Chapter 10 Procurement
The night passed, and the book did not go into details.
When Charles woke up, the sun had already risen. Last night he told Momiji the story of himself and Mira all night, and he didn't know when he fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes, Charles found that the morning sun shone through the window on the body of Momiji beside him. You can't tell Momiji's actual age from the outside, because the part above her neck is younger than her actual age, and the part below her neck is over her actual age.
At this time, Momiji was leaning against the edge of the bed, playing with Charles's mask. Her tail wagged and accidentally swept into Charles's face several times.
When he was taking a shower last night, Charles's mask was ordered to be taken off by the strange aunt who examined his body.
After a night, Charles learned a rough idea of the difference between a subhumanoid orc and a human.
This can only be described as a joke of the Creator.
Their body structure is mostly indistinguishable from that of humans, with only the limbs, tail, and some of their facial features maintaining some animal-like features.
For example, Momiji and his mother's shoulders and hands have a layer of short hair as red as their hair, as well as their legs. Their nails are much harder than those of humans, and they hurt when they pinch someone.
As for the tails, they didn't feel anything special after being caught.
Finding that Charles was awake, Momiji touched his head and said, "Get up, wash up and go to breakfast." ”
Charles nodded, got up and got dressed, and reached out to Momiji for a mask.
"You don't have to wear it in your own home. Momiji pinched Charles's face, "I heard that there are many ways to recover, don't be sad." ”
Charles nodded.
This is the first person Charles said to him after his death.
Without his family, even the rebuilt Maccaden Manor is just a beautiful house.
Aunt Coriander prepared breakfast for the two of them before going out early in the morning, a pot of corn porridge with minced pork.
At breakfast, Momiji asked Charles, "That mask of yours can change its appearance, right?"
Charles nodded.
"Then you can change it, at least show your eyes. Momiji said with a bitter face, "When I made eye contact with you yesterday, I had that feeling of looking at you, but I couldn't see your eyes, which made people feel a little creepy." ”
"Because the wind and sand were strong when I entered the city, I sealed my eyes. Charles made an excuse, "I can see it anyway." ”
"It's real. Momiji sighed, "This mask can be very useful in the field and in battle. ”
After eating breakfast and washing the pots and dishes, Charles put on a mask with an eyehole and went out with Momiji.
When locking the door, Charles found that the blackboard next to the door read, "Prairie North, Heavy Rain Turns Cloudy, South Wind, Slightly Cool".
After learning that he was still free today, Charles purchased the equipment and supplies needed for the next trip under the leadership of Momiji.
Regardless of the fact that Momiji was only fourteen years old, when she accidentally discovered the skills of an animal trainer at the age of nine, she followed the herders to the savannah in search of usable young animals.
It's just that there has been no baby beast that matches Momiji's heart. Last night, she had planned to buy the two wolf cubs to practice and sell them to the merchants in the south when they were ready, but she killed a traverser halfway through.
Momiji, who has experience in the field and is familiar with Corn City, did not take Charles to those shops, but took him directly to the workshops of various craftsmen to buy it directly.
Since many children have been grazing north with their families since they were young, it is not difficult to buy equipment suitable for Charles's figure.
Storage rings are a high-end luxury, and you can't get a few of them if you sell them for Harkala at last night's price. Moreover, because of the difficulty of production, the output is limited, and it is generally priceless. The great nobles all relied on the accumulation of one or a few families. Except for Charles, there were only two people in the caravan, Elizabeth and Aubrey. Charles still understands the truth of not revealing money, so he bought a leather backpack to hold some daily necessities and commonly used clothes.
In addition to this, he bought two pairs of leather boots and two dozen over-the-knee stockings.
Well, yes, that's right, it's those stockings.
In the wild, a sturdy pair of stockings can prevent blood-sucking bugs from burrowing through the hem of the trousers to suck blood.
However, the silk of these stockings is made of spider silk. Momiji said that some animal trainers train a special kind of spider, and those spiders are tasked with producing silk every day when they are full. The yield of these spider silks is higher than that of silk, but the diameter, weight, color and softness are still not comparable to silk.
There were no middlemen to make the difference, and the morning purchase left Charles with a lot of money left.
At noon, the two of them, who had completed their procurement tasks, were having lunch at a roadside stall.
The northern beets are not bred and do not have a high sugar content, so they are generally eaten only as a sweet vegetable.
