73. The morning of the Harvest Festival
Betty pushed open the door of the warehouse, and a team of orcs carrying a whole box of magic rune boards came out of the warehouse, and loaded the large wooden boxes onto the magic caravan, this ten-meter-long cargo caravan can hold forty boxes of 'fire gathering' magic rune boards, after filling a car, the magic caravan will slowly drive away from the warehouse door, and the magic caravan behind will follow, and the orcs will continue to carry the big wooden boxes out of the warehouse one after another.
Murray opened the two large wooden boxes as usual, and saw the neatly arranged magic rune boards inside, so he leaned against the wall at the door of the warehouse, struck a match and lit the spiced tobacco in the pipe, and took a deep puff of smoke, the white smoke was like two arrows coming out of his nostrils, he opened his eyes, and said to me with a smile on his face, "I thought you wouldn't be here tonight." ”
Bette fanned the spicy smoke with her hands, and hid to the other side of the warehouse door with the account book, carefully recording the number of wooden boxes carried out of the warehouse.
I rubbed my somewhat sore shoulders with my hand and asked Murray, "How have you been at the Rune Workshop these past two days?"
Murray smiled and said in a somewhat hoarse voice, "What else...... The consequence of the third price reduction was that the alleys outside the workshop were filled with magic caravans waiting to pull goods. ”
His eyes were bloodshot, and he probably hadn't slept well lately.
"Has it been like this lately?" I asked Murray.
Murray nodded and said, "That's right, now the Rune Workshop is running at full capacity in three shifts, but unfortunately it still can't process so many copper hot pots and exhaust fans." ”
I rubbed my forehead and asked Murray again, "How's the Magic Lamp and Oven selling?"
Murray said to me, "For the time being, the sales are still good, and you can sell as much as you want." ”
Recently, the supply of magic rune plates has suddenly increased, and I was worried that the coppersmith shops and carpentry workshops upstream would not be able to supply enough copper pots and exhaust fan covers, so I asked Murray, "What is the situation of the coppersmiths and carpenters upstream, and can they supply them to us in time?"
Murray didn't think about it, and blurted out: "At present, there are twenty-seven coppersmith shops and eight carpenters supplying us. Twenty-one coppersmith workshops are supplied by the twenty-one coppersmith workshops in turn, and the exhaust fan and refrigerator are supplied by the six carpentry workshops, and if any of these workshops has a supply problem in production, they will select new suppliers from the remaining six coppersmith shops and two carpentry workshops. ”
"That's a good idea, how are the refrigerators selling?" I asked Murray.
Because I asked him to adjust the appearance of the refrigerator, and asked him to add insulation to the refrigerator according to my design, and the paint layer on the outer surface of the refrigerator also has strict requirements, Murray has probably been running this matter recently.
Murray scratched the back of his neck with his hand and said to me with some embarrassment: "The sales of refrigerators during this period are not satisfactory, after all, the weather is getting cooler in autumn, and it is normal for the demand for refrigerators to shrink significantly." ”
Then Murray asked me, "Boss, do you want to restrict the sale of the two magic rune boards, 'Fire Gathering Technique' and 'Micro Tornado'?"
I thought about it for a while, the group of dwarven slaves that Arya bought from the slave market have gradually become accustomed to the life of the underground caves in Xinliu Valley, and they are joining the production team of the Magic Seal Workshop one after another, and it will not be long before the production capacity of the Magic Seal Workshop will be further increased, so he said to Murray: "For the time being, we don't need to, just ship according to the current output, we will sell as much as we want, and if we can't do so much, let them line up for the time being." ”
"Okay, I'll listen to you. Murray agreed.
At this time, the second magic caravan was full, and Murray waved to the coachman, signaling that he heard waiting at the entrance of the alley in front of him, and waved to the magic caravan behind, signaling the coachman to drive the magic caravan over.
Under the dim street lamp, Murray's body looks a little thinner, even a little hunchbacked, he wears a top hat on his head, a gray tweed coat, and a pair of brand new blue buckskin boots on his feet, he looks like a manager, I remember seeing him at the door of the Rune Workshop a year ago, or on a snowy day in winter, he was wearing a single coat leaning against the wall under the sun under the wall, I just needed someone to help me guard the Rune Workshop, so I hired him.
