet was a handicraft, with two gems polished and cut and set on each of the two bracelets. Small cut gemstones are set in the eyes and tail, and the largest piece is set in the body.
"Sir, this pair of bracelets is so beautiful, it's a work of art that only elves can make!" said Curry, an engraver who had just turned into a master jeweler, with a look of admiration.
"Yes, sir, this pair of bracelets is so beautiful, and the shape you have designed is so wonderful!" several craftsmen began to describe the pair of jewelry bracelets in their own scarce words.
"Wait, what did you just say?" Suren interrupted suddenly.
"Uh, this pair of bracelets is beautiful, isn't it?" said several craftsmen, looking at each other.
"No, it's the front. Suren shook his head and continued.
"A work of art that only elves can make?" said another craftsman cautiously.
"That's it!" Su Lun said excitedly, slapping his face, "Elven art!" and left with those few beautifully made jewels excitedly.
"Elven artwork?" several craftsmen looked at each other as if they were going to work, then continued to work with their heads bowed.
Suren returned to the house with the beautifully crafted jewelry, and then had Jean called.
"How about a few pieces of jewelry do you look at?"
"Brilliant and exquisite!" Jean said in amazement, looking at a few pieces of jewelry.
"These are jewelry made by elves. Su Lun said calmly.
"What?" said Jean, confused.
"I mean to claim these jewels as the work of elves!" Suren accentuated the word elf.
"But, but—" Jean hesitated.
"Nothing!" Su Lun directly interrupted, "This is the masterpiece of the elves!"
"Such a beautiful piece of jewelry, only elves can make it, can it?"