Chop the beet, simmer it in a pot with water until it boils, sprinkle a pinch of salt, and this is the beet soup that most people in Corn City eat. If you add a few small coppers, you can see some minced bacon in the soup. If you give it a copper, the boss will add an egg to you.
Charles and Momiji, like ordinary diners, each asked for a bowl of beet soup and a piece of black bread without sawdust, broke the black bread vigorously, put it in the soup to soften it, and then ate it slowly.
The caravan would also have to stay here for a few days to buy goods, so after a Charles had a family here, he gave him a holiday to spend with his family, and just came to report every morning.
Later Charles learned that this was the custom of caravanserais. The caravan sometimes stops at the party's hometown, or at the place where the party's lover is, and the caravan gives them a holiday.
Therefore, Charles asked Momiji at the time of eating what activities were there in the afternoon.
"Let's go to the courthouse and see that the verdict in the morning will be announced in the afternoon. "Momiji aside, Charles almost forgot about this stubble.
"Then let's go to the trading floor and have a look. Momiji continued, "It's the off-season, but there's still a lot of good stuff there. ”
Momiji got a lot of money through the two wolf cubs last night, and she was thinking about whether she wanted to buy something for her brother's defense.
Charles wondered if he could buy something for Aunt Momiji and Coriander as a souvenir.
The courthouse in Corn City is located in the northern part of the city, and is one of the few stone buildings. In other words, the buildings in the administrative districts, which are the last line of defense of the city, are made of stone.
The court building is uncharacteristic, just a boxy three-story building, and if the gate is not inlaid with stone carvings representing the law, it is no different from the tax office next door.
Start with the words of the local residents, as long as you can use it and have enough.
This morning's lawsuit seems to have been going on for a long time, and when Charles and Momiji came to the courthouse, they saw Aunt Coriander with a tired face and Halcara, who was constantly patting her chest, walking out of the gate.
Charles beckoned to the two, "Aunt Coriander, Halcalla, win the lawsuit." ”
At this time, Halkala suddenly hugged Aunt Coriander beside her, crying and shouting, "Woo woo...... If it weren't for my aunt, I would have been sold......"
Charles and Momiji have a black line, and Halkala is ten times older than coriander, is this really okay?
At this moment, several more elves came out of the courthouse.
Because the case involved elves, Elizabeth brought several elves from the caravan escort to [REDACTED] to the town to observe.
Elizabeth came over and gave Halkala and Charles a brainstorm, "You two, you don't have a lot of ability, you don't have a lot of trouble, I'll clean you up when I go back." ”
After thanking the coriander, Elizabeth left.
Coriander also went back to rest with a tired face.
I learned from Halkala that that Adonis still has some skills.
At the beginning, he grabbed Charles and Momiji, and raised the price of the two wolf cubs tenfold to prove that Charles was deliberately defrauding. However, Coriander solved this problem with no causal relationship between the two transactions.
Then Adonis insisted that Charles knew that Halkala would not go with him, but still took his magic crystal. As a result, Halcara said that she and Charles had known each other for less than ten days, and Coriander said that Charles was not familiar with Halkala because of this, which is not true.
In the end, Adonis thought that Charles had misled him by fabricating his life story and Halcara calling Master Charles a young man. Then Halkala "hehe" him with a face, what is strange about the younger brother of the big boss, the young master. Cilantro said that Charles's sister Mira studied at the Seminary of Light, a place that costs money like running water.
Then, there is no then. Because the most basic point of this case is that Adonis wants to force Harkala to be his slave, no matter what he does, at that time, the slave contract magic came out, and the hotel staff who arrived first could take the seat.
The judge's decision in this era was largely subjective, so the judge decided that none of Adonis's arguments were grounds for him to force Halkala into a slave, so he planted it.
Unconvinced, Adonis cried out to appeal.
Then he was punished by the iron fist of feudalism. The court, despite the fact that he was only a 10-year-old child, dragged him to deal with the fine.
When Halkala finished talking about the trial, the three of them walked around the nearby tax office and came out.
Now that the verdict has been handed down, then last night's deal has been established. Naturally, a large amount of transactions will be taxed. As a result, when the staff of the tax bureau saw that it was the Earl of Maccaden who was there, they told him that all the people of the Maccaden family were exempt from tax on the savannah, and even the fortune-telling shop of coriander was usually tax-free, let alone the Count himself.
"Then let's go to the trading floor!" said Halkara, who had recovered her strength, and ran like a child towards the trading floor with two children who were less than a tenth of her age combined.