It's been less than a year, and seeing that he is now dressed so decently, similar to the clothes worn by the wealthy merchants in Dì Dū, his life has changed drastically, and the whole person looks full of energy.
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Betty stood under the wall on the other side of the warehouse and counted the number of goods, her face flushed from the cool breeze of the night, and she wore an apricot yellow silk scarf over her shoulders, meticulously recording each box of goods.
She was followed by a young maid with a lantern in her hand, and the girl looked a little tired, and yawned incessantly, but she seemed to be a little afraid of the orcs, and whenever the orcs passed by her with wooden boxes, her eyes would always widen, and her eyes would be full of vigilance.
I walked up to Betty and asked her, "Where's Arya?"
Betty hurriedly put down the quill pen in her hand and curtsied to me before saying, "Lady Anne Zimmermann of El City has come to Dì Dū for the harvest festival, and the host will entertain Lady Anne for the next two days." ”
Lady Anne is the late Countess Zimmerman, the mother of Ann Zimmerman and Demi Zimmerman, after our falcon team rescued her and Arya from the cellar of Zimmerman's estate, she took Demi and Ann to El City, and opened a hotel in the busiest part of the central street of El City, the hotel business has been good for the past two years, Demi has been living with Arya in Dì Dū, and Lady Anne stayed in El City to take care of Ann.
I didn't expect Mrs. Anne to leave Anne at home in El City at this time, but she ran to Dì Dū's side.
"Well, why did Lady Anne come to Dì Dū at this time?" I couldn't help but ask Betty.
Betty looked at the wall, wrapped the ledger in front of her chest, and said cautiously to me, "I guess I want to stay for a while." The host asked me to ask you, if you could have found time to have dinner at the manor recently?"
Was this to have dinner with Lady Anne?" I hesitated, wanting to refuse, but I thought that with Arya's style of doing things, I should not be able to make such an invitation to think about it without the necessary reason, so I said to Betty, "Oh, I'm afraid not tomorrow, the schedule is full, if Arya's side can be lined up, it can be set for the night after tomorrow." ”
"Are you going to participate in the celebration of Angelboy's royal awakening at Harvest Festival?" asked Betty with a slight smile.
I nodded slightly.
Although everything went very smoothly during the handling of the goods in the Dì Dū warehouse, due to the huge throughput of the goods, even if there were more than 100 orc warriors joining the transportation ranks, on the side of the underground cave in Xinliu Valley, the barbarian slaves piled up all the materials in the empty field under the teleportation altar, but just moved the whole box of finished magic rune plates to the magic caravan, and piled some rune board waste in the warehouse, and nearly 500 boxes of magic rune plate blanks were transported to Xinliu Valley This process has been busy until near dawn.
A morning star lit up in the night sky, and even a light white band appeared on the outline of the top of Mount Majaro, and the bright stars in the night sky disappeared one by one, and Dì Dū immediately ushered in a new day.
In the morning, before the sky is completely bright, many colorful floats quietly appear on the streets of Dì Dū.
The floats will follow the Dì Dū procession around the lakeside promenade.
When Noah told me about this, I was also shocked, you must know that Weiyang Lake is also a big lake, even if you take a magic caravan to run around the lake for at least two hours, if the procession circles the lake, it is estimated that it will take at least morning to evening.
After finishing the work in the warehouse, I saw that it was about to dawn, and I didn't have time to return to the manor to change clothes, so I took Caterina to the lakeside manor in a magic caravan.
As the magic caravan drove along Yulin Avenue to the lakeside manor, many Dì Dū people poured into the streets.
Naturally, some of the small vendors who run breakfast spots don't miss out on this opportunity, and they sell some fast food on the streets, these breakfast stalls are quite popular, and the front of the stalls is full of people, Dì Dū people like to spread butter jam on burnt white bread, and then have a thick tender steak that doesn't need to be fried, just a little frying, and some pepper sauce is slathered, and even a bite can make it bleed.
I'm not used to Dì Dū's breakfast, I like to spread some applesauce on white bread for breakfast, and I like the meat sausage and rice cereal in the style of El City.
After the magic caravan drove into the lakeside boulevard, I found that some gorgeous magic caravans were parked at the gates of the manors of the aristocratic families along the lake, and I wanted to join the parade for the harvest festival.
Caterina put a blanket over me and told me to sleep a little more before arriving at the lakeside estate.
The magic caravan drove all the way to the lakeside manor, and finally stopped in front of the steps of the castle, in front of the castle garden lawn parked two silver magic caravans, these two magic caravans were inlaid with gold patterns and various gorgeous gems, and on the outer wall of the caravans hung the royal family crest of Angelboy, which was a knight's shield and dragon head, and pulled by four silver pegasus.
The first time I saw a silver pegasus with wings on its body, it felt so new that I couldn't help but stop and watch when I stepped out of the magic caravan.
These silver pegasi are no different from the Guborai horses, except for the pair of huge silver wings on their backs, except that they are three laps larger than the Gubolai horses, and the four silver pegasi are standing by the fountain, and several elf-like waiters are standing with the four silver pegasi, with a nasty arrogance on their faces, which is somewhat annoying.
After I stepped out of the magic caravan, a middle-aged butler with a group of maids was waiting at the bottom of the steps, and after the group of people saluted me, the butler stepped forward and said to me, "Princess Yingli has commanded me to bring you to her when you come." ”
I nodded to the butler and walked up the stairs with him, and then I asked the middle-aged butler, "It's my first time attending the harvest festival, and I don't know what I need to do before the celebration starts?"
"First, you'll need to try on the celebratory dress in Her Highness the Princess's living room, where the tailor is waiting now, and then, you'll probably have breakfast with Prince James......" The butler told me everything I had to do this morning, and it sounded as if I had to sit in a magic caravan and participate in the parade of the celebration except for breakfast.
At noon, there will be sacrifices and blessings, which used to be presided over by His Majesty Pope Philip on the other side of the temple, but this year it seems that His Majesty Charles himself presided over the sacrifices and blessings.
In the past, it was a blessing to the Statue of Liberty, but this year, His Majesty Charles personally paid tribute to the warriors who died in the plane war of the Grimm Empire in the past few years.
Hearing this news, I couldn't help but be a little stunned, thinking that His Majesty Charles really didn't give face to this Lady of Liberty at all, the priests and priests in the Lady of Liberty Temple were grounded in the temple, and the oracle sent by the goddess strictly forbade the priests and priests to participate in the plane war, resulting in huge losses to the army of the Grimm Empire.
Unexpectedly, His Majesty Charles directly exempted the link of praying to Lady Liberty during the harvest festival celebration.
I followed the middle-aged butler to the living room of the princesses, Ying Li and Le Die, and walked through the long corridor and spiral staircase to the third floor of the castle, where Helena and Becky were already waiting at the top of the staircase, and saw me ascending the staircase, standing on it, and beckoning softly to me.
When I saw Ying Li, she was sitting in front of the dresser, and four maids stood around to arrange the exquisite headdress for her, she was only wearing a tight corset, and the lower body was a thin petticoat, and when she saw me walk in from the door, she blushed suddenly, and the two maids knelt on the carpet, wearing a pair of crystal shoes for Ying Li, and a gorgeous dress full of pearls hung on the hanger on the side, and there were two pieces of the same style behind the hanger, but there were many less gorgeous pearls, which should have been prepared for Helena and Becky.
I walked into the room, and a tailor hurriedly walked up to me, holding a tape measure and scissors in his hand, and bowed slightly to me and said, "Lord Marquis, please try on the dress first, and I will change it immediately if it doesn't fit......"
Then I was toyed with like a puppet, and I thought it was just a dress, but I didn't expect it to be a shirt, waistcoat, bow tie, and boots, and so on, and after trying on them, I was led by the waiters into a spacious washroom, and a row of maids immediately surrounded